The BEST episodes of Doctor Who season 2

#1 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth: The Daleks (2)

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/28/1964

The Daleks have conquered Earth. Susan and Barbara have joined the human resistance who launch an attack on the Dalek flying saucer where the Doctor and Ian are prisoners.

#2 - The Time Meddler: Checkmate (4)

Season 2 - Episode 39 - Aired 7/24/1965

#3 - The Chase: The Planet of Decision (6)

Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/26/1965

#4 - Planet of Giants: Dangerous Journey (2)

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/7/1964

Earth, 1964. An accident on landing has greatly reduced the TARDIS and the travellers in size. They come across a scheme run by Forester, a ruthless businessman and his misguided scientist colleague Smithers to launch a new insecticide which is capable of destroying the local ecology. Forester is prepared to commit murder to secure the success of this project, but the inch-high travellers face danger of another kind.

#5 - The Romans: The Slave Traders (1)

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/16/1965

After relaxing at a Roman villa the Doctor is mistaken for a murdered lyre player and targeted by an assassin. Meanwhile, Ian and Barbara are captured by slave traders.

#6 - The Romans: All Roads Lead to Rome (2)

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/23/1965

Barbara is sold as a slave and Ian is to be trained as a gladiator. The Doctor and Vicki arrive at the Emperor's court with the Doctor still masquerading as Maximus Pettulian.

#7 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth: Flashpoint (6)

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/26/1964

Ian plans to derail the Daleks' plan by sabotaging their bomb and the Doctor works to turn the Robomen against them. Afterwards, a tearful Susan remains on Earth with her new love.

#8 - The Space Museum: The Space Museum (1)

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/24/1965

#9 - The Time Meddler: The Watcher (1)

Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 7/3/1965

#10 - The Time Meddler: A Battle of Wits (3)

Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 7/17/1965

#11 - The Romans: Inferno (4)

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/1965

Inspired by the Doctor, Nero sets Rome ablaze. Ian must fight his way out of the arena and rescue Barbara. The Doctor and Vicki hurry to flee the city and escape to the TARDIS.

#12 - The Chase: The Death of Dr Who (5)

Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/19/1965

#13 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth: World's End (1)

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/21/1964

The TARDIS lands in a ruined and empty London in the 22nd Century. Robomen patrol the shattered streets. The Doctor is eager to discover the cause of the city's plight.

#14 - The Rescue: The Powerful Enemy (1)

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/2/1965

Sometime in the 25th century, the Doctor and his friends land on the planet Dido and happen across a spaceship (from Earth) that has crash-landed. Its two occupants - a man named Bennett and a young girl called Vicki - are living in fear of a creature called Koquillion, a native of Dido possibly responsible for murdering other members from the spaceship. However, the Doctor realises after a while that Koquillion is in fact Bennett in disguise; it was Bennett who killed the others so as to conceal an earlier murder that he had performed on ship. In a confrontation with Dido humanoid inhabitants Bennett dies as he falls from a cliff. Not wishing the girl Vicki to be alone, the Doctor takes her with him in the TARDIS as a new companion.

#15 - The Time Meddler: The Meddling Monk (2)

Season 2 - Episode 37 - Aired 7/10/1965

#16 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth: Day of Reckoning (3)

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/5/1964

The rebel attack on the Dalek flying saucer has been defeated. London is crawling with Daleks and Robomen, and the Doctor, Barbara and Susan must escape the city.

#17 - The Rescue: Desperate Measures (2)

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/1965

Ian and Barbara discover that the paralysed Bennett has gone missing from his cabin. The Doctor discovers the truth about Koquillion, but endangers his own life in doing so.

#18 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth: The Waking Ally (5)

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/19/1964

Barbara is put to work in the Dalek mine where it is revealed that the Daleks intend to use a bomb to extract the Earth's magnetic core.

#19 - Planet of Giants: Planet of Giants (1)

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/1964

Earth, 1964. An accident on landing vastly reduces the TARDIS and the travellers in size. They come across a scheme run by Forester, a ruthless businessman and his misguided scientist colleague Smithers to launch a new insecticide which is capable of destroying the local ecology. Forester is prepared to commit murder to secure the success of this project - can the inch-high travellers somehow foil him?

#20 - The Chase: Flight through Eternity (3)

Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 6/5/1965

#21 - The Romans: Conspiracy (3)

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/30/1965

Poppaea plans to poison Barbara who has become the object of Nero's affections. The Doctor is to be thrown to the lions and Ian and Delos are set against each other in the arena.

#22 - The Chase: Journey into Terror (4)

Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/12/1965

#23 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth: The End of Tomorrow (4)

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/1964

The Doctor, Barbara and Susan make their way out of London to the Daleks' mining operation in Bedfordshire whilst Ian faces the Black Dalek's pet Slyther.

#24 - Planet of Giants: Crisis (3)

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/14/1964

#25 - The Chase: The Death of Time (2)

Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/29/1965