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I'm a huge fan of ''Doctor Who'' and I have been watching it ever since it re aired in 2005. I have loads of knowledge of ''Doctor Who'' mainly from 2005 onwards and its spin offs ''Torchwood'' and ''SJA''. You can usually find me hanging around ''[[w:c:thelastofus|The Last of Us]]'' Wiki doing my thing there.
I'm a huge fan of ''Doctor Who'' and I have been watching it ever since it re aired in 2005. I have loads of knowledge of ''Doctor Who'' mainly from 2005 onwards and its spin offs ''Torchwood'' and ''SJA''. You can usually find me hanging around ''[[w:c:thelastofus|The Last of Us]]'' Wiki doing my thing there.


871,000 + 873,000 + 916,000, 920,000, 989,000, 1,042,000 <----- the six times I got lucky.
871,000 + 873,000 + 916,000, 920,000, 989,000, 1,042,000, 1,876,000 <----- the seven times I got lucky.


I hope I can be a big help to the wiki. Remember: no [[Tardis:Spoiler policy|spoilers... shhhh]].  
I hope I can be a big help to the wiki. Remember: no [[Tardis:Spoiler policy|spoilers... shhhh]].  
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Thanks for reading. :D If you want, check out my rankings of all the NewWho series and my personal favourite quotes below!
Thanks for reading. :D If you want, check out my rankings of all the NewWho series and my personal favourite quotes below!


'''Favourite story:''' ''The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances'' (only story I give a 10/10)
== New Who rankings (2005-2023) ==
 
=== Series ===
'''Weakest story:''' ''Orphan 55'' (episode with the lowest mark; 2/10)
The series are ranked according to their individual episodes and story quality. However, this goes beyond which ones simply have the most episodes in Tier 1 and Tier 2. The series each have their own arcs in terms of plot and character. Therefore, the series arcs and how the characters (principally the Doctor and their companions) grow or develop throughout also plays a significant part in how these series rank up. Furthermore, consistency within the series' episodes does play a factor, with series that contain more competently written and executed stories naturally outperforming series that lack these vital qualities.
 
'''Best Dalek story:''' ''Dalek''
 
'''Best Cyberman story:''' ''World Enough and Time''


'''Scariest villain:''' The Empty Child
As a final caveat, while some series lower in the list could be judged at face value as being bad for being placed so low, this is not an honest reflection of their quality. Every series has at least one episode in Tier 2 and every series with numerous episodes in Tier 1 and Tier 2 still have some low quality episodes placed in either Tier 4 and 5 and even then these episodes are a rarity. As such, every series has something worth watching within it.


== Quotes ==
{{Quote|''You can never plan the future by the past.''|Edmund Burke}}
{{Quote|''It's a mad house, a mad house!''|Taylor, Planet of the Apes}}
{{Quote|''A life done in the service of others is a life worthliving.''|Suicine, Molta}}
{{Quote|''Apes, together, '''Strong!'''.''|Caesar, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes}}
{{Quote|''Compare yourself with who you were yesterday. You cannot change how others are but you can improve yourself, a little each day.''|Unknown}}
{{Quote|''Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee''|John Donne}}
{{Quote|''If a man has patience and experience, then he can do anything.''|Zemo, Captain America: Civil War}}
{{Quote|''If you want something dirty done, you wait for lights out''|Nathan Drake, Uncharted 4}}
{{Quote|''I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.''|Socrates, Plato's Apology}}
{{Quote|''The laws of logic do not lie. One cannot usurp an argument with emotion alone.''|Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric}}
{{Quote|''Philosophy actively teaches us to question the self-evident. Propaganda tricks us into believing that which we would normally doubt.''|Aldous Huxley, Brave New World: Revisited}}
{{Quote|''I struggled for a longtime with surviving, but no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for''|Joel, The Last of Us}}
{{Quote|''Two men can get more done through talking than a hundred can through shouting.''|T'Challa, Captain America: Civil War}}
{{Quote|''The hardest choices require the strongest wills.''|Thanos, Avengers: Infinity War}}
{{Quote|''A man makes his own luck...Make each day count''|Cal and Jack, Titanic}}
{{Quote|''Caesar weak. Koba '''weaker'''.''|Koba and Caesar, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes}}
{{Quote|''We should say what we feel, not what we ought to say''|Edgar, King Lear}}
{{Quote|''Proper deformity seems not in the Fiend so horrid as in woman''|Albany, King Lear}}
{{Quote|''Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.''|The War Doctor.}}
{{Quote|''I'm the Doctor. I've got five billion languages in my head and you haven't got any idea how to stop me, so if anyone's going to shut up, it's you!''|The Ninth Doctor to the Daleks, The Parting of the Ways}}
{{Quote|''Coward...every time''|The Ninth Doctor, The Parting of the Ways}}
{{Quote|''Death is the price we pay for progress...to be immortal means we don't progress''|The Doctor}}
{{Quote|''Everything has to end sometime or nothing would ever get started.''|The Eleventh Doctor, A Christmas Carol}}
{{Quote|''Don't play games with me. You just killed someone I liked, that is not a safe place to stand. I'm the Doctor and you're in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up.''|The Tenth Doctor to the Vashta Nerada, The Forest of the Dead}}
{{Quote|''Some people live more in 10 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters. It's the person''| The Tenth Doctor, The Lazarus Experiment}}
{{Quote|''Books. The greatest weapons in the universe''|The Tenth Doctor, Tooth and Claw}}
{{Quote|''I do what I do because it's right, because it's decent...Where I stand is where I fall''|The Twelfth Doctor, The Doctor Falls}}
{{Quote|''Instinct is a lie told by a fearful body hoping to be wrong...You blind yourself''|Zaheer}}
{{Quote|''We are a generation of men raised by women. We work jobs we hate to buy [stuff] we don't need. Our 'Great Depression' is our lives.''|Tyler Durden, Fight Club}}
{{Quote|''The greatest sin of the 21st century is that we can talk to someone five thousand miles away but don't say hello to the person stood right beside us.''|Simon Sinek, Start With Why}}
{{Quote|''War is not murder, it is suicide''|Ramsay McDonald}}
{{Quote|''Never complain. Never explain.''|Benjamin Disraeli}}
{{Quote|''One thing is certain. When you are in pain, there is no true desire for it to be worse, only for it to end.''|Winston Smith, Nineteen-Eighty-Four}}
{{Quote|''When you can do the things that I can, but you don't and then the bad things happen...they happen because of you.''|Peter Parker, Captain America: Civil War}}
== New Who rankings (2005-2022) ==
=== Series ===
{| {{prettytable}}
{| {{prettytable}}
!'''Rank''' || '''Series'''
!'''Rank''' || '''Series'''
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|Eight || Series 6
|Eight || Series 6
|-
|-
|Nine || Series 13
|Nine || Series 12
|-
|-
|Ten || Series 9
|Ten || Series 9
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|Eleven || Series 8
|Eleven || Series 8
|-
|-
|Twelve || Series 11
|Twelve || Series 13
|-
|-
|Thirteen || Series 12
|Thirteen || Series 11
|-
|-
|}
|}
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=== Episodes ===
=== Episodes ===
The episodes are ranked in sequence, with the top episode(s) in each tier being the best episode of that tier and, subsequently, the lowest episode is the weakest in the tier list. Therefore, for Series 2, ''The Girl in the Fireplace'' is the best episode of Series 2 as it is ranked at the top of Tier 1. This rule applies to every tier and every series ranking their respective episodes.
The episodes are ranked in sequence, with the top episode(s) in each tier being the best episode of that tier and, subsequently, the lowest episode is the weakest in the tier list. Therefore, for Series 2, ''The Girl in the Fireplace'' is the best episode of Series 2 as it is ranked at the top of Tier 1. This rule applies to every tier and every series ranking their respective episodes.
Further, my rankings of classic stories I have watched are also included below the New Who series rankings.


====Series 1 (2005: Rose - The Christmas Invasion)====
====Series 1 (2005: Rose - The Christmas Invasion)====
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!'''Rank''' || '''Episodes'''
!'''Rank''' || '''Episodes'''
|-
|-
|Tier 1 ||''The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances'' <br> ''Dalek'' <br> ''The Parting of the Ways'' <br> ''Father's Day''
|Tier 1 ||''The Empty Child''/''The Doctor Dances'' <br> ''Dalek'' <br> ''The Parting of the Ways'' <br> ''Father's Day''
|-
|-
|Tier 2 || ''Bad Wolf''
|Tier 2 || ''Bad Wolf'' <br> ''Rose''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''Rose'' <br> ''The End of the World'' <br> ''Aliens of London/World War Three'' <br> ''The Christmas Invasion''
|Tier 3 || ''The End of the World'' <br> ''Aliens of London''/''World War Three'' <br> ''The Christmas Invasion'' <br> ''The Unquiet Dead''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''The Unquiet Dead'' <br> ''The Long Game'' <br> ''Boom Town''
|Tier 4 || ''The Long Game'' <br> ''Boom Town''
|-
|-
|Tier 5 || N/A
|Tier 5 || N/A
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|Tier 3 || ''School Reunion'' <br> ''The Runaway Bride''
|Tier 3 || ''School Reunion'' <br> ''The Runaway Bride''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''The Idiot's Lantern'' <br> ''Tooth and Claw'' <br> ''New Earth''
|Tier 4 || ''Tooth and Claw'' <br> ''The Idiot's Lantern'' <br> ''New Earth''
|-
|-
|Tier 5 || ''Love and Monsters'' <br> ''Fear Her''
|Tier 5 || ''Love and Monsters'' <br> ''Fear Her''
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|Tier 1 || ''Human Nature''/''The Family of Blood'' <br> ''Blink''
|Tier 1 || ''Human Nature''/''The Family of Blood'' <br> ''Blink''
|-
|-
|Tier 2 || ''Voyage of the Damned'' <br> ''Daleks in Manhattan''/''Evolution of the Daleks'' <br> ''Utopia'' <br> ''The Sound of Drums''
|Tier 2 || ''Voyage of the Damned'' <br> ''Daleks in Manhattan''/''Evolution of the Daleks'' <br> ''Utopia'' <br> ''Smith & Jones'' <br> ''The Sound of Drums''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''Smith & Jones'' <br> ''Last of the Time Lords'' <br> ''The Shakespeare Code'' <br> ''Gridlock'' <br> ''The Lazarus Experiment''
|Tier 3 || ''The Shakespeare Code'' <br> ''Gridlock'' <br> ''The Lazarus Experiment'' <br> ''Last of the Time Lords''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''42''
|Tier 4 || ''42''
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|Tier 1 || ''Silence in the Library''/''Forest of the Dead'' <br> ''Midnight'' <br> ''The Stolen Earth''/''Journey's End'' <br> ''Turn Left''
|Tier 1 || ''Silence in the Library''/''Forest of the Dead'' <br> ''Midnight'' <br> ''The Stolen Earth''/''Journey's End'' <br> ''Turn Left''
|-
|-
|Tier 2 || ''The Waters of Mars'' <br> ''The End of Time''
|Tier 2 || ''The Waters of Mars'' <br> ''The End of Time Part Two'' <br> ''The Fires of Pompeii'' <br> ''The Sontaran Stratagem''/''The Poison Sky''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''The Fires of Pompeii'' <br> ''The Sontaran Stratagem''/''The Poison Sky'' <br> ''Planet of the Ood'' <br> ''The Next Doctor'' <br> ''Partners in Crime'' <br> ''The Unicorn and the Wasp'' <br> ''Planet of the Dead''
|Tier 3 || ''Planet of the Ood'' <br> ''The Next Doctor'' <br> ''Partners in Crime'' <br> ''The Unicorn and the Wasp''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || N/A
|Tier 4 || ''Planet of the Dead'' <br> ''The End of Time Part Two''
|-
|-
|Tier 5 || N/A
|Tier 5 || N/A
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|Tier 2 || ''The Pandorica Opens''/''The Big Bang'' <br> ''The Time of Angels''/''Flesh and Stone''
|Tier 2 || ''The Pandorica Opens''/''The Big Bang'' <br> ''The Time of Angels''/''Flesh and Stone''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''Vincent and the Doctor'' <br> ''The Eleventh Hour'' <br> ''Vampires of Venice''
|Tier 3 || ''The Eleventh Hour'' <br> ''Vincent and the Doctor'' <br> ''Vampires of Venice''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''Victory of the Daleks'' <br> ''The Hungry Earth''/''Cold Blood'' <br> ''The Lodger''
|Tier 4 || ''Victory of the Daleks'' <br> ''The Hungry Earth''/''Cold Blood'' <br> ''The Lodger''
|-
|-
|Tier 5 || N/A
|Tier 5 || ''The Beast Below''
|-
|-
|}
|}
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|Tier 2 || ''The Doctor's Wife'' <br> ''The Impossible Astronaut''/''Day of the Moon'' <br> ''The God Complex''
|Tier 2 || ''The Doctor's Wife'' <br> ''The Impossible Astronaut''/''Day of the Moon'' <br> ''The God Complex''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''Curse of the Black Spot'' <br> ''Night Terrors''
|Tier 3 || ''The Rebel Flesh''/''The Almost People'' <br> ''Curse of the Black Spot'' <br> ''Night Terrors''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''The Rebel Flesh''/''The Almost People'' <br> ''Closing Time'' <br> ''The Wedding of River Song''
|Tier 4 || ''Closing Time'' <br> ''The Wedding of River Song''
|-
|-
|Tier 5 || ''The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe'' <br> ''Let's Kill Hitler''
|Tier 5 || ''The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe'' <br> ''Let's Kill Hitler''
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|Tier 2 || ''The Snowmen'' <br> ''The Time of the Doctor'' <br> ''The Name of the Doctor'' <br> ''Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS''
|Tier 2 || ''The Snowmen'' <br> ''The Time of the Doctor'' <br> ''The Name of the Doctor'' <br> ''Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''Nightmare in Silver'' <br> ''Asylum of the Daleks'' <br> ''The Angels Take Manhattan'' <br> ''The Rings of Akhaten'' <br> ''Cold War''
|Tier 3 || ''The Angels Take Manhattan'' <br> ''Nightmare in Silver'' <br> ''Asylum of the Daleks'' <br> ''A Town Called Mercy'' <br> ''The Rings of Akhaten'' <br> ''Cold War''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''A Town Called Mercy'' <br> ''The Bells of St. John'' <br> ''Hide''
|Tier 4 || ''The Bells of St. John'' <br> ''Hide''
|-
|-
|Tier 5 || ''The Power of Three'' <br> ''Dinosaurs on a Spaceship'' <br> ''Crimson Horror''
|Tier 5 || ''The Power of Three'' <br> ''Dinosaurs on a Spaceship'' <br> ''Crimson Horror''
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|Tier 1 || N/A
|Tier 1 || N/A
|-
|-
|Tier 2 || ''Dark Water''/''Death in Heaven'' <br> ''Listen'' <br> ''Mummy on the Orient Express''
|Tier 2 || ''Dark Water''/''Death in Heaven'' <br> ''Listen'' <br> ''Mummy on the Orient Express'' <br> ''Flatline''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''Flatline'' <br> ''Deep Breath'' <br> ''Into the Dalek'' <br> ''Time Heist''
|Tier 3 || ''Deep Breath'' <br> ''Into the Dalek'' <br> ''Time Heist''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''Robot of Sherwood'' <br> ''The Caretaker''
|Tier 4 || ''Robot of Sherwood'' <br> ''The Caretaker''
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|}
|}


====Series 9 (2015: The Magician's Apprentice - The Husbands of River Song)====
====Series 9 (2015-16: The Magician's Apprentice - The Return of Doctor Mysterio)====
{| {{prettytable}}
{| {{prettytable}}
!'''Rank''' || '''Episodes'''
!'''Rank''' || '''Episodes'''
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|Tier 2 || ''The Zygon Inversion'' <br> ''Face the Raven''
|Tier 2 || ''The Zygon Inversion'' <br> ''Face the Raven''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''The Zygon Invasion'' <br> ''The Husbands of River Song'' <br> ''The Return of Doctor Mysterio'' <br> ''The Magician's Apprentice''/''The Witch's Familiar'' <br> ''Under the Lake''/''Before the Flood'' <br>
|Tier 3 || ''The Zygon Invasion'' <br> ''The Husbands of River Song'' <br> ''Under the Lake''/''Before the Flood'' <br> ''The Return of Doctor Mysterio'' <br> ''Sleep No More''  
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''Hell Bent'' <br> ''Sleep No More''
|Tier 4 || ''The Magician's Apprentice''/''The Witch's Familiar'' <br> ''Hell Bent''
|-
|-
|Tier 5 || ''The Girl Who Died''/''The Woman Who Lived''
|Tier 5 || ''The Girl Who Died''/''The Woman Who Lived''
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|}
|}


====Series 10 (2016-17: The Return of Doctor Mysterio - Twice Upon A Time)====
====Series 10 (2017: The Pilot - Twice Upon A Time)====
{| {{prettytable}}
{| {{prettytable}}
!'''Rank''' || '''Episodes'''
!'''Rank''' || '''Episodes'''
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|Tier 1 || ''World Enough and Time''/''The Doctor Falls''
|Tier 1 || ''World Enough and Time''/''The Doctor Falls''
|-
|-
|Tier 2 || ''Extremis'' <br> ''Oxygen''
|Tier 2 || ''Extremis'' <br> ''Oxygen'' <br> ''The Pilot''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''The Pilot'' <br> ''Knock, Knock'' <br> ''The Empress of Mars'' <br> ''Thin Ice''
|Tier 3 || ''Knock, Knock'' <br> ''The Empress of Mars'' <br> ''Thin Ice''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''The Eaters of Light'' <br> ''Smile'' <br> ''Twice Upon a Time'' <br> ''The Pyramid at the End of the World''
|Tier 4 || ''The Eaters of Light'' <br> ''Smile'' <br> ''Twice Upon a Time'' <br> ''The Pyramid at the End of the World''
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|Tier 1 || N/A
|Tier 1 || N/A
|-
|-
|Tier 2 || ''Rosa'' <br> ''It Takes You Away''
|Tier 2 || ''It Takes You Away'' <br> ''Rosa'' <br> ''The Woman Who Fell To Earth'' <br> ''The Demons of the Punjab''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''The Woman Who Fell To Earth'' <br> ''Resolution'' <br> ''Kerblam!'' <br> ''The Demons of the Punjab''
|Tier 3 || ''Resolution'' <br> ''Kerblam!''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''The Tsuranga Conundrum'' <br> ''Arachnids in the UK'' <br> ''The Ghost Monument''
|Tier 4 || ''The Tsuranga Conundrum'' <br> ''Arachnids in the UK'' <br> ''The Ghost Monument''
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|Tier 1 || N/A
|Tier 1 || N/A
|-
|-
|Tier 2 || ''Fugitive of the Judoon'' <br> ''The Haunting of Villa Diodati''
|Tier 2 || ''Can You Hear Me?'' <br> ''The Haunting of Villa Diodati'' <br>
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''Revolution of the Daleks'' <br> ''Spyfall'' <br> ''Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror'' <br> ''Can You Hear Me?'' <br> ''Praxeus''
|Tier 3 || ''Fugitive of the Judoon'' <br> ''Praxeus'' <br> ''Revolution of the Daleks'' <br> ''Spyfall'' <br> ''Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''Ascension of the Cybermen''
|Tier 4 || ''Ascension of the Cybermen''
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!'''Rank''' || '''Episodes'''
!'''Rank''' || '''Episodes'''
|-
|-
|Tier 1 || N/A
|Tier 1 || ''The Power of the Doctor''
|-
|-
|Tier 2 || ''Village of the Angels''
|Tier 2 || ''Village of the Angels''
|-
|-
|Tier 3 || ''War of the Sontarans'' <br> ''Eve of the Daleks'' <br> ''The Vanquishers''
|Tier 3 || ''War of the Sontarans'' <br> ''Eve of the Daleks'' <br>
|-
|Tier 4 || ''The Vanquishers'' <br> ''The Halloween Apocalypse'' <br> ''Survivors of the Flux'' <br> ''Once, Upon Time''
|-
|Tier 5 || ''Legend of the Sea Devils''
|-
|}
 
==== 2023 Anniversary specials ====
{| {{prettytable}}
!'''Rank''' || '''Episodes'''
|-
|Tier 1 || ''Wild Blue Yonder''
|-
|-
|Tier 4 || ''The Halloween Apocalypse'' <br> ''Legend of the Sea Devils'' <br> ''Survivors of the Flux'' <br> ''Once, Upon Time''
|Tier 2 || ''The Giggle'' <br> ''The Church on Ruby Road''
|-
|Tier 3 || ''The Star Beast''
|-
|Tier 4 || N/A
|-
|Tier 5 || N/A
|-
|}
 
==== Overall top 5 and lowest 5 in NewWho ====
{| {{prettytable}}
!'''Top 5'''
|-
| ''The Empty Child''/''The Doctor Dances'' <br> ''Human Nature''/''The Family of Blood'' <br> ''Heaven Sent'' <br> ''Silence in the Library''/''Forest of the Dead'' <br> ''Dalek''
|-
|}
 
{| {{prettytable}}
! '''Lowest 5'''
|-
| ''Orphan 55'' <br> ''The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos'' <br> ''The Timeless Children'' <br> ''In the Forest of the Night'' <br>  ''Love and Monsters''
|-
|}
 
====Classic stories====
{| {{prettytable}}
!'''Rank''' || '''Episodes'''
|-
|Tier 1 || ''The War Games'' <br> ''The Curse of Fenric'' <br> ''The Caves of Androzani'' <br> ''The Three Doctors''
|-
|Tier 2 || ''Pyramid of Mars'' <br> ''Doctor Who: The Movie'' <br> ''Terror of the Autons'' <br> ''Earthshock''
|-
|Tier 3 || ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang'' <br> ''The Tenth Planet'' <br> ''The Daleks'' <br> ''An Unearthly Child'' <br> ''The Mind Robber''
|-
|Tier 4 || ''Scream of the Shalka''
|-
|-
|Tier 5 || N/A
|Tier 5 || N/A
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:Tier 4 = Only hardcore fans will bother returning to it, a one-time view for all others
:Tier 4 = Only hardcore fans will bother returning to it, a one-time view for all others
:Tier 5 = Poor quality, a pain to watch, the bad now equals the good, not worth watching, waste of time
:Tier 5 = Poor quality, a pain to watch, the bad now equals the good, not worth watching, waste of time
== Quotes ==
{{Quote|''You can never plan the future by the past.''|Edmund Burke}}
{{Quote|''It's a mad house, a mad house!''|Taylor, Planet of the Apes}}
{{Quote|''A life done in the service of others is a life worthliving.''|Suicine, Molta}}
{{Quote|''Apes, together, '''Strong!'''.''|Caesar, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes}}
{{Quote|''Compare yourself with who you were yesterday. You cannot change how others are but you can improve yourself, a little each day.''|Unknown}}
{{Quote|''Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee''|John Donne}}
{{Quote|''If a man has patience and experience, then he can do anything.''|Zemo, Captain America: Civil War}}
{{Quote|''If you want something dirty done, you wait for lights out''|Nathan Drake, Uncharted 4}}
{{Quote|''I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.''|Socrates, Plato's Apology}}
{{Quote|''The laws of logic do not lie. One cannot usurp an argument with emotion alone.''|Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric}}
{{Quote|''Philosophy actively teaches us to question the self-evident. Propaganda tricks us into believing that which we would normally doubt.''|Aldous Huxley, Brave New World: Revisited}}
{{Quote|''I struggled for a longtime with surviving, but no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for''|Joel, The Last of Us}}
{{Quote|''Two men can get more done through talking than a hundred can through shouting.''|T'Challa, Captain America: Civil War}}
{{Quote|''The hardest choices require the strongest wills.''|Thanos, Avengers: Infinity War}}
{{Quote|''A man makes his own luck...Make each day count''|Cal and Jack, Titanic}}
{{Quote|''Caesar weak. Koba '''weaker'''.''|Koba and Caesar, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes}}
{{Quote|''We should say what we feel, not what we ought to say''|Edgar, King Lear}}
{{Quote|''Proper deformity seems not in the Fiend so horrid as in woman''|Albany, King Lear}}
{{Quote|''Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.''|The War Doctor.}}
{{Quote|''I'm the Doctor. I've got five billion languages in my head and you haven't got any idea how to stop me, so if anyone's going to shut up, it's you!''|The Ninth Doctor to the Daleks, The Parting of the Ways}}
{{Quote|''Coward...every time''|The Ninth Doctor, The Parting of the Ways}}
{{Quote|''Death is the price we pay for progress...to be immortal means we don't progress''|The Doctor}}
{{Quote|''Everything has to end sometime or nothing would ever get started.''|The Eleventh Doctor, A Christmas Carol}}
{{Quote|''Don't play games with me. You just killed someone I liked, that is not a safe place to stand. I'm the Doctor and you're in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up.''|The Tenth Doctor to the Vashta Nerada, The Forest of the Dead}}
{{Quote|''Some people live more in 10 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters. It's the person''| The Tenth Doctor, The Lazarus Experiment}}
{{Quote|''Books. The greatest weapons in the universe''|The Tenth Doctor, Tooth and Claw}}
{{Quote|''I do what I do because it's right, because it's decent...Where I stand is where I fall''|The Twelfth Doctor, The Doctor Falls}}
{{Quote|''Instinct is a lie told by a fearful body hoping to be wrong...You blind yourself''|Zaheer}}
{{Quote|''We are a generation of men raised by women. We work jobs we hate to buy [stuff] we don't need. Our 'Great Depression' is our lives.''|Tyler Durden, Fight Club}}
{{Quote|''The greatest sin of the 21st century is that we can talk to someone five thousand miles away but don't say hello to the person stood right beside us.''|Simon Sinek, Start With Why}}
{{Quote|''War is not murder, it is suicide''|Ramsay McDonald}}
{{Quote|''Never complain. Never explain.''|Benjamin Disraeli}}
{{Quote|''One thing is certain. When you are in pain, there is no true desire for it to be worse, only for it to end.''|Winston Smith, Nineteen-Eighty-Four}}
{{Quote|''When you can do the things that I can, but you don't and then the bad things happen...they happen because of you.''|Peter Parker, Captain America: Civil War}}

Latest revision as of 19:33, 25 April 2024


Hey there. I'm Snivystorm. (^_^)

I'm a huge fan of Doctor Who and I have been watching it ever since it re aired in 2005. I have loads of knowledge of Doctor Who mainly from 2005 onwards and its spin offs Torchwood and SJA. You can usually find me hanging around The Last of Us Wiki doing my thing there.

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I hope I can be a big help to the wiki. Remember: no spoilers... shhhh.

Thanks for reading. :D If you want, check out my rankings of all the NewWho series and my personal favourite quotes below!

New Who rankings (2005-2023)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Series[[edit] | [edit source]]

The series are ranked according to their individual episodes and story quality. However, this goes beyond which ones simply have the most episodes in Tier 1 and Tier 2. The series each have their own arcs in terms of plot and character. Therefore, the series arcs and how the characters (principally the Doctor and their companions) grow or develop throughout also plays a significant part in how these series rank up. Furthermore, consistency within the series' episodes does play a factor, with series that contain more competently written and executed stories naturally outperforming series that lack these vital qualities.

As a final caveat, while some series lower in the list could be judged at face value as being bad for being placed so low, this is not an honest reflection of their quality. Every series has at least one episode in Tier 2 and every series with numerous episodes in Tier 1 and Tier 2 still have some low quality episodes placed in either Tier 4 and 5 and even then these episodes are a rarity. As such, every series has something worth watching within it.

Rank Series
One Series 4
Two Series 3
Three Series 1
Four Series 5
Five Series 10
Six Series 2
Seven Series 7
Eight Series 6
Nine Series 12
Ten Series 9
Eleven Series 8
Twelve Series 13
Thirteen Series 11

Episodes[[edit] | [edit source]]

The episodes are ranked in sequence, with the top episode(s) in each tier being the best episode of that tier and, subsequently, the lowest episode is the weakest in the tier list. Therefore, for Series 2, The Girl in the Fireplace is the best episode of Series 2 as it is ranked at the top of Tier 1. This rule applies to every tier and every series ranking their respective episodes.

Further, my rankings of classic stories I have watched are also included below the New Who series rankings.

Series 1 (2005: Rose - The Christmas Invasion)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
Dalek
The Parting of the Ways
Father's Day
Tier 2 Bad Wolf
Rose
Tier 3 The End of the World
Aliens of London/World War Three
The Christmas Invasion
The Unquiet Dead
Tier 4 The Long Game
Boom Town
Tier 5 N/A

Series 2 (2006: New Earth - The Runaway Bride)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 The Girl in the Fireplace
The Impossible Planet/The Satan's Pit
Tier 2 Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel
Tier 3 School Reunion
The Runaway Bride
Tier 4 Tooth and Claw
The Idiot's Lantern
New Earth
Tier 5 Love and Monsters
Fear Her

Series 3 (2007: Smith & Jones - The Voyage of the Damned)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 Human Nature/The Family of Blood
Blink
Tier 2 Voyage of the Damned
Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
Utopia
Smith & Jones
The Sound of Drums
Tier 3 The Shakespeare Code
Gridlock
The Lazarus Experiment
Last of the Time Lords
Tier 4 42
Tier 5 N/A

Series 4 (2008-10: Partners in Crime - The End of Time)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
Midnight
The Stolen Earth/Journey's End
Turn Left
Tier 2 The Waters of Mars
The End of Time Part Two
The Fires of Pompeii
The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky
Tier 3 Planet of the Ood
The Next Doctor
Partners in Crime
The Unicorn and the Wasp
Tier 4 Planet of the Dead
The End of Time Part Two
Tier 5 N/A

Series 5 (2010: The Eleventh Hour - A Christmas Carol)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 A Christmas Carol
Amy's Choice
Tier 2 The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
Tier 3 The Eleventh Hour
Vincent and the Doctor
Vampires of Venice
Tier 4 Victory of the Daleks
The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood
The Lodger
Tier 5 The Beast Below

Series 6 (2011: The Impossible Astronaut - The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 The Girl Who Waited
A Good Man Goes to War
Tier 2 The Doctor's Wife
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
The God Complex
Tier 3 The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People
Curse of the Black Spot
Night Terrors
Tier 4 Closing Time
The Wedding of River Song
Tier 5 The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Let's Kill Hitler

Series 7 (2012-13: Asylum of the Daleks - The Time of the Doctor)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 The Day of the Doctor
Tier 2 The Snowmen
The Time of the Doctor
The Name of the Doctor
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
Tier 3 The Angels Take Manhattan
Nightmare in Silver
Asylum of the Daleks
A Town Called Mercy
The Rings of Akhaten
Cold War
Tier 4 The Bells of St. John
Hide
Tier 5 The Power of Three
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Crimson Horror

Series 8 (2014: Deep Breath - Last Christmas)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 N/A
Tier 2 Dark Water/Death in Heaven
Listen
Mummy on the Orient Express
Flatline
Tier 3 Deep Breath
Into the Dalek
Time Heist
Tier 4 Robot of Sherwood
The Caretaker
Tier 5 Kill the Moon
Last Christmas
In the Forest of the Night

Series 9 (2015-16: The Magician's Apprentice - The Return of Doctor Mysterio)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 Heaven Sent
Tier 2 The Zygon Inversion
Face the Raven
Tier 3 The Zygon Invasion
The Husbands of River Song
Under the Lake/Before the Flood
The Return of Doctor Mysterio
Sleep No More
Tier 4 The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar
Hell Bent
Tier 5 The Girl Who Died/The Woman Who Lived

Series 10 (2017: The Pilot - Twice Upon A Time)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
Tier 2 Extremis
Oxygen
The Pilot
Tier 3 Knock, Knock
The Empress of Mars
Thin Ice
Tier 4 The Eaters of Light
Smile
Twice Upon a Time
The Pyramid at the End of the World
Tier 5 Lie of the Land

Series 11 (2018-19: The Woman Who Fell To Earth - Resolution)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 N/A
Tier 2 It Takes You Away
Rosa
The Woman Who Fell To Earth
The Demons of the Punjab
Tier 3 Resolution
Kerblam!
Tier 4 The Tsuranga Conundrum
Arachnids in the UK
The Ghost Monument
Tier 5 The Witchfinders
The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

Series 12 (2020-21: Spyfall - Revolution of the Daleks)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 N/A
Tier 2 Can You Hear Me?
The Haunting of Villa Diodati
Tier 3 Fugitive of the Judoon
Praxeus
Revolution of the Daleks
Spyfall
Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
Tier 4 Ascension of the Cybermen
Tier 5 The Timeless Children
Orphan 55

Series 13 (2021-2022: The Halloween Apocalypse - Legend of the Sea Devils)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 The Power of the Doctor
Tier 2 Village of the Angels
Tier 3 War of the Sontarans
Eve of the Daleks
Tier 4 The Vanquishers
The Halloween Apocalypse
Survivors of the Flux
Once, Upon Time
Tier 5 Legend of the Sea Devils

2023 Anniversary specials[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 Wild Blue Yonder
Tier 2 The Giggle
The Church on Ruby Road
Tier 3 The Star Beast
Tier 4 N/A
Tier 5 N/A

Overall top 5 and lowest 5 in NewWho[[edit] | [edit source]]

Top 5
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
Human Nature/The Family of Blood
Heaven Sent
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
Dalek
Lowest 5
Orphan 55
The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
The Timeless Children
In the Forest of the Night
Love and Monsters

Classic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rank Episodes
Tier 1 The War Games
The Curse of Fenric
The Caves of Androzani
The Three Doctors
Tier 2 Pyramid of Mars
Doctor Who: The Movie
Terror of the Autons
Earthshock
Tier 3 The Talons of Weng-Chiang
The Tenth Planet
The Daleks
An Unearthly Child
The Mind Robber
Tier 4 Scream of the Shalka
Tier 5 N/A

What the scores actually mean:

Tier 1 = Closest thing to perfection
Tier 2 = A must watch for fans, Whovian and casual a like
Tier 3 = Decent standard with flaws but the good far outweighs the bad
Tier 4 = Only hardcore fans will bother returning to it, a one-time view for all others
Tier 5 = Poor quality, a pain to watch, the bad now equals the good, not worth watching, waste of time

Quotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

You can never plan the future by the past.Edmund Burke

It's a mad house, a mad house!Taylor, Planet of the Apes

A life done in the service of others is a life worthliving.Suicine, Molta

Apes, together, Strong!.Caesar, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Compare yourself with who you were yesterday. You cannot change how others are but you can improve yourself, a little each day.Unknown

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for theeJohn Donne

If a man has patience and experience, then he can do anything.Zemo, Captain America: Civil War

If you want something dirty done, you wait for lights outNathan Drake, Uncharted 4

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.Socrates, Plato's Apology

The laws of logic do not lie. One cannot usurp an argument with emotion alone.Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric

Philosophy actively teaches us to question the self-evident. Propaganda tricks us into believing that which we would normally doubt.Aldous Huxley, Brave New World: Revisited

I struggled for a longtime with surviving, but no matter what, you keep finding something to fight forJoel, The Last of Us

Two men can get more done through talking than a hundred can through shouting.T'Challa, Captain America: Civil War

The hardest choices require the strongest wills.Thanos, Avengers: Infinity War

A man makes his own luck...Make each day countCal and Jack, Titanic

Caesar weak. Koba weaker.Koba and Caesar, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

We should say what we feel, not what we ought to sayEdgar, King Lear

Proper deformity seems not in the Fiend so horrid as in womanAlbany, King Lear

Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.The War Doctor.

I'm the Doctor. I've got five billion languages in my head and you haven't got any idea how to stop me, so if anyone's going to shut up, it's you!The Ninth Doctor to the Daleks, The Parting of the Ways

Coward...every timeThe Ninth Doctor, The Parting of the Ways

Death is the price we pay for progress...to be immortal means we don't progressThe Doctor

Everything has to end sometime or nothing would ever get started.The Eleventh Doctor, A Christmas Carol

Don't play games with me. You just killed someone I liked, that is not a safe place to stand. I'm the Doctor and you're in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up.The Tenth Doctor to the Vashta Nerada, The Forest of the Dead

Some people live more in 10 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters. It's the person The Tenth Doctor, The Lazarus Experiment

Books. The greatest weapons in the universeThe Tenth Doctor, Tooth and Claw

I do what I do because it's right, because it's decent...Where I stand is where I fallThe Twelfth Doctor, The Doctor Falls

Instinct is a lie told by a fearful body hoping to be wrong...You blind yourselfZaheer

We are a generation of men raised by women. We work jobs we hate to buy [stuff] we don't need. Our 'Great Depression' is our lives.Tyler Durden, Fight Club

The greatest sin of the 21st century is that we can talk to someone five thousand miles away but don't say hello to the person stood right beside us.Simon Sinek, Start With Why

War is not murder, it is suicideRamsay McDonald

Never complain. Never explain.Benjamin Disraeli

One thing is certain. When you are in pain, there is no true desire for it to be worse, only for it to end.Winston Smith, Nineteen-Eighty-Four

When you can do the things that I can, but you don't and then the bad things happen...they happen because of you.Peter Parker, Captain America: Civil War

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