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Doctor Who

Space. For all.

7.6IMDb3K votesStrongly recommended
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2005 – 202113 seasons · 153 episodesTV-PGEnded
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TV DNA

How Doctor Who actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.

Signature profile

Doctor Who reads strongest on Spectacle, Character Depth and Bingeability.

SpectacleDefining9.0

Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.

Character DepthVery strong8.3

How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.

BingeabilityVery strong7.0

How hard it is to stop after one episode.

World BuildingVery strong7.0

The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.

Emotional WeightStrong6.8

How much the series is designed to affect you.

TensionPresent4.0

The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.

SerializedLight3.5

How much each hour depends on the one before it.

Cliffhanger IntensityLight3.0

How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.

HumourLight2.5

How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.

The story

What it's about

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

The run

Seasons

13 seasons · 153 episodes.

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    Season 0 · Complete

    Specials

    2005199 episodes

    Special installments of the series.

    Best episode · S00E82 The Night of the Doctor

  • Official poster for Series 1

    Season 1 · Complete

    Series 1

    200513 episodes

    7.6IMDb

    The first series features Christopher Eccleston as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, his only series in the role, accompanied by Billie Piper, as his first and main companion Rose Tyler, whom he plucks from obscurity on planet Earth, and to whom he grows increasingly attached. He also travels briefly with unruly boy-genius Adam Mitchell, played by Bruno Langley, and with 51st-century con man and former "Time Agent" Captain Jack Harkness, portrayed by John Barrowman. Episodes in the series form a loose story arc, based upon the recurring phrase "Bad Wolf".

    Best episode · S01E13 The Parting of the Ways (2)

  • Official poster for Series 2

    Season 2 · Complete

    Series 2

    200613 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    This is the first series to feature David Tennant as the tenth Doctor. He continues to travel with his companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), with whom he has grown increasingly attached. They also briefly travel with Rose's boyfriend Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke), and Camille Coduri reprises her role as Rose's mother Jackie. The series is connected by a loose story arc consisting of the recurring word "Torchwood". This is also the first series to be preceded by a Christmas special, which was commissioned to see how well the show could do at Christmas. The success of "The Christmas Invasion" led to the Christmas special becoming an annual tradition.

    Best episode · S02E13 Doomsday (2)

  • Official poster for Series 3

    Season 3 · Complete

    Series 3

    200713 episodes

    7.7IMDb

    The series stars David Tennant as the Doctor. In the Christmas special he is joined by Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. The series also introduces Freema Agyeman as the Doctor's new companion Martha Jones. John Barrowman also reprises his role as Captain Jack Harkness in the final three episodes which serve as the finale. The series is connected by a loose story arc consisting of the recurring phrase "Vote Saxon".

    Best episode · S03E10 Blink

  • Official poster for Series 4

    Season 4 · Complete

    Series 4

    200813 episodes

    8.0IMDb

    Adventures in time and space with the Tenth Doctor and his companion Donna Noble.

    Best episode · S04E09 Forest of the Dead (2)

  • Official poster for Series 5

    Season 5 · Complete

    Series 5

    201013 episodes

    7.7IMDb

    This is the first series to feature Matt Smith as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor. Karen Gillan is introduced as the Doctor's new companion, Amy Pond. Alex Kingston returns as River Song, a mysterious woman from the Doctor's future who summons him twice. The main story arc concerns a pattern of cracks in the universe that are sometimes unnoticed by the characters. It is discovered that the cracks can erase things from existence.

    Best episode · S05E10 Vincent and the Doctor

  • Official poster for Series 6

    Season 6 · Complete

    Series 6

    201113 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    The Doctor returns, alongside newly weds Amy and Rory, to face monsters and mysteries and adventures all across time and space. Together they find themselves in sixties America, battling the invasion the world forgot, then aboard a pirate ship on the high seas of 1696, to solve the mystery of the Siren. In a bubble universe at the edge of reality, the Doctor meets an old friend with a new face.

    Best episode · S06E01 The Impossible Astronaut (1)

  • Official poster for Series 7

    Season 7 · Complete

    Series 7

    201213 episodes

    7.2IMDb

    The main story arc of the series focused on the significance of the character of Clara, whom the Doctor had encountered twice before as Oswin in "Asylum of the Daleks" and as a governess in "The Snowmen". It also features the recurring appearance of the Doctor's enemy, The Great Intelligence.

    Best episode · S07E05 The Angels Take Manhattan

  • Official poster for Series 8

    Season 8 · Complete

    Series 8

    201412 episodes

    7.1IMDb

    The series is the first to star Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor and Jenna Coleman as his companion, Clara Oswald. Also playing a major recurring role in the series is Samuel Anderson as Danny Pink, Clara's boyfriend. The main story arc revolves around a mysterious woman called Missy (portrayed by Michelle Gomez), who is often seen welcoming people who have died throughout the series to the "Promised Land", a place that serves as an apparent afterlife to deceased characters.

    Best episode · S08E09 Flatline

  • Official poster for Series 9

    Season 9 · Complete

    Series 9

    201512 episodes

    7.2IMDb

    Now that the Doctor and Clara have established a dynamic as a partnership of equals, they’re relishing the fun and thrills that all of space and time has to offer. Tangling with ghosts, Vikings and the ultimate evil of the Daleks, they embark on their biggest adventures yet. Missy is back to plague the Doctor once more, the Zygons inspire fear as they shape-shift into human clones, and a new arrival moves in cosmic ways.

    Best episode · S09E11 Heaven Sent (1)

  • Official poster for Series 10

    Season 10 · Complete

    Series 10

    201712 episodes

    7.1IMDb

    The series introduces Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts, and also features Matt Lucas as Nardole. Michelle Gomez and John Simm return as their respective incarnations of the Master. The main story arc for the first half of the series revolves around the Doctor and Nardole occupying themselves at a university while they guard an underground vault containing Missy. Missy later travels with the team in the TARDIS, and eventually partners with her previous incarnation as they battle a Cyberman onslaught.

    Best episode · S10E11 World Enough and Time (1)

  • Official poster for Series 11

    Season 11 · Complete

    Series 11

    201810 episodes

    5.9IMDb

    Series 11 follows the Thirteenth Doctor as she initially searches for her lost TARDIS, inadvertently bringing Graham, Ryan, and Yasmin with her on her travels. All three later contemplate returning to their normal lives but decide to continue travelling with the Doctor.

    Best episode · S11E06 Demons of the Punjab

  • Official poster for Series 12

    Season 12 · Complete

    Series 12

    202010 episodes

    6.0IMDb

    The series follows the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions as they meet a new incarnation of the Master, and his destruction of Gallifrey, the return of Jack Harkness, the appearance of an unknown incarnation of the Doctor, the Cybermen, and the secret of the "Timeless Child". Jodie Whittaker returns for her second series as the Thirteenth Doctor. It also stars Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill as the Doctor's travelling companions, playing Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan, respectively.

    Best episode · S12E05 Fugitive of the Judoon

  • Official poster for Flux

    Season 13 · Complete

    Flux

    20216 episodes

    6.3IMDb

    From Liverpool to the depths of space, via the Crimean war and a planet named Atropos which shouldn’t even exist, fighting old foes and new creatures from beyond our dimension, the Doctor and company face a race against (and through!) time to uncover a universe-spanning mystery: what is the Flux?

    Best episode · S13E04 Village of the Angels

Where the series peaks

Best Episodes

The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

Still from Blink

S03E10

Blink

9.3IMDb135 votes

Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.

9 Jun 200746 min
Still from Forest of the Dead (2)

S04E09

Forest of the Dead (2)

9.2IMDb86 votes

As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song.

7 Jun 200848 min
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S04E08

Silence in the Library (1)

9.1IMDb84 votes

The Doctor and Donna land in a frightening position in the far future. While investigating a derelict library, the duo come face to face with the disembodied mind of a little girl, an archaeological team led by a woman from the Doctor's future, and swarms of flesh-eating creatures that are seen only as shadows.

31 May 200845 min
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S00E82

The Night of the Doctor

8.9IMDb19 votes

On the eve of his most terrible battle, the Time Lord is faced with a choice that will change the course of his life. The darkest of days are about to begin.

14 Nov 20137 min
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S00E78

An Adventure in Space and Time

8.8IMDb12 votes

This special one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.

21 Nov 201390 min
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S02E13

Doomsday (2)

8.8IMDb82 votes

Humanity is caught in the crossfire as the Cybermen and the Daleks wage war against each other. When the mysterious Genesis Ark opens, the Tenth Doctor is faced with an impossible decision: saving the world could mean losing Rose Tyler forever…

8 Jul 200649 min

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5.4IMDb35 votes
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6.9IMDb38 votes
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