The Best Episodes Written By Chris Chibnall

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.6/10(14 votes)

   #1 - Exit Wounds

   S2:E134/4/2008

   Captain John Hart returns to wreak havoc upon Jack's world, who ends up getting captured. It is up to the Torchwood team to rescue him and save the city.

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   8.1/10(14 votes)

   #2 - Adrift

   S2:E113/19/2008

   Gwen finds the darker side of Torchwood when a teenager disappears, investigating why hundreds of people have vanished without a trace. Jack is obstructing attempts to find them, and the answer appears to lie in the Rift.

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3. 

   8.1/10(44 votes)

   #3 - Episode 1

   S1:E13/4/2013

   Out-of-town DI Alec Hardy investigates the death of an 11-year-old boy in a seaside community, aided by local girl DS Ellie Miller,The child's parent and other residents of Broadchurch try to cope with the media frenzy surrounding the case.

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   8.0/10(11 votes)

   #4 - Fragments

   S2:E123/21/2008

   As the team are knocked unconscious we find out how Jack, Toshiko, Ianto and Owen were initiated into Torchwood.

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   7.8/10(42 votes)

   #5 - The Power of the Doctor

   S0:E21010/23/2022

   Who is attacking a speeding bullet train on the edges of a distant galaxy? Why are seismologists going missing from 21st century Earth? Who is defacing some of history’s most iconic paintings? Why is a Dalek trying to make contact with the Doctor? And just what hold does the mesmeric Rasputin have over Tsar Nicholas in 1916 Russia? In her last adventure, The Thirteenth Doctor must fight for her very existence, against her deadliest enemies: the Daleks, the Cybermen and her arch-nemesis, the Master.

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   7.8/10(5 votes)

   #6 - Episode 2

   S2:E22/20/2007

   After collecting a career safe breaker from prison for further questioning, Tyler, Ray, and Chris are attacked by armed men enabling the escape of the prisoner. Is a local gangster to blame, or was the crime actually arranged by Gene's old mentor? Meanwhile, Sam tries to discourage the first black detective in the department from doing an Uncle Tom act, as he will become Sam's mentor when he first joins the force.

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   7.7/10(6 votes)

   #7 - Episode 7

   S1:E72/20/2006

   Sam demands a transparent investigation into the death-in-custody of small-time drug dealer Billy Kemble. He believes that if the police don't police themselves, the public will never trust them. When the explosive evidence of what happened to Billy falls into his hands, Sam has a huge decision to make. This evidence could tear the team apart. It's an opportunity to destroy his world and the people in it, but also perhaps an opportunity to get home.

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   7.3/10(77 votes)

   #8 - Cold Blood (2)

   S5:E95/29/2010

   It is the most important day in the history of Earth: the dawn of a new age of harmony… or the start of its final war. The Doctor must face his most difficult challenge yet and he tries desperately to ensure Alaya's prediction of a massacre does not come true. Meanwhile, what fate will befall the captured Amy and can Tony and his friends be trusted?

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   7.2/10(74 votes)

   #9 - The Hungry Earth (1)

   S5:E85/22/2010

   In 2020, the most ambitious drilling project in history is under way. Dr Nasreen Chaudry and her team have reached 21 kilometers into the Earth's crust - but something is stirring far below. Amy Pond discovers there's nowhere to run when you can't even trust the ground at your feet.

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10. 

    7.1/10(49 votes)

    #10 - Village of the Angels

    S13:E411/21/2021

    Devon, November 1967. A little girl has gone missing, Professor Eustacius Jericho is conducting psychic experiments, and in the village graveyard, there is one gravestone too many. Why is Medderton known as the Cursed Village, and what do the Weeping Angels want?

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    7.1/10(74 votes)

    #11 - 42

    S3:E75/19/2007

    In a far-flung galaxy, saboteurs are at work, and crew members are being possessed. The TARDIS crew find themselves in the 42nd century on a spaceship, SS Pentallian, slowly being pulled into a sun, and must find a way to survive

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12. 

    7.0/10(66 votes)

    #12 - The Power of Three

    S7:E49/22/2012

    The Doctor and the Ponds puzzle an unlikely invasion of Earth, as millions of sinister black cubes arrive overnight, almost like presents falling from the sky. But what are they, what’s inside them and most importantly, who sent them? With the international community at a loss, it’s left to the Doctor to unearth who is behind the mystery.

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13. 

    7.0/10(21 votes)

    #13 - Countrycide

    S1:E611/19/2006

    Whilst investigating a group of unexplainable deaths in a village, the Torchwood team are separated. Discovering further, Jack, Gwen and Owen find a scared man, hiding from the thing responsible for the murders. But Tosh and Ianto go that one step extra, and locate the killer, who wants them as their next victims.

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    7.0/10(20 votes)

    #14 - End of Days

    S1:E131/1/2007

    With the Rift having been opened, people and objects throughout time are falling through it, and being spread across the world. "The thing in the darkness" has finally come, and Jack realises that he is the only one who can save planet Earth from the destruction that "the son of the Beast" will cause.

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    6.9/10(18 votes)

    #15 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

    S2:E11/16/2008

    Captain Jack returns, as the Torchwood team reunite to fight a rogue Time Agent. The mysterious Captain John Hart is determined to wreak havoc, and needs to find something hidden on Earth. But with Gwen's life in danger, and cluster bombs scattered across the city, whose side is Jack on?

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    6.8/10(45 votes)

    #16 - War of the Sontarans

    S13:E211/7/2021

    In the Crimean War, the Doctor discovers the British army fighting a brutal alien army of Sontarans, as Yaz and Dan are thrown deeper into a battle for survival. What is the Temple of Atropos? Who are the Mouri?

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    6.8/10(49 votes)

    #17 - The Halloween Apocalypse

    S13:E110/31/2021

    On Halloween, all across the universe, terrifying forces are stirring. The life of Dan Lewis is about to change forever. Why is the Doctor chasing Karvanista? What is the Flux?

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    6.6/10(71 votes)

    #18 - Spyfall (1)

    S12:E11/1/2020

    When intelligence agents around the world come under attack from alien forces, MI6 turns to the only person who can help- a certain Doctor and her companions. As they travel the globe in pursuit of answers, threats arrive from all sides, leaving Earth’s security resting on the team’s shoulders. But where will this planet-threatening conspiracy lead them?

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    6.6/10(73 votes)

    #19 - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

    S7:E29/8/2012

    An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs! By his side a ragtag gang of adventurers; a big game hunter, an Egyptian Queen and a surprised member of the Pond family. But little does the Doctor know there is someone else onboard who will stop at nothing to keep hold of his precious, prehistoric cargo.

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    6.4/10(95 votes)

    #20 - The Woman Who Fell to Earth

    S11:E110/7/2018

    “We don't get aliens in Sheffield.” In a South Yorkshire city, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan and Graham O'Brien are about to have their lives changed forever, as a mysterious woman, unable to remember her own name, falls from the night sky. Can they believe a word she says? And can she help solve the strange events taking place across the city?

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    6.4/10(66 votes)

    #21 - Spyfall (2)

    S12:E21/5/2020

    In part two of this epic spy thriller, a terrifying plan to destroy humanity is about to reach fruition. Can the Doctor and her friends escape multiple traps and defeat a deadly alliance?

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    6.4/10(47 votes)

    #22 - Revolution of the Daleks

    S0:E1581/1/2021

    The Doctor is imprisoned halfway across the universe. On Earth, the sighting of a Dalek alerts Ryan, Graham and Yaz. Can the return of Captain Jack Harkness help them stop a deadly Dalek takeover?

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    6.3/10(80 votes)

    #23 - Rosa

    S11:E310/21/2018

    Montgomery, Alabama. 1955. The Doctor and her friends find themselves in the Deep South of America. As they encounter a seamstress by the name of Rosa Parks, they begin to wonder whether someone is attempting to change history.

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    6.2/10(50 votes)

    #24 - Resolution

    S0:E1561/1/2019

    As the New Year begins, a terrifying evil is stirring from across the centuries of Earth’s history. As the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz return home, will they be able to overcome the threat to planet Earth?

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    6.2/10(62 votes)

    #25 - Ascension of the Cybermen (1)

    S12:E92/23/2020

    In the far future, the Doctor and her friends face a brutal battle across the farthest reaches of space to protect the last of the human race against the deadly Cybermen.

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