I have a vague sense that NuWho has tended to alternative "celebrity" and "non-celebrity" historicals but I don't have the data to back that up. We've got The Unquiet Dead as a celebrity historical in series 1 followed by Father's Day and The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances which don't feature celebrities. Then in series two you've got Tooth and Claw (celebrity), The Girl in the Fireplace (celebrity) and The Idiot's Lantern (non-celebrity). Series three you've got The Shakespeare Code (celebrity), The Dalek two-parter (non-celebrity) and Human Nature/Family of Blood (non-celebrity) and then Donna's series you've got Fires of Pompeii (non-celebrity) and The Unicorn and the Wasp (celebrity) - so RTD, at least, is about half and half I would say.
Nice list, thanks! In terms of a really strong sense of historical place - which I think is what I was wanting most of all - I’d pull out The Idiot’s Lantern, The Shakespeare Code and The Fires of Pompeii. And yes I really appreciate non celebrity historicals, though I’ve pulled out the Shakespeare one here.
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