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Highest Rated Doctor Who TV Stories

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4th January 2024 (ratings updated live)

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

Highest Rated First Doctor TV Stories

Classic Who S2 • Serial 4 · (4 episodes)

The Romans

3.99
 

Classic Who S2 • Serial 9 · (4 episodes)

The Time Meddler

3.98
 

Classic Who S2 • Serial 2 · (6 episodes)

The Dalek Invasion of Earth

3.94
 

Classic Who S3 • Serial 4 · (3/12 episodes intact)

The Daleks’ Master Plan

3.97
 

Classic Who S1 • Serial 6 · (4 episodes)

The Aztecs

3.91
 

Classic Who S4 • Serial 2 · (3/4 episodes intact)

The Tenth Planet

3.91
 

Highest Rated Second Doctor TV Stories

Classic Who S6 • Serial 7 · (10 episodes)

The War Games

4.54
 

Classic Who S6 • Serial 2 · (5 episodes)

The Mind Robber

4.30
 

Classic Who S5 • Serial 4 · (6 episodes)

The Enemy of the World

4.27
 

Classic Who S6 • Serial 3 · (6/8 episodes intact)

The Invasion

4.15
 

Classic Who S4 • Serial 3 · (0/6 episodes intact)

The Power of the Daleks

4.08
 

Classic Who S4 • Serial 9 · (1/7 episodes intact)

The Evil of the Daleks

4.06
 

Highest Rated Third Doctor TV Stories

Classic Who S7 • Serial 4 · (7 episodes)

Inferno

4.31
 

Classic Who S10 • Serial 5 · (6 episodes)

The Green Death

4.23
 

Classic Who S7 • Serial 1 · (4 episodes)

Spearhead from Space

4.20
 

Classic Who S10 • Serial 1 · (4 episodes)

The Three Doctors

4.19
 

Classic Who S8 • Serial 5 · (5 episodes)

The Dæmons

4.01
 

Classic Who S11 • Serial 1 · (4 episodes)

The Time Warrior

3.91
 

Highest Rated Fourth Doctor TV Stories

Classic Who S17 • Serial 2 · (4 episodes)

City of Death

4.64
 

Classic Who S12 • Serial 4 · (6 episodes)

Genesis of the Daleks

4.45
 

Classic Who S13 • Serial 6 · (6 episodes)

The Seeds of Doom

4.18
 

Classic Who S17 • Serial 6

Shada

4.11
 

Classic Who S14 • Serial 3 · (4 episodes)

The Deadly Assassin

4.05
 

Classic Who S13 • Serial 3 · (4 episodes)

Pyramids of Mars

4.03
 

Highest Rated Fifth Doctor TV Stories

Classic Who S21 • Serial 6 · (4 episodes)

The Caves of Androzani

4.47
 

Classic Who S19 • Serial 6 · (4 episodes)

Earthshock

4.11
 

Classic Who S20 • Serial 5 · (4 episodes)

Enlightenment

4.10
 

Classic Who S20 • Serial 7

The Five Doctors

4.06
 

Classic Who S19 • Serial 3 · (4 episodes)

Kinda

3.76
 

Classic Who S21 • Serial 4 · (2 episodes)

Resurrection of the Daleks

3.71
 

Highest Rated Sixth Doctor TV Stories

Classic Who S22 • Serial 2 · (2 episodes)

Vengeance on Varos

3.76
 

Classic Who S22 • Serial 6 · (2 episodes)

Revelation of the Daleks

3.66
 

Classic Who S23 • Serial 1 · (4 episodes)

The Mysterious Planet

3.29
 

Classic Who S23 • Serial 3 · (4 episodes)

Terror of the Vervoids

3.26
 

Classic Who S22 • Serial 4 · (3 episodes)

The Two Doctors

3.23
 

Classic Who S23 • Serial 4 · (2 episodes)

The Ultimate Foe

3.19
 

Highest Rated Seventh Doctor TV Stories

Classic Who S25 • Serial 1 · (4 episodes)

Remembrance of the Daleks

4.57
 

Classic Who S26 • Serial 3 · (4 episodes)

The Curse of Fenric

4.40
 

Classic Who S26 • Serial 4 · (3 episodes)

Survival

3.91
 

Classic Who S25 • Serial 4 · (4 episodes)

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

3.90
 

Classic Who S25 • Serial 2 · (3 episodes)

The Happiness Patrol

3.89
 

Classic Who S26 • Serial 2 · (3 episodes)

Ghost Light

3.80
 

(The Eighth Doctor only had 1 TV Story – The TV Movie)

Highest Rated Ninth Doctor TV Stories

Doctor Who S1 • Episode 10

The Doctor Dances

4.58
 

Doctor Who S1 • Episode 9

The Empty Child

4.54
 

Doctor Who S1 • Episode 6

Dalek

4.53
 

Doctor Who S1 • Episode 13

The Parting of the Ways

4.49
 

Doctor Who S1 • Episode 12

Bad Wolf

4.25
 

Doctor Who S1 • Episode 8

Father’s Day

4.14
 

Highest Rated Tenth Doctor TV Stories

Doctor Who S4 • Episode 10

Midnight

4.66
 

Doctor Who S3 • Episode 10

Blink

4.58
 
River Song, hooked up to the computer, sacrificing her life

Doctor Who S4 • Episode 9

Forest of the Dead

4.51
 

Doctor Who S4 • Episode 8

Silence in the Library

4.50
 

Doctor Who S4 • Episode 11

Turn Left

4.50
 

Doctor Who Specials

The Waters of Mars

4.44
 

Highest Rated Eleventh Doctor TV Stories

Doctor Who S5 • Episode 10

Vincent and the Doctor

4.47
 

Doctor Who Specials

The Day of the Doctor

4.36
 

Doctor Who S5 • Episode 1

The Eleventh Hour

4.28
 

Doctor Who S6 • Episode 11

The God Complex

4.13
 

Doctor Who S5 • Episode 12

The Pandorica Opens

4.12
 

Doctor Who S6 • Episode 4

The Doctor’s Wife

4.06
 

Highest Rated Twelfth Doctor TV Stories

Doctor Who S9 • Episode 11

Heaven Sent

4.78
 

Doctor Who S10 • Episode 11

World Enough and Time

4.66
 

Doctor Who S10 • Episode 12

The Doctor Falls

4.62
 

Doctor Who S8 • Episode 8

Mummy on the Orient Express

4.28
 

Doctor Who Specials • Christmas Special

The Husbands of River Song

4.23
 

Doctor Who S10 • Episode 5

Oxygen

4.12
 

Highest Rated Thirteenth Doctor TV Stories

Doctor Who S11 • Episode 6

Demons of the Punjab

3.86
 

Doctor Who S12 • Episode 8

The Haunting of Villa Diodati

3.84
 

Doctor Who S13 (Flux) • Episode 4

Village of the Angels

3.76
 

Doctor Who Specials

The Power of the Doctor

3.68
 

Doctor Who S12 • Episode 1

Spyfall, Part 1

3.60
 

Doctor Who S12 • Episode 5

Fugitive of the Judoon

3.59
 

Fourteenth Doctor TV Stories Rated

(There were only 3!)

60th Anniversary Specials • Episode 2

Wild Blue Yonder

4.31
 

60th Anniversary Specials • Episode 3

The Giggle

3.66
 

60th Anniversary Specials • Episode 1

The Star Beast

3.40
 

Highest Rated Fifteenth Doctor TV Stories

More to come, watch this space…!

Doctor Who Season One • Episode 3

Boom

4.14
 

Doctor Who Season One • Episode 4

73 Yards

4.03
 

Doctor Who Season One • Episode 6

Rogue

3.88
 

Doctor Who Season One • Episode 5

Dot and Bubble

3.72
 

60th Anniversary Specials • Episode 3

The Giggle

3.66
 

Doctor Who Specials • Christmas Special

The Church on Ruby Road

3.53
 

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