The BEST episodes written by Robert Holmes

#1 - The Scales of Justice

The Saint - Season 6 - Episode 10

The Saint investigates a series of convenient heart attacks.

#2 - The Caves of Androzani (3)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 19

The situation on Androzani Minor is building toward a violent confrontation. And the Doctor and Peri are slowly succumbing to spectrox toxemia.

#3 - The Caves of Androzani (2)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 18

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?

#4 - The Caves of Androzani (1)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 17

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?

#5 - The Caves of Androzani (4)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 20

Events on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Will the Doctor and Peri survive the carnage? And at what cost?

#6 - The Deadly Assassin (2)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 10

The President of the High Council has been killed and the Doctor is the prime suspect. The Time Lords are eager to dispense quick justice and the Doctor must race agains the clock to discover the truth... and an old enemy.

#7 - The Deadly Assassin (1)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 9

Gallifrey, planet of the Time Lords. Summoned home by a premonition of murder, the Doctor discovers a dark conspiracy at the highest levels of Time Lord society... and his oldest enemy, who poses a threat to the existence of Gallifrey itself...

#8 - The Brain of Morbius (3)

Doctor Who - Season 13 - Episode 19

While the Doctor goes to confront the Sisterhood to seek a cure for Sarah Jane's blindness, Solon realizes that he must transfer Morbius' brain into a new body before it is too late.

#9 - The Deadly Assassin (4)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 12

The Doctor has won his fight in the Matrix and revealed the assassin. But the Master is not defeated and sets a plan in motion that could destroy the Time Lords.

#10 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang (6)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 26

The Doctor and Weng-Chiang have their final confrontation in the mysterious House of the Dragon -- watched by the evil duplicitous Mr. Sin.

#11 - Gambit

Blake's 7 - Season 2 - Episode 11

Blake believes Docholli knows the location of Star One, and has traced him to Freedom City, a gambler's paradise. At the Big Wheel gambling casino, a miniaturized Orac helps Avon and Vila win large amounts of money. Little do they know Servalan has got there ahead of them.

#12 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang (3)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 23

As Li H'Sen Chang works to secure the time cabinet, Leela pursues and investigates his master – the mysterious and murderous Weng-Chiang.

#13 - The Deadly Assassin (3)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 11

The Doctor has entered the computation Matrix to prove his innocence. But his opponent is prepared for him and the two engage in a mental duel to the death.

#14 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang (5)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 25

The Doctor and his allies try to track down Weng-Chiang before he can activate the time cabinet and possibly destroy London.

#15 - The Brain of Morbius (2)

Doctor Who - Season 13 - Episode 18

The Doctor is captured by the Sisterhood, and Sarah Jane is blinded freeing him. The Doctor has no choice but to go back for a cure, unaware that he is leaving Sarah Jane in the hands of a treacherous Dr. Solon and the renegade Time Lord Morbius.

#16 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang (4)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 24

The Doctor and Leela attend Li H'Sen Chang's performance, hoping to confront the magician. But his master Weng-Chiang has other plans…

#17 - The Ark in Space (4)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 8

#18 - The Time Warrior (3)

Doctor Who - Season 11 - Episode 3

#19 - The Brain of Morbius (4)

Doctor Who - Season 13 - Episode 20

Morbius lives once more, but as a rampaging beast. The Doctor is forced to ally with Dr. Solon to bring him to heel, but the two disagree about what should happen to Morbius.

#20 - A Cry in the Night

Bergerac - Season 3 - Episode 7

When a couple falls overboard from an international rock star's yacht- leaving the man dead and the woman in serious condition - Jim suspects murder.

#21 - The Sun Makers (3)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 15

Now Leela is the prisoner of the Collector. He knows of the Doctor and is determined to rid himself of both of them.

#22 - The Ark in Space (2)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 6

Deep space, the distant future: following Earth's devastation by solar flares, the survivors of mankind are in cryogenic suspension aboard the Nerva Beacon space station. The Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive on board and are greeted with suspicion by the awakening survivors… just as the menace of the insectoid Wirrn becomes apparent.

#23 - The Sun Makers (1)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 13

Pluto, the distant future. The planet has been terraformed and is now orbited by artificial suns, provided by the rapacious company who ruthlessly exploit the relocated human workforce. The Doctor, Leela, and K9 arrive and befriend a luckless drone worker, but they must flee with him to the dark undercity...

#24 - Winner Takes All

Bergerac - Season 5 - Episode 2

A millionaire computer expert receives several death threats.

#25 - The Time Warrior (4)

Doctor Who - Season 11 - Episode 4

#26 - The Brain of Morbius (1)

Doctor Who - Season 13 - Episode 17

The storm-lashed planet Karn. Near a graveyard of crashed starships, the demented surgeon Solon hides in his castle, the last acolyte of the Time Lord despot Morbius. He only needs one final item to make his master live again... and then the Doctor and Sarah arrive...

#27 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 21

London, the 1890s. As magician Li H'Sen Chang captivates audiences, a spate of disappearances amongst young women goes largely unnoticed. But almost upon their arrival, the Doctor and Leela find themselves confronting the feared Tong of the Black Scorpion, and a menace from another time. And there's something fishy in the sewers, too...

#28 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang (2)

Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 22

The Doctor and Leela investigate the strange events in Victorian London. But a mysterious masked figure lurks in the shadows.

#29 - Spearhead from Space (1)

Doctor Who - Season 7 - Episode 1

The TARDIS takes the newly regenerated Doctor to Earth to begin his exile. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart leads a UNIT investigation into a mysterious meteorite shower.

#30 - The Time Warrior (2)

Doctor Who - Season 11 - Episode 2

#31 - The Ark in Space (3)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 7

#32 - Spearhead from Space (4)

Doctor Who - Season 7 - Episode 4

The invasion begins as Auton shop dummies come to life and attack the public. The Doctor and UNIT infiltrate Auto Plastics where the Doctor faces the Nestene consciousness.

#33 - The Trial of a Time Lord (13)

Doctor Who - Season 23 - Episode 13

With the Doctor now reluctantly admitting to genocide, things look bad. But the Doctor's nemesis, the Master, intervenes, and the real truth behind the trial comes to light - and with it, the shocking secret of the Valeyard's true identity...

#34 - The Sun Makers (4)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 16

The Doctor now moves to completely overthrow the Company. But the Collector has one last trump card to play.

#35 - The Ark in Space (1)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 5

Deep space, the distant future: following Earth's devastation by solar flares, the survivors of mankind are in cryogenic suspension aboard the Nerva Beacon space station. The Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive on board to find the station suffering from mysterious damage and some manner of creature at large…

#36 - Carnival of Monsters (1)

Doctor Who - Season 10 - Episode 5

#37 - Killer

Blake's 7 - Season 2 - Episode 7

The Liberator crew journey to a planet where a friend of Avon's works, in order to get TP crystals. The derelict spaceship K-47 is retrieved, and an on-board virus spreads throughout the complex.

#38 - Terror of the Autons (4)

Doctor Who - Season 8 - Episode 4

The Doctor catches up with his old enemy, the Master. Can anyone stop the Nestene Consciousness?

#39 - Carnival of Monsters (3)

Doctor Who - Season 10 - Episode 7

#40 - Carnival of Monsters (2)

Doctor Who - Season 10 - Episode 6

#41 - Orbit

Blake's 7 - Season 4 - Episode 11

The scientist Egrorian offers Avon a powerful weapon, the Tachyon Funnel, in exchange for Orac. Servalan, who is behind the transfer, prepares a plan to double-cross Avon that would give her both the Tachyon Funnel and Orac.

#42 - Carnival of Monsters (4)

Doctor Who - Season 10 - Episode 8

#43 - Spearhead from Space (3)

Doctor Who - Season 7 - Episode 3

Sam Seeley has found one of the meteorites but the Autons want it back and are closing in. General Scobie visits Auto Plastics,

#44 - The Time Warrior (1)

Doctor Who - Season 11 - Episode 1

#45 - Spearhead from Space (2)

Doctor Who - Season 7 - Episode 2

A recovered Doctor escapes the hospital and joins UNIT in their investigation. Meanwhile, Channing directs one of his Auton servants to recover a meteorite.

#46 - The Ribos Operation (4)

Doctor Who - Season 16 - Episode 4

Trapped in the catacombs between a mad warlord and ravenous monsters, the Doctor and Romana work desperately to obtain the segement of the Key to Time - and escape alive.

#47 - Terror of the Autons (2)

Doctor Who - Season 8 - Episode 2

The Doctor investigates Rossini's International Circus. The Master, meanwhile, has assumed control at the plastics factory and is manufacturing new lines of living plastics.

#48 - Terror of the Autons (1)

Doctor Who - Season 8 - Episode 1

Earth, the near future. The Master – another renegade Time Lord and the Doctor's sworn enemy – arrives and allies himself with the Nestene Consciousness in an attempt to conquer the planet.

#49 - Terror of the Autons (3)

Doctor Who - Season 8 - Episode 3

Earth, the near future. The Master - another renegade Time Lord and the Doctor's sworn enemy - arrives and allies himself with the Nestene Consciousness in an attempt to conquer the planet. But how can plastic flowers be an invasion weapon...?

#50 - The Ribos Operation (1)

Doctor Who - Season 16 - Episode 1

The Magellanic Clouds, the planet Ribos, an unknown time. Ordered by the White Guardian to collect the pieces of the omnipotent Key to Time, The Doctor, K-9 and his new assistant Romana arrive. Collecting the first segment is not going to be easy…