Yes, very good! They are all the season closing stories at the end of the first season in which each Doctor appeared!

Colin Baker's debut has the distinction of being the final story in season 21, that didn't happen with any other Doctor, so, going from back to front, we have the end of season 19 for Peter Davison with "Time-Flight", the end of twelve for Tom Baker, with "Revenge of the Cybermen", season 7's finale "Inferno" for Jon Pertwee, "The Evil of the Daleks" at the end of season 4 for Patrick Troughton and the end of the very first season with William Hartnell's "The Reign of Terror".

I think this has worked out really well; this is a pretty good line-up: Daleks, Cybermen, UNIT, the Master, a Doctor debut and a Hartnell historical. It almost typefies the entire Dr Who canon in one swoop!

As I'm doing this for the fiftieth anniversary of the show, I threw in just one more factor - I wanted as far as possible to see these stories in the same format as I'd seen them originally.

With "The Twin Dilemma" and "Time-Flight", that was on their original transmission in 1984 and 1982 so using the BBC Video releases was fine. The first time I saw "Revenge of the Cybermen" was by watching the actual videotape shown here, so that had to feature. I saw "Inferno" on a UK Gold repeat in the early 1990s so the BBC Video is close enough. "The Evil of the Daleks" was introduced to me on these very BBC audio cassettes, narrated by Tom Baker. The only one I was struggling with a bit was "The Reign of Terror" as I can't quite recall whether I had the CD release before this videotape, but I'm going to have to fill the missing two episodes with the audio soundtrack from CD anyway, so that's near enough!

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