The Giggle: The Toymaker Dances and the Doctor Gets Let Off
The Giggle gives Neil Patrick Harris the best villain the show has had in years, then ends the Doctor’s story with a fudge nobody asked for.
The Giggle gives Neil Patrick Harris the best villain the show has had in years, then ends the Doctor’s story with a fudge nobody asked for.
Wild Blue Yonder strands the Doctor and Donna on an empty ship at the edge of the universe with something wearing their faces. Genuinely frightening.
The Star Beast reunites Tennant and Tate for the 60th anniversary, and they’re magnificent. The resolution to Donna’s metacrisis is the weak link.
In 1963, a new show debuted on the BBC that would change the face of television. Doctor Who follows the adventures of a Time Lord – a humanoid alien who…
Under the Lake traps the Doctor and Clara in an underwater base full of ghosts that kill, in a slow episode rescued by a cracking cliffhanger.
Three Doctors, a weapon with a conscience, and an anniversary special that reaches back into the show’s darkest decision and quietly undoes it.
Matt Smith is really starting to shine now … the newest installation of Doctor Who sees The Doctor and Amy in the far future of the human race where they…
The End of Time Part Two answers four knocks, reveals why the Doctor ended the Time War, and gives the Tenth Doctor the least noble death imaginable.
The End of Time Part One brings the Master back wrong, gives Wilfred Mott the best scene of the era, and ends by opening a door onto the Time War itself.
The Waters of Mars traps the Doctor on a doomed Mars base where everyone must die, and watches him decide that the laws of time no longer apply to him.
Planet of the Dead sends a London bus through a wormhole to a devoured world, and ends with a prophecy that finally puts a shape on the Doctor’s fate.
The Next Doctor drops the Doctor into 1851 London to meet a man claiming to be him, in a Christmas special about grief, identity and a very large Cyberman.
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.
Turn Left changes one small decision in Donna’s life and watches Britain collapse without the Doctor, in the bleakest hour Doctor Who has ever produced.
Midnight traps the Doctor in a stranded shuttle with something that steals his voice, and lets a busload of frightened people become the real monster.
Forest of the Dead explains what saved means, gives Donna a whole life she never had, and asks River Song to die for a man who has never met her.
Silence in the Library strands the Doctor on a planet-sized library where the shadows eat people, and introduces a woman who knows him far too well.
The Unicorn and the Wasp drops the Doctor and Donna into a 1926 country house murder with Agatha Christie, a jewel thief, and a giant alien wasp.
The Doctor’s Daughter grows a child from the Doctor’s own hand, drops her into a war that isn’t what it seems, and sends Martha Jones home for good.
The Poison Sky ends the Sontaran two-parter with a choking Earth, a UNIT counter-attack that fails, and a spoilt genius finally doing one decent thing.