List of Doctor Who television stories
Following is a list of stories in the original (1963 – 1989) and new (2005 – Present) BBC Doctor Who television series, plus the 1996 Television movie, per the BBC Episode Guide.
Names used are those given by the BBC. Alternative titles are noted.
This list does not include spin-off series such as Torchwood or The Sarah Jane Adventures, also set in the Whoniverse.
First Doctor - William Hartnell
Season 1 - 1963-64
- An Unearthly Child a.k.a. "100,000 BC", "The Tribe of Gum"
- The Daleks a.k.a. "The Mutants", "The Dead Planet"
- The Edge of Destruction a.k.a. "Inside the Spaceship", "Beyond the Sun"
- Marco Polo a.k.a. "A Journey to Cathay"
- The Keys of Marinus
- The Aztecs
- The Sensorites
- The Reign of Terror a.k.a. "The French Revolution"
Season 2 - 1964-65
- Planet of Giants
- The Dalek Invasion of Earth
- The Rescue
- The Romans
- The Web Planet
- The Crusade
- The Space Museum
- The Chase
- The Time Meddler
Season 3 - 1965-66
- Galaxy 4
- Mission to the Unknown a.k.a. "Dalek Cutaway"
- The Myth Makers
- The Daleks' Master Plan
- The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve a.k.a. "The Massacre"
- The Ark
- The Celestial Toymaker
- The Gunfighters
- The Savages
- The War Machines
Season 4 - 1966
Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton
Season 4 (continued) - 1966-67
- The Power of the Daleks
- The Highlanders
- The Underwater Menace
- The Moonbase
- The Macra Terror
- The Faceless Ones
- The Evil of the Daleks
Season 5 - 1967-68
- The Tomb of the Cybermen
- The Abominable Snowmen
- The Ice Warriors
- The Enemy of the World
- The Web of Fear
- Fury from the Deep
- The Wheel in Space
Season 6 - 1968-69
- The Dominators
- The Mind Robber
- The Invasion
- The Krotons
- The Seeds of Death
- The Space Pirates
- The War Games
Third Doctor - Jon Pertwee
Season 7 - 1970
Colour production begins
Season 8 - 1971
Season 9 - 1972
Season 10 - 1972-73
Season 11 - 1973-74
- The Time Warrior
- Invasion of the Dinosaurs
- Death to the Daleks
- The Monster of Peladon
- Planet of the Spiders
Fourth Doctor - Tom Baker
Season 12 - 1974-75
Season 13 - 1975-76
- Terror of the Zygons
- Planet of Evil
- Pyramids of Mars
- The Android Invasion
- The Brain of Morbius
- The Seeds of Doom
Season 14 - 1976-77
- The Masque of Mandragora
- The Hand of Fear
- The Deadly Assassin
- The Face of Evil
- The Robots of Death
- The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Season 15 - 1977-78
- Horror of Fang Rock
- The Invisible Enemy
- Image of the Fendahl
- The Sun Makers
- Underworld
- The Invasion of Time
Season 16 - 1978-79
- The Ribos Operation
- The Pirate Planet
- The Stones of Blood
- The Androids of Tara
- The Power of Kroll
- The Armageddon Factor
Season 17 - 1979-80
- Destiny of the Daleks
- City of Death
- The Creature from the Pit
- Nightmare of Eden
- The Horns of Nimon
- Shada (incomplete; not broadcast)
Season 18 - 1980-81
Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison
Season 19 - 1982
Season 20 - 1983
Season 21 - 1984
- Warriors of the Deep
- The Awakening
- Frontios
- Resurrection of the Daleks
- Planet of Fire
- The Caves of Androzani
Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker
Season 21 (continued) - 1984
Season 22 - 1985
Format changes to 45-minute episodes
- Attack of the Cybermen
- Vengeance on Varos
- The Mark of the Rani
- The Two Doctors
- Timelash
- Revelation of the Daleks
Season 23 - 1986
25-minute episodes resume
Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
Season 24 - 1987
Season 25 - 1988
Season 26 - 1989
Eighth Doctor - Paul McGann
Television Movie - 1996
- Doctor Who: The TV Movie, a.k.a. "Enemy Within" or "The Movie"
Ninth Doctor - Christopher Eccleston
Series 1 - 2005
Note: Beginning with this season, the multi-episode serial format was abandoned in favour of a mixture of standalone single-episode stories and two (and later three) parters, along side an ongoing story arc. Standard episode length changes to 45 minutes, with occasional longer exceptions. For promotional purposes, the BBC chose to start numbering the seasons anew, although unofficially the count continued from 1989's Season 26.
Episode | No. | Title | Original airdate |
---|---|---|---|
01 | 1 | "Rose" | 26 March 2005 |
02 | 2 | "The End of the World" | 2 April 2005 |
03 | 3 | "The Unquiet Dead" | 9 April 2005 |
04 | 4 | "Aliens of London" (Part 1) | 16 April 2005 |
05 | 5 | "World War Three" (Part 2) | 23 April 2005 |
06 | 6 | "Dalek" | 30 April 2005 |
07 | 7 | "The Long Game" | 7 May 2005 |
08 | 8 | "Father's Day" | 14 May 2005 |
09 | 9 | "The Empty Child" (Part 1) | 21 May 2005 |
10 | 10 | "The Doctor Dances" (Part 2) | 28 May 2005 |
11 | 11 | "Boom Town" | 4 June 2005 |
12 | 12 | "Bad Wolf" (Part 1) | 11 June 2005 |
13 | 13 | "The Parting of the Ways" (Part 2) | 18 June 2005 |
Tenth Doctor - David Tennant
Beginning with Tennant's era, the producers began varying the episode formats, adding occasional special mini-episodes (usually produced for charity) and an annual Christmas special episode (both of which are is generally considered separate from the season that follows). Several episodes have exceeded the 45-minute standard, including the Christmas specials and several regular-season episodes.
Series 2 - 2006
Episode | No. | Title | Original airdate |
---|---|---|---|
14 | — | "The Christmas Invasion" (Christmas special) | 25 December 2005 |
15 | 1 | "New Earth" | 15 April 2006 |
16 | 2 | "Tooth and Claw" | 22 April 2006 |
17 | 3 | "School Reunion" | 29 April 2006 |
18 | 4 | "The Girl in the Fireplace" | 6 May 2006 |
19 | 5 | "Rise of the Cybermen" (Part 1) | 13 May 2006 |
20 | 6 | "The Age of Steel" (Part 2) | 20 May 2006 |
21 | 7 | "The Idiot's Lantern" | 27 May 2006 |
22 | 8 | "The Impossible Planet" (Part 1) | 3 June 2006 |
23 | 9 | "The Satan Pit" (Part 2) | 10 June 2006 |
24 | 10 | "Love & Monsters" | 17 June 2006 |
25 | 11 | "Fear Her" | 24 June 2006 |
26 | 12 | "Army of Ghosts" (Part 1) | 1 July 2006 |
27 | 13 | "Doomsday" (Part 2) | 8 July 2006 |
Series 3 - 2007
Episode | No. | Title | Original airdate |
---|---|---|---|
28 | — | "The Runaway Bride (Christmas special)" | 25 December 2006 |
29 | 1 | "Smith and Jones" | 31 March 2007 |
30 | 2 | "The Shakespeare Code" | 7 April 2007 |
31 | 3 | "Gridlock" | 14 April 2007 |
32 | 4 | "Daleks in Manhattan" (Part 1) | 21 April 2007 |
33 | 5 | "Evolution of the Daleks" (Part 2) | 28 April 2007 |
34 | 6 | "The Lazarus Experiment" | 5 May 2007 |
35 | 7 | "42" | 19 May 2007 |
36 | 8 | "Human Nature" (Part 1) | 26 May 2007 |
37 | 9 | "The Family of Blood" (Part 2) | 2 June 2007 |
38 | 10 | "Blink" | 9 June 2007 |
39 | 11 | "Utopia" (Part 1) | 16 June 2007 |
40 | 12 | "The Sound of Drums" (Part 2) | 23 June 2007 |
41 | 13 | "Last of the Time Lords" (Part 3) | 30 June 2007 |
Series 4 - 2008
Episode | No. | Title | Original airdate |
---|---|---|---|
42 | — | "Voyage of the Damned" (Christmas special) | 25 December 2007 |
43 | 1 | "Partners in Crime" | 5 April 2008 |
44 | 2 | "The Fires of Pompeii" | 12 April 2008 |
45 | 3 | "Planet of the Ood" | 19 April 2008 |
46 | 4 | "The Sontaran Stratagem" (Part 1) | 26 April 2008 |
47 | 5 | "The Poison Sky" (Part 2) | 3 May 2008 |
48 | 6 | "The Doctor's Daughter" | 10 May 2008 |
49 | 7 | "The Unicorn and the Wasp" | 17 May 2008 |
50 | 8 | "Silence in the Library" (Part 1) | 31 May 2008 |
51 | 9 | "Forest of the Dead" (Part 2) | 7 June 2008 |
52 | 10 | "Midnight" | 14 June 2008 |
53 | 11 | "Turn Left" | 21 June 2008 |
54 | 12 | "The Stolen Earth" (Part 1) | 28 June 2008 |
55 | 13 | "Journey's End" (Part 2) | 5 July 2008 |
56 | — | "The Next Doctor" (Christmas special) | 25 December 2008 |
57 | — | "Planet of the Dead" (Easter special) | 11 April 2009 |
58 | — | "The Waters of Mars" (Autumn special) | 15 November 2009 |
59 | — | "The End of Time: Part 1" (Christmas special) | 25 December 2009 |
60 | — | "The End of Time: Part 2" (New Year's special) | 1 January 2010 |
Eleventh Doctor - Matt Smith
Series 5 - 2010
Episode | No. | Title | Original airdate |
---|---|---|---|
61 | 1 | "The Eleventh Hour" | 3 April 2010 |
62 | 2 | "The Beast Below" | 10 April 2010 |
63 | 3 | "Victory of the Daleks" | 17 April 2010 |
64 | 4 | "The Time of Angels" (Part 1) | 24 April 2010 |
65 | 5 | "Flesh and Stone" (Part 2) | 1 May 2010 |
66 | 6 | "The Vampires of Venice" | 8 May 2010 |
67 | 7 | "Amy's Choice" | 15 May 2010 |
68 | 8 | "The Hungry Earth" (Part 1) | 22 May 2010 |
69 | 9 | "Cold Blood" (Part 2) | 29 May 2010 |
70 | 10 | "Vincent and the Doctor" | 5 June 2010 |
71 | 11 | "The Lodger" | 12 June 2010 |
72 | 12 | "The Pandorica Opens" (Part 1) | 19 June 2010 |
73 | 13 | "The Big Bang" (Part 2) | 26 June 2010 |
Series 6 - 2011
Episode | No. | Title | Original airdate |
---|---|---|---|
74 | — | "A Christmas Carol" (Christmas special) | 25 December 2010 |
75 | 1 | "The Impossible Astronaut" (Part 1) | 23 April 2011 |
76 | 2 | "Day of the Moon" (Part 2) | 30 April 2011 |
77 | 3 | "The Curse of the Black Spot" | 7 May 2011 |
78 | 4 | "The Doctor's Wife" | 14 May 2011 |
79 | 5 | "The Rebel Flesh" (Part 1) | 21 May 2011 |
80 | 6 | "The Almost People" (Part 2) | 28 May 2011 |
81 | 7 | "A Good Man Goes to War" (Part 1) | 4 June 2011 |
82 | 8 | "Let's Kill Hitler" (Part 2) | 27 August 2011 |
83 | 9 | "Night Terrors" | 3 September 2011 |
84 | 10 | "The Girl Who Waited" | 10 September 2011 |
85 | 11 | "The God Complex" | 17 September 2011 |
86 | 12 | "Closing Time" | 24 September 2011 |
87 | 13 | "The Wedding of River Song" | 1 October 2011 |
Other
Pilot Episode
- An Unearthly Child (unaired)
Jim'll Fix It Mini-Episode - 1985
Search Out Science Mini-Episode - 1990
Children in Need Specials
- 1993: Dimensions in Time
- 2005: Children in Need Special
- 2007: Time Crash
Comic Relief Specials
- 1999: The Curse of Fatal Death
- 2011: Space
- 2011: Time
Animated Serials
- 2007: The Infinite Quest
- 2009: Dreamland