There’s always Slipback 
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Love that episode! Pex is the best!
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The Greatest Show In the Galaxy.
I totally agree with Ace that clowns are creepy.
McCoy always did a great job
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Epecially given that in one scene in that serial, an explosion hit him and the back of his coat was on fire…
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OMG 
that is a hard core professional 
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Yeah, seriously. He knew they couldn’t reshoot that scene, so he kept going until he was off camera.
There was also a moment in Battlefield where Sophie Aldred was in that water tank filling with water, the glass started cracking, and Sylvester McCoy noticed and swore to make sure they knew he wasn’t adlibbing before shouting for someone to get her out of there…
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80s Who is something I haven’t spent a lot of time in lately. I watched Remembrance of the Daleks recently though and thought it was fantastic. Everything in those later McCoy seasons really does it for me; it’s got a lot more drive behind it than the relative durdling of the Peter Davison years and whatever the hell was going on when poor Colin was wearing the coat.
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Remembrance Of The Daleks is my favourite.
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Here’s someone with excellent taste!
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I adore 80s Who! Some of my favorite stories from it are Meglos, Full Circle, Warriors’ Gate, Castrovalva, Earthshock, Terminus, Resurrection of the Daleks, Planet of Fire, The Caves of Androzani, Vengeance on Varos, The Two Doctors, Mindwarp, Terror of the Vervoids, Delta and the Bannermen, Remembrance of the Daleks, Silver Nemesis, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Battlefield, Ghost Light, and Survival.
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I must admit out of the three decades, the 80s are maybe the one Decade of classic who that I revisit the least. That being said, they aren’t bad at all and as time goes on, I learn to appreciate them more and more (especially the Davison Era on TV).
Now to my favorite of course it is the very first one, also known as “Horns of Nimons”!!!
But on a serious note: I think minus maybe Silver Nemesis, Season 25 and 26 are such a flawless run of televised Stories, especially S26. Not a single story I don’t rate highly, and even Silver nemesis has its Moments. Easily my favorite of the Decade.
Season 24 is quite fun, I enjoy Delta and think Paradise Towers is great.
Not too huge on Trial but I still enjoy Terror of the Vervoids a lot! Big Soft spot for Season 22, Varos, Mark of the Rani and Revelation are the Highlights there.
The Davison Era is as I said one I start to grow more fond about it, Stories such as the Mara Tales, Andronazi, Earthshock and especially Enlightenment are great Stories featured in that Era.
And of course Season 18 is such a lovely one as well, dare I say while it has its Problems you could tell when Baker was bored I still think this Season turned out pretty great. AND YES EVEN LEISURE HIVE AND MEGLOS, NO I WON’T TAKE THAT BACK!
I will say as I go back to some 80s Story, my appreciation for those Eras grow, I have my criticism at those, but I think it’s a unique run and one that rarely stays the same with seasons. And hey I really have to say… the Music in those Eras is really fun and screams “Doctor Who” to me, hard to properly articulate it really.
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Similarly, the 80s is definitely my least favorite decade of the show, a continual decline until a course correct with Sylvester McCoy. Starts strong with S18, but gets predominantly very middling to me in the Davison years, until S22-23 I find to be the nadir of Doctor Who as a whole. However, that’s not to say there aren’t plenty of ones I like in there. The Leisure Hive, State of Decay, Warriors’ Gate, Logopolis, Kinda, Earthshock, Snakedance, Enlightenment, The Five Doctors, Frontios, The Caves of Androzani, and pretty much all of Sylvester McCoy are all somewhere among my favorites of 80s Doctor Who.
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I think The Leisure Hive would be regarded much better if David Fisher’s witty script had not been caught between Fisher’s ideas (wonderfully creative, smart and funny - with lovely serious undertones), Bidmead’s attempt to make everything more grounded in real world science (I don’t think he was as successful as he seems to have thought - though I do love season 18) and JNTs drive to move away from what he saw as the slapstick undergrad humour of season 17 and the Williams era. I LOVE Fisher’s writing, but I don’t think it sat well in the new view of the show that Bidmead and JNT had. Consequently, some of the charm of Fisher’s usual writing is lost in translation. I still like The Leisure Hive. It’s a clever story with much wit, but it doesn’t quite work with that particular combination of creative voices. Of course, Fisher never wrote for the show again (more’s the pity).
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Bidmead definitely didn’t achieve as much as he thought he did and his Big Finish scripts leave a lot to be desired. I don’t think he understands Doctor Who as well as he thinks he does.
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I think Bidmead was good as script editor, I really liked S18’s more grounded approach, especially after Graham Williams/Douglas Adams before. Not sure if that would have been good long run, I could see that getting stale, but for one season it’s fine. I only know his TV Who work and I think he’s 2 for 3. I like Logopolis and Frontios, actually a bit less of a fan of Castrovalva though. The Escheresque city was the good part and it takes so long to get there.
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I think Leisure Hive goes a bit off the rails as it goes, but I don’t think it’s quite as bad as people would have you believe
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Proud defender of season 22.
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Where he’s good, it really works. S18 does work. I just don’t think he’s as hard science as he seemed to think. Moreover, there was a clash of styles between him and Fisher.
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Oh he’s definitely not hard science, most of his science is as BS as the rest of Doctor Who.
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…as gloriously inventive and fantastical as the rest of Doctor Who.
Fixed that for you. 
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