The BEST episodes of Doctor Who season 21
Every episode of Doctor Who season 21, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Doctor Who season 21!
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 Caves of Androzani (3)
Season 21 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/15/1984
The situation on Androzani Minor is building toward a violent confrontation. And the Doctor and Peri are slowly succumbing to spectrox toxemia.
#2 - The Caves of Androzani (2)
Season 21 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1984
The Doctor and Peri have been rescued from the firing squad by the mysterious Sharaz Jek. But he has his own plans for them. And why are they suddenly feeling ill?
#3 - The Caves of Androzani (1)
Season 21 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/8/1984
The planet Androzani Minor, the distant future. In the planets' caves war rages between government troops and the android warriors of the mysterious Sharaz Jek. But what makes spectrox, the substance they battle to control, so valuable? And how far will the Doctor go to protect his companion?
#4 - The Caves of Androzani (4)
Season 21 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/16/1984
Events on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Will the Doctor and Peri survive the carnage? And at what cost?
#5 - Resurrection of the Daleks (1)
Season 21 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/8/1984
London's Docklands, 1984. Why are uniformed policemen gunning down strangely-dressed vagrants in broad daylight? A prison ship in the far future - who is the sole prisoner aboard the craft? And why are these two locations linked by the time corridor the TARDIS has been sucked into? Lytton's men revive Davros as the Doctor fights off the Dalek in the warehouse. But alliances are shifting with each passing moment. Can anyone be trusted?
#6 - Resurrection of the Daleks (2)
Season 21 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/15/1984
As the surviving station crew work to destroy the space station, Davros consolidates his power and the Daleks launch a fiendish scheme to use the Doctor against the Time Lords. The Doctor and his companions strive to defeat both Davros and the Daleks. But their victory may come at a terrible price.
#7 - Planet of Fire (3)
Season 21 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/1/1984
#8 - Planet of Fire (2)
Season 21 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/1984
#9 - Planet of Fire (1)
Season 21 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/23/1984
Lanzarote, 1985. Archaeologist Howard Foster raises a strange metal artefact from the sea floor. But how is it linked to the signal the TARDIS received? Why is Turlough suddenly so worried? And why is Kamelion acting so erratically?
#10 - Planet of Fire (4)
Season 21 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/2/1984
#11 - Frontios (4)
Season 21 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/3/1984
#12 - Frontios (2)
Season 21 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/27/1984
#13 - Frontios (3)
Season 21 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/2/1984
#14 - Warriors of the Deep (1)
Season 21 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1984
Seabase 4 is on alert as a strange craft approaches. But the crew has been infiltrated by the enemy, so Commander Vorshak's solutions are scuppered at every turn.
#15 - Warriors of the Deep (4)
Season 21 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/13/1984
Earth's ocean floor, 2084. With two superpowers poised on the brink of a devastating photonic war, a missile base comes under attack from the reptilian Sea Devils and Silurians, intent on eradicating the upstart human race and reclaiming the planet...
#16 - Warriors of the Deep (2)
Season 21 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/1984
The Silurians and Sea Devils send in the Myrka to spearhead their invasion of the Seabase. Meanwhile, Nilson and Doctor Solow work to bring the entire Bloc down...
#17 - Warriors of the Deep (3)
Season 21 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/12/1984
As Vorshak's crew are cut down by Sauvix's Sea Devil Warriors, the Doctor is running out of ways to broker a peace between the opposing species.
#18 - The Awakening (2)
Season 21 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/20/1984
#19 - The Awakening (1)
Season 21 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/19/1984
The sleepy English village of Little Hodcombe, 1984. The village re-enactment of the English Civil War is in full swing, but a malign alien presence intends the mock-battles to be rather more realistic than planned...
#20 - Frontios (1)
Season 21 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/26/1984
The planet Frontios, in the distant future. Following Earth's destruction, a tiny colony struggles to eke out a life on this desolate world. But where do the bombardments that threaten them originate from? Little does the Doctor suspect that somewhere nearby lurks a power capable of ripping even the TARDIS apart…