Eve of the Daleks: Nine Minutes, Over and Over, in a Storage Unit
Eve of the Daleks traps the Doctor in a nine-minute time loop in a Manchester storage facility, and it’s the most fun this era has been in ages.
Eve of the Daleks traps the Doctor in a nine-minute time loop in a Manchester storage facility, and it’s the most fun this era has been in ages.
The Vanquishers has to resolve every thread Flux started and does it in under an hour. Three Doctors, four villains, and almost no room to land any of it.
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.
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.
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 a plan hidden in the Empire State Building.
Doomsday sets Daleks against Cybermen over London, then ends on a cold Norwegian beach. My take on the Doctor Who finale and that goodbye.
Army of Ghosts turns a planet’s grief into a Cyberman invasion, opens up Torchwood Tower, and ends on a Dalek cliffhanger I never saw coming.
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.