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I have been a Doctor Who fan for as long as I may remember. I grew up with the show and watched as a good deal of sequences as I could. I now have each DVD available and when it’s on the telly I watch each new episode each week and each new Christmas particular each year without fail. Doctor Who has been a percentage of my life and my family’s life and I have no doubt that one day I will be sitting down to watch it with my own children.

So it in truth pains me whenever I see a Doctor Who adventure that may only be described as awful. This is to be expected. Any long running TV show is bound to have it is stinkers and taking into account Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction show with over seven hundred and sixty episodes, there are a heap of pungent installments us fans have had to endure.

Here I have a short list of numerous of my least favourite adventures the good Doctor has subjected us to.

1-The Invasion of Time (1978)

starring Tom Baker as The Doctor with Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as K-9

The Doctor and Leela travel back to his home planet of Gallifrey, becomes president, Leela goes outside to hunt and then the Sontarans come along.

Tom Baker’s run as the Fourth Doctor is considered by some to be the best. He has an iconic look, a loveably eccentric personality and dozens of classic adventures beneath his belt (or scarf). He is so good that galore humans forget in regards to his bad stories. Normally, a less than good Doctor Who adventure may be saved by the central performance and campy fun. The Power of Kroll being one of a great deal of examples. Sadly, not even Baker’s charisma may salvage six sequences worth of bad acting, dull Time Lord politics, poorly written Sontarans, endless filler and one unforgivable scene where The Doctor, who we all know detests violence and bloodshed, kills a Sontaran with a ray gun. All his former lectures to his warrior associate Leela in regards to unnecessary violence seem wholly hypocritical now.

2-Ghost Light (1989)

starring Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor with Sophie Aldred as Ace

Strange goings on in an old house. Sorry when it comes to the brief description but when there is only a shred of plot and that shred is incomprehensible it doesn’t make describing it any easier. This hasn’t always been a bad thing in Doctor Who. Warriors’ Gate is not one thing short of baffling but at least that had outstanding visual flare with splendid performances and razor sharp editing. This insufferable tripe seems like it was cobbled together from rejected scenes off the cutting room floor. Dull scarcely covers it.

3-The Twin Dilemma (1984)

starring Colin Baker as The Doctor with Nicola Bryand as Peri Brown

The Doctor is shaken up by his new regeneration and plans to live as a hermit but a good deal of aliens bent on conquering the galaxy distract him.

Doctor Who producer John Nathan Turner decisive it would be a good idea to have Colin Baker’s original adventure as the Sixth Doctor finish off the 21st season rather of starting the 22nd. This proved to be a disastrous idea because not only does put a damper on the former Doctor’s run but Colin Baker’s performance is so damn unlikeable and annoyingly pompous, not to mention mean spirited and a tad psychopathic, that it genuinely leaves the viewer genuinely not caring in regards to him or his future adventures. Thus started out the dark days of Doctor Who.

4-The Doctor’s Daughter (2008)

starring David Tennant as The Doctor with Catherine Tate as Donna Noble and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones

The Doctor and a young female clone type thing made from his DNA (see, not his actual daughter in case you thought the title sounded interesting) help stop a bunch of people and aliens killing each other.

If former sequences The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky were delightful reminders of the early 70′s then The Doctor’s Daughter may be considered traumatic reminders of the early 80′s. With poor effects, scattergun editing, unnecessary plot lines and ham fisted hints to a spun off that never happened, this is a severe black mark in The Tenth Doctor’s report card.

5-The Invasion (1968)

starring Patrick Troughton as The Doctor with Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon and Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot

The Cybermen, aided by a rich electronics manufacturer plan to take the Earth by force.

Easily Doctor Who’s most boring adventure. Which is a shame because it has a great cast, fantasti emplacements and an early aspect from Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart. But the result is six, tiresome episodes. The acting is, for this Doctor and his companions, unusually flat and devoid of life or charm. All the action and excitement happens off screen while the tiresome expositions and techno babble remains. It plods along at a snails pace and when the actual invasion of the Cybermen in the long run starts, there are no chills or thrills to be found. But that might have something to do with the Cybermen sticking to the footpaths rather of storming down the streets.

It may be interesting to note that sequences 1 and 4 are amongst those missing from the BBC vaults. However, the audio survives. For the DVD release, animation studio Cosgrove Hall recreated these sequences using the surviving audio track and initial script direction notes. It’s a distinctive idea and they did a very good job. Such a pity their skill weren’t employed for better adventures like The Reign of Terror or The Ice Warriors.

6-Ressurection of the Daleks (1984)

starring Peter Davison as The Doctor with Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka and Mark Strickson as Vislor Turlough

An evil group of evil doers plan an evil plan with the evil Daleks to resurrect the evil Davros, the evil Dalek’s evil creator.

Peter Davison is normally terrifi to watch as a brave Doctor with a tame soul juxtaposed with terrifying monsters and diabolical villains plotting destruction. These four sequences give us none of that. What they do give us is unrelenting violence and insultingly bad dialogue. Our heroes are given gorgeous much not one thing to do but gasp in horror as persons are shot and killed left, right and centre. Even The Doctor, who is commonly a wondrous voice of reason, does sweet feck all but act as horrified as the viewer. None of the supporting characters are well written, not even the legendary Davros. If you’re expecting a confrontation like in Genesis of the Daleks you are in for a sheer disappointment. All we get is posturing, shouting and bad acting. A total waste of time and an insult to viewers. It’s woeful story telling (or lack there of) makes it bad. It’s terrible acting makes it worse. But it’s uttermost violence and disregard to everything Doctor Who and it is fans hold dear makes Ressurection of the Daleks my very least favourite adventure of Doctor Who.