7.2/10635 votes#1 - Battlefield (1)
Season 26 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1989
As UNIT are transporting a nuclear warhead around Carbury, knights in armour arrive to continue waging a war that began thousands of years ago, but in a wholly different dimension.
Director: Michael Kerrigan
Writer: Ben Aaronovitch
7.2/10552 votes#2 - Battlefield (2)
Season 26 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1989
The Doctor and Ace discover a stone spaceship underneath Warmsley's archaeological dig while Mordred summons Morgaine to Earth's dimension.
Director: Michael Kerrigan
Writer: Ben Aaronovitch
7.2/10540 votes#3 - Battlefield (3)
Season 26 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1989
The Brigadier rescues the Doctor from the stone spaceship before they set out to locate Morgaine before she gains Excalibur.
Director: Michael Kerrigan
Writer: Ben Aaronovitch
7.3/10552 votes#4 - Battlefield (4)
Season 26 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1989
Morgaine forces Ace and Shou Yuing to hand over Excalibur by threatening to release the Destroyer, so the Doctor and the Brigadier enter a dimensional portal to stop her.
Director: Michael Kerrigan
Writer: Ben Aaronovitch
7.3/10618 votes#5 - Ghost Light (1)
Season 26 Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1989
The Doctor and Ace explore Victorian house Gabriel Chase and realise it hides just as many dark secrets in its drawing room as it does in its dark cellar.
Director: Alan Wareing
Writer: Marc Platt
7.1/10546 votes#6 - Ghost Light (2)
Season 26 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1989
The Doctor manages to rescue Ace from the husks and then tries to uncover the truth about the goings on in Josiah's house.
Director: Alan Wareing
Writer: Marc Platt
7.1/10553 votes#7 - Ghost Light (3)
Season 26 Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/1989
Only Redvers, still searching for the elusive Saxe-Coburg, seems able to withstand Light and communicate with Control. Ace realises her past actions need to be dealt with.
Director: Alan Wareing
Writer: Marc Platt
8.0/10707 votes#8 - The Curse of Fenric (1)
Season 26 Episode 8 - Aired 10/25/1989
England, the 1940s. The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Ace to a secret naval base during WWII. There, the time-travellers battle vampiric Haemovores and an ancient Viking curse!
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Ian Briggs
8.0/10622 votes#9 - The Curse of Fenric (2)
Season 26 Episode 9 - Aired 11/1/1989
The Doctor and Ace manage to convince Sorin to release them while Millington and Judson attempt to translate the Viking runes.
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Ian Briggs
8.1/10631 votes#10 - The Curse of Fenric (3)
Season 26 Episode 10 - Aired 11/8/1989
The Doctor and his friends come under attack from the Haemavores, allowing Millington to retrieve the flask containing Fenric's essence.
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Ian Briggs
8.1/10641 votes#11 - The Curse of Fenric (4)
Season 26 Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/1989
Fenric is loose and planning to use the Ancient Haemovore to poison the Earth with chemicals, unless the Doctor can defeat him in their centuries old game.
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Ian Briggs
7.3/10611 votes#12 - Survival (1)
Season 26 Episode 12 - Aired 11/22/1989
Perivale, England, the late 1980s. People are vanishing into thin air under the baleful stare of a very strange cat. The Doctor and Ace learn that, in the battle for survival, success can carry a terrible price...
Director: Alan Wareing
Writer: Rona Munro
7.2/10545 votes#13 - Survival (2)
Season 26 Episode 13 - Aired 11/29/1989
The Doctor and Paterson manage to escape from the Master and join up with Ace and her friends, where the Doctor tries to find a way to get them all off the planet before it explodes.
Director: Alan Wareing
Writer: Rona Munro
7.4/10590 votes#14 - Survival (3)
Season 26 Episode 14 - Aired 12/6/1989
Ace manages to transport the Doctor and the others back to Perivale but the Master is also there, preparing for a final showdown with the Doctor.
Director: Alan Wareing
Writer: Rona Munro
The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 26
Every episode of Doctor Who Season 26 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 26!
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....
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Season 26 Ratings Summary
"Battlefield (1)" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 26. It scored 7.2/10 based on 635 votes. Directed by Michael Kerrigan and written by Ben Aaronovitch, it aired on 9/6/1989. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Battlefield (2)".