The WORST episodes of Doctor Who

#1 - Timelash (2)

Season 22 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/16/1985

The Borad accepts no opposition and enables Maylin Tekker to expose the rebels and trap Peri with the Morlox. The Doctor tries to avert a war between Karfel and the Bandrils.

#2 - The Space Pirates (5)

Season 6 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/5/1969

#3 - The Space Pirates (4)

Season 6 - Episode 32 - Aired 3/29/1969

#4 - The Space Pirates (3)

Season 6 - Episode 31 - Aired 3/22/1969

#5 - Time and the Rani (4)

Season 24 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1987

The Rani, at last, links the Doctor into her great brain machine, the crowning jewel in her component packet of geniuses brought together to turn Lakertya itself into one vast cerebral mass capable of redirecting time anywhere in the universe, giving her absolute power over all creation.

#6 - The Space Pirates (1)

Season 6 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/8/1969

#7 - The Underwater Menace (4)

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/4/1967

With Zaroff's plan nearing completion, the Doctor and Ben realise the only way to save the world is to destroy Atlantis.

#8 - The Web Planet: The Centre (6)

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/20/1965

The Menoptra attack the Carsinome and the Doctor and his friends come face-to-face with the Animus. The Isop-Top device is their only hope of destroying the alien creature.

#9 - The Twin Dilemma (3)

Season 21 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/29/1984

The Doctor arrives on Jaconda, once lush and green, to find it completely devastated by giant gastropods. Old legends about the planet's half-human/half-slugs weren't just myths after all. With or without help from the Doctor and his unpredictable mood swings, Lt. Lang is up for rescuing the twins, who are finally informed of the grand purpose they've been brought to Jaconda to accomplish.

#10 - The Space Pirates (6)

Season 6 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/12/1969

#11 - The Web Planet: Crater of Needles (4)

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/1965

Ian and Vrestin fall into caverns beneath the surface of Vortis and encounter the Optera. The Doctor finds the landing site of the Menoptra, and the Zarbi prepare to ambush them.

#12 - The Underwater Menace (2)

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/21/1967

Jamie and Ben are set to work in the mines but are determined to escape. The Doctor discovers that Zaroff's mad plans will cause the destruction of the Earth.

#13 - The Web Planet: Invasion (5)

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/1965

Barbara and a few of the Menoptra hide in an ancient temple. The Doctor and Vicki escape the Carsinome and join forces with Barbara's group who are preparing to attack the Animus.

#14 - The Twin Dilemma (4)

Season 21 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/30/1984

The Doctor and Edgeworth deduce that the real plan of Mestor, the gastropod ruler of Jaconda, will not only destroy Jaconda but lead to the devastation of other planets. Together they hope to thwart him despite his formidable ability at slipping into people's minds and controlling them.

#15 - The Web Planet: Escape to Danger (3)

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/27/1965

The alien intelligence, the Animus, coerces the Doctor into tracking down the Menoptra. Ian escapes the Carsinome and joins forces with Vrestin, but the Zarbi are in pursuit.

#16 - Delta and the Bannermen (1)

Season 24 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1987

Wales, 1959. A top-secret US satellite has mysteriously gone missing. This could have something to do with the arrival of a party of alien tourists en route to Disneyland, amongst their number Mel and the Doctor, and the Queen of the Chimerons - who's fleeing the Bannermen and their genocidal leader Gavrok...

#17 - The Space Pirates (2)

Season 6 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/15/1969

General Hermack suspects Milo Clancey of being in league with the pirates. Trapped inside a segment of the beacon, the air supply is running out for the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.

#18 - Time and the Rani (3)

Season 24 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1987

The solstice nears, making it time for the Rani to bring her plans into fruition. The Doctor's sympathies for Beyus, ruler of the Lykertyans, are rather qualified. Beyus' heart is for his people yet something prompts him to collaborate fully in helping the Rani reach all her objectives. The answer, he's told, lies within the Center of Leisure.

#19 - Time and the Rani (2)

Season 24 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1987

The Rani's impersonation of Mel backfires badly because Urak can't tell the difference, while the Doctor attempts to learn the secret of the Loyhargil.

#20 - Timelash (1)

Season 22 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/9/1985

The planet Karfel, in the distant future. The tyrannical Borad rules with an iron fist, and any who oppose him are cast into the Timelash - a space-time tunnel leading to the past of an alien world called Earth...

#21 - The Underwater Menace (1)

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/14/1967

The TARDIS materialises on a deserted beach where the Doctor and his friends are captured by primitive warriors and taken to the fabled city of Atlantis.

#22 - The Trial of a Time Lord - The Mysterious Planet (3)

Season 23 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1986

The Doctor escapes to rejoin Peri on the surface but shortly becomes the prisoner of a surface-dwelling tribe called The Free. Ravalox isn't Ravalox after all, but before the Doctor can learn much more an irresistible agent from UK Habitat comes to fetch him back.

#23 - The Web Planet: The Zarbi (2)

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/20/1965

Rescued by the Menoptra, Barbara is then captured by the ant-like Zarbi. The Doctor and Ian trace the missing TARDIS to a giant web city and encounter a mysterious intelligence.

#24 - Time and the Rani (1)

Season 24 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1987

The alien world of Lakertya. With the aid of the savage Tetraps, the Rani has conquered this planet to allow her to continue her depraved biochemical experiments. But she finds herself needing the Doctor's assistance...

#25 - Meglos (3)

Season 18 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/11/1980

Can Romana escape the Gaztaks ? What has become of the Dodecahedron ? What pressing appointment awaits the Doctor ?