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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 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....
  1. 7.2/10(5 votes)

    #1 - Horror of Fang Rock (1)

    S15:E1

    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?

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  2. 7.2/10(5 votes)

    #2 - The Invasion of Time (1)

    S15:E21

    Gallifrey, world of the Time Lords. The Doctor returns and claims the vacant presidency. But his behaviour is erratic and his motives mysterious.

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  3. 7.2/10(4 votes)

    #3 - The Invasion of Time (2)

    S15:E22

    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.

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  4. 7.2/10(4 votes)

    #4 - The Invasion of Time (5)

    S15:E25

    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…

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  5. 7.0/10(5 votes)

    #5 - Horror of Fang Rock (3)

    S15:E3

    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…

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  6. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #6 - Horror of Fang Rock (4)

    S15:E4

    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.

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  8. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #7 - The Invisible Enemy (3)

    S15:E7

    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.

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  9. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #8 - The Invasion of Time (6)

    S15:E26

    The Sontarans finally invade the TARDIS itself, seeking the Great Key. The Doctor, however, has other uses for this powerful object…

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  10. 6.8/10(4 votes)

    #9 - Horror of Fang Rock (2)

    S15:E2

    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?

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  11. 6.8/10(4 votes)

    #10 - The Invisible Enemy (4)

    S15:E8

    The Nucleus, now grown to human size, is determined to spawn and take over the Galaxy. Only the Doctor and Leela can stop it.

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  12. 6.7/10(3 votes)

    #11 - The Sun Makers (3)

    S15:E15

    Now Leela is the prisoner of the Collector. He knows of the Doctor and is determined to rid himself of both of them.

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  13. 6.5/10(4 votes)

    #12 - The Sun Makers (1)

    S15:E13

    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...

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  14. 6.5/10(4 votes)

    #13 - The Invasion of Time (3)

    S15:E23

    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.

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  15. 6.5/10(4 votes)

    #14 - The Invasion of Time (4)

    S15:E24

    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?

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  16. 6.4/10(5 votes)

    #15 - The Invisible Enemy (1)

    S15:E5

    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?

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  17. 6.4/10(5 votes)

    #16 - The Invisible Enemy (2)

    S15:E6

    Leela and Lowe take the Doctor to the Bi-Al Foundation for help. But how can they cure an infection of the mind?

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  18. 6.0/10(4 votes)

    #17 - Image of the Fendahl (1)

    S15:E9

    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?

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  19. 6.0/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Image of the Fendahl (3)

    S15:E11

    While Max prepares to tap supernatural forces beyond imagining, the Doctor and Leela investigate the legend of the Fendahl.

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  20. 6.0/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Image of the Fendahl (4)

    S15:E12

    The Fendahl is returning to life, ready to consume everything in its path. Can the Doctor find a way to kill death itself?

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  21. 6.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - The Sun Makers (2)

    S15:E14

    The Doctor has been captured by the Gatherer. Leela works to free him but the Gatherer is already laying his own plans…

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  22. 6.0/10(3 votes)

    #21 - The Sun Makers (4)

    S15:E16

    The Doctor now moves to completely overthrow the Company. But the Collector has one last trump card to play.

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  23. 6.0/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Underworld (2)

    S15:E18

    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?

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  24. 6.0/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Underworld (3)

    S15:E19

    The Minyans have, at long last, found the P7E. But a host of guards and robotic seers stand between them and the race banks.

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  25. 6.0/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Underworld (4)

    S15:E20

    The Minyons struggle to gain the precious race banks from the Oracle. But perhaps it is giving in a little too easily ...

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  26. 5.5/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Underworld (1)

    S15:E17

    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…

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Season 15 Ratings Summary

"Horror of Fang Rock (1)" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 15. It scored 7.2/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by Paddy Russell and written by Terrance Dicks, it aired on 9/3/1977. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Invasion of Time (1)".