The Best Episodes Written By Steven Moffat

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.3/10(142 votes)

   #1 - Blink

   S3:E106/9/2007

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

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   9.2/10(90 votes)

   #2 - Forest of the Dead (2)

   S4:E96/7/2008

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

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   9.1/10(88 votes)

   #3 - Silence in the Library (1)

   S4:E85/31/2008

   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.

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   9.0/10(21 votes)

   #4 - The Night of the Doctor

   S0:E8211/14/2013

   On the eve of his most terrible battle, the Time Lord is faced with a choice that will change the course of his life. The darkest of days are about to begin.

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   9.0/10(4 votes)

   #5 - Unconditional Sex

   S3:E310/7/2002

   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...

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   8.7/10(94 votes)

   #6 - Heaven Sent (1)

   S9:E1111/28/2015

   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.

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   8.7/10(3 votes)

   #7 - The Freckle, The Key And The Couple Who Weren't

   S3:E510/21/2002

   Steve is troubled by a blemish on his bottom, which Susan hasn't noticed. James remembers where he knows Susan from. Jeff and Julia try spicing up their love life, but he loses the key to the handcuffs. Then Julia's chunky ex-boyfriend calls round, and he has to pretend that they're not a couple.

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   8.6/10(99 votes)

   #8 - The Doctor Dances (2)

   S1:E105/28/2005

   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...

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   8.5/10(131 votes)

   #9 - The Day of the Doctor

   S0:E8311/23/2013

   The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure in this 50th anniversary special. In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.

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    8.5/10(100 votes)

    #10 - The Girl in the Fireplace

    S2:E45/6/2006

    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.

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    8.5/10(105 votes)

    #11 - The Empty Child (1)

    S1:E95/21/2005

    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.

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    8.5/10(76 votes)

    #12 - World Enough and Time (1)

    S10:E116/24/2017

    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.

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    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #13 - The Man with Two Legs

    S2:E19/3/2001

    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.

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    8.5/10(276 votes)

    #14 - A Scandal in Belgravia

    S2:E11/1/2012

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

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    8.4/10(86 votes)

    #15 - The Impossible Astronaut (1)

    S6:E14/23/2011

    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.

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    8.4/10(81 votes)

    #16 - Day of the Moon (2)

    S6:E24/30/2011

    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...

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    8.3/10(193 votes)

    #17 - The Lying Detective

    S4:E21/8/2017

    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.

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    8.3/10(96 votes)

    #18 - The Eleventh Hour

    S5:E14/3/2010

    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.

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    8.3/10(79 votes)

    #19 - The Pandorica Opens (1)

    S5:E126/19/2010

    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?

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    8.3/10(80 votes)

    #20 - The Big Bang (2)

    S5:E136/26/2010

    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.

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    8.3/10(74 votes)

    #21 - The Angels Take Manhattan

    S7:E59/29/2012

    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.

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    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #22 - The Girl with Two Breasts

    S1:E56/9/2000

    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.

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    8.2/10(298 votes)

    #23 - A Study in Pink

    S1:E17/25/2010

    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.

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    8.2/10(218 votes)

    #24 - His Last Vow

    S3:E31/12/2014

    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?

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    8.2/10(82 votes)

    #25 - The Time of Angels (1)

    S5:E44/24/2010

    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...

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