Two Good Second Doctor Serials

The Second Doctor
Played by Patrick Troughton
Tenture: 1966-1969

The Moonbase: February 11th - March 3rd 1967
My first entry is now sadly only existent incomplete (during the sixties it was BBC policy to erase and reuse film reels once they had been played the standard number of times) nevertheless it still sticks as one of my favourites, indeed the Cybermen were probably at their pinnacle during the Second Doctor's time. In the surviving episode we see how the Cybermen have been up to shit and it's all going nastily. The bit that cements this as one of my favourites is a personal preference to the viral outbreak storyline that makes this one all the more sinister, converting the workers of the base into Cybermen in a very eerie and unnerving process.

Tomb of the Cybermen: September 2nd - September 23rd 1967

When I said the Cybermen had their best times in Troughton's era, this is another good example. Other than being the earliest of his stories to survive in it's entirety, it's also very much a product of it's time, with possibly some of the biggest levels of racism in any Doctor Who story. For example, Toberman's character goes something like this: "Me black, me poorly educated. Me evil because me be black." You gotta laugh, in the sixties this was fine...
Still, the story itself is a nice enough archaeological expedition gone wrong, yet no Vashda Nerada or Weeping Angels in sight (though that one's not happened yet). Racism isn't the only one, with Victoria being a bumbling bit of skirt missing her kitchen, the story is both spine tinglingly satisfying and gloriously politically incorect all in one breath.