Favourite Doctor Who episodes
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1.
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: 9,586
2.
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: 23,907
3.
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
4.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
A Christmas Carol
(2010)
TV-PG | 62 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Festive edition of the time-travelling drama. The Doctor has one hour to save a crashing spaceship and a miser's soul - but what lurks in the fog?
Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Michael Gambon
Votes: 8,484
5.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Boom Town
(2005)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Stopping off in present-day Cardiff to recharge the TARDIS, The Doctor, Rose and Jack meet up with Mickey and encounter an old foe in the midst of hatching a scheme that could destroy the entire planet.
Director: Joe Ahearne | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, William Thomas, Annette Badland
Votes: 7,586
6.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Tooth and Claw
(2006)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Rose are transported to 19th Century Scotland, where they meet Queen Victoria, and try to protect her from a ravenous werewolf and a band of assassinating warrior-monks
Director: Euros Lyn | Stars: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Pauline Collins, Ian Hanmore
Votes: 8,030
7.
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: 8,129
8.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Flesh and Stone
(2010)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Amy, Dr. Song and the remaining soldiers manage to escape from the crashed ship and into the forest. The Angels attempt to create a rift in time and space such as the Doctor had... See full summary »
Director: Adam Smith | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Alex Kingston, Iain Glen
Votes: 7,533
9.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Doctor Dances
(2005)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The gas mask zombies are on the rise as the plague spreads across war-torn London.
Director: James Hawes | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Albert Valentine, Florence Hoath
Votes: 9,610
10.
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: 10,377
11.
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: 7,499
12.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Vampires of Venice
(2010)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Amy cross swords in more ways than one with a horde of blood-sucking vampires in 16th century Venice.
Director: Jonny Campbell | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Helen McCrory
Votes: 6,979
13.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Bad Wolf
(2005)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Rose and Jack are separated and forced to compete in twisted and deadly games on the Game Station.
Director: Joe Ahearne | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, John Barrowman, Jo Joyner
Votes: 8,533
14.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Parting of the Ways
(2005)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
As the Dalek fleet begin their attack on the Earth, the Doctor and his allies make one final stand.
Director: Joe Ahearne | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, John Barrowman, Jo Stone-Fewings
Votes: 9,138
15.
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: 8,214
16.
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: 7,532
17.
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
18.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Smith and Jones
(2007)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When medical student Martha Jones meets a mysterious stranger called The Doctor, and finds herself transported to the moon, her life will never be the same again.
Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Anne Reid, Roy Marsden
Votes: 7,773
19.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Stolen Earth
(2008)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The return of an old enemy leaves Earth along with 26 other planets stolen from their places. As the Doctor and Donna look for the whereabouts of Earth, former companions of the Doctor assemble a resistance against the new Dalek Empire.
Director: Graeme Harper | Stars: David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman
Votes: 8,454
20.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Sound of Drums
(2007)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Martha and Jack return to the 21st Century eighteen months after the Doctor and Martha left. They find they've missed the election, and the new Prime Minister, Harold Saxon, is someone they've met before by another name.
Director: Colin Teague | Stars: David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, John Barrowman, John Simm
Votes: 8,187
21.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Rings of Akhaten
(2013)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The doctor takes Clara to the rings of Akhaten, A partly destroyed planet, where a religious ceremony is about to be carried out, but a darkness is stirring, a hungry darkness that could consume the rings of Akhaten and the universe.
Director: Farren Blackburn | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Michael Dixon, Nicola Thorp
Votes: 7,032
22.
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: 8,271
23.
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
24.
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: 12,749
25.
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: 6,416
26.
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: 6,826
27.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Next Doctor
(2008)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor arrives in London on Christmas Eve in 1851 where he encounters the Cybermen and a man who claims he's a Time Lord called the Doctor.
Director: Andy Goddard | Stars: David Tennant, David Morrissey, Dervla Kirwan, Velile Tshabalala
Votes: 5,655
28.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Rise of the Cybermen
(2006)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The TARDIS crash lands in London on a parallel world, where Rose's dad is still alive, people are disappearing off the streets and one of the Doctor's deadliest enemies is about to be reborn.
Director: Graeme Harper | Stars: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke
Votes: 7,570
29.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Witch's Familiar
(2015)
TV-PG | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Trapped and alone in a terrifying Dalek city, the Doctor is at the heart of an evil Empire; no sonic, no TARDIS, nobody to help. With his greatest temptation before him, can the Doctor resist? And will there be mercy?
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Michelle Gomez, Jami Reid-Quarrell
Votes: 6,170
30.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The God Complex
(2011)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Amy and Rory become trapped in a hotel of horrors unable to escape and unable to find the TARDIS. The Doctor must save as many people as he can taking many twists and seeing his own worst fear.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Sarah Quintrell
Votes: 6,514
31.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Mummy on the Orient Express
(2014)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
On the most beautiful train in history, speeding amongst the stars of the future, a deadly and immortal creature is stalking the passengers.
Director: Paul Wilmshurst | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Frank Skinner
Votes: 6,691
32.
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
33.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Zygon Invasion
(2015)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Zygons, a shape-shifting alien race, and humans live in peace together on earth, but a group of rogue zygons threaten the peace between humans and zygons.
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Ingrid Oliver, Jemma Redgrave
Votes: 5,388
34.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Thin Ice
(2017)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Bill visit London during the last of the River Thames frost fairs in February 1814. They soon discover that there is something under the ice which is causing people to disappear.
Director: Bill Anderson | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Nicholas Burns
Votes: 4,882
35.
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
36.
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
37.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Fugitive of the Judoon
(2020)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Stomping their way into present-day Gloucester, the Judoon are on the hunt for someone on the run. Who is this fugitive? And why are these alien mercenaries after them?
Director: Nida Manzoor | Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole
Votes: 6,039
38.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Haunting of Villa Diodati
(2020)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Villa Diodati, 1816 - on a night that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The plan was to spend the evening in the presence of literary greats - but the ghosts are all too real. And the Doctor is forced into an earth-shattering decision.
Director: Emma Sullivan | Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill
Votes: 4,898
39.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Eve of the Daleks
(2022)
TV-14 | 58 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Sarah owns and runs ELF storage, and Nick is a customer who visits his unit every year on New Year's Eve. This year, however, their night turns out to be a little different than planned.
Director: Annetta Laufer | Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Aisling Bea
Votes: 3,399
40.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Flux: Chapter Two - War of the Sontarans
(2021)
TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
During the Crimean War, the Doctor discovers the British army fighting a brutal alien army of Sontarans, as Yaz and Dan are thrown deeper into a battle for survival. What is the Temple of Atropos? Who are the Mouri?
Director: Jamie Magnus Stone | Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Jonathan Watson
Votes: 3,795
41.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Flux: Chapter Four - Village of the Angels
(2021)
TV-14 | 56 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Devon, November 1967. A little girl has gone missing, Prof Jericho is conducting psychic experiments and in the graveyard there is one gravestone too many. Why is Medderton known as The Cursed Village and what do the Weeping Angels want?
Director: Jamie Magnus Stone | Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Kevin McNally
Votes: 3,845
42.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Ghost Monument
(2018)
TV-PG | 48 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Still reeling from their first encounter, can the Doctor and her new friends stay alive long enough, in a hostile alien environment, to solve the mystery of Desolation? And just who are Angstrom and Epzo?
Director: Mark Tonderai | Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill
Votes: 8,947
43.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Spyfall: Part Two
(2020)
TV-PG | 61 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A terrifying plan to destroy humanity is about to reach fruition. Can the Doctor and her friends escape multiple traps and defeat a deadly alliance?
Director: Lee Haven Jones | Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill
Votes: 5,998
44.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Witchfinders
(2018)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Arriving in 17th Century Lancashire, the TARDIS team become embroiled in a witch trial. With the arrival of King James I, the hunt for witches intensifies. However, could something more ... See full summary »
Director: Sallie Aprahamian | Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill
Votes: 6,626
45.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Spyfall: Part One
(2020)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When intelligence agents around the world come under attack from alien forces, MI6 turns to the only person who can help... The Doctor.
Director: Jamie Magnus Stone | Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole
Votes: 6,664
46.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Ascension of the Cybermen
(2020)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the far future, the Doctor and her friends face a brutal battle across the farthest reaches of space to protect the last of the human race against the deadly Cybermen.
Director: Jamie Magnus Stone | Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole
Votes: 4,518
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