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The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 3

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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...
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  1. 9.8/10(25.3k votes)

    #1 - Blink

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    S3:E10

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

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  2. 9.2/10(10.7k votes)

    #2 - The Family of Blood (2)

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    S3:E9

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

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  3. 8.9/10(9.8k votes)

    #3 - Human Nature (1)

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    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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  4. 8.7/10(8.8k votes)

    #4 - Utopia (1)

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    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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  5. 8.7/10(8.8k votes)

    #5 - The Sound of Drums (2)

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    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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  6. 8.3/10(9.0k votes)

    #6 - Last of the Time Lords (3)

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    S3:E13

    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.

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  8. 8.0/10(8.6k votes)

    #7 - Gridlock

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    S3:E3

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

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  9. 7.9/10(8.4k votes)

    #8 - Smith and Jones

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    S3:E1

    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…

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  10. 7.5/10(8.4k votes)

    #9 - The Shakespeare Code

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    S3:E2

    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.

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  11. 7.2/10(7.7k votes)

    #10 - 42

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    S3:E7

    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

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  12. 7.0/10(7.9k votes)

    #11 - Daleks in Manhattan (1)

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    S3:E4

    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

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    Director:James Strong
  13. 6.9/10(7.8k votes)

    #12 - Evolution of the Daleks (2)

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    S3:E5

    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...

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    Director:James Strong
  14. 6.5/10(7.9k votes)

    #13 - The Lazarus Experiment

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    S3:E6

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

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Blink" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 3. It scored 9.8/10 based on 25319 votes. Directed by Hettie Macdonald and written by Steven Moffat, it aired on 6/9/2007. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Family of Blood (2)".