What’s everyone’s favorite Season 7 story or stories? Remember, you can vote for more than one.
- Spearhead from Space
- Doctor Who and the Silurians
- The Ambassadors of Death
- Inferno
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With Ambassadors of Death and Doctor Who and the Silurians, they are good stories, but ones I don’t really remember that well, so I have trouble calling them favorites.
Though Silurians had that moment with the Doctor with Liz by Bessie when the Brig blows up the base… if I remembered the overall story better, I probably would’ve voted for it too.
Spearhead in Space is kinda the definitive first story for a Doctor. It does a great job of setting up UNIT and our whole UNIT family, has the Doctor on the run in a wheelchair, sets up the 3rd Doctor well, and is a great story in general. Rose obviously took some inspiration.
In Inferno, the Earth actually gets destroyed, along with parallel dimensions, which I tend to be a fan of, and the evil universe!Brig in an eyepatch. Top notch stuff.
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I’ve just recently watched all four stories. They’re all good, but I do feel that Silurians is the weakest of the lot. It’s still good and has some good ideas, but seven parts is too long for a Doctor Who story.
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Yeah, admittedly, 7 parts is a little longer then I’d usually prefer.
In my case, the last time I watched these four episodes was probably at the start of watching the 3rd-7th Doctors in order, so it’s been a bit, though I could easily have rewatched Spearhead and Inferno since then…
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Just a reminder to our new members that there are lots of polls to check in the poll tag, including this one.
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I think Season 7 is probably the single strongest season of the entire show.
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For me it is defnitely Inferno. Whle all the others are good, for me, Inferno has the better pacing, writing and acting.
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All of them.
I love long stories, rarely do I get bored or say “This story was too long”, so having three Seven-Parters is a dream come true. And three very good ones at that! I of course understand that not everybody thinks that Way and that’s of course valid, after all there is a Reason why most of Classic (and its EU) is going with the 4-Parter Format. But I cannot stop praising this Season enough. All of those Stories are excellent and while of course not flawless, I do say it’s my favorite set of Stories in 3’s Era ever. Easily one of the best of the entire Show for me at least, (also it has Liz Shaw which gives it 10 bonus points)
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No way Spearhead is over Inferno
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Doctor Who and the Spearhead from the Inferno Space
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As I cast my vote, Spearhead from Space and Inferno are drawing at 63% each, which is exactly how it should be
Spearhead is one of the strongest regenerations stories in the whole show (Classic and Modern). It’s a great start to the new era of Doctor Who, and Pertwee is a delight to watch
Inferno is just good. It uses all seven parts to their full extent - there are two part stories paced worse than this! I really enjoy the alternate universe plot, plus evil!Liz’s knock-off Beatles wig is a fashion statement and a half for sure 
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- Spearhead from Space
- Dr.Who and the Silurians
- Ambassadors of Death
- Inferno
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I loooove Season 7! One of my favourites. Besides the McCoy era it’s probably my favourite season of the show! It’s so unique, even compared to the rest of the Pertwee era. Gritty and political and so, so 70s.
It’s so hard to pick a favourite– all four serials are brilliant in their own right, but Inferno holds a special place in my heart.
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There’s actually already a poll for this that I made last year:
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I think the stories can drag quite a bit so it’s not my favorite season on that front, but Liz is my second favorite classic companion, so it’s special to me for that
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Merged them 
though of course Inferno is the only real answer to the question
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I mean, Spearhead is a close contender.
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Considering there are only four stories, this is surprisingly difficult! I’ve gone for Spearhead from Space because it’s the story that relaunched the series, is recorded entirely on film, is nicely concise in four episodes, and introduces a frightening new monster (which of course was very relevant and current in 1970).
I’ve recently enjoyed a new appreciation for all things Third Doctor (the Big Finish 3DAs are among my most anticipated of their ranges). The recent Series 7 set is a true thing of beauty - Spearhead may be first in my ranking, but the others are all a close equal second.
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