Here we are again with guess the episode, where you check five screenshots, and guess what serial they are from. Feel free to continue into the bonuses if you haven’t gotten it, and, really, I tend to have some fun screenshots in there anyways.
This will not include anything from New Who; ie: Rose or later. Things like, say, the movie, or Scream of the Shalka are fair game, though I imagine everyone would notice that pretty fast…
Didn’t get it before I gave up. I saw straight away that it was a Five story though! And those are some crispy shots! You’re right about the quality of those YouTube videos!
Yeah, quality was great here, whereas otherwise, the screenshots are from whatever video I have of the serial, and that’s not always good quality. Though these days, if I can, I usually try to get a better quality copies before I do a serial.
Three for me. Number three I fond to be very distinctive. Number two was tickling at my memory, but three sealed the deal.
Much to admire in this story. I admit, it isn’t wholly successful but it is full of ideas. I also like the more sedate, almost Hartnellian, explorations and revelations across the first episode. It feels distinctive and yet wholly DW. Adric, though? Not exactly his finest hour!
In two - knew it was probably Season 19 (or possibly the tail end of Season 18) and went for Castrovalva but the recognised the spaceship interior straight away.
See again my having only seen each story once really let me down.
I knew pretty early what story it was, I could say it’s the one on the space ship where they have collected people from different times and one of them is an android or something I think?
But I couldn’t name the story or the season or anything.
Don’t you think the title of this serial is pretty generic? Does it have a deeper meaning that I’m missing?
That is the correct story. In fact, they collected from four different cultures, presumably why it’s Four to Doomsday. Working title for it was Day of Wrath.
While it’s a bit of a generic title, there’ve been plenty of generic titles in Doctor Who. Resolution, Revolution of the Daleks, Day of the Daleks, Death To the Daleks, Power of the Daleks, Power of the Doctor, Day of the Doctor, Time of the Doctor…
One note on this one is that the aboriginals were originally going to speak gibberish, but Tegan was supposed to speak to them, and Janet Fielding, as an Australian, thought this was insulting, and insisted that the dialogue actually be in an actual Aboriginal language. Just an entry in Janet Fielding being awesome…
Could tell from the first screenshot that it was a Fifth Doctor story though