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The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 7

Every episode of Doctor Who Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 7!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 24 - Inferno (6)
    8.5/10(793 votes)

    S7:E24

    The Doctor is trapped in a parallel world that is going up in flames. Can he escape in time to save Earth in his own universe?

    Directors:Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
    Writer:Don Houghton

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  2. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 21 - Inferno (3)
    8.4/10(790 votes)

    S7:E21

    The Doctor has vanished from the Inferno project… or has he? He finds himself in the same place, but everyone has changed… and the drilling is closer to its deadly conclusion.

    Directors:Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
    Writer:Don Houghton

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  3. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 25 - Inferno (7)
    8.4/10(788 votes)

    S7:E25

    The Doctor has escaped the catastrophic destruction of a parallel world. But can he stop Stahlman before he destroys this one?

    Directors:Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
    Writer:Don Houghton

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  4. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 22 - Inferno (4)
    8.3/10(772 votes)

    S7:E22

    In a parallel England, the Doctor tries desperately to convince his captors of the immense peril they are in. But they are convinced he is a spy. And penetration zero is getting close…

    Directors:Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
    Writer:Don Houghton

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  5. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 4 - Spearhead from Space (4)
    8.2/10(997 votes)

    S7:E4

    With UNIT's investigation being blocked by the Replica of Scobie, the Doctor and Liz visit Madame Tussaud's to try and find out more as Channing prepares to activate the Autons.

    Director:Derek Martinus
    Writer:Robert Holmes

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  6. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 23 - Inferno (5)
    8.2/10(774 votes)

    S7:E23

    The parallel Inferno has broken through the Earth's crust, unleashing terrible seismic forces and dooming the planet. The Doctor hopes to return and save his world. But the bestial primords are closing in...

    Directors:Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
    Writer:Don Houghton

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  7. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 1 - Spearhead from Space (1)
    8.1/10(1204 votes)

    S7:E1

    As the newly-regenerated Doctor arrives on Earth, so does the Nestene too.

    Director:Derek Martinus
    Writer:Robert Holmes

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  8. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 19 - Inferno (1)
    8.1/10(907 votes)

    S7:E19

    England, the near future. UNIT is providing security and scientific support for the Stahlman project, an attempt to tap the Earth's core for energy. But things are already going wrong…

    Directors:Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
    Writer:Don Houghton

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  9. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 2 - Spearhead from Space (2)
    8.0/10(1019 votes)

    S7:E2

    UNIT's attempts to locate the meteorites are hampered by the mysterious plastic Autons, being constructed by Channing at a nearby factory, while the Doctor makes another attempt to escape from the hospital.

    Director:Derek Martinus
    Writer:Robert Holmes

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  10. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 3 - Spearhead from Space (3)
    8.0/10(984 votes)

    S7:E3

    Ransome manages to escape from the plastics factory and alert UNIT, prompting the Doctor and the Brigadier to start an investigation.

    Director:Derek Martinus
    Writer:Robert Holmes

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  11. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 11 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (7)
    8.0/10(770 votes)

    S7:E11

    While Liz distributes the cure to the virus, the Doctor discovers the Silurians now plan to wipe out humanity by destroying the Van Allen Belt.

    Director:Timothy Combe
    Writer:Malcolm Hulke

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  12. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 20 - Inferno (2)
    8.0/10(785 votes)

    S7:E20

    Strange deaths, men changing into monsters, hot green slime pouring out of the waste pipes – but Professor Stahlman is determined to press ahead with the Inferno project no matter what the cost!

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Don Houghton

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  13. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 10 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (6)
    7.8/10(757 votes)

    S7:E10

    While the Doctor and Liz try to find a cure to the virus spread by Baker, the Young Silurian kills the Old Silurian and takes control of his people.

    Director:Timothy Combe
    Writer:Malcolm Hulke

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  14. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 8 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (4)
    7.7/10(755 votes)

    S7:E8

    With Quinn dead, the Brigadier decides to take an armed party into the caves, prompting the Doctor to contact the Silurians himself.

    Director:Timothy Combe
    Writer:Malcolm Hulke

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  15. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 9 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (5)
    7.7/10(751 votes)

    S7:E9

    Worried about the Old Silurian's growing friendship with the Doctor, the Young Silurian has the scientist infect Baker with a virus and then release him.

    Director:Timothy Combe
    Writer:Malcolm Hulke

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  16. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 5 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (1)
    7.6/10(876 votes)

    S7:E5

    The Doctor and Liz are summoned to the Wenley Moor Research Centre by the Brigadier, after several staff members suffer nervous breakdowns.

    Director:Timothy Combe
    Writer:Malcolm Hulke

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  17. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 6 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (2)
    7.6/10(779 votes)

    S7:E6

    The Doctor attempts to convince people there are monsters in the caves, prompting Major Baker to start shooting at a reptile man.

    Director:Timothy Combe
    Writer:Malcolm Hulke

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  18. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 7 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (3)
    7.6/10(771 votes)

    S7:E7

    The Silurians contact Quinn for help in retrieving the creature while the Doctor and the Brigadier organise a search of the moors.

    Director:Timothy Combe
    Writer:Malcolm Hulke

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  19. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 12 - The Ambassadors of Death (1)
    7.4/10(733 votes)

    S7:E12

    While the Brigadier investigates a loss of contact with Mars Probe 7, the Doctor realises signals coming from the probe are of extra-terrestrial origin.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writers:David Whitaker, Trevor Ray

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  20. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 13 - The Ambassadors of Death (2)
    7.3/10(646 votes)

    S7:E13

    UNIT retrieve the returned Recovery 7 but then Carrington hijacks it while the Doctor and Liz try to decode the signal he sent.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writers:Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker

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  21. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 14 - The Ambassadors of Death (3)
    7.3/10(642 votes)

    S7:E14

    Carrington is holding the astronauts at a secret location but when he takes the Doctor, Liz and the Brigadier there they find they have been kidnapped.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writers:Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker

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  22. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 15 - The Ambassadors of Death (4)
    7.3/10(635 votes)

    S7:E15

    Liz has been captured by Reegan's men and the Doctor begins to suspect Taltalian is more involved than he appeared.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writers:Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker

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  23. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 17 - The Ambassadors of Death (6)
    7.3/10(627 votes)

    S7:E17

    The Doctor speaks with the alien captain and learns the astronauts sent to Earth were ambassadors. However, before he can alert the authorities he is kidnapped by Reegan.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writers:Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker

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  24. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 18 - The Ambassadors of Death (7)
    7.3/10(632 votes)

    S7:E18

    Carrington is planning to expose the aliens on live television and call for an interplanetary war and the Brigadier must rescue the Doctor and Liz in time to stop him.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writers:Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker

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  25. Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 16 - The Ambassadors of Death (5)
    7.2/10(632 votes)

    S7:E16

    The Doctor decides to take Recovery 7 back into space to search for the missing astronauts but Reegan sabotages the launch.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writers:Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"Inferno (6)" is the best rated episode of Doctor Who season 7. It scored 8.5/10 from 793 votes. Directed by Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts and written by Don Houghton, it aired on June 13, 1970. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Inferno (3)".