The Best Episodes Written By Steven Moffat
Every TV Episode Written by Steven Moffat Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Steven Moffat Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Steven Moffat is "The Man with Two Legs", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by N/A". "The Man with Two Legs" aired on 9/3/2001 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Unconditional Sex".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - The Man with Two Legs
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/2001
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steven Moffat
10.0/10 1 votes#2 - Unconditional Sex
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2002
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...
Director: N/A
Writer: Steven Moffat
9.3/10 99 votes#3 - Blink
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 6/9/2007
Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.
Director: Hettie Macdonald
Writer: Steven Moffat
9.1/10 63 votes#4 - Forest of the Dead (2)
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 6/7/2008
As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Steven Moffat
9.0/10 4 votes#5 - The Girl with Two Breasts
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/9/2000
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steven Moffat
9.0/10 1 votes#6 - Remember This
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2002
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...
Director: N/A
Writer: Steven Moffat
9.0/10 62 votes#7 - Silence in the Library (1)
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 5/31/2008
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.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.8/10 69 votes#8 - The Doctor Dances (2)
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/28/2005
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...
Director: James Hawes
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.6/10 74 votes#9 - The Empty Child (1)
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/21/2005
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.
Director: James Hawes
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.6/10 65 votes#10 - Heaven Sent (1)
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/2015
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.
Director: Rachel Talalay
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.5/10 69 votes#11 - The Girl in the Fireplace
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/6/2006
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.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.4/10 48 votes#12 - World Enough and Time (1)
Season 10 Episode 11 - Aired 6/24/2017
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.
Director: Rachel Talalay
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.4/10 204 votes#13 - A Scandal in Belgravia
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2012
Blackmail threatens the monarchy and Sherlock is about to meet the woman who beats him.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.3/10 67 votes#14 - The Eleventh Hour
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/2010
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.
Director: Adam Smith
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.3/10 61 votes#15 - The Impossible Astronaut (1)
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 4/23/2011
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.
Director: Toby Haynes
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.3/10 56 votes#16 - Day of the Moon (2)
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 4/30/2011
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...
Director: Toby Haynes
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.3/10 140 votes#17 - The Lying Detective
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2017
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.
Director: Nick Hurran
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.2/10 51 votes#18 - The Angels Take Manhattan
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 9/29/2012
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.
Director: Nick Hurran
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.2/10 215 votes#19 - A Study in Pink
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/25/2010
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.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.2/10 159 votes#20 - His Last Vow
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/12/2014
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?
Director: Nick Hurran
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.1/10 57 votes#21 - The Time of Angels (1)
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/2010
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...
Director: Adam Smith
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.1/10 56 votes#22 - The Pandorica Opens (1)
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 6/19/2010
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?
Director: Toby Haynes
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.1/10 57 votes#23 - The Big Bang (2)
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 6/26/2010
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.
Director: Toby Haynes
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.1/10 58 votes#24 - The Name of the Doctor
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 5/18/2013
Someone is kidnapping the Doctor's friends, leading him towards the one place in all of time and space that he should never go.
Director: Saul Metzstein
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.0/10 3 votes#25 - Size Matters
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/19/2000
Susan invites Steve for a date at home, and offers to cook. Jeff warns him about 'The Sock Gap', and Patrick alerts him to her collection of remote controls. Somehow everyone's conversation seems to revolve around Patrick's size, and Jeff is asked by several people to accompany him to the toilet to check.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steven Moffat