I had some time today, so I ranked every story using the Metebelis Two Preference Revealer:
Doctor Who Preference Revealer - Metebelis Two
Splitting Utopia from The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords made a big difference (although I would likely have voted it as a 3-parter the same, or nearly the same, as just Utopia). The other surprise to me in my top 20 is Fugitive of the Judoon, which I think highly of because of Jo Martin’s Fugitive Doctor.
My Rabking of every story
| Rank | Story |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Aztecs |
| 2 | The Robots of Death |
| 3 | Utopia |
| 4 | The Seeds of Death |
| 5 | Shada |
| 6 | The Talons of Weng-Chiang |
| 7 | Genesis of the Daleks |
| 8 | Pyramids of Mars |
| 9 | The Power of the Daleks |
| 10 | The Time Meddler |
| 11 | The Daleks |
| 12 | The Enemy of the World |
| 13 | Fugitive of the Judoon |
| 14 | The Invasion of Time |
| 15 | Ghost Light |
| 16 | Marco Polo |
| 17 | The Evil of the Daleks |
| 18 | Blink |
| 19 | The Masque of Mandragora |
| 20 | City of Death |
| 21 | The Ice Warriors |
| 22 | Demons of the Punjab |
| 23 | Vincent and the Doctor |
| 24 | Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead |
| 25 | Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel |
| 26 | The Deadly Assassin |
| 27 | The Romans |
| 28 | The Faceless Ones |
| 29 | The War Games |
| 30 | The Tomb of the Cybermen |
| 31 | The Sea Devils |
| 32 | The Mind Robber |
| 33 | The Invasion |
| 34 | The Pirate Planet |
| 35 | The Ribos Operation |
| 36 | Into the Dalek |
| 37 | The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances |
| 38 | The Armageddon Factor |
| 39 | Dragonfire |
| 40 | The Reign of Terror |
| 41 | The Crusade |
| 42 | The Gunfighters |
| 43 | Dalek |
| 44 | Remembrance of the Daleks |
| 45 | Doctor Who and the Silurians |
| 46 | Smith and Jones |
| 47 | The Shakespeare Code |
| 48 | The War Machines |
| 49 | Inferno |
| 50 | The Savages |
| 51 | The Name of the Doctor |
| 52 | The Wheel in Space |
| 53 | The Devil’s Chord |
| 54 | The Time of the Doctor |
| 55 | The Ark in Space |
| 56 | Enlightenment |
| 57 | The Stolen Earth / Journey’s End |
| 58 | The Dalek Invasion of Earth |
| 59 | The Abominable Snowmen |
| 60 | The Curse of Fenric |
| 61 | Survival |
| 62 | Doctor Who: The Movie |
| 63 | The Edge of Destruction |
| 64 | An Unearthly Child |
| 65 | The Daleks’ Master Plan |
| 66 | Asylum of the Daleks |
| 67 | The Girl in the Fireplace |
| 68 | The Ambassadors of Death |
| 69 | Battlefield |
| 70 | Fury from the Deep |
| 71 | Resurrection of the Daleks |
| 72 | Revolution of the Daleks |
| 73 | Planet of the Spiders |
| 74 | The Interstellar Song Contest |
| 75 | The Bells of Saint John |
| 76 | The Story & the Engine |
| 77 | The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang |
| 78 | The Dæmons |
| 79 | The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky |
| 80 | Colony in Space |
| 81 | Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways |
| 82 | A Good Man Goes to War |
| 83 | The Five Doctors |
| 84 | School Reunion |
| 85 | The Doctor’s Daughter |
| 86 | The Next Doctor |
| 87 | The Caves of Androzani |
| 88 | The Rescue |
| 89 | The Day of the Doctor |
| 90 | The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords |
| 91 | The Unquiet Dead |
| 92 | Eve of the Daleks |
| 93 | Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children |
| 94 | Frontier in Space |
| 95 | Invasion of the Dinosaurs |
| 96 | Resolution |
| 97 | The Macra Terror |
| 98 | The Fires of Pompeii |
| 99 | Mindwarp |
| 100 | The Mutants |
| 101 | The Androids of Tara |
| 102 | The Awakening |
| 103 | The Myth Makers |
| 104 | Human Nature / The Family of Blood |
| 105 | 73 Yards |
| 106 | Terror of the Autons |
| 107 | Silver Nemesis |
| 108 | Vengeance on Varos |
| 109 | Flatline |
| 110 | Black Orchid |
| 111 | Planet of the Daleks |
| 112 | Earthshock |
| 113 | The Girl Who Died |
| 114 | The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People |
| 115 | Spyfall |
| 116 | Oxygen |
| 117 | World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls |
| 118 | The Christmas Invasion |
| 119 | Midnight |
| 120 | Under the Lake / Before the Flood |
| 121 | Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror |
| 122 | The Monster of Peladon |
| 123 | The God Complex |
| 124 | The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit |
| 125 | Revenge of the Cybermen |
| 126 | Deep Breath |
| 127 | The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood |
| 128 | Thin Ice |
| 129 | The Stones of Blood |
| 130 | Legend of the Sea Devils |
| 131 | The Lodger |
| 132 | The Seeds of Doom |
| 133 | War of the Sontarans |
| 134 | The Mind of Evil |
| 135 | The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion |
| 136 | The Angels Take Manhattan |
| 137 | New Earth |
| 138 | The Power of Three |
| 139 | The Woman Who Lived |
| 140 | The Well |
| 141 | Dinosaurs on a Spaceship |
| 142 | Village of the Angels |
| 143 | Logopolis |
| 144 | Dark Water / Death in Heaven |
| 145 | Army of Ghosts / Doomsday |
| 146 | A Town Called Mercy |
| 147 | The Girl Who Waited |
| 148 | Spearhead from Space |
| 149 | The Woman Who Fell to Earth |
| 150 | The Greatest Show in the Galaxy |
| 151 | Wild Blue Yonder |
| 152 | Robot of Sherwood |
| 153 | Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS |
| 154 | The Ultimate Foe |
| 155 | Mission to the Unknown |
| 156 | The Tenth Planet |
| 157 | A Christmas Carol |
| 158 | Amy’s Choice |
| 159 | The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon |
| 160 | The Moonbase |
| 161 | The Giggle |
| 162 | Galaxy 4 |
| 163 | The Highlanders |
| 164 | The Massacre |
| 165 | Revelation of the Daleks |
| 166 | The Space Pirates |
| 167 | Planet of Giants |
| 168 | The Church on Ruby Road |
| 169 | The Chase |
| 170 | The End of Time |
| 171 | Arc of Infinity |
| 172 | The Eleventh Hour |
| 173 | In the Forest of the Night |
| 174 | Twice Upon a Time |
| 175 | Father’s Day |
| 176 | Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks |
| 177 | The Legend of Ruby Sunday / Empire of Death |
| 178 | The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone |
| 179 | The Keys of Marinus |
| 180 | Destiny of the Daleks |
| 181 | Heaven Sent |
| 182 | The Dominators |
| 183 | Paradise Towers |
| 184 | The Magician’s Apprentice / The Witch’s Familiar |
| 185 | Image of the Fendahl |
| 186 | State of Decay |
| 187 | The Leisure Hive |
| 188 | The Visitation |
| 189 | The Rings of Akhaten |
| 190 | The Eaters of Light |
| 191 | Lucky Day |
| 192 | The Krotons |
| 193 | Mummy on the Orient Express |
| 194 | The Wedding of River Song |
| 195 | The Green Death |
| 196 | Victory of the Daleks |
| 197 | The Lie of the Land |
| 198 | Empress of Mars |
| 199 | Full Circle |
| 200 | The Beast Below |
| 201 | Once, Upon Time |
| 202 | The Two Doctors |
| 203 | Fear Her |
| 204 | The Invisible Enemy |
| 205 | Castrovalva |
| 206 | Rose |
| 207 | The Claws of Axos |
| 208 | Listen |
| 209 | The Android Invasion |
| 210 | Last Christmas |
| 211 | The End of the World |
| 212 | Closing Time |
| 213 | The Witchfinders |
| 214 | The Long Game |
| 215 | Planet of the Dead |
| 216 | Aliens of London / World War Three |
| 217 | Wish World / The Reality War |
| 218 | The Sontaran Experiment |
| 219 | The Husbands of River Song |
| 220 | The King’s Demons |
| 221 | Let’s Kill Hitler |
| 222 | The Unicorn and the Wasp |
| 223 | The Curse of Peladon |
| 224 | The Haunting of Villa Diodati |
| 225 | Voyage of the Damned |
| 226 | The Space Museum |
| 227 | Knock Knock |
| 228 | Orphan 55 |
| 229 | Can You Hear Me? |
| 230 | The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos |
| 231 | The Halloween Apocalypse |
| 232 | The Web Planet |
| 233 | The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe |
| 234 | The Pyramid at the End of the World |
| 235 | The Underwater Menace |
| 236 | The Web of Fear |
| 237 | The Power of the Doctor |
| 238 | The Ark |
| 239 | Rogue |
| 240 | The Pilot |
| 241 | The Three Doctors |
| 242 | Terror of the Zygons |
| 243 | The Time Warrior |
| 244 | Death to the Daleks |
| 245 | The Sensorites |
| 246 | The Time Monster |
| 247 | Nightmare in Silver |
| 248 | Four to Doomsday |
| 249 | Mawdryn Undead |
| 250 | The Lazarus Experiment |
| 251 | The Idiot’s Lantern |
| 252 | Delta and the Bannermen |
| 253 | The Runaway Bride |
| 254 | Time Heist |
| 255 | The Mark of the Rani |
| 256 | Snakedance |
| 257 | The Keeper of Traken |
| 258 | The Creature from the Pit |
| 259 | Night Terrors |
| 260 | Extremis |
| 261 | The Waters of Mars |
| 262 | Horror of Fang Rock |
| 263 | Planet of Fire |
| 264 | Warriors’ Gate |
| 265 | The Mysterious Planet |
| 266 | Planet of Evil |
| 267 | The Return of Doctor Mysterio |
| 268 | The Ghost Monument |
| 269 | Robot |
| 270 | The Snowmen |
| 271 | Day of the Daleks |
| 272 | Kerblam! |
| 273 | Boom |
| 274 | Hide |
| 275 | The Sun Makers |
| 276 | Hell Bent |
| 277 | The Smugglers |
| 278 | Gridlock |
| 279 | Kill the Moon |
| 280 | Terror of the Vervoids |
| 281 | Lux |
| 282 | The Crimson Horror |
| 283 | The Star Beast |
| 284 | Time-Flight |
| 285 | Survivors of the Flux |
| 286 | Terminus |
| 287 | The Face of Evil |
| 288 | Planet of the Ood |
| 289 | Turn Left |
| 290 | Arachnids in the UK |
| 291 | The Vanquishers |
| 292 | Kinda |
| 293 | Nightmare of Eden |
| 294 | Face the Raven |
| 295 | Boom Town |
| 296 | The Celestial Toymaker |
| 297 | Frontios |
| 298 | The Doctor’s Wife |
| 299 | The Robot Revolution |
| 300 | Smile |
| 301 | The Power of Kroll |
| 302 | Cold War |
| 303 | Partners in Crime |
| 304 | The Curse of the Black Spot |
| 305 | The Caretaker |
| 306 | Praxeus |
| 307 | Sleep No More |
| 308 | It Takes You Away |
| 309 | The Brain of Morbius |
| 310 | Rosa |
| 311 | Tooth and Claw |
| 312 | The Happiness Patrol |
| 313 | Warriors of the Deep |
| 314 | The Vampires of Venice |
| 315 | Carnival of Monsters |
| 316 | Time and the Rani |
| 317 | The Hand of Fear |
| 318 | Joy to the World |
| 319 | The Tsuranga Conundrum |
| 320 | Meglos |
| 321 | 42 |
| 322 | Underworld |
| 323 | Attack of the Cybermen |
| 324 | Love & Monsters |
| 325 | Space Babies |
| 326 | Dot and Bubble |
| 327 | The Horns of Nimon |
| 328 | Timelash |
| 329 | The Twin Dilemma |
Also, if I rank the Doctors by their story averages, their positions change from my list of favorite Doctors
My favorite Doctors vs story ranking average
| Rank | My list | List based on story ranks |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | William Hartnell | Paul McGann |
| 2 | Patrick Troughton | Patrick Troughton |
| 3 | Tom Baker | William Hartnell |
| 4 | David Tennant (Ten) | Sylvester McCoy |
| 5 | Matt Smith | John Pertwee |
| 6 | Sylvester McCoy | Christopher Eccleston |
| 7 | Peter Capaldi | David Tennant (Ten) |
| 8 | Paul McGann | Tom Baker |
| 9 | Christopher Eccleston | Matt Smith |
| 10 | Peter Davison | Jodi Whittaker |
| 11 | John Pertwee | Peter Capaldi |
| 12 | David Tennant (Fourteen) | Peter Davison |
| 13 | Jodi Whittaker | David Tennant (Fourteen) |
| 14 | Ncuti Gatwa | Ncuti Gatwa |
| 15 | Colin Baker | Colin Baker |