At last we come to the top 100. Let’s dive in.

100: The Gunfighters (19 Points, 2 First Place, 1 Last Place, 2 Downvotes)

The “Jeremy Bentham” point of view went unrepresented until the last set of votes counted. I am disappointed in whoever cast that vote. DISAPPOINTED.

99: The Face of Evil (19 Points, 1 First Place)

98: The Husbands of River Song (19 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Downvotes)

97: The Romans (19 Points, 1 Downvote)

96: The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar (19 Points, 4 Downvotes)

95: The Girl Who Died (20 Points, 2 Downvotes)

94: The Lodger (20 Points, 4 Downvotes)

93: Dead Romance (21 Points, 1 First Place, 7 Non-Televised)

Alternatively, this could be the highest-placed Faction Paradox book.

92: The Curse of Fatal Death (21 Points, 4 Non-Televised)

This is another of those ones where the order is really funny.

91: The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit (21 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Last Place, 3 Downvotes)

90: The Edge of Destruction (22 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Downvote)

89: Planet of the Ood (22 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Downvote)

88: The Green Death (23 Points, 1 First Place, 3 Downvotes)

87: The Invasion (23 Points)

86: The Sun Makers (24 Points, 1 Downvote)

85: The Also People (25 Points, 18 Non-Televised)

84: Terror of the Zygons (25 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Downvote)

83: The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone (25 Points, 1 Downvote)

82: The Waters of Mars (25 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Last Place, 3 Downvotes)

81: Castrovalva (27 Points, 1 First Place)

80: The God Complex (27 Points, 1 Downvote)

79: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (28 Points, 3 First Place, 4 Last Place, 13 Downvotes)

This was 6th in the most recent Doctor Who Magazine poll. One of the people to put it in first place apologized for doing so. Another person both upvoted and downvoted it. Personally, I’m pretty happy with the fact that it was beaten by

78: The Ambassadors of Death (29 Points, 1 First Place)

One voter went with The Ambassadors… OF DEATH. Another went with the even more emphatic The Ambassadors [Ker-Chow!] OF DEATH. 

77. Flatline (30 Points)

76. Father’s Day (32 Points, 1 Last Place, 1 Downvote)

75: The Aztecs (32 Points, 2 Last Place)

74: Utopia (34 Points, 1 Downvote)

73: The Seeds of Doom (35 Points, 3 First Place, 3 Downvotes)

72: The Pyramids of Mars (35 Points, 2 Downvotes)

The two most overrated Hinchcliffe-era stories finish level on points and pleasantly far down. 

 

71: Face the Raven (35 Points, 1 Last Place, 1 Downvote)

70: Horror of Fang Rock (36 Points)

69: The Evil of the Daleks (37 Points, 2 First Place)

68: The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (37 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Last Place, 5 Downvotes)

67: The Three Doctors (38 Points)

66: Scherzo (38 Points, 31 Non-Televised)

65: The Night of the Doctor (38 Points, 16 Non-Televised)

Paul McGann’s highest “televised” story.

64: The Holy Terror (39 Points, 36 Non-Televised)

63: Mummy on the Orient Express (40 Points)

62: Rose (40 Points, 1 Downvote)

61: Snakedance (41 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Last Place, 1 Downvote)

The person who voted for “Dances with Snakes” flummoxed me until very late in the counting.…

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And now at last to the meat of the poll.

200: The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure (6 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Non-Televised)

199: The Turing Test (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

198: The Tides of TIme (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

197: Seeing I (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

196: The Marian Conspiracy (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

195: The Dying Days (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

194: The Time Travellers (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

193: The Room With No Doors (6 Points, 5 Non-Televised)

192: Lucie Miller/To the Death (6 Points, 7 Non-Televised, 2 Downvotes)

191: Just War (6 Points, 4 Non-Televised)

190: The Seeds of Death (6 Points)

189: Black Orchid (6 Points, 1 Downvote)

188: The Christmas Invasion (6 Points, 2 Downvotes)

187: Frontier in Space (6 Points, 1 Last Place, 1 Downvote)

186: TARDIS Eruditorum (7 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Non-Televised)

I’d have had fifteen points if I’d counted all the things that were entries of TARDIS Eruditorum here. Keep that in mind when we get to 138th place.

185: This Town Will Never Let Us Go (7 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Non-Televised)

184: Master (7 Points, 7 Non-Televised)

183: Davros (7 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

182: The Iron Legion (7 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

181: The Well-Mannered War (7 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

180: Deadline (7 Points, 5 Non-Televised)

179: Set Piece (7 Points, 5 Non-Televised)

178: The Year of Intelligent Tigers (7 Points, 5 Non-Televised)

177: Shada (7 Points, 1 First Place)

176: Death of the Doctor (7 Points, 3 Non-Televised)

175: Planet of the Spiders (7 Points)

174: The Tomb of the Cybermen (7 Points, 1 First Place, 11 Downvotes)

This was 23rd in the most recent Doctor Who Magazine poll. 

173: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (8 Points, 1 First Place, 3 Non-Televised)

172: Festival of Death (8 Points, 7 Non-Televised)

171: …ish (8 Points, 7 Non-Televised)

170: Dark Eyes (8 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

169: The Book of the War (8 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

This is arguably the highest placed Faction Paradox book.

168: The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (8 Points, 5 Non-Televised)

167: Full Circle (8 Points, 1 First Place)

166: The Keeper of Traken (8 Points)

165: State of Decay (8 Points)

Something of a consensus regarding Season Eighteen there.

164: The Curse of Peladon (8 Points, 1 Downvote)

What do you reckon the odds are that the downvote was aiming for Monster of Peladon and missed?

162: Campaign (9 Points, 1 First Place, 3 Non-Televised)

163: The One Doctor (9 Points, 8 Non-Televised)

161: The Daleks’ Masterplan (9 Points, 1 Downvote)

160: The Name of the Doctor (9 Points, 1 Last Place, 5 Downvotes)

159: The Infinity Doctors (10 Points, 8 Non-Televised)

158: Hide (10 Points, 1 Last Place, 3 Downvotes)

157: A Good Man Goes to War (10 Points, 2 Last Place, 12 Downvotes)

156: The Eleventh Doctor Comic (11 Points, 11 Non-Televised)

Combined a bunch of votes for individual issues and various parts of the series here.

155: The Scarlet Empress (11 Points, 1 First Place, 6 Non-Televised)

154: Continuity Errors (11 Points, 10 Non-Televised)

153: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (11 Points, 8 Non-Televised)

152: The Macra Terror (11 Points)

151: The Day of the Daleks (11 Points, 1 Downvote)

150: The Dæmons (11 Points, 3 Downvotes)

149: Terror of the Autons (11 Points, 1 Last Place)

148: The Daleks (11 Points, 5 Downvotes)

147: Asylum of the Daleks (11 Points, 1 Last Place, 2 Downvotes)

146: The Web Planet (11 Points, 1 Last Place, 6 Downvotes)

145: Smith and Jones (12 Points)

144: The Time Warrior (12 Points)

143: Doctor Who and the Silurians (12 Points, 1 Downvote)

142: The Space Museum (12 Points, 1 Downvote)

141: Boom Town (12 Points, 2 Downvotes)

140: The Unicorn and the Wasp (12 Points, 2 Last Place)

139: Shada (Gareth Roberts Novelization) (13 Points, 13 Non-Televised)

As promised, all non-televised votes for Shada went to this, which made it Shada’s highest placing.…

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Jessica Jones #1

An adequate first issue, although annoyingly hard to square away with Jessica Jones’s recent appearance in Spider-Man just a couple of weeks ago, which makes sense, as it’s obviously difficult for two writers to square up their plots in two different books, especially when there’s a major crossover going on that’s throwing all sorts of books out of sync. Oh wait, both books and the crossover are by the same writer who’s consistently a fucking trainwreck when it comes to this sort of thing. Anyway, it’s very “yes this is an issue of Alias Jessica Jones” that dumps a bunch of premise in a pile on the floor and promises to come back later and do something with it. Coin flip whether I bother to do so. 

Shade the Changing Girl #1

Good premise and good art, but nothing that’s quite sparking for me. The alien weirdness, not unlike Doom Patrol, feels a bit forced – like an homage to a particular style of comics zaniness rather than something that’s actually extending out of the creative team’s interests. I suspect this is going to be the crux of my problem with the Young Animals stuff – the sense that it’s mostly the borrowed fire of twenty year old comics done with a contemporary gloss. 

James Bond: Eidolon #10

An absolutely rock solid comic. Ellis moves his pieces around the board deliberately, with each of the scenes building tension and complexifying the situation until the final one, which gloriously upends everything and kicks the plot into high gear. Can’t wait for the denouement to all of this.

Shipwreck #1

Surreal, unsettling, and not entirely clear about what it’s doing yet. At the moment this seems to be Ellis in the same vein as Supreme: Blue Rose, but with Phil Hester in place of Tula Lotay. This means less avant garde art, but isn’t really a problem – Hester’s a rock solid and clear storyteller, and his jagged figures are haunted things that look like they staggered out of a fever dream. This is playing its cards close to the chest, and it’ll be a good few issues before it’s possible to declare for sure that it’s brilliant (remember how long Injection took to get to a boil?), but by all appearances it’s another triumph for late phase Ellis. …

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And with the introductory sections done we finally get to things that at least two people voted for. This’ll be the last day to be overwhelmingly non-televised material as well. 

363: Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time (2 Point, 2 Non-Televised)

Wait, wasn’t this on yesterday’s list? Yes, briefly, until I noticed that in addition to the person who had entered the title as “Doctor Who and the Fangs of Doom” there was someone who’d voted for it correctly, meaning that it got two points and that I had to renumber half the damn entry. So this gets put last among the two-pointers because I now literally hate it more than anything that isn’t The Celestial Toymaker. 

362. Cuddlesome (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

One voter specified the Audio-Visuals version. While it would have been funny to put the story in the 120-way tie twice because of that, I didn’t.

361. They Say (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

Wack’d was sad yesterday that the bulk of his votes for stories by lyricwritesprose were in the big messy 121-way tie, so for the record, apparently “A Problem of Background,” “Boxing Day,” “Lies Told to Children,” and “See Ye Not That Bonny Road” are also good. (Addendum: Apparently Wack’d wasn’t one of the voters for this one.)

360. Because We Want To (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

I’d somehow never seen this before. It’s genuinely astonishing how much of the Russell T Davies era is accurately anticipated by it.

359: Borrowed Time (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

One vote specified that this was for the novel. The other didn’t, and there’s technically a comic story with the same title, but I’m going to guess they meant the novel too.

358: Fear of the Dark (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

357: The Feast of the Drowned (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

356: The Fourth Wall (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

Nobody specified whether they meant the Big Finish story or the comic story, but as I remember banging on to someone or other about how obvious an idea using the Boneless in comics was, I decided it gets to be the comics story.

355: The Red Lady (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

354: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

353: The Two Masters (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

352: The Dead Line (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

351: The Cruel Sea (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

350: The Cold Equations (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

349: Legend of the Cybermen (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

348: Something Inside (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

347: The Last Doctor (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

346: The Council of Nicaea (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

345: The Church and the Crown (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

344: The Cabinet of Light (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

343: Sympathy for the Devil (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

342: Prisoner of the Daleks (2 Points, 2 Non-Televised)

I was more than slightly releived, when Googling for the link there, that I was wrong and this was not the Dalek porn thing, which is called Abducted by the Daleks.…

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Today we get the vast swath of the list that clocked in at exactly one point. The overwhelming majority of these are things that got exactly one vote, and indeed one vote off of the non-televised section. Indeed, if you want to jump straight to televised stuff, skip ahead to 382nd place. Also, I should admit that my tie-breaking ranking in these lower recesses of the charts is less careful than my adjudication of the larger extremes, generally based on mild whimsy. Which also brings us to the one tie of the poll – the one point non-televised stories that I was sufficiently unfamiliar with or indifferent to that I had no views whatsoever on what their order should be. But before that we have a one point non-televised story that I felt strongly should come in below all of them. 

626: Death Comes to Time (1 Point, 1 Non-Televised)

Yes, yes. I wish you’d thought to downvote it too. Which brings us to our tie.

507: 118-Way Tie (1 Point, 1 Non-Televised)

That’s a tie among A Good Dalek, A Groatsworth of Wit, A Problem of Background by Lyricwritesprose, Almost Perfect, Beautiful Freak, Born again, Boxing Day, Brave New Town, Children of the Revolution, City of the Damned, Cloud of Fear, Corner of the Eye, Cradle of the Snake, Crusade, Dead of Winter, Death And The Queen, Death Takes a Holiday, Death’s Deal, Deep Time, Devious, Doctor Who Quiz Book of Dinosaurs, Dreams of Empire, Ecce Medicus Donnaque!, Fade Away, Fall to Earth, Flight of the Darned, Gods and Monsters, Grand Theft Cosmos, Ground Zero, Hiccups, Jago & Litefoot: Beautiful Things , Kingdom of Silver/Keepsake, Lies Told to Children, Master of Spiders, Night of the Whisper, Night Thoughts, Nothing at the End of the Lane, Now or Therabouts, Oblivion, Only the Monstrous, Outrage of the Zygons, Paper Cuts, People Used to Dream About the Future, Picnic at Asgard, Pitter-Patter, Pull to Open, Pureblood, Revolution Man, Rise and Fall, Robot Gladiators (The K-9 series’ only appearance in the poll), Second Chances, See Ye Not That Bonny Road, Sisters of the Flame/ Vengeance of Morbius, Son Of The Dragon, Space in Dimensions Relative and Time, Survival of the Fittest, Technophobia, Terry Nation’s Dalek comics, That video of Phil playing Soldeed that was offered as a Kickstarter bonus, The 12 Doctors Play DDR, The Auton Stratagem, The Autonomy Bug, The Brood of Erys, The Claws of Santa, The Crossroads of Time, The Crystal Conundrum, The Cybermen, The Dalek Chronicles, The Dalek Factor, The Death of Death, The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories, The Doctor and the Dalek, The Doctor Trap, The Doomwood Curse, The Eleven, The Eleven-Day Empire / The Shadow Play, The Eleventh Doctor: Conversion, The Elixir of Doom, The End of the World (the Big Finish story, as opposed to the television one), The Golden Ones, The Hero of Three Faces, The House of the Dead, The Indestructible Man, The Last, The Last Day, The Last Dodo, The Last Post, The Lost Ones, The Monsters Inside, The Nameless City, The Never Was, The Pair o’ Docs Paradox, The Reaping, The Resurrection Casket, The Scapegoat, The Shadow Planet, The Ship of a Billion Years, The Sleep of Reason, The Sontaran Ordeal, The Stalker of Norfolk, The Stockbridge Showdown, The Tomorrow Windows, Infernal Devices, The Way through the Woods, The Weeping Angels of Mons, The Widow’s Assassin, The Worlds of Doctor Who, Things They Talked About in the Playground, Time Reaver, Trading Futures, Twice Upon a Timelord, UNIT: Extinction, Urgent Calls, Valhalla, Vampire of the Mind, We Are The Daleks, Wirrn Isle, and Yellow Fever And How to Cure It. As you’ve noticed, I’m not linking those for you.…

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Super Nintendo Project will be along later this week. But I’ll also be gradually rolling out the results of our anniversary poll over the course of the week. All told there are a total of 761 stories on the list, compiled from 380 ballots.  We kick off today with Colin Baker’s least favorite section of it, the stuff that got downvoted such that it finished with 0 or fewer points. Before we start, though, a note about tiebreaks. Basically, there are two that were applied. The first is “what got the most regular votes,” on the logic that a story with a broader base of people who like it enough to vote for it is more popular than one that got the same score on the back of first-place votes. This also means that at a given point tally the Marmite stories that got a lot of downvotes do better than the uncontroversial ones, and that televised stories generally do better than ones that got their point tallies mostly from the extra votes for non-televised stories. The second tiebreak is my personal preference, because it’s my site and that matters.

Right. On to the results. Today we’ll count up instead of down, finishing with your all-time most hated Doctor Who story. Which means that we start with the stories that broke even at zero points, upvoted and downvoted in equal proportion, and within that start with the most contestedly Marmite of the bunch. Which means that in 629th place is…

627: The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords (0 Points, 1 First Place, 17 Downvotes)

628: Invasion of the Dinosaurs (0 Points, 1 Last Place, 3 Downvotes)

629: The Taking of Chelsea 426 (0 points, 1 Last Place, 1 Downvote)

630: Planet of Evil (0 Points, 1 Last Place)

631: Nightmare of Eden (0 Points, 3 Downvotes)

632: Revenge of the Cybermen (0 Points, 3 Downvotes)

633: The Keys of Marinus (0 Points, 3 Downvotes)

634: Colony in Space (0 Points, 2 Downvotes)

635: Into the Dalek (0 Points, 2 Downvotes)

636: The Underwater Menace (0 Points, 1 Downvote)

“I got an episode recovered for this?” 

637: Four to Doomsday (0 Points, 1 Downvote)

638: Planet of Fire (0 Points, 1 Downvote)

639: Engines of War (0 Points, 3 Non-Televised Votes, 1 Last Place)

640: Omega (0 Points, 1 Non-Televised, 1 Downvote)

641: The Stones of Venice (0 Points, 1 Non-Televised, 1 Downvote)

642: An Adventure in Space and Time (0 Points, 1 Non-Televised, 1 Downvote)

643: Dancing the Code (0 Points, 1 Non-Televised, 1 Downvote)

644: The Ghosts of N-Space (0 Points, 1 Non-Televised, 1 Downvote)

Next we have the only tfour televised stories to fail to get a single vote in any direction. Two are unsurprising given that they’re both completely missing, and another’s close to totally gone. One, on the other hand, is a frankly bizarre omission. But since it would be weird to have a list with four televised stories not included…

645: The Faceless Ones (0 Points, No Votes Whatsoever)

646: The Krotons (0 Points, No Votes Whatsoever)

647: The Savages (0 Points, No Votes Whatsoever)

648: The Smugglers (0 Points, No Votes Whatsoever)

Now we move on to the stuff that’s more hated than loved, starting with a story that came in 24th in Doctor Who Magazine‘s 50th Anniversary Poll.…

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Just a reminder that I’ll be turning off submissions for the Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll in twelve hours, so if you want to register your vote you should probably go do that.

Also, as we enter October and near the launch day for Class, it’s worth noting that the Eruditorum Press Patreon is still $16 shy of where I’ll be doing reviews of it. So if you’re not a supporter, now’s a great time to become one. …

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