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 saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
Season 5 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Doctor Who" season 5 is "The Eleventh Hour", rated 8.7/10 from 10041 user votes. It was directed by Adam Smith and written by Steven Moffat. "The Eleventh Hour" aired on 4/3/2010 and is rated 1.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Beast Below".
8.7/10 10,041 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
7.6/10 7,888 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
6.6/10 7,610 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
8.6/10 8,542 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
8.5/10 7,922 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
6.9/10 7,340 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
8.1/10 7,756 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
7.1/10 6,903 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
7.3/10 6,886 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
9.3/10 13,285 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
8.0/10 7,679 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
9.0/10 8,605 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
9.1/10 8,824 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