

My Doctor Who Episode and Series Ratings:
Key:
ELITE (ONE OF THE BEST DOCTOR WHO STORIES EVER MADE)
***** CLASSICS
**** VERY GOOD
*** WORTH WATCHING
** COULD BE WORSE
* POOR

William Hartnell – The First Doctor (1963-1966, 1973)

Doctor Who, Season 1: *****
An Unearthly Child ****
The Daleks ****
The Edge of Destruction ***
Marco Polo *****
The Keys of Marinus **
The Aztecs *****
The Sensorites **
The Reign of Terror ***






















Doctor Who, Season 2: ****
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 *****









Dr Who and the Daleks ****
Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150AD ****



















Doctor Who, Season 3: ****
Galaxy 4 **
Mission to the Unknown *****
The Myth Makers ****
The Daleks’ Master Plan *****
The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve ***
The Ark ***
The Celestial Toymaker *****
The Gunfighters *
The Savages ****
The War Machines *****








Doctor Who, Season 4: ****
The Smugglers **
The Tenth Planet ELITE





Patrick Troughton – The Second Doctor (1966-1969, 1973, 1983, 1985)







Doctor Who, Season 4 (continued): ****
The Power of the Daleks ELITE
The Highlanders ***
The Underwater Menace *
The Moonbase ***
The Macra Terror ****
The Faceless Ones **
The Evil of the Daleks ELITE










Doctor Who, Season 5: *****
The Tomb of the Cybermen ELITE
The Abominable Snowmen *****
The Ice Warriors ****
The Enemy of the World *****
The Web of Fear *****
Fury from the Deep ELITE
The Wheel in Space **


















Doctor Who, Season 6: ***
The Dominators *
The Mind Robber ***
The Invasion ELITE
The Krotons **
The Seeds of Death **
The Space Pirates THE WORST DOCTOR WHO STORY EVER MADE
The War Games *****














Jon Pertwee – The Third Doctor (1970-1974, 1983)




Doctor Who, Season 7: *****
Spearhead from Space *****
The Silurians *****
The Ambassadors of Death ****
Inferno ELITE






















Doctor Who, Season 8: *****
Terror of the Autons *****
The Mind of Evil ****
The Claws of Axos ***
Colony in Space **
The Dæmons ELITE











Doctor Who, Season 9: ****
Day of the Daleks ****
The Curse of Peladon ELITE
The Sea Devils *****
The Mutants **
The Time Monster *





















Doctor Who, Season 10: *****
(10th Anniversary): The Three Doctors *****
Carnival of Monsters *****
Frontier in Space ****
Planet of the Daleks ****
The Green Death ELITE

















Doctor Who, Season 11: ***
The Time Warrior *****
Invasion of the Dinosaurs ***
Death to the Daleks **
The Monster of Peladon **
Planet of the Spiders ****







Tom Baker – The Fourth Doctor (1974-1981, 2013)




Doctor Who, Season 12: *****
Robot ****
The Ark in Space ELITE
The Sontaran Experiment ****
Genesis of the Daleks ELITE
Revenge of the Cybermen ***








































Doctor Who, Season 13: *****
Terror of the Zygons *****
Planet of Evil ***
Pyramids of Mars ELITE
The Android Invasion **
The Brain of Morbius *****
The Seeds of Doom *****



































Doctor Who, Season 14: *****
The Masque of Mandragora ***
The Hand of Fear ****
The Deadly Assassin ELITE
The Face of Evil ****
The Robots of Death ELITE
The Talons of Weng-Chiang ELITE

























Doctor Who, Season 15: ***
Horror of Fang Rock ****
The Invisible Enemy **
Image of the Fendahl ****
The Sun Makers ****
Underworld *
The Invasion of Time ***











Doctor Who, Season 16 – The Key to Time: ****
The Ribos Operation **
The Pirate Planet ****
The Stones of Blood *****
The Androids of Tara ****
The Power of Kroll *
The Armageddon Factor ***












Doctor Who, Season 17: **
Destiny of the Daleks ***
City of Death ELITE
The Creature from the Pit ***
Nightmare of Eden **
The Horns of Nimon *



Shada ***



Doctor Who, Season 18: ****
The Leisure Hive ****
Meglos **
Full Circle ****
State of Decay ****
Warriors’ Gate ****
The Keeper of Traken ****
Logopolis ****






K-9 & Company:
A Girl’s Best Friend **





Peter Davison – The Fifth Doctor (1981-1984, 2007, 2022, 2023)








Doctor Who, Season 19: *****
Castrovalva ****
Four to Doomsday **
Kinda *****
The Visitation ****
Black Orchid ***
Earthshock ELITE
Time-Flight *











Doctor Who, Season 20: ***
Arc of Infinity **
Snakedance ****
Mawdryn Undead ****
Terminus **
Enlightenment *****
The King’s Demons **
20th Anniversary:
The Five Doctors ELITE










Doctor Who, Season 21: ****
Warriors of the Deep *
The Awakening **
Frontios ***
Resurrection of the Daleks ****
Planet of Fire ****
The Caves of Androzani ELITE


















Colin Baker – The Sixth Doctor (1984-1986, 2022, 2023)


Doctor Who, Season 21 (continued): ****
The Twin Dilemma *












Doctor Who, Season 22: ****
Attack of the Cybermen ***
Vengeance on Varos *****
The Mark of the Rani **
The Two Doctors *****
Timelash *
Revelation of the Daleks *****











Doctor Who, Season 23 – The Trial of a Time Lord: **
The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet ***
The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp ****
The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids **
The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe **







Sylvester McCoy – The Seventh Doctor (1987-1989, 1996, 2022, 2023)

Doctor Who, Season 24: *
Time and the Rani *
Paradise Towers ****
Delta and the Bannermen *
Dragonfire **

































Doctor Who, Season 25: ****
Remembrance of the Daleks ELITE
The Happiness Patrol ****
Silver Nemesis **
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy ***
















Doctor Who, Season 26: *****
Battlefield *
Ghost Light *****
The Curse of Fenric *****
Survival ****




Paul McGann – The Eighth Doctor (1996, 2013, 2022)

Doctor Who: The TV Movie ***






*The Night of the Doctor *****





John Hurt – The War Doctor (2013)








*The Day of the Doctor ELITE



Christopher Eccleston – The Ninth Doctor (2005)


















Doctor Who, Series 1: *****
Rose *****
The End of the World *****
The Unquiet Dead ****
Aliens of London/World War Three ***
Dalek ELITE
The Long Game ***
Father’s Day ELITE
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances ELITE
Boom Town ****
Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways ELITE

































David Tennant – The Tenth Doctor (2005-2010, 2013)

Born Again ****

The Christmas Invasion ****


Attack of the Graske ****
















































Doctor Who, Series 2: *****
New Earth **
Tooth & Claw ****
School Reunion *****
The Girl in the Fireplace *****
Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel ****
The Idiot’s Lantern ***
The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit ELITE
Love & Monsters ****
Fear Her *
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday *****




















Torchwood, Series 1: ****
Everything Changes *****
Day One *
Ghost Machine ****
Cyberwoman *
Small Worlds ***
Countrycide ****
Greeks Bearing Gifts *****
They Keep Killing Suzie *****
Random Shoes *
Out of Time *****
Combat ****
Captain Jack Harkness *****
End of Days *****


The Runaway Bride ****



The Sarah Jane Adventures:
Invasion of the Bane ***











Doctor Who, Series 3: *****
Smith and Jones **
The Shakespeare Code ****
Gridlock ****
Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks **
The Lazarus Experiment ***
42 **
The Infinite Quest ****
Human Nature/The Family of Blood THE BEST DOCTOR WHO STORY EVER MADE
Blink ELITE
Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords *****

































The Sarah Jane Adventures, Series 1: *****
Revenge of the Slitheen *****
Eye of the Gorgon *****
Warriors of Kudlak **
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? *****
The Lost Boy ****



Time Crash *****








Voyage of the Damned ***




Torchwood, Series 2: *****
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang *****
Sleeper **
To the Last Man ****
Meat ****
Adam *****
Reset *****
Dead Man Walking *****
A Day in the Death *****
Something Borrowed *****
From Out of the Rain *****
Adrift *****
Fragments *****
Exit Wounds *****

























Doctor Who, Series 4: *****
Partners in Crime ****
The Fires of Pompeii ****
Planet of the Ood ****
The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky ****
The Doctor’s Daughter ***
The Unicorn and the Wasp *****
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead *****
Midnight ELITE
Turn Left *****
The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End *****
Music of the Spheres ****


































The Sarah Jane Adventures, Series 2: *****
The Last Sontaran ****
The Day of the Clown *****
Secrets of the Stars ****
The Mark of the Berserker *****
The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith *****
Enemy of the Bane *****




The Next Doctor ****


From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love ****





Planet of the Dead ***










Torchwood: Children of Earth ELITE







The Sarah Jane Adventures, Series 3: ****
Prisoner of the Judoon ***
The Mad Woman in the Attic **
The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith *****
The Eternity Trap ***
Mona Lisa’s Revenge *****
The Gift ****







K-9 (Australian TV spin-off series) *


The Waters of Mars *****




Dreamland **







The End of Time *****





Matt Smith – The Eleventh Doctor (2010-2013)




















Doctor Who, Series 5: *****
The Eleventh Hour *****
The Beast Below **
Victory of the Daleks ***
The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone ****
The Vampires of Venice ****
Amy’s Choice ****
The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood ***
Vincent and the Doctor ELITE
The Lodger ****
The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang ***
















The Sarah Jane Adventures, Series 4: *****
The Nightmare Man *****
The Vault of Secrets *****
Death of the Doctor *****
The Empty Planet *****
Lost in Time ***
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith ****



A Christmas Carol ****
Space ****
Time ****
Bad Night ****
Good Night ****
















Doctor Who, Series 6, Part 1: ****
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon *****
The Curse of the Black Spot **
The Doctor’s Wife *****
The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People ***
A Good Man Goes to War ****











Doctor Who, Series 6, Part 2: ***
Let’s Kill Hitler *
Night Terrors **
The Girl Who Waited *****
The God Complex ****
Closing Time **
The Wedding of River Song ***











Torchwood: Miracle Day **

The Sarah Jane Adventures, Series 5: ****
Sky **
The Curse of Clyde Langer *****
The Man Who Never Was ****






The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe *









Doctor Who, Series 7, Part 1: ***
Pond Life ****
Asylum of the Daleks **
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship ***
A Town Called Mercy ***
The Power of Three **
The Angels Take Manhattan ****




The Snowmen *****











Doctor Who, Series 7, Part 2: ****
The Bells of Saint John ****
The Rings of Akhaten **
Cold War *****
Hide ***
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS **
The Crimson Horror ****
Nightmare in Silver **
The Name of the Doctor *****










50th Anniversary:
An Adventure in Space and Time *****


The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot *****
*The Night of the Doctor *****
The Last Day ****
*The Day of the Doctor ELITE














The Time of the Doctor ***


Peter Capaldi – The Twelfth Doctor (2013-2017)





Doctor Who, Series 8: ****
Deep Breath ****
Into the Dalek *****
Robot of Sherwood **
Listen *****
Time Heist ***
The Caretaker ***
Kill the Moon **
Mummy on the Orient Express *****
Flatline *****
In the Forest of the Night *
Dark Water/Death in Heaven *****

































Last Christmas ****




































Doctor Who, Series 9: *****
Prologue ****
The Doctor’s Meditation ****
The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar *****
Under the Lake/Before the Flood ****
The Girl Who Died **
The Woman Who Lived ***
The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion *****
Sleep No More *
Face the Raven ***
Heaven Sent ELITE
Hell Bent **



















The Husbands of River Song ****




Class, Series 1: **
For Tonight We Might Die ***
The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo ***
Nightvisiting ***
Co-owner of a Lonely Heart **
Brave-ish Heart **
Detained *****
The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did ***
The Lost ***





The Return of Doctor Mysterio **



















Doctor Who, Series 10: **
The Pilot ****
Smile **
Thin Ice ***
Knock Knock *****
Oxygen ****
Extremis ****
The Pyramid at the End of the World **
The Lie of the Land **
Empress of Mars ***
The Eaters of Light **
World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls ELITE













Twice Upon a Time ***






Jodie Whittaker – The Thirteenth Doctor (2017-2022, 2025)





Doctor Who, Series 11: *
The Woman Who Fell to Earth ***
The Ghost Monument **
Rosa *****
Arachnids in the UK ***
The Tsuranga Conundrum *
Demons of the Punjab **
Kerblam! ***
The Witchfinders ***
It Takes You Away **
The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos *











Resolution ***






Doctor Who, Series 12: ***
Spyfall *****
Orphan 55 *
Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror ****
Fugitive of the Judoon *****
– Jo Martin – The Fugitive Doctor (2020-2022, 2025)
Praxeus *
Can You Hear Me? ***
The Haunting of Villa Diodati *****
Ascension of the Cybermen/The Timeless Children *












Revolution of the Daleks ****




Doctor Who, Series 13 – Flux: **
Chapter 1: The Halloween Apocalypse ***
Chapter 2: War of the Sontarans ****
Chapter 3: Once, Upon Time *
Chapter 4: Village of the Angels *****
Chapter 5: Survivors of the Flux **
Chapter 6: The Vanquishers **







Eve of the Daleks *


Legend of the Sea Devils *


The Power of the Doctor ELITE


David Tennant – The Fourteenth Doctor (2022-2023)

60th Anniversary:
Tales of the TARDIS *****








The Star Beast ELITE






Wild Blue Yonder *****



The Giggle *****






Ncuti Gatwa – The Fifteenth Doctor (2023-2025)

The Church on Ruby Road ****






















Doctor Who, Season 1 ****
1. Space Babies **
2. The Devil’s Chord *****
3. Boom ELITE
4. 73 Yards ELITE
5. Dot and Bubble **
6. Rogue ****
7. The Legend of Ruby Sunday *****
8. Empire of Death **
Joy to the World ***




















Doctor Who, Season 2 *****
1. The Robot Revolution ****
2. Lux ELITE
3. The Well *****
4. Lucky Day ****
5. The Story and the Engine *
6. The Interstellar Song Contest ****
7. Wish World ****
8. The Reality War *****
The War Between the Land and the Sea ELITE

























Billie Piper – The Sixteenth Doctor (2025–present)


AWARDS

BEST DOCTOR AWARD:
THE TENTH AND FOURTEENTH DOCTORS (DAVID TENNANT)
*You either think that Tennant is the best Doctor or you’re wrong!


BEST COMPANION AWARD:
ROSE TYLER (BILLIE PIPER)

BEST MASTER AWARD:
HAROLD SAXON (JOHN SIMM)

BEST TARDIS INTERIOR AWARD:
THE NINTH AND TENTH DOCTOR’S TARDIS



BEST SONIC SCREWDRIVER AWARD:
THE NINTH AND TENTH DOCTOR’S SONIC SCREWDRIVER



BEST COMPOSER AWARD:
MURRAY GOLD



FAVOURITE THEME ARRANGEMENT:
2023 (MURRAY GOLD),
RUNNER UP: 1980 (PETER HOWELL)
BEST WRITER AWARD:
RUSSELL T DAVIES






BEST STORY AWARD:
HUMAN NATURE/THE FAMILY OF BLOOD




BEST CHRISTMAS SPECIAL AWARD:
THE SNOWMEN

BEST SERIES AWARD:
NEW SERIES 1
BEST SPIN-OFF AWARD:
TORCHWOOD
BEST MONSTER AWARD:
DALEKS


HAPPY 60th ANNIVERSARY DOCTOR WHO!

N.B. If I had been going to the Doctor Who conventions regularly since I was 16, I would have met the late, great Elizabeth Sladen (although I met her daughter); Nicholas Courtney, Caroline John (although I met her daughter), Mary Tamm, Philip Madoc, Patrick Moore, Geoffrey Hughes, Angus MacKay, Bernard Horsfall, Richard Briers, Raymond Cusick, Louis Marks, Pennant Roberts, Geoffrey Burgon, Alan Bennion, Michael Gough, Graham Crowden, Sean Caffrey, T P McKenna, Elspet Gray, Philip Latham, Dinah Sheridan, Ingrid Pitt, Margaret John, Jon Rollason, Ralph Watson, Norman Jones, David Spenser, Derek Martinus, Kate O’Mara, Christopher Barry, Angus Lennie, Martin Friend, Jerome Willis, Michael Hayes, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Pip & Jane Baker, Lynda Bellingham, Bernard Kay, Ian Fairbairn, Rex Robinson, Nigel Terry, Edward Burnham, Derek Ware, Kenneth Gilbert, Hugh Walters, Helen Blatch, Anthony Read, Robert Banks Stewart, Ray Barron, Terry Wogan, Burt Kwouk, Rodney Bennett, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Deborah Watling, Trevor Baxter, Victor Pemberton, Peter Sallis, Geoffrey Bayldon, Dudley Simpson, Scott Fredericks, Paddy Russell, Jeremy Wilkin, Ken Dodd, Graham Strong, Michael Pickwoad, Helen Griffin, Mona Hammond, Barry Newbury, Fiona Cumming, Shane Rimmer, William Morgan Sheppard, Wendy Williams, Olaf Pooley, Geoffrey Palmer, Mark Eden, Louis Mahoney, Stewart Bevan, Roy Skelton, Peter Halliday, David Fisher, Rio Fanning, Derrick Sherwin, June Whitfield, Pat Gorman, Gareth Thomas, Leslie Grantham, Jacqueline Pearce, Paul Darrow, Graeme Curry, Stephen Thorne, Patricia Prior, Windsor Davies, Glyn Houston, Terrance Dicks (although I met his sons), Stephen Moore, Clive Swift, Nicholas Parsons, David Collings, Malcolm Tierney, Yolande Palfrey, Honor Blackman, Dame Diana Rigg, Philip Martin, John Sessions, David Prowse, Jeremy Bulloch, Myra Frances, David Bailie, David Bailie, Michael Ferguson, Ralph Watson, Bernard Holley, Cynthia Grenville, Arthur Cox, Helen McCrory, Roy Scammell, Jackie Lane, Damaris Hayman, Tony Selby, John Challis, Harry Fielder, June Brown, Lynda Baron, Bernard Cribbins (who I tried to meet), Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln, David Warner, Peter Bowles, Sonny Caldinez, Chris Boucher, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Gambon, Pamela Salem, William Russell (although I met his son), David Graham, Clifford Earl, Robert Sidaway, Roy Boyd, Ysanne Churchman, Colin Fay, Alan Yentob, Nick Hobbs, Arnold Yarrow, Barbara Clegg, Mary Peach (because I missed a Chiswick event that she did), Jean Marsh, Prentis Hancock, Christopher H Bidmead, Michael McStay, John Woodvine, Nabil Shaban, Tony Adams, Pauline Collins, Amanda Brotchie and many more heroes that are sadly no longer with us RIP. William Hartnell, Peter Cushing and Patrick Troughton died before I was born, but I have met Patrick’s sons David and Michael Troughton. Jon Pertwee died when I was almost two, but I have met his son Sean Pertwee. I have started collecting autographs from the late Doctor Who actors from the Who Shop in London in order to make up for the fact that I never met them.
I was born on the 7th August 1994 and I was introduced to Doctor Who as a ten-year-old child by my parents when the series returned in 2005, so I grew up with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant. Russell T Davies‘s first era was my childhood and it remains my favourite era of Doctor Who. I have watched the whole history of Doctor Who many times and I finished watching all of Classic Doctor Who in 2012, by the age of 17. By 2022, I had made Doctor Who my whole life in Cardiff, and by 2025 I had earned the title of the World Number One Doctor Who Fan! Due to the fact that I live in Cardiff, I have now been to more Doctor Who filming locations than anyone! I am going to live in Cardiff for the rest of my life. My ambition is to one day get a job at Bad Wolf and work my way up to become the Doctor Who showrunner and therefore fulfil a childhood dream of mine. Doctor Who was created in 1963 as a family show and it is not just for kids. Doctor Who is the best TV show ever made! I love Doctor Who more than life itself! I am the biggest Doctor Who fan that has ever lived! Doctor Who has saved my life and I am so grateful for it! I love Doctor Who more than anyone!










Key Doctor Who people that I have met but not got a photo with yet:
– James Masters
– Colin Salmon
– Patrick O’Kane
– Joseph Lidster
– Vicki Delow
– Tracie Simpson
– Nikki Wilson
– Sian Reynish
– Wendy Gifford
– Jane Howe
– Annette Wollett
– John Abbott
– Sheila Ruskin
– Gareth Hunt RIP (who I was in a production of Peter Pan with when I was 8)
– Andrew Smith
– Glen McCoy
– Stephen Gallagher
– David Weston
– Michael Craig
– Vincent Brimble
– Ian Gelder RIP
– Alan Ruscoe
– Eric Roberts
– Matthew Jacobs
– Rula Lenska
– William Gaunt
– Harriet Walter
– Mark Williams
– Mark Morris
Key Doctor Who people that I still need to meet (after the upcoming conventions):
Classic Who Era:
– Roberta Tovey
– Jill Curzon
– Jennie Linden
– Jessica Carney
– Stuart Fell
– Phillip Courtney
– Martin Jarvis
– John Kane
– Christopher Naylor
– Ian Scoones
– Colin Mapson
– Gabriel Woolf
– Deep Roy
– Lalla Ward (!)
– John Gillett
– Ian McCulloch
– Keff McCulloch
– Richard Gauntlett
– Sheila Hancock
– Yee Jee Tso (!)
– Philip Segal
RTD1 era:
– Penelope Wilton
– Simon Pegg
– Paterson Joseph
– Anthony Head
– Ron Cook
– Tom Price
– Adjoa Andoh
– Peter Kay
– Lachele Carl
– Ardal O’Hanlon
– Jessica Hynes
– MyAnna Buring
– Danny Webb
– Michelle Collins
– Chipo Chung
– Tim McInnery
– Leslie Sharp
– Michelle Ryan
– Cush Jumbo
– Nicholas Farrell
– Phil Ford
– Lindsay Duncan
– Yasmin Paige (!)
– Sinead Michael (!)
– Samantha Bond (!)
Moffat era:
– Ian McNeice
– Tony Curran
– Jaye Griffiths
– David Suchet
Chibnall Era:
– Tosin Cole (!)
– John Bishop (!)
– Segun Akinola
– Sharon D. Clarke
RTD2 era:
– Yasmin Finney
– Neil Patrick Harris
– Jinkx Monsoon
– Jonathan Groff
– Callie Cooke
– Phil Collinson
– Jane Tranter
– Rachel Talalay
– Colin McFarlane
– Jonah Hauer-King
– Alex Jones
– Graham Norton
– Rylan Clark
– Archie Panjabi
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