So with Doctor Who on a break for the summer now's the perfect time for all you new series fans to dip in to the original series. So I've helpfully prepared a little guide. Ok so not all of them are entirely serious but it's up to you to decide to dive in or not! Of course if you do discover some original series classics this summer for the first time, TTZ would love to hear from you.
So without further ado.
If You Like....:
Rose then try Spearheads from Space or Terror of the Autons for more Nestene naughtiness.
The End of the World then try The Ark or Frontios for alternative takes on the future of humanity.
The Unquiet Dead then try The Talons of Weng-Chiang or Ghost Light for more ghostly Victoriana.
Aliens of London then try Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death for better fart jokes!
Dalek then try The Space Museum for erm a Dalek in a space museum.
The Long Game then try Dragonfire for more ice cold villains and space burgers.
Father's Day then try Day of the Daleks or Mawdryn Undead for more temporal paradoxes or The Time Monster for winged time eating vortex dwellers.
Bad Wolf then try Vengeance on Varos for more deadly reality TV.
Born Anew [Children in Need 2005] then try The Twin Dilemma for more erratic behaviour from a newly regenerated Doctor.
The Christmas Invasion then try The Ambassadors of Death for more British space missions to Mars
New Earth then try The Invisible Enemy for plague in a futuristic hospital or Survival for a race of alien felines.
School Reunion then try The Time Warrior or The Hand of Fear for more awesomeness from Sarah Jane.
The Girl in the Fireplace then try The Reign of Terror or The Massacre for more adventures in historical France.
The Idiot's Lantern then try Delta and the Bannermen for more of the Doctor gurning his way through a 1950s adventure!
The Satan Pit then try The Deamons or Pyramids of Mars for more devilishly good aliens.
Love & Monsters then try The Creature from the Pit for more blobby green monsters and veiled references to fellatio!
Torchwood then try Image of the Fendahl for more amoral and horny scientists based near a rift in time and space accidentally unleashing an ancient alien terror
Ghost Machine then try The Awakening for more overpowering nostalgia
The Runaway Bride then try Planet of the Spiders erm for more giant spiders
Smith and Jones then try The Android Invasion for more Rhino like aliens
Gridlock then try The Macra Terror for more giant crabs
Daleks in Manhatten then try The Chase for erm Daleks in Manhatten
The Lazarus Experiment then try Underworld for more monkeying around with the secrets of life
42 then try Planet of Evil for the exact same plot only spread out over 100 minutes.
The Family of Blood then try The War Games for the horros of World War I brought home to the TARDIS crew or Shada for an invisible spaceship.
The Sound of Drums then try The Sea Devils because the Clangers beat the Tellytubbies anyday!
The Lost Boy then try The Face of Evil for a schizophrenic computer gone mad with the voice of a trusted one.
Meat then try Nightmare of Eden for more poor innocent alien beasts exploited by greedy humans
Adam then try The Mind of Evil for more alien parasites feeding off human thoughts
From Out of the Rain then try The Greatest Show in the Galaxy for more morbidly creepy clowns
The Fire of Pompeii then try The Romans to see if that fire really was the Doctor's fault.
Planet of the Ood then try The Sensorites because they're cousins apparently
The Doctors Daughter then try State of Decay for more backwards societies who don't realise it's a spaceship all along!
The Unicorn and the Wasp then try Black Orchid for more 1920s murder mystery japes.
The Secret of the Stars then try The Masque of Mandragora for the sequal that never happened
Mona Lisa's Revenge then try City of Death for more screen time for the woman with no eyebrows.
The Waters of Mars then try The Seeds of Death for another Martian threat to Earth's ecology.
The Hungry Earth then try The Silurians for more homo reptilia shennanigans
Death to the Doctor then try The Curse of Peladon or The Monster of Peladon to see what's so great about the adventures Sarah Jane and Jo are banging on about!
The Curse of the Black Spot then try The Smugglers more pirate thrills
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