The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 3

With the Daleks poised to invade the solar system, the Doctor decides his only option is to activate the Time Destructor prematurely, threatening the entire planet.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Dennis Spooner

With Katarina being held hostage, the Doctor, Steven and Bret are in danger of having to given in to Kirksen's demands, while, on Earth, Chen has them listed as traitors.

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The Doctor runs afoul of the Daleks and Special Security Agent Bret Vyon on the planet Kembel.

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The Doctor infiltrates the Daleks' conference to try and discover their plans, leaving Steven, Katarina and Bret to find a way off the planet.

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The Doctor, Steven and Sara escape Mira in a Dalek pursuit ship but when they find the ship is returning to Kembel, they are forced to come up with a new plan to avoid the Daleks.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Dennis Spooner

The Doctor, Steven and Sara reach Kembel where they find the Daleks have betrayed their allies and imprisoned them.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Dennis Spooner

The Doctor and his friends escape Kembel in the Spar ship but the Daleks force them down on the planet Desperus, where they are threatened by a group of convicts.

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The Doctor, Steven and Sara are accidentally transported to the planet Mira where Chen sends the Daleks after them.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Terry Nation

The Doctor, Steven and Sara travel to Ancient Egypt, pursued by both the Daleks and the Meddling Monk.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Dennis Spooner

Steven, Sara and the Monk are captured by the Daleks in order to force the Doctor to hand over the Taranium Core.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Dennis Spooner

Steven rejoins the Doctor and they leave Paris just ahead of the massacre, leaving Anne behind.

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The Daleks realise the Doctor has given them a fake Taranium Core while, on the planet Tigus, the Doctor encounters the Meddling Monk.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Dennis Spooner

The Doctor and Dodo return to London in the present day where the Doctor becomes concerned about WOTAN, a new super-computer installed in the Post Officer Tower.

Director: Michael Ferguson

Writer: Ian Stuart Black

The Doctor waits inside the Trojan Horse for a chance to reach his companions but Steven's assumed identity as a Greek soldier and Vicki's growing feelings for Troilus endanger their escape.

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Dodo is under the control of WOTAN and attempts to lure the Doctor into a trap, while the rest of WOTAN's slaves begin construction on its robotic War Machines.

Director: Michael Ferguson

Writer: Ian Stuart Black

Ben tries to escape from the warehouse but is captured by Polly, who is now also under WOTAN's control, and forced to work on construction the War Machine.

Director: Michael Ferguson

Writer: Ian Stuart Black

The first War Machine is defeated but the Doctor only has a matter of hours to destroy WOTAN before the rest of its army is activated.

Director: Michael Ferguson

Writer: Ian Stuart Black

The TARDIS lands in sixteenth century Paris and Steven becomes involved with a group of Huguenots.

Director: Paddy Russell

Writer: John Lucarotti

With the Ark infected with a cold virus, the Doctor must convince the Guardians to trust him so he can find a cure.

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Whilst The Doctor, Steven and Vicki are traveling to their next destination. On the planet Kembel, Marc Cory, a Space Security Service agent discovers The Daleks are attending a secret meeting with their allies. Where Cory discovers the Dalek's evil plan, which sets the stage for the epic 12-part adventure "The Dalek Master Plan".

Director: Derek Martinus

Writer: Terry Nation

With Steven and Vicki being held prisoner by the Trojans, the Doctor's only hope of seeing them again is to suggest the idea of the Trojan Horse.

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Writer: Paul Cornell, Donald Cotton

Steven has discovered the identity of the Sea Beggar, but can he warn the Huguenots in time?

Director: Paddy Russell

Writer: John Lucarotti

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrive on a giant spaceship millions of years in the future, transporting the last humans away from the doomed Earth.

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The Doctor, Steven and Dodo have travelled 700 years into the future and find that the Ark is now under the control of the Monoids as it approaches Refusis.

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The TARDIS lands in the middle of the Trojan War, where the Doctor is mistaken for the god Zeus.

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Writer: Donald Cotton, Stephen Greenhorn