The BEST episodes of Doctor Who season 3
Every episode of Doctor Who season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Doctor Who season 3!
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 Daleks' Master Plan: The Destruction of Time (12)
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/29/1966
With the Teranium Core fitted into the Time Destructor, its destructive power is finally unleashed.
#2 - The Myth Makers: Horse of Destruction (4)
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1965
With Troy besieged by the Greeks, Vicki finds herself torn between Troilus and the Doctor.
#3 - The Daleks' Master Plan: Devil's Planet (3)
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/1965
The travellers are forced to make an emergency landing on the penal planet of Desperus.
#4 - The Daleks' Master Plan: The Traitors (4)
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/4/1965
With the Teranium Core still in hand, the travellers find that the Daleks will resort to anything to get it back.
#5 - The Daleks' Master Plan: Day of Armageddon (2)
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/1965
The Doctor infiltrates the Daleks' conference to try and discover their plans, leaving Steven, Katarina and Bret to find a way off the planet.
#6 - The War Machines (1)
Season 3 - Episode 42 - Aired 6/25/1966
The Doctor and Dodo return to London in the present day where the Doctor becomes concerned about WOTAN, a new super-computer installed in the Post Officer Tower.
#7 - The War Machines (4)
Season 3 - Episode 45 - Aired 7/16/1966
London 1966 and the Doctor and Dodo, on a visit to the Post Office Tower, meet Professor Brett whose new computer WOTAN can actually think for itself and is soon to be networked with other computers around the world. However, WOTAN believes that humans are inferior to machines and should, therefore, be ruled by them. Exerting a hypnotic influence, WOTAN arranges for the construction of War Machines - heavily-armed, self-contained mobile computers - with which to take over the world. These prove more than a match for the Army, but the Doctor is able to capture one of them, which he then re-programs to destroy WOTAN. When the crisis is over, Dodo chooses to remain in London; Ben and Polly, however, inadvertently become the Doctor's new companions when they enter the TARDIS to return his lost key.
#8 - The Daleks' Master Plan: Counter Plot (5)
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/11/1965
The Doctor, Steven and Sara are accidentally transported to the planet Mira where Chen sends the Daleks after them.
#9 - The Daleks' Master Plan: The Nightmare Begins (1)
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/1965
With Steven in urgent need of medical care, the Doctor lands the TARDIS on the hostile world of Kembel, and sets out to look for aid.
#10 - The Myth Makers: Death of a Spy (3)
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1965
Running out of patience, the Doctor suggests a wooden horse to Odysseus, and is roped into joining the Greeks on their trip into Troy.
#11 - The War Machines (2)
Season 3 - Episode 43 - Aired 7/2/1966
Dodo is under the control of WOTAN and attempts to lure the Doctor into a trap, while the rest of WOTAN's slaves begin construction on its robotic War Machines.
#12 - The Daleks' Master Plan: Coronas of the Sun (6)
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/18/1965
Captured by the Daleks, the travellers make one last effort to keep the Teranium Core from them.
#13 - The Daleks' Master Plan: The Abandoned Planet (11)
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/22/1966
The TARDIS has arrived back on Kembel, but where is everybody?
#14 - The Daleks' Master Plan: Golden Death (9)
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/8/1966
The Doctor, Steven and Sara travel to Ancient Egypt, pursued by both the Daleks and the Meddling Monk.
#15 - The Myth Makers: Temple of Secrets (1)
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1965
The TARDIS lands in Asia Minor, just outside the legendary city of Troy.
#16 - The Daleks' Master Plan: Escape Switch (10)
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/15/1966
With the Daleks demanding the return of the Teranium Core, the Doctor seeks to hoodwink both them and the Monk.
#17 - The War Machines (3)
Season 3 - Episode 44 - Aired 7/9/1966
Ben tries to escape from the warehouse but is captured by Polly, who is now also under WOTAN's control, and forced to work on construction the War Machine.
#18 - The Ark: The Plague (2)
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/12/1966
With the Ark infected with a cold virus, the Doctor must convince the Guardians to trust him so he can find a cure.
#19 - Galaxy 4: Four Hundred Dawns (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1965
After an encounter with a hostile robot called a Chumblie, the Doctor and his companions are rescued by a group of female Drahvins.
#20 - Mission to the Unknown
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1965
Space Security agent Marc Cory visits the planet Kembel to investigate rumours of Dalek activity in the area. However, his ship is shot down and his crewmates are poisoned by the thorns of Varga plants, genetically engineered carnivores which transform their unlucky victims into Vargas as well. Despite these dangers, Cory discovers that the Daleks have formed an alliance with several other alien species, intending to launch a war against Earth. He makes a tape of his discoveries -- but is exterminated before he can get word to his superiors...
#21 - Galaxy 4: Trap of Steel (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1965
With the knowledge that the planet will be destroyed in two days, the Drahvins instruct the Doctor to help them steal the Rills' ship.
#22 - The Daleks' Master Plan: Volcano (8)
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/1/1966
The TARDIS lands on a volcanic planet, where an old enemy is awaiting the Doctor.
#23 - The Ark: The Steel Sky (1)
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/5/1966
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrive on a giant spaceship millions of years in the future, transporting the last humans away from the doomed Earth.
#24 - The Ark: The Return (3)
Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/19/1966
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo have travelled 700 years into the future and find that the Ark is now under the control of the Monoids as it approaches Refusis.
#25 - The Myth Makers: Small Prophet, Quick Return (2)
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1965
With the Doctor still masquerading as Zeus, and the TARDIS missing, Steven is sent into Troy to look for Vicki.