Steven Moffat episodes (From worst to best)
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1.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
(2011)
TV-PG | 59 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
On Christmas Eve 1941, the Doctor poses as a caretaker to give recently widowed Madge Arwell and her two children an unforgettable Christmas but things quickly get out of hand when her son Cyril enters a snowy forest world full of dangers.
Director: Farren Blackburn | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Claire Skinner
Votes: 6,427
2.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Caretaker
(2014)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The terrifying Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity - but worse, and any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet.
Director: Paul Murphy | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Ellis George
Votes: 5,934
3.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Let's Kill Hitler
(2011)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The search for Melody Pond brings the Doctor and his friends to Berlin in 1938, face-to-face with Adolf Hitler, River Song and a justice-serving, shapeshifting robot.
Director: Richard Senior | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Votes: 6,959
4.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Dark Water
(2014)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the mysterious world of the Nethersphere, plans have been drawn. Old friends and old enemies manoeuvre around the Doctor, and an impossible choice is looming over him.
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Michelle Gomez
Votes: 6,635
Includes 'Death in Heaven'
5.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Pilot
(2017)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Nardole team up with a university student to take down a sinister life-mimicking alien.
Director: Lawrence Gough | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Jennifer Hennessy
Votes: 5,848
6.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Beast Below
(2010)
TV-PG | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor takes Amy to the future inside Starship UK, which contains in addition to British explorers, an intimidating race known as the Smilers.
Directors: Andrew Gunn, Euros Lyn | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Sophie Okonedo, Terrence Hardiman
Votes: 7,503
7.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Girl Who Died
(2015)
TV-PG | 48 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a Viking village, a girl named Ashildr is about to make a desperate mistake. The Mire are the deadliest mercenaries in the galaxy, famed for showing no mercy and Ashildr has just ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bazalgette | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Maisie Williams, David Schofield
Votes: 5,640
8.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Twice Upon a Time
(2017)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Twelfth Doctor, still refusing to change, goes on a last adventure with the First Doctor.
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Peter Capaldi, David Bradley, Pearl Mackie, Mark Gatiss
Votes: 7,774
9.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Pandorica Opens
(2010)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
River Song returns to deliver The Doctor a serious warning from his allies: the mythical Pandorica, said to contain the most feared creature in the entire Universe, is opening.
Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Alex Kingston, Arthur Darvill
Votes: 8,216
Also Includes 'The Big Bang'
10.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Return of Doctor Mysterio
(2016)
TV-PG | 61 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
One fateful night in New York City, the Doctor inadvertently causes a young boy to gain superpowers. Returning years later on the trail of the shady Harmony Shoal Institute, he finds the boy all grown up as masked superhero The Ghost.
Director: Edward Bazalgette | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Matt Lucas, Justin Chatwin, Charity Wakefield
Votes: 5,884
11.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Bells of Saint John
(2013)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The doctor finds Clara in present day, where they work together to solve the mystery of people disappearing which as it turns out, has a sinister link to WiFi.
Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Manpreet Bachu, Sean Knopp
Votes: 6,547
12.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Pyramid at the End of the World
(2017)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A 5,000-year-old pyramid appears overnight, baffling everyone including the Doctor.
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Togo Igawa
Votes: 4,525
13.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Wedding of River Song
(2011)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
April 22nd, 2011; 5:02pm. Having finally accepted his fate the Doctor travels to Lake Silencio for his final day. But one woman refuses to let time take its course.
Director: Jeremy Webb | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Votes: 7,286
14.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Last Christmas
(2014)
TV-PG | 61 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!
Director: Paul Wilmshurst | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Nick Frost, Samuel Anderson
Votes: 6,348
15.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Time Heist
(2014)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Clara wake up in a room with two other people, unable to remember how they got there. As it turns out Someone known as the Architect has employed them to Break into the Universe's most secure bank.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Keeley Hawes, Jonathan Bailey
Votes: 6,694
16. Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007 TV Short)
8 min | Short, Sci-Fi
The Tenth Doctor meets one of his previous incarnations.
Director: Graeme Harper | Stars: David Tennant, Peter Davison, Freema Agyeman
Votes: 3,388
17.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Zygon Inversion
(2015)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
With the Zygons invading England, and UNIT neutralized, the Doctor stands alone to stop the Zygons from taking over the entire planet. But how can he stop the Zygons? And how can he save his friends?
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Ingrid Oliver, Jemma Redgrave
Votes: 5,838
18.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Deep Breath
(2014)
TV-PG | 76 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When the newly-regenerated doctor arrives in Victorian London, he finds a dinosaur rampant in the Thames and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Neve McIntosh, Dan Starkey
Votes: 8,735
19.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Time of the Doctor
(2013)
TV-PG | 61 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor's worst enemies, The Daleks, The Cybermen, The Angels and The Silence, return, as the doctor's eleventh life comes to a close, and his twelfth life begins.
Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Orla Brady, James Buller
Votes: 7,888
20.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Into the Dalek
(2014)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor's greatest enemy surrounds a rebel ship. To save everyone, he and Clara must choose to venture into the most dangerous place in the universe. The Doctor is forced to examine his conscience and ask if he is a good man.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Zawe Ashton, Michael Smiley
Votes: 7,029
21.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Heaven Sent
(2015)
TV-PG | 55 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
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 | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Jami Reid-Quarrell
Votes: 12,840
Includes 'Hell Bent'
22.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Angels Take Manhattan
(2012)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
After Rory has an encounter with a weeping angel, the doctor and Amy travel to 1930's New York to save him, but they soon discover that the weeping angels have taken over Manhattan, and soon, maybe, the world.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Votes: 9,071
23.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Name of the Doctor
(2013)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor's friends are being kidnapped, which leads him to the fields of Trenzalore, where his greatest secret will be revealed and Clara's mystery will be solved.
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Alex Kingston, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 8,628
24.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Time of Angels
(2010)
TV-PG | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Amy emerge from the TARDIS to find the wreck of the Byzantium spaceship. Down below the Weeping Angels are stirring, but the Doctor has someone else to contend with; none other than the mysterious Professor River Song.
Director: Adam Smith | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Alex Kingston, Simon Dutton
Votes: 8,132
Also Includes (Flesh and Stone)
25.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Snowmen
(2012)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
London, 1892. Snow is evolving, turning into icy monstrosities, but this is no concern for the Doctor who has given up trying to save the universe, leaving it to a clever young governess named Clara to save the day.
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Tom Ward, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 7,533
26.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Impossible Astronaut
(2011)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Amy, Rory and River Song are reunited in the Utah desert.
Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Votes: 8,273
Also Includes (Day of the Moon)
27.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Asylum of the Daleks
(2012)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Amy, Rory and the Doctor are reunited when they are kidnapped by the Daleks, who send them on a mission to destroy the most horrifying place in the universe- the asylum of the Daleks.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Jenna Coleman
Votes: 8,214
28.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Listen
(2014)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When ghosts of past and future crowd into their lives, The Doctor and Clara are thrown into an adventure that takes them to the very end of the universe.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Remi Gooding
Votes: 8,898
29.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Extremis
(2017)
TV-PG | 48 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor is called by the Vatican to solve the mystery of a text called the Veritas, that when someone reads it dies soon after. But something is dwelling in the Vatican, and doesn't want the Veritas to be read.
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Michelle Gomez
Votes: 5,121
30. The Night of the Doctor (2013 Video)
7 min | Short, Sci-Fi
With the aid of the Sisterhood of Karn, the Eighth Doctor regenerates into the War Doctor.
Director: John Hayes | Stars: Paul McGann, Emma Campbell-Jones, Clare Higgins, John Hurt
Votes: 4,028
31.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Blink
(2007)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Sally Sparrow receives a cryptic message from the Doctor about a mysterious new enemy species that is after the TARDIS.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Carey Mulligan, Lucy Gaskell
Votes: 23,917
32.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Empty Child
(2005)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When a spaceship crashes in the middle of the London Blitz the Doctor, Rose and the enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness find themselves investigating a plague of physical injuries and a little boy in a gas mask.
Director: James Hawes | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Kate Harvey, Albert Valentine
Votes: 10,379
Also Includes (The Doctor Dances)
33.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
A Good Man Goes to War
(2011)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A member of The Doctor's team has been abducted and he will call in every favor and maybe even go to war to get them back.
Director: Peter Hoar | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Votes: 8,589
34.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Silence in the Library
(2008)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Donna visit a planet-sized library but soon realise that the planet is devoid of life, that is until River Song and her team of archaeologists arrive. As they unravel the library's mystery, something lurks in the shadows.
Director: Euros Lyn | Stars: David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Alex Kingston, Colin Salmon
Votes: 10,820
Also Includes (Forest of the Dead)
35.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Day of the Doctor
(2013)
TV-PG | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt, Christopher Eccleston
Votes: 19,824
36.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Magician's Apprentice
(2015)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When the skies of Earth are frozen by a mysterious alien force, Clara needs her friend, the Doctor. But where is he and what is he hiding from?
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Michelle Gomez, Jami Reid-Quarrell
Votes: 6,827
Also Includes 'The Witch's Familiar'
37.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Eleventh Hour
(2010)
TV-PG | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
With his TARDIS in ruins, the newly-regenerated Doctor with the help of Amy Pond must save the world in less than twenty minutes from galactic policemen known as the Atraxi.
Director: Adam Smith | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Caitlin Blackwood
Votes: 9,591
38.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Husbands of River Song
(2015)
TV-PG | 56 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song's squad and hurled into a chase across the galaxy.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Alex Kingston, Matt Lucas, Greg Davies
Votes: 6,417
39.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Girl in the Fireplace
(2006)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Mickey and Rose land on a spaceship in the 51st century only to find 18th century Versailles on board, the time of Madame De Pompadour! To find out what's going on the Doctor must enter Versailles and save Madame De Popmpadour but it turns into an emotional roller coaster for the Doctor.
Director: Euros Lyn | Stars: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Noel Clarke, Sophia Myles
Votes: 12,753
40.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
World Enough and Time
(2017)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
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. Are events already out of control?
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Michelle Gomez
Votes: 6,003
Also Includes 'The Doctor Falls'
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