Twice Upon a Time: Laugh Hard, Run Fast, Be Kind
Two Doctors refuse to regenerate at the same moment, in a slight, gentle Christmas special that exists almost entirely to say goodbye properly.
Two Doctors refuse to regenerate at the same moment, in a slight, gentle Christmas special that exists almost entirely to say goodbye properly.
The Doctor makes his stand on a farm two miles up a colony ship, and finally explains why he does any of it. Capaldi’s finest hour as the Twelfth Doctor.
A colony ship escaping a black hole runs at different speeds on different decks, and Bill spends a decade at the bottom of it while the Doctor loses minutes.
The writer of the last classic serial returns after twenty-eight years with a story about Picts, Romans, a gate between worlds, and a creature that eats light.
NASA finds a message carved under the Martian ice, and Doctor Who delivers a proper old-fashioned romp about the British Empire meeting something older.
Six months into the occupation the Monks have rewritten every human memory, and the Doctor appears to be working for them. The trilogy’s weakest instalment.
A pyramid appears overnight on a disputed border and the Monks offer to save the world, on one condition: somebody has to surrender to them willingly, out of love.
A Vatican text drives every reader to suicide, and the reason is the single best twist Doctor Who has pulled in years. Nothing you are watching is real.
A mining station where the spacesuits have killed their crew and are walking the corpses around, in the most savage and best-argued episode of the season.
Bill and five housemates take a suspiciously cheap house with a suspiciously helpful landlord, and Doctor Who does a straight haunted-house story rather well.
A colony built by robots programmed to keep humans happy, which decided that the first person to grieve was a fault in the system and removed everybody.
Doctor Who does a straight-faced superhero pastiche, introduces Nardole properly, and gives a grieving Doctor something harmless to do for an hour.