Welcome back to our Doctor Who March Madness Field of 64. We are getting ready to wrap up the first round today as we present the final group of matches. This time we go to the Allons-y Division.
This rounds top seed is a fourth Doctor story titled City of Death. In Paris the Doctor and Romana use copies of the Mona Lisa as weapons or something like that. Another guest star, Duggan is his name, steals the show this time.
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Mindwarp, a sixteenth seeded story that makes you question if the Doctor really is the bad guy in this one. Sil makes his return (more on him later) and Peri looses her mind.
WINNER: CITY OF DEATH
Logopolis, Tom Baker's swan song, is a number 8 seed. It also features The Master and The White Guardian
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The Ambassadors of Death. Astronauts return from Mars and go on a murderous rampage in this ninth seeded story. It has an Impossible Astronaut meets Silence in the Library feel to it.
WINNER: LOGOPOLIS
The Aztecs is a fourth seeded story from the first season. Barbara is mistaken for a God and the Doctor is getting married? Craziness ensues.
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The Happiness Patrol is a 13th seeded story featuring the seventh Doctor and Ace. It was intended to be a parody of Thatcherism. What do you do when you are on a planet where it is against the law to be sad?
WINNER: THE HAPPINESS PATROL (wow that's a pretty big upset there folks)
A fifth seeded story, Ghost Light, has the seventh Doctor and Ace heading back in time to Ace's home town to a house that Ace burned to the ground in her recent past. Keep your eye on the caveman butler named Nimrod.
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The third Doctor get miniaturized and then has to go through his own version of Groundhog Day where the same thing keeps happening in this 12th seeded story titled Carnival of Monsters. I think that guy in the photo below has on a jacket made out of lifesavers.
WINNER: CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS
The Doctor and Sarah Jane have a run in with a human Venus Fly Trap. Not really, but it is a relative of The Thing and throw in a hefty dose of The Quartermass Experiment as well. That's the best way to describe this third seeded story.
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Peri and The Doctor find themselves on a planet that used to be a prison for the criminally insane in Vengeance on Varos a 14th seeded story. They become involved in some really early reality TV after they are taken prisoner.
WINNER: VENGEANCE ON VAROS
While looking for more pieces to The Key To Time the Doctor along with Romana and K-9 run into a space pirate. What's even more odd in this sixth seed story called The Pirate Planet are the scenes where we see a robot parrot fighting K-9. It's television gold!
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Mawdryn Undead, an 11th seeded story featuring the fifth Doctor. There's also some dude with his brain exposed and Turlough makes his first appearance as a companion who is trying to kill the Doctor.
WINNER: MAWDRYN UNDEAD
The seventh seeded story Terror of the Zygons stars the fourth Doctor along with Harry and Sarah Jane fighting the shape shifters who are trying to take over the Earth. The Lock Ness monster makes a cameo appearance. This was also voted as the reddest story in the history of Doctor Who.
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The Edge of Destruction is a tenth seeded story featuring the original Tardis crew; Ian, Barbara, and Susan. The entire story takes place if the Tardis and nobody trusts anybody. Susan even tries to kill Ian.
WINNER: EDGE OF DESTRUCTION
The Cybermen make a return in this 2 seeded story titled Earthshock. Once again the Doctor takes on his cyborg enemies and must stop them. But what will it cost him?
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The 15th seeded story The Krotons. Once again the third Doctor along with Jamie and Zoe find themselves on a strange planet. This time they have to take on the Krotons an alien race that lives off of intelligence or something like that, I don't know, but I love the Croutons, er I mean the Krotons.
WINNER: EARTHSHOCK
Wow some huge upsets in this division. Can't wait for the second round to start. See you back here in a couple days for the match-ups.
That's no moon . . . it's a space station!
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