8.4/10 8 votes#1 - Exit Wounds
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/2008
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.
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: Chris Chibnall
8.0/10 8 votes#2 - Adrift
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2008
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.
Director: Mark Everest
Writer: Chris Chibnall
8.0/10 1 votes#3 - Paradise
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/2009
Was the arson attack on a Turkish club claiming 17 lives racially motivated - or something even more sinister? James Steel and Alesha Phllips struggle to build the case.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Chibnall
8.0/10 1 votes#4 - Samaritan
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/2010
A police officer is killed in a shoot out with a drug dealer. Based on the testimony of another dealer, Brooks and Devlin must determine whether back up was slow to arrive and left the officer to die because he was gay.
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Chris Chibnall
8.0/10 21 votes#5 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/4/2013
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.
Director: James Strong
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.8/10 4 votes#6 - Episode 2
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/20/2007
On an assignment to return a career safe breaker from prison for further questioning, Tyler, Ray and Chris are attacked by robbers and the man who they were taken in for questioning is broken out. Is a local gangster to blame, or is there more going on than meets the eye... specifically, was the crime actually arranged by Gene's old mentor? Meanwhile, Sam tries to break in the first black detective in the department, a man who will later become Sam's mentor when he first joins the police force.
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.7/10 28 votes#7 - Village of the Angels
Season 13 Episode 4 - Aired 11/21/2021
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?
Director: Jamie Magnus Stone
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.4/10 12 votes#8 - End of Days
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/2007
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.
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.4/10 5 votes#9 - Fragments
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/2008
As the team are knocked unconscious we find out how Jack, Toshiko, Ianto and Owen were initiated into Torchwood.
Director: Jonathan Fox Bassett
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.4/10 27 votes#10 - War of the Sontarans
Season 13 Episode 2 - Aired 11/7/2021
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?
Director: Jamie Magnus Stone
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.4/10 11 votes#11 - Countrycide
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/2006
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.
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.3/10 51 votes#12 - 42
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/19/2007
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
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.3/10 30 votes#13 - The Halloween Apocalypse
Season 13 Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/2021
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?
Director: Jamie Magnus Stone
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.2/10 5 votes#14 - Episode 7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/2006
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.
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.2/10 56 votes#15 - Cold Blood (2)
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 5/29/2010
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?
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.1/10 10 votes#16 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/2008
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?
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.0/10 53 votes#17 - The Hungry Earth (1)
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 5/22/2010
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.
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.0/10 1 votes#18 - Unsafe
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/2009
A convicted murderer who has been studying law inside is given the chance to appeal and chooses to represent himself in court against James Steel - his former prosecutor.
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.0/10 46 votes#19 - The Power of Three
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 9/22/2012
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.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Chris Chibnall
6.9/10 55 votes#20 - Rosa
Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2018
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.
Director: Mark Tonderai
Writer: Chris Chibnall
6.8/10 46 votes#21 - Spyfall (1)
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2020
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?
Director: Wayne Che Yip
Writer: Chris Chibnall
6.7/10 42 votes#22 - Spyfall (2)
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 1/5/2020
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?
Director: Wayne Che Yip
Writer: Chris Chibnall
6.7/10 26 votes#23 - Survivors of the Flux
Season 13 Episode 5 - Aired 11/28/2021
As the forces of evil mass, the Doctor, Yaz and Dan face perilous journeys and seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their quest for survival.
Director: Azhur Saleem
Writer: Chris Chibnall
6.6/10 66 votes#24 - The Woman Who Fell to Earth
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2018
“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?
Director: Jamie Childs
Writer: Chris Chibnall
6.6/10 26 votes#25 - Once, Upon Time
Season 13 Episode 3 - Aired 11/14/2021
'Time is beginning to run wild.' On a planet that shouldn’t exist, in the aftermath of apocalypse, the Doctor, Dan, Yaz and Vinder face a battle to survive.
Director: Azhur Saleem
Writer: Chris Chibnall
The Best Episodes Written By Chris Chibnall
Every TV Episode Written by Chris Chibnall Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Chris Chibnall Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Chris Chibnall is "Exit Wounds", rated 8.4/10 from 8 user votes. It was "directed by Ashley Way". "Exit Wounds" aired on 4/4/2008 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Adrift".