Highest Rated Doctor Who Audio Stories

Written by: shauny

15th January 2024 (ratings updated live)

Here are the highest-rated Doctor Who audio stories per Doctor, according to our members.

These aren’t sorted by range, but by stories featuring each Doctor – so some timey-wimeyness will occur! For more detailed ways of sorting stories please view the full Stories List.

Note that several of these stories will be from the middle of a box set or series, and it is recommended that to follow them you listen to them in order. Click on the story you’re interested in and then proceed to see which series they are from!

Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the First Doctor

Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: The First Doctor

1a. Farewell, Great Macedon

Average. Rating: 81%

Average rating: ★ 4.50

Complete Completed?

The Early Adventures S6

2. Daughter of the Gods

Average. Rating: 80%

Average rating: ★ 4.49

Complete Completed?

The First Doctor Adventures Volume 2

1. The Invention of Death

Average. Rating: 76%

Average rating: ★ 4.37

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The Companion Chronicles S3

5. Home Truths

Average. Rating: 74%

Average rating: ★ 4.26

Complete Completed?

The Early Adventures S5

4. The Crash of the UK-201

Average. Rating: 70%

Average rating: ★ 4.31

Complete Completed?

Subscriber Short Trips

Home Again, Home Again

Average. Rating: 69%

Average rating: ★ 4.45

Complete Completed?

Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Second Doctor

The Early Adventures S6

2. Daughter of the Gods

Average. Rating: 80%

Average rating: ★ 4.49

Complete Completed?

Audio Adaptations

The Power of the Daleks

Average. Rating: 72%

Average rating: ★ 4.04

Complete Completed?

The Companion Chronicles S8

12. Second Chances

Average. Rating: 72%

Average rating: ★ 4.16

Complete Completed?

The Third Doctor Adventures S9

1. Annihilators

Average. Rating: 66%

Average rating: ★ 3.91

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The Companion Chronicles: The Second Doctor Volume 3

1. The Death of the Daleks

Average. Rating: 66%

Average rating: ★ 4.2

Complete Completed?

Once and Future

7. The Union

Average. Rating: 64%

Average rating: ★ 3.69

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Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Third Doctor

The Legacy of Time

3. The Sacrifice of Jo Grant

Average. Rating: 76%

Average rating: ★ 4.45

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The Companion Chronicles S7

9. The Scorchies

Average. Rating: 76%

Average rating: ★ 4.35

Complete Completed?

The Companion Chronicles S7

4. The Last Post

Average. Rating: 74%

Average rating: ★ 4.36

Complete Completed?

The Third Doctor Adventures Volume 7

2. The Gulf

Average. Rating: 69%

Average rating: ★ 4.15

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The Companion Chronicles S5

3. Find and Replace

Average. Rating: 66%

Average rating: ★ 4.07

Complete Completed?

The Third Doctor Adventures S9

1. Annihilators

Average. Rating: 66%

Average rating: ★ 3.91

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Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Fourth Doctor

The Fourth Doctor Adventures S5

6. The Trouble with Drax

Average. Rating: 75%

Average rating: ★ 4.35

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Masterful

10. I Am the Master

Average. Rating: 73%

Average rating: ★ 4.23

Complete Completed?

Audio Adaptations

The Power of the Daleks

Average. Rating: 72%

Average rating: ★ 4.04

Complete Completed?

Short Trips

4. Erasure

Average. Rating: 72%

Average rating: ★ 4.39

Complete Completed?

Short Trips

6. How to Win Planets and Influence People

Average. Rating: 71%

Average rating: ★ 4.22

Complete Completed?

The Fourth Doctor Adventures 8

8. The Perfect Prisoners – Part 2

Average. Rating: 71%

Average rating: ★ 4.24

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Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Fifth Doctor

Main Range

34. Spare Parts

Average. Rating: 85%

Average rating: ★ 4.51

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Novel Adaptations

Goth Opera

Average. Rating: 78%

Average rating: ★ 4.55

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In the Night

1. Pursuit of the Nightjar

Average. Rating: 77%

Average rating: ★ 4.49

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The Companion Chronicles S5

7. Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Average. Rating: 76%

Average rating: ★ 4.40

Complete Completed?

Main Range

81. The Kingmaker

Average. Rating: 76%

Average rating: ★ 4.26

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The Fifth Doctor Adventures

The Auton Infinity

Average. Rating: 76%

Average rating: ★ 4.39

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Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Sixth Doctor

Main Range

14. The Holy Terror

Average. Rating: 85%

Average rating: ★ 4.51

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Main Range

40. Jubilee

Average. Rating: 83%

Average rating: ★ 4.43

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Main Range

43. Doctor Who and the Pirates

Average. Rating: 81%

Average rating: ★ 4.35

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Main Range

48. Davros

Average. Rating: 79%

Average rating: ★ 4.29

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Main Range

57. Arrangements For War

Average. Rating: 78%

Average rating: ★ 4.29

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The Companion Chronicles S5

7. Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Average. Rating: 76%

Average rating: ★ 4.40

Complete Completed?

Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Seventh Doctor

Main Range

140. A Death in the Family

Average. Rating: 88%

Average rating: ★ 4.74

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Main Range

49. Master

Average. Rating: 84%

Average rating: ★ 4.49

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Main Range

162. Protect and Survive

Average. Rating: 83%

Average rating: ★ 4.61

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Main Range

74. LIVE 34

Average. Rating: 80%

Average rating: ★ 4.37

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Main Range

115d. The Word Lord

Average. Rating: 75%

Average rating: ★ 4.21

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Main Range

50. Zagreus

Average. Rating: 74%

Average rating: ★ 3.99

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Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Eighth Doctor

Main Range

29. The Chimes of Midnight

Average. Rating: 90%

Average rating: ★ 4.68

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Main Range

52. Scherzo

Average. Rating: 90%

Average rating: ★ 4.67

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Connections

3. Albie’s Angels

Average. Rating: 84%

Average rating: ★ 4.57

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Doom Coalition 1

2. The Red Lady

Average. Rating: 83%

Average rating: ★ 4.48

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The Eighth Doctor Adventures S4

10. To the Death

Average. Rating: 83%

Average rating: ★ 4.48

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Doom Coalition 3

1. Absent Friends

Average. Rating: 82%

Average rating: ★ 4.47

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Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Ninth Doctor

Star-Crossed

3. Archipelago

Average. Rating: 81%

Average rating: ★ 4.60

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures 3

3. Monsters in Metropolis

Average. Rating: 75%

Average rating: ★ 4.17

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures 5

3. Auld Lang Syne

Average. Rating: 72%

Average rating: ★ 4.14

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures 2

3. Planet of the End

Average. Rating: 72%

Average rating: ★ 4.02

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures 6

1. Salvation Nine

Average. Rating: 71%

Average rating: ★ 4.08

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures 2

1. Girl, Deconstructed

Average. Rating: 70%

Average rating: ★ 3.91

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Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Tenth Doctor

Pest Control & The Forever Trap Vinyl

The Forever Trap

Average. Rating: 79%

Average rating: ★ 4.07

Complete Completed?

BBC New Series Adventures

Dead Air

Average. Rating: 78%

Average rating: ★ 4.02

Complete Completed?

BBC New Series Adventures

The Last Voyage

Average. Rating: 75%

Average rating: ★ 3.86

Complete Completed?

The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 1

3. Death and the Queen

Average. Rating: 74%

Average rating: ★ 4.06

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Dalek Universe 2

3. The Lost

Average. Rating: 74%

Average rating: ★ 4.26

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Out of Time

Out of Time 3 – Wink

Average. Rating: 74%

Average rating: ★ 4.11

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Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor

Although Matt Smith has not reprised his role as the Eleventh Doctor in audio, Jacob Dudman does a fantastic impression!

The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles

4. Broken Hearts

Average. Rating: 86%

Average rating: ★ 4.66

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Victory of the Doctor

4. Victory of the Doctor

Average. Rating: 83%

Average rating: ★ 4.54

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Everywhere and Anywhere

3. Sins of the Flesh

Average. Rating: 83%

Average rating: ★ 4.53

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Victory of the Doctor

3. The Last Stand of Miss Valarie Lockwood

Average. Rating: 83%

Average rating: ★ 4.53

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All of Time and Space

3. Curiosity Shop

Average. Rating: 78%

Average rating: ★ 4.31

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Geronimo!

3. The End

Average. Rating: 77%

Average rating: ★ 4.27

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Highest Rated Audio Stories featuring the Twelfth Doctor

Peter Capaldi has not returned to the role of The Doctor, but there are several stories with impressionists, and other narrated audiobooks.

Target Collection

The Zygon Invasion

Average. Rating: 71%

Average rating: ★ 3.95

Complete Completed?

The Audio Novels

The Chaos Cascade

Average. Rating: 70%

Average rating: ★ 4.40

Complete Completed?

The Audio Novels

3. Emancipation of the Daleks

Average. Rating: 69%

Average rating: ★ 4.23

Complete Completed?

Short Trips

5. Regeneration Impossible

Average. Rating: 66%

Average rating: ★ 3.90

Complete Completed?

Once and Future

7. The Union

Average. Rating: 64%

Average rating: ★ 3.69

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BBC New Series Adventures

The Gods of Winter

Average. Rating: 64%

Average rating: ★ 3.62

Complete Completed?

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Written by: shauny