The Best Episodes of Doctor Who

The TARDIS is drawn to the planet of the Time Lords where both the Doctor and the War Lord are placed on trial.

Director: David Maloney

Writer: N/A

Gharman tries to convince the Kaleds to vote against the Dalek project but Davros has a trick up his sleeve, while the Doctor works to destroy the tape recording of Dalek victory and the Thals plan an intervention of their own.

Director: David Maloney

Writer: Terry Nation

The planet Skaro, the distant past. The Time Lords divert the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry to this war-torn world, and give the Doctor a mission: the evil of the Daleks is about to be born here, and the Doctor is to try to ensure they evolve into less lethally aggressive beings - or, failing that, to avert their creation altogether. But has even the Doctor the right to commit genocide?

Director: David Maloney

Writer: Terry Nation

The Doctor fails to prevent the Thals from destroying the Kaled city but they don't have long to enjoy their victory before the Daleks attack.

Director: David Maloney

Writer: Terry Nation

The Doctor is forced to give Davros full details of future Dalek victories but opposition to Davros' plans is growing among the Kaleds and soon there is open rebellion.

Director: David Maloney

Writer: Terry Nation

The Doctor and Harry are taken to the Kaled bunker where Davros is preparing to demonstrate the Daleks, while Sarah Jane is captured by the Thals and taken to their city as a slave worker.

Director: David Maloney

Writer: Terry Nation

Captured by the Count, the Doctor and Romana uncover an elaborate plan to steal the Mona Lisa. But there is more to Scarlioni's plans than a simple theft.

Director: Michael Hayes

Writer: Douglas Adams, Graham Williams, David Fisher

Scaroth is determined to go back 400 million years in time to prevent a mistake. But the Doctor must stop him – because the consequences would be disastrous.

Director: Michael Hayes

Writer: Douglas Adams, Graham Williams, David Fisher

Events on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Will the Doctor and Peri survive the carnage? And at what cost?

Director: Graeme Harper

Writer: Robert Holmes

To prove his loyalty to the Aliens, the Doctor is ordered to reprocess his friends while the Security Chief finally uncovers evidence of the War Chief's treachery.

Director: David Maloney

Writer: N/A

The Doctor and Harry head to the Kaled city to alert the authorities to Davros' plans while Sarah Jane and Sevrin are forced to work on the completion of the Thals' rocket.

Director: David Maloney

Writer: Terry Nation

Paris, 1979. The Doctor and Romana are here on holiday, but something is disturbing the flow of time. Could the time travel experiments of Count Scarlioni be to blame?

Director: Michael Hayes

Writer: Douglas Adams, Graham Williams, David Fisher

The Doctor and Romana unwrap an intricate plot involving aliens, time travel and the Mona Lisa. How is Count Scarlioni living in two times at once? And what does he want?

Director: Michael Hayes

Writer: Douglas Adams, Graham Williams, David Fisher

London, the 1890s. As magician Li H'Sen Chang captivates audiences, a spate of disappearances amongst young women goes largely unnoticed. But almost upon their arrival, the Doctor and Leela find themselves confronting the feared Tong of the Black Scorpion, and a menace from another time. And there's something fishy in the sewers, too...

Director: David Maloney

Writer: Robert Holmes

The Doctor realises the freighter is now a huge bomb and sends it back through time where it can explode millions of years ago... but Adric is still aboard...

Director: Peter Grimwade

Writer: Eric Saward

The situation on Androzani Minor is building toward a violent confrontation, and the Doctor and Peri are slowly succumbing to spectrox toxemia.

Director: Graeme Harper

Writer: Robert Holmes

The Antarctic, the near future. A strange seed-pod is unearthed from 20-thousand-year-old ice. The Doctor and Sarah go to investigate, but are too late to prevent the pod infecting a scientist and unleashing a threat to all animal life on Earth...

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Robert Banks Stewart

The Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Scorby are trapped in the manor as a possessed Chase stalks them from within, while the gigantic Krynoid prepares to crush them from without. Worse, the alien plant is ready to germinate, spreading its seeds across England.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Robert Banks Stewart

The Doctor and Leela attend Li H'Sen Chang's performance, hoping to confront the magician. But his master Weng-Chiang has other plans…

Director: David Maloney

Writer: Robert Holmes

The Doctor and Weng-Chiang have their final confrontation in the mysterious House of the Dragon -- watched by the evil duplicitous Mr. Sin.

Director: David Maloney

Writer: Robert Holmes

The Omega device is in jeopardy. A giant Dalek warship hangs above the Earth. London has become a battleground for ruthless alien intelligences.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

With the Daleks poised to invade the solar system, the Doctor decides his only option is to activate the Time Destructor prematurely, threatening the entire planet.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Dennis Spooner

The Daleks are poised to spread the Dalek Factor throughout the history of Earth and begin by implanting the Doctor.

Director: N/A

Writer: David Whitaker

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe realise they have arrived in the trenches of the First World War, where the sinister General Smythe accuses them of espionage.

Director: David Maloney

Writer: Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks

The Doctor has vanished from the Inferno project… or has he? He finds himself in the same place, but everyone has changed… and the drilling is closer to its deadly conclusion.

Director: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts

Writer: Don Houghton