History YMMV / DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase

* {{Narm}}: The encounter between the real and robot Doctor and Ian's unwitting fight with the real version should be a tense, dramatic moment. Instead, the audience is left with the not especially hard task of deciding whether the "Doctor" who looks like a bad ''Doctor Who'' cosplayer and speaks with a HongKongDub of Creator/WilliamHartnell's voice just ''might'' be the fake.

* UncannyValley: The robot Dracula.

* MemeticMutation: The 2018 Twitch stream of Classic Who led to many memes of this story based on the previews for Hartnell's era. The biggest meme was Ian's enthusiastic exclamation of "London 1965!" Even the official Doctor Who Youtube channel embraced the meme and changed the video of Ian and Barbara's departure to be called "London 1965!", turning it into an {{Ascended Meme}}.

* BizarroEpisode: A story where each episode takes the characters to a new location at a time where this was not the norm. There is a cameo from Music/TheBeatles. An obnoxious Eaglelander tourist spends half an episode laughing at a Dalek, and the actor playing him comes back playing a companion (!!) later in the story. They have a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind which turns out to be a horror theme park, in which the ComicTrio Daleks fight Dracula (and lose). The Daleks make an EvilKnockoff of the Doctor said to be indistinguishable and treated as such by the characters, and he [[ObviousStuntDouble looks nothing like him]]. A Dalek falls off a boat for no reason. Giant killer mushrooms are involved. Robots with flamethrowers try to put Barbara in a robot zoo. [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece It's the sort of thing that could only get made in 1965]] - love it or hate it, they will never make a story like this again.

** Subverted. In Episode Four, just when Ian encounters Frankenstein, one can see a lone, inactive Dalek prop in a small gap at the base of the staircase.

*** Probably only because [[GenreSavvy we]] ''[[GenreSavvy know]]'' [[GenreSavvy that must be how they achieved the effect]]. WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief is required.

** Ian and Barbara wonder how they will explain their absence to Coal Hill School, clearly not expecting anyone there to believe that they had been kidnapped by a time-travelling alien and encountered murderous pepper-pot chaped cyborgs called the Daleks. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks 23 years later]], it was revealed that the Daleks had in fact invaded Coal Hill School while Ian and Barbara were away, and been foiled by the Doctor.
** The T.A.R.D.I.S. first lands on [[Franchise/StarWars a desert planet with two suns.]]

** When the Dalek falls off the ship, its head dome comes straight off when it hits the water... and floats. Especially annoying since it's supposed to be a fun slapsticky fall that doesn't injure the Dalek, and because of the terrifying and excellent Dalek water scenes in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]".

* HilariousInHindsight: Ian and Barbara wonder how they will explain their absence to Coal Hill School, clearly not expecting anyone there to believe that they had been kidnapped by a time-travelling alien and encountered murderous pepper-pot chaped cyborgs called the Daleks. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks 23 years later]], it was revealed that the Daleks had in fact invaded Coal Hill School while Ian and Barbara were away, and been foiled by the Doctor.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: The story * The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" begins with Ian bopping to Music/TheBeatles on the timescanner. When he jokingly remarks that future girl Vicki has probably never heard of the Beatles she is indignant: "Of ''course'' I know about them. I've been to their Memorial Theatre in Liverpool. But I never knew they played classical music!" The idea of a memorial concert hall doesn't seem so silly in the 21st century.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The first ever shots of the TARDIS travelling through the vortex. It's suitably dreamlike and gorgeous and all done with practical, 1960s effects, and the kaleidoscope look of the Vortex was actually brought back for the title sequence of Season 7B. And then there's the Daleks fighting the Mechanoids. With the Mechanoids' flamethrowers.

* MemeticMutation: The 2018 Twitch stream of Classic Who led to many memes of this story based on the previews for Hartnell's era. The biggest meme was Ian's enthusiastic exclamation of "London 1965!" Even the official Doctor Who Youtube channel (themselves a meme) embraced the meme and changed the video of Ian and Barbara's departure to be called "London 1965!", turning it into an {{Ascended Meme}}.

* {{Padding}}: The first episode opens with a sequence of the characters using a machine to view various historical events. As a result, we are treated to a shot of someone who looks nothing like UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln reading out about seven or eight times more of the Gettysburg Address than necessary, a mildly funny sketch about Shakespeare dealing with Queen Elizabeth I's Executive Meddling, and a weird sequence where they all dance to Music/TheBeatles singing "Ticket to Ride", apparently under the assumption that ItWillNeverCatchOn. The plot only starts about eighteen minutes in when Barbara accidentally leaves the machine on and picks up a transmission from the Daleks.

** When the Dalek falls off the ship in "The Chase", its head dome comes straight off when it hits the water... and floats. Especially annoying since it's supposed to be a fun slapsticky fall that doesn't injure the Dalek, and because of the terrifying and excellent Dalek water scenes in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]".

** This episode also established that it's possible for time travelers to communicate with their home base while in transit, because the Daleks contact Skaro to report on their progress. This was years before the Doctor and the Time Lords would communicate with one another that way, and ''decades'' before Nine adapted Rose's cell phone to let her call her Mum from anywhere in time and space.

* BizarroEpisode: A story where each episode takes the characters to a new location at a time where this was not the norm. There is a cameo from The Beatles. An obnoxious Eaglelander tourist spends half an episode laughing at a Dalek, and the actor playing him comes back playing a companion (!!) later in the story. They have a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind which turns out to be a horror theme park, in which the ComicTrio Daleks fight Dracula (and lose). The Daleks make an EvilKnockoff of the Doctor said to be indistinguishable and treated as such by the characters, and he [[ObviousStuntDouble looks nothing like him]]. A Dalek falls off a boat for no reason. Giant killer mushrooms are involved. Robots with flamethrowers try to put Barbara in a robot zoo. [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece It's the sort of thing that could only get made in 1965]] - love it or hate it, they will never make a story like this again.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Believe it or not, the Daleks were indicated (though not shown on-screen) to be able to fly up flights of stairs as early as this, their third adventure. Specifically, a Dalek is shown atop the wheel housing of the ''Marie Celeste'', despite the Dalek time machine landing on the ship's deck.

* {{Narm}}: The encounter between the real and robot Doctor and Ian's unwitting fight with the real version should be a tense, dramatic moment. Instead, the audience is left with the not especially hard task of deciding whether the "Doctor" who looks like a bad ''Doctor Who'' cosplayer and speaks with a HongKongDub of William Hartnell's voice just ''might'' be the fake.