Day 118: The OK Corral

This episode sees the departure of something that has been with us since this blog started: individual episode titles. Whereas before if you looked at the title of each entry and it would read Day 118: The OK Corral, from now on, it will read things like Day 119: The Savages Episode 1. This is both a good and a bad thing. On the one hand, it makes it easier from a production viewpoint, it will now be easier to distinguish between stories, now that an element of organisation has been introduced. On the other hand though, the individual titles brought an element of excitement to the series, and we are now missing the minor beauties of some of the titles, which will now be replaced with some more generic pieces. But here are some of my favourites:

The Day of Darkness has some nice imagery, which also draws attention to how tonally dark the story of The Aztecs is, while A Race Against Death brings a hefty amount of excitement to The Sensorites. Some say that The Sensorites is quite a dull story, but you can't really say that about its titles. The End of Tomorrow brings to mind the depressing nature of Dalek Invasion of Earth, as it shows that the perfect images of the future aren't the only things we'll get in these serials. The Dimensions of Time shows us the wonderfully temporal nature of The Space Museum, even if future stories with the words Dimensions and Time may not fare so well. The Death of Time and Flight Through Eternity are also wonderfully evocative examples of the oddball nature of The Chase. Small Prophet, Quick Return is a wonderful pun from The Myth Makers, although the rejected title of Is There a Doctor in the Horse? is admittedly far better. The Feast of Steven brings the fun nature of the show's Christmas episode to mind by giving us another gag. The Steel Sky brings a sense of wonder to The Ark and A Holiday for the Doctor is yet another great joke from Donald Cotton. But to finish this entry off, it's worth mentioning the first episode: An Unearthly Child. Evocative, with a helpful dash of curiosity as to what the show's about, it brought us this wonderful programme that is Doctor Who.