The BEST episodes of Doctor Who season 2
Every episode of Doctor Who season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Doctor Who season 2!
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 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
The Doctor finally discovers what the Monk is up to and must move fast to prevent his opponent from altering the course of history.
#3 - The Chase: The Planet of Decision (6)
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/26/1965
The Doctor and his friends are taken into the Mechanoid City but their troubles are far from over...especially when the Daleks launch an attack.
#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 Space Museum: The Space Museum (1)
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/24/1965
The TARDIS arrives on a planet that has been turned into a space museum but the Doctor and his friends are puzzled when they find themselves out of phase with their surroundings.
#8 - The Time Meddler: The Watcher (1)
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 7/3/1965
The Doctor, Vicki, and Steven Taylor, go to 1066 England, but something doesn't seem right including modern inventions like a Gramaphone and electricity. Could there be another Time Lord?
#9 - 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.
#10 - The Time Meddler: A Battle of Wits (3)
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 7/17/1965
The Doctor manages to escape from his cell and get the upper hand on the Monk but his plans are derailed when Sven and Ulf arrive at the monastery.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - The Chase: The Death of Dr Who (5)
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/19/1965
With Vicki trapped on board the Dalek time machine, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara decide to make their stand on the planet Mechanus.
#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
The Doctor is being held prisoner by the Monk and Steven and Vicki's search for him brings them to the Saxon village.But a greater danger threatens when a Viking raiding party arrives.
#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 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.
#21 - The Chase: Flight through Eternity (3)
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 6/5/1965
The TARDIS crew's attempts to escape from the Daleks take them to the top of the Empire State Building and a 19th century sailing ship.
#22 - The Chase: Journey into Terror (4)
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/12/1965
The TARDIS lands in a haunted house where the Doctor and his friends are confronted by Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster...and then the Daleks appear.
#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
Earth, 1964. Ian and Barbara are accidentally taken into Smithers' laboratory and, while the Doctor and Susan face a hazardous journey to reach them, they witness the deadly effects of DN6 first hand.
#25 - The Chase: The Death of Time (2)
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/29/1965
While Ian and Vicki are threatened by a Mire Beast, the Doctor and Barbara meet up with the Aridians...who are then ordered to hand them over to the Daleks.