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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
I see that you've left Moonbase and Abominable Snowmen off your list, but I thought there was enough available to get an overall feel to rate both stories.
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The reason I left The Moonbase and The Abominable Snowmen off the list is simply because I only wanted to include stories that have more than half of the story still existing. In fact I just realised I forgot put The Crusade in that list too which is going to screw my numbering up.
Both have 4 episodes and have 2 missing. I don't mind doing a 6 or an 8 parter with 2 missing like Reign of Terror, Ice Warriors or The Invasion, but I think 2 out of 4 is pushing it. Plus I wanted to stick to the ones that are commercially available, or will be.
I never read the Target books as a kid. I think I'm the next generation after you, it was all about Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. In fact I didn't even know Target books existed till I was about 16 or 17. I do remember buying the novelisation of The Enemy Of The World because I found it interesting that it was totally different to the usual monster stories of the Troughton era, plus I was thinking I would never get to see that story. I was really happy it was that story they discovered last month.
I was more about the New Adventures books which had just started being released around that time.
I also love the Pertwee era, in fact I'm hard pressed to find a Pertwee era stinker. Even Invasion of the Dinosaurs is a great story, it's just the dinosaur moments are total crap. But there's a cracking story going on around it.
And I'll never get tired of mentioning Blakey, no matter what Americans think.
I bet Holiday On The Buses is on TV sometime over the next week.