For this one, I’ll use as my favorite Doctor/Companion team-up
Classic Who: 7th Doctor and Ace
From Classic Who, I love 7th Doctor and Ace. These two were awesome together, and I wish we got to see more of their tv adventures (although there are loads of Big Finish audios with Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred reprising their roles).
New Who: 10th Doctor and Donna
As I mentioned in my earlier Favorite Female Companion, I love 10 and Donna. A lot. They are a hoot to watch, but can be beautifully serious when needed.
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PS – Yeah, this one is a bit short. Not feeling well today, but wanted to get in today’s entry. Maybe I might write up more about these guys later on. I’ll now go back and watch Fires of Pompeii (again!! 😀 ) to cheer me up.
Like with my Favorite Actor answer, I’ll go with naming someone who doesn’t have a major role on the show. But maybe a reoccurring role?
Penelope Wilton played the wonderful (and not dead yet) character Harriet Jones. Russell T. Davies, showrunner and head writer for Doctor Who at the time, created the character for
Wilton herself, and she was very committed to Harriet.
What I love is how she is willing to take charge out of necessity, and not out of hunger for power. And to not agree with the Doctor with how to handle a planetary emergency. And even though she didn’t agree with him, she didn’t hold a grudge when he said something that ending up removing her from office. And she was more than willing to organize a way to contact him if they needed help. I felt the Doctor treated Harriet unfairly at the end of The Christmas Invasion.
And I always had a theory that Harriet didn’t die in Stolen Earth. We hear the Daleks shooting and her screaming, but that’s done off camera. We never see her body. And my long held theory was confirmed last year by Davies, who wrote (among others) a poem in Now We Are Six Hundred about what happened after the Daleks attacked.
Then Penelope Wilton went to do some little show called… what was that? Downton… something or other.
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Least favorite Classic Who season is difficult, not because there are more than one, but I have finding any. There are a lot of episodes that I like within a season, a few are meh, and some it has been a long time since I’ve seen it so It wouldn’t be fair to say “I don’t like this season because of these 2, or 3, or 4 stories that I have not seen in years”.
And, of course, some stories are missing :'(. So I’m going to pass on my least favorite season.
However, I do have a least favorite New Who series, and that would be series 2. (I can almost feel the ire of 10/Rose shippers towards me right now)
Not to say I don’t like 10 (I love them all), these stories were some of my least likedin New Who, and most were in this series.
Stories from this series are (along with short notes about each):
The Christmas Invasion (only good when the Doctor wakes up, and that’s near the end)
New Earth (eh)
Tooth and Claw (seeing Queen Victoria was neat, but other than that, meh)
School Reunion(only really good episode. Sarah Jane!!! And K9!!!)
The Girl in the Fireplace (almost always bothers me when the Doctor gets romantic with other characters. And where is the French accent?!?)
Rise of the Cybermen (this and the next episode is a two-parter and meh stories. Wasn’t crazy about this version of the Cybermen either.)
The Age of Steel (example of why I had a bad taste in my mouth about 2 parters)
The Idiot’s Lantern (meh)
The Impossible Planet (this and the next one made a 2 parter again. Story just was meh. One reason why I was not impressed with “under siege” stories)
The Satan Pit (another reason why 2 part stories were losing my interest)
Love & Monsters (not too bad, I like it more than most fans. Some interesting ideas they were testing out. But that ending is ewww! TMI !!)
Fear Her (meh)
Army of Ghosts (another beginning of a 2 parter. One great scene was the Daleks and Cybermen facing off. And dissing each other. Other than that…)
Doomsday (and yet another reason why 2 parters just didn’t do it for me. And Rose’s departure has lost it’s effect. Also she’s still alive at the end when she said she was dead? Being in a parallel universe is not the same as being actually dead.)
The cool thing that came out of season 2 were David’s vlogs where he would carry around a video camera and film what it’s like starting on Doctor Who. My favorite “episode” is below:
There he is, watching Doctor Who with family like when he was a kid, except now he’s watching himself as the Doctor. And his parents were adorable. Glad that they lived long enough to see their son play as his childhood hero.
If you want to see more of those video diaries, here’s a playlist:
Always like to end things on a high note, because it’s really difficult to stay in a bad mood when talking about Doctor Who, even the things with it that I’m not crazy about :).
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For this, I’ll list the spinoffs for Doctor Who. And I’m going to just pick from the TV based spin offs, not the Big Finish (mainly because I have not listened to very many).
There is K9 and Company, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures. The one I liked the most was/is the Sarah Jane Adventures. Torchwood had very adult stories set in the Doctor Who universe with Captain Jack and his crew at the Torchwood Institute. Doctor Who is aimed at both kids and adults. SJA was aimed at the young crowd. Still smart and fun, just a young demographic. Premise is she and a group of teens investigate and face aliens tying to take over.
Starring the lovely and much loved (and missed) Elizabeth Sladen in her most famous role she had during the 1970s with Jon Pertwee’s 3rd Doctor and Tom Baker’s 4th. She came back to Doctor Who in the Series 2 episode “School Reunion”. There was such a love for her, that she got her own show (again…She did have K9 and Company in the 1980s).
Fun episodes to watch if you don’t know where to start are the two that have the Doctor in it. One is The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (series 3, episode 5&6) with the 10th Doctor. Below is the ending of that story (no spoilers). From what I read, this was filmed after David Tennant’s last Doctor Who episode. And he’s wearing a nice version of his blue suit (the brown one got ruined in his last Who story)
And the other is Death of the Doctor (series 4, episode 5&6) with the 11th Doctor. One of the cool things about this was it also brought back Jo Grant( played by the spunky Katy Manning, who was Jon Pertwee’s 3rd Doctor companion/assistant. It was fun to see two companions who had been with the same Doctor at different times, now working together to save the (new) Doctor. I love Jo’s reaction to seeing the Doctor appear because she had never seen him regenerate from or to another person.
As of the time of this blog post: if you have Amazon Prime, they have the whole show available for members (in the United States that is. Not sure if it works the same outside the US :/ ). You can also buy the show as well :).
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There are a large amount of female companions. Ones I really like are Barbara Wright, Sarah Jane Smith, and River Song.
Well, River comes in a close second place. Really hard to decide. But I keep coming back to the companion who was with the Doctor when we first met River. The temp from Chiswick, the one and only: Donna Noble.
I loved Donna so much. Lots of sass and not afraid to straighten the Doctor out if he needed. And no romantic ties either. They were just best friends. And the ongoing joke when people would assume that they were married, and the Doctor and Donna would say “Oh, no, we’re not married”
DoctorDonna forever!
I would have added a picture of Catherine Tate and me because she came to Orlando for MegaCon this year, but I wasn’t able this year because of financial constraints. I was really bummed that I missed her.
Recommended episodes:
Fires of Pompeii
The Unicorn and the Wasp
Added Bonus:
Came across this music playlist of songs for 10 and Donna. I’ll list them below as well.
Starring the lovely and much loved (and missed) Elizabeth Sladen in her most famous role she had during the 1970s with Jon Pertwee’s 3rd Doctor and Tom Baker’s 4th. She came back to Doctor Who in the Series 2 episode “School Reunion”. There was such a love for her, that she got her own show (again…She did have 
was it also brought back Jo Grant( played by the spunky 
I loved Donna so much. Lots of sass and not afraid to straighten the Doctor out if he needed. And no romantic ties either. They were just best friends. And the ongoing joke when people would assume that they were married, and the Doctor and Donna would say “Oh, no, we’re not married”