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 - Against Time
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/25/2017
The patrol is dispatched to 1976 after learning that Adolfo Suárez is not among the candidates for prime minister of Spain.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Time of Censorship
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/18/2017
When Luis Buñuel's "Viridiana" fails to pass Francoist censorship, Irene travels to 1961 with Pacino and Alonso to ensure the film wins at Cannes.
#5 - Separated by Time
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/2/2016
Irene looks into a mystery involving a group of avant-garde women artists who've been forgotten. The Ministry discovers the Vampire of Raval is free.
#6 - A Virus from Another Time
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/14/2016
Irene contracts the Spanish flu while on a mission in 1918. Susana insists she be brought back to the present, putting the entire Ministry at risk.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Oil Painting Over Time
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/25/2016
A Velázquez painting is auctioned off in 2016. The only problem is it burned in a 1734 fire. The team heads to the Alcázar of Madrid to investigate.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Time of the Brave (1)
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/28/2016
While hiding out in the Philippines in the 19th century, Julián makes a promise to a dying soldier that gets him into a dangerous situation.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Time of Magic
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/21/2016
The team travels to 1920s New York, into the world of magic and Houdini, as the Ministry's own existence is placed in peril.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#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 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Any Time in the Past Was Better
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/23/2015
The patrol must go to 1981 Madrid to find a copy of a missing bill of sale for Picasso's "Guernica" to ensure the masterpiece is returned to Spain.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Time of Revenge
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/6/2015
The patrol travels to 1844 to stop the assassination of Isabel II at the hands of a Ministry rebel.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.