The Best Episodes Written By Eric Saward

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(8 votes)

   #1 - Resurrection of the Daleks (1)

   S21:E112/8/1984

   London's Docklands, 1984. Why are uniformed policemen gunning down strangely-dressed vagrants in broad daylight? A prison ship in the far future - who is the sole prisoner aboard the craft? And why are these two locations linked by the time corridor the TARDIS has been sucked into?

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2. 

   8.3/10(7 votes)

   #2 - Earthshock (4)

   S19:E223/16/1982

   The Doctor realises the freighter is now a huge bomb and sends it back through time where it can explode millions of years ago... but Adric is still aboard...

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3. 

   8.1/10(7 votes)

   #3 - Earthshock (2)

   S19:E203/9/1982

   With her crew vanishing mysteriously, Captain Briggs assumes the Doctor is the guilty party, but the traitor is closer to home… as are the Cybermen.

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4. 

   8.0/10(8 votes)

   #4 - Earthshock (1)

   S19:E193/8/1982

   The TARDIS crew arrives on Earth in the 26th Century in a cave system where a military force is investigating the disappearance of a palaeontological expedition.

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5. 

   8.0/10(7 votes)

   #5 - Earthshock (3)

   S19:E213/15/1982

   The Cybermen are released from their silos and are on the march, attacking Briggs's crew and ensuring that the freighter remains on course for Earth. But why?

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6. 

   8.0/10(6 votes)

   #6 - Resurrection of the Daleks (2)

   S21:E122/15/1984

   As the surviving station crew work to destroy the space station, Davros consolidates his power and the Daleks launch a fiendish scheme to use the Doctor against the Time Lords.

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7. 

   6.8/10(6 votes)

   #7 - The Visitation (1)

   S19:E132/15/1982

   As plague sweeps 17th century England, the Doctor discovers a more exotic threat at work - shipwrecked Terileptil convicts, intent on making the planet their own.

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8. 

   6.6/10(5 votes)

   #8 - The Visitation (2)

   S19:E142/16/1982

   To rescue Tegan and Adric, captured and interrogated by the Terileptil fugitive leader, the Doctor must get past the locals under alien control and overcome Death (an android servant dressed up as The Grim Reaper).

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9. 

   6.6/10(5 votes)

   #9 - The Visitation (4)

   S19:E162/23/1982

   With Tegan and Richard under alien control, and the manor sealed against anyone leaving or entering, it's a question whether or not the Doctor can get to London before the Terileptils release their improved strain of black death upon the world.

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10. 

    6.4/10(5 votes)

    #10 - The Visitation (3)

    S19:E152/22/1982

    The Doctor makes the fugitive Terileptils a rare offer they shouldn't refuse; but, though few in numbers, they have a plan in the works for the quick and complete domination of Earth and mean to see it through.

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11. 

    6.1/10(7 votes)

    #11 - Attack of the Cybermen (1)

    S22:E11/5/1985

    London, 1985. The alien mercenary Lytton has been stranded here for nearly a year, but now he has a plan to escape. But how does it involve the Doctor's old enemies - and why are they on Earth at this point in history?

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12. 

    5.8/10(6 votes)

    #12 - Attack of the Cybermen (2)

    S22:E21/12/1985

    On Telos, the Doctor is reintroduced to the Cyber Leader and meets the Cryons, the planet's original inhabitants who will go to any lengths to get their world back!

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13. 

    5.6/10(7 votes)

    #13 - Revelation of the Daleks (2)

    S22:E133/30/1985

    Davros plans to create an army of Daleks loyal only to him but on Skaro, the Daleks have other plans and head to Necros. Caught in the middle of this, the Doctor must save Peri...

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14. 

    5.5/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Revelation of the Daleks (1)

    S22:E123/23/1985

    The planet Necros, the future. The Doctor arrives for the cryogenic interment of an old friend at Tranquil Repose, a vast repository of bodies in suspended animation. But what does the 'Great Healer' really have in mind for them...?

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15. 

    3.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Earthshock

    S1:E111/1/2023

    The Doctor and Tegan meet again and remember their terrifying adventure against the Cybermen to save the Earth… and the friend they lost along the way.

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