The BEST episodes of Doctor Who (2005)

Every episode of Doctor Who (2005) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best 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.

Last Updated: 9/23/2023Network: BBC OneStatus: Continuing
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Blink
star
9.10
3459 votes

#1 - Blink

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/9/2007

Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time. So Sally Sparrow must fly into action...

Directors: Hettie Macdonald
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A Good Man Goes to War (1)
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8.53
3907 votes

#2 - A Good Man Goes to War (1)

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/4/2011

Amy Pond has been kidnapped and the Doctor is raising an army to rescue her as the drama continues. But as he and Rory race across galaxies, calling in long-held debts and solemnly given promises, his enemies are laying a carefully concealed trap. In her cell in Stormcage, River Song sadly acknowledges that the time has come at last – today will mark the Battle of Demons Run and the Doctor’s darkest hour. Both sides will make their sacrifices and River Song must finally reveal her most closely guarded secret to the Doctor.

Directors: Peter Hoar
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Forest of the Dead (2)
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8.53
3006 votes

#3 - Forest of the Dead (2)

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/7/2008

The Doctor and Donna land in a frightening position in the far future. While investigating a derelict library, the duo come face to face with the disembodied mind of a little girl, an archaeological team led by a woman from the Doctor's future, and swarms of flesh-eating creatures that are seen only as shadows

Directors: Euros Lyn
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The Name of the Doctor
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8.52
3078 votes

#4 - The Name of the Doctor

Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/18/2013

Someone is kidnapping the Doctor's friends, leading him towards the one place in all of time and space that he should never go.

Directors: Saul Metzstein
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Heaven Sent (1)
star
8.51
2548 votes

#5 - Heaven Sent (1)

Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/2015

Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone. Pursued by the fearsome creature known only as the Veil, he must attempt the impossible. If he makes it through, Gallifrey is waiting…

Directors: Rachel Talalay
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Silence in the Library (1)
star
8.50
3088 votes

#6 - Silence in the Library (1)

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/31/2008

The Doctor and Donna land in a frightening position in the far future. While investigating a derelict library, the duo come face to face with the disembodied mind of a little girl, an archaeological team led by a woman from the Doctor's future, and swarms of flesh-eating creatures that are seen only as shadows.

Directors: Euros Lyn
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Vincent and the Doctor
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8.48
4178 votes

#7 - Vincent and the Doctor

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/5/2010

Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. Amy Pond finds herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gogh, in a battle with a deadly alien - saving the world has never been so ginger! But can even the Doctor save Vincent?

Directors: Jonny Campbell
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The Angels Take Manhattan
star
8.47
3616 votes

#8 - The Angels Take Manhattan

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/29/2012

The Doctor’s heart-breaking farewell to Amy and Rory – a race against time through the streets of Manhattan, as New York’s statues come to life around them… With Rory’s life in danger, the Doctor and Amy must locate him before it’s too late! Luckily, an old friend helps them and guides the way.

Directors: Nick Hurran
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Journey's End (2)
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8.46
3469 votes

#9 - Journey's End (2)

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/5/2008

The Earth has been overwhelmed and the universe faces dominion by the resurgent forces of a terrifying and limitless empire led by one of The Doctor's greatest enemies. Aiding the Time Lord in a final battle are several of his closest allies and companions, but for one of them, a price will be paid...

Directors: Graeme Harper
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Doomsday (2)
star
8.46
3040 votes

#10 - Doomsday (2)

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/8/2006

As the human race is caught in a war between Daleks and Cybermen, the Doctor faces losing Rose.

Directors: Graeme Harper
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The Big Bang (2)
star
8.45
4215 votes

#11 - The Big Bang (2)

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/26/2010

The Doctor is gone, the Tardis has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little girl who still believes in stars.

Directors: Toby Haynes
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The Eleventh Hour
star
8.41
4624 votes

#12 - The Eleventh Hour

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/2010

The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover. With the TARDIS wrecked, and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has just 20 minutes to save the whole world - and only Amy Pond to help him.

Directors: Adam Smith
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Hell Bent (2)
star
8.39
2293 votes

#13 - Hell Bent (2)

Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/2015

If you took everything from him, betrayed him, trapped him, and broke both his hearts...how far might the Doctor go? Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time itself. Who is the Hybrid? And what is the Doctor’s confession?

Directors: Rachel Talalay
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Turn Left
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8.39
2885 votes

#14 - Turn Left

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/21/2008

Whilst attending a carnival on the Chino-planet of Shan Shen, Donna is cajoled into having her fortune read, where her past is carefully examined. With the Doctor missing, Donna must work with Rose, a traveller from a parallel universe, to prevent darkness encompassing the whole of the universe.

Directors: Graeme Harper
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The Stolen Earth (1)
star
8.36
3414 votes

#15 - The Stolen Earth (1)

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/28/2008

The Earth has been moved, and it's a race against time as Donna and the Doctor try to find it before the Daleks destroy everything; they head for the Shadow Proclamation and the Medusa Cascade. Meanwhile on Earth a veritable bevy of ex-companions join together to contact the Doctor and take down the Daleks. Can Captain Jack, Sarah-Jane, Martha Jones and Rose find the Doctor in time...

Directors: Graeme Harper
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The Parting of the Ways (2)
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8.34
3199 votes

#16 - The Parting of the Ways (2)

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/18/2005

The ninth Doctor's final episode is an epic encounter with the Daleks.

Directors: Joe Ahearne
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The Pandorica Opens (1)
star
8.33
3976 votes

#17 - The Pandorica Opens (1)

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/19/2010

The Doctor's friends unite to send him a terrible warning; the Pandorica - which is said to contain the most feared being in all the cosmos - is opening. But what's inside, and can the Doctor stop it?

Directors: Toby Haynes
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The Girl in the Fireplace
star
8.32
3234 votes

#18 - The Girl in the Fireplace

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/6/2006

The Doctor is smitten by Madame de Pompadour, but the court at Versailles is under attack from Clockwork killers...

Directors: Euros Lyn
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World Enough and Time
star
8.31
2296 votes

#19 - World Enough and Time

Season 10 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/24/2017

Friendship drives the Doctor into the rashest decision of his life. Trapped on a giant spaceship, caught in the event horizon of a black hole, he witnesses the death of someone he is pledged to protect. Is there any way he can redeem his mistake? Are events already out of control? For once, time is the Time Lord’s enemy...

Directors: Rachel Talalay
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The Wedding of River Song
star
8.31
3685 votes

#20 - The Wedding of River Song

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/1/2011

As the Doctor makes his final journey to the shores of Lake Silencio in Utah, he knows only one thing can keep the universe safe – his own death – in the concluding episode of this series of the time-travelling drama. But has he reckoned without the love of a good woman?

Directors: Jeremy Webb
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The Doctor Falls
star
8.26
2209 votes

#21 - The Doctor Falls

Season 10 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/1/2017

“Without hope, without witness, without reward.” The Mondasian Cybermen are on the rise. It’s time for the Doctor’s final battle…

Directors: Rachel Talalay
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Last of the Time Lords (3)
star
8.26
2676 votes

#22 - Last of the Time Lords (3)

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/30/2007

Earth has been conquered, the Doctor and Jack are imprisoned and the Master rules supreme. Can Martha Jones save the world?

Directors: Colin Teague
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Asylum of the Daleks
star
8.25
3681 votes

#23 - Asylum of the Daleks

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/1/2012

Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission - to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter... the Asylum. A planetary prison confining the most terrifying and insane of their kind, the Doctor and the Ponds must find an escape route. But with Amy and Rory’s relationship in meltdown, and an army of mad Daleks closing in, it is up to the Doctor to save their lives, as well as the Pond’s marriage.

Directors: Nick Hurran
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The Time of Angels (1)
star
8.24
4203 votes

#24 - The Time of Angels (1)

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/2010

A crashed spaceship, a shattered temple and a terrifying climb through the maze of the dead - River Song is back in the Doctor's life, and she's brought more trouble than even he can handle. The last of the weeping Angels is loose in the ruins of Alfava Metraxis, and the Doctor is recruited to track it down. "Don't blink!" everyone tells Amy - but Amy is about to discover, not blinking might just be the worst thing you can do...

Directors: Adam Smith
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Flesh and Stone (2)
star
8.24
3802 votes

#25 - Flesh and Stone (2)

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/1/2010

There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, The Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner. Meanwhile, in the forest vault, the Doctor's companion, Amy Pond, finds herself facing an even more deadly attack.

Directors: Adam Smith
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