8.3/108 votes#1 - The Three Doctors (1)
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 12/30/1972
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...
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Dave Martin
8.2/106 votes#2 - The Three Doctors (2)
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/1973
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.
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Dave Martin
8.0/106 votes#3 - The Three Doctors (3)
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/1973
The Time Lord Omega reveals himself to the third Doctor along with plans for vengeance against his own kind.
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Dave Martin
7.8/106 votes#4 - The Three Doctors (4)
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1973
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.
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Dave Martin
7.2/105 votes#5 - The Claws of Axos (1)
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/1971
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.
Director: Michael Ferguson
Writer: Dave Martin
7.2/106 votes#6 - The Hand of Fear (1)
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/1976
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 ?
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Dave Martin
7.0/104 votes#7 - The Claws of Axos (2)
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/1971
The Doctor and Winser begin to analyse axonite while Chinn plots to secure its use exclusively for Britain.
Director: Michael Ferguson
Writer: Dave Martin
7.0/104 votes#8 - The Hand of Fear (3)
Season 14 Episode 7 - Aired 10/16/1976
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?
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Dave Martin
7.0/104 votes#9 - The Hand of Fear (4)
Season 14 Episode 8 - Aired 10/23/1976
The Doctor and Sarah race to save the mortally wounded Eldrad. But they find that everything is not quite as she told them.
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Dave Martin
6.7/103 votes#10 - The Invisible Enemy (3)
Season 15 Episode 7 - Aired 10/15/1977
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.
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: Dave Martin
6.7/103 votes#11 - The Invisible Enemy (4)
Season 15 Episode 8 - Aired 10/22/1977
The Nucleus, now grown to human size, is determined to spawn and take over the Galaxy. Only the Doctor and Leela can stop it.
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: Dave Martin
6.6/105 votes#12 - The Sontaran Experiment (1)
Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 2/22/1975
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.
Director: Rodney Bennett
Writer: Dave Martin
6.6/105 votes#13 - The Armageddon Factor (1)
Season 16 Episode 21 - Aired 1/20/1979
Searching for the sixth segment, the Doctor and Romana land in the midst of a brutal nuclear war between the planets Atrios and Zeos.
Director: Michael Hayes
Writer: Dave Martin
6.5/104 votes#14 - The Sontaran Experiment (2)
Season 12 Episode 10 - Aired 3/1/1975
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.
Director: Rodney Bennett
Writer: Dave Martin
6.5/104 votes#15 - The Armageddon Factor (2)
Season 16 Episode 22 - Aired 1/27/1979
Swept up in an apocalyptic war, the Doctor must help the Marshal defend his planet. But who or what controls the Marshal?
Director: Michael Hayes
Writer: Dave Martin
6.5/104 votes#16 - The Armageddon Factor (3)
Season 16 Episode 23 - Aired 2/3/1979
The Doctor meets a new enemy – the Shadow – who wants the Key to Time. And the Atrian-Zeon war is approaching an awful climax.
Director: Michael Hayes
Writer: Dave Martin
6.3/103 votes#17 - The Hand of Fear (2)
Season 14 Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1976
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.
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Dave Martin
6.3/104 votes#18 - The Invisible Enemy (1)
Season 15 Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/1977
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?
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: Dave Martin
6.3/104 votes#19 - The Invisible Enemy (2)
Season 15 Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/1977
Leela and Lowe take the Doctor to the Bi-Al Foundation for help. But how can they cure an infection of the mind?
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: Dave Martin
6.0/103 votes#20 - The Claws of Axos (4)
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 4/3/1971
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.
Director: Michael Ferguson
Writer: Dave Martin
6.0/104 votes#21 - The Mutants (1)
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 4/8/1972
The Doctor and Jo arrive on the planet Solos, on a assignment by the Time Lords, where they learn that the native Solonians are mutating into ant-like mutant creatures...
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Dave Martin
6.0/103 votes#22 - The Mutants (2)
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 4/15/1972
Ky transports himself and Jo down to Solos and the Marshal only agrees to help her if the Doctor assists Professor Jaeger in altering Solos' atmosphere.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Dave Martin
6.0/103 votes#23 - The Mutants (3)
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 4/22/1972
The Doctor and Varan travel down to Solos to search for Jo and Ky but the Marshal orders his men to pursue them.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Dave Martin
6.0/103 votes#24 - The Mutants (4)
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 4/29/1972
The Doctor and his friends are led to safety by Professor Sondergaard, who tries to help the Doctor translate the tablets.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Dave Martin
6.0/103 votes#25 - The Mutants (6)
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 5/13/1972
The Doctor is forced to help the Marshal cover up his actions with the Investigator but Jo and the others attempt to escape to expose him.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Dave Martin
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"The Three Doctors (1)" is the best rated episode written by Dave Martin. It scored 8.25/10 based on 8 votes. It was directed by Lennie Mayne. It aired on 12/30/1972 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Three Doctors (2)".