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Post by lousingh on Nov 16, 2014 18:42:13 GMT
If we get lucky and get more episodes returned before too long, I would be interested to see what might change. For instance, I suspect The Abominable Snowmen would move up if it were nearly complete.
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Post by shellyharman67 on Nov 16, 2014 19:18:24 GMT
If we get lucky and get more episodes returned before too long, I would be interested to see what might change. For instance, I suspect The Abominable Snowmen would move up if it were nearly complete. I think many would rise in that table Fury, And Snowmen, And Smugglers Polo still looks like a marathon to me
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2014 19:40:55 GMT
There is about a week left of voting if anybody hasn't done so. This poll has worked very well. I am quite amazed with the results. This has been a lot of fun, James. Thanks for going to the effort to do it. So ... when ya gonna put up the "Favourite Seventies Serials" poll? You are most certaintly welcome Tom it has been fun to do. It is very interesting tracking the results as people are voting. I won't be able to do a "Favorite Seventies Serials" due to only being able to list fifty anwers for the poll. In fact I was very lucky to squeeze The War Games in. It wouldn't have let me fill in another story. (thank god for the multi week epics that the sixties were known to produce) However I might be able to get away with a "Favourite Pertwee Serials" due to the fact that there have been many problems with the quality of many of the prints.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 21:41:56 GMT
1. The Tomb of the Cybermen 2. The Web of Fear 3. The Power of the Daleks 4. The Evil of the Daleks 5. The Enemy of the World 6. The Invasion 7. The Daleks' Master Plan 8. Fury from the Deep 9. The War Games 10. The Daleks 11. Marco Polo 11. The Aztecs 11. The Dalek Invasion of Earth 11. The Time Meddler 11. The Abominable Snowmen 16. The Mind Robber 17. The Faceless Ones 18. The Macra Terror 19. The Crusade 20. The Massacre 20. The Moonbase 22. The Tenth Planet 22. The Web Planet 24. An Unearthly Child 24. The Seeds of Death 26. The Smugglers 26. The Romans 28. The War Machines 28. The Keys of Marinus 28. The Celestial Toymaker 31. The Chase 31. Galaxy 4 31. Mission to the Unknown 31. The Savages 35. The Ark 35. The Ice Warriors 35. The Wheel in Space 38. The Myth Makers 38. The Highlanders 38. The Dominators 38. The Krotons 42. The Edge of Destruction 42. The Reign of Terror 42. The Space Pirates 45. The Sensorites 45. Planet of Giants 45. The Rescue 45. The Space Museum 45. The Gunfighters 45. The Underwater Menace
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2014 16:09:28 GMT
Here we are. The end of this superpoll is here. It is a triumph for the Troughton big beasts with the Tomb of the Cybermen taking the top spot. A big thank you to everyone who voted on here and a big thank you to Peter Richards for doing a regular tally of how the stories stacked up. For weeks The Web of Fear was leading the way but the Trougton Dalek stories started to close the gap but the Tomb of the Cybermen as stolen the top crown. I have enjoyed watching this polls progress. It has been a very interesting little project. Thank you once again and do check out my Pertwee superpoll if you haven't already. Cheers. P.S. Happy Doctor Who day!
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Post by stephenwit1 on Nov 23, 2014 20:55:28 GMT
Just watched THE WAR MACHINES and that's number 28. Wow.
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Post by lousingh on Nov 24, 2014 23:54:34 GMT
I found this poll much harder than I thought I would. I felt flat out guilty for not figuring out how to shoe-horn The Mind Robber into my top 12.
I also want to say that this makes me much happier than the online dynamic rankings archive. I dislike how so many of the good older stories were near the bottom. I remember flipping out that hole-ridden clap-trap like Blink tops that poll. It took me a maximum of 1 second to figure out what to do to keep the Angels of the Plaster of Paris in place: have two people stand next to each other and plan their blinks; you could do virtually anything you wanted then. If you have three or more people, then you really don't need to plan - the distributions for blink frequency and blink duration make the value of the resultant triple integral minuscule.
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Post by Will Weller on Nov 26, 2014 12:04:45 GMT
Well, it looks like The Tomb of the Cybermen won by one vote. I thought The Web of Fear would win due to the recent recovery. Also, once again The Power of the Daleks beats The Evil of the Daleks, even if it is only by two votes
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Post by stephenwit1 on Nov 30, 2014 1:30:57 GMT
Just found out that no one is carries region 1 of THE WEB PLANET. I guess I would have go with a VHS COPY.
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Post by Paul McDermott on Nov 30, 2014 5:54:29 GMT
Definitely Enemy Of The World has gone up hugely in my estimation since the whole story turned up. Previously I'd judged it (based on the weakest - and sole existing - unrepresentative episode) to be quite a weak and slow-moving story. I can see I was completely wrong in my view now and rate it highly as a strong Troughton. This just proves though that unless we actually get to see (e.g.) Evil, Power or Fury, we can't construct any reasonable opinion of them to decide whether they're better / worse than those '60s stories we are able to watch on DVD. This gets to the nub of it for me. Sorry I missed the poll, but yes - I think it's only fair that I choose between the eps I know from sight. I want to believe that Marco Polo, Fury, and all the other lost treasures are exactly as amazing as they seem when I hear them with my headphones on. But TV isn't radio - visuals really do matter, and stills - even for those we do have representative samples of - don't do the moving image sufficient justice. And like Laurence and many of the rest of us here, I was really blown away by just how incredibly good Enemy was, far far beyond what I'd expected. I like Web very much too, for lots of reasons. I remember reading the Target book around age 8 one rainy Sunday arvo and thinking the idea of the Doctor draining the Great Intelligence was pretty neat but how much better to see it, eh? Even so, Enemy is just such a surprise I sort of like it more, because for yonks I figured that (aside from Troughton's performance) it'd be a bit dull, a gab fest without the usual Who mainstays. Yet it's anything but. Ep 1 just zips along, and looks so fresh it's hard to credit that's from Season 5. The rest of the tale has lots of the twists and turns and intrigues I'd associate with the Hartnell era (particularly historicals) except it's the near future and like Bond, but for a BBC budget and an absent Bassey song! And how about the lighting on the beach at the end of ep 6, eh? Darned if I can recall anything half as nice from the time! If I could be so surprised by that, I reckon it's as likely to happen again - both for things I wouldn't otherwise rate - and for things I would put up in the first rank of Sixties Who. Maybe a new survey, based on the ones still in the Archives and that we can see?
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