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The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 13

Every episode of Doctor Who Season 13 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 13!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 12 - Pyramids of Mars (4)
    8.5/10(920 votes)

    S13:E12

    Sutekh forces the Doctor to transport Scarman and a mummy to Mars, where the Doctor and Sarah try to stop them destroying the Eye of Horus.

    Director:Paddy Russell
    Writers:Robert Holmes, Lewis Greifer

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  2. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 21 - The Seeds of Doom (1)
    8.5/10(788 votes)

    S13:E21

    The Antarctic, the near future. A strange seed-pod is unearthed from 20-thousand-year-old ice. The Doctor and Sarah go to investigate, but are too late to prevent the pod infecting a scientist and unleashing a threat to all animal life on Earth...

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  3. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 22 - The Seeds of Doom (2)
    8.5/10(665 votes)

    S13:E22

    Two employees of the millionaire Harrison Chase arrive at the Antarctic base, and they will stop at nothing to get hold of the second seed-pod.

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  4. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 25 - The Seeds of Doom (5)
    8.5/10(660 votes)

    S13:E25

    The Krynoid grows to a monstrous size and traps the Doctor and the others in a cottage. The creature demands they turn over the Doctor, while Chase seeks to make an alliance with the alien vegetation.

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  5. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 26 - The Seeds of Doom (6)
    8.5/10(673 votes)

    S13:E26

    The Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Scorby are trapped in the manor as a possessed Chase stalks them from within, while the gigantic Krynoid prepares to crush them from without. Worse, the alien plant is ready to germinate, spreading its seeds across England.

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  6. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 9 - Pyramids of Mars (1)
    8.4/10(1063 votes)

    S13:E9

    The Doctor and Sarah are drawn off course and, instead of UNIT HQ, they arrive on the same site in 1911.

    Director:Paddy Russell
    Writers:Robert Holmes, Lewis Greifer

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  7. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 23 - The Seeds of Doom (3)
    8.4/10(663 votes)

    S13:E23

    The Doctor and Sarah Jane return to England after their Antarctic ordeal and Chase tries to eliminate them, but they escape and track him down at his estate, where he is preparing to open the Krynoid pod.

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  8. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 24 - The Seeds of Doom (4)
    8.4/10(654 votes)

    S13:E24

    The Doctor is captured by Chase, who plans to breed the stolen Krynoid pod. He is placed in an automated compost hopper and only Sarah Jane can save him... but will she make it before the Krynoid grows to fruition ?

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  9. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 10 - Pyramids of Mars (2)
    8.3/10(906 votes)

    S13:E10

    The Doctor, Sarah and Laurence try to find a way to sever Sutekh's link to the mummies while poacher Ernie Clements finds the priory surrounded by a forcefield.

    Director:Paddy Russell
    Writers:Robert Holmes, Lewis Greifer

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  10. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 11 - Pyramids of Mars (3)
    8.3/10(892 votes)

    S13:E11

    The Doctor and Sarah try to destroy Sutekh's rocket but the Osiran's mental powers prove too great for them.

    Director:Paddy Russell
    Writers:Robert Holmes, Lewis Greifer

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  11. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 20 - The Brain of Morbius (4)
    8.3/10(707 votes)

    S13:E20

    Morbius lives once more, but as a rampaging beast. The Doctor is forced to ally with Dr. Solon to bring him to heel, but the two disagree about what should happen to Morbius.

    Director:Christopher Barry
    Writers:Robert Holmes, Terrance Dicks

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  12. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 17 - The Brain of Morbius (1)
    8.2/10(788 votes)

    S13:E17

    The storm-lashed planet Karn. Near a graveyard of crashed starships, the demented surgeon Solon hides in his castle, the last acolyte of the Time Lord despot Morbius. He only needs one final item to make his master live again... and then the Doctor and Sarah arrive...

    Director:Christopher Barry
    Writers:Robert Holmes, Terrance Dicks

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  13. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 18 - The Brain of Morbius (2)
    8.2/10(689 votes)

    S13:E18

    The Doctor is captured by the Sisterhood, and Sarah Jane is blinded freeing him. The Doctor has no choice but to go back for a cure, unaware that he is leaving Sarah Jane in the hands of a treacherous Dr. Solon and the renegade Time Lord Morbius.

    Director:Christopher Barry
    Writers:Robert Holmes, Terrance Dicks

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  14. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 19 - The Brain of Morbius (3)
    8.2/10(686 votes)

    S13:E19

    While the Doctor goes to confront the Sisterhood to seek a cure for Sarah Jane's blindness, Solon realizes that he must transfer Morbius' brain into a new body before it is too late.

    Director:Christopher Barry
    Writers:Robert Holmes, Terrance Dicks

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  15. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 1 - Terror of the Zygons (1)
    8.1/10(830 votes)

    S13:E1

    Scotland, the near future. Something is smashing oil rigs off the Scottish coast, and UNIT have been called in to investigate. The Brigadier summons the Doctor to Earth to help in the investigation, but it soon becomes clear some kind of alien presence is at work...

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  16. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 2 - Terror of the Zygons (2)
    8.1/10(733 votes)

    S13:E2

    The Zygon traps the Doctor and Sarah Jane in a decompression chamber while Harry is taken to the aliens' underwater ship.

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  17. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 3 - Terror of the Zygons (3)
    8.0/10(726 votes)

    S13:E3

    The Doctor and the Brigadier begin to realise who the Zygon imposters among them are while Sarah Jane discovers a secret tunnel to the underwater ship.

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  18. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 4 - Terror of the Zygons (4)
    8.0/10(730 votes)

    S13:E4

    UNIT attempt to track down the Zygon ship while Broton prepares to have the Skarasen attack London.

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  19. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 13 - The Android Invasion (1)
    7.6/10(675 votes)

    S13:E13

    The Doctor and Sarah return to Earth in the present day to find a strangely deserted village and woods stalked by white-clad figures.

    Director:Barry Letts
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  20. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 5 - Planet of Evil (1)
    7.4/10(710 votes)

    S13:E5

    The Doctor and Sarah answer a distress call and find themselves on Zeta Minor, the last planet of the known universe, where a Morestran expedition has gone missing.

    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Louis Marks

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  21. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 14 - The Android Invasion (2)
    7.4/10(599 votes)

    S13:E14

    The Doctor suspects Crayford brought something to Earth in his rocket, as he and Sarah find themselves hunted by UNIT.

    Director:Barry Letts
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  22. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 6 - Planet of Evil (2)
    7.3/10(626 votes)

    S13:E6

    The Doctor realises that Zeta Minor lies on the boundary between the universes of matter and anti-matter and something on the planet won't let the Morestrans leave.

    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Louis Marks

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  23. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 7 - Planet of Evil (3)
    7.3/10(621 votes)

    S13:E7

    The Doctor makes a deal with the Anti-Matter Beast to return all the anti-matter to the planet but Sorenson is determined to continue his research.

    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Louis Marks

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  24. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 15 - The Android Invasion (3)
    7.3/10(596 votes)

    S13:E15

    The Doctor is captured by Styggron and left to die in the destruction of the fake village but Sarah escapes from the disorientation chamber to try and rescue him.

    Director:Barry Letts
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  25. Doctor Who Season 13 Episode 8 - Planet of Evil (4)
    7.2/10(615 votes)

    S13:E8

    The Doctor tries to convince Sorenson to sacrifice himself for the rest of the crew but Salamar's attempt to deal with the situation causes their problems to multiply.

    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Louis Marks

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Season 13 Ratings Summary

"Pyramids of Mars (4)" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 13. It scored 8.5/10 based on 920 votes. Directed by Paddy Russell and written by Robert Holmes, Lewis Greifer, it aired on 11/15/1975. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Seeds of Doom (1)".