8.7/103 votes#1 - The War Games (1)
Season 6 Episode 35 - Aired 4/19/1969
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe realise they have arrived in the trenches of the First World War, where the sinister General Smythe accuses them of espionage.
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Terrance Dicks
8.3/107 votes#2 - The Brain of Morbius (1)
Season 13 Episode 17 - Aired 1/3/1976
The storm-lashed planet Karn. Near a graveyard of crashed starships, the demented surgeon Solon hides in his castle, the last acolyte of the Time Lord despot Morbius. He only needs one final item to make his master live again... and then the Doctor and Sarah arrive...
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks
8.3/106 votes#3 - The Brain of Morbius (4)
Season 13 Episode 20 - Aired 1/24/1976
Morbius lives once more, but as a rampaging beast. The Doctor is forced to ally with Dr. Solon to bring him to heel, but the two disagree about what should happen to Morbius.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks
8.2/106 votes#4 - The Brain of Morbius (3)
Season 13 Episode 19 - Aired 1/17/1976
While the Doctor goes to confront the Sisterhood to seek a cure for Sarah Jane's blindness, Solon realizes that he must transfer Morbius' brain into a new body before it is too late.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks
8.0/102 votes#5 - The Bringers of Wonder (1)
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 8/4/1977
Everyone on Moonbase is electrified by the arrival of a spaceship from earth. Everyone, that is, except Commander Koenig. Where the others see long-lost friends and relatives, he sees hideous aliens, bent on taking over the Moonbase...
Director: Tom Clegg
Writer: Terrance Dicks
8.0/106 votes#6 - The Brain of Morbius (2)
Season 13 Episode 18 - Aired 1/10/1976
The Doctor is captured by the Sisterhood, and Sarah Jane is blinded freeing him. The Doctor has no choice but to go back for a cure, unaware that he is leaving Sarah Jane in the hands of a treacherous Dr. Solon and the renegade Time Lord Morbius.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks
7.5/104 votes#7 - The Seeds of Death (1)
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 1/25/1969
21st century Earth is entirely dependent on the T-Mat transport system but the control centre on the moon has stopped functioning. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe meet the one man who can solve the crisis.
Director: Michael Ferguson
Writer: Terrance Dicks
7.2/104 votes#8 - Horror of Fang Rock (1)
Season 15 Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/1977
The English channel, the 1900s AD. The TARDIS lands on barren Fang Rock, inhabited until now only by three lighthouse keepers. But what is the strange fog covering the island, and can it be connected to the falling star sighted earlier that night?
Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
7.0/101 votes#9 - The Lambda Factor
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 12/23/1976
A pretty, young Alpha technician dies a horrible and unexplained death. Dr. Russell's experiments reveal that one of the crew is possessed of paranormal mental powers and is trying to take control of Moonbase Alpha....
Director: Charles Crichton
Writer: Terrance Dicks
7.0/105 votes#10 - Robot (4)
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 1/18/1975
UNIT attempt to get into the bunker to stop Miss Winters setting off the world's nuclear missiles but first they have to get past the K1.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks
6.8/104 votes#11 - Horror of Fang Rock (3)
Season 15 Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1977
The Doctor barricades everyone in the lighthouse to protect them from the mysterious deadly creature in the fog. But it may already be inside, biding its time…
Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
6.7/103 votes#12 - Horror of Fang Rock (2)
Season 15 Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/1977
The survivors of a wrecked ship are stranded with the lighhouse crew on Fang Rock as a deadly menace slithers through the fog. Has the Beast of Fang Rock returned?
Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
6.7/103 votes#13 - Horror of Fang Rock (4)
Season 15 Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/1977
The Rutan starts picking off the surviving humans one by one as the Doctor and Leela struggle to defeat not only the alien but an entire fleet waiting to occupy Earth.
Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
6.6/107 votes#14 - Robot (1)
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 12/28/1974
Can the Doctor, now in his fourth incarnation, recover from his post regenerative trauma to save the Earth from Think Tank and their plot for world domination ?
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks
6.6/105 votes#15 - Robot (3)
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 1/11/1975
Sarah Jane and Kettlewell infiltrate an SRS meeting to try and find out what Miss Winters is up to but there is a surprise in store.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks
6.4/105 votes#16 - Robot (2)
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 1/4/1975
The Doctor and Sarah Jane become convinced Think Tank are behind the electronic component thefts but are unable to stop them carrying out another raid.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: Terrance Dicks
6.3/103 votes#17 - State of Decay (1)
Season 18 Episode 13 - Aired 11/22/1980
Still trapped in negative E-Space, the TARDIS lands on an unnamed world to find a society sliding back into feudalism. What is the secret of the Three Who Rule? And what ancient enemy of the Time Lords is stirring again on this world...?
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Terrance Dicks
6.0/102 votes#18 - State of Decay (2)
Season 18 Episode 14 - Aired 11/29/1980
The Doctor and Romana are escorted to the tower to meet the royal leaders, hoping they can find answers to why this society evolves backwards. The Doctor recognizes the tower as an old Earth spaceship, and further finds that the old fuel tanks, far from empty, are full - but with blood. Meanwhile, Councilor Aukon senses intelligence in Adric and selects him to be the their first "Chosen One."
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Terrance Dicks
6.0/102 votes#19 - State of Decay (3)
Season 18 Episode 15 - Aired 12/6/1980
The Doctor finds archive material in the TARDIS that tells him he's dealing with an ancient enemy of the Time Lords, a nearly indestructible king vampire who's ready to revive and reenter normal space, spreading death, once again, across the universe.
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Terrance Dicks
6.0/102 votes#20 - State of Decay (4)
Season 18 Episode 16 - Aired 12/13/1980
The Doctor joins the villagers' revolt against their vampire rulers, unsure how to kill the king vampire. Meanwhile Adric is first in line to join the new vampire order while Romana is laid out as a sacrificial Time Lord for the awakening king vampire and his swarm of bats.
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Terrance Dicks
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"The War Games (1)" is the best rated episode written by Terrance Dicks. It scored 8.7/10 based on 3 votes. It was directed by David Maloney. It aired on 4/19/1969 and is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Brain of Morbius (1)".