Top 20 best Doctor Who stories.
by masonburruss | created - 14 Dec 2013 | updated - 14 Dec 2013 | PublicThese are my personal picks for the top 20 best Doctor Who episodes.
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1.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Girl in the Fireplace
(2006)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Mickey and Rose land on a spaceship in the 51st century only to find 18th century Versailles on board, the time of Madame De Pompadour! To find out what's going on the Doctor must enter Versailles and save Madame De Popmpadour but it turns into an emotional roller coaster for the Doctor.
Director: Euros Lyn | Stars: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Noel Clarke, Sophia Myles
Votes: 12,741
2.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Empty Child
(2005)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When a spaceship crashes in the middle of the London Blitz the Doctor, Rose and the enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness find themselves investigating a plague of physical injuries and a little boy in a gas mask.
Director: James Hawes | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Kate Harvey, Albert Valentine
Votes: 10,371
I know this is a two parter, the "Doctor Dances" is included as number 2
3.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Brain of Morbius: Part One
(1976)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Tardis lands in a spaceship graveyard on the bleak planet Karn, where The Doctor and Sarah find a evil scientist called Doctor Solon is constructing a new body for the brain of an evil ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Barry | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Philip Madoc, Cynthia Grenville
Votes: 658
It says part one but I'm including all four or more episodes. This goes for ever episode of the original series.
4.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
School Reunion
(2006)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Krillitanes - aliens with a mix-and-match physiology - are trying to crack the 'God-Maker', a paradigm to give them ultimate power. They are using children as a computer, and only the Doctor and Rose, re-united with Sarah Jane Smith and K9 can prevent them from becoming masters of time and space.
Director: James Hawes | Stars: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Noel Clarke, Anthony Head
Votes: 8,503
5.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
Genesis of the Daleks: Part One
(1975)
TV-G | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Doctor and his companions are sent to the planet Skaro by the Time Lords to prevent the creation of the Daleks.
Director: David Maloney | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, Michael Wisher
Votes: 1,148
6.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 1
(1967)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive on Telos, where an archaeological group are exploring the Tomb of the Cybermen. But are the Cybermen as dormant as they believe?
Director: Morris Barry | Stars: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Roy Stewart
Votes: 880
7.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Bad Wolf
(2005)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Rose and Jack are separated and forced to compete in twisted and deadly games on the Game Station.
Director: Joe Ahearne | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, John Barrowman, Jo Joyner
Votes: 8,527
Once again, I know this is a two parter, "The Parting of the Ways" is included as number 7
8.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
Kinda: Part One
(1982)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Tardis lands on Deva Loka. While Nyssa recovers inside the Tardis, the Doctor and Adric meet a survey team and their hostages, the seemingly primitive and mute Kinda. Meanwhile Tegan is tormented by an evil entity in her dreams.
Director: Peter Grimwade | Stars: Peter Davison, Richard Todd, Nerys Hughes, Simon Rouse
Votes: 535
9.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Father's Day
(2005)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Rose asks The Doctor to take her to 1987, on the day her father was killed.
Director: Joe Ahearne | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Shaun Dingwall
Votes: 8,698
10.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Impossible Planet
(2006)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When the Doctor and Rose become stranded on a planet orbiting a black hole, they find a human expedition crew and their servants, the Ood, being terrorised by the Devil.
Director: James Strong | Stars: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Danny Webb, Shaun Parkes
Votes: 8,553
and The Satan Pit
11.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Dalek
(2005)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The TARDIS is drawn to an alien museum deep below the Utah desert, where a ruthless billionaire keeps prisoner the last of the Doctor's most fearsome enemies.
Director: Joe Ahearne | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Steven Beckingham, Corey Johnson
Votes: 9,161
12.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Mind Robber: Episode 1
(1968)
TV-PG | 22 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The TARDIS arrives in a white void after making an emergency escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis.
Director: David Maloney | Stars: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Emrys Jones
Votes: 700
13.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
Remembrance of the Daleks: Part One
(1988)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Doctor and Ace travel back to London in November 1963 and are caught in the middle of a Dalek civil war.
Director: Andrew Morgan | Stars: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Simon Williams, Dursley McLinden
Votes: 771
14.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Fires of Pompeii
(2008)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Instead of Rome, The Doctor and Donna Noble end up visiting Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Before anyone even knew it was actually a volcano, the entire city is doomed for destruction.
Director: Colin Teague | Stars: David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Phil Cornwell, Karen Gillan
Votes: 7,862
15.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
Terror of the Zygons: Part One
(1975)
TV-G | 22 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Doctor, Sarah and Harry return to Earth in response to an emergency space-time telegraph from the Brigadier, who asks them to investigate the destruction of a series of North Sea oil rigs.
Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, John Woodnutt
Votes: 689
16.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Deadly Assassin: Part One
(1976)
TV-PG | 21 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A mysterious evil is at work on Gallifrey. The President of the Time Lords has been assassinated and the Doctor caught red-handed. An inexorable master plan has been set in motion. There can be no escape
Director: David Maloney | Stars: Tom Baker, Llewellyn Rees, Bernard Horsfall, George Pravda
Votes: 698
17.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
Image of the Fendahl: Part One
(1977)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Archeologists near a reputedly haunted woods use a time scanner to explore the history of a sinister 12 million year old skull, creating a hole in time that attracts the Doctor's attention.
Director: George Spenton-Foster | Stars: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Wanda Ventham, Daphne Heard
Votes: 487
18.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Robots of Death: Part One
(1977)
TV-Y | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Tardis materializes aboard a mining ship on a desert planet, inhabited by a human crew and their robot servants. While Leela adjusts to life travelling with the Doctor, one of the ship's robots mysteriously kills a member of the crew.
Director: Michael E. Briant | Stars: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Russell Hunter, Pamela Salem
Votes: 787
19.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Shakespeare Code
(2007)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor takes Martha to London in 1599, where William Shakespeare's new play is being used by three witches in an evil plan.
Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Dean Lennox Kelly, Christina Cole
Votes: 7,754
20.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Doctor's Wife
(2011)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor is lured to a sentient asteroid outside of the Universe by a Time Lord distress signal and soon realises his TARDIS is in grave danger.
Director: Richard Clark | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Suranne Jones
Votes: 8,876
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