Bad Wolf: Where Reality Bites and the Series Arc Tightens (S1E12)
The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack face deadly game shows on Satellite Five, but the “Bad Wolf” mystery hides a chilling truth. Daleks return! #DoctorWho
The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack face deadly game shows on Satellite Five, but the “Bad Wolf” mystery hides a chilling truth. Daleks return! #DoctorWho
“Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!” This iconic line from “The Doctor Dances” (episode 1.10) perfectly encapsulates the heart of this brilliant episode. Now that I’ve gotten “back…
The Doctor breaks out of prison to find Daleks being manufactured as British security drones, in a special that works best when it stops being a plot.
A Judoon squad lands in Gloucester hunting a fugitive, and the Doctor finds a version of herself she has no memory of ever being. The season’s best hour.
Journey’s End ends Series 4 with a reality bomb, a second Doctor, a return to Bad Wolf Bay, and the cruellest fate the show has ever handed a companion.
The Stolen Earth takes the planet out of the sky, brings every companion back at once, reveals Davros, and ends on the show’s cruellest cliffhanger.
Last of the Time Lords ends Series 3 with a year of occupation, the truth about the Toclafane, the Master’s death, and Martha Jones finally choosing herself.
The Sound of Drums reveals Mister Saxon as the Master, newly elected Prime Minister, and pays off a season of hints with a truly nasty cliffhanger.
Utopia takes the Doctor, Martha and a returning Captain Jack to the end of the universe, where a kindly old professor keeps a fob watch he can’t explain.
My own Season 1 celebration: Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor, the Slitheen, Dalek, and a finale I was not ready for.
The Ninth Doctor refuses to fire the delta wave, Rose becomes the Bad Wolf, and Doctor Who says goodbye to Eccleston in The Parting of the Ways.
Boom Town looks like a filler episode, but the dinner scene between the Doctor and Margaret Blaine is one of Series 1’s best moral gut-punches.