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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.
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 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)
Series
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
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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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)
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
You can never plan the future by the past.
It's a mad house, a mad house!
A life done in the service of others is a life worthliving.
Apes, together, Strong!.
Compare yourself with who you were yesterday. You cannot change how others are but you can improve yourself, a little each day.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee
If a man has patience and experience, then he can do anything.
If you want something dirty done, you wait for lights out
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
The laws of logic do not lie. One cannot usurp an argument with emotion alone.
Philosophy actively teaches us to question the self-evident. Propaganda tricks us into believing that which we would normally doubt.
I struggled for a longtime with surviving, but no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for
Two men can get more done through talking than a hundred can through shouting.
The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
A man makes his own luck...Make each day count
Caesar weak. Koba weaker.
We should say what we feel, not what we ought to say
Proper deformity seems not in the Fiend so horrid as in woman
Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.
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!
Coward...every time
Death is the price we pay for progress...to be immortal means we don't progress
Everything has to end sometime or nothing would ever get started.
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.
Some people live more in 10 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters. It's the person
Books. The greatest weapons in the universe
I do what I do because it's right, because it's decent...Where I stand is where I fall
Instinct is a lie told by a fearful body hoping to be wrong...You blind yourself
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.
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.
War is not murder, it is suicide
Never complain. Never explain.
One thing is certain. When you are in pain, there is no true desire for it to be worse, only for it to end.
When you can do the things that I can, but you don't and then the bad things happen...they happen because of you.