The Best Episodes Written By Gareth Roberts

Every TV Episode Written by Gareth Roberts Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Gareth Roberts Ratings Summary

The best episode written by Gareth Roberts is "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (1)", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by N/A". "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (1)" aired on 10/29/2009 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (2)".

  • The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (1)
    10.0/10 1 votes

    #1 - The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (1)

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2009

    The Doctor returns on the happiest day of Sarah Jane's life, but a deadly trap is waiting for them all.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (2)
    10.0/10 1 votes

    #2 - The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (2)

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2009

    The Doctor arrives to join the battle, but is he too late to save both Sarah Jane and the Earth itself?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (1)
    10.0/10 1 votes

    #3 - Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (1)

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/2010

    No one can defend the earth forever, but who could ever replace Sarah Jane?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (2)
    10.0/10 1 votes

    #4 - Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (2)

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/16/2010

    Sarah Jane has gone for good, and a new regime begins at Bannerman Road!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • Whatever Happened To Sarah Jane? (1)
    9.0/10 2 votes

    #5 - Whatever Happened To Sarah Jane? (1)

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/2007

    Sarah Jane (Elisabeth Sladen) mysteriously disappears – just as a huge meteor threatens to crash straight into Earth. When Maria (Yasmine Paige) wakes up one morning, it's as though Sarah Jane – and Luke (Tommy Knight) – never existed. Living across the road in Sarah Jane's house is a woman called Andrea (Jane Asher). And with the attic empty and Mr Smith (Alexander Armstrong) nowhere to be seen, every other trace of Sarah Jane has vanished – and Maria is the only one able to remember her. With the mysterious, hooded figure of the Trickster haunting Bannerman Road and the alien Graske meddling in time, Maria sets out to discover whatever happened to Sarah Jane. But as her journey takes her back to 1964, will she be able to find Sarah Jane in time to stop the meteor from destroying the world?

    Director: Graeme Harper

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • Whatever Happened To Sarah Jane? (2)
    9.0/10 2 votes

    #6 - Whatever Happened To Sarah Jane? (2)

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/2007

    Maria (Yasmine Paige) finds herself taken back in time by the alien Graske to a pier in 1964. There, she meets a young girl her own age called Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) who, with her friend Andrea (Jane Asher), is about to embark on a fateful adventure. Taken by the Graske again, Maria is then reunited with the present-day Sarah Jane. But with them both trapped in limbo as part of the meddlesome Trickster's plan to wreak chaos, they are helpless to stop the huge meteor which is about to crash into the Earth. Maria's dad Alan is the only one able to remember Sarah Jane and Maria and faces a struggle to bring them back in time to save the world.

    Director: Graeme Harper

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (1)
    9.0/10 2 votes

    #7 - The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (1)

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/2008

    When Sarah Jane finds a time fissure, her curiosity leads her to go through it and she finds herself in 1951, in the village of Foxgrove, where she was born. Eager to see the parents she never knew, she makes a decision that will have catastrophic consequences

    Director: Graeme Harper

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (2)
    9.0/10 2 votes

    #8 - The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (2)

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/2008

    With the Earth devastated under the control of the Trickster, Sarah Jane and Luke go back to 1951 and change things back to how they were- which means that Sarah Jane's parents must die. Will she make that sacrifice?

    Director: Graeme Harper

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Empty Planet (2)
    9.0/10 1 votes

    #9 - The Empty Planet (2)

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/2010

    Clyde and Rani only just manage to escape from the robots. Regrouping with Gavin in a cafe, Clyde deduces that he and Rani were left behind after the robots abducted everyone else because of the two of them having been 'grounded' by the Judoon, although this fails to explain Gavin's continued presence. When Gavin runs off again, Rani and Clyde are confronted by the robots, who explain that they want the 'son and heir' (Although Clyde initially assumes that they want Earth's sun and air); Gavin's father - who he mentioned left his mother when he was young - was an alien prince, and with his father's recent death Gavin is the only viable heir to the throne. Tracking Gavin down, Clyde and Rani explain the situation to him, convincing him to remove a ring that his father gave his mother to give to him; the ring acted as a bio-damper that prevented anyone from detecting his alien heritage. With the ring removed, the robots can sense him, and he agrees to accompany them back to his father's world, his last actions on Earth being to name Clyde and Rani a Lord and Lady of his people. With Earth's population returned - having been sent to a 'warp shunt' while the robots searched - Sarah and Mr Smith create the necessary records to state that Gavin has moved to Australia, Sarah praising Clyde and Rani's accomplishments even when they were alone.

    Director: Ashley Way

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • Invasion of the Bane
    8.0/10 1 votes

    #10 - Invasion of the Bane

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2007

    Maria moves into her new home and meets her neighbour Sarah Jane Smith. It isn't long until both of them find themselves at the local Bubble Shock factory and in terrible danger.

    Director: Colin Teague

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • Revenge of the Slitheen (1)
    8.0/10 2 votes

    #11 - Revenge of the Slitheen (1)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/2007

    Maria and Luke start their new school where they pal up with another boy, Clyde. However, two of the teachers and the class genius turn out to be Slitheens in human form. They are shapeless smelly invaders from another planet whose aim is to destroy the Earth by turning off the Sun with the aid of a machine which Luke inadvertently helps them to start. The three teenagers are chased around the school by the Slitheen family.

    Director: Alice Troughton

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • Revenge of the Slitheen (2)
    8.0/10 2 votes

    #12 - Revenge of the Slitheen (2)

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/2007

    The kids escape from the Slitheen and meet up with Sarah Jane at her house. They discover that vinegar will kill the Slitheen so, armed with vinegar bottles, they return to the school and destroy the three adult Slitheen and their machine. Carl, who took on the form of the class brain-box, escapes via a teleport but Sarah Jane assumes that he is dead. Back home she accepts Clyde into the group but asks for him not to tell others about their experiences.

    Director: Alice Troughton

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Empty Planet (1)
    8.0/10 1 votes

    #13 - The Empty Planet (1)

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/2010

    Clyde and Rani awake to find they are the only humans on Earth, even Sarah Jane Smith has vanished. But the Earth is not deserted, stalking the streets of London, strange forces gather.

    Director: Ashley Way

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Man Who Never Was (1)
    8.0/10 1 votes

    #14 - The Man Who Never Was (1)

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/2011

    Everyone wants the brand-new SerfBoard - and why not? What could be so dangerous about a computer?

    Director: Joss Agnew

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Man Who Never Was (2)
    8.0/10 1 votes

    #15 - The Man Who Never Was (2)

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/2011

    Luke and Sky must help the Skullions, but Sarah Jane is in danger too, so who will they save?

    Director: Joss Agnew

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • And the Curse of Cindy
    7.5/10 6 votes

    #16 - And the Curse of Cindy

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 1/1/2017

    The obnoxious Cindy Kroger has suddenly become super-popular thanks to a magical love potion. The Librarians must stop her before she launches a love missile that would force the whole world to become her fan base.

    Director: Nina Lopez-Corrado

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Lodger
    7.2/10 54 votes

    #17 - The Lodger

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 6/12/2010

    There's a house on Aickman road with a staircase that people go up, but never down... To solve the mystery of the man upstairs, the Doctor must pass himself off as a normal human being, and share a flat with Craig Owens.

    Director: Catherine Morshead

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Shakespeare Code
    7.1/10 56 votes

    #18 - The Shakespeare Code

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/7/2007

    Martha takes her first trip in the Tardis, all the way back to Elizabethan England. She and the Doctor hear of a series of bizarre deaths and discover that playwright William Shakespeare is being controlled by dangerous witch-like creatures. It seems the time-travelling duo must defeat ancient forces to prevent history from being rewritten.

    Director: Charles Palmer

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • Secrets of the Stars (1)
    7.0/10 2 votes

    #19 - Secrets of the Stars (1)

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2008

    A fraudulent astrologer named Martin Trueman is hit by an extraterrestrial body and begins to impress everyone with his uncanny predictions. However, what he predicts for Sarah Jane is far from pleasant...

    Director: Michael Kerrigan

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • Secrets of the Stars (2)
    7.0/10 2 votes

    #20 - Secrets of the Stars (2)

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/2008

    Clyde threatens Sarah but they manage to talk him out of it, which leads Sarah Jane to believe that Trueman's control on people can be repressed by persuading them to do something that they do not normally want to do. Meanwhile, using in his broadcast to the world, Martin Trueman takes over each star sign one by one, starting with Gemini - including Rani's mother. The world is in confusion as people are accepting the 'Ancient Lights'.

    Director: Michael Kerrigan

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Unicorn and the Wasp
    6.8/10 53 votes

    #21 - The Unicorn and the Wasp

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/2008

    The Doctor and Donna's meet Agatha Christie at a manor owned buy Lady Eddison. When Agatha Christie goes missing and a body turns up in the library the adventure turns into a pulp sci-fiction murder mystery, with a murder, a jewel thief, and a wasp alien. Can they solve the mystery?

    Director: Graeme Harper

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • Closing Time
    6.7/10 49 votes

    #22 - Closing Time

    Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 9/24/2011

    As the Doctor prepares for his inevitable death at Lake Silencio, he visits a former roommate and learns that the Cybermen are responsible for a series of disappearances at a local department store and resolves to investigate.

    Director: Steve Hughes

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Ice Warriors (1)
    6.7/10 3 votes

    #23 - The Ice Warriors (1)

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/1967

    The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are brought to a base which is attempting to halt the flow of the Second Ice Age.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Gareth Roberts

  • The Caretaker
    6.6/10 49 votes

    #24 - The Caretaker

    Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 9/27/2014

    Clara has it all under control: her life at school, her life in space; her new boyfriend and her mad old Time Lord. Everything is humming along just fine, so long as everybody never actually meets. And then, one morning, just before assembly, Coal Hill welcomes a new relief caretaker with a Scottish accent.

    Director: Paul Murphy

    Writer: Gareth Roberts