The WORST episodes of Doctor Who (2005)
Every episode of Doctor Who (2005) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Doctor Who (2005)!
The Doctor is an alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels through all of time and space in the TARDIS. The Doctor has a long list of friends and companions who have shared journeys along the way. Instead of dying, the Doctor is able to “regenerate” into a new body, taking on a new personality with each regeneration.
#1 - Orphan 55
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/12/2020
The Doctor and her friends discover that the luxury resort where they are holidaying is hiding a number of deadly secrets. What are the ferocious monsters attacking Tranquillity Spa?
#2 - Sleep No More
Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/2015
This terrifying story is assembled from footage discovered in the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station.
#3 - Praxeus
Season 12 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/2/2020
What connects a missing astronaut in the Indian Ocean, birds behaving strangely in Peru and a US naval officer who washes up on a Madagascan beach? Team Tardis investigate.
#4 - Love and Monsters
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/17/2006
An ordinary man called Elton becomes obsessed with the Doctor and Rose and their mysterious blue box. But when his investigations lead him to the attentions of the enigmatic Victor Kennedy, this harmless hobby suddenly plunges Elton into a world of living nightmares.
#5 - The Vanquishers (6)
Season 13 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/5/2021
In the final epic chapter in the story of the Flux, all hope is lost. The forces of darkness are in control. But when the monsters have won, who can you count upon to save the universe?
#6 - Arachnids in the UK
Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2018
'Something's happening with the spiders in this city.' The Doctor, Yaz, Graham and Ryan find their way back to Yorkshire - and Yaz's family - only to find something is stirring amidst the eight-legged arachnid population of Sheffield.
#7 - Can You Hear Me?
Season 12 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/9/2020
From ancient Syria to present day Sheffield, and out into the wilds of space, something is stalking the Doctor and infecting people’s nightmares.
#8 - The Tsuranga Conundrum
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2018
Injured and stranded in the wilds of a far-flung galaxy, the Doctor, Yaz, Graham and Ryan must band together with a group of strangers to survive against one of the universe's most deadly - and unusual - creatures.
#9 - Once, Upon Time (3)
Season 13 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/14/2021
'Time is beginning to run wild.' On a planet that shouldn’t exist, in the aftermath of apocalypse, the Doctor, Dan, Yaz and Vinder face a battle to survive.
#10 - Fear Her
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/24/2006
When the Tardis lands in 2012, the Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics. But on a nearby housing estate, a desperate mother is hiding her daughter's unearthly powers. Can the Doctor defeat the danger nestling at the heart of an ordinary British household?
#11 - In the Forest of the Night
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/25/2014
One morning in every city and town in the world, the human race wakes up to face the most surprising invasion yet. Everywhere, in every land, a forest has grown overnight and taken back the Earth. It doesn't take the Doctor long to discover that the final days of humanity have arrived.
#12 - Kill the Moon
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/4/2014
The Doctor and Clara crash-land on the moon to find a base full of corpses, vicious spider-like creatures poised to attack, and a terrible dilemma.
#13 - Survivors of the Flux (5)
Season 13 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/28/2021
As the forces of evil mass, the Doctor, Yaz and Dan face perilous journeys and seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their quest for survival.
#14 - The Witchfinders
Season 11 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/2018
In 17th-century Lancashire, the Doctor, Yaz, Ryan and Graham become embroiled in a witch trial and the arrival of King James I.
#15 - The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
Season 11 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2018
On the planet of Ranskoor Av Kolos, a battlefield, a conflict-scarred survivor, and a deadly reckoning await the Doctor, Ryan, Yaz and Graham.
#16 - Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/19/2020
1903. Who or what is sabotaging Nikola Tesla's generator plant at Niagara Falls? And has this maverick inventor really received a message from Mars?
#17 - The Lazarus Experiment
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/2007
Martha returns home, but has to save her family from the schemes of the monstrous Professor Lazarus.
#18 - The Curse of the Black Spot
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/7/2011
There's terror on the high seas, as the Doctor is stranded on a pirate ship where he must face an apparently deadly Siren...
#19 - World War Three (2)
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/23/2005
Downing Street announces mankind's first Interplanetary War, but the real danger is much closer to home. The Doctor, Rose and Harriet Jones race against time to unmask the villainous Slitheen, but only Rose's mum and boyfriend hold the key to salvation.
#20 - Robot of Sherwood
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/6/2014
In a sun-dappled Sherwood Forest, the Doctor discovers an evil plan from beyond the stars and strikes up an unlikely alliance with Robin Hood. With all of Nottingham at stake, the Doctor must decide who is real and who is fake. Can impossible heroes actually exist?
#21 - The Halloween Apocalypse (1)
Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/2021
On Halloween, all across the universe, terrifying forces are stirring. The life of Dan Lewis is about to change forever. Why is the Doctor chasing Karvanista? What is the Flux?
#22 - Kerblam!
Season 11 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2018
A mysterious message arrives in a package addressed to the Doctor, leading her, Graham, Yaz and Ryan to investigate the warehouse moon orbiting Kandoka, and the home of the galaxy's largest retailer, Kerblam.
#23 - War of the Sontarans (2)
Season 13 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/7/2021
During the Crimean War, the Doctor discovers the British army fighting a brutal alien army of Sontarans, as Yaz and Dan are thrown deeper into a battle for survival. What is the Temple of Atropos? Who are the Mouri?
#24 - The Timeless Children (2)
Season 12 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/1/2020
The Cybermen are on the march. The last remaining humans are hunted down. Lies are exposed, truths are revealed, and for the Doctor nothing will ever be the same.
#25 - Aliens of London (1)
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/16/2005
The Doctor takes Rose home, but when a spaceship crash-lands in the Thames, London is closed off and the whole world goes on red alert. While the Doctor investigates the alien survivor, Rose discovers that her home is no longer a safe haven.