So, time to ask the same question I’ve already asked about the previous few Doctor incarnations: what did the Sixth Doctor do for the show? I’m not dwelling on the negatives, this isn’t another dig at Colin Baker’s time on TV, it’s about the positives and the noteworthy. Yes the context was bad, but there are still many things to enjoy.

The Sixth Doctor

Let’s list the stories:

Story	Villain	Other notes
The Twin Dilemma	Giant gastropods led by Mestor	Azmael the Time Lord
Attack of the Cybermen	Cybermen	Foreman’s Yard, Telos, return of Lyton, Chamelon Circuit
Vengeance on Varos	Sil	Dodgy science with the Zeiton-7 ore
The Mark of the Rani	The Master and the Rani	A new Time Lord and female for a change
The Two Doctors	Sontarans and Androgum	The Second Doctor and Jamie!
Timelash	Borad	HG Wells
Revelation of the Daleks	Daleks, Davros	Flying Davros, Alexei Sayle and William Gaunt
Trial of a Time Lord (arc)	Valeyard	One long arc, the Inquisitor
The Mysterious Planet	Mad Robot	Sabalom Glitz, the Earth moving in Space, London Underground
Mindwarp	Sil, Kiv	Brian Blessed, the death of Peri (?)
Terror of the Vervoids	Vervoids	Mel appears
The Ultimate Foe	The Master	Peri not dead, Sabolom Glitz, the Matrix

So, for all there aren’t many stories, there is plenty of creativity. The Sixth Doctor only met Cybermen and Daleks once each, the Master gets two appearances and there are any number of new Time Lords on offer, including the Rani and the Inquisitor. Sil is a well-drawn villain and also appears in Big Finish audios. Sabolom Glitz is a great character (yet to appear for Big Finish) and the Valeyard is interesting if controversial.

Whatever else was wrong, there were still ideas. It’s far from perfect, it draws in the show’s past regularly and is the source for the character who is at least as popular as any other incarnation of the Doctor for Big Finish.