Fugitive of the Judoon: The Woman in the Lighthouse
A Judoon squad lands in Gloucester hunting a fugitive, and the Doctor finds a version of herself she has no memory of ever being. The season’s best hour.
A Judoon squad lands in Gloucester hunting a fugitive, and the Doctor finds a version of herself she has no memory of ever being. The season’s best hour.
The fam meet Nikola Tesla at Niagara Falls and find a scavenger queen wearing stolen technology, in a warm historical with a thin monster at the centre.
Spyfall Part Two strands the Doctor across three centuries, gives Sacha Dhawan the season’s best performance, and lets its own spy thriller evaporate.
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.
Series 11 ends with Tim Shaw as a false god and Graham deciding whether to avenge Grace, in a finale with no scale, no stakes and no season to resolve.
A cabin in Norway hides a mirror world that offers back the dead, in the strangest and most divisive episode of Series 11, and the one Graham needed.
A help message in a Kerblam! delivery sends the fam undercover in a galactic warehouse, in the season’s most conventional and most argued-about episode.
Yaz travels to 1947 Punjab to find out about her grandmother’s first husband, in the season’s best-judged hour and its smartest use of a monster.
A creature that eats energy gets loose on a medical transport, in the season’s flimsiest hour, redeemed slightly by a genuinely good monster design.
Giant spiders overrun a Sheffield hotel built on a landfill, in an episode that wants to be about corporate greed and forgets to be about spiders.
Rosa puts the fam in Montgomery in 1955 and asks them to protect a fixed point, in an episode whose historical drama is far better than its science fiction.
The Doctor and the fam get stranded on Desolation in a race across a dead planet, in a handsome, weightless episode that drops the season’s only real clue.
Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor falls through a train roof with no TARDIS, no sonic and no memory, in a debut that gets the character right and the plot wrong.
Unlike the previous installment this story has much more action. Aiden has assumed the identity of a Freeborn warrior, named Jorge. Freeborn warriors, unlike the genetically engineered Trueborn, are born…
Taking place on the planet Ironhold, this series begins with fresh recruits to the Jade Falcon military clan. The youthful hopefuls were bred through scientific methods meant to make genetically…
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.