The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 5

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.8/10(10823 votes)

   #1 - The Eleventh Hour

   S5:E14/3/2010

   The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover. With the TARDIS wrecked, and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has just 20 minutes to save the whole world - and only Amy Pond to help him.

   Director:Adam Smith

   Writer:Steven Moffat

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   Director:Adam Smith

   Writer:Steven Moffat
2. 

   7.6/10(8527 votes)

   #2 - The Beast Below

   S5:E24/10/2010

   Amy Pond takes her first trip in the TARDIS when the Doctor whisks her away to the distant future and they discover Britain in space. Starship UK houses the future of the British people as they search the stars for a new home. But when Amy explores she encounters the terrifying Smilers and learns a deadly truth inside the Voting Booth...

   Director:Andrew Gunn

   Writer:Steven Moffat

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   Director:Andrew Gunn

   Writer:Steven Moffat
3. 

   6.6/10(8224 votes)

   #3 - Victory of the Daleks

   S5:E34/17/2010

   The Doctor has been summoned by old friend Winston Churchill, but in the Cabinet War Rooms far below the streets of blitz-torn London, it's his oldest enemy he finds waiting for him, as the time-travelling adventures continue. The Daleks are back – but can Winston Churchill be in league with them?

   Director:Andrew Gunn

   Writer:Mark Gatiss

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   Director:Andrew Gunn

   Writer:Mark Gatiss
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   8.6/10(9214 votes)

   #4 - The Time of Angels (1)

   S5:E44/24/2010

   A crashed spaceship, a shattered temple and a terrifying climb through the maze of the dead - River Song is back in the Doctor's life, and she's brought more trouble than even he can handle. The last of the weeping Angels is loose in the ruins of Alfava Metraxis, and the Doctor is recruited to track it down. "Don't blink!" everyone tells Amy - but Amy is about to discover, not blinking might just be the worst thing you can do...

   Director:Adam Smith

   Writer:Steven Moffat

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   Director:Adam Smith

   Writer:Steven Moffat
5. 

   8.5/10(8571 votes)

   #5 - Flesh and Stone (2)

   S5:E55/1/2010

   There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, The Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner. Meanwhile, in the forest vault, the Doctor's companion, Amy Pond, finds herself facing an even more deadly attack.

   Director:Adam Smith

   Writer:Steven Moffat

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   Director:Adam Smith

   Writer:Steven Moffat
6. 

   6.9/10(7956 votes)

   #6 - The Vampires of Venice

   S5:E65/8/2010

   Dessicated corpses, terror in the canal and a visit to the sinister House of Calvierri – the Doctor takes Amy and Rory for a romantic mini-break, as the Tardis touches down once again. But 16th-century Venice is not as it should be. The city has been sealed to protect it from the Plague, although Rosanna Calvierri may have other plans...

   Director:Jonny Campbell

   Writer:Toby Whithouse

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   Director:Jonny Campbell

   Writer:Toby Whithouse
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   8.1/10(8387 votes)

   #7 - Amy's Choice

   S5:E75/15/2010

   It has been five years since Amy Pond last travelled with the Doctor, and when he lands in her garden again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, she finds herself facing a heartbreaking choice – one that will change her life forever. They will have to choose which is the dream world and which is reality.

   Director:Catherine Morshead

   Writer:Simon Nye

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   Director:Catherine Morshead

   Writer:Simon Nye
8. 

   7.1/10(7478 votes)

   #8 - The Hungry Earth (1)

   S5:E85/22/2010

   In 2020, the most ambitious drilling project in history is under way. Dr Nasreen Chaudry and her team have reached 21 kilometers into the Earth's crust - but something is stirring far below. Amy Pond discovers there's nowhere to run when you can't even trust the ground at your feet.

   Director:Ashley Way

   Writer:Chris Chibnall

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   Director:Ashley Way

   Writer:Chris Chibnall
9. 

   7.3/10(7457 votes)

   #9 - Cold Blood (2)

   S5:E95/29/2010

   It is the most important day in the history of Earth: the dawn of a new age of harmony… or the start of its final war. The Doctor must face his most difficult challenge yet and he tries desperately to ensure Alaya's prediction of a massacre does not come true. Meanwhile, what fate will befall the captured Amy and can Tony and his friends be trusted?

   Director:Ashley Way

   Writer:Chris Chibnall

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   Director:Ashley Way

   Writer:Chris Chibnall
10. 

    9.3/10(14322 votes)

    #10 - Vincent and the Doctor

    S5:E106/5/2010

    Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. Amy Pond finds herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gogh, in a battle with a deadly alien - saving the world has never been so ginger! But can even the Doctor save Vincent?

    Director:Jonny Campbell

    Writer:Richard Curtis

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    Director:Jonny Campbell

    Writer:Richard Curtis
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    8.0/10(8291 votes)

    #11 - The Lodger

    S5:E116/12/2010

    There's a house on Aickman road with a staircase that people go up, but never down... To solve the mystery of the man upstairs, the Doctor must pass himself off as a normal human being, and share a flat with Craig Owens.

    Director:Catherine Morshead

    Writer:Gareth Roberts

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    Director:Catherine Morshead

    Writer:Gareth Roberts
12. 

    9.0/10(9287 votes)

    #12 - The Pandorica Opens (1)

    S5:E126/19/2010

    The Doctor's friends unite to send him a terrible warning; the Pandorica - which is said to contain the most feared being in all the cosmos - is opening. But what's inside, and can the Doctor stop it?

    Director:Toby Haynes

    Writer:Steven Moffat

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    Director:Toby Haynes

    Writer:Steven Moffat
13. 

    9.1/10(9510 votes)

    #13 - The Big Bang (2)

    S5:E136/26/2010

    The Doctor is gone, the Tardis has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little girl who still believes in stars.

    Director:Toby Haynes

    Writer:Steven Moffat

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    Director:Toby Haynes

    Writer:Steven Moffat