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 Ninth Doctor confronts his greatest fear in “Dalek,” a chilling episode that explores the horrors of war and the power of forgiveness.
“Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!” This iconic line from “The Doctor Dances” (episode 1.10) perfectly encapsulates the heart of this brilliant episode. Now that I’ve gotten “back…
Three Doctors, a weapon with a conscience, and an anniversary special that reaches back into the show’s darkest decision and quietly undoes it.
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.
Partners in Crime brings Donna Noble back as a full companion, with a diet pill that turns fat into waddling aliens and a shock cameo nobody saw coming.
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.
Fear Her sends the Doctor and Rose to the 2012 London Olympics, where a lonely girl’s drawings are making children vanish. A gentle, uneven episode.
Love & Monsters is Doctor Who’s strangest experiment yet, telling the story from a fan’s point of view, with a naff monster and a surprisingly big heart.
The Satan Pit sends the Doctor into the abyss to face the Beast itself, in a Doctor Who two-parter finale about faith, reason, and believing in Rose.
The Impossible Planet strands the Doctor and Rose on a base by a black hole, where the Ood turn deadly and something ancient stirs in the dark.
The Idiot’s Lantern sends the Doctor and Rose into 1953 Coronation London, where the Wire feeds on TV viewers by stealing their faces.
The Age of Steel reveals the Cybermen’s true horror and gives Mickey Smith his hero moment in an emotionally sharp Doctor Who finale.
Rise of the Cybermen strands the Doctor on a parallel Earth where Rose’s dad is alive and John Lumic is building an army of steel men from the living.
The Girl in the Fireplace sends the Tenth Doctor through time windows into 18th-century France, clockwork monsters and a love story that breaks your heart.
Sarah Jane Smith walks back into the Doctor’s life in School Reunion, and it’s the most emotional hour Doctor Who has given me since it came back.
Tooth and Claw drops the Tenth Doctor and Rose into 1879 Scotland with a werewolf, Queen Victoria, and the birth of a very familiar institute.
New Earth kicks off Series 2 with cat-nuns, a plague farm, and the return of Cassandra as the Tenth Doctor and Rose take their first real trip together.