What is your favourite episode from each series?

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Stealing your format

Classic Who

Season 1: Marco Polo
Season 2: Dalek invasion of Earth
Season 3: Daleks Master Plan
Season 4: The Macra Terror
Season 5: Enemy of the World
Season 6: The War Games
Season 7: spearhead from space
Season 8: terror of the autons
Season 9: Day of the Daleks
Season 10: Three doctors
Season 11: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Season 12: Robot
Season 13: brain of Morbius
Season 14: Robots of Death
Season 15: Invisible enemy
Season 16: Ribos operation
Season 17: Shadaaaaaaaaa!
Season 18: Keeper of Traken
Season 19: Time flight
Season 20: 5 Doctors
Season 21: Twin Dilemma
Season 22: revenge of the Cybermen
Season 23: Trial of a timelord
Season 24: Dragonfire
Season 25: Rememberance of the Daleks
Season 26: Curse of fenric

NuWho

Series 1: Empty child
Series 2: nothing
Series 3: last of the timelords
Series 4: silence in the library
Series 5: Vincent and the Doctor
Series 6: a good man goes to war
Series 7: rings of akhaten
Series 8: time Heist
Series 9: Heaven Sent
Series 10: World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
Series 11: Kerblam
Series 12: Nikola Tesla’s night of terror
Flux: Village of the Angels

No way I spent 20 minutes on this.

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I’m pretty late to this party but thought I’d give it a go. I’m leaving out the Classic seasons I haven’t watched entirely and also the Chibnall era because I haven’t seen it since it came out and should probably rewatch it before forming a complete opinion.

Season One: The Aztecs
Season Two: The Time Meddler
Season Three: The Ark
Season Four: The Power of the Daleks
Season Five: The Enemy of the World
Season Six: The Mind Robber
Season Seven: Inferno
Season Eight: Terror of the Autons
Season Nine: The Curse of Peladon
Season Ten: The Green Death
Season Eleven: The Time Warrior
Season Twelve: The Ark in Space
Season Thirteen: The Seeds of Doom
Season Fourteen: (unfortunately) The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Season Fifteen: The Horror of Fang Rock
Season Sixteen: The Ribos Operation
Season Seventeen: City of Death
Season Eighteen: The Keeper of Traken
Season Nineteen: Black Orchid (no, really)
Season Twenty: Snakedance

Series One: Father’s Day
Series Two: The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit
Series Three: Human Nature/The Family of Blood
Series Four: Midnight (though with a season this stacked that choice is hard)
Series Five: The Eleventh Hour
Series Six: (very unfortunately) The Doctor’s Wife
Series Seven: The Angels Take Manhattan
Series Eight: Mummy on the Orient Express
Series Nine: Heaven Sent
Series Ten: World Enough and Time

60th Anniversary Specials: Wild Blue Yonder
Season One: 73 Yards
Season Two: can I choose just the first half of Wish World?

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Giving you kudos for this. Can’t say I agree, but I think it’s a wildly underrated serial.

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Showing great taste with this decision

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Per my Revealer ranking:

Season
1 The Aztecs
2 The Time Meddler
3 The Gunfighters
4 The Power of the Daleks
5 The Enemy of the World
6 The Seeds of Death
7 Doctor Who and the Silurians
8 The DĂŚmons
9 The Sea Devils
10 Frontier in Space
11 Planet of the Spiders
12 Genesis of the Daleks
13 Pyramids of Mars
14 The Robots of Death
15 The Invasion of Time
16 The Pirate Planet
17 Shada
18 Logopolis
19 Black Orchid
20 Enlightenment
21 Resurrection of the Daleks
22 Vengeance on Varos
23 Mindwarp
24 Dragonfire
25 Remembrance of the Daleks
26 Ghost Light
Series
1 The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
2 Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel
3 Utopia
4 Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead
Specials The Next Doctor
5 Vincent and the Doctor
6 A Good Man Goes to War
7A Asylum of the Daleks
7B The Name of the Doctor
8 Into the Dalek
9 The Girl Who Died
10 Oxygen
11 Demons of the Punjab
12 Revolution of the Daleks
13 War of the Sontarans
Specials Eve of the Daleks
Specials Wild Blue Yonder
1 The Devil’s Chord
2 The Interstellar Song Contest
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1 - Dalek
2 - impossible planet/satan pit
3 - Gridlock
4 - Midnight
5 - Amy’s choice
6 - the girl who waited
7 - the power of three (it’s a shame the episode just goes static for the last 10 minutes)
8 - Mummy on the orient express
9 - Face the Raven
10 - Oxygen
11 - Arachnids in the UK
12 - Spyfall Pt 1/2
13 - War of the Sontarans
14 - 73 Yards
15 - The Story and the Engine

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I’ve seen everything at least once now, let’s do this:

Season 1: The Aztecs
Season 2: The Time Meddler
Season 3: The Massacre
Season 4: The Evil of the Daleks
Season 5: The Web of Fear
Season 6: The War Games
Season 7: Inferno
Season 8: The Mind of Evil
Season 9: The Curse of Peladon
Season 10: The Three Doctors + The Green Death (you can’t make me choose!)
Season 11: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Season 12: Genesis of the Daleks
Season 13: Terror of the Zygons
Season 14: The Deadly Assassin + The Robots of Death (same deal as season 10)
Season 15: The Horror of Fang Rock
Season 16: The Androids of Tara
Season 17: City of Death
Season 18: The Keeper of Traken
Season 19: Earthshock
Season 20: The Five Doctors
Season 21: The Caves of Androzani
Season 22: Revelation of the Daleks
Season 23: The Ultimate Foe
Season 24: Delta and the Bannermen
Season 25: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Season 26: Survival
Series 1: Dalek
Series 2: The Girl in the Fireplace
Series 3: Blink
Series 4: Turn Left
2009 specials: The Waters of Mars
Series 5: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
Series 6: A Christmas Carol
Series 7: The Name of the Doctor
2013 specials: The Day of the Doctor
Series 8: Deep Breath + Listen
Series 9: Heaven Sent/Hell Bent
Series 10: World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
Series 11: It Takes You Away
Series 12: Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror
Series 13: Village of the Angels
2022 specials: The Power of the Doctor
2023 specials: Wild Blue Yonder
Season 1 (2024): Rogue
Series 2 (2025): Lux

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  1. The Sensorites
  2. The Romans
  3. The War Machines
  4. The Faceless Ones
  5. The Web of Fear
  6. The Mind Robber
  7. The Ambassadors of Death
  8. The Mind of Evil
  9. The Time Monster
  10. The Three Doctors
  11. Invasion of the Dinosaurs
  12. Genesis of the Daleks
  13. The Android Invasion
  14. The Talons of Weng-Chiang
  15. The Sun Makers
  16. The Armageddon Factor
  17. City of Death
  18. Logopolis
  19. … Ongoing …
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DW
Season 1: The Daleks
Season 2: The Time Meddler
Season 3: The Celestial Toymaker
Season 4: The Macra Terror
Season 5: The Web Of Fear
Season 6: The Mind Robber
Season 7: Doctor Who And The Silurians
Season 8: The Daemons
Season 9: The Sea Devils
Season 10: The Three Doctors
Season 11: Planet Of The Spiders
Season 12: Genesis Of The Daleks
Season 13: The Seeds Of Doom
Season 14: The Deadly Assassin
Season 15: The Sun Makers
Season 16: The Pirate Planet
Season 17: City Of Death (or Shada…)
Season 18: The Keeper Of Traken
Season 19: Kinda
Season 20: Enlightenment
Season 21: The Caves Of Androzani
Season 22: Revelation Of The Daleks
Season 23: The Ultimate Foe
Season 24: Delta And The Bannermen (you’re welcome)
Season 25: Remembrance Of The Daleks
Season 26: The Curse Of Fenric
Series 1: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
Series 2: Army Of Ghosts/Doomsday
Series 3: Human Nature/Family Of Blood
Series 4: Turn Left
2009 Specials: The Waters Of Mars
Series 5: Vincent And The Doctor
Series 6: A Christmas Carol
Series 7: A Town Called Mercy
2013 Specials: The Day Of The Doctor
Series 8: Deep Breath
Series 9: Heaven Sent
Series 10: World Enough And Time/The Doctor Falls
Series 11: Rosa
Series 12: The Haunting Of Villa Diodati
Series 13 (Flux): Village Of The Angels
2022 Specials: The Power Of The Doctor
2023 Specials: The Giggle
Season 1: Dot And Bubble
Season 2: The Story & The Engine

TW
Series 1: Out Of Time
Series 2: Adrift
Series 3: All of it… do not make me choose between my Children
Series 4: Immortal Sins

SJA
Series 1: Warriors Of Kudlak
Series 2: Mark Of The Berserker
Series 3: Mona Lisa’s Revenge
Series 4: Death Of The Doctor
Series 5: The Curse Of Clyde Langer

Class: The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did

K9: Taphony And The Time Loop

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Gonna be Robin Bland here, but sometimes the episodes just pick themselves:

Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways
School Reunion
Human Nature/The Family of Blood
Midnight
Vincent and the Doctor
The God Complex
A Town Called Mercy
Robot of Sherwood
Under the Lake/Before the Flood
Oxygen
It Takes You Away
Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror
War of the Sontarans
Dot and Bubble
Lux

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I wouldn’t say these are bland picks at all School Reunion, Town Called Mercy, Robot of Sherwood, & Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror are all really underrated and not given too much credit (School Reunion isn’t “underrated” per se, but I feel it’s not talked about enough) so it’s cool how they’re your favorites!

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  1. Parting of the Ways
  2. The Girl in the Fireplace
  3. The Family of Blood
  4. Midnight
  5. Vincent and the Doctor
  6. The Girl Who Waited
  7. The Power of Three
  8. Mummy on the Orient Express
  9. Heaven Sent
  10. World Enough and Time
  11. Demons of the Punjab
  12. The Haunting of Villa Diadati
  13. Village of the Angels
  14. 73 Yards
  15. The Story and the Engine
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Classic Who:

  1. Season 1: Keys of Marinus
  2. Season 2: The Chase
  3. Season 3: The Celestial Toymaker
  4. Season 4: The Power of The Daleks
  5. Season 5: The Abominable Snowmen (I have not seen much of this season.)
  6. Season 6: The Mind Robber (I have not seen much of this season.)
  7. Season 7: Inferno
  8. Season 8: Of the ones I have seen, I have not liked any story from this season.
  9. Season 9: Day of The Daleks (I have not seen much of this season.)
  10. Season 10: The Three Doctors (I have not seen much of this season.)
  11. Season 11: Of the ones I have seen, I have not liked any story from this season.
  12. Season 12: Genesis of the Daleks
  13. Season 13: The Seeds of Doom
  14. Season 14: The Hand of Fear
  15. Season 15: Horror of Fang Rock
  16. Season 16: Of the ones I have seen, I have not liked any story from this season.
  17. Season 17: The Creature of The Pit
  18. Season 18: State of Decay (I have not seen much of this season.)
  19. Season 19: Four to Doomsday
  20. Season 20: Enlightenment
  21. Season 21: Resurrection of The Daleks (I have not seen much of this season.)
  22. Season 22: Revelation of the Daleks
  23. Season 23: The Mysterious Planet
  24. Season 24: Dragonfire
  25. Season 25: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
  26. Season 26: Battlefield

New Who:

  1. Series 1: Father’s Day
  2. Series 2: Love & Monsters
  3. Series 3: Gridlock
  4. Series 4 And Specials: Silence in Library
  5. Series 5: The Lodger
  6. Series 6: The God Complex
  7. Series 7: A Town Called Mercy
  8. Series 8: Listen
  9. Series 9: Heaven Sent
  10. Series 10: World Enough and Time
  11. Series 11: Rosa
  12. Series 12: Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror
  13. Flux: Village of Angels
  14. 13th Specials and 60th Specials: The Power of the Doctor
  15. Series 14: The Church on Ruby Road
  16. Series 15: Lux

Spin-Offs

  1. Tales of the TARDIS: The Mind Robber
  2. Torchwood Series 1: Captain Jack Harkness
  3. Torchwood Series 2: Fragments
  4. Children of Earth: Day Four
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Minor update. Note that a # means I haven’t seen every story in the Season/Series but at least one of them.

Updated yets again once more another time.
#Season 1: The Aztecs
Season 2: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
#Season 3: The Savages
#Season 4: The Power of the Daleks
#Season 5: The Tomb of the Cybermen
#Season 6: The Mind Robber
#Season 7: Doctor Who and the Silurians
Season 8: The DĂŚmons
#Season 9: The Curse of Peladon
Season 10: Carnival of Monsters
Season 11: The Time Warrior
Season 12: Genesis of the Daleks
Season 13: The Brain of Morbius
Season 14: The Deadly Assassin
#Season 15: The Sun Makers
Season 16 - The Key to Time: The Pirate Planet
#Season 17: City of Death
Season 18: State of Decay
#Season 19: Earthshock
#Season 20: Snakedance
Season 21: N/A
#Season 22: Vengeance on Varos
Season 23 - The Trial of a Time Lord: N/A
#Season 24: Dragonfire (by default)
Season 25: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy[1]
#Season 26: The Curse of Fenric

Series 1: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
Series 2: The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit
Series 3: Human Nature/The Family of Blood
Series 4: Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
2008-2010 Specials: The Waters of Mars
Series 5: Vincent and the Doctor
Series 6: A Christmas Carol
Series 7A: A Town Called Mercy[2]
Series 7B: Cold War
50th Anniversary Specials: The Day of the Doctor
Series 8: Mummy on the Orient Express
Series 9: Under the Lake/Before the Flood[3]
Series 10: World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
Series 11-15: N/A

Checklist to illustrate which stories/episodes I have and haven’t seen (most important to know for my choices for Classic Who): Doctor Who Full TV Checklist - Google Sheets

  1. (I do rate Remembrance higher, but Greatest Show is my personal favourite) ↩︎

  2. (Also overall S7 favourite.) ↩︎

  3. (Heaven Sent is ranked higher, but I prefer this story. Why? Well basically, Heaven Sent is brilliant but it is a special story that is probably not as rewatchable as UtL/BtF and I generally like a story more if it is very rewatchable. That isn’t to say Heaven Sent can’t be watched again at all or anything, it’s just that it is a behemoth of its own that I would probably not rewatch all willy-nilly) ↩︎

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  • 1: Dalek (first DW episode I ever watched)
  • 2: The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit
  • 3: Human Nature/The Family of Blood
  • 4: Midnight
  • 2009 Specials: The Waters of Mars
  • 5: Amy’s Choice
  • 6: The Doctor’s Wife
  • 7: The Angels Take Manhattan
  • 50th Anniversary specials: The Night of the Doctor
  • 8: Mummy on the Orient Express
  • 9: Heaven Sent
  • 10: World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
  • 11: Demons of the Punjab
  • 12: The Haunting of Vila Diodati
  • 13: Village of the Angels
  • 2022 Specials: The Power of the Doctor
  • 60th Anniversary Specials: Idk to be honest, I have mixed feelings on all three episodes
  • 14: Boom
  • 15: The Well

Also just because, here’s my favourites from Classic Who and the Eighth Doctor Adventures up to Stranded:

  • 1: The Aztecs
  • 2: The Time Meddler
  • 3: The Daleks’ Master Plan
  • 4: The Power of the Daleks
  • 5: The Tomb of the Cybermen
  • 6: The War Games
  • 7: Inferno
  • 8: The Daemons
  • 9: Day of the Daleks
  • 10: The Three Doctors
  • 11: The Time Warrior
  • 12: Genesis of the Daleks
  • 13: Pyramids of Mars
  • 14: The Robots of Death
  • 15: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
  • 16: The Stones of Blood
  • 17: City of Death (first classic story I watched, also my absolute favourite Doctor Who story)
  • 18: Logopolis
  • 19: Earthshock
  • 20: The Five Doctors
  • 21: The Caves of Androzani
  • 22: Vengeance on Varos
  • 23: Mindwarp
  • 24: Uh… Delta and the Bannerman? I’ve only seen half of Season 24 tbh
  • 25: Remembrance of the Daleks
  • 26: The Curse of Fenric
  • The Wilderness Years: The Curse of Fatal Death
  • Charley 1: Storm Warning
  • Charley 2: The Chimes of Midnight
  • Divergent Universe: Scherzo
  • Charley + C’rizz: Terror Firma (first Big Finish audio I listened to)
  • Lucie 1: Human Resources
  • Lucie 2: Brave New Town
  • Lucie 3: The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web
  • Lucie 4: Lucie Miller/To the Death
  • Mary Shelly: The Silver Turk
  • Dark Eyes: Tangled Web
  • Doom Coalition: Absent Friends
  • Ravenous: Companion Piece
  • Stranded: UNIT Dating
  • Time War 1-4: The War Valeyard
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Username checks out.

Talons is in Season 14.

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I must’ve had a brain fart lol, I meant to say Horror of Fang-Rock, the story after Talons.

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  1. The Aztecs (Marinus close 2nd)
  2. The Romans (Time Meddler close 2nd)
  3. The War Machines
  4. The Tenth Planet
  5. The Enemy of the World
  6. The War Games (mind robber close 2nd)
  7. Inferno
  8. The DĂŚmons
  9. The Curse of Peladon
  10. The Three Doctors (carnival close 2nd)
  11. The Monster of Peladon
  12. The Ark in Space
  13. The Seeds of Doom (pyramids close 2nd)
  14. The Talons of Weng-Chiang (robots of death close 2nd)
  15. Horror of Fang Rock
  16. The Ribos Operation (pirate planet close 2nd)
  17. City of Death
  18. The Keeper of Traken
  19. Four to Doomsday (visitation close 2nd)
  20. Terminus (enlightment close 2nd)
  21. Planet of Fire (caves close 2nd)
  22. Vengeance on Varos (revelation close 2nd)
  23. Mindwarp
  24. Delta and the Bannermen
  25. Remembrance of the Daleks (greatest show close 2nd)
  26. The Curse of Fenric
    26.5 TV Movie
  27. /1 Dalek (empty child doctor dances close 2nd)
  28. /2 The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit (army of ghost doomsday close 2nd)
  29. /3 Human Nature/The Family of Blood (blink close 2nd)
  30. /4 Midnight (library 2parter close 2nd)
    30.5 /specials The Waters of Mars
  31. /5 The Eleventh Hour (angel 2parter close 2nd)
  32. /6 The Doctor’s Wife
  33. /7 Asylum of the Daleks
    33.5 /specials Day of the Doctor
  34. /8 Mummy on Orient Express (time Heist close 2nd)
  35. /9 Heaven Sent (magician/witch close 2nd)
  36. /10 World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
  37. /11 The Ghost Monument
  38. /12 The Haunting of Villa Diodati (Spyfall close 2nd)
  39. /13 Village of the Angels
    39.5 /specials Eve of the Daleks
    39.99 /specials Wild Blue Yonder (giggle close 2nd)
  40. /14 /1 73 Yards
  41. /15 /2 Lux (well close 2nd)
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Minor update again.

Note that a # means I haven’t seen every story in the Season/Series but at least one of them.

#Season 1: The Aztecs
Season 2: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
#Season 3: The Savages
#Season 4: The Power of the Daleks
#Season 5: The Tomb of the Cybermen
#Season 6: The Mind Robber
#Season 7: Doctor Who and the Silurians
Season 8: The DĂŚmons
#Season 9: The Curse of Peladon
Season 10: Carnival of Monsters
Season 11: The Time Warrior
Season 12: Genesis of the Daleks
Season 13: The Brain of Morbius
Season 14: The Deadly Assassin
#Season 15: The Sun Makers
Season 16 - The Key to Time: The Pirate Planet
#Season 17: City of Death
Season 18: State of Decay
#Season 19: Earthshock
#Season 20: Snakedance
Season 21: N/A
#Season 22: Vengeance on Varos
Season 23 - The Trial of a Time Lord: N/A
#Season 24: Dragonfire (by default)
Season 25: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy[1]
#Season 26: The Curse of Fenric

Series 1: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
Series 2: The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit
Series 3: Human Nature/The Family of Blood
Series 4: Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
2008-2010 Specials: The Waters of Mars
Series 5: Vincent and the Doctor
Series 6: A Christmas Carol
Series 7A: A Town Called Mercy[2]
Series 7B: Cold War
50th Anniversary Specials: The Day of the Doctor
Series 8: Mummy on the Orient Express
Series 9: Under the Lake/Before the Flood[3]
Series 10: World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
Series 11: Demons of the Punjab
Series 12-15: N/A (for now)

Checklist to illustrate which stories/episodes I have and haven’t seen (most important to know for my choices for Classic Who): Doctor Who Full TV Checklist - Google Sheets

  1. (I do rate Remembrance higher, but Greatest Show is my personal favourite) ↩︎

  2. (Also overall S7 favourite.) ↩︎

  3. (Heaven Sent is ranked higher, but I prefer this story. Why? Well basically, Heaven Sent is brilliant but it is a special story that is probably not as rewatchable as UtL/BtF and I generally like a story more if it is very rewatchable. That isn’t to say Heaven Sent can’t be watched again at all or anything, it’s just that it is a behemoth of its own that I would probably not rewatch all willy-nilly) ↩︎

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Oh this game is fun!

  1. The Empty Child
  2. School Reunion
  3. Smith and Jones
  4. Turn Left
  5. The Beast Below
  6. The Girl Who Waited
  7. The Crimson Horror
  8. Mummy on the Orient Express
  9. The Girl Who Died/The Woman Who Lived
  10. Oxygen
  11. Demons of the Punjab
  12. Fugitive of the Judoon
  13. Survivors of the Flux
  14. Space Babies
  15. Lux
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