The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 15
Every episode of Doctor Who Season 15 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 15!
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Season 15 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Doctor Who" season 15 is "Horror of Fang Rock (1)", rated 8.1/10 from 707 user votes. It was directed by Paddy Russell and written by Terrance Dicks. "Horror of Fang Rock (1)" aired on 9/3/1977 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Horror of Fang Rock (2)".
8.1/10 707 votes#1 - Horror of Fang Rock (1)
Season 15 Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/1977
The English channel, the 1900s AD. The TARDIS lands on barren Fang Rock, inhabited until now only by three lighthouse keepers. But what is the strange fog covering the island, and can it be connected to the falling star sighted earlier that night?
Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
8.0/10 610 votes#2 - Horror of Fang Rock (2)
Season 15 Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/1977
The survivors of a wrecked ship are stranded with the lighhouse crew on Fang Rock as a deadly menace slithers through the fog. Has the Beast of Fang Rock returned?
Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
8.0/10 611 votes#3 - Horror of Fang Rock (3)
Season 15 Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1977
The Doctor barricades everyone in the lighthouse to protect them from the mysterious deadly creature in the fog. But it may already be inside, biding its time…
Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
8.1/10 619 votes#4 - Horror of Fang Rock (4)
Season 15 Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/1977
The Rutan starts picking off the surviving humans one by one as the Doctor and Leela struggle to defeat not only the alien but an entire fleet waiting to occupy Earth.
Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
7.1/10 520 votes#5 - The Invisible Enemy (1)
Season 15 Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/1977
Deep space, 5000AD. An Earth supply shuttle is infected by a strange sentient space-borne virus, which quickly spreads to the crew of the refuelling station on the moon Titan. Even worse, the Doctor himself falls victim. But why is Leela immune, and what is the virus's ultimate goal?
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: Dave Martin, Bob Baker
7.0/10 466 votes#6 - The Invisible Enemy (2)
Season 15 Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/1977
Leela and Lowe take the Doctor to the Bi-Al Foundation for help. But how can they cure an infection of the mind?
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: Dave Martin, Bob Baker
6.8/10 463 votes#7 - The Invisible Enemy (3)
Season 15 Episode 7 - Aired 10/15/1977
Miniaturised clones of the Doctor and Leela are injected into his brain. But they must now fight the virus on its own level. And its servants are closing in around them.
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: Dave Martin, Bob Baker
6.7/10 468 votes#8 - The Invisible Enemy (4)
Season 15 Episode 8 - Aired 10/22/1977
The Nucleus, now grown to human size, is determined to spawn and take over the Galaxy. Only the Doctor and Leela can stop it.
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: Dave Martin, Bob Baker
7.4/10 523 votes#9 - Image of the Fendahl (1)
Season 15 Episode 9 - Aired 10/29/1977
England, the late 1970s. At Fetch Priory, Dr Fendelman's experiments with the new Time Scanner are disrupted by the mysterious death of a hiker, nearby. Then there's the mysterious skull, also being used as part of his work. A skull that seems to predate the evolution of mankind. What is the true role of the Fendahl in humanity's evolution?
Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Chris Boucher
7.3/10 466 votes#10 - Image of the Fendahl (2)
Season 15 Episode 10 - Aired 11/5/1977
The mystery surrounding the strange skull deepens. Thea is slowly succumbing to its influence while the Doctor prepares to battle a creature from mythology.
Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Chris Boucher
7.4/10 460 votes#11 - Image of the Fendahl (3)
Season 15 Episode 11 - Aired 11/12/1977
While Max prepares to tap supernatural forces beyond imagining, the Doctor and Leela investigate the legend of the Fendahl.
Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Chris Boucher
7.3/10 476 votes#12 - Image of the Fendahl (4)
Season 15 Episode 12 - Aired 11/19/1977
The Fendahl is returning to life, ready to consume everything in its path. Can the Doctor find a way to kill death itself?
Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Chris Boucher
7.6/10 535 votes#13 - The Sun Makers (1)
Season 15 Episode 13 - Aired 11/26/1977
Pluto, the distant future. The planet has been terraformed and is now orbited by artificial suns, provided by the rapacious company who ruthlessly exploit the relocated human workforce. The Doctor, Leela, and K9 arrive and befriend a luckless drone worker, but they must flee with him to the dark undercity...
Director: Pennant Roberts
Writer: Robert Holmes
7.5/10 468 votes#14 - The Sun Makers (2)
Season 15 Episode 14 - Aired 12/3/1977
The Doctor has been captured by the Gatherer. Leela works to free him but the Gatherer is already laying his own plans…
Director: Pennant Roberts
Writer: Robert Holmes
7.5/10 458 votes#15 - The Sun Makers (3)
Season 15 Episode 15 - Aired 12/10/1977
Now Leela is the prisoner of the Collector. He knows of the Doctor and is determined to rid himself of both of them.
Director: Pennant Roberts
Writer: Robert Holmes
7.6/10 477 votes#16 - The Sun Makers (4)
Season 15 Episode 16 - Aired 12/17/1977
The Doctor now moves to completely overthrow the Company. But the Collector has one last trump card to play.
Director: Pennant Roberts
Writer: Robert Holmes
6.5/10 475 votes#17 - Underworld (1)
Season 15 Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1978
Deep space, an unknown time. The Doctor encounters the Minyans, survivors of a race the Time Lords unwittingly obliterated early in their own history. The Minyans are searching for their race's lost gene banks, a quest which takes them to the edge of the galaxy…
Director: Norman Stewart
Writer: Dave Martin, Bob Baker
5.8/10 432 votes#18 - Underworld (2)
Season 15 Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/1978
After 100,000 years, the Minyans have found the long-lost P7E. But what awaits them on the ship, long buried in the core of a newborn planet?
Director: Norman Stewart
Writer: Dave Martin, Bob Baker
5.8/10 430 votes#19 - Underworld (3)
Season 15 Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1978
The Minyans have, at long last, found the P7E. But a host of guards and robotic seers stand between them and the race banks.
Director: Norman Stewart
Writer: Dave Martin, Bob Baker
5.9/10 433 votes#20 - Underworld (4)
Season 15 Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1978
The Minyons struggle to gain the precious race banks from the Oracle. But perhaps it is giving in a little too easily ...
Director: Norman Stewart
Writer: Dave Martin, Bob Baker
7.5/10 538 votes#21 - The Invasion of Time (1)
Season 15 Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1978
Gallifrey, world of the Time Lords. The Doctor returns and claims the vacant presidency. But his behaviour is erratic and his motives mysterious.
Director: Gerald Blake
Writer: Anthony Read, Graham Williams
7.4/10 479 votes#22 - The Invasion of Time (2)
Season 15 Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1978
The Doctor is made president of the Time Lords. He immediately orders K-9 to lower the planet's defences and has Leela banished to the wilderness.
Director: Gerald Blake
Writer: Anthony Read, Graham Williams
7.3/10 476 votes#23 - The Invasion of Time (3)
Season 15 Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1978
The Doctor has betrayed his own people and enabled a Vardan invasion of Gallifrey. Leela joins forces with the Outsiders and prepares to strike back against the aliens.
Director: Gerald Blake
Writer: Anthony Read, Graham Williams
7.2/10 474 votes#24 - The Invasion of Time (4)
Season 15 Episode 24 - Aired 2/25/1978
The Doctor works to free his planet of the Vardan menace. How can he defeat an enemy who can read his very thoughts? And does their invasion conceal a greater menace?
Director: Gerald Blake
Writer: Anthony Read, Graham Williams
7.2/10 470 votes#25 - The Invasion of Time (5)
Season 15 Episode 25 - Aired 3/4/1978
The Sontarans have invaded Gallifrey, seeking to seize the incredible power of the Time Lords. The Doctor's first step is to cut them off from their fleet. But Kelner is helping the enemy…
Director: Gerald Blake
Writer: Anthony Read, Graham Williams