Ranking the stories you consumed this month

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Something I used to do on my Instagram stories (@who_onabudget if you want to follow the building of my collection using very limited price restrictions) was at the start of each month, ranking everything I’d watched from Doctor Who in the previous month. I enjoy it because it often ends up being a ranking of totally unrelated stories from right across the series’ history - and I’m that dork who likes ranking things for no good reason. So, I thought I’d bring it back here, and others can throw theirs down below. It’s totally up to you how you frame it - it could just be the TV stories you’ve watched (that’s what I used to do), or the audios you’ve listened to, or a ranking of literally every story you’ve completed that month in any medium (that’s what I’m going to do now).

Today is the 1st May, so, off you go!

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I’ll go first…

April 2026

  1. Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood

  2. Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

  3. Torchwood: Army of One

  4. The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Wrath of the Iceni

  5. Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

  6. Prisoners of Time: Unnatural Selection

  7. Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem

  8. Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma

  9. Doctor Who: Darkstar Academy

  10. Doctor Who: Dreamland

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Read a lot of terrible comics this month so I’ll just stick to ranking this months new releases

  1. The Reckoning
  2. Monkey House
  3. Helter Skelter
  4. Land of Fools
  5. The Curse of the Duergar
  6. Monkey Business
  7. 1922: The Black Cadre
  8. A Crucible of Queens
  9. Field of Miracles
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Roughly:

  1. “An Ocean of Sawdust”
  2. “Weapon of Choice”
  3. “Late Night Shopping”
  4. “Square One”
  5. “Pandemonium”
  6. “The Temple of Light”
  7. “The Heartless Sea”
  8. “The Inquiry”
  9. “The Kraken of Hagwell”
  10. “Tuesday”
  11. “A Blind Eye”
  12. “The Caves of Erith”
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  1. Academic Notes (Shakespeare Notebooks)
  2. Jealous, Possessive (BF prose Short Trip)
  3. Curtain
  4. The Frozen Wastes (NSA short story)
  5. Playing House (12th Doctor comic)
  6. The Meddling Monks Part 1 Trailer
  7. The Reckoning
  8. Monky Business
  9. The True and Most Excellent Comedie of Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Notebooks)
  10. The Fourth Wall (12th Doctor comic)
  11. Monky House
  12. Clara Oswald and the School of Death (12th Doctor comic)
  13. Echo (10th Doctor comic)
  14. Robo Rampage (9th Doctor comic)
  15. Salad Daze (6th Doctor comic)
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  1. [BF] The Holy Terror
  2. [TV] The Daleks’ Master Plan
  3. [NA] Nightshade/Prelude Nightshade (makes sense to combine these)
  4. [BF] Sympathy for the Devil
  5. [TV] Mission to the Unknown + the recreation
  6. [TV] Lux
  7. [TV] The Well
  8. [DWM] Invaders from Gantac!
  9. [TV] Lucky Day
  10. [BBV] The Airzone Solution
  11. [TV] The Robot Revolution
  12. [BF] The Next Life
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:sob: That’s one of my favorites.

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Sorry… I just thought the ending was a bit mean to Peri!

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I’ve done a lot in the last month, so I’m going to limit myself to 10
1: Scherzo (repeat)
2: Pursuit of the Nightjar (repeat)
3: The Meddling Monks Part One Trailer
4: Dark Gallifrey: Morbius (repeat)
5: Helter Skelter
6: Morbius the Mighty (repeat)
7: Land of Fools
8: Field of Miracles
9: The Time of Angels (Novel)
10: Planet of the Ogrons

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  1. “The Nightmare Begins”
  2. “Devil’s Planet”
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1 Gallifrey TW: Assassins
2 DW CC: Prints of Denmark
3 DW RvS: Betrayl at the House of Sontar
4 TW: Last Love Songs of Suzie Costello
5 DG: Monky Houze
6 DG: Trailer
7 DG Monky Buissness
8 TLV Mission to the Known
9 FABS: 1.1 Revolution
10 Gallifrey TW Nevernor
11 Gallifrey TW Hostoles
12 Destination Daleks
13 TLV the Last Message
14 9DA Pandemonium
15 Strax’s the Zygons webcast
16 - 25 8 of Captain Jack’s Monster Files
26: Daft Dimension #150
27 - 38 11 of Yaz’s case files
39 Aagh! #77

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So my partner and I started the Eleventh Doctor at the beginning of the month. I have seen them all before, but they haven’t. I ordered them by rating, then within the rating I ordered them by how much I liked them.

And before anyone mentions it; I don’t like The Girl Who Waited much. Just not my thing.

  1. A Christmas Carol (4.5)
  2. The God Complex (4.5)
  3. The Doctor’s Wife (4.5)
  4. Vincent and the Doctor (4.5)
  5. The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (4.0)
  6. An Unearthly Child (4.0)
  7. A Good Man Goes to War (4.0)
  8. The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang (4.0)
  9. Amy’s Choice (4.0)
  10. The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone (3.5)
  11. Night Terrors (3.5)
  12. The Almost People/The Rebel Flesh (3.5)
  13. The Beast Below (3.5)
  14. The Curse of the Black Spot (3.5)
  15. The Vampires of Venice (3.5)
  16. Destination: Daleks (Comic) (3.5)
  17. Cinema Introduction to The Day of the Doctor (3.5)
  18. Let’s Kill Hitler (3.5)
  19. The Lodger (3.0)
  20. Victory of the Daleks (2.5)
  21. The Girl Who Waited (2.5)
  22. The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood (2.5)
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Oh this is fun.

  1. Earthshock
  2. Logopolis
  3. Black Orchid
  4. Castrovalva
  5. State of Decay
  6. Arc of Infinity
  7. Pandemonium
  8. Keeper of Traken
  9. Full Circle
  10. Mawdryn Undead
  11. Time Works
  12. The Visitation
  13. Kinda
  14. The Pheonicians
  15. Four to Doomsday
  16. Snakedance
  17. Timeflight
  18. Warriors’ Gate
  19. A Town Called Mercy
  20. Meglos

Didn’t feel like listing them individually but I also watched a bunch of Tom Baker advertisements I’d probably put over Meglos.

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Absolutely valid[1].

  1. For not listing them, and especially for rating them above Meglos. ↩︎

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A new month means a new ranking…

May 2026

  1. Doctor Who: The Tides of Time
  2. Doctor Who: Everyone Must Go!
  3. Doctor Who: Stars Fell on Stockbridge
  4. Jago & Litefoot: The Lonely Clock
  5. Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
  6. Time Lord Victorious: Dawn of the Kotturuh
  7. Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox
  8. The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Day of the Clown
  9. Jago & Litefoot: Jago in Love
  10. Doctor Who: The Stockbridge Horror
  11. Doctor Who: Minuet in Hell
  12. Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
  13. The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Last Sontaran
  14. Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
  15. Doctor Who and the Crusaders
  16. Jago & Litefoot: Beautiful Things
  17. Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
  18. Time Lord Victorious: Guide to the Dark Times
  19. Doctor Who: Loups-Garoux
  20. Doctor Who: Colony in Space
  21. The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Energy of the Daleks
  22. Doctor Who: Good as Gold
  23. The Companion Chronicles: The Wanderer
  24. Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
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I’m not going to include rewatches but just know that the rescanning effort of The TV Movie is top-dollar:

  1. [TV] The Story & The Engine
  2. [TV] The Pilot Episode
  3. [WEB] What I Did On My Holidays by Omo Esosa
  4. [IHP] Who’s That Girl!
  5. [DWM] Between the Wars: A Slow Night in Paradise/Introduction
  6. [TV] The Interstellar Song Contest
  7. [DWM] Nemesis of the Daleks
  8. [TV] The Sea Devils Omnibus
  9. [DWM] Stairway to Heaven
  10. [TV] The Dalek Appeal
  11. [BF] The Juggernauts
  12. [IHP] The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise
  13. [IHP] Technical Hitch
  14. [TV] Blue Peter Special 2012
  15. [TV] Death is the Only Answer
  16. [BF] Bang-Bang-a-Boom!
  17. [TV] The Dalek Party
  18. [IHP] Slimmer!
  19. [DWM] Cathedral Heart
  20. [IHP] Nineveh!
  21. [TV] Blue Peter special 2005
  22. [IHP] Hunger from the Ends of Time!
  23. [TV] Script to Screen 2011
  24. [TV] Good as Gold
  25. [IHP] A Switch in Time!
  26. [TV] Homemade Dalek
  27. [IHP] Once in a Lifetime
  28. [IHP] War World!
  29. [TV] Wish World
  30. [IHP] The Sentinel
  31. [TV] The Reality War
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Here’s my top 10 this month:

  1. Killing Ground (novel)
  2. The Mind Robber
  3. The Red Lady (audio)
  4. Genesis of the Daleks (novelization)
  5. Spare Parts (audio)
  6. Demons of the Punjab
  7. Mummy on the Orient Express
  8. Inferno
  9. Extremis
  10. Flatline or It Takes You Away (both 4/5 on TG for me, and I can’t decide…)
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Here we go! I haven’t finished TW Soho: Parasite yet, but it’s great so far!

  1. Fare Well
  2. Circular Time (repeat)
  3. Monky Magic
  4. Monky Nuts
  5. Spirit of the Season (repeat)
  6. The Curse of the Duergar
  7. Adventures in Lockdown (too many stories to list separately; most of them I enjoyed!)
  8. A Crucible of Queens
  9. The Daft Dimension #151
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Did a lot this month, so first times only:
(Great Tier)

  1. Monky Nuts
  2. Monky Business
  3. Better Watch Out/Fairytale of Salzburg
  4. The Gulf
  5. Companion Piece
  6. Monky Magic
  7. The Witchfinders (Novel)
  8. Seizure
  9. The Odds Against
  10. Deeptime Frontier
  11. Monky House
    (Good Tier)
  12. The Robots of Death
  13. Escape from Kaldor
  14. Jonah
  15. Dark Gallifrey: Missy Part Three
    (Meh Tier)
  16. Dark Gallifrey: Master Parts One - Three
  17. Aegis
  18. L.E.G.E.N.D.
  19. Island of the Fendahl
    (Abysmal Tier)
  20. The Greatest Movie Never Made
  21. The House on the Edge of Chaos
  22. The SNL UK sketch
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We stalled early in the month with 5 episode of Series 8 watched. Anything from Closing Time down is one that neither of us particularly enjoyed.

  1. The Night of the Doctor (5/5)
  2. The Day of the Doctor (4.5/5)
  3. The Snowmen (4.5/5)
  4. The Name of the Doctor (4.5/5)
  5. Cold War (4/5)
  6. Hide (4/5)
  7. The Time of the Doctor (4/5)
  8. The Bells of Saint John (4/5)
  9. Asylum of the Daleks (4/5)
  10. The Crimson Horror (3.5/5)
  11. A Town Called Mercy (3.5/5)
  12. Time Heist (3.5/5)
  13. Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (3.5/5)
  14. “The Pilot Episode” (3.5/5)
  15. Robot of Sherwood (3.5/5)
  16. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (3.5/5)
  17. Nightmare in Silver (3.5/5)
  18. The Angels Take Manhattan (3.5/5)
  19. The Wedding of River Song (3.5/5)
  20. Closing Time (3/5)
  21. Into the Dalek (3/5)
  22. The Power of Three (3/5)
  23. Listen (3/5)
  24. The Rings of Akhaten (2.5/5)
  25. Deep Breath (2.5/5)
  26. The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (2.5/5)
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