A Good Man Goes to War: The Army Was the Trap
A Good Man Goes to War has the Doctor take an asteroid without firing a shot, lose anyway, and learn who River Song is. The reveal lands perfectly.
A Good Man Goes to War has the Doctor take an asteroid without firing a shot, lose anyway, and learn who River Song is. The reveal lands perfectly.
Day of the Moon beats a monster nobody can remember by hiding a message in the Apollo 11 broadcast, and gives River Song her cruellest scene yet.
The Impossible Astronaut opens Series 6 by killing the Doctor in the first fifteen minutes and introducing a monster you forget the moment you look away.
A Christmas Carol turns Dickens into time travel, letting the Doctor rewrite a cruel man’s childhood while a starliner falls out of the sky above him.
Flesh and Stone ends the Weeping Angels two-parter with a blind walk through a forest of statues and a crack in the universe that eats people whole.
The Eleventh Hour crash-lands Matt Smith’s new Doctor in Amelia Pond’s garden, in a debut with a few hiccups and a stellar Karen Gillan.
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.
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.
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.