DOCTOR WHO: DARK WATER (S8E11)
Danny dies in a road accident while on the phone to Clara. Struggling with her grief, Clara blackmails The Doctor by drugging him and threatening to throw his 7 remaining…
Danny dies in a road accident while on the phone to Clara. Struggling with her grief, Clara blackmails The Doctor by drugging him and threatening to throw his 7 remaining…
While getting coffee for Clara, The Doctor uses the TARDIS to rescue Journey Blue, a soldier fighting the Daleks, from her exploding spaceship. Returning her to command ship Aristotle, he…
The Weeping Angels farm New York for time energy, Rory finds himself dying of old age in a room upstairs, and the Ponds get the ending they choose together.
A billion small black cubes arrive on Earth and do nothing for a year, in an episode that is wonderful about ordinary life and hopeless about its own monster.
A war criminal is hiding in a frontier town, a cyborg is waiting outside the line, and the Doctor very nearly throws a man to his death over it.
A Silurian ark full of dinosaurs is heading for Earth, Rory’s dad ends up aboard with a trowel, and the Doctor does something genuinely cold to a trader.
The Daleks kidnap the Doctor to save them, and a girl making souffles in a crashed ship turns out to be the most upsetting reveal the show has done in years.
River refuses to kill the Doctor and time collapses into a single afternoon, in a finale with superb imagery, a beautiful tribute, and an escape hatch.
A hotel with a room for everyone’s worst fear turns out to be feeding on something else entirely, and the Doctor has to break Amy’s faith in him to save her.
Amy is stranded in a faster time stream and survives alone for thirty-six years, and Rory is made to choose which version of his wife gets to live.
Night Terrors answers a child’s cry for help and finds a cupboard full of monsters, in a small, warm horror story about a father learning what his son is.
Let’s Kill Hitler shoves Hitler in a cupboard, regenerates Amy’s childhood friend into River Song, and explains why she can’t regenerate in the library.
A Good Man Goes to War has the Doctor take an asteroid without firing a shot, lose anyway, and learn who River Song is. The reveal lands perfectly.
The Almost People gives the Doctor a duplicate of himself, asks whether a copy is a person, and ends on the most brutal cliffhanger of the Matt Smith era.
The Doctor’s Wife puts the TARDIS in a woman’s body and lets her talk back, and the show finally tells the love story it has been telling since 1963.
The Curse of the Black Spot strands the Doctor on a becalmed pirate ship where a singing woman in the reflections takes anyone who cuts a finger.
Day of the Moon beats a monster nobody can remember by hiding a message in the Apollo 11 broadcast, and gives River Song her cruellest scene yet.
The Impossible Astronaut opens Series 6 by killing the Doctor in the first fifteen minutes and introducing a monster you forget the moment you look away.
A Christmas Carol turns Dickens into time travel, letting the Doctor rewrite a cruel man’s childhood while a starliner falls out of the sky above him.
The Lodger strands the Doctor in a Colchester house share with a terrible flatmate act, a football match, and something upstairs that shouldn’t exist.
Vincent and the Doctor takes Van Gogh to see his own exhibition, and then refuses to let that fix anything. The finest hour Series 5 has produced.