The Best Episodes Written By Dave Martin

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(12 votes)

   #1 - The Three Doctors (1)

   S10:E112/30/1972

   England, the near future. A strange anti-matter creature arrives on Earth and attacks UNIT HQ. It seems to be specifically seeking the Doctor out - but why? With the Time Lords themselves unable to help, it seems the only person who can help the Doctor is himself - or selves...

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   8.0/10(10 votes)

   #2 - The Three Doctors (2)

   S10:E21/6/1973

   The third Doctor and Jo find themselves on an artificial world inside the black hole while the second Doctor tries to find a way to control the organism.

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3. 

   7.9/10(10 votes)

   #3 - The Three Doctors (3)

   S10:E31/13/1973

   The Time Lord Omega reveals himself to the third Doctor along with plans for vengeance against his own kind.

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   7.8/10(10 votes)

   #4 - The Three Doctors (4)

   S10:E41/20/1973

   Omega reveals the purpose behind bringing the Doctor to his antimatter world, but the Doctor(s) discover a startling fact about Omega that he didn't know himself and eventually strike a bargain.

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5. 

   7.7/10(7 votes)

   #5 - The Hand of Fear (4)

   S14:E810/23/1976

   The Doctor and Sarah race to save the mortally wounded Eldrad. But they find that everything is not quite as she told them.

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   7.6/10(9 votes)

   #6 - The Hand of Fear (1)

   S14:E510/2/1976

   England, the near future. The TARDIS materialises in a quarry and Sarah is trapped under a rockfall. But what is the origin of the fossilised hand she is found gripping ? And who is the Eldrad she keeps mumbling about ?

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   7.3/10(7 votes)

   #7 - The Hand of Fear (3)

   S14:E710/16/1976

   The energy of the reactor has returned the mysterious Eldrad to life. The Doctor agrees to take her back to Kastria. But what is waiting for them there?

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   7.3/10(7 votes)

   #8 - The Invisible Enemy (3)

   S15:E710/15/1977

   Miniaturised clones of the Doctor and Leela are injected into his brain. But they must now fight the virus on its own level. And its servants are closing in around them.

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   7.1/10(7 votes)

   #9 - The Invisible Enemy (4)

   S15:E810/22/1977

   The Nucleus, now grown to human size, is determined to spawn and take over the Galaxy. Only the Doctor and Leela can stop it.

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    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #10 - The Hand of Fear (2)

    S14:E610/9/1976

    The Doctor and Professor Watson struggle to stop first Sarah Jane and then Driscoll from obeying the strange and dangerous orders of the stone hand, which has suddenly come to life.

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    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #11 - The Invisible Enemy (2)

    S15:E610/8/1977

    Leela and Lowe take the Doctor to the Bi-Al Foundation for help. But how can they cure an infection of the mind?

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12. 

    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Three Doctors

    S1:E411/1/2023

    Jo Jones and Clyde Langer meet again as she remembers when the Time Lords summoned three Doctors to fight an awesome adversary from Gallifrey’s past.

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13. 

    6.9/10(8 votes)

    #13 - The Invisible Enemy (1)

    S15:E510/1/1977

    Deep space, 5000AD. An Earth supply shuttle is infected by a strange sentient space-borne virus, which quickly spreads to the crew of the refuelling station on the moon Titan. Even worse, the Doctor himself falls victim. But why is Leela immune, and what is the virus's ultimate goal?

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14. 

    6.9/10(9 votes)

    #14 - The Claws of Axos (2)

    S8:E123/20/1971

    The Doctor and Winser begin to analyse axonite while Chinn plots to secure its use exclusively for Britain.

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15. 

    6.8/10(10 votes)

    #15 - The Claws of Axos (1)

    S8:E113/13/1971

    When a mysterious object lands near the Nuton power complex, UNIT investigate and encounter the Axons, a group of aliens who offer the mineral axonite, which can duplicate matter, as a gift.

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16. 

    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #16 - The Armageddon Factor (3)

    S16:E232/3/1979

    The Doctor meets a new enemy – the Shadow – who wants the Key to Time. And the Atrian-Zeon war is approaching an awful climax.

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    6.7/10(10 votes)

    #17 - The Armageddon Factor (1)

    S16:E211/20/1979

    Searching for the sixth segment, the Doctor and Romana land in the midst of a brutal nuclear war between the planets Atrios and Zeos.

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18. 

    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #18 - The Armageddon Factor (2)

    S16:E221/27/1979

    Swept up in an apocalyptic war, the Doctor must help the Marshal defend his planet. But who or what controls the Marshal?

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    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #19 - The Armageddon Factor (6)

    S16:E262/24/1979

    The Doctor and the Shadow have their final confrontation to take control of the Key to Time. Completing it may entail an awful sacrifice. And the Black Guardian will do anything to obtain it and plunge the Universe into chaos.

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    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #20 - The Armageddon Factor (4)

    S16:E242/10/1979

    The Doctor is forced into a desperate gambit to prevent a massacre. But it is getting harder to tell friend from foe.

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    6.6/10(8 votes)

    #21 - The Claws of Axos (4)

    S8:E144/3/1971

    The Doctor and Jo escape from Axos but then the Doctor offers the Master a deal; if he helps him repair the TARDIS, they can flee Earth together.

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    6.5/10(6 votes)

    #22 - The Sontaran Experiment (1)

    S12:E92/22/1975

    The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry teleport to Earth to ensure the planet is safe for the survivors on board Nerva Beacon to return and reinhabit their world. A Sontaran named Styre has captured a group of humans and is conducting experiments on them to discover the human body's weaknesses, as part of the Sontaran's goal for domination of the galaxy.

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    6.5/10(6 votes)

    #23 - The Sontaran Experiment (2)

    S12:E103/1/1975

    The Doctor learns that Styre has been experimenting on the Galsec crewmembers to pave the way for a Sontaran invasion of Earth and decides the only way to halt his plans is to challenge him to a duel.

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    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #24 - The Armageddon Factor (5)

    S16:E252/17/1979

    The Doctor and Romana finally venture into the Shadow's lair. The Shadow appears to hold all the cards but the Doctor has found an old friend.

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    6.3/10(6 votes)

    #25 - Underworld (4)

    S15:E201/28/1978

    The Minyons struggle to gain the precious race banks from the Oracle. But perhaps it is giving in a little too easily ...

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