The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 2
Every episode of Doctor Who Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 2!
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 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Doctor Who" season 2 is "New Earth", rated 7.3/10 from 8407 user votes. It was directed by James Hawes and written by Russell T Davies. "New Earth" aired on 4/15/2006 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Tooth and Claw".
7.3/10 8,407 votes#1 - New Earth
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/15/2006
In the year five billion and twenty-three, after the destruction of the Earth, the Doctor takes Rose to the New Earth. There, in a hospital facility, the feline Sisters of Plenitude can mysteriously cure any diseases, but, in the basement, an old enemy of the Doctor is out for revenge.
Director: James Hawes
Writer: Russell T Davies
7.6/10 8,446 votes#2 - Tooth and Claw
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/22/2006
Landing in 1879, Scotland, the Tenth Doctor and Rose meet Queen Victoria, travelling with her to spend the night at the Torchwood Estate. However, a group of warrior monks have sinister plans for the monarch, and the full moon is about to summon a creature out of legend.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Russell T Davies
8.2/10 8,957 votes#3 - School Reunion
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/29/2006
There are strange goings-on at a comprehensive school - UFOs, over-intelligent children, and odd-tasting school dinners. This attracts the attention of the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Mickey Smith, as well as a couple of old friends…
Director: James Hawes
Writer: Toby Whithouse
9.2/10 13,303 votes#4 - The Girl in the Fireplace
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/6/2006
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.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Steven Moffat
7.7/10 7,979 votes#5 - Rise of the Cybermen (1)
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/13/2006
After the TARDIS makes a crash landing on the Earth of another universe, Rose discovers her father is alive and rich, Mickey encounters his alternative self, and the Tenth Doctor learns one of his oldest and deadliest foes is about to be reborn.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Tom MacRae
7.8/10 7,888 votes#6 - The Age of Steel (2)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/20/2006
The plans of John Lumic to convert the world into Cybermen are now in full force. The Tenth Doctor, Rose, Mickey and the Preachers must find a way to stop him from enforcing his "ultimate upgrade."
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Tom MacRae
6.7/10 8,044 votes#7 - The Idiot's Lantern
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/27/2006
In 1953 London, the police are abducting people from their homes. The people of Britain gather around their new-fangled "tele-vision" sets to celebrate the new Queen's coronation - but something strange is affecting the signal.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Mark Gatiss
8.6/10 8,997 votes#8 - The Impossible Planet (1)
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 6/3/2006
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.
Director: James Strong
Writer: Matt Jones
8.7/10 9,190 votes#9 - The Satan Pit (2)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/10/2006
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…
Director: James Strong
Writer: Matt Jones
6.2/10 9,282 votes#10 - Love & Monsters
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/17/2006
An ordinary man named Elton Pope becomes obsessed with the Tenth Doctor, Rose and their strange blue box, joining a group of like-minded people in hopes of finding him. But when the mysterious Victor Kennedy joins the group, the fun soon stops and Elton discovers a darker side to his hobby.
Director: Dan Zeff
Writer: Russell T Davies
5.8/10 8,306 votes#11 - Fear Her
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/24/2006
When the TARDIS lands in 2012, the Tenth Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics. However, ordinary children are vanishing into thin air, a mother living in a seemingly normal British household is trying to hide her daughter's unnatural powers from the world, and a demonic presence lurks in an upstairs cupboard.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.4/10 8,185 votes#12 - Army of Ghosts (1)
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 7/1/2006
Ghostly beings have been regularly appearing across the world and people, believing them to be their dead loved ones, are welcoming their visits with open arms. When the TARDIS arrives at the Torchwood Institute, the Tenth Doctor and Rose are taken prisoner. They are drawn into the investigation of a mysterious sphere kept in Torchwood Tower, and monstrous foes return as two universes collide.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Russell T Davies
9.2/10 10,816 votes#13 - Doomsday (2)
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/8/2006
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…
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Russell T Davies