The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 3

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

Director: Hettie Macdonald

Writer: Steven Moffat

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

Director: Charles Palmer

Writer: Paul Cornell

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...

Director: Charles Palmer

Writer: Paul Cornell

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.

Director: Graeme Harper

Writer: Russell T Davies

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.

Director: Colin Teague

Writer: Russell T Davies

One year has passed since the events of "The Sound of Drums." The Earth has been conquered and its population enslaved, the Doctor is the Master's prisoner, and the warships of a new Time Lord Empire rise from the ashes. The fate of the world is in Martha Jones' hands.

Director: Graeme Harper, Colin Teague

Writer: Russell T Davies

The Doctor takes Martha to New Earth, in the far future, only to find that an entire city has become a deadly trap.

Director: Richard Clark

Writer: Russell T Davies

Trainee doctor Martha Jones has her hands full balancing her medical studies with placating her demanding family. So the last thing she needs is to find that the hospital where she works has been transported to the moon, where it's invaded by an overbearing alien police force. There she encounters a patient called John Smith, who seems curiously at ease with the situation…

Director: Charles Palmer

Writer: Russell T Davies

Martha takes her first trip in the Tardis, all the way back to Elizabethan England. She and the Doctor hear of a series of bizarre deaths and discover that playwright William Shakespeare is being controlled by dangerous witch-like creatures. It seems the time-travelling duo must defeat ancient forces to prevent history from being rewritten.

Director: Charles Palmer

Writer: Gareth Roberts

In a far-flung galaxy, saboteurs are at work, and crew members are being possessed. The TARDIS crew find themselves in the 42nd century on a spaceship, SS Pentallian, slowly being pulled into a sun, and must find a way to survive

Director: Graeme Harper

Writer: Chris Chibnall

The Doctor investigates disappearances in New York at the height of the depression in the 1930s. Nefarious Pig Men linger in the sewers and the Daleks prepare an audacious plan at the top of the Empire State Building

Director: James Strong

Writer: Helen Raynor

The newly-created Dalek-human hybrid, and the other three members of the Cult of Skaro launch an attack on Hooverville, along with their Pig Slaves. The Doctor, Martha, and Frank manage to escape, but discover that the Daleks' plan involving the Empire State Building...

Director: James Strong

Writer: Helen Raynor

Martha has to save her family from the lunatic schemes of the monstrous Professor Lazarus.

Director: Richard Clark

Writer: Stephen Greenhorn