This is why I love Eccleston’s Doctor, his pure joy at being able to save everyone.

the "oops guess I have to watch the next one" cracked me up, the cliffhangers!!! so relatable

When you said these episodes might "lighten things up after last week" I just chuckled evilly to myself,knowing what's to come...🙄😆🎩

One of my all-time favourite stories. You'll come to recognise Steven Moffat's name appearing before many extremely good episodes with creepy monsters, and then eventually see him become the main showrunner.

Excellent episodes. The doctor at his best. "Just this once EVERYBODY LIVES" gets me every time. From despair to a little hope then realisation is glorious. Love Christopher.

I've always wanted to watch this with someone and then, when they're not looking, put on a gas mask and start saying "muuummmyyyy"

"BARROWMAN!!!" Love Jack Harkness. He was the first character that made me consciously realize I wasn't straight XD

One way you can tell a Whovian from a non Whovian. If you say Captain Jack to a non Whovian, they automatically think of Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. If you say it to a Whovian, they automatically think of John Barrymore as Captain Jack Harkness. By far, one of my favorite characters in the entire Whoniverse. It is impossible not to adore him.

I agree with you that these are the best episodes in the series so far. The good news is "so far." No spoilers, but things continue to get better and better! :) Thanks for sharing these.

Love love love Captain Jack. Such a fabulous character. Great Two parter. Scared the pants of my kids when they were little and we watched it live.

Welcome to the writing style of Steven Moffat, future show runner, some people love him, some people hate him, there's always turns and twists, and he's very good at playing the long game, you'll see.

Are you my mummy is an iconic line. Steven Moffat the writer takes over as show runner in Season 5. His stories are awesome.

One of my favourite lines or in fact possibly my favourite lines in the entire show are in this episode… “It’s got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room.”

John Barrowman, who plays Captain Jack Harkness, went to my hometown’s public high school Joliet West. I was at the Catholic school in town a year ahead of him, so I didn’t get to know him, sad to say. But, I did know one of his best friends in school, Andy Dick, who went on to act in tv shows like Newsradio before descending in into substance abuse where he remains to this day, tragically. John’s family still lives in a nearby suburb.

Ah, Chris, you get to meet Captain Jack!

You will get to see Captain Jack again, he even got his own spin-off series called Torchwood.

I like this story for also showing the way different times reflect different attitudes toward sexuality. Jack's promiscuity and sexual flexibility, compare to the story not just of Nancy, but also the way she can blackmail someone by knowing of their bi-sexuality. That and the steps toward healing the Doctor's PSTD are excellent elements.

Fan favorites. Many consider this the best of the Eccleston era. As for me, rewatching these here makes me appreciate him and the first series even more than before.

Every time I see this episode, or the part when the 'ambulance' is surrounded onward, I always, always tear up. Such a wonderful episode. Still one of the best written and acted pieces that exemplifies The Doctor as an agent of hope amidst any tragedy.

A stone-cold classic of a story. 😀 Remember how in the first episode Clive tells Rose that death is the Doctor's constant companion? This two-parter had fans at the time trying to work out how many stories in the "classic" (1963-1989) run didn't have any people dead at the end of the story. I can't remember the exact number (maybe four?), but "very few" definitely summed it up. And those stories took place before the Time War that you've already seen has had a huge impact on the Doctor personally. That "everybody lives" moment really is well earned for him!

Honestly you made the best decision making this two episodes in one

This story was where a lot of people discovered that the revived series wasn't just good Doctor Who, not just good 'geek' television, but just plain good television.

I love this episode so much. This was the one that really grabbed me. Of course I had enjoyed it already, but I was *in* with "Everybody lives!"

Happy 60th Anniversary Doctor Who! 🥂🍾

The Doctor’s jubilation over everyone living is even more significant for us long-time DW fans. One of my most bittersweet memories of Classic Who is the final episode for one of the Fifth Doctor’s companions who ends up leaving because of all of the death and destruction around him. She can’t take it anymore and ready tells him off for it, putting the blame squarely on him. Seeing Eleven’s joy is just terrific.

The great thing about this show is you never know what sort of story your gonna get... i remember watching this back then and thinking how scary it was for a "family" show... little did i know how scary it would get in later seasons.....

Perfect way to celebrate Doctor Who’s 60th for you! With 2 of Nu-Who’s finest episodes!❤

These episodes have some of the best lines! But the sheer joy of "Just this once Rose, everybody lives!" is enough to make me want to laugh and cry at the same time.

One of my favourite things about series 1 is the way its trajectory in terms of storytelling just rockets from Dalek onwards. Before that it's good, but it suddenly goes for broke about the midway point as they hit the accelerator hard. The writer is one of my favourite TV writers full stop, but he's an old-Who fan, massive classic series fanboy. It kind of hampered him in writing this apparently because he was writing it low budget, and instead all his notes apparently were just "no! Spend our money!" Can't wait for your next few reactions.

"Is there more to Jack that we've yet to discover?" 🤣 So, so much!!

So enjoying your reactions. I've been watching this show since 1973 so there's lots more to see. It's got story arcs (maybe even some of the first programmes to have them) that have lasted 30+ years, and it's still a show you can just dip into. It packs so much story and world building into single episodes and on a BBC Budget. To give you some perspective this used to be around £750000 - £800000 ($970000) per episode in 2005. In 1987 Star Trek TNG was spending $1300000 per episode. And it got to reuse a lot of it's sets again and again. Doctor Who went from Platform 1 to Victorian Cardiff to 10 Downing Street. In three episodes.with very limited time in the TARDIS. This show is silly, funny, clever, empathetic, progressive and everything else in between. It has times when it's good and times when it's less so. The one thing you can rely on is, if you don't like this bit much, it'll change soon enough. 😁

This episode sold me. “Just this once, everybody lives!!!” From then on o was in.

"What in the Haley Joel Osment is going on" 🤣🤣

SUCH a great episode. It is one of the best plots ever devised and one of the reason he is one of my favorite Doctors.

This is one of my favorite narrative devices in all of fiction, when the creators go - what if we take a metaphorical, abstract theme/trope, like "power of mother's love defeats evil", and make it *literal*? It's such a fun cocept that it rarely ever fails to result in something good, and these episodes are great example of that.

Oops, got a misspelling in the title (Child) if you wanna fix that! ❤ I haven't watched yet, but I'm so excited for these. This is a great two-parter, very creepy and memorable (my mom and I say "are you my mummy" at least once or twice a month, lol) plus.. Jack!

This is the first Doctor Who episode I saw. It just happened to be on while I was cleaning house, and it hooked me in. I now own anywho on dvd bc I love this series so much. Eccelston was my first Doctor, and he’ll forever be part of my heart.

Jack Harkness! I do hope you'll have a look at Torchwood when the time comes, the last seasons are some of my favourite TV out there.

"Lighten things up" Ha ha ha ha ha 🤣

I've become a real fan of your DW reactions. Keep up the good work!

No you have met on of my favorite characters in Doctor Who (and Torchwood)

Oh also - Today was Doctor Who Day - 23 November. 60 years since Doctor Who began in England. Traditionally I sit down and watch the very first episode at the first available opportunity. No different this year :) Going to watch it with the kids on Saturday. "An Unearthly Child" part 1. When the magic began...

Captain Jack! The loveable rogue finally appears! I love these two episodes.

I was waiting for you to meet Captain Jack :)

Glad to see you loved this story so much! It's universally seen as a classic and as so many others have said, it's a great debut for Steven Moffat. I think the only shame here is that the actress who plays Nancy didn't stay in the profession, I thought she was great.

These are the first ever DW episodes I ever saw. Randomly playing on the syfi network one night. I didn’t know it was part of a huge series. Not long after I saw that doctor who was getting a new doctor and watched some little news thing about it. I decided to watch from the 2005 reboot. When I saw these episodes I was so excited to find the random “movie” I’d watched once!

Your reactions are the highlight of my week. Two parters watch together! Yay! \o/.

one of my favorite episodes. every dr who fan utters 'are you my mummy' at least a few times a year to scare someone.

Ah, yes, Captain Jack. Two great episodes.

When Siri asks you if you are its Mommy, then you worry.

I think for the two part episodes, you should do a longer episode like this. It was fun to watch

Captain Jack is the horn dog of the universe. You will be seeing him again.

I grew up watching classic Doctor Who. Imagine having one complete story told across 4 to 6 episodes! ;-)

"I think this might lighten up a bit" Oh no, no it will not. I'm sorry.

“Are you my mummy” 😀😀great reaction great episode 💯👍👍💯💯

Welcome to the work of Steven Moffat....his episodes were almost universally recognized as the best of Seasons 1-4 of Doctor Who.

“Maybe we’ll see Captain Jack again.” Bwaaa Haa Haa! You might say that!

This was written by arguably the best writer in dr who, Steven Moffat.... he writes a story in each season and they are universally AMAZING ..... one of his to come is regularly votes the best in the shows history and won many international awards.... he eventually took over as showrunner in later seasons...

By far my favorite episodes of the season, and among my favorites overall. The utter joy of the ending ("EVERYBODY LIVES!") is almost overwhelming. And on top of everything, we get introduced to Jack, one of the greatest side characters EVER.

Love Capt Jack!!! So glad you are enjoying this show😁

Steven Moffat wrote some of the best episodes in the Who revival. Just wait till you see 'Blink' :)

You remember WW2? My absolute favourite 2-parter. This is how you write a story. It feels like they wrote the story down to it's most basic then built the world around it. Fleshing it out with a convincing B-story with Nancy and Jamie that turns out to be the key to resolving the problem Captain Jack inadvertently created. Although, when the Doctor said "just this once, everybody lives" is a bit confusing because it's set in the blitz (I think it was probably part of the script for a while and the producers forgot they set the episode in a war torn Britain).

Ah, and now you’ve been introduced to Doctor Who’s finest writers, Steven Moffat!!! ❤❤❤❤

Excited to follow along with this series. Just want to say that you’ve been doing an excellent job! I can see the effort being put into these videos and It’s turning out so well imo.

Doctor Who turns 60 tomorrow!!!!!

So that one line, "Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I am neither. But I'm still a doctor." when The Doctor says he 'knows the feeling' he's not just talking about being a doctor. His FIRST companion back in the Classic era Who, in the very first season, was his granddaughter. Which also means he had a son or daughter (I'm not sure it's ever been stated which one he had?). So he was a father and a grandfather.

funny that a sonic screwdriver is basically a screwdriver, and the actual reason it's awesome is that the doctor is a genius, not the device itself

So happy to see this reaction. I am doing a rewatch of Doctor Who at the moment (currently near the end of series 4) and it really does hit its stride with "Dalek" and pretty much keeps going from there. Watching it quickly makes it much more obvious. Captain Jack is an awesome and popular character. Don't worry, we will be seeing more of him.

I have been doing a NuWho rewatch leading up to the 60th and I'm really enjoying your reactions to seeing it for the first time. Just as an FYI, there is usually a 2-3 part story in the middle of each season and sometimes for the season finale as well. The episodes will have separate titles even when they're part of the same story.

This was the episode that hooked me and I was a Whovian ever since!

So you've got a taste of the writing of Steven Moffat, future* showrunner of Doctor Who (*for you that is). You'll get one story par season from him and it's always a treat. Russel T. Davies always said Moffat's script came in perfectly, never needed to adjust anything. To give you an idea, if you are familiar with the show 'Sherlock' with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, he was the showrunner for that too. But my heart holds fond memories for his very first show 'Press Gang' on kids tv, about the life of teenagers working for the 'Junior Gazette' and critics complained such good writing was wasted on the kids, but honestly, this was the reason why this show was so popular watched by kids, teenagers and adults. And I watched it recently and it's still better then most average shows hence why it still got high ratings on IMDB and Steven did win a BAFTA award with it for his writing, when he was only 29 years old. And boy does he have won awards ever since.... Sorry, rambling a bit, but now you know you can have legitime expectations.

This is my favorite storyline

I have an answer to your question regarding the 2-part nature of some of these stories. The format of these stories varies depending on the writer. Some stories are written for specific episode counts in mind, and the cliffhangers are placed in by the original writer. Other stories were written as a single episode and cliffhangers have to be added in during adaptation. This is how the novel Human Nature by Paul Cornell became the 2 parter Human Nature/The Family of Blood in season 3 of the show.

‘Maybe we won’t see Jack again?’ Oh, sweetie.

until this day I still wonder if Rose, Jack and the Doctor all "shared a dance" that night

thank you thank you thank you, one of the creepiest 'villains' of Who - seriously, children are always creepy as heck when they begin menacing a protagonist. Plus CAPTAIN JACK!! Something to note about Jack - he's wearing suspenders and a belt. He has trouble keeping his pants on 😆

This episode features the 1st occurrence in the new era of someone stepping into the TARDIS and saying those famous lines - "It's bigger on the inside" - after Rose said a different variation back in the first episode. Not every person has reacted that way throughout the show's history... but many have. I made a video capturing a lot of those reactions years ago - one of my faves. Recently re-uploaded. - - Oh! Sorry Chris - spoilers, probably better not to be tempted... As for the cliffhanger ending... That was a MASSIVE part of Classic Who; Most episodes went for 25 mins, and there would be on average 4 episodes for each storyline. So you'd have about 3 cliffhanger endings per story. I was very pleased to see that whilst "most" episodes of this revival were only single-part stories, there were still some chances for cliffhangers.

You have officially been introduced to the evil genius that is Steven Moffat. His episodes are generally considered iconic for a reason. (PS: I love your shirt.)

The moment NuWho returned to ClassicWho's "hide behind the couch" moments :)

Two of my favourite episodes 😊

One of the best, absolutely. Of the whole thing. That ending…got me in the heart. It wasn’t about monsters it was about a child wondering who their mommy is. Amazing. Btw…Siri does that to me as well. It’s like anything with a long e sound can set it off.

The start of a Doctor Who writer of great significance, acclaim and controversy......

This is the best Who episode in my opinion.

I grew up watching the 4th doctor and wasn't sure about the revival in 2005, starting with Eccleston, but I've thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm glad to see you reacting to it. If there is one thing you can always take away from a Dr. Who episode it's "Where there is a will, there is always a way" sometimes you just have to think outside the box to figure it out. 🙂

When these episodes aired there were actual censorship warnings in the UK and questions about whether they should’ve been aired before the UK Watershed (9pm limit). I can safely say that as a 9 year old when this aired, it HORRIFIED me

Enjoying every minute of this show!

Welcome to the world of Steven Moffat and Doctor Who.

And now we'll have to have Torchwood added to the reaction list!

was great to see such a natural reaction to this 2-part Who story - it's one of the best and great to rewatch - but there's much more to come... Enjoy!

Imagine being a kid and watching this before bed 😮 (I wasn't scared though but for some it scared the pants off them) also Jack is the first canonically queer character him being omni sexual

These two episodes are sooo good, best ones in this season IMO.

These ones freaked me out so much when I was little!

I also recommend that you also watch Elemental, Barbie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Road To Perdition, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Wonder Park, Frozen 1&2, Sonic The Hedgehog 1&2, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Power Rangers (2017), Speed Racer, Get Smart, Legally Blonde, Forrest Gump, Shrek, Madagascar, Robots, Chicken Little, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit, The Sixth Sense, The Cable Guy, The Nutty Professor, The Haunted Mansion, Daddy Day Care, Dr. Dolittle, Small Soldiers, Antz, MouseHunt, Paulie, Ever After, Cats & Dogs (2001), Osmosis Jones, The Powerpuff Girls Movie

Captain Jack Hotness makes an appearance. Still voting for watching Torchwood.

You'll get some hit-and-miss episodes every now and then, but overall you're going to enjoy the whole show from here on out.

More Torchwood girliesss! Captain Harkness!!!!

This two parter is my favorite story with my favorite new character in all Who.

Torchwood. Check it out.

The series also contain episodes and stories. So these two episodes are a story. The first series consist of 13 episodes for 10 stories.

Simply the best Eccleston episodes IMHO🎩👍❤