The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 22
Every episode of Doctor Who Season 22 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 22!
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 22 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Doctor Who" season 22 is "Attack of the Cybermen (1)", rated 7/10 from 590 user votes. It was directed by Matthew Robinson and written by Paula Woolsey. "Attack of the Cybermen (1)" aired on 1/5/1985 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Attack of the Cybermen (2)".
7.0/10 590 votes#1 - Attack of the Cybermen (1)
Season 22 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1985
London, 1985. The alien mercenary Lytton has been stranded here for nearly a year, but now he has a plan to escape. But how does it involve the Doctor's old enemies - and why are they on Earth at this point in history?
Director: Matthew Robinson
Writer: Paula Woolsey
6.8/10 532 votes#2 - Attack of the Cybermen (2)
Season 22 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/1985
On Telos, the Doctor is reintroduced to the Cyber Leader and meets the Cryons, the planet's original inhabitants who will go to any lengths to get their world back!
Director: Matthew Robinson
Writer: Paula Woolsey
7.5/10 629 votes#3 - Vengeance on Varos (1)
Season 22 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1985
The former prison planet Varos, the future. The downtrodden population of miners are kept happy by real-life violence and murder broadcast live from the Punishment Dome. But then the TARDIS materialises inside the Dome...
Director: Ron Jones
Writer: Philip Martin
7.5/10 566 votes#4 - Vengeance on Varos (2)
Season 22 Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1985
The Governor forces the Doctor to tell him the true value of zeiton-7 but Sil attempts to derail his plans by subjecting Peri and Areta to an enforced mutation.
Director: Ron Jones
Writer: Philip Martin
6.8/10 535 votes#5 - The Mark of the Rani (1)
Season 22 Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1985
England, the 1820s. As the Industrial Revolution gathers pace, the village of Killingworth is disturbed by crazed Luddite miners intent on smashing all machinery and engineers. But is there another cause of the situation?
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Jane Baker, Pip Baker
6.7/10 495 votes#6 - The Mark of the Rani (2)
Season 22 Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/1985
The Master uses The Rani's mind-controlling parasites to keep a meeting of Earth's leading scientists from being cancelled, and helps her plant transformation land mines for The Doctor, as he continues to propose an alliance with her in ruling over Earth.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: Jane Baker, Pip Baker
7.3/10 589 votes#7 - The Two Doctors (1)
Season 22 Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/1985
The alien space station J7, the mid-1980s Earth time. The Time Lords have sent the second Doctor and Jamie here to try to stop dangerous experiments into time travel. But the station comes under attack from the Sontarans and far away in space and time the sixth Doctor goes into psychic shock...
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Robert Holmes
7.3/10 520 votes#8 - The Two Doctors (2)
Season 22 Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/1985
The Doctor and Peri meet Jamie and learn the Second Doctor is with the Sontarans on Earth.
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Robert Holmes
7.2/10 521 votes#9 - The Two Doctors (3)
Season 22 Episode 9 - Aired 3/2/1985
The Sontarans prepare the Second Doctor to trigger their Kartz-Reimer capsule.
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Robert Holmes
5.6/10 516 votes#10 - Timelash (1)
Season 22 Episode 10 - Aired 3/9/1985
The planet Karfel, in the distant future. The tyrannical Borad rules with an iron fist, and any who oppose him are cast into the Timelash - a space-time tunnel leading to the past of an alien world called Earth...
Director: Pennant Roberts
Writer: Glen McCoy
5.5/10 475 votes#11 - Timelash (2)
Season 22 Episode 11 - Aired 3/16/1985
The Borad accepts no opposition and enables Maylin Tekker to expose the rebels and trap Peri with the Morlox. The Doctor tries to avert a war between Karfel and the Bandrils.
Director: Pennant Roberts
Writer: Glen McCoy
7.4/10 595 votes#12 - Revelation of the Daleks (1)
Season 22 Episode 12 - Aired 3/23/1985
The planet Necros, the future. The Doctor arrives for the cryogenic interment of an old friend at Tranquil Repose, a vast repository of bodies in suspended animation. But what does the 'Great Healer' really have in mind for them...?
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Eric Saward
7.7/10 543 votes#13 - Revelation of the Daleks (2)
Season 22 Episode 13 - Aired 3/30/1985
Davros plans to create an army of Daleks loyal only to him but on Skaro, the Daleks have other plans and head to Necros. Caught in the middle of this, the Doctor must save Peri...
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Eric Saward