This entire video is worth watching just for 12:05. Yee-haw! (So pleased you included that again!). 🙂👍

38:58 "Originally this serial was called 'The Colony of Devils', but was later renamed to 'Fury from the Deep' to avoid potential controversy with the word Devils" The very next story... 'The Sea Devils'

"Adric was chosen to die for a few reasons." His personality. His face. Because it would be funny.

Did I just spend an hour watching material I'd already seen reshuffled just to see the rankings across the different doctors? Darn right I did!

Twin dilemma should NOT be this low. It may be bad but at least it’s entertaining. Which can’t be said for other stories (the space pirates).

*Everyone is here!*

*sees genesis of the Daleks 2nd* well, boys, we did it.

#154 The Dominators? This story is sadly underrated! It had the ambition to tackle a serious contemporary theme that is still relevant. And was also set on an alien planet. Come on fans , why not celebrate imagination rather than technical shortcomings ie The Quarks.

Chameleon's Creator didn't write down the program before he died. It was a shame as we didn't get to see more of the robot. Who was the very first real robot to be used in a TV show.

Correction: the scene in "Fenric" that was intended to foreshadow "Ghost Light" was NOT between the Doctor and Ace, but between Ace and Kathleen.

There where no previous incarnations before William hartnell.

Did you notice that the "worst" Pertwee story were The Time Monster on rank #146, The Mutants on rank #138, The Monster of Peladon on rank #137 and Colony in Space on rank #125? And did you also notice that all Tom Baker stories that were ranked worse than rank #119, were from seasons 15-18? This just shows how great the Letts and Hinchcliffe eras really were. Shame on Mary Whitehouse!

51 minutes! Blimey. Might have to do this in chunks. Seriously good work Josh.

Inferno is a few places lower than i was expecting. I thought it would be at least top 5. I thought Genesis would be #1 but Androzani is certainly worthy of carrying that honour. Thanks Josh, this has been a brilliant series and now we look forward to the poll for the new series.

Once again, I think I'm the only person who enjoyed The Dominators

Great compilation, brimming with superb photography and a nicely judged script crammed with juicy background facts and trivia. So good to see so many Troughton and Hartnell serials in the top 30.

#42: Fury from the Deep - Renamed due to the word "Devil" in the original title #41: *The Sea Devils*

The real question is: how many of the title start with “the”

Big thanks as always Josh. You’re the absolute best.

This is a very strange (maybe?) opinion but I love the terror of the vervoids, it's acting can be quite cheesy but the story is a classic murder mystery and the vervoids are a brilliant one time monster. Might use them in my writing

You wonder how much this list would change if everything existed? Not a bad list and extremely tough to rank them all. The animations are helping dispel any ‘nostalgia’ feelings of it being the best.

Yay - thank you - the moment I have been waiting for - time for a cup of tea and a fig roll and this quite marvellous poll of polls !!!

10:06 Whether they were dancing or not, the classic Cybermen were so much better than their NuWho equivalents (Series 10's Mondasian cybes excepted).

Let's be honest. There's an infinite amount of ranking combinations you could put these stories into. Fun playing heads or tails as to which of the two most popular stories would be first.

Clicked on this video before I have to go to work, fully expecting The Twin Dilemma to be at the very bottom, and I was not disappointed LMAO

Thanks for doing this, Josh!

"In Victorian London the Doctor faces a gigant rat" Perfect summery. XD

Great video, thanks for all the hard work, you know how us fans like a good list 😂

Love this list SO MUCH! Especially the Top 15. They didn't have to be in the order they landed, as long as they were there (but as it happens, I love that too!).

So tough not to look at comments while watching! Fantastic work as always! Top five were perfect, but cries were heard upon seeing the placement of "Master Plan."

The fact that two Tom Baker stories made it into the bottom 10 pleases me more than it should.

Came for the poll results, stayed for the backstory. Masterfully done! I'm surprised with some of the choices (like Mindwarp ahead of all trial episodes, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, etc), but with so many years of stories to choose from and all eras having very different qualities about them, I think it's a well-rounded picking for such a hard task.

I was about to suggest this! I'll watch it later

WOW! fantastic video!!!!! this must of taken you ages and ages to make! can't wait to see what you do next!!!!?!!!!!!!

Thanks Josh

Great list. I am personally pleased that my favourite doctor/companion pairing have gained two of the top ten places😀

Pirate Planet should have been #42 :) A scene where Padmahlsahabva (my bad spelling) has his head cut was cut? That's a twist! Nice compilation list!!

John Nathan-Turner wanted the series to focus more on its visual style, at the cost of story telling.

Top work Josh.

Well, this is something to be thankful for. I don't know how many people outside of the U.S. will understand why I said that, but here it is anyway.

Lots of cool trivia to be found here. Good job.

Josh - you could do a review for each classic story (maybe be each season or each Doctor) summing it up with your own two-sentence review; I'd be interested to hear more of your thoughts on each story.

Hey josh snares. I just want to say that I really like your videos.

Great video! Fun facts for ever episode! One thing you got wrong... Happiness Patrol is number one of all time!! 😎😁❤️

Kinda has a special place in my heart. It’s so well directed by Peter Grimwade 👍 Anything in the Robert Holmes/Tom Baker era for me is flawless

Tomb of the Cybermen will always be #1 for me as the best executed Doctor Who story, but the one that I always watch whenever I catch it playing on live TV is Horror of Fang Rock.

Nice to see episodes starring my favorite Tardis team, Sylvestor McCoy's 7th Doctor and Sophie Aldred's Ace ranking quite highly on this list.

twin dilemma - in last place pretty predictable but I still disagree

19:42 - I didn't know that William Hartnell was Irish.

The celestial toymaker deserved at least top 10. Also the faceless ones as well. Man you deserve credit that takes a lot of time effort my friend. Great job!

Pretty happy with the Top 20 - there are a couple of stories in it I'd personally rate a little lower, but overall it's a fair representation. My personal favourite classic story is 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' (even allowing for the infamously dodgy giant rat), mostly as I love both Victorian London, and Jago & Litefoot.

I've been tracking Doctor Who story rankings since the DWM published list in 2009 and it's been interesting to compare your 2019 poll with prior lists. Notably, your results are slightly more favorable to the 2nd and 7th Doctors' stories than the average, though the reputedly 'worst' stories didn't move much from the bottom slots. A few things jumped out. The Hartnell story "The Crusade" appears deeply discounted in this result compared to most (a story the Radio Times editors rated an "A"). The release of "The Macra Terror" and "The Faceless Ones" seems to have boosted audience appreciation of these stories considerably, just as the release of "The Enemy of the World" improved poll rankings for that story. On a more personal note, it's nice to see "The Invasion" well appreciated in this poll, as it is one of my all time favorite stories. I still consider "Timelash" to be worse than "The Twin Dilemma", whatever the polls may say ;)

It might be one of the most difficult tasks ever, but I've been able to condense my favourite Classic Episodes into a Top Ten list, so here goes: 1: Inferno 2: The Talons Of Weng-Chiang 3: Pyramids Of Mars 4: The Seeds Of Doom 5: Genesis Of The Daleks 6: The War Games 7: The Web Of Fear 8: The Curse Of Fenric 9: The Power Of The Daleks 10: Spearhead From Space Honourable Mentions: The Caves Of Androzani, Remembrance Of The Daleks, The Robots Of Death, The Evil Of The Daleks, The Green Death, The Daemons, The Tomb Of The Cybermen and I'd better stop now before I list them all.

Thanks, Josh, for putting this together. It must have been a mammoth undertaking, so kudos! Couple of general observations: It's testament to Terrance Dicks' talent as a writer that his hastily-written Horror of Fang Rock is (rightly) so well-regarded. That said, was his Five Doctors _really_ the 12th best story of the entire Classic Era? I wouldn't say so. Yes, it's the best multi-Doctor story, and I'd have it in my Top 40, but I think the nostalgia factor - all those Doctors, companions and villains on screen - has pushed it too far up the list. I'm pretty much agreed otherwise, although I think the nostalgia factor - Tom's departure - has given Logopolis a ratings boost, too. Not that it's bad, but (e.g.) Greatest Show in the Galaxy, which lags one place behind Logopolis, is IMHO a much better story in almost every way.

Was shocked to see Genesis of the Daleks at number 2 - Then I saw number 1. Yup. No debate here.

You know what Josh? You are the bright spot of this survey. I'm happy you did it. I did like Timelash...actor Paul Darrow was deliciously naughty.

this was an mazing poll, can you do the modern show next and i know its not over yet but it would be so cool to do a video on it!!!!!!

Fascinating poll, so pleased Caves was a no. 1, my all time favourite whether it be classic or NUWHO!

Slightly frustrating when your favourite story misses out on the top ten by just one place.

Thanks, Josh. Great fun! That was a lot of work, and it's appreciated. I got curious, so based on your rankings, I calculated Average Rank for each Doctor. The results were interesting. This is not a ranking of favorite Doctor, but it is a ranking of the Doctor involved in the best series. Results (best avg rank to worst avg rank): Pertwee (62.2), Troughton (64.2), T. Baker (77.5), McCoy (81.8), Hartnell (87), Davison (88.4), McGann (101), C. Baker (103.3).

When showed Adric's death to my mum she actually said "For goodness sake why didn't he just go with the others!"

I remember reading something like this in Doctor Who Magazine, back in 1998.

I could listen to Josh talk about Dr who all day

Loved it

My favourite episode First doctor: The gunfighters Second Doctor: the mind robber Third doctor: death to the Daleks Fourth Doctor: sharda Fifth doctor: Snakedance Sixth Doctor: the two doctors Seven Doctor: remembrance of the Daleks

Good mix of episodes, I remember the mummy one, that scared me as a kid, good mix from all the doctors as well.

Concerning the Twin Dilemma - admittedly it's a bit gaudy but in all honesty some of these low rankers would still be higher than some of the stories 2005+ - it would be interesting to see every story ranked whether 'new who' and 'classic who' then we can definitively see what is the true carbuncle of stories. I would happily watch and enjoy The Twin Dilemma over such flummery as Love and Monsters, Rings of Akhaten, Partners in Crime and Victory of the Daleks to name but a few as quite frankly these made my toes curl as Doctor Who became 'something for the children' which it is not and should never be classed as such. This would be a monumental task but very interesting indeed something for your talents Mr Snares should you have a couple of thousand hours. Thoroughly enjoyed this by the way - from a who fan since 1979 - thank you !! Inferno is still my number one Who story with Ambassadors a close second - love series 7 and when Liz tips over into the weir in this story is potentially one of the best cliffhangers in the series !

Most of these make perfect sense to me. I would have moved a few things around in my own listing, but the best rose to the top and the worst, well, the wound up where they belonged.

Is there somewhere the poll results have been posted where you can easily view it and find stories like a written list rather than a video?

I heard Christopher Eccleston was also considered for the role of the eighth doctor. He turned it down cause at the time he felt he wasn’t an established actor yet and didn’t want to be associated with a brand name yet. Ironic considering his history with the program afterwards

I have to wonder how the frequency of the viewing of some of these episodes impacted the voting. Some of these episodes that I at least think are truly terrible that are also probably not viewed often aren’t quite as low as some episodes that aren’t so great, but that probably deserve a slightly higher position that have probably been seen by more people.

What did you do for stories that had the same rating?

Great video Can you do the new Dr who next

Spot on.

So what are you gonna do with the new series poll.

I like how it started with fury from the deep and it said that they didn't want to be associated with the word devil but then the next serial was the sea devils

I wonder whether you'd do similar polls for modern Who? Even if just Doctor by Doctor?

What’s up with the third doctor’s trousers at 43:41 ?

Number 10: Tomb of the Cybermen Ah, victory

Also... guys. I'm not saying "Timelash" is a great story. I'm not even saying it's a GOOD story. But it's not the third worst of all of Classic. I'm not even sure it's the third worst Colin story. :-)

The top 20 are pretty awesome. But I'm surprised how many stories in the bottom 20 are ones I watch quite often!

6:32 To which Colin Baker’s agent said, “Don’t be stupid, Colin! Fat chance of that ever happening; take the job.”

We all know Daleks Master Plan should have been number 1.

josh.. you should have just put all the titles into a random order generator and made that as a video of the final poll results. just to see what the in-fighting would have been haha (wicked aint i! ) . it would have been funny if a story like Horns of Nimon (which is actually pretty entertaininng) would have come out as number1.

Wonders if Space Pirates got an animation treatment- Would it shoot up in the rankings? I tend to recall that Macra Terror was looked down upon before the animation....

Are you still going to upload the big poll for the new series? You announced it on the community page 8 months ago...

Does anyone know where I can watch Peter Davison's sink or Swim online for free?

Great Hartnell impression haha

I absolutely loved Delta And The Bannermen and The Web Planet. Some of my favourites!

Caves 1 wasn't expecting that tbf

Episodes that are only ruined because of budget problems and design problems, such as underworld, Warriors of the deep, and invasion of the dinosaurs, they're all in like my top 100. I watch enough Blake 7 to know that just because something has bad design or budget problems doesn't mean it's a bad episode. For me invasion of time is far worse than Underworld. For me I don't think there's a single bad story in season 21 that stars Peter Davison and honestly Invasion the dinosaurs has of cracking good plot. So those three stories are definitely ones that I like that everyone else seems not like

That was fun! Poor old Twin Dilemma, I'd still rather watch that than Timelash or Colony In Space

I only recently bought Time Flight and I can see why it was so low on the list. Judging from the commentary by the cast they didn't think much of it either!. The production levels seemed to have dipped considerably at this time. Oh just an addition to say how excellent these videos are. So addictive, I watched this in one go when I had originally intended to watch 10 minutes before bed - not complaining though!

You could bet that if more of the earlier wiped stories are found, particularly the Troughton monster era, that these stories would move a lot closer to the top of the list..........i mean Fury from the Deep was a really eerie, scary story, that would see you never ever go near a pipeline on a seaweed beach.......:)

Shocked at how low An Unearthly Child is. Thought it would be higher.

I think this is pretty spot-on. I have the Caves at #1, and the Genesis of the Daleks at #2. I would but the Talons at #3 though

Seeing Paradise Towers at #139 and not somewhere near the top 50 is just sad. Terribly underrated, IMO.

'The Key To Not Enough Time'

Well done, the producers of the show should watch this, as it a very good guide to what works and even more importantly what does not. Over the years some stories become more or less in vogue. But the top 50 and the bottom 50 tend to be the same. The twin dilemma and the caves of androzani are next to each other in the programmes run, so we went from the best story to the worst in the space of one week.

Caves of Androzani first, Twin Dilemma last - good and bad things come so close to each other in season 21. :-D