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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 18 - Medea
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E18

    A high level FBI agent is accused of stealing a woman's child and Dr. Hood is the only one who believes it.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - Down Among the Dead Men
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E4

    Ed and Beckett go 'under cover' and end up on board a submarine. They are, however, found out to be fakes and, whilst Ed escapes, Beckett is left on the submarine with a money hungry man, eager to gain access to a bank and steal some diamonds a long the way. Beckett ends up getting trapped on the submarine, as it slowly fills with water. The man, meanwhile, has got his associate to steal these diamonds, but their plan is foiled when Ros enters the scene. Ed goes under the sea to search for the submarine and but will he find Beckett in time?

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - Pulse
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E10

    Many small companies are being bought up by two mysterious men and Ros, Ed and Beckett are called to investigate. When the manager in another company is suddenly blown up, Beckett takes his place. The two suspicious people turn out to be Jean-Daniel and his brother, Patrick. They realise that Beckett is not the real manager and Jean-Daniel goes round to ‘Gizmos' (the place where Ros, Ed and Beckett were based in Series One) Beckett ends up being kidnapped. Ed's friend, Clare, has also got mixed up in the brothers' plans, and her daughter, Katie, has been held hostage until she gives them exactly what they want. Jean-Daniel's brother is killed. Beckett and Katie manage to escape and stop Jean-Daniel's plans, and reposition the missile that stops any type of computer generated items from working, to where they are.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  4. undefined Season 20 Episode 16 - Terminus (4)
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    S20:E16

    In attempting to reopen a doorway into the TARDIS, Turlough activates Terminus' automated fuel-jettisoning sequence. The first time this sequence was engaged, it flung its first of two massive loads of unstable fuel into the distant past, producing the Big Bang that created the universe. This second sequence - if the Doctor can't find a way to shut it down - will release a second massive load, the explosion of which will entirely negate the effects of the first.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  5. undefined Season 18 Episode 18 - Warriors' Gate (2)
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    S18:E18

    When Rorvik learns that Romana is a time sensitive, he takes her prisoner, forcing her to find a way out of the void. The Doctor attempts to discover what lies beyond the mirror.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  6. undefined Season 18 Episode 19 - Warriors' Gate (3)
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    S18:E19

    While Biroc leads the Doctor to a view of the Tharil's lordly past, Romana learns more about the damaged freighter and the cold-heartedness of its crew. Meanwhile Commander Rorvik, confounded by the time mirror inside the universal center gateway, ignores evidence that it's no simple mirror and decides to blast it, imperiling the lives of everyone.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  7. undefined Season 18 Episode 20 - Warriors' Gate (4)
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    S18:E20

    The Doctor deduces that the freighter is a slave ship loaded up with Tharils to be sold as time machine components, but the immense weight of Rorvik's damaged ship, designed to contain the Tharils, is now collapsing the fragile void of the micro-universe in which they're all stuck, pulling everything inside ever closer.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  8. undefined Season 18 Episode 17 - Warriors' Gate (1)
    6.3/10(6 votes)

    S18:E17

    The TARDIS is drawn into an empty white void, somewhere between universes. But they are not the only ones trapped there.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  9. undefined Season 20 Episode 13 - Terminus (1)
    6.2/10(5 votes)

    S20:E13

    Deep space, some time in the future. Still following the Black Guardian's orders, Turlough sabotages the TARDIS, forcing an emergency fusion with an apparently deserted starship. But the ship is headed for the notorious plague colony, Terminus. Surrounded by plague victims and space pirates, is the Doctor too preoccupied to notice the greatest threat of all - a threat connected to the position of Terminus at the exact centre of the universe?

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  10. undefined Season 20 Episode 14 - Terminus (2)
    6.2/10(4 votes)

    S20:E14

    The Doctor's party remains divided and scattered as the immense transport docks at the Terminus space station, which turns out to be a leper colony at the exact centre of the known universe. As they find their way around and investigate, Nyssa shows signs of contracting the disease.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  11. undefined Season 20 Episode 15 - Terminus (3)
    6.2/10(4 votes)

    S20:E15

    Since the Doctor's party represents neither lazars nor handlers, they're presumed to be investigators, which is enough to spark the disgruntled Valgard into challenging Eirak over leadership of the handlers. Meanwhile, as the giant, dog-like Garm takes a terrified Nyssa off for "treatment," Bor returns from the forbidden zone with interesting news about the ship.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  12. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Stealth
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E6

    An attempt to steal a revolutionary new car with an advanced guidance system is foiled by the Bugs team. The thieves then turn their attention to a millitary vehicle powered by a radioactive RTG, and Ros and Beckett have to cliumb onto the moving driverless vehicle, to stop the explosion from breaking the radioactive container and killing off most of the people in the country.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  13. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Assassins Inc
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E2

    Ros, Ed and Beckett's first customer appears in the form of Irene Campell, who turns out to have conned Beckett into helping her continue doing her business. Roland Blatty, a friend of Ros' who own the new Bureau of Weapons is trying to put a stop to the devices Irene sells, which have killed countless people. The team race against time to stop Irene and her legal adviser, Morasco and at the same time save Ed from a microbe that is killing him.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  14. undefined Season 2 Episode 7 - Schrodinger's Bomb
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E7

    Cassandra and ‘Daddy' strike a deal with Jean-Daniel and Ros ends up getting kidnapped by him. Roland Blatty has a ‘brush with death' when he is left in a room filled with lots of ticking bombs. Ed and Beckett go to save Ros, and end up having to use a chain saw to free her as she was handcuffed to a steering wheel, and inside the car there was a hand grenade. Beckett spends the final scene, sawing the steering wheel, to free Ros' wrists, and Jean- Daniel returns to the Bactrian Kings tombs to retrieve the Niobian 5 that was left there.

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 11 - Patient John
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E11

    A John Doe found murdered and stuffed inside a seepage pit takes the team into the world of medical trials. The team learns that the Doe was a recently naturalized citizen who needed to supplement his income by becoming a medical guinea pig in order to bring his family to America. But did one of these trials end up killing the Doe? Who covered it up? And are there any other victims?

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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Stephen Gallagher Ratings Summary

"Medea" is the best rated episode written by Stephen Gallagher. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 4/2/2009 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Down Among the Dead Men".