The BEST episodes of Doctor Who season 16
Every episode of Doctor Who season 16, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Doctor Who season 16!
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 - The Stones of Blood (3)
Season 16 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/1978
Chase by blood-thirsty stones, the Doctor must find a way to rescue Romana. What awaits him in the theoretical absurdity of hyperspace?
#2 - The Pirate Planet (4)
Season 16 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/1978
The Captain and Xanxia work toward their secret goals. Both depends on the pirate planet consuming one more victim - Earth.
#3 - The Stones of Blood (4)
Season 16 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1978
Facing a sentence of death from merciless justice machines, the Doctor must play for time while Romana tries to discover just who Vivian Fey really is.
#4 - The Androids of Tara (2)
Season 16 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/2/1978
The Doctor must employ a desperate gambit to keep the evil Grendel off the throne. And the Count has a new pawn to play - Romana.
#5 - The Androids of Tara (4)
Season 16 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/16/1978
Grendel plans two weddings and a funeral to cement his hold over Tara. The Doctor and K-9 race to foil him and save the Time Lady's life.
#6 - The Stones of Blood (2)
Season 16 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/1978
The quest for the Third Segment has landed the Doctor and Romana in the midst of a druidic cult centered on a stone circle. But the stones are not what they seem. And somewhere out there is a blood-thirsty celtic godess.
#7 - The Pirate Planet (1)
Season 16 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/1978
Planet Zanak, unknown time. The Doctor and Romana are seeking the planet Calufrax where the second segment waits. They are in the right place and the right time… but on the wrong planet.
#8 - The Pirate Planet (2)
Season 16 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/1978
The Doctor begins to investigate the mysteriously wealthy planet Zanak. Mentiads, a deranged Captain, strange omens, miraculous mines – what does it all mean? And what does it have to do with the Key to Time?
#9 - The Pirate Planet (3)
Season 16 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1978
The Doctor and Romana begin to uncover the secrets of Zanak. But the murderous Captain seems to have plans of his own.
#10 - The Armageddon Factor (5)
Season 16 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/17/1979
The Doctor and Romana finally venture into the Shadow's lair. The Shadow appears to hold all the cards but the Doctor has found an old friend.
#11 - The Armageddon Factor (6)
Season 16 - Episode 26 - Aired 2/24/1979
The Doctor and the Shadow have their final confrontation to take control of the Key to Time. Completing it may entail an awful sacrifice. And the Black Guardian will do anything to obtain it and plunge the Universe into chaos.
#12 - The Armageddon Factor (3)
Season 16 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/3/1979
The Doctor meets a new enemy – the Shadow – who wants the Key to Time. And the Atrian-Zeon war is approaching an awful climax.
#13 - The Androids of Tara (3)
Season 16 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/9/1978
The Doctor and Romana are swept up in the political machinations of Tara. The Doctor must keep the android "king" running while Grendel plots to use Romana to destroy him.
#14 - The Ribos Operation (4)
Season 16 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1978
Trapped in the catacombs between a mad warlord and ravenous monsters, the Doctor and Romana work desperately to obtain the segement of the Key to Time - and escape alive.
#15 - The Armageddon Factor (2)
Season 16 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/27/1979
Swept up in an apocalyptic war, the Doctor must help the Marshall defend his planet. But who or what controls the Marshall?
#16 - The Stones of Blood (1)
Season 16 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/1978
England, the late 1970s. The Doctor and Romana arrive in search of the third segment. But the Tracer readings are erratic and something ominous is happening with an ancient stone circle...
#17 - The Armageddon Factor (4)
Season 16 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/10/1979
The Doctor is forced into a desperate gambit to prevent a massacre. But it is getting harder to tell friend from foe.
#18 - The Armageddon Factor (1)
Season 16 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/20/1979
Searching for the sixth segment, the Doctor and Romana land in the midst of a brutal nuclear war between the planets Atrios and Zeos.
#19 - The Androids of Tara (1)
Season 16 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/25/1978
Arriving on the techno-Ruritanian world of Tara, Romana easily obtains the Fourth Segment. Getting off the planet, however, isn't going to be quite so easy...
#20 - The Ribos Operation (1)
Season 16 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/2/1978
The Magellanic Clouds, the planet Ribos, an unknown time. Ordered by the White Guardian to collect the pieces of the omnipotent Key to Time, The Doctor, K-9 and his new assistant Romana arrive. Collecting the first segment is not going to be easy…
#21 - The Ribos Operation (3)
Season 16 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1978
Prisoners of the maniacal Graff Vynda K, the Doctor and Romana must break out and pursue the first segment – even as Unstoff takes it into the most dangerous place on Ribos.
#22 - The Ribos Operation (2)
Season 16 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1978
Trying to obtain the first segment of the Key to Time, the Doctor and Romana are swept up in an elaborate con. The target – the homicidal Graff Vynda K.
#23 - The Power of Kroll (2)
Season 16 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/30/1978
The Doctor and Romana try to avoid being sacrificed to Kroll – just in time for the real monster to appear.
#24 - The Power of Kroll (4)
Season 16 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/13/1979
The Doctor and Romana are trapped between the monstrous Kroll and the insane refinery commander. And there is no sign of the fifth segment of the Key to Time.
#25 - The Power of Kroll (3)
Season 16 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/6/1979
The massive Kroll is awake and killing anyone in its path. And the swampies are determined to appease it – by sacrificing the Doctor and Romana.