The Best Episodes Directed By Chris Clough

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.6/10(19 votes)

   #1 - Maxxie and Anwar

   S1:E63/1/2007

   What happens when two friends suddenly run up against the limits of their friendship? Maxxie and Anwar are about to find out.

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   7.4/10(7 votes)

   #2 - The Happiness Patrol (2)

   S25:E611/9/1988

   The Doctor and Earl manage to escape from the Kandy Man and join up with the planet's natives, the Pipe People, enlisting their help to rescue Ace.

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   7.4/10(7 votes)

   #3 - The Happiness Patrol (3)

   S25:E711/16/1988

   As the Doctor leads the Pipe People towards reclaiming their world, Helen A faces betrayal from those closest to her.

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4. 

   7.0/10(8 votes)

   #4 - The Happiness Patrol (1)

   S25:E511/2/1988

   The Earth colony Terra Alpha, the future. With the aid of her sweet-natured executioner, Helen A, ruler of the planet, has ensured the population is happy - on pain of death! The Doctor and Ace decide to fight for the right to be miserable.

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5. 

   6.8/10(5 votes)

   #5 - Dragonfire (3)

   S24:E1412/7/1987

   At last learning the location of the missing key to his spaceship, Kane has the dragon hunted down and Iceworld brutally purged of all visitors; but, the Doctor, visiting the Ice Garden, learns something significant that will put the chagrin on Kane's grand plans for home world vengeance.

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6. 

   6.7/10(6 votes)

   #6 - Silver Nemesis (1)

   S25:E811/23/1988

   The Doctor and Ace battle the time traveller Lady Peinforte and the Cybermen for possession of the incredibly powerful Nemesis statue, which is on its way back to the planet Earth to rendezvous with a destiny set in stone by the Doctor himself.

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7. 

   6.6/10(5 votes)

   #7 - Silver Nemesis (2)

   S25:E911/30/1988

   As hostilities break out between factions vying for ownership of the comet, the Doctor goes after the worst of the lot - Cybermen, using Ace's upgraded boom box to flood Cyber Communications with jazz music while trying to locate the whereabouts of the fleet beyond this mere scouting party.

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8. 

   6.5/10(6 votes)

   #8 - Delta and the Bannermen (1)

   S24:E911/2/1987

   Wales, 1959. A top-secret US satellite has mysteriously gone missing. This could have something to do with the arrival of a party of alien tourists en route to Disneyland, amongst their number Mel and the Doctor, and the Queen of the Chimerons - who's fleeing the Bannermen and their genocidal leader Gavrok...

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9. 

   6.4/10(5 votes)

   #9 - Dragonfire (1)

   S24:E1211/23/1987

   The deep-space trading post of Iceworld, the far future. The Doctor, Mel, their old friend Glitz and time-lost waitress Ace go in search of a fabulous treasure, supposedly guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. But what is the link between the treasure and Iceworld's proprietor, the frosty Mr Kane?

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10. 

    6.4/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Dragonfire (2)

    S24:E1311/30/1987

    While Mel and Ace run from Glitz's former crewmen (whom he sold to Kane), officers Belazs and Kracauer conspire to overthrow Kane. The Doctor, meanwhile, discovers there really is a dragon in the ice caverns, which turns out to be a bio-mechanoid with a very interesting function.

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11. 

    6.4/10(5 votes)

    #11 - Silver Nemesis (3)

    S25:E1012/7/1988

    With the Cyber Fleet poised nearby, the Doctor may have no choice but to let them have Nemesis. Meanwhile, Lady Peinforte and Richard navigate modern society, De Flores encounters an open betrayal, and Ace combats Cybermen with a slingshot.

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12. 

    6.3/10(6 votes)

    #12 - Delta and the Bannermen (2)

    S24:E1011/9/1987

    Mel's just discovered something very interesting about the life cycle of her new friend and the Doctor has been cornered by an alien bounty hunter wearing blue suede shoes.

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13. 

    6.3/10(6 votes)

    #13 - Delta and the Bannermen (3)

    S24:E1111/16/1987

    As Billy and Ray do what they can to help save Delta and the baby, the Doctor and Goronwy the beekeeper face Gavrok and his Bannermen one last time...

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14. 

    6.1/10(8 votes)

    #14 - The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 13

    S23:E1311/29/1986

    The Valeyard's true identity is revealed and the trial aborted, but the Doctor and Mel must pursue his new enemy into the Matrix itself, where nothing is quite what is seems…

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15. 

    5.6/10(7 votes)

    #15 - The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 14

    S23:E1412/6/1986

    The final part of this epic adventure. The Doctor and the Valeyard have entered the world of the Matrix. Can the Doctor defeat the evil incarnation of himself ?

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16. 

    4.2/10(8 votes)

    #16 - The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 12

    S23:E1211/22/1986

    With factions vying for control of the ship, the Vervoids are found to be responsible for the many disappearances. Only the Doctor sees the fundamental but missed point as to why they can't be reasoned with or why they can't be allowed to arrive on Earth.

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17. 

    4.2/10(8 votes)

    #17 - The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 10

    S23:E1011/8/1986

    As the Hyperion III continues its journey, more mysterious deaths occur.

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18. 

    4.2/10(8 votes)

    #18 - The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 9

    S23:E911/1/1986

    With the prosecution case concluded, at last the Doctor is able to present his evidence. It takes place in the future with a new companion and new problems.

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    4.1/10(8 votes)

    #19 - The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 11

    S23:E1111/15/1986

    A course change that takes the Hyperion III closer to a black hole could prove unwise when there are so many aboard ship with hidden agendas. Disappearances continue, a murderer remains at large, and one person finally crumbles under the strain of harbouring a guilty secret.

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