The WORST episodes of The Ministry of Time
Every episode of The Ministry of Time ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Ministry of Time!
A warrior from the 16th Century, the first female university student from the 19th Century, and a paramedic from the 21st Century join, the Ministry of Time, a secret government institution dedicated to preventing Spain's history from being changed using time-traveling doors.
#1 - Time of Verbena
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/16/2017
A cancellation of the premiere of "La Verbena de la Paloma" sends three Ministry workers to 1894. Alonso interrogates Arteche, who tells his life story.
#2 - Change of Time
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/23/2016
Phillip II of Spain decides he wants the Spanish Armada to win in 1588. He gets a taste for time travel and sets his sights higher, focusing on 2016.
#3 - With Time on His Heels
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2017
Mourning a loss, the patrol is sent to foil a plan to kidnap Alfred Hitchcock during the premiere of "Vertigo" at the 1958 San Sebastián Film Festival.
#4 - Time of Spies
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/8/2017
A Spanish spy's capture in Nazi-occupied France in 1943 jeopardizes Britain's Operation Mincemeat, critical to the Allied victory of World War II.
#5 - Time of Witchcraft
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/15/2017
When Gustavo Adolpho Bécquer writes one too many "Letters from My Cell" the patrol travels to 1864 Trasmoz, where a woman is accused of witchcraft.
#6 - Time of the Enlightened
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/22/2017
In the present-day Prado Museum, an invisible force slashes Goya's "Nude Maja", sending the Ministry to 1799 to convince the artist to repaint it.
#7 - Time of Splendor
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/29/2017
The trio travels to 1605 Valladolid after the attempted poisoning of a British envoy threatens the signing of a peace treaty between Spain and England.
#8 - Time of Slaves
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/6/2017
An 1881 assassination attempt on Alfonso XII pulls the agents into Spain's slave-trading past, forcing one to choose between family and the Ministry.
#9 - Time of Conquest
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/25/2017
The disappearance of a Spanish priest key to Hernán Cortés's conquest of Mexico sends Alonso and Pacino to the 16th-century Yucatán Peninsula.
#10 - The Schism of Time
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/2/2017
To find a portal to the future, the Exterminating Angel abducts Abraham Levi, who escapes to 1417 Peñíscola and begs Antipope Benedict XIII for help.
#11 - Refugees in Time
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/9/2017
Moorish refugees from 1609 inundate the Ministry headquarters. Alonso and Pacino must stop an assassination plot against Simón Bolivar in 1828 Bogotá.
#12 - Til Time Do Us Part
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/16/2016
Ortigosa and Natalia's wedding is complicated by a hidden time portal and a romantic legend from the 13th century.
#13 - Between Two Times
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/1/2017
The 1966 debut of a TV series about the Ministry of Time threatens to prevent Chicho Ibáñez Serrador's "Historias para no dormir" from ever premiering.
#14 - Lost in Time
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/5/2020
The patrol is reunited after three years to investigate a debuting actor who looks exactly like Julián, who was believed to have been killed in action.
#15 - The Labyrinth of Time
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/12/2020
Alonso and Irene travel to the 1600s to the royal court of Philip IV. Meanwhile, Pacino and Lola must ensure that Pedro Almodóvar casts Antonio Banderas in his film "Labyrinth of Passion" in 1981.
#16 - Bloody Mary Hour
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/19/2020
As the patrol makes its way to England to prevent Elizabeth I from being murdered before ever being crowned queen, Amelia returns to the Ministry to help Julián.
#17 - The Memory of Time
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/26/2020
Two teams are sent to 1937: Julian and Lola go to Madrid to investigate possible theft of Velazquez's Las Meninas. Pacino, Irene, and Velazquez go to Paris to ensure that Picasso paints Guernica.
#18 - Undoing Time
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/2/2020
After Lola is kidnapped, Pacino decides to alter the past to save her, but messing with the timeline comes at a high price.
#19 - Time Flies
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/9/2020
When Albert Einstein is murdered in Madrid and his friend and fellow scientist Emilio Herrera is the prime suspect, Salvador takes matters into his own hands.
#20 - Past Imperfect
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/16/2020
In 1832, King Ferdinand VII is being poisoned. The Ministry takes him to 2020 for medical treatment and replaces him with a stand-in, but they must ensure no one discovers the switch.
#21 - Days of Future Past
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/23/2020
A dead body of a one-year-old is found near the Ministry's headquarters. As Salvador confesses to the crime, he offers an explanation by telling a tale of how Julian found himself in the year 2070.
#22 - Time of the Occult
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/9/2016
On a tour of the Ministry, redesigned to look like a regular office, a suspicious paranormal expert barges past a barrier and through one of the doors.
#23 - Time of Rogues
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/2015
The patrol meets the novella-inspiring Lazarillo de Tormes while visiting 1520 Salamanca to capture a fugitive hiding from the law via time travel.
#24 - The Legend of Time
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/13/2015
When the Ministry learns a young Salvador Dalí has designed a film poster in 1924 featuring a tablet computer, the patrol is sent to investigate.
#25 - Time of Legend
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/15/2016
The Ministry travels to the 11th century to solve a mystery involving the burial remains of El Cid. Julián faces the consequences of his actions.