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The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 6

Every episode of Doctor Who Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 6!

The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 6

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. 9.1/10(770 votes)

    #1 - The War Games (10)

    S6:E44

    The TARDIS is drawn to the planet of the Time Lords where both the Doctor and the War Lord are placed on trial.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.7/10(640 votes)

    #2 - The War Games (9)

    S6:E43

    To prove his loyalty to the Aliens, the Doctor is ordered to reprocess his friends while the Security Chief finally uncovers evidence of the War Chief's treachery.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:N/A
  3. 8.4/10(727 votes)

    #3 - The War Games (1)

    S6:E35

    The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe realise they have arrived in the trenches of the First World War, where the sinister General Smythe accuses them of espionage.

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  4. 8.3/10(630 votes)

    #4 - The War Games (2)

    S6:E36

    The Doctor and Zoe manage to escape from Ransom and attempt to rescue Jamie from the military prison.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.3/10(629 votes)

    #5 - The War Games (3)

    S6:E37

    The Doctor and his friends realise the area is divided into different time zones and decide to return to the château to obtain a map from Smythe.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.3/10(611 votes)

    #6 - The War Games (8)

    S6:E42

    The Doctor and the processing machine have been taken by the Aliens but the resistance are making plans to attack the control centre.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.2/10(615 votes)

    #7 - The War Games (5)

    S6:E39

    The Doctor attempts to rescue Zoe and Carstairs while Jamie and Lady Jennifer try to convince the resistance of the true nature of Von Weich and the others.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:N/A
  9. 8.1/10(578 votes)

    #8 - The Invasion (8)

    S6:E18

    The Cybermen have launched their deadly megatron bomb which will destroy all life on Earth unless the Doctor can deactivate the homing signal.

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  10. 8.1/10(616 votes)

    #9 - The War Games (4)

    S6:E38

    The Doctor and Zoe are transported to the control centre of the war games while Jamie and Lady Jennifer fall foul of American Revolution soldiers.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:N/A
  11. 8.1/10(606 votes)

    #10 - The War Games (7)

    S6:E41

    The Doctor, Jamie and Carstairs manage to return to the 1917 zone only to be captured by Smythe, who orders the Doctor executed.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:N/A
  12. 8.0/10(565 votes)

    #11 - The Invasion (6)

    S6:E16

    Captain Turner manages to rescue Jamie and the others, while the Doctor begins working on a way to protect everyone from the Cybermen's hypno-sound signal.

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  13. 8.0/10(562 votes)

    #12 - The Invasion (7)

    S6:E17

    With the entire world unconscious apart from the Doctor and his friends, the Cybermen are poised to invade and only Zoe, the Brigadier and a missile crew can stop them.

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  14. 8.0/10(604 votes)

    #13 - The War Games (6)

    S6:E40

    The scientist examines the captured resistance fighters and realises Jamie is a new arrival on the planet while the Doctor, Zoe and Carstairs try to rescue their friends.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:N/A
  15. 7.9/10(784 votes)

    #14 - The Mind Robber (1)

    S6:E6

    The TARDIS arrives in a white void, having made an emergency take-off to escape the volcanic eruption on Dulkis. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in the Land of Fiction, where characters from the imagination come to life, and The Master, the mysterious ruler, chooses the Doctor to take his place.

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  16. 7.9/10(581 votes)

    #15 - The Invasion (2)

    S6:E12

    The Doctor and Jamie are taken prisoner by their mysterious observers and have a reunion with an old friend while Zoe and Isobel carry out their own investigation of IE.

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  17. 7.9/10(569 votes)

    #16 - The Invasion (5)

    S6:E15

    The Doctor and Jamie tell the Brigadier about the Cybermen but with Rutledge under Vaughn's control he is powerless to act.

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  18. 7.8/10(699 votes)

    #17 - The Mind Robber (2)

    S6:E7

    With the TARDIS destroyed, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in a strange forest patrolled by mysterious soldiers.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Peter Ling
  19. 7.8/10(699 votes)

    #18 - The Mind Robber (5)

    S6:E10

    With Jamie and Zoe having been turned into fiction, the Doctor must find a way to save them without suffering the same fate or becoming part of the Master Brain.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Peter Ling
  20. 7.8/10(617 votes)

    #19 - The Invasion (1)

    S6:E11

    The Doctor and the newly formed UNIT must stop a Cybermen Invasion and a Sinister Industrialist in league with them

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  21. 7.8/10(556 votes)

    #20 - The Invasion (4)

    S6:E14

    The Doctor and Jamie enlist the help of UNIT to rescue Zoe and Isobel before trying to find out what Vaughn is really up to.

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  22. 7.7/10(679 votes)

    #21 - The Mind Robber (3)

    S6:E8

    The Doctor realises that the travellers are trapped in a world where fiction is real and where creatures are a threat if people believe in them.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Peter Ling
  23. 7.7/10(572 votes)

    #22 - The Invasion (3)

    S6:E13

    The Doctor and Jamie return to the IE factory in search of Zoe and Isobel, where they meet with Professor Watkins and fall foul of Vaughn.

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  24. 7.6/10(674 votes)

    #23 - The Mind Robber (4)

    S6:E9

    The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe reach the citadel at the centre of the land, where they finally encounter the Master of the Land of Fiction.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Peter Ling
  25. 7.2/10(610 votes)

    #24 - The Seeds of Death (1)

    S6:E23

    21st century Earth is entirely dependent on the T-Mat transport system but the control centre on the moon has stopped functioning. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe meet the one man who can solve the crisis.

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  26. 7.2/10(542 votes)

    #25 - The Seeds of Death (6)

    S6:E28

    The Doctor manages to create a rain storm to destroy the Martian fungus before trying to find a way to stop the Ice Warriors' invasion fleet.

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"The War Games (10)" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 6. It scored 9.1/10 based on 770 votes. Directed by David Maloney and written by N/A, it aired on 6/21/1969. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The War Games (9)".