Last Top 5

persiflage_1 asked for my Top 5 David Collings performances. It's a tough call and I had to separate them into TV and audio to make it fair:

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from beccadg: Top 5 Time Travel Stories Any Medium

1. Doctor Who
2. Does Sapphire & Steel count? Because S&S
3. A Traveller in Time - Alison Uttley
4. Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
5. Back to the Future


Top 5 Plays by William Shakespeare

Oh, tough, I've never really tried rating them before. (Also I haven't finished watching my way through the BBC Shakespeare yet so some of them I don't know.)

1. Henry V
2. Twelfth Night
3. Much Ado About Nothing
4. Measure for Measure (I have feelings, I don't know, I just do! *fights people*)
5. Julius Caeasar. (I once hugged my BBC copy of this when I was very ill and I felt grateful for its existence but I was so ill I fell asleep like that and its cover plastic has now gone wibbly because I softened it with my love in a very literal way).

I feel bad about leaving RIII off though, as it is awesome, especially in the BBC Shakespeare version (which accounts for most of my Shakespeare watching). But top 2 still goes to the two I actually studied properly, despite my demon English teacher. Even he couldn't ruin Shakespeare too much.


Top 5 Cartoon Series From the 1980s

THis is basically another banana one because there is Dungeons and Dragons and then there's everything else, but hey, I shall try.

1. Dungeons & Dragons
2. Mysterious Cities of Gold (that was an epic ride when we were about 9 or so)
3. Visionaries (or was that just 1990s) - I do recall having a thing for that one, but it might have been early 90s
4. Ulysses 31
5. Um...? Oh, yes, Battle of the Planets. I know nothing about it now, but I adored it when I was six and it is a real thing that I didn't dream, despite nobody else my age ever remembering it when we talked children's TV. (Me: "So they had like bird helmets and one of them talked like a duck, and there was a robot and a really scary baddy!" EVeryone else: ??? *backs away slowly*)

Top 5 TV Shows With a Fantasy Theme

Which is tricky, because there's not much TV that is actually fantasy rather than SF; TV people are always so scared of magic things.

1. Once Upon a Time
2. The Librarians
3. Legend of the Seeker (I haven't rewatched this one since, which is always a telling thing, but I did enjoy it a lot when I did watch it)
4. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer