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Six-part Classic Who serials . . .

whhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I guess Colony from Space wasn't bad. I was enjoying it for at least three episodes, lots of meaty stuff about colonization and resource exploitation and unscrupulous companies, etc., etc., but *tears face* I have yet to see a six-parter that merited the running length. The most I can say for them is that some of them would make a really good and pacy four-parter rather than the usual slightly anemic and padded-out four-parter.

At least in the Tom Baker years they confined themselves to one six-parter a season. You could brace for it and recover again afterwords.

Found the perfect gif. :)

That episode's just the right metaphor for so many things.

I know Four had the longest run, but Three is five seasons. That's only a slightly smaller mountain. And it's made of bigger boulders, so to speak ; )