The BEST episodes of Doctor Who season 15
Every episode of Doctor Who season 15, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Doctor Who season 15!
The Doctor, a mysterious traveller in space and time, travels in his ship, the TARDIS. The TARDIS can take him and his companions anywhere in time and space. Inevitably he finds evil at work wherever he goes...
#1 - Horror of Fang Rock (3)
Season 15 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1977
The Doctor barricades everyone in the lighthouse to protect them from the mysterious deadly creature in the fog. But it may already be inside, biding its time…
#2 - Horror of Fang Rock (4)
Season 15 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/1977
The Rutan starts picking off the surviving humans one by one as the Doctor and Leela struggle to defeat not only the alien but an entire fleet waiting to occupy Earth.
#3 - Horror of Fang Rock (2)
Season 15 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/1977
The survivors of a wrecked ship are stranded with the lighhouse crew on Fang Rock as a deadly menace slithers through the fog. Has the Beast of Fang Rock returned?
#4 - The Sun Makers (3)
Season 15 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/10/1977
Now Leela is the prisoner of the Collector. He knows of the Doctor and is determined to rid himself of both of them.
#5 - The Invasion of Time (1)
Season 15 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1978
Gallifrey, world of the Time Lords. The Doctor returns and claims the vacant presidency. But his behaviour is erratic and his motives mysterious.
#6 - The Sun Makers (1)
Season 15 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/26/1977
Pluto, the distant future. The planet has been terraformed and is now orbited by artificial suns, provided by the rapacious company who ruthlessly exploit the relocated human workforce. The Doctor, Leela, and K9 arrive and befriend a luckless drone worker, but they must flee with him to the dark undercity...
#7 - The Invasion of Time (5)
Season 15 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/4/1978
The Sontarans have invaded Gallifrey, seeking to seize the incredible power of the Time Lords. The Doctor's first step is to cut them off from their fleet. But Kelner is helping the enemy…
#8 - Image of the Fendahl (3)
Season 15 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/12/1977
While Max prepares to tap supernatural forces beyond imagining, the Doctor and Leela investigate the legend of the Fendahl.
#9 - Image of the Fendahl (1)
Season 15 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/29/1977
England, the late 1970s. At Fetch Priory, Dr Fendelman's experiments with the new Time Scanner are disrupted by the mysterious death nearby of a hiker. Then there's the mysterious skull, also being used as part of his work--a skull that seems to predate the evolution of mankind. What is the true role of the Fendahl in humanity's evolution?
#10 - Image of the Fendahl (2)
Season 15 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/5/1977
The mystery surrounding the strange skull deepens. Thea is slowly succumbing to its influence while the Doctor prepares to battle a creature from mythology.
#11 - Horror of Fang Rock (1)
Season 15 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/1977
The English channel, the 1900s AD. The TARDIS lands on barren Fang Rock, inhabited until now only by three light-house keepers. But what is the strange fog covering the island, and can it be connected to the falling star sighted earlier that night?
#12 - The Sun Makers (4)
Season 15 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/17/1977
The Doctor now moves to completely overthrow the Company. But the Collector has one last trump card to play.
#13 - The Invasion of Time (4)
Season 15 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/25/1978
The Doctor works to free his planet of the Vardan menace. How can he defeat an enemy who can read his very thoughts? And does their invasion conceal a greater menace?
#14 - Image of the Fendahl (4)
Season 15 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/19/1977
The Fendahl is returning to life, ready to consume everything in its path. Can the Doctor find a way to kill death itself?
#15 - The Invasion of Time (2)
Season 15 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1978
Now President of Gallifrey, the Doctor puts a plan motion to apparent betray his people to an alien menace.
#16 - The Invasion of Time (6)
Season 15 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/11/1978
The Sontarans finally invade the TARDIS itself, seeking the Great Key. The Doctor, however, has other uses for this powerful object…
#17 - The Invasion of Time (3)
Season 15 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1978
Gallifrey, world of the Time Lords. The Doctor has claimed the presidency of the planet (on a technicality, following events in the previous season's The Deadly Assassin) and his behaviour is even more eccentric than usual in other ways, too: he refuses to speak to Leela and seems only to trust K9. But has he really betrayed Gallifrey to a Vardan invasion force? And is there a further power behind the Vardans?
#18 - The Invisible Enemy (2)
Season 15 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/1977
Leela and Lowe take the Doctor to the Bi-Al Foundation for help. But how can they cure an infection of the mind?
#19 - The Sun Makers (2)
Season 15 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/3/1977
The Doctor has been captured by the Gatherer. Leela works to free him but the Gatherer is already laying his own plans…
#20 - The Invisible Enemy (3)
Season 15 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/15/1977
Miniaturized clones of the Doctor and Leela are injected into his brain. But they must now fight the virus on its own level. And its servants are closing in around them.
#21 - The Invisible Enemy (4)
Season 15 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/22/1977
The Nucleus, now grown to human size, is determined to spawn and take over the Galaxy. Only the Doctor and Leela can stop it.
#22 - The Invisible Enemy (1)
Season 15 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/1977
Deep space, 5000AD. An Earth supply shuttle is infected by a strange sentient space-borne virus, which quickly spreads to the crew of the refuelling station on the moon Titan. Even worse, the Doctor himself falls victim. But why is Leela immune, and what is the virus's ultimate goal?
#23 - Underworld (1)
Season 15 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1978
Deep space, an unknown time. The Doctor encounters the Minyans, survivors of a race the Time Lords unwittingly obliterated early in their own history. The Minyans are searching for their race's lost gene banks, a quest which takes them to the edge of the galaxy…
#24 - Underworld (3)
Season 15 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1978
The Minyans have, at long last, found the P7E. But a host of guards and robotic seers stand between them and the race banks.
#25 - Underworld (4)
Season 15 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1978
The Minyons struggle to gain the precious race banks from the Oracle. But perhaps it is giving in a little too easily ...