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The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 3

Every episode of Doctor Who Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 3!

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...
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:BBC One

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Smith and Jones" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 8243 votes. Directed by Charles Palmer and written by Russell T Davies, it aired on 4/1/2007. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Shakespeare Code".

  • Smith and Jones
    7.9/108,243 votes

    #1 - Smith and Jones

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2007

    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

  • The Shakespeare Code
    7.5/108,216 votes

    #2 - The Shakespeare Code

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/7/2007

    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

  • Gridlock
    8.0/108,450 votes

    #3 - Gridlock

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/14/2007

    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

  • Daleks in Manhattan (1)
    7.0/107,740 votes

    #4 - Daleks in Manhattan (1)

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/2007

    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

  • Evolution of the Daleks (2)
    6.9/107,716 votes

    #5 - Evolution of the Daleks (2)

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/28/2007

    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

  • The Lazarus Experiment
    6.5/107,729 votes

    #6 - The Lazarus Experiment

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/2007

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

    Director: Richard Clark

    Writer: Stephen Greenhorn

  • 42
    7.2/107,541 votes

    #7 - 42

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/19/2007

    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

  • Human Nature (1)
    8.9/109,608 votes

    #8 - Human Nature (1)

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2007

    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

  • The Family of Blood (2)
    9.2/1010,533 votes

    #9 - The Family of Blood (2)

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 6/2/2007

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

    Director: Charles Palmer

    Writer: Paul Cornell

  • Blink
    9.8/1024,933 votes

    #10 - Blink

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 6/9/2007

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

    Director: Hettie Macdonald

    Writer: Steven Moffat

  • Utopia (1)
    8.7/108,623 votes

    #11 - Utopia (1)

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 6/16/2007

    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

  • The Sound of Drums (2)
    8.7/108,656 votes

    #12 - The Sound of Drums (2)

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 6/23/2007

    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

  • Last of the Time Lords (3)
    8.3/108,884 votes

    #13 - Last of the Time Lords (3)

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 6/30/2007

    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