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
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 Dalek mutant buried under Sheffield builds itself a casing out of scrap, in a New Year special that finally remembers how to make a monster frightening.
The Doctor spends nine hundred years defending a town called Christmas, runs out of regenerations, and Matt Smith gets one of the great goodbyes.
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.
The Daleks return in WWII London, serving tea to Churchill while hiding sinister motives. Matt Smith’s Doctor must uncover their true plan before history itself is rewritten.
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.
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.
Evolution of the Daleks gives Dalek Sec a conscience and his own kind a mutiny, in a Manhattan finale with great ideas and a very messy execution.
Daleks in Manhattan drops the Cult of Skaro into Depression-era New York, with pig slaves in the sewers and an experiment beneath the Empire State Building.
Daleks in Manhattan drops the Cult of Skaro into Depression-era New York, with pig slaves in the sewers and an experiment beneath the Empire State Building.
Doomsday pits Daleks against Cybermen over London and ends on a Norwegian beach, delivering the most devastating farewell Doctor Who has ever filmed.
Army of Ghosts pays off a season of hints as Torchwood opens a breach, ghosts fill the world, and Doctor Who springs a jaw-dropping double cliffhanger.
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.