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(Colin) Baker Community ranking Day 7: Revelation of The Daleks
Hot take: Patrick Troughton’s Doctor is overrated
He has some great episodes and companions but I don’t think his portrayal of The Doctor is that good.
Those of us who watched the Classic Series before NuWho - who's your favorite Doctor / Showrunner?
I have a theory - and I might be wrong - that folks who grew up on Classic Who like the Moffat era more than RTD, because his version of the Doctor is closer to the Classic era - but I could be wrong.
I also think that Chibs was trying to harken back to the Classic era, but with more mixed results...
(Colin) Baker Community ranking Day 11: The Ultimate Foe
Statue 'Industry' recovered from the 1969 demolished Richfield Building in Los Angeles . On display at UC Santa Barbara since 1982. 📸:me/09/2021
Percentage of missing episodes by companion.
Percentage of missing episodes by companion.
I was curious which companion has the largest chunk of their time on the show missing and which have the largest percentage yet to be animated.
Here are the results:
Katarina appears in two missing episodes, neither of which have been animated for an unfortunate (100%)
Barbara, Ian, and Zoe appear in eleven missing episodes, and nine of those (82%) have yet to be animated.
Susan appears in nine missing episodes; seven of those (78%)have yet to be animated.
Vicki appears in nine missing episodes; six of those (67%) have yet to be animated.
Steven appears in twenty-five missing episodes; fifteen of those (60%) are yet to be animated.
Polly and Ben are in twenty-four missing episodes; eight of those (33%) are yet to be animated.
Jamie appears in forty-seven missing episodes; thirteen of those (28%) are yet to be animated.
Dodo appears in eight missing episodes; only one (13%) is yet to be animated. She's really only in the final minute of that episode (Massacre 4) so she has barely any screen time left to go.
Victoria appears in nineteen missing episodes; however, all of these have been animated, leaving her the only companion who can be watched from beginning to end without resorting to a recon and a percentage of (0%) yet to go!
I will note that if you count by serial you might think my count should be twenty-five for Polly and Ben; however, they are each totally absent from an episode of Power of the Doctor (Episode four and five respectively) so I did not count those episodes towards their counts. It was common in the black and white era for companions (and even the Doctor) to be absent from episodes because their actor was on holiday. This is the only episode that effects my tabulation here because all other episodes in which a companion is totally absent are not missing. For more details, check out this interesting webpage
Susan-7/9-78%
Barbara-9/11-82%
Ian-9/11-82%
Vicki-6/9-67%
Steven-15/25-60%
Katarina-2/2-100%
Dodo-1/8-13%
Polly-8/24-33%
Ben-8/24-33%
Jamie-13/47-28%
Victoria-0/19-0%
Zoe-9/11-82%