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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!

The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 7

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. 8.4/10(748 votes)

    #1 - Inferno (3)

    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.

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  2. 8.4/10(746 votes)

    #2 - Inferno (6)

    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?

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  3. 8.3/10(742 votes)

    #3 - Inferno (7)

    S7:E25

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

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  4. 8.2/10(730 votes)

    #4 - Inferno (4)

    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…

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  5. 8.2/10(730 votes)

    #5 - Inferno (5)

    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...

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  6. 8.1/10(1.1k votes)

    #6 - Spearhead from Space (1)

    S7:E1

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

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  8. 8.1/10(932 votes)

    #7 - Spearhead from Space (4)

    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.

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  9. 8.0/10(950 votes)

    #8 - Spearhead from Space (2)

    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.

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  10. 8.0/10(918 votes)

    #9 - Spearhead from Space (3)

    S7:E3

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

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  11. 8.0/10(859 votes)

    #10 - Inferno (1)

    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…

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  12. 7.9/10(727 votes)

    #11 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (7)

    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.

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  13. 7.9/10(742 votes)

    #12 - Inferno (2)

    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!

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  14. 7.8/10(718 votes)

    #13 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (6)

    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.

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  15. 7.7/10(709 votes)

    #14 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (5)

    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.

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  16. 7.6/10(734 votes)

    #15 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (2)

    S7:E6

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

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  17. 7.6/10(727 votes)

    #16 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (3)

    S7:E7

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

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  18. 7.6/10(714 votes)

    #17 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (4)

    S7:E8

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

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  19. 7.5/10(823 votes)

    #18 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (1)

    S7:E5

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

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  20. 7.3/10(692 votes)

    #19 - The Ambassadors of Death (1)

    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.

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  21. 7.3/10(599 votes)

    #20 - The Ambassadors of Death (7)

    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.

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  22. 7.2/10(612 votes)

    #21 - The Ambassadors of Death (2)

    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.

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  23. 7.2/10(608 votes)

    #22 - The Ambassadors of Death (3)

    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.

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  24. 7.2/10(602 votes)

    #23 - The Ambassadors of Death (4)

    S7:E15

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

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  25. 7.2/10(592 votes)

    #24 - The Ambassadors of Death (6)

    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.

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  26. 7.1/10(598 votes)

    #25 - The Ambassadors of Death (5)

    S7:E16

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

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"Inferno (3)" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 7. It scored 8.4/10 based on 748 votes. Directed by Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts and written by Don Houghton, it aired on 5/23/1970. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Inferno (6)".