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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 Blink
    9.8/10(25.8k votes)

    #1 - Blink

    S3:E10

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

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  2. Background image for The Girl in the Fireplace
    9.2/10(13.9k votes)

    #2 - 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
  3. Background image for Doomsday (2)
    9.2/10(11.3k votes)

    #3 - 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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    9.2/10(11.0k votes)

    #4 - 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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    9.1/10(73 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for The Empty Child (1)
    9.0/10(11.5k votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for The Doctor Dances (2)
    9.0/10(10.7k votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. Background image for The Parting of the Ways (2)
    9.0/10(10.1k votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for Silence in the Library (1)
    9.0/10(73 votes)

    #9 - 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
  11. Background image for A Good Man Goes to War (1)
    9.0/10(9.4k votes)

    #10 - A Good Man Goes to War (1)

    S6:E7

    Amy Pond has been kidnapped and the Doctor is raising an army to rescue her as the drama continues. But as he and Rory race across galaxies, calling in long-held debts and solemnly given promises, his enemies are laying a carefully concealed trap. In her cell in Stormcage, River Song sadly acknowledges that the time has come at last – today will mark the Battle of Demons Run and the Doctor’s darkest hour. Both sides will make their sacrifices and River Song must finally reveal her most closely guarded secret to the Doctor.

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    Director:Peter Hoar
  12. Background image for Human Nature (1)
    8.9/10(10.0k votes)

    #11 - 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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    8.9/10(9.7k votes)

    #12 - The Doctor's Wife

    S6:E4

    The Doctor receives a distress signal from an old friend. Could there really be another living Time Lord out there? Hopes raised, he follows the signal to a junkyard planet sitting upon a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble universe, populated by a very strange family, as the time-travelling drama continues. The Doctor, Amy and Rory are given the warmest of welcomes by Auntie, Uncle and Nephew. But the beautiful and insane Idris greets them in a more unusual fashion – what is she trying to tell the Doctor? As the Doctor investigates, he unwittingly puts his friends in the gravest danger.

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    Director:Richard Clark
  14. Background image for The Impossible Astronaut (1)
    8.8/10(9.1k votes)

    #13 - 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
  15. Background image for Day of the Moon (2)
    8.8/10(8.4k votes)

    #14 - 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
  16. Background image for The Satan Pit (2)
    8.7/10(9.7k votes)

    #15 - The Satan Pit (2)

    S2:E9

    The TARDIS lands in a base on a planet orbiting a black hole, an impossible situation that stumps even the Tenth Doctor. The base crew are drilling to the centre of the world, to claim the power that keeps it in orbit for themselves. However, an ancient evil is down there too, and he is awake…

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    Director:James Strong
    Writer:Matt Jones
  17. Background image for Utopia (1)
    8.7/10(9.0k votes)

    #16 - Utopia (1)

    S3:E11

    After being brought back to life in The Parting of the Ways, Captain Jack Harkness was just left on the Gamestation by the Doctor and Rose. In this episode, Captain Jack Harkness storms back into the Doctor's life, and the TARDIS is thrown to the end of the universe itself.

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  18. Background image for The Sound of Drums (2)
    8.7/10(9.1k votes)

    #17 - The Sound of Drums (2)

    S3:E12

    Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister and his reign of terror begins – but that's only the start of his ambitions, as he announces mankind's first contact with an alien race, the Toclafane. An audacious plan spanning the whole of time and space begins to close around the Earth, in the penultimate episode of Russell T Davies's Doctor Who.

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  19. Background image for Listen
    8.7/10(9.6k votes)

    #18 - Listen

    S8:E4

    What scares the grand old man of time? What horrors lurk under his bed? Ghosts of the past and future crowd into the lives of The Doctor and Clara; a terrified caretaker in a children's home, the last man standing in the universe, and a little boy who doesn't want to join the army...

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  20. Background image for Heaven Sent (1)
    8.7/10(73 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for Dalek
    8.6/10(10.2k votes)

    #20 - Dalek

    S1:E6

    The Doctor is shattered and Earth is in danger as he and Rose discover the Time Lords' deadliest enemy beneath Utah.

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  22. Background image for Bad Wolf (1)
    8.6/10(9.5k votes)

    #21 - Bad Wolf (1)

    S1:E12

    In a seemingly futuristic world, the Doctor wakes up in the Big Brother house during an eviction, Rose wakes up on the Weakest Link with the Anne-Droid, and Captain Jack gets a make over with Trin-E and Zu-Zana. But something unusual is happening, and the losing contestants are being disintergrated. Obviously, it's time for the Doctor to investigate. Who or what is behind this?

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  23. Background image for The Impossible Planet (1)
    8.6/10(9.5k votes)

    #22 - 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
  24. Background image for Vincent and the Doctor
    8.6/10(80 votes)

    #23 - 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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  25. Background image for Midnight
    8.5/10(70 votes)

    #24 - 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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  26. Background image for Dark Water
    8.5/10(7.3k votes)

    #25 - Dark Water

    S8:E11

    In the mysterious world of the Nethersphere, plans have been drawn. Old friends and old enemies manoeuvre around The Doctor, and an impossible choice is looming over him.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Blink" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who". It scored 9.8/10 based on 25808 votes. Directed by Hettie Macdonald and written by Steven Moffat, it aired on 6/9/2007. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Girl in the Fireplace".