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...

Last Updated: 10/31/2024Network: BBC OneStatus: Ended
Horror of Fang Rock (3)
star
8.00
207 votes

#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…

Directors: Paddy Russell
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Horror of Fang Rock (4)
star
7.96
203 votes

#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.

Directors: Paddy Russell
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Horror of Fang Rock (2)
star
7.79
207 votes

#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?

Directors: Paddy Russell
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The Invasion of Time (1)
star
7.74
244 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Gerald Blake
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The Sun Makers (3)
star
7.72
158 votes

#5 - 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.

Directors: Pennant Roberts
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The Sun Makers (1)
star
7.72
155 votes

#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...

Directors: Pennant Roberts
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The Invasion of Time (5)
star
7.67
215 votes

#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…

Directors: Gerald Blake
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Horror of Fang Rock (1)
star
7.66
210 votes

#8 - 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?

Directors: Paddy Russell
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Image of the Fendahl (3)
star
7.65
184 votes

#9 - 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.

Image of the Fendahl (1)
star
7.61
183 votes

#10 - 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?

Image of the Fendahl (2)
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7.61
181 votes

#11 - 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.

The Sun Makers (4)
star
7.58
159 votes

#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.

Directors: Pennant Roberts
The Invasion of Time (4)
star
7.56
214 votes

#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?

Directors: Gerald Blake
Image of the Fendahl (4)
star
7.50
188 votes

#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?

The Invasion of Time (2)
star
7.49
213 votes

#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.

Directors: Gerald Blake
The Invasion of Time (6)
star
7.45
243 votes

#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…

Directors: Gerald Blake
The Invasion of Time (3)
star
7.45
217 votes

#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?

Directors: Gerald Blake
The Invisible Enemy (2)
star
7.41
218 votes

#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?

Directors: Derrick Goodwin
The Sun Makers (2)
star
7.35
156 votes

#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…

Directors: Pennant Roberts
The Invisible Enemy (3)
star
7.28
209 votes

#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.

Directors: Derrick Goodwin
The Invisible Enemy (4)
star
7.23
182 votes

#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.

Directors: Derrick Goodwin
The Invisible Enemy (1)
star
7.13
226 votes

#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?

Directors: Derrick Goodwin
Underworld (1)
star
7.07
187 votes

#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…

Directors: Norman Stewart
Underworld (3)
star
6.91
188 votes

#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.

Directors: Norman Stewart
Underworld (4)
star
6.77
190 votes

#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 ...

Directors: Norman Stewart