The BEST episodes written by Terrance Dicks

The Brain of Morbius (3)
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8.01
174 votes

#1 - 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.

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Horror of Fang Rock (3)
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8.00
203 votes

#2 - Horror of Fang Rock (3)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 3

The Doctor barricades everyone in the lighthouse to protect them from the mysterious deadly creature in the fog. But it may already be inside, biding its time…

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Horror of Fang Rock (4)
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7.96
198 votes

#3 - Horror of Fang Rock (4)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 4

The Rutan starts picking off the surviving humans one by one as the Doctor and Leela struggle to defeat not only the alien but an entire fleet waiting to occupy Earth.

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The Brain of Morbius (2)
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7.81
175 votes

#4 - 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.

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Horror of Fang Rock (2)
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7.79
202 votes

#5 - Horror of Fang Rock (2)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 2

The survivors of a wrecked ship are stranded with the lighhouse crew on Fang Rock as a deadly menace slithers through the fog. Has the Beast of Fang Rock returned?

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The Brain of Morbius (4)
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7.77
174 votes

#6 - 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.

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The Brain of Morbius (1)
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7.74
180 votes

#7 - 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...

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Horror of Fang Rock (1)
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7.66
207 votes

#8 - Horror of Fang Rock (1)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 1

The English channel, the 1900s AD. The TARDIS lands on barren Fang Rock, inhabited until now only by three light-house keepers. But what is the strange fog covering the island, and can it be connected to the falling star sighted earlier that night?

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Robot (2)
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7.36
234 votes

#9 - Robot (2)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 2

England, the near future. Sarah Jane Smith meets a gigantic robot, and the Doctor finds himself struggling for his life.

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Robot (1)
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7.35
393 votes

#10 - Robot (1)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 1

England, the near future. Something inhumanly strong and resilient is raiding scientific establishments across the country. Can the new Doctor help UNIT? And what are the staff of the secret government think tank working on in their spare time?

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Robot (4)
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7.20
243 votes

#11 - Robot (4)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 4

England, the near future. The Robot grows to gigantic proportions and goes on a rampage. The Doctor finds the solution in a test tube.

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State of Decay (1)
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7.10
126 votes

#12 - State of Decay (1)

Doctor Who - Season 18 - Episode 13

Still trapped in negative E-Space, the TARDIS lands on an unnamed world to find a society sliding back into feudalism. What is the secret of the Three Who Rule? And what ancient enemy of the Time Lords is stirring again on this world...?

State of Decay (2)
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7.05
119 votes

#13 - State of Decay (2)

Doctor Who - Season 18 - Episode 14

The Doctor and Romana are escorted to the tower to meet the royal leaders, hoping they can find answers to why this society evolves backwards. The Doctor recognizes the tower as an old Earth spaceship, and further finds that the old fuel tanks, far from empty, are full - but with blood. Meanwhile, Councilor Aukon senses intelligence in Adric and selects him to be the their first "Chosen One."

Robot (3)
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6.95
217 votes

#14 - Robot (3)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 3

England, the near future. The Doctor attempts to thwart the plans of a group of unscrupulous scientists who threaten the Earth's destruction, and plan to use their giant robot to obtain the power they need to blackmail the world into obeying them.

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State of Decay (3)
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6.91
117 votes

#15 - State of Decay (3)

Doctor Who - Season 18 - Episode 15

The Doctor finds archive material in the TARDIS that tells him he's dealing with an ancient enemy of the Time Lords, a nearly indestructible king vampire who's ready to revive and reenter normal space, spreading death, once again, across the universe.

State of Decay (4)
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6.87
116 votes

#16 - State of Decay (4)

Doctor Who - Season 18 - Episode 16

The Doctor joins the villagers' revolt against their vampire rulers, unsure how to kill the king vampire. Meanwhile Adric is first in line to join the new vampire order while Romana is laid out as a sacrificial Time Lord for the awakening king vampire and his swarm of bats.

Intercrime
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6.46
44 votes

#17 - Intercrime

The Avengers - Season 2 - Episode 15

Steed wants Mrs. Gale to impersonate Hilda Stern, a recently arrested assassin about to be used by the trans-national crime syndicate Intercrime. Things go swimmingly, until the real Hilda Stern breaks out of Holloway and confronts the imposter.

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The Lambda Factor
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6.28
74 votes

#18 - The Lambda Factor

Space: 1999 - Season 2 - Episode 17

A strange space cloud appears in the vicinty of Alpha around the same time as a technician dies under mysterious circumstances. Before long, Koenig is locked in a battle of wills with a woman whose latent mental abilities have surfaced presumably due to the cloud's proximity.

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The Mauritius Penny
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6.00
54 votes

#19 - The Mauritius Penny

The Avengers - Season 2 - Episode 7

The owner of a stamp shop is murdered when excitedly talking on the phone to a contact about the rare Mauritius Penny that has turned up on a list. Cathy Gale applies for a job in the shop, and she and Steed witness another murder in an auction room.

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Concerto
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5.54
37 votes

#20 - Concerto

The Avengers - Season 3 - Episode 24

Soviet-British trade talks are coinciding with the first London concert of the brilliant young pianist, Stefan Veliko. A young girl accuses Veliko of assault, and is then murdered. If someone wants to disrupt the talks by incriminating the pianist, they seem to be going about it in the right way.

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Homicide and Old Lace
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4.71
37 votes

#21 - Homicide and Old Lace

The Avengers - Season 6 - Episode 26

It's Mother's birthday and he is visiting two of his aunts, Harriet and Georgina. To celebrate he tells them a hair-colour changing story, 'The Great Great British Crime'.

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