The End of Time, Part One: Everything I Am Dies
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 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.
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 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.
The Sontaran Stratagem brings Martha Jones back with UNIT, turns 400 million satnavs into a weapon, and unleashes the Sontarans on modern Earth.
Planet of the Ood finally explains why the Ood serve, and the answer is surgical. A blunt, angry anti-slavery story and the best use of Donna Noble yet.
The Fires of Pompeii strands the Doctor and Donna in Pompeii the day before Vesuvius, forcing an impossible choice and proving why he needs her with him.
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.
Last of the Time Lords ends Series 3 with a year of occupation, the truth about the Toclafane, the Master’s death, and Martha Jones finally choosing herself.
Utopia takes the Doctor, Martha and a returning Captain Jack to the end of the universe, where a kindly old professor keeps a fob watch he can’t explain.
Blink barely features the Doctor and is the best episode Doctor Who has ever made, introducing the Weeping Angels and a time paradox that fits perfectly.
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 an experiment beneath the Empire State Building.
Daleks in Manhattan drops the Cult of Skaro into Depression-era New York, with pig slaves in the sewers and an experiment beneath the Empire State Building.
Gridlock returns to New Earth for a traffic jam that has lasted decades, giant crabs in the fumes, and the Face of Boe finally speaking his last words.
The Runaway Bride drops a shouting bride into the TARDIS, unleashes the Empress of the Racnoss, and shows us a grieving Doctor nobody is left to restrain.
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.