Top 5 Doctor Who Episodes To Watch
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DAs many of us are using up plenty of our free time watching TV and
reading books, it’s worth revisiting some great Doctor Who episodes so
that you can reminisce about the good times as a Doctor Who fan. Dust
off those old episodes in the cupboard or online and why not watch them
again? Everyone’s top five is probably slightly different, but here’s
ours.
5. Vincent and the Doctor
Originally aired in June 2010, this is the
tenth
episode of the fifth series. You might have been switching it up
between TV and comics at this stage if you enjoyed every aspect of
Doctor Who as ‘Travelling with Amy’ was the comic story at the time of
this episode.
Winning Hand featuring the eleventh doctor and Amy Pond was a good comic
story around the same time as the Vincent and the Doctor TV episode. It
was all about a card game at the galaxy’s most exclusive casino haunt
for criminals, which was called the Trans-Vegas Casino. The Doctor beats
Hubert Crimp’s hand, wins plenty of money, and then distributes it to
all the enslaved creatures as compensation. Even those from another
planet can’t get enough of a good card game.
Sci-fi inspired card games are a common thing among several industries.
It's well known that the merchandise industry always takes advantage of
the trends in the Sci-fi world, but even casino sites nowadays are
drawing inspiration for their games from it. Some casinos listed on
casinos.org or similar resources
online have their fair share of sci-fi themed games. If you want to find
out more about the different card games casino sites offer, there are
reviews for finding the best sites to play at as well as welcome bonuses
for players to snap up.
Anyway, we digress. Back to the episode about Vincent Van Gogh. And what
a great episode it was. It depicts the Dutchman’s struggle with day to
day life rather than focussing on him cutting his ear off. The part
where he arrives at an art gallery showing all of his paintings in 2010
is just great TV. Almost moving. Tear jerking even. The jokiness between
Vincent and Amy is also great to watch. Just a splendid episode from
start to finish.
4. Heaven Sent
Heaven Sent is a very unique episode in that only Peter Capaldi
appears in it. He’s in a weird looking castle and chasing him is a
creature that only has to touch him to kill him. The Doctor needs to
reveal the truth if he wants to live. As he’s trying to escape, he comes
across plenty of clues to suggest he might have been there a lot longer
than he thought.
This episode is essentially Doctor Who at its best. It’s a fantastic
piece of television that has the Doctor talking to himself all the way
through. Genius.
3. The Eleventh Hour
Whenever there are introductory episodes for a new Doctor, they tend to
let us down in terms of excitement and intrigue. Not Eleventh Hour. What
a great episode.
A crack on a young girl’s wall turns out to be a crack in time and
space. The Doctor initially lands in the girl’s garden, damaging the
Tardis in the process. The Doctor cannot solve anything until that’s
fixed, so he promises to return in a few minutes. Unfortunately for the
young girl, he’s a little longer than a few minutes. 12 years longer in
fact. It’s a horror mixed in with a comedy kind of episode. It doesn’t
disappoint and is probably the best introductory episode of the lot. It
deserves a place in our top five.
2. Turn Left
This was when things took a different turn. No pun intended with the
title there. Catherine Tate was in this episode a hell of a lot more
than the Doctor himself, and the episode tried its hand at an alternate
reality, which worked pretty well.
Donna Noble, who is played by Tate, is left to defend the Earth from
alien attacks after the Doctor dies. London gets destroyed and all hell
breaks loose in the UK. The military are on the streets. This episode
gives us a strong idea of what life would be like if the Doctor wasn’t
around to defend against alien invasion. It’s
a great episode
with some humour added in. Donna was in the car, being convinced to turn
right, but she turned left. Decisive. But what’s on her back?
1. Blink
Does anyone who has compiled a favourites list have this episode in any
other spot? Arguably not. It’s a tremendous episode. Stone Angels
chasing after Sally Sparrow after she finds a warning message. Blink is
the perfect title as it’s like the weeping angels move when Sally isn’t
looking.
A rock being thrown at her, writing on the wall, Easter eggs. The
messages are all very strange, but this episode showcases the perfect
companion. Sally is able to help defeat the weeping angels and seems to
understand the Doctor as if they’ve been the best of friends for years.
A crazy number of things are covered in this one episode, from
relationships, numerous timelines, and the defeat of an enemy without
the Doctor even seeing them. We trust you’ve seen Blink on numerous
occasions already, but why not give it one more watch during this
testing time for everyone in the UK? It’s a thing of beauty. Doctor Who
genius.
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