So you want to start watching the Second Doctor episodes of Doctor Who

Now we turn our attention to the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton. What shows will give you the best idea of his time as the Doctor? Well, unfortunately much of his work was lost, but there are still some really great options to get to know this Doctor better.

  The Lost in Time collection presents the remnants of the many lost episodes of the first and second Doctors. Where possible the available video is used, in other cases the surviving audio along with still images from the production. Unfortunately you won't be able to see everything of all the episodes, but you will appreciate what was done in the productions.










It's a pretty typical storyline in science fiction these days. What would happen if you found yourself in a word where fiction became reality, where the stories are all real? That's what happens in this story, but at the time it came out, it was a unique idea. The Doctor and company land in a strange land and meet Gulliver, Rapunzel, and even a fictitious version of William Shakespeare. This world is run by a man known as the Master (who is not to be confused with the Time Lord of the same name.)








This is the penultimate story of the second Doctor. It is his final story. In it, we learn lots of interesting new details about the Doctor's people, and how they operate.

The Doctor and his companions Jamie and Zoe arrive in the middle of a WWI battlefield. They manage to get to safety only to get accused of spying and desertion. They manage to escape and suddenly find themselves on a different battlefield being attacked by Roman soldiers, when they run from there they suddenly end up in the Civil War. Confused yet?

It turns out there is an alien race plotting to use humans to conquer the human race. They have the help of the War Chief, another Time Lord. At the end, the Doctor is put on trial by his own people. (This is the first time that the Time Lords are named and seen.)

These discs are all worth checking out as a way of getting to know the second Doctor. Be on the lookout for suggestions for the third Doctor.