The BEST episodes of Doctor Who season 6

Every episode of Doctor Who season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Doctor Who season 6!

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...

Last Updated: 10/31/2024Network: BBC OneStatus: Ended
The War Games (10)
star
8.15
216 votes

#1 - The War Games (10)

Season 6 - Episode 44 - Aired 6/21/1969

The war games are over and after a sad farewell to Jamie and Zoe, the Doctor is put on trial by the Time Lords for breaking their ancient laws.

Directors: David Maloney
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The War Games (9)
star
8.07
142 votes

#2 - The War Games (9)

Season 6 - Episode 43 - Aired 6/14/1969

The rebels seize control of the aliens' HQ but the Doctor is forced to send a call for help to his own people, the Time Lords.

Directors: David Maloney
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The War Games (4)
star
7.91
165 votes

#3 - The War Games (4)

Season 6 - Episode 38 - Aired 5/10/1969

The Doctor and Zoe penetrate the Aliens' HQ from where the war games are controlled. Carstairs is reconditioned and exposes the Doctor and Zoe as German spies. Vintage sci-fi taking us on adventures in time and space, reflecting the broadcast standards and attitudes of its time.

Directors: David Maloney
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The War Games (8)
star
7.87
140 votes

#4 - The War Games (8)

Season 6 - Episode 42 - Aired 6/7/1969

The Doctor is captured by the War Chief, who belongs to the same race of people as the Doctor, and offers an alliance. In the 1917 zone, fighters prepare to attack Central Control.

Directors: David Maloney
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The War Games (1)
star
7.69
143 votes

#5 - The War Games (1)

Season 6 - Episode 35 - Aired 4/19/1969

The TARDIS lands in what appears to be the front-line trenches at the height of battle in war-torn France, right in the middle of World War I. Everyone they meet are convinced that the crew are spying and it doesn't take long for the crew to be on the run, but not before breaking the hypnotic conditioning of Carstairs and Lady Jennifer. Having escaped one war-zone they find themselves in another - Roman occupied Britain of some 2,000 years ago, then on to the American Civil War. The situation worstens when the Doctor suspects one of his own people, a Time Lord, to be behind the War Games working for a race of aliens trying to run the wars to their conclusions under controlled conditions to find a super-army or fighters. The Doctor is faced with an impossible situation - not only does the War Lords' control over hundreds of thousands of fighters need to be removed, but the soldiers have to be returned to their natural habitats. He conceeds defeat at the task, knowing that the TARDIS is not equipped for the task. He sends an SOS, calling in his own people even though it is revealed that he is 'on the run' from them for the theft of a TARDIS and for meddling... The Doctor is caught and faces trial.

Directors: David Maloney
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The War Games (5)
star
7.66
165 votes

#6 - The War Games (5)

Season 6 - Episode 39 - Aired 5/17/1969

In the American Civil War zone, Jamie and Lady Jennifer join forces with resistance fighters from various time zones and prepare to launch an attack on Central Control.

Directors: David Maloney
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The War Games (2)
star
7.64
167 votes

#7 - The War Games (2)

Season 6 - Episode 36 - Aired 4/26/1969

Finding evidence of alien technology in Smythe's office, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe make their escape in Lady Jennifer's ambulance, but Smythe gives orders to have them killed.

Directors: David Maloney
The War Games (6)
star
7.63
163 votes

#8 - The War Games (6)

Season 6 - Episode 40 - Aired 5/24/1969

The Doctor sends Zoe to the war zones to assemble a resistance force. The Doctor remains in Central Control to steal the processing machine, but the War Chief is one step ahead.

Directors: David Maloney
The War Games (7)
star
7.60
171 votes

#9 - The War Games (7)

Season 6 - Episode 41 - Aired 5/31/1969

The Doctor, Jamie and Carstairs have escaped back to the 1917 war zone, but General Smythe is waiting for them and opens fire on them with a machine gun.

Directors: David Maloney
The Invasion (8)
star
7.56
168 votes

#10 - The Invasion (8)

Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/21/1968

The Cybermen have launched their deadly megatron bomb which will destroy all life on Earth, unless the Doctor can deactivate the homing signal.

Directors: Douglas Camfield
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The Mind Robber (2)
star
7.55
193 votes

#11 - The Mind Robber (2)

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/21/1968

Arriving in the Land of Fiction, the Doctor searches for his companions in a forest of words. Clockwork soldiers are on the prowl and fictional characters come to life.

Directors: David Maloney
Writer: Peter Ling
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The War Games (3)
star
7.55
166 votes

#12 - The War Games (3)

Season 6 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/3/1969

The Doctor discovers that they are on an alien planet divided into different time zones where human soldiers fight never ending wars. Vintage sci fi taking us on adventures in time and space, reflecting the broadcast standards and attitudes of its time.

Directors: David Maloney
The Mind Robber (1)
star
7.54
220 votes

#13 - The Mind Robber (1)

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/14/1968

The Doctor activates an emergency unit on board the TARDIS to escape destruction by a volcanic eruption. Unfortunately, it moves them out of normal space and time to a deadly world where fantasy rules. The travellers find themselves lured out of the ship into a ghostly white void.

Directors: David Maloney
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The Invasion (7)
star
7.52
164 votes

#14 - The Invasion (7)

Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/14/1968

The Cybermen have immobilised the Earth's population with a hypnotic signal. Their fleet arrives and they invade in force. The Doctor desperately attempts to persuade Vaughn to help him resist the invaders.

Directors: Douglas Camfield
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The Invasion (6)
star
7.50
163 votes

#15 - The Invasion (6)

Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/7/1968

Zoe, Jamie and Isobel confront the Cybermen advancing on them from all sides in the sewers beneath London. The Doctor hurries to devise a protection from the Cybermen's hypnotic signal, as they set their sights on a paralysed London.

Directors: Douglas Camfield
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The Mind Robber (4)
star
7.50
180 votes

#16 - The Mind Robber (4)

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/5/1968

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are captured by the White Robots in the Citadel and are taken to meet the Master of the Land of Fiction who has a proposition for the Doctor.

Directors: David Maloney
Writer: Peter Ling
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The Mind Robber (5)
star
7.49
214 votes

#17 - The Mind Robber (5)

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/12/1968

The Doctor engages in a battle with the Master, both summoning characters from fiction to fight each other. If the Doctor loses, he will be trapped in the Land of Fiction forever.

Directors: David Maloney
Writer: Peter Ling
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The Mind Robber (3)
star
7.48
177 votes

#18 - The Mind Robber (3)

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/28/1968

With the help of Rapunzel, Jamie escapes from a clockwork soldier into the citadel where he makes a discovery. The Doctor and Zoe are confronted by the mythological minotaur.

Directors: David Maloney
Writer: Peter Ling
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The Invasion (5)
star
7.42
162 votes

#19 - The Invasion (5)

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/30/1968

The Doctor discovers that the Cybermen are planning to immobilise Earth's population by transmitting a hypnotic signal broadcast through International Electromatics products.

Directors: Douglas Camfield
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The Invasion (2)
star
7.39
177 votes

#20 - The Invasion (2)

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/9/1968

Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, now a UN Brigadier, confirms to the Doctor that there is something suspicious occurring at International Electromatics. Zoe and Isobel's investigation places them in terrible danger, and Jamie tries to save them.

Directors: Douglas Camfield
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The Invasion (4)
star
7.30
165 votes

#21 - The Invasion (4)

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/23/1968

Trapped by Vaughn's men at International Electromatics, the Doctor requests help from the Brigadier and UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. A UFO is delivering cocoons to the electronics firm – but what is inside them?

Directors: Douglas Camfield
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The Invasion (3)
star
7.26
182 votes

#22 - The Invasion (3)

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/16/1968

The Doctor and Jamie are taken prisoner by Tobias Vaughn, who denies abducting Zoe and Isobel. The Doctor suspects that there may be an even greater threat behind Vaughn.

Directors: Douglas Camfield
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The Seeds of Death (2)
star
7.21
133 votes

#23 - The Seeds of Death (2)

Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/1/1969

With the commerce of the world grinding to a halt, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe agree to investigate. They set off for the T-Mat Relay Station on the Moon in Professor Eldred's old-fashioned rocket.

Directors: Michael Ferguson
Writer: Brian Hayles
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The Seeds of Death (6)
star
7.16
155 votes

#24 - The Seeds of Death (6)

Season 6 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/1/1969

Returning to the Moonbase, the Doctor confronts Slaar and the remaining Ice Warriors and must find a way of deflecting the invasion fleet that is heading towards them.

Directors: Michael Ferguson
Writer: Brian Hayles
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The Invasion (1)
star
7.15
172 votes

#25 - The Invasion (1)

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/2/1968

The TARDIS lands in London where the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe agree to help find Isobel Watkins' missing uncle. Searching for Professor Watkins at his last place of work, a multinational electronics supplier, he meets the company's managing director. He's not what he seems - and possesses alien technology in his office.

Directors: Douglas Camfield
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