The Best Episodes Directed By Peter Moffatt

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.7/10(3 votes)

   #1 - Mawdryn Undead (1)

   S20:E92/1/1983

   The Doctor discovers a starship trapped in a time warp over Earth. Meanwhile, public schoolboy - and secret alien émigré, Turlough, learns he can have that which he most desires, in return for the murder of the Doctor...

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   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #2 - The Visitation (4)

   S19:E162/23/1982

   With Tegan and Richard under alien control, and the manor sealed against anyone leaving or entering, it's a question whether or not the Doctor can get to London before the Terileptils release their improved strain of black death upon the world.

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3. 

   6.3/10(3 votes)

   #3 - State of Decay (1)

   S18:E1311/22/1980

   Still trapped in negative E-Space, the TARDIS lands on an unnamed world to find a society sliding back into feudalism. What is the secret of the Three Who Rule? And what ancient enemy of the Time Lords is stirring again on this world...?

   Director:Peter Moffatt

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4. 

   6.3/10(3 votes)

   #4 - The Visitation (1)

   S19:E132/15/1982

   As plague sweeps 17th century England, the Doctor discovers a more exotic threat at work - shipwrecked Terileptil convicts, intent on making the planet their own.

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5. 

   6.2/10(4 votes)

   #5 - The Five Doctors

   S0:E4111/25/1983

   The Doctor’s past incarnations are being snatched out of time and space and transported to the Death Zone on Gallifrey, where they are reunited with some old friends and pitted against their deadliest enemies in the Game of Rassilon. Someone is manipulating the Doctor and his companions in order to claim the most ancient and powerful secret of the Time Lords, but can they survive the challenges and uncover the traitor before it is too late?

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   6.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - State of Decay (2)

   S18:E1411/29/1980

   The Doctor and Romana are escorted to the tower to meet the royal leaders, hoping they can find answers to why this society evolves backwards. The Doctor recognizes the tower as an old Earth spaceship, and further finds that the old fuel tanks, far from empty, are full - but with blood. Meanwhile, Councilor Aukon senses intelligence in Adric and selects him to be the their first "Chosen One."

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   6.0/10(2 votes)

   #7 - State of Decay (3)

   S18:E1512/6/1980

   The Doctor finds archive material in the TARDIS that tells him he's dealing with an ancient enemy of the Time Lords, a nearly indestructible king vampire who's ready to revive and reenter normal space, spreading death, once again, across the universe.

   Director:Peter Moffatt

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8. 

   6.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - State of Decay (4)

   S18:E1612/13/1980

   The Doctor joins the villagers' revolt against their vampire rulers, unsure how to kill the king vampire. Meanwhile Adric is first in line to join the new vampire order while Romana is laid out as a sacrificial Time Lord for the awakening king vampire and his swarm of bats.

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   6.0/10(2 votes)

   #9 - The Visitation (2)

   S19:E142/16/1982

   To rescue Tegan and Adric, captured and interrogated by the Terileptil fugitive leader, the Doctor must get past the locals under alien control and overcome Death (an android servant dressed up as The Grim Reaper).

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10. 

    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - The Visitation (3)

    S19:E152/22/1982

    The Doctor makes the fugitive Terileptils a rare offer they shouldn't refuse; but, though few in numbers, they have a plan in the works for the quick and complete domination of Earth and mean to see it through.

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11. 

    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Mawdryn Undead (2)

    S20:E102/2/1983

    The TARDIS lands on Earth six years out of date, stranding the Doctor in 1983 while leaving Tegan and Nyssa to look for him in 1977. Both parties also encounter former companion, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, though curiously, he has no memory of the Doctor at all.

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12. 

    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Mawdryn Undead (3)

    S20:E112/8/1983

    Mawdryn and his eternal mutants reveal the truth: they are exiles, they are in pain and need the Doctor's future 'lives', as afforded by each of his remaining regenerations.

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13. 

    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Mawdryn Undead (4)

    S20:E122/9/1983

    As the Doctor's ethics are challenged and the two Brigadiers finally meet, Turlough plots with the Black Guardian to bring the Time Lord down once and for all...

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14. 

    6.0/10(5 votes)

    #14 - The Two Doctors (1)

    S22:E72/16/1985

    The alien space station J7, the mid-1980s Earth time. The Time Lords have sent the second Doctor and Jamie here to try to stop dangerous experiments into time travel. But the station comes under attack from the Sontarans and far away in space and time the sixth Doctor goes into psychic shock...

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15. 

    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #15 - The Two Doctors (2)

    S22:E82/23/1985

    The Doctor and Peri meet Jamie and learn the Second Doctor is with the Sontarans on Earth.

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16. 

    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #16 - The Two Doctors (3)

    S22:E93/2/1985

    The Sontarans prepare the Second Doctor to trigger their Kartz-Reimer capsule.

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17. 

    4.0/10(5 votes)

    #17 - The Twin Dilemma (2)

    S21:E223/23/1984

    The Doctor takes Peri to Titan 3, a desolate hunk of rock in space where he hopes to find some solitude for a while. Instead he finds the lone but unconscious survivor of a recent spaceship crash in sight of a mound-shaped complex where no formalised structure should exist.

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    4.0/10(5 votes)

    #18 - The Twin Dilemma (3)

    S21:E233/29/1984

    The Doctor arrives on Jaconda, once lush and green, to find it completely devastated by giant gastropods. Old legends about the planet's half-human/half-slugs weren't just myths after all. With or without help from the Doctor and his unpredictable mood swings, Lt. Lang is up for rescuing the twins, who are finally informed of the grand purpose they've been brought to Jaconda to accomplish.

    Director:Peter Moffatt

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    4.0/10(5 votes)

    #19 - The Twin Dilemma (4)

    S21:E243/30/1984

    The Doctor and Edgeworth deduce that the real plan of Mestor, the gastropod ruler of Jaconda, will not only destroy Jaconda but lead to the devastation of other planets. Together they hope to thwart him despite his formidable ability at slipping into people's minds and controlling them.

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20. 

    3.1/10(7 votes)

    #20 - The Twin Dilemma (1)

    S21:E213/22/1984

    Earth, the future. The genius Sylvest twins, child prodigies, are kidnapped by the mysterious Professor Edgeworth and taken to the planet Jaconda. But who is Edgeworth? Why does he serve the giant slug Mestor? And what is Mestor's plan?

    Director:Peter Moffatt

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