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The Best Episodes Written By Steven Moffat

Every TV Episode Written by Steven Moffat Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Man with Two Legs

    S2:E1

    Jeff finally gets to speak to Chrissy, the woman on the train whose leg he has been fancying for days, and tells her that he only has one leg, a lie which becomes ever harder to undo. Meanwhile, Sally is dating a "surgeon" called David, and Jeff wonders whether it would be easier.

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    Director:N/A
  2. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Unconditional Sex

    S3:E3

    Jeff is still trying to decide whether he should cheat on his girlfriend Julia with Wilma, or not. While his friends try to help him, Jeff is no match in this debate for "devil woman" Wilma. She knows every argument that Susan (the expert in getting her own way) has ever used. Jeff paints himself into a terrifyingly extreme conversational corner, until he blurts out that the reason he can't have sex with Wilma is that his girlfriend is dead...

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    Director:N/A
  3. 9.3/10(107 votes)

    #3 - Blink

    S3:E10

    Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.

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  4. 9.1/10(70 votes)

    #4 - Forest of the Dead (2)

    S4:E9

    As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song.

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    Director:Euros Lyn
  5. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Remember This

    S3:E4

    Sally is surprised to say the least when Patrick arrives at her flat at three in the morning to get rid of a spider for her. It turns out that he dreamt her distress call. What can this mean? Does Patrick subconsciously want to protect Sally? More shockingly, does Patrick have a subconscious? Encouraged by their friends, Sally and Patrick independently tell the story of how they first met...

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    Director:N/A
  6. 9.0/10(69 votes)

    #6 - Silence in the Library (1)

    S4:E8

    The Doctor and Donna land in a frightening position in the far future. While investigating a derelict library, the duo come face to face with the disembodied mind of a little girl, an archaeological team led by a woman from the Doctor's future, and swarms of flesh-eating creatures that are seen only as shadows.

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    Director:Euros Lyn
  7. 8.9/10(7 votes)

    #7 - The Girl with Two Breasts

    S1:E5

    Jeff and co. can't take their eyes of a beautiful stranger in their local bar. And the girl can't take her eyes off Jeff. Jeff goes over to talk to her, only to discover that she doesn't speak a word of English, which to Jeff of course is quite a relief. Her interpreter, Alice, tells Jeff she's Israeli, then whisks her away. The next day the girl is back and Jeff attempts to chat her up. With neither speaking a word of the other's language, it is an utter disaster.

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    Director:N/A
  8. 8.8/10(75 votes)

    #8 - The Doctor Dances (2)

    S1:E10

    After narrowly escaping the gas mask monsters, The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack try to stop the mutated people from infecting other victims. But it soon becomes apparent that one of the group may indirectly responsible for the virus. The answer lies at the bomb site, but time is running out...

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    Director:James Hawes
  9. 8.7/10(69 votes)

    #9 - Heaven Sent (1)

    S9:E11

    Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone.

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  10. 8.6/10(80 votes)

    #10 - The Empty Child (1)

    S1:E9

    After chasing an unexplained capsule through time, the TARDIS lands in London, during an air raid. Rose investigates when a small child wearing a gasmask, standing on a rooftop, continuously calls out for his mummy. After floating above the city on a barrage balloon, Rose is swept off her feet by another time traveller – Captain Jack Harkness. Meanwhile, The Doctor follows a teenaged girl to a meeting of the homeless children of the Blitz. Here, the child in the gasmask is terrorising them with a parade of strange events, constantly asking for his mother.

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    Director:James Hawes
  11. 8.5/10(75 votes)

    #11 - The Girl in the Fireplace

    S2:E4

    On a seemingly abandoned spaceship in the 51st century, the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Mickey find time windows leading to 18th century France and a group of clockwork androids using them to stalk a young woman throughout her life.

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    Director:Euros Lyn
  12. 8.4/10(52 votes)

    #12 - World Enough and Time (1)

    S10:E11

    Friendship drives the Doctor into the rashest decision of his life. Trapped on a giant spaceship, caught in the event horizon of a black hole, he witnesses the death of someone he is pledged to protect. Is there any way he can redeem his mistake? Are events already out of control? For once, time is the Time Lord’s enemy.

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  13. 8.4/10(220 votes)

    #13 - A Scandal in Belgravia

    S2:E1

    Blackmail threatens the monarchy and Sherlock is about to meet the woman who beats him.

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  14. 8.4/10(60 votes)

    #14 - Day of the Moon (2)

    S6:E2

    The Doctor is locked in the perfect prison. Amy, Rory and River Song are being hunted down across America by the FBI. With the help of new friend and FBI-insider, Canton Everett Delaware the Third, our heroes are reunited to share their discoveries, if not their memories. For the world is occupied by an alien force who control humanity through post-hypnotic suggestion and no one can be trusted. Aided by President Nixon and Neil Armstrong's foot, the Doctor must mount a revolution to drive out the enemy and rescue the missing little girl. No-one knows why they took her. Or why they have kidnapped Amy Pond...

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    Director:Toby Haynes
  15. 8.4/10(65 votes)

    #15 - The Impossible Astronaut (1)

    S6:E1

    Placing his life entirely in their hands, the Doctor agrees to search for the recipient of the fourth envelope - just who is Canton Everett Delaware the Third? And what is the relevance of their only other clue: 'Space 1969'? Their quest lands them - quite literally - in the Oval Office, where they are enlisted by President Nixon himself to assist enigmatic former-FBI agent Canton, in saving a terrified little girl from a mysterious spaceman.

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    Director:Toby Haynes
  16. 8.3/10(151 votes)

    #16 - The Lying Detective

    S4:E2

    Sherlock faces perhaps the most chilling enemy of his long career: the powerful and seemingly unassailable Culverton Smith – a man with a very dark secret indeed.

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    Director:Nick Hurran
  17. 8.3/10(73 votes)

    #17 - The Eleventh Hour

    S5:E1

    The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover. With the TARDIS wrecked, and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has just 20 minutes to save the whole world - and only Amy Pond to help him.

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    Director:Adam Smith
  18. 8.2/10(55 votes)

    #18 - The Angels Take Manhattan

    S7:E5

    The Doctor’s heart-breaking farewell to Amy and Rory – a race against time through the streets of Manhattan, as New York’s statues come to life around them… With Rory’s life in danger, the Doctor and Amy must locate him before it’s too late! Luckily, an old friend helps them and guides the way.

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    Director:Nick Hurran
  19. 8.2/10(235 votes)

    #19 - A Study in Pink

    S1:E1

    A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate; it is London, 2010, and Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes are meeting for the first time. A string of impossible suicides has Scotland Yard baffled - and only one man can help.

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  20. 8.2/10(172 votes)

    #20 - His Last Vow

    S3:E3

    A case of stolen letters leads Sherlock Holmes into a long conflict with Charles Augustus Magnussen, the Napoleon of blackmail, and the one man he truly hates. But how do you tackle a foe who knows the personal weakness of every person of importance in the Western world?

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    Director:Nick Hurran
  21. 8.1/10(62 votes)

    #21 - The Time of Angels (1)

    S5:E4

    A crashed spaceship, a shattered temple and a terrifying climb through the maze of the dead - River Song is back in the Doctor's life, and she's brought more trouble than even he can handle. The last of the weeping Angels is loose in the ruins of Alfava Metraxis, and the Doctor is recruited to track it down. "Don't blink!" everyone tells Amy - but Amy is about to discover, not blinking might just be the worst thing you can do...

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    Director:Adam Smith
  22. 8.1/10(59 votes)

    #22 - Flesh and Stone (2)

    S5:E5

    There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, The Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner. Meanwhile, in the forest vault, the Doctor's companion, Amy Pond, finds herself facing an even more deadly attack.

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    Director:Adam Smith
  23. 8.1/10(60 votes)

    #23 - The Pandorica Opens (1)

    S5:E12

    The Doctor's friends unite to send him a terrible warning; the Pandorica - which is said to contain the most feared being in all the cosmos - is opening. But what's inside, and can the Doctor stop it?

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    Director:Toby Haynes
  24. 8.1/10(61 votes)

    #24 - The Big Bang (2)

    S5:E13

    The Doctor is gone, the Tardis has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little girl who still believes in stars.

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    Director:Toby Haynes
  25. 8.1/10(62 votes)

    #25 - The Name of the Doctor

    S7:E13

    Someone is kidnapping the Doctor's friends, leading him towards the one place in all of time and space that he should never go.

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Steven Moffat Ratings Summary

"The Man with Two Legs" is the best rated episode written by Steven Moffat. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 9/3/2001 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Unconditional Sex".