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The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 5

Every episode of Doctor Who Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 5!

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 5 Ratings Summary

"The Eleventh Hour" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 5. It scored 8.7/10 based on 10111 votes. Directed by Adam Smith and written by Steven Moffat, it aired on 4/3/2010. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Beast Below".

  • The Eleventh Hour
    8.7/1010,111 votes

    #1 - The Eleventh Hour

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/2010

    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

  • The Beast Below
    7.6/107,949 votes

    #2 - The Beast Below

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/2010

    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

  • Victory of the Daleks
    6.6/107,666 votes

    #3 - Victory of the Daleks

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 4/17/2010

    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

  • The Time of Angels (1)
    8.6/108,616 votes

    #4 - The Time of Angels (1)

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/2010

    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

  • Flesh and Stone (2)
    8.5/107,985 votes

    #5 - Flesh and Stone (2)

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 5/1/2010

    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

  • The Vampires of Venice
    6.9/107,392 votes

    #6 - The Vampires of Venice

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 5/8/2010

    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

  • Amy's Choice
    8.1/107,817 votes

    #7 - Amy's Choice

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 5/15/2010

    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

  • The Hungry Earth (1)
    7.1/106,951 votes

    #8 - The Hungry Earth (1)

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 5/22/2010

    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

  • Cold Blood (2)
    7.3/106,935 votes

    #9 - Cold Blood (2)

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 5/29/2010

    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

  • Vincent and the Doctor
    9.3/1013,392 votes

    #10 - Vincent and the Doctor

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 6/5/2010

    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

  • The Lodger
    8.0/107,734 votes

    #11 - The Lodger

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 6/12/2010

    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

  • The Pandorica Opens (1)
    9.0/108,668 votes

    #12 - The Pandorica Opens (1)

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 6/19/2010

    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

  • The Big Bang (2)
    9.1/108,887 votes

    #13 - The Big Bang (2)

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 6/26/2010

    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