Introducing the Doctor Who 50 Stories Project

So last summer I started a project based on the then-most-recent edition of Doctor Who magazine.

This one right here.

Basically, they did a poll of their readers' favourite episodes, from An Unearthly Child to The Time of the Doctor and everything in between, and ranked them. I love lists like this, especially concerning Doctor Who, which I really love but am occasionally overwhelmed by. (What other TV shows do you know that have 50+ years and 900 episodes of backstory?!)

I took the top 50 episodes, put them in order of original broadcast, and decided to blog my way through them on my tumblr. Some I had seen many, many times. Some I had never seen before. Basically, it was a way for me to fill in gaps (some of them embarrassing) in my Doctor Who viewing and to while away the weeks before Season 8 started.

The project has stalled somewhat in recent months, but I'm still determined to get all the way to the end with The Day of the Doctor (which, quite neatly, placed top of the poll). So, I'll be continuing the project on my shiny new blog, editing my old tumblr posts and hopefully making it all the way through Jon Pertwee this time! 

Join me in a few days for the first installment, where I'll be going back to Skaro with the first ever Dalek story, The Daleks!

Here's the complete list. I'll add links as I go.

1st Doctor

The Daleks

The Daleks' Invasion of Earth

The Daleks' Master Plan

2nd Doctor

The Power of the Daleks

The Evil of the Daleks

The Tomb of the Cybermen

The Web of Fear

The Invasion

The War Games

3rd Doctor

Spearhead From Space

Doctor Who and the Silurians

Inferno

The Daemons

The Green Death

4th Doctor

The Ark in Space

Genesis of the Daleks

Terror of the Zygons

Pyramids of Mars

The Brain of Morbius

The Seeds of Doom

The Deadly Assassin

The Robots of Death

Talons of Weng-Chiang

Horror of Fang Rock

City of Death

5th Doctor

Earthshock

The Five Doctors

Caves of Androzani

7th Doctor

Remembrance of the Daleks

The Curse of Fenric

9th Doctor

Dalek

The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

10th Doctor

School Reunion

The Girl in the Fireplace

Human Nature/The Family of Blood

Blink

Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

Midnight

Turn Left

Stolen Earth/Journey's End

The Waters of Mars

11th Doctor

The Eleventh Hour

The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang

The Doctor's Wife

Asylum of the Daleks

The Name of the Doctor

The Day of the Doctor