The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 1
Every episode of Doctor Who Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 1!
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 saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Doctor Who" season 1 is "Rose", rated 7.5/10 from 11040 user votes. It was directed by Keith Boak and written by Russell T Davies. "Rose" aired on 3/26/2005 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The End of the World".
7.5/10 11,040 votes#1 - Rose
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/2005
Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, and realises Earth is in danger.
Director: Keith Boak
Writer: Russell T Davies
7.5/10 9,710 votes#2 - The End of the World
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/2/2005
The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time: to the year five billion, when the Sun is about to expand and swallow the Earth. She is cautious and soon starts to question her reasons for joining The Doctor. But amongst the powerful alien races gathering to watch on Platform One, a murderer is at work. Who is controlling the mysterious and deadly metal spiders?
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Russell T Davies
7.4/10 9,074 votes#3 - The Unquiet Dead
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/9/2005
Charles Dickens and the Doctor team up as corpses stalk the streets of Victorian Cardiff.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Mark Gatiss
6.9/10 8,799 votes#4 - Aliens of London (1)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/16/2005
Rose is taken home, but a spaceship crashes in the Thames and London is closed off... Enter the Slitheen!
Director: Keith Boak
Writer: Russell T Davies
6.9/10 8,516 votes#5 - World War Three (2)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/23/2005
Time is running out for the Doctor as Downing Street announces mankind's first Interplanetary War.
Director: Keith Boak
Writer: Russell T Davies
8.6/10 9,664 votes#6 - Dalek
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/30/2005
The Doctor is shattered and Earth is in danger as he and Rose discover the Time Lords' deadliest enemy beneath Utah.
Director: Joe Ahearne
Writer: Robert Shearman
7.0/10 8,391 votes#7 - The Long Game
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/7/2005
Adam catches a glimpse of the wonders of travelling in the Tardis, as they head to a future, where Satellite 5 broadcasts to the entire Earth Empire. But anyone promoted to Floor 500 is never seen again, and the Doctor suspects mankind is being manipulated.
Director: Brian Grant
Writer: Russell T Davies
8.3/10 9,185 votes#8 - Father's Day
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/14/2005
Rose requests a trip back to the day her father, Pete Tyler, died. Reluctantly, the Doctor agrees, but he realises he has made a mistake, when Rose saves Pete from being run over by a car. This has now changed the timeline, and Reapers are transposing themselves all over the Universe. However, this time, the Doctor doesn't have a plan…
Director: Joe Ahearne
Writer: Paul Cornell
9.0/10 10,906 votes#9 - The Empty Child (1)
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/21/2005
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.
Director: James Hawes
Writer: Steven Moffat
9.0/10 10,110 votes#10 - The Doctor Dances (2)
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/28/2005
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...
Director: James Hawes
Writer: Steven Moffat
7.1/10 8,008 votes#11 - Boom Town
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/4/2005
The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack stop off in present-day Cardiff to recharge the TARDIS on the Rift they formerly encountered in 1869. Whilst there, they come upon a since-thought-long-dead enemy of theirs, who is hatching yet another plan to destroy Earth.
Director: Joe Ahearne
Writer: Russell T Davies
8.6/10 9,003 votes#12 - Bad Wolf (1)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/11/2005
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?
Director: Joe Ahearne
Writer: Russell T Davies
9.0/10 9,615 votes#13 - The Parting of the Ways (2)
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/18/2005
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...
Director: Joe Ahearne
Writer: Russell T Davies