An Unearthly Child

And so this thing kind of works.

It's here for kind of weird budgetary reasons 'cause we had to reshoot the Daleks', uh, you know, first episode, we had to reshoot An Unearthly Child.

Mm-hmm.

We lost an episode when we combined Episodes, um, 3 and 4 of Planet of, of Giants.

yeah nice i agree with that

Another obvious one perhaps to have on the list, because in some ways it does stand alone, but it is so good at what it does, and that is An Unearthly Child Part 1.

Okay.

It is incredible what this 25 minutes of Doctor Who does.

Perhaps not unexpected given so many to choose from.

Yeah, well, there is that.

Dave, I want to start by saying, listening to your list, you had some great picks, but I really kicked myself when you brought up An Unearthly Child.

Because I'm actually a person who says, just watch the first episode of Unearthly Child.

So there is a few sort of underloved classics here.

But essentially, you know, if you are... wondering why my top 10 doesn't include Unearthly Child, The Web Planet, The Space Museum, The Time Medal, The Power of the Daleks, The Underwater Menace, The Tomb of the Cybermen, Ice Warriors, The Web of Fear, Free from the Deep, The Dominators, The Mind Robber, The Seeds of Doom, The Spearhead from Space, The Ambassadors of Death, Colony in Space, The Demons, The Sea Devils, The Three Doctors, The Green Death, Planet of the Spiders, Genesis of the Daleks, The Pyramids of Mars, The Deadly Assassin, The Face of Evil, The Horror Fraggle Rock, Underworld, Invasion of Time, Armageddon Factor, Creature from the Pit, It's because you can find it somewhere else.

Oh, but can I just, please? The Happiness Patrol is your number one favourite Doctor Who story of all time, isn't it? Even though you're caging yourself to not be able to say that.

But, you know, we've spent three hours per episode talking about that.

One other thing for the hiatus.

A while back, I suggested that once you had finished the classic run, you should go back and watch the first episode of An Unearthly Child again.

That's

caveman rubbish.

I mean, he did try and have his cake and eat it though, Mark, didn't he? Because did you not notice at the end when the great star killer goes flying off into space and a Dalek's watching it on the monitor? And I'm like, you cheeky fucker.

He's not only rewriting Unearthly Child, now he's saying that's the hand of Omega and the Daleks are after it.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

The week of the Doctor Who weekend, I'll be, like, basically having, watching An Unearthly Child on, on one TV-

[laughs] Yeah

... and resuming the early, uh, days of playing through GTA VI on, on the other at, uh, at 10:00.

Will I somehow be able to play An Unearthly Child within GTA VI? No, I will not.

No.

But I would like to.

I'll, I'll just say it now so I can get it out of the way.

It's An Unearthly Child.

What? The first episode?

No, not the first episode.

I, could I...

Yeah, because again, I like episode one, and I think that perfectly establishes it, but I ge- and obviously that had issues as to why it needs to be retransmitted and whatnot, but I think- Episodes two to four, I would just, I would have just prob- I would have just skipped straight to them landing on Skaro

I mean, it probably would, the ratings would have been spectacular from the off, right? The ratings weren't great for An Unearthly Child.

Well, yeah.

Oh, yes.

They shot an unearthly child and they're originally, and I believe there were just enough issues with it that they very rarely, I guess basically never happened.

The BBC said, fine, shoot it again.

Wow.