10 Awesome Doctor Who Episodes That You Can Only Watch Once

There's a reason The War Games was the last Doctor Who story to exceed two months in the airing. A welter of good stuff is in evidence. The central idea of a race of beings assembling various conflicts into a whole was an interesting one. And the narrative changed the face of the series irrevocably as it introduced the Time Lords.

But by the time you've finished wading through Terrance Dicks' and Malcolm Hulke's ten episodes you feel like a lie down. It's simply too long. You're experiencing the televisual equivalent of being offered cake whilst sitting on the toilet ejecting the last slice. Awesome it may be, but there's such a thing as awesome overload. We get it. It's awesome! They could have told us that in six episodes...

As with Logopolis, the conclusion jerks more tears than an alternate ending to ET where Elliott gets inadvertently incinerated in the spaceship's fuselage. We bade farewell to Patrick Troughton's blustering Second Doctor, albeit in a surreal and comical fashion as he tumbled out of view toward Earth exile.