Top 10 Reconstructed Stories

NOTE: Only stories that have more than a half of its episodes missing were eligible for this list.

10. The Savages - The crew make friends with a peaceful, highly intelligent society who harbour a dark, depressing secret... this one is pretty solid and moderately interesting, with highlights including a Hartnell impression from one of the Elders and the departure of longtime companion Steven Taylor.

9. The Faceless Ones - The TARDIS lands in Gatwick Airport, where the crew uncover a conspiracy to replace hapless passengers with alien chameleons. Although the reconstructed episodes were pretty boring, the existing ones suggest a very modern and great story ahead of its time.

8. The Celestial Toymaker - The TARDIS is kidnapped by the eponymous Toymaker and taken into his fantasy world for some games. An outlandish story where our characters must play the most ridiculously childish games in order to win back their ship. It's hard to follow without the visuals, but the surviving episode was very enjoyable and the whole was probably a lightweight affair for kids to laugh at.

7. The Daleks' Master Plan - With the help of other worlds, the Daleks devise the ultimate weapon: the Time Destructor. Things go awry when the Doctor nicks its power source and becomes a fugitive. The grandest story of the 1960s, where we see our interchangeable friends hunted through space and time(literally both) on various planets by the Daleks and their new ally - Mavic Chen, Guardian Of The Solar System.

6. The Wheel In Space - The Doctor and Jamie find themselves on an abandoned spacecraft and have to work out what happened to the crew. One of the best stories to involve the Cybermen, here we see them executing a very complex plan to take over a powerful satellite that could be used to ultimately take down Earth itself.

5. The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew's Eve - Whilst in Paris, Steven is embroiled into the boiling conflict between Protestants and Catholics(who bafflingly appear to be led by the Doctor). It's a very good example of a man taken out of time and trying to cope with what's happening. A gripping and heartbreaking finale.

4. The Abominable Snowmen - The TARDIS crew take a refreshing trip to a Tibetan monastery only to find a group of exceedingly paranoid monks and an alien intelligence creating robot Yeti... one of the more "out there" stories in Doctor Who, this one perfectly combines the historicals and BUS stories into something wonderful and bizarre.

3. The Power Of The Daleks - The Doctor has disappeared, leaving a rumpled man with a Pied Piper-esque demeanour to save an Earth colony(on Vulcan, no less) from the latest Dalek scheme. Although it lags a bit, Troughton's low-key, sinister performance is enough to make you wonder even 50 years later... it's also another Whitaker-written Dalek story showing them at their best.

2. The Evil Of The Daleks - In this epic, we see the Doctor being forced to work with the Daleks on a dangerous experiment on Jamie in Victorian England. The Daleks are terrifying, the characterisation is awesome, the setting is so atmospheric and the final showdown in Skaro begs for visuals.

1. Marco Polo - Despite the obvious color, this story is simply the most watchable recon to date. It's very well paced and you can understand everything that's going on plus get a feel of how this story would've looked(in color, anyway). The characters, just spending several months travelling with Marco Polo, fending off natural threats from the era. Fantastic.