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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stephen Brook

Doctor Who: favourite timelord and favourite story?

Doctor Who: Davros
Davros, creator of the Daleks, from 1984 story Resurrection of the Daleks. Photograph: BBC

I was thinking about Doctor Who, as I do most days, when a thought struck me.

Do I like the old stuff better than the new stuff?

For me it was an easy question to answer but I know from our many blogs on the topic on Organ Grinder that there is a rich and varied Whoniverse out there that is always up for debate.

So today a double header.

Firstly, vote in our Doctor Who poll. Do you prefer the old series 1963 – 1989? Or the revival 2005 revival?

And here on Organ Grinder, we open a debate. Who is your favourite Doctor? And which is your favourite story?

Purely to get the ball rolling: I do not actually have a favourite Doctor. I have three. Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee and David Tennant.

But for my favourite story I nominate Genesis of the Daleks from 1975, when the timelords sent the fourth Doctor to a chilly Skaro with the faithful Sarah Jane and Harry, and encountered a fascist Kaled society and the chilling Davros on the eve of unleashing his ruthless killing machines. And as for that cliffhanger when the Doctor bursts out of the lab with a mutant choking him to death. Ugh!

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