To celebrate its 50th birthday this month, Andrew talks us through 50 great Doctor Who scenes… You could and people have write a list of one great scene per story.
There are thousands to choose from.
Here, we have a list of fifty in no particular order.
The criteria is simply that we enjoy them.
Because we all know about Do I have the right?
So, heres a selection of fifty great scenes.
Not the greatest scenes, just great ones.
I expect your lists on my desk by the end of the month.
In the midst of this tension, the Doctor announces the following:
Gentlemen.
Ive got news for you.
This lighthouse is under attack and by morning we might all be dead.
And then he justgrins.
When he discovers Quinn dead in his armchair, he is confronted by a bipedal reptilian creature.
6.Human Nature/The Family of Blood Goodbye Timothy Latimer
It is 1912.
7.The Aztecs Yeah, still got it.
No biggie
Where did you get hold of that?
I see…your what?
Yes, I made some cocoa and got engaged.
8.Genesis of the Daleks She is a Norm!
All Norms are our enemies.
Mainly though, I just find it intrinsically hilarious and theres not a lot anyone can do about that.
9.Attack of the Cybermen Mm?
Oh, shoot him Peri.
The Doctor and guns.
The Seventh preferred to kill masses at a distance.
The Fifth and Tenth resorted to them when desperate.
Then, because its the Eighth Doctor, he jumps off something.
Shes a great listener, and when someone talks as much as the Doctor does this is invaluable.
You could almost say we were at school together.
He rarely responds well to anything though, especially after being conned by Garron.
The Doctor indignantly reaches up to his cheek, nicks the Graffs glove and then slaps him back.
Contains some of Tom Bakers best usage of his own face.
13.Carnival of Monsters the hand of God
14.An Unearthly Child What is going to happen to you?
Quite a lot, as it turns out.
Are there lords in such a small domain?
And where do you function?
The endless wastes of eternity.
A simple, heart-warming image.
It wouldnt make sense anywhere else.
18.Midnight Im clever
You could argue that the Tenth Doctor is the Ninth Doctor with a better mask.
19.The Keeper of Traken Fairy tale exposition
Exposition is annoying to write.
It often slows things down and is hard to make interesting.
All via the medium of an old man telling a story from a chair.
Here lives Andrew Lloyd-Webber, overworked servant to his muse.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, cries Lord Webber, and his fall breaks the mountainside.
22.The Unicorn and the Wasp Harvey Wallbanger?
24.The Eleventh Hour Can I have an apple?
We had seen very little of Matt Smiths Doctor.
It needed to be brilliant.
It needed to keep people watching.
What if something, somehow, went horribly wrong?
Then Matt Smith poked his head up through the TARDIS doors, said Can I have an apple?
and we knew everything was going to be alright.
25.The Robots of Death Would you like a jelly baby?
Borg is a bit hasty, its fair to say.
He leaps to conclusions, antagonises people, and raises his voice all the time.
I would love to see him deal with a chugger.
Without her standing up to the Doctor on several occasions, his character doesnt evolve into a heroic figure.
27.Day of the Daleks Some more wine, Doctor?
The Doctor takes his wine, then utterly demolishes him, and then begins to rebuild.
For you see, the Doctor always wins.
Even when hes probably half-cut and his breath reeks of cheese.
28.Trial of a Time Lord Theres a mystery here… Peris reaction is understandably distraught: shes seen the fate of her home planet.
29.Arc of Infinity Omega is alive.
The real villain is a computer called BOSS.
31.Hide Have we just watched the Earth die?
I felt thatHidewas undervalued, while still being pretty highly thought of, with its reception.
A delightfully spooky tale that made you jump while telling a well-paced ghost story with a Science-Fiction explanation.
32.The Pirate Planet But whats it for?
Few people can match Tom Baker for intense and righteous fury.
Its a staggering scene, with the scope of the concepts battling with the Doctors sheer rage for focus.
you realise theres going to be a lot inThe Time Warriorthat might be aimed over childrens heads.
It is inefficient, you should change it.
Its simplybeggingto be sampled in a funk odyssey.
34.Galaxy 4 Maagas Soliloquy
Doctor Whohas to be cleverer than movies.
This is especially true of its early days, where it remained insanely ambitious for a very long time.
Well I dont like YOUR FACE.
In fact, hes established how it works.
The Doctor is not only annoyed, hes downright threatening.
38.Paradise Towers Are these old ladies annoying you?
Maybe John Hurt is playing Pex?
Are these old ladies annoying you?
…are you annoying these old ladies?
In the midst of the strange clash between religion and science, its something recognisable.
Its precisely the kind of thingDoctor Whoshould be doing, because no-one else is going to.
And, as a result, he severely fails to save the day.
The Second Doctor and Jamie are adorable, and are understandably shipped all across the interwebs.
Do you think you’re able to manage that?
I believe you want to kill me?
The writers knew this, and thats why they make conflicts from and call him up on it occasionally.
Its nice to see the man who spentTooth and Clawmaking jokes understanding that perhaps sometimes flippancy isnt helpful.
Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, Wait a second.
That means theres a situation vacant.
He takes data from the Dalek on the silence, and then later uses the Dalek eye-stalk as currency.
Of course, out there in the rest of reality, a Dalek eye-stalk has power.
It leaves you wondering.
49.The Web of Fear Defeat from the jaws of victory
The Web of Fearisso good.
Troughtons Doctor has some great morally ambiguous moments, and this is perhaps the peak of them.
