Revolution of the Daleks: Two Goodbyes and a Recycling Plant
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.
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, and Martha Jones walking the Earth, then walking away.
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.
Bad Wolf drops the Doctor, Rose and Jack into deadly reality TV on the Game Station, and one of the season’s biggest mysteries finally pays off.
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.
The Doctor Dances reveals what Jack’s ambulance really is, why Nancy’s hiding the truth, and how everybody actually lives.