The BEST episodes written by Steven Moffat

Breakfast at Czar's
star
9.25
3 votes

#1 - Breakfast at Czar's

Press Gang - Season 2 - Episode 1

The local leisure complex is being threatened with closure and The Junior Gazette come up with a great campaign to save it, or so they originally thought. The facts are wrong and the team are forced to write another edition of the paper. Much to Lynda's delight as she uses her own initiative to back the council into a corner. Does she succeed in getting the whole story and revealing the true facts.

Blink
star
9.09
3537 votes

#2 - Blink

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 3 - Episode 10

In an old, abandoned house, the Weeping Angels wait. Only the Doctor can stop them, but he's lost in time.

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Naked
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8.67
1039 votes

#3 - Naked

Coupling - Season 2 - Episode 8

As Jeff's 30th birthday approaches, his new boss Julia Davis questions the girls about whether one should kiss a junior work colleague, while Jeff admits to the lads that he had a close encounter of the Nat (Nose Avoidance Tilt) kind in a stationery cupboard at work.

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The End of the Line
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8.58
1038 votes

#4 - The End of the Line

Coupling - Season 2 - Episode 9

Steve and Susan's relationship is drifting into a new phase. They are beginning to get on each other's nerves. A bizarre set of misunderstandings brings on a crisis.

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His Last Vow
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8.57
8372 votes

#5 - His Last Vow

Sherlock - Season 3 - Episode 3

Sherlock Holmes encounters Charles Augustus Magnussen, the one man he truly hates, through a case of stolen letters. How will he tackle an enemy who specialises in blackmail and knows the personal weakness of every eminent person in the western world?

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Forest of the Dead (2)
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8.53
3006 votes

#6 - Forest of the Dead (2)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 4 - Episode 9

As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. But can they halt the advance of the Vashta Nerada?

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A Good Man Goes to War
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8.53
3963 votes

#7 - A Good Man Goes to War

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 6 - Episode 7

The Doctor assembles an alien army to fight the Battle of Demons Run, and we finally discover who River Song really is...

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The Name of the Doctor
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8.52
3121 votes

#8 - The Name of the Doctor

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 7 - Episode 13

The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered...

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Heaven Sent
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8.51
2603 votes

#9 - Heaven Sent

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 9 - Episode 11

Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone. Pursued by the fearsome creature known only as the Veil, he must attempt the impossible. If he makes it through, Gallifrey is waiting...

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Silence in the Library (1)
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8.51
3095 votes

#10 - Silence in the Library (1)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 4 - Episode 8

The Doctor meets River Song for the first time as he and Donna face the Vashta Nerada!

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The Lying Detective
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8.47
7480 votes

#11 - The Lying Detective

Sherlock - Season 4 - Episode 2

Sherlock faces perhaps the most chilling enemy of his long career: the powerful and seemingly unassailable Culverton Smith - a man with a very dark secret indeed.

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The Angels Take Manhattan
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8.47
3669 votes

#12 - The Angels Take Manhattan

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 7 - Episode 5

The Doctor's heart-breaking farewell to Amy and Rory - a race against time through the streets of Manhattan, as New York's statues come to life around them...

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The Big Bang (2)
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8.45
4215 votes

#13 - The Big Bang (2)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 5 - Episode 13

The Stone Dalek closes in on the Doctor, and reality's last hope is a little girl who still believes in stars.

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A Scandal in Belgravia
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8.45
11537 votes

#14 - A Scandal in Belgravia

Sherlock - Season 2 - Episode 1

Compromising photographs threaten the monarchy, but for Sherlock and John the game is on in more ways than one.

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A Study in Pink
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8.42
14439 votes

#15 - A Study in Pink

Sherlock - Season 1 - Episode 1

A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate - it is London in 2010, and Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes are meeting for the first time. A string of impossible suicides has Scotland Yard baffled - and only one man can help.

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The Eleventh Hour
star
8.41
4634 votes

#16 - The Eleventh Hour

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 5 - Episode 1

The new Doctor has 20 minutes to save the world, and only Amy Pond - the girl who waited - can help him.

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Sex, Death & Nudity
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8.40
5 votes

#17 - Sex, Death & Nudity

Coupling (US) - Season 1 - Episode 3

When Jane's aunt dies, she expects Steve to go to the funeral. As her boyfriend. But if he's going, then Susan is going. And if Susan is going, then Patrick is going. And if Patrick is going, then Sally is going. And if they're all going, then Jeff might as well be going, too, since he was the only one besides Jane who actually knew her. Meanwhile, Jeff fears he'll blurt out something he shouldn't during a forthcoming interview for a promotion.

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Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
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8.39
947 votes

#18 - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

Coupling - Season 3 - Episode 7

Sally is terrified that she might be pregnant, so she takes a pregnancy test and asks the other girls to do the same so that she knows what a negative result looks like. In her fluster she gets the tests muddled up. One of the girls is pregnant, but which one?

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Hell Bent
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8.39
2343 votes

#19 - Hell Bent

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 9 - Episode 12

If you took everything from him, betrayed him, trapped him, and broke both his hearts... how far might the Doctor go? Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time itself. Who is the Hybrid? And what is the Doctor's confession?

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Inferno
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8.37
1251 votes

#20 - Inferno

Coupling - Season 1 - Episode 4

Steve is plunged into total panic when he suspects that Susan has found one of his porn videos. To fill the embarrassing silence, he tells her he loves her, but Susan is well-aware that he was merely panicking. Susan invites all the friends over for a dinner party. Jane brings her therapist, Jill, who everyone assumes is there as Jane's date. In front of everyone, Susan insists that Steve justify his passion for the offending porn film, Lesbian Spank Inferno.

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Sex, Death & Nudity
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8.34
1229 votes

#21 - Sex, Death & Nudity

Coupling - Season 1 - Episode 3

Jeff explains to the guys about 'The Giggle Loop': the danger that the more you try to suppress laughter in important silences, the harder you want to laugh. Jane's aunt has died, and she wants Steve to come to the funeral, pretending to be her boyfriend still. Susan invites herself, and so Patrick must come as her 'boyfriend', and all six end up going.

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Monday - Tuesday
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8.33
3 votes

#22 - Monday - Tuesday

Press Gang - Season 1 - Episode 11

School, life, The Junior Gazette it all seems to be going perfect, everythings going the way you want it to. Then something happens and the next day getting out of bed is the worst thing you could have done. Are Lynda, Spike, Kenny, Tiddler caught in some weird surreal dream or is life really like this?!

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The Pandorica Opens (1)
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8.33
3983 votes

#23 - The Pandorica Opens (1)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 5 - Episode 12

The Doctor confronts an army of old enemies, and Amy battles a Cyberman. And then the Pandorica opens...

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Unconditional Sex
star
8.33
789 votes

#24 - Unconditional Sex

Coupling - Season 3 - Episode 3

Jeff is still trying to decide whether he should cheat on his girlfriend Julia with Wilma, or not. While his friends try to help him, Jeff is no match in this debate for "devil woman" Wilma. She knows every argument that Susan (the expert in getting her own way) has ever used. Jeff paints himself into a terrifyingly extreme conversational corner, until he blurts out that the reason he can't have sex with Wilma is that his girlfriend is dead...

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The Girl in the Fireplace
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8.32
3307 votes

#25 - The Girl in the Fireplace

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 2 - Episode 4

Madame de Pompadour finds the court at Versailles under attack from sinister clockwork killers. Her only hope of salvation lies with the man who has haunted her dreams since childhood - a mysterious stranger known only as the Doctor.

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The Girl with Two Breasts
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8.31
1245 votes

#26 - The Girl with Two Breasts

Coupling - Season 1 - Episode 5

Jeff and co. can't take their eyes of a beautiful stranger in their local bar. And the girl can't take her eyes off Jeff. Jeff goes over to talk to her, only to discover that she doesn't speak a word of English, which to Jeff of course is quite a relief. Her interpreter, Alice, tells Jeff she's Israeli, then whisks her away. The next day the girl is back and Jeff attempts to chat her up. With neither speaking a word of the other's language, it is an utter disaster.

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The Wedding of River Song
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8.30
3727 votes

#27 - The Wedding of River Song

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 6 - Episode 13

All of time and space hangs in the balance, for this is the day the Doctor dies.

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World Enough and Time (1)
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8.30
2337 votes

#28 - World Enough and Time (1)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 10 - Episode 11

A huge spaceship trapped in the gravity well of a black hole, teeming with impossible lifeforms, harbours one of the Doctor's most feared enemies... Mondasian Cybermen.

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The Man with Two Legs
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8.27
964 votes

#29 - The Man with Two Legs

Coupling - Season 2 - Episode 1

Jeff finally gets to speak to Chrissy, the woman on the train whose leg he has been fancying for days, and tells her that he only has one leg, a lie which becomes ever harder to undo. Meanwhile, Sally is dating a "surgeon" called David, and Jeff wonders whether it would be easier.

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Dressed
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8.27
1034 votes

#30 - Dressed

Coupling - Season 2 - Episode 7

Patrick has boasted to his business associate, Ivan, amongst other things that he has a wife, and when Ivan comes to the bar, Patrick presses Sally and then Susan into pretending to be his wife. Things turn awkward when Steve proposes to Susan while she is pretending to be faithfully married to Patrick. Meanwhile, Jane is invited on a dinner date by Bill, a man she chatted up in a pub, but makes an unfortunate choice of clothing for the evening.

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How to Make a Killing (2)
star
8.25
3 votes

#31 - How to Make a Killing (2)

Press Gang - Season 1 - Episode 8

Kenny continues to pursue the girl in order to solve the mystery, but Lynda needs him back at the Junior Gazette. She is eventually forced to take on Spike as her assistant for the day much to her un-delight. Kenny's mystery provokes the teams biggest under cover operation campaign yet, just what is going on?

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The Doctor Falls (2)
star
8.25
2247 votes

#32 - The Doctor Falls (2)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 10 - Episode 12

The Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen to protect a tiny band of humans from destruction.

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Asylum of the Daleks
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8.24
3733 votes

#33 - Asylum of the Daleks

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 7 - Episode 1

Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission - to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter...

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The Time of Angels (1)
star
8.24
4219 votes

#34 - The Time of Angels (1)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 5 - Episode 4

The Doctor, River Song and Amy hunt the last of the Weeping Angels through the terrifying Maze of the Dead.

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Flesh and Stone (2)
star
8.24
3816 votes

#35 - Flesh and Stone (2)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 5 - Episode 5

Surrounded by an army of Weeping Angels, the Doctor must escape through the forest vault before facing a final, petrifying challenge...

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Day of the Moon (2)
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8.24
4149 votes

#36 - Day of the Moon (2)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 6 - Episode 2

In 1960s America, the Doctor fights an alien force dating back to the beginnings of human civilisation: the Silence!

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The Impossible Astronaut (1)
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8.23
4068 votes

#37 - The Impossible Astronaut (1)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 6 - Episode 1

Amy, Rory and River mourn the Doctor, but are soon plunged into an adventure with President Nixon and the Silence!

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The Cupboard of Patrick's Love
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8.21
1183 votes

#38 - The Cupboard of Patrick's Love

Coupling - Season 1 - Episode 6

Patrick has a cupboard of video tapes of his former girlfriends, not to mention Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man. Jeff is excited, but Steve is appalled, when he realizes that Susan must be amongst them. Susan is also horrified when she realizes this in the company of the other girls. Later on, she arrives at Patrick's, and is outraged at what she finds going on there.

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Size Matters
star
8.20
1161 votes

#39 - Size Matters

Coupling - Season 1 - Episode 2

Susan invites Steve for a date at home, and offers to cook. Jeff warns him about 'The Sock Gap', and Patrick alerts him to her collection of remote controls. Somehow everyone's conversation seems to revolve around Patrick's size, and Jeff is asked by several people to accompany him to the toilet to check.

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Split
star
8.19
942 votes

#40 - Split

Coupling - Season 3 - Episode 1

Steve and Susan have had an argument about their future, and Susan storms out of Steve's flat in tears. While Steve tries repeatedly to ring Susan, his courage failing every time, the girls are locked in a debate over the merits of 1471, and what it means if the phone "chirps". Eventually the tension at both ends of the phone gets too much. The boys and the girls set out for "the Temple of Woman': in the girls' case, a beauty salon; in the boys' case, a lap dancing club.

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The Doctor Dances (2)
star
8.18
3297 votes

#41 - The Doctor Dances (2)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 10

The Child's plague is spreading throughout wartime London, and its zombie army is on the march. The Doctor and Rose form an alliance with the intergalactic con man, Captain Jack, but find themselves trapped in the abandoned hospital. The answer lies at the bomb site, but time is running out.

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Flushed
star
8.16
1514 votes

#42 - Flushed

Coupling - Season 1 - Episode 1

Jeff reckons Steve is still in 'The Zone' with Jane: the time after the breakup when there can still be sex, but he wants to date Susan instead. When he has a meal in a restaurant with Jane, Susan walks in.

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Listen
star
8.15
2797 votes

#43 - Listen

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 8 - Episode 4

What will the Doctor find at the end of the universe? What scares the Doctor? Ghosts of the past and future - a little boy who doesn't want to join the army.

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The Final Problem
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8.14
6962 votes

#44 - The Final Problem

Sherlock - Season 4 - Episode 3

Someone has been playing a very long game indeed and, alone and defenceless, Sherlock and Dr Watson face their greatest ever challenge.

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My Dinner in Hell
star
8.13
1083 votes

#45 - My Dinner in Hell

Coupling - Season 2 - Episode 2

After watching an embarrassing program on TV with Susan, Steve bumps into his dream celebrity, Mariella Frostrup, in the bar, but it is not the dream encounter he might like, as she pours her drink down his trousers. Jane and Sally's attempt to make friends with her get him into more trouble as he then has to have dinner with Susan's liberal-minded parents, which turns into a nightmare as misunderstandings multiply.

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Nine and a Half Minutes
star
8.12
845 votes

#46 - Nine and a Half Minutes

Coupling - Season 4 - Episode 1

One bar, three different points of view, the same nine and a half minutes. Susan and Steve are pregnant (mostly Susan), Patrick and Sally are discussing relationships (mostly Sally), and Jane has a blind date - but will his job be a problem? Meanwhile, in the skies above an Aegean island, terrible danger grows.

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The Girl with One Heart
star
8.12
1025 votes

#47 - The Girl with One Heart

Coupling - Season 3 - Episode 6

Susan has invited everyone over for dinner, which as we know is just asking for trouble. Steve is particularly worried because Susan has recently redecorated the bathroom, and removed the lock, thus robbing him of his Fortress of Solitude. Sally's worry is that Patrick is bringing his new girlfriend: she's frightened that she will overcompensate her feelings of hostility towards her new rival by being embarrassingly nice. Patrick dimly perceives there might be a problem, so has told Jennifer that Sally is a lesbian...

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The Empty Child (1)
star
8.11
3376 votes

#48 - The Empty Child (1)

Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 9

London, 1941, at the height of the Blitz. A mysterious cylinder is guarded by the army, while homeless children, living on the bombsites, are terrorised by an unearthly child. When Rose meets the dashing Captain Jack Harkness, has she found a hero better than the Doctor himself?

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Episode One
star
8.08
460 votes

#49 - Episode One

Jekyll - Season 1 - Episode 1

The last living descendent of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is Tom Jackman. From time to time his alter ego Hyde wakes. Tom's wife hires a private investigator to find out why Tom left his family life six months previous.

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Gotcha
star
8.08
918 votes

#50 - Gotcha

Coupling - Season 2 - Episode 6

It's one year since Steve and Susan's first date, and he is dreading questions about their future. And then a wedding invitation drops through their front door. Patrick meets an ex who appears to fail to recognize him.

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