This is an absurdly late comment, but for any other AV Club folks checking out this forum after just watching the episodes… and also The Prisoner is weird so why not be weird too?
Anyway, to me 'Free For All' has to come straight after arrival as every other episode makes the premise of electing number 2 worthless…

I'm a bit scared to watch Pyramids of Mars. Since I got online it gets talked up on every Doctor Who related site and hype can kill a story through unrealistic expectations, so I thought I'd wait a while till I'd forgotten, but it's just constant. For instance, here we are again. Is it really that good? Should I just…

I do think if he had left Grade would have axed the show and scapegoated him. He was looking for any excuse because he personally hated it and made no secret of that.
I love the fifth doctor and the last two years of Seven and even like bits of Six but I did just watch Episode One of Terror of The Vervoids. I KNOW…

Oh, do watch Caves of Androzani afterwards though to as a reward for Twins. Sober up first though.

Unlike Castravalva, The Twin Dilemma doesn't follow on from the previous story. Also at the time the brilliance of the last episode of that made the bitter pill of Twins that much worse. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANSES WATCH CAVES OF ANDROZANI FIRST. Do get good and drunk. I watched this last month and drink helped. Don't…

I think people elsewhere may have been screwed over with this story. In the Uk Castravalva was preceded by a repeat of Logopolis and the DVD includes it as the end of a trilogy (which it is). I pity anyone trying to watch it without seeing at least Logopolis, as it just doesn't work as anything other than the final…

That's pretty interesting. It does seem like they were shilled for a few years and then vanished. They showed up once in the 70's and then were brought back pretty much by Eric Seward who liked them. I read that he made Terrence Dicks include them in The Five Doctors, so he did…. but just to get killed repeatedly by…

The Borg seem like an attempt to take the Tenth Planet Cybermen in a cool direction rather than using them as stock bogeymen. As for the series as a whole Star Trek seems rooted in 30s heroic explorer sci-fi while Doctor Who seems like a bunch of people who don't much care for that throwing every batshit crazy idea at…

I say "I wear a multi primary coloured coat with question marks on with celery on it and a damn bucket on my head now. Multi primary coloured coat with question marks on with celery on it and a damn bucket on my head is cool.

Spare parts scared the crap out of me. It also has the best retro robot voices ever and for once it remembers that the Cybermen aren't just robots.

Vengence on Varos is a goody. It somehow in 1985 manages to satarise reality TV in a way that Bad Wolf could only dream of. It does this before reality TV even existed in that sense. Actually it's slightly depressing how with each passing year we get closer to becoming Vengeance on Varos. Kids should be shown this at…

I love some of Gold's episode specific music but his Doctor leitmotif drives me nuts. He's in every episode and every time last year he made a decision or broke out of a slow walk DUNDUNDUN DUHDUN DUNDUNDER DUN DUN DUN……………………
DERDERDERDERDER!!!!!

'Sorry about the grocer's apo'strophe.

I really need to watch more Troughton, as I've only seen his multi Doctor comebacks and bit's of stories. Even so, he's my favourite Doctor. I first saw him in the Five Doctors which consists of Troughton blowing away every other Doctor since him in style.

Castravalva is going to be a mess for anyone who hasn't seen Logopolis. It's the conclusion of an end of season cliffhanger, and the BBC even repeated Logopolis leading up to Castravalva's first showing.