Doctor Who Marathon: Least Favorite Stories

And then, finally, there are the clunkers. The stories that, once I'm done with this marathon, I may never watch again. The ones I'd happily say "junk them all!" if meant the return of episode 2 of The Ice Warriors.  Behold, a collection of the banal.

• The Keys of Marinus- Doctor Who's first real failure. Awful scripts by Terry Nation, with poor characterization of the regulars and near universal bad acting from every single supporting role. Cheap design throughout (though the hair-drier phones of Millenius are kinda neat). And possibly the stupidest alien baddie in the entire run of the show.  
• The Chase- Almost everything  I said about Keys of Marinus can be applied to The Chase; they're basically the same story. The Chase is marginally better because the Daleks provide *some* sense of menace and drive to the plot, but not much. This was the first Hartnell story I ever saw and it had the unfortunate effect of ruining my perception of the era for years to come. 
• The Dominators- Better writers than me have noted why this story doesn't work. Let's just say I agree with them and save some time. 
• Doctor Who and the Silurians- Good God, I don't know how I never noticed how.........much........padding.......there.......is........in.......this..........story...........before......now. Whole scenes of characters sitting around conference tables reiteration the same arguments episode after episode. One could easily make this a 4-parter without trying too hard. Indeed they basically did, in The Hungry Earth/ColdBlood, which is much better. Go watch that instead. Fulton Mackay is also terribly miscast as Dr. Quinn, which results in the first three episodes having less menace than they otherwise could have before the Silurians show up. 
• Planet of the Daleks
• Invasion of the Dinosaurs 
• The Deadly Assassin- And not for stupid fanish reasons, like it goes against all previously established show history, though there is some of that. No, I just didn't think it was a very good piece of television.  
• The Invisible Enemy 
• The Visitation 
• The Twin Dilemma
• The Two Doctors
• Terror of the Vervoids 
• New Earth 
• 42 - The big gimmick to 42 is that it's told in real time. Hence the title, 42 minutes. The irony is it still feels like it's padded, by a considerable amount. It looks fantastic, but that's about the only good thing I can say about this story. Acting and characterization are weak all around, including the Doctor and Martha. The plot is virtually nonexistent, and stupid at that. I'm debating with myself if this the moment where the rot starts on the RTD era. The next for episodes following this are amazing, so maybe not. But I'm watching....  
• Cold Blood
• Closing Time
• A Town Called Mercy
• Cold War