Best titles of any medium?

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The Master’s Dalek Plan is definitely one of the all-time greats!

A lot of my favorite titles are novel titles, a lot of them are very strange and evocative, drawing you in to wonder what they could possibly mean, others are humorous/fun or just clever.

A list of some I particularly like:

The Highest Science, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Strange England, The Crystal Bucephalus, Infinite Requiem, Dancing the Code, Sky Pirates!, Invasion of the Cat-People, The Also People, Christmas on a Rational Planet, Return of the Living Dad, The Devil Goblins from Neptune, Alien Bodies, Vanderdeken’s Children, Last Man Running, The Face-Eater, The Banquo Legacy, The Quantum Archangel, Eater of Wasps, The Year of Intelligent Tigers, The Slow Empire, Psi-ence Fiction, Dying in the Sun, The Book of the Still, The Infinity Race, Reckless Engineering, Emotional Chemistry, Sometime Never…, The Eleventh Tiger, The Sleep of Reason, The Algebra of Ice, To the Slaughter (this last one I can’t not hear David Tennant as the Doctor saying in my head every time I think about it)

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I like the rhyming, but I sometimes think the finale could’ve been called Hell Bound. So you have more of a mirror, and the ‘bound’ referring to the way the Doctor and Clara are bound together.

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And then, after the movie, the show Rose. Very fitting.

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Missed opportunity for The Bells of Saint John - could’ve called it The Worldwide Web of Fear. It even has the Great Intelligence.

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I love McCoy’s story titles, but I flit between wishing they’d gone with some of the working titles because they’re so good.

  • Strange Matter
  • Flight of the Chimeron
  • Absolute Zero
  • The Crooked Smile
  • Nemesis
  • Life Cycle / The Bestiary
  • The Wolves of Fenric
  • Blood Hunt

I also love Cat Flap for Survival but, in hindsight, I’m glad it didn’t stick.

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In fairness, it depends how good the assassin is at their job :sweat_smile:

Love that Moffat poked fun years later with Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death.

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One not that deadly assassin:

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Now we just need a story called “The Deadly Assassin of Fatal Death” and the world will be a better place.

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Can it also have the sting from ‘Ambassadors of Death’?
“The Deadly Assassin of :boom: PTAAANG :boom: FATAL DEATH”

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Honestly, more stories need that TWAAAANG! and it’s a crime it was only ever used once.

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Definitely! The more ‘TWAAANG!’ the better!

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I quite like the wordy Titles usually such as the Audio *If I should Die Before I Wake" or the Short Trip “Have you turned it off and then back on again?”. There is just something about those. “How to win Planets and influence People” is a great one as well!

There are many other greats, of course I do like myself a good old “of Death” in my Titles or even some Titles with a nice Double Meaning.

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Yes, it is. I read that one yesterday and recommend it!

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I remember when RTD was considering “The Final Days of Planet Earth” as a title for the first half of The End of Time, and part of me wishes they’d gone with it.

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I really like the titles of the Planet Krynoid set! They reflect not only the name of the planet, but also they reflect the way in which things progress throughout the set. Sunlight > Sunset > Darkness

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I love love love wordy titles! How to Make a Killing in Time Travel is such a great title

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So does someone at Arcbeatle Press :sob:

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Speaking of wordy titles, it amuses me that For Tonight We Might Die had an earlier title of “The Prom”.

I also enjoy wordy titles, but I don’t think they always work.

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“I Don’t Really Have A Title For This Please Stop Pressuring Me” is peak

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Good that it does not have a variant…

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