As revealed at the recording of our last live episode, Eight/Science, here is your homework viewing for Nine/Women, which will be recorded on September 15th at the Gasometer Hotel in Melbourne (full show details here).
Your homework viewing for Chris Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor is:
- Aliens of London/World War Three
- Dalek
- The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
Of course, as The Ecc only had the one season, you could just watch all thirteen of his episodes. Watching our list you’re nearly halfway there!
For a crash course in how women have been represented in Doctor Who, we suggest:
- The Dalek Invastion of Earth (William Hartnell, 1964; six episodes)
- Robot (Tom Baker, 1974, four episodes)
- The Stones of Blood (Tom Baker, 1976; four episodes)
- Survival (Sylvester McCoy, 1989; three episodes)
- Rose (Christopher Eccleston, 2005, one episode)
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School Reunion (David Tennant, 2006, one episode)
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The Runaway Bride (David Tennant, 2006, one episode)
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The Girl Who Waited (Matt Smith, 2011, one episode)
…and that’s only scratching the surface! Other stories and episodes worth considering include Spearhead From Space, Terror of the Autons, The Time Warrior, The Ark in Space, Mark of the Rani, Paradise Towers, The Happiness Patrol, The Curse of Fenric, New Earth, Human Nature/Family of Blood, and so many more…
Got suggestions of your own? Let us know in the comments!
I like this list! I would like to see a Sarah Jane episode from the classic series, just because “School Reunion” rewrites her so radically. The difference between the way she leaves in “The Hand of Fear” and the way she describes it in “School Reunion” says a lot about how the new series handles women, it seems to me.