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Oh… and I'd add City of Death and Remembrance of the Daleks.

The cliffhanger for episode 3 is probably the best cliffhanger of Davison's run.  Although, Enlightenment episode 1 is pretty cool too, and Earthshock episode 1, of course.

I'd take dying in Rory's arms over Peri's any day!

Here's my suggestion (in no particular order):

Gay men?  :)

The TV movie is the every Dr. Who fan's disappointment of disappointments. Nail-in-coffin for any hopes of a new series after the dreck of that bit of "television."

Yes.  And Davison always talks about how he got to die looking up an Nicola Bryant's cleavage.

Tom Baker's first three year's came pretty close to no stinkers (if we divide eras by producers).  I can think of "Revenge of the Cybermen," but is there anything else Hinchcliffe-Holmes came up with that wasn't very good?  Maybe "Android Invasion"?  But that's about it.  And even their "worst" really isn't all that

Peri's character works so much better with Davison's Doctor than with C. Baker's doctor, don't you think?  The Sixth needed someone like Tegan who would have been brave[heart] and headstrong enough to tell the Doctor what an ass he was.

A pity Holmes didn't learn his lesson from the giant rat before he decided to add the magma beast.

Imagine if every Fifth Doctor story was as fine as Kinda, Snakedance, Androzani, and Enlightenment and there was no Time-Flight, Warriors of the Deep, and Arc of Infinity.

Ah, yes.  "The Caves of Androzani."  The Doctor dies because he touches Peri's leg.

Nice catch.  Another one that's good.

Thank goodness it never made it to screen.  Stories set on Gallifrey tend to be absolute rubbish, except for "Deadly Assassin," of course.

The version with Tom Baker in the museum going mad is the only version I've ever seen.  "Shada… Shada… Shada…"

It's easy to forget dialogue about Adric.

Another fun game: watch "The Web Planet" and try to guess during which scene William Russell decides to leave the show.

If memory serves, when they first venture out of the TARDIS, it's pretty obvious they're not speaking to each other.  There's another scene where they're exploring the main chamber of the ship ("Yes, this chair's much more comfortable.") and it looks like Ward just finished crying.

Watching "State of Decay," it's difficult for me not to play a game: guess which scenes Ward and Baker filmed where they were angry with each other.

Interesting.  Of all the comments to make about "Warriors' Gate," dragging pacing isn't something that I ever would even remotely consider.  "Gate" is sublime and my favorite of the E-Space stories.