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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!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 10 - Vincent and the Doctor
    9.3/10(14773 votes)

    S5:E10

    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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  2. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 13 - The Big Bang (2)
    9.1/10(9776 votes)

    S5:E13

    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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  3. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 12 - The Pandorica Opens (1)
    9.0/10(9551 votes)

    S5:E12

    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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  4. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 1 - The Eleventh Hour
    8.8/10(11140 votes)

    S5:E1

    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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  5. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 4 - The Time of Angels (1)
    8.6/10(9491 votes)

    S5:E4

    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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  6. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 5 - Flesh and Stone (2)
    8.5/10(8838 votes)

    S5:E5

    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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  7. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 7 - Amy's Choice
    8.1/10(8649 votes)

    S5:E7

    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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  8. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 11 - The Lodger
    8.0/10(8538 votes)

    S5:E11

    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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  9. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 2 - The Beast Below
    7.6/10(8784 votes)

    S5:E2

    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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  10. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 9 - Cold Blood (2)
    7.3/10(7694 votes)

    S5:E9

    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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  11. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 8 - The Hungry Earth (1)
    7.1/10(7715 votes)

    S5:E8

    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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  12. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 6 - The Vampires of Venice
    6.9/10(8193 votes)

    S5:E6

    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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  13. Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 3 - Victory of the Daleks
    6.6/10(8466 votes)

    S5:E3

    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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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Vincent and the Doctor" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 5. It scored 9.3/10 based on 14773 votes. Directed by Jonny Campbell and written by Richard Curtis, it aired on 6/5/2010. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Big Bang (2)".