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The Best Episodes of Doctor Who

Every episode of Doctor Who ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Doctor Who!

The Best Episodes of Doctor Who

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor...
  1. Background image for Heaven Sent (1)
    9.6/10(14.2k votes)

    #1 - Heaven Sent (1)

    S9:E11

    Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone.

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  2. Background image for Blink
    9.3/10(117 votes)

    #2 - Blink

    S3:E10

    Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.

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  3. Background image for Forest of the Dead (2)
    9.1/10(76 votes)

    #3 - Forest of the Dead (2)

    S4:E9

    As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song.

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    Director:Euros Lyn
  4. Background image for World Enough and Time (1)
    9.1/10(6.7k votes)

    #4 - World Enough and Time (1)

    S10:E11

    Friendship drives the Doctor into the rashest decision of his life. Trapped on a giant spaceship, caught in the event horizon of a black hole, he witnesses the death of someone he is pledged to protect. Is there any way he can redeem his mistake? Are events already out of control? For once, time is the Time Lord’s enemy.

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  5. Background image for Silence in the Library (1)
    9.0/10(74 votes)

    #5 - Silence in the Library (1)

    S4:E8

    The Doctor and Donna land in a frightening position in the far future. While investigating a derelict library, the duo come face to face with the disembodied mind of a little girl, an archaeological team led by a woman from the Doctor's future, and swarms of flesh-eating creatures that are seen only as shadows.

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    Director:Euros Lyn
  6. Background image for The Doctor Falls (2)
    9.0/10(6.7k votes)

    #6 - The Doctor Falls (2)

    S10:E12

    “Without hope, without witness, without reward.” The Mondasian Cybermen are on the rise. It’s time for the Doctor’s final battle…

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  8. Background image for The Angels Take Manhattan
    8.9/10(9.9k votes)

    #7 - The Angels Take Manhattan

    S7:E5

    The Doctor’s heart-breaking farewell to Amy and Rory – a race against time through the streets of Manhattan, as New York’s statues come to life around them… With Rory’s life in danger, the Doctor and Amy must locate him before it’s too late! Luckily, an old friend helps them and guides the way.

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    Director:Nick Hurran
  9. Background image for Doomsday (2)
    8.7/10(69 votes)

    #8 - Doomsday (2)

    S2:E13

    Humanity is caught in the crossfire as the Cybermen and the Daleks wage war against each other. When the mysterious Genesis Ark opens, the Tenth Doctor is faced with an impossible decision: saving the world could mean losing Rose Tyler forever…

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  10. Background image for The Doctor Dances (2)
    8.6/10(82 votes)

    #9 - The Doctor Dances (2)

    S1:E10

    After narrowly escaping the gas mask monsters, The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack try to stop the mutated people from infecting other victims. But it soon becomes apparent that one of the group may indirectly responsible for the virus. The answer lies at the bomb site, but time is running out...

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    Director:James Hawes
  11. Background image for The Parting of the Ways (2)
    8.6/10(80 votes)

    #10 - The Parting of the Ways (2)

    S1:E13

    The fate of the Universe is hanging in the balance as the Dalek fleet begin their invasion of Earth. The Doctor must decide whether to sacrifice every human being on Earth in order to save every other living creature in the universe from the Daleks. Either way, he knows he must send Rose home...

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  12. Background image for The Family of Blood (2)
    8.6/10(66 votes)

    #11 - The Family of Blood (2)

    S3:E9

    It's 1913, and war comes to England early as the terrifying Family hunt for the Doctor.

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  13. Background image for Vincent and the Doctor
    8.6/10(82 votes)

    #12 - Vincent and the Doctor

    S5:E10

    Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. Amy Pond finds herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gogh, in a battle with a deadly alien - saving the world has never been so ginger! But can even the Doctor save Vincent?

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  14. Background image for Hell Bent (2)
    8.6/10(8.0k votes)

    #13 - Hell Bent (2)

    S9:E12

    If you took everything from him, betrayed him, trapped him, and broke both his hearts...how far might the Doctor go?

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  15. Background image for The Empty Child (1)
    8.5/10(88 votes)

    #14 - The Empty Child (1)

    S1:E9

    After chasing an unexplained capsule through time, the TARDIS lands in London, during an air raid. Rose investigates when a small child wearing a gasmask, standing on a rooftop, continuously calls out for his mummy. After floating above the city on a barrage balloon, Rose is swept off her feet by another time traveller – Captain Jack Harkness. Meanwhile, The Doctor follows a teenaged girl to a meeting of the homeless children of the Blitz. Here, the child in the gasmask is terrorising them with a parade of strange events, constantly asking for his mother.

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    Director:James Hawes
  16. Background image for The Girl in the Fireplace
    8.5/10(82 votes)

    #15 - The Girl in the Fireplace

    S2:E4

    On a seemingly abandoned spaceship in the 51st century, the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Mickey find time windows leading to 18th century France and a group of clockwork androids using them to stalk a young woman throughout her life.

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    Director:Euros Lyn
  17. Background image for Midnight
    8.5/10(73 votes)

    #16 - Midnight

    S4:E10

    While visiting the planet Midnight, a beautiful and luxury planet, full of lavishs and hightech cities, a terrifying problem arises that leaves The Doctor powerless.

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  18. Background image for Asylum of the Daleks
    8.5/10(9.0k votes)

    #17 - Asylum of the Daleks

    S7:E1

    Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission - to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter... the Asylum. A planetary prison confining the most terrifying and insane of their kind, the Doctor and the Ponds must find an escape route. But with Amy and Rory’s relationship in meltdown, and an army of mad Daleks closing in, it is up to the Doctor to save their lives, as well as the Pond’s marriage.

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    Director:Nick Hurran
  19. Background image for Face the Raven
    8.5/10(7.1k votes)

    #18 - Face the Raven

    S9:E10

    The Doctor and Clara, with their old friend Rigsy, find themselves in a magical alien world, hidden on a street in the heart of London.

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  20. Background image for The Impossible Planet (1)
    8.4/10(73 votes)

    #19 - The Impossible Planet (1)

    S2:E8

    Rose finds herself further away from home than ever before, on a desolate world in the orbit of a Black Hole. Trapped with an Earth expedition and the mysterious Ood, the time-travellers face an even greater danger as something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awake.

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    Director:James Strong
    Writer:Matt Jones
  21. Background image for Human Nature (1)
    8.4/10(66 votes)

    #20 - Human Nature (1)

    S3:E8

    England, 1913. A schoolteacher called John Smith dreams of adventures in time and space. The Doctor, along with Martha, heads to a boarding school, but what he finds is far from ordinary...

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  22. Background image for The Eleventh Hour
    8.4/10(78 votes)

    #21 - The Eleventh Hour

    S5:E1

    The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover. With the TARDIS wrecked, and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has just 20 minutes to save the whole world - and only Amy Pond to help him.

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    Director:Adam Smith
  23. Background image for The Impossible Astronaut (1)
    8.4/10(71 votes)

    #22 - The Impossible Astronaut (1)

    S6:E1

    Placing his life entirely in their hands, the Doctor agrees to search for the recipient of the fourth envelope - just who is Canton Everett Delaware the Third? And what is the relevance of their only other clue: 'Space 1969'? Their quest lands them - quite literally - in the Oval Office, where they are enlisted by President Nixon himself to assist enigmatic former-FBI agent Canton, in saving a terrified little girl from a mysterious spaceman.

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    Director:Toby Haynes
  24. Background image for Day of the Moon (2)
    8.4/10(66 votes)

    #23 - Day of the Moon (2)

    S6:E2

    The Doctor is locked in the perfect prison. Amy, Rory and River Song are being hunted down across America by the FBI. With the help of new friend and FBI-insider, Canton Everett Delaware the Third, our heroes are reunited to share their discoveries, if not their memories. For the world is occupied by an alien force who control humanity through post-hypnotic suggestion and no one can be trusted. Aided by President Nixon and Neil Armstrong's foot, the Doctor must mount a revolution to drive out the enemy and rescue the missing little girl. No-one knows why they took her. Or why they have kidnapped Amy Pond...

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    Director:Toby Haynes
  25. Background image for The Witch's Familiar (2)
    8.4/10(6.8k votes)

    #24 - The Witch's Familiar (2)

    S9:E2

    Trapped and alone in a terrifying Dalek city, the Doctor is at the heart of an evil Empire; no sonic, no TARDIS, nobody to help. With his greatest temptation before him, can the Doctor resist? And will there be mercy?

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  26. Background image for The Zygon Inversion (2)
    8.4/10(6.5k votes)

    #25 - The Zygon Inversion (2)

    S9:E8

    With UNIT neutralised, only the Doctor stands in the way of the Zygons.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Heaven Sent (1)" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who". It scored 9.6/10 based on 14194 votes. Directed by Rachel Talalay and written by Steven Moffat, it aired on 11/28/2015. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Blink".