Observations, rants, and musings by Joe Siegler.

Doctor Who Marathon

I’ve been a Doctor Who fan since 1983.  I’ve seen every episode at least once in all that time, but the one thing – the holy grail – the biggest geek level once can achieve as a Whovian is the “Full Marathon” (my term).

It’s when you watch every episode in a row.  That’s what I’m doing.  Watching a single episode a day.  Started with the first episode from 23 Nov 1963 – and doing one episode per day going forward.  I posted in some more detail about my doing all of this in a post elsewhere on my blog, and some of the “why”.  However, I wanted to put an intro here for the index below.

I am going to be tweeting about each episode as I watch it daily.  I will be updating this index page with links to pages created for each story. Each of those pages will collate the respective tweets for that story, so you can see all my comments about a story on one page.  If you want to follow me live with these as I do them, I’ll be posting from my @joesiegler twitter account using the hashtag #DoctorWhoMarathon.

That’s what this page is. It will be a list to all the posts for my Doctor Who Marathon.  I started this on 21 Aug 2021.  If I keep going, and God willing I’m still around, the target date for completion is 6 Jan 2024.  That’s based on the 868 total episodes currently available (as of Dec 2021).  There will, however be more by Dec 2023.  I just don’t know how many, so the exact end date is unknown at this point.  Even then, I’ll probably carry on with the newer episodes from that point too. :)

“Doctor Who Marathon” Collated Posts:

Doctor 3: Jon Pertwee

  • Jon Pertwee played the Doctor between 1970 and 1974.  He had a total of 24 stories, comprising 128 episodes in all.  His era saw a shorter production run, dropping from the roughly 42 episodes a season in the 60’s to 25-26, which is where it stayed through till 1985 (give or take). When I’ve finished with Pertwee, I’ll do a summary post similar to what I did with the first two Doctors.  I should finish Pertwee’s era on 3rd of September.

Series 8:

Series 7:

  • Inferno (5/22/2022) - (9 May – 20 Jun 1970) – Series 7, Story 4 (Serial DDD)
  • The Ambassadors of Death (5/15/2022) - (21 Mar – 2 May 1970) – Series 7, Story 3 (Serial CCC)
  • The Silurians (5/8/2022) - (31 Jan – 14 Mar 1970) – Series 7, Story 2 (Serial BBB)
  • Spearhead From Space (5/1/2022) - (3 Jan – 24 Jan 1970) – Series 7, Story 1 (Serial AAA)

Doctor 2: Patrick Troughton

  • When I completed Patrick Troughton’s run I wrote a summary post of some thoughts having watched all his episodes.  You can read that post here.

Series 6:

  • The War Games (4/27/2022) - (19 Apr – 21 Jun 1969) – Series 6, Story 7 (Serial ZZ)
  • The Space Pirates (4/17/2022) - (8 Mar – 12 Apr 1969) – Series 6, Story 6 (Serial YY)
  • The Seeds of Death (4/11/2022) - (25 Jan – 1 Mar 1969) – Series 6, Story 5 (Serial XX)
  • The Krotons (4/5/2022) - (28 Dec 1968 – 18 Jan 1969) – Series 6, Story 4 (Serial WW)
  • The Invasion (4/1/2022) - (2 Nov 1968 – 21 Dec 1968) – Series 6, Story 3 (Serial VV)
  • The Mind Robber (3/24/2022) - (14 Sep 1968 – 12 Oct 1968) – Series 6, Story 2 (Serial UU)
  • The Dominators (3/19/2022) - (10 Aug 1968 – 7 Sep 1968) – Series 6, Story 1 (Serial TT)

Series 5:

Series 4: (continued)

  • The Evil of the Daleks (2/2/2022) - (20 May 1967 - 1 Jul 1967) - Series 4, Story 9 (Serial LL)
  • The Faceless Ones (1/26/2022) - (8 Apr 1967 - 13 May 1967) - Series 4, Story 8 (Serial KK)
  • The Macra Terror (1/20/2022) - (11 Mar 1967 - 1 Apr 1967) - Series 4, Story 7 (Serial JJ)
  • The Moonbase (1/16/2022) - (11 Feb 1967 - 4 Mar 1967) - Series 4, Story 6 (Serial HH)
  • The Underwater Menace (1/12/2022) - (14 Jan 1967 - 4 Feb 1967) - Series 4, Story 5 (Serial GG)
  • The Highlanders (1/8/2022) - (17 Dec 1966 - 7 Jan 1967) - Series 4, Story 4 (Serial FF)
  • The Power of the Daleks (1/4/2022) - (5 Nov 1966 - 10 Dec 1966) - Series 4, Story 3 (Serial EE)

Doctor 1: William Hartnell

  • When I completed William Hartnell’s run I wrote a summary post of some thoughts having watched all his episodes.  You can read that post here.

Series 4:

  • The Tenth Planet (12/29/2021) - (8 Oct 1966 - 29 Oct 1966) - Series 4, Story 2 (Serial DD)
  • The Smugglers (12/25/2021) - (10 Sep 1966 - 1 Oct 1966) - Series 4, Story 1 (Serial CC)

Series 3:

  • The War Machines (12/21/2021) - (25 Jun 1966 - 16 Jul 1966) - Series 3, Story 10 (Serial BB)
  • The Savages (12/17/2021) - (28 May 1966 - 18 Jun 1966) - Series 3, Story 9 (Serial AA)
  • The Gunfighters (12/13/2021) - (30 Apr 1966 - 21 May 1966) - Series 3, Story 8 (Serial Z)
  • The Celestial Toymaker (12/9/2021) - (2 Apr 1966 - 23 Apr 1966) - Series 3, Story 7 (Serial Y)
  • The Ark (12/5/2021) - (5 Mar 1966 - 26 Mar 1966) - Series 3, Story 6 (Serial X)
  • The Massacre (12/1/2021) - (5 Feb 1966 - 26 Feb 1966) - Series 3, Story 5 (Serial W)
  • The Daleks’ Master Plan (11/23/2021) - (13 Nov 1965 - 29 Jan 1966) - Series 3, Story 4 (Serial V)
  • The Myth Makers (11/11/2021) - (16 Oct 1965 - 6 Nov 1965) - Series 3, Story 3 (Serial U)
  • Mission to the Unknown (11/7/2021) - (9 Oct 1965) - Series 3, Story 2 (Serial T5)
  • Galaxy 4 (11/7/2021) - (11 Sep 1965 - 2 Oct 1965) - Series 3, Story 1 (Serial T)

Series 2:

  • The Time Meddler (11/6/2021) - (3 Jul 1965 - 24 Jun 1965) - Series 2, Story 9 (Serial S)
  • The Chase (11/2/2021) - (22 May 1965 - 26 Jun 1965) - Series 2, Story 8 (Serial R)
  • The Space Museum (10/27/2021) - (24 Apr 1965 - 15 May 1965) - Series 2, Story 7 (Serial Q)
  • The Crusade (10/23/2021) - (27 Mar 1965 - 17 Apr 1965) - Series 2, Story 6 (Serial P)
  • The Web Planet (10/19/2021) - (13 Feb 1965 - 20 Mar 1965) - Series 2, Story 5 (Serial N)
  • The Romans (10/13/2021) - (16 Jan 1965 - 6 Feb 1965) - Series 2, Story 4 (Serial M)
  • The Rescue (10/9/2021) - (2 Jan 1965 - 9 Jan 1965) - Series 2, Story 3 (Serial L)
  • The Dalek Invasion of Earth (10/7/2021) - (21 Nov 1964 - 26 Dec 1964) - Series 2, Story 2 (Serial K)
  • Planet of Giants (10/1/2021) - (31 Oct 1964 - 14 Nov 1964) - Series 2, Story 1 (Serial J)

Series 1:

  • The Reign of Terror (9/28/2021) - (8 Aug 1964 - 12 Sep 1964) - Series 1, Story 8 (Serial H)
  • The Sensorites (9/22/2021) - (20 Jun 1964 - 1 Aug 1964) - Series 1, Story 7 (Serial G)
  • The Aztecs (9/16/2021) - (23 May 1964 - 13 Jun 1964) - Series 1, Story 6 (Serial F)
  • The Keys of Marinus (9/12/2021) - (11 Apr 1964 - 16 May 1964) - Series 1, Story 5 (Serial E)
  • Marco Polo (9/6/2021) - (22 Feb 1964 - 4 Apr 1964) - Series 1, Story 4 (Serial D)
  • The Edge of Destruction (8/30/2021) - (8 Feb 1964 - 15 Feb 1964) - Series 1, Story 3 (Serial C)
  • The Daleks (8/29/2021) - (21 Dec 1963 - 1 Feb 1964) - Series 1, Story 2 (Serial B)
  • An Unearthly Child (8/21/2021) - (23 Nov 1963 - 14 Dec 1963) - Series 1, Story 1 (Serial A)

Fun pic of Russell T Davies with the original producer, Verity Lambert.

 

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