The BEST episodes written by Russell T. Davies
#1 - Journey's End (2)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 4 - Episode 13
As Davros and the Daleks threaten the universe, the Doctor's companions join forces. But tragedy is waiting for the Time Lord...
#2 - Doomsday (2)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 2 - Episode 13
The end of an epic journey, as two mighty armies wage war across the Earth, with the human race caught in the middle. But as an unstoppable terror emerges from beneath Torchwood, the Doctor faces an even greater dilemma - does saving the world mean the death of Rose Tyler?
#3 - Turn Left
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 4 - Episode 11
What would have happened if the Doctor had died facing the Racnoss? We find a nightmare world as Donna and Rose attempt to stop the approaching Darkness.
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#4 - The Stolen Earth (1)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 4 - Episode 12
Rose Tyler, Torchwood, Martha and more... Earth's greatest heroes assemble to fight the New Dalek Empire.
#6 - The Parting of the Ways (2)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 13
Rose has seen danger and wonders alongside the Doctor, but now their friendship is put to the test as Earth plunges into an epic war. With the human race being slaughtered, the Doctor is forced into terrible action. Will the time-travellers ever be reunited?
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#7 - Episode 4
Years and Years - Season 1 - Episode 4
Daniel embarks on a dangerous quest to bring Viktor home, while Celeste takes a terrible revenge on Stephen. Viv sets her sights on the ultimate prize: 10 Downing Street.
#8 - Last of the Time Lords (3)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 3 - Episode 13
Earth has been conquered and the Master rules supreme, with the Doctor his prisoner. Can Martha Jones save the world?
#9 - Episode 6
Years and Years - Season 1 - Episode 6
Viv Rook tightens her grip, and the Lyons fight back. But can one ordinary family hope to change the world?
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#10 - The Sound of Drums (2)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 3 - Episode 12
Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but his dark ambitions reach beyond the stars.
#11 - Midnight
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 4 - Episode 10
The Doctor is trapped on the planet Midnight, and the knocking on the wall begins...
#12 - Utopia (1)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 3 - Episode 11
Captain Jack Harkness storms back into the Doctor's life, and the Tardis is thrown to the end of the universe itself.
#13 - Bad Wolf (1)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 12
The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack fight for their lives on board the Game Station, but disaster strikes when the Daleks capture Rose!
#14 - Episode 3
Casanova - Season 1 - Episode 3
In the past, we follow Casanova's adventures in London - where he glimpses Henriette and tricks his way into court circles - and in Naples, where he meets an old friend. Still living on his wits, Casanova makes and loses fortunes and also enjoys other conquests. Back in the present, Edith realizes that Casanova may be wrong in believing Henriette is dead. But Casanova himself is now very sick and getting near his end.
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#15 - Episode 2
Casanova - Season 1 - Episode 2
Casanova, living on his wits and as a mystic, does a good deed and comes into a fortune. Bragadin offers to adopt him and Henriette agrees to marry him. Grimani, enraged, has Casanova arrested and charged with witchcraft, but he escapes from prison and flees Venice - taking with him Jack, his young illegitimate son by a previous liaison, and Rocco, his servant. Casanova heads for Paris, as he knows that Venetian ambassadors abroad are able to grant pardons.
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#16 - Day Five
Torchwood - Season 3 - Episode 5
Torchwood is defenceless and Gwen Cooper stands alone as the final sanction begins. As violence erupts and the world descends into anarchy, an ordinary council estate becomes a battleground where the future of the human race will be decided.
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#17 - Day One
Torchwood - Season 3 - Episode 1
An ordinary day becomes a world of terror as every single child in the world stops. A message is sent to the governments of Earth: 'We are coming'. As a trap closes around Captain Jack, sins of the past return, as long-forgotten events from 1965 threaten to reveal an awful truth.
#18 - Episode 2
Years and Years - Season 1 - Episode 2
As the world recovers, Stephen and Celeste face a very modern nightmare, Daniel fights to keep hold of Viktor, and Edith finally returns home, carrying a terrible secret with her.
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#19 - Army of Ghosts (1)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 2 - Episode 12
The human race rejoices as the ghosts of loved ones return home. But as the Doctor, Rose and Jackie investigate the Torchwood Tower, a trap is being sprung, and the whole of modern-day Earth threatens to fall before an almighty invasion force.
#20 - Episode 5
Years and Years - Season 1 - Episode 5
Viv Rook becomes prime minister, and while Edith investigates mysterious rumours, Rosie finds herself trapped in the system.
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#21 - Episode 1
Years and Years - Season 1 - Episode 1
The Lyons family gather in 2019, unaware that their future holds many surprises. Absent sister Edith brings news from abroad that will change their lives forever.
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#22 - Day Three
Torchwood - Season 3 - Episode 3
The eyes of the world turn to Britain, as the 456 announce, 'We are here'. As a pillar of fire descends upon London, the members of Torchwood must battle to protect their own families, as the fight gets personal. But will Clem's memories destroy everything?
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#23 - Stuart Alan Jones
Queer as Folk - Season 1 - Episode 2
Stuart pursues a client, Vince (not 'out' at work) is pursued by the new girl and Nathan, verging on obsession, is desperate to find Stuart again.
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#24 - Out of the Closet...
Queer as Folk - Season 2 - Episode 1
Vince's love for Stuart remains unrequited, but the sexual buzz between them is becoming irresistible. Will they get it together? Meanwhile, Nathan reappears to celebrate his return from London.
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#25 - The Well
Doctor Who (2023) - Season 2 - Episode 3
Far in the future, on a tough, brutal planet, a devastated mining colony has only one survivor. To discover the truth, the Doctor and Belinda must face absolute terror.
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#26 - Episode 3
Years and Years - Season 1 - Episode 3
Daniel uses his birthday party to reveal a dangerous plan. And as Viv Rook rises to power, the Lyons gather for a funeral. But Celeste is left to fight alone as Bethany’s obsession.
#27 - New Earth
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 2 - Episode 1
The Doctor and Rose Tyler board the Tardis for new adventures in time and space. When they visit mankind's new home, far in the future, they find gruesome secrets hidden inside a luxury hospital. An enemy thought long dead, the paper-thin Cassandra, is out for revenge.
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#28 - Episode 3
A Very English Scandal - Season 1 - Episode 3
Having survived a bungled attempt on his life, Norman Scott publicly accuses Jeremy Thorpe of being behind a plot to kill him. The men go to court with the world watching.
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#29 - Gridlock
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 3 - Episode 3
The Doctor takes Martha to New Earth, in the far future, only to find that an entire city has become a deadly trap.
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#30 - 73 Yards
Doctor Who (2023) - Season 1 - Episode 4
Landing on the Welsh coast, the Doctor and Ruby embark on the strangest journey of their lives. In a rain-lashed pub, the locals sit in fear of ancient legends coming to life.
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#31 - Tooth and Claw
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 2 - Episode 2
The Doctor and Rose travel back to the year 1879. An encounter in the Scottish Highlands with Queen Victoria and a band of warrior monks reveals a deadly trap, dating back centuries. Can the local legends of a werewolf really be true?
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#32 - Smith and Jones
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 3 - Episode 1
When Martha Jones finds herself on the moon, she meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, and her life will never be the same again.
#33 - Partners in Crime
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 4 - Episode 1
Donna and the Doctor reunite and must save the lives of millions threatened by a sinister alien... Allons-y!
#34 - Thursday
Queer as Folk - Season 1 - Episode 1
Stuart and Vince, stalwarts of the Manchester gay scene, are out on the pull in Canal Street.
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#35 - The New World
Torchwood - Season 4 - Episode 1
When death itself comes to a halt, the whole world faces its greatest danger yet. CIA agent Rex Matheson has only one clue: the word 'Torchwood'.
#36 - Episode 1
Casanova - Season 1 - Episode 1
Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, begins to tell his life story to Edith, a young kitchen maid in the castle he works in. We return to Casanova's childhood and humble beginnings as the son of an actor in Venice. As a young man he studies for the priesthood, but is expelled from his seminary, then meets and falls in love with Henriette... but the Duke of Grimani wants Henriette for himself.
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#37 - The End of the World
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 2
The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time, to the year five billion and the end of planet Earth.
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#38 - Rose
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 1
When Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, her life will never be the same again. Soon she realises that her mum, her boyfriend and the whole of Earth are in danger. The only hope for salvation lies inside a strange blue box.
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#39 - Deadly Web (1)
Touching Evil - Season 1 - Episode 5
A simultaneous attack on horses on the same night on three separate continents baffles the police until a Japanese student confesses that the assaults were occasioned by a perverse fantasy web-site called 'Amathus',exhorting people who wanted to belong to it to commit willful acts from attacking horses to murder.
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#40 - Episode 2
A Very English Scandal - Season 1 - Episode 2
With Thorpe's old affair with Norman Scott threatening to derail his political career, will Jeremy stop at nothing to silence Norman?
#41 - The Legend of Ruby Sunday (1)
Doctor Who (2023) - Season 1 - Episode 7
The Doctor and UNIT investigate Ruby's past. But as the Time Window reveals horrifying secrets from Christmas Eve, the mysterious Triad Technology unleash the greatest evil of all.
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#42 - Boom Town
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Tardis crew take a holiday, but the Doctor encounters an enemy he thought long since dead. A plan to build a nuclear power station in Cardiff disguises an alien plot to rip the world apart, and when the Doctor dines with monsters, he discovers traps within traps.
#43 - The Long Game
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 7
Adam discovers the wonders of travelling in the Tardis. In the far future, Satellite 5 broadcasts to the entire Earth Empire, but anyone promoted to Floor 500 is never seen again, and the Doctor suspects mankind is being manipulated. Does Adam have what it takes to become the Time Lord's companion?
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#44 - The Witch of the Waterfall
The War Between the Land and the Sea - Season 1 - Episode 4
Barclay and Salt go on the run in a war-torn London as UNIT reels from disaster. But when Tide threatens the land and Gunsberg advances his plans, the Severance schemes demand blood.
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#45 - Lux
Doctor Who (2023) - Season 2 - Episode 2
The Doctor's quest to get Belinda home takes the TARDIS to Miami in 1952, where an abandoned cinema is hiding a terrifying secret. Can the Doctor uncover Lux's power?
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#46 - Episode 1
A Very English Scandal - Season 1 - Episode 1
Politician Jeremy Thorpe begins a whirlwind affair with a stable hand, Norman Scott. But when the relationship turns sour, Norman becomes a secret Jeremy is desperate to hide.
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#47 - Aliens of London (1)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 4
The Doctor takes Rose home, but when a spaceship crash-lands in the Thames, London is closed off and the whole world goes on red alert. While the Doctor investigates the alien survivor, Rose discovers that her home is no longer a safe haven.
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#48 - Everything Changes
Torchwood - Season 1 - Episode 1
A brutal murder leads WPC Gwen Cooper to Torchwood.
#49 - Part One
The Second Coming - Season 1 - Episode 1
Stephen Baxter is an easygoing, lager drinking, working class video-store assistant born and bred in Manchester, Northern England. The same Stephen Baxter also claims to be the Son of God returned to the mortality he departed some two thousand years earlier, to once more deliver a profoundly important message unto Humankind.
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#50 - World War Three (2)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 5
Downing Street announces mankind's first Interplanetary War, but the real danger is much closer to home. The Doctor, Rose and Harriet Jones race against time to unmask the villainous Slitheen, but only Rose's mum and boyfriend hold the key to salvation.
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