8.1/101,061 votes#1 - Spearhead from Space (1)
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1970
As the newly-regenerated Doctor arrives on Earth, so does the Nestene too.
Director: Derek Martinus
Writer: Robert Holmes
8.0/10900 votes#2 - Spearhead from Space (2)
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/1970
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
8.0/10870 votes#3 - Spearhead from Space (3)
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/1970
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
8.1/10882 votes#4 - Spearhead from Space (4)
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/1970
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
7.5/10780 votes#5 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (1)
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1970
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
7.6/10694 votes#6 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (2)
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1970
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
7.6/10687 votes#7 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (3)
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1970
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
7.6/10676 votes#8 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (4)
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/1970
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
7.7/10670 votes#9 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (5)
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1970
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
7.8/10679 votes#10 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (6)
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/1970
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
7.9/10687 votes#11 - Doctor Who and the Silurians (7)
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/1970
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
7.4/10653 votes#12 - The Ambassadors of Death (1)
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/1970
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
Writer: David Whitaker, Trevor Ray
7.3/10579 votes#13 - The Ambassadors of Death (2)
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 3/28/1970
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
Writer: David Whitaker, Malcolm Hulke
7.2/10576 votes#14 - The Ambassadors of Death (3)
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 4/4/1970
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
Writer: David Whitaker, Malcolm Hulke
7.2/10570 votes#15 - The Ambassadors of Death (4)
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 4/11/1970
Liz has been captured by Reegan's men and the Doctor begins to suspect Taltalian is more involved than he appeared.
Director: Michael Ferguson
Writer: David Whitaker, Malcolm Hulke
7.1/10567 votes#16 - The Ambassadors of Death (5)
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 4/18/1970
The Doctor decides to take Recovery 7 back into space to search for the missing astronauts but Reegan sabotages the launch.
Director: Michael Ferguson
Writer: David Whitaker, Malcolm Hulke
7.2/10561 votes#17 - The Ambassadors of Death (6)
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 4/25/1970
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
Writer: David Whitaker, Malcolm Hulke
7.3/10568 votes#18 - The Ambassadors of Death (7)
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 5/2/1970
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
Writer: David Whitaker, Malcolm Hulke
8.1/10817 votes#19 - Inferno (1)
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 5/9/1970
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…
Director: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
Writer: Don Houghton
8.0/10709 votes#20 - Inferno (2)
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 5/16/1970
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
8.4/10714 votes#21 - Inferno (3)
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 5/23/1970
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.
Director: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
Writer: Don Houghton
8.2/10698 votes#22 - Inferno (4)
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/30/1970
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…
Director: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
Writer: Don Houghton
8.2/10698 votes#23 - Inferno (5)
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 6/6/1970
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...
Director: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
Writer: Don Houghton
8.4/10714 votes#24 - Inferno (6)
Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 6/13/1970
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?
Director: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
Writer: Don Houghton
8.3/10710 votes#25 - Inferno (7)
Season 7 Episode 25 - Aired 6/20/1970
The Doctor has escaped the catastrophic destruction of a parallel world. But can he stop Stahlman before he destroys this one?
Director: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts
Writer: Don Houghton
The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 7
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Season 7 Ratings Summary
"Spearhead from Space (1)" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 7. It scored 8.1/10 based on 1061 votes. Directed by Derek Martinus and written by Robert Holmes, it aired on 1/3/1970. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Spearhead from Space (2)".