Best titles of any medium?

Having gone through rating the War Master audios I’ve listened to, and giving “The Master’s Dalek Plan” extra points for the title, I was wondering what are everyones favourite title for an episode or book or anything?

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I’m a big fan of the double meaning of The Woman Who Fell to Earth

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I actually do quite like the title “The Greatest Show In the Galaxy”, which also had a double meaning, since a lot of what was going on was direct references to the trouble Doctor Who was going through at the time.

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I like the two parters from series 9, particularly Heaven Sent / Hell Bent. Clever.

Also a great play on words and a story-specific (spoilerish so I won’t explain) reason is A Life in The Day (the audio. This is also the name of a short story but I have no idea if that’s as clever).

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Speaking of double meanings, we have The Big Bang, which hardly needs explaining (Moffat himself admitted its double meaning).

I’m fond of Survival due to its symbolic nature: it’s the end of Doctor Who on TV, but the show still survives elsewhere.

The Deadly Assassin is both stupid and brilliantly fun because assassins are, by definition, deadly.

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I quite like “Doctor Who and The Silurians” - clearly a mistake of some sort was made.
But there is absolutely zero chance that I won’t be calling it by that name until my terminal breath! :grin:

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I believe the story on that one is they would label scripts “Doctor Who And” with the actual title following, but they sent someone new down to TV scheduling who was unaware of this so he gave the title as “Doctor Who and The Silurians” instead of just “The Silurians”

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There’a an 8th Doctor comic called “A Life of Matter and Death” that’s quite nice

I also quite like the whole “Hornet’s Nest/Demon Quest/Serpent Crest” thing from the Nest Cottage Chronicles, also “Tsar Wars”

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“Tsar Wars” is an amazing name :grin:

Also quite like “Horror of Glam Rock”

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Much as I love Delta and the Bannermen for it’s play on Echo and the Bunnymen, I still wish they’d called it Flight of the Chimeron.

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I really like the title of the 8th Doctor’s first story

Doctor Who/Doctor Who: The TV Movie/The TV Movie/Doctor Who 1996/Doctor Who The 1996 Movie/Doctor Who: Enemy Within/Doctor Who: The Enemy Within

: P

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The Zygon Inversion (tv),
A Day to Yourselves (short story),
Citation Needed (short story),
How to Win Planets and Influence People (bf short trips),
The Silent Stars Go By (nsa novel. sounds especially good in Chinese translation),
An Earthly Child (bf audio drama),
Meat (torchwood tv. so good I had to drag my friend who loved The Beast Below to watch this, without Chinese sub)

…I have too many favourites. :rofl:

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The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Devil Goblins from Neptune, The Well-Mannered War - I have read none of these books, but damn are those some cool names.

Iceberg - the David Banks VNA - is a great name for its double meaning between the setting and our protagonist - Ruby’s - complex.

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You’ve forgotten part of the title: The 1996 TV Movie with the Pertwee Logo

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Worldwide Web is a banger title for a not good story. But very much echoing Master’s Dalek Plan for a top tier title.

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Solar-Max And The Seven Handed Snake Mother may be my absolute favorite

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I really like Countrycide. I love puns.

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Went through my spreadsheet and picked out my favourite punny titles:

  • The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius
  • Peri and the Piscon Paradox
  • Meanwhile Turlough
  • The Picture of Josephine Day
  • Mel-evolent
  • The Doctor and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
  • Iterations of I
  • Blood on Santa’s Claw
  • Mission: Impractical
  • Psi-ence Fiction
  • The Auntie Matter
  • Grave Matter
  • Pier Pressure
  • Doctors and Dragons
  • Return of the Living Dad
  • The Silurian Candidate
  • Starlight Robbery
  • Unnatural History
  • The Starship of Theseus
  • The End of the Beginning
  • Industrial Evolution
  • Relative Dementias
  • Unnatural Born Killers
  • Anachrophobia
  • An Earthly Child
  • He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not
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This Cushing Doctor book from Obverse has a pretty good title for a Christmas special :grin::mx_claus:

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Shame the story is a bit Bland :wink:

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