@@MatthewVlossak You mean besides the fact that the general plot remains unresolved, the stories are not engaging and it has one of the most over rated episodes in Vincent and the Doctor. I don't know what is there to love about eitehr series.
I had hoped that River Song would become an ongoing female counterpart to the male Doctor, even having her own experiences that intersect with the Doctor from time to time.
The rock intro to Before The Flood was the cherry on the cake. And the cliff hanger with the doctors ghost at the end of Under The Lake was also brilliant. Criminally underrated
Completely agree, it’s definitely in my top 5 episodes. It’s got a bit of everything really, familiar but unique base setting, scary enemies(s), great and fleshed out supporting cast, time travel and paradoxes. It’s a quintessential Doctor Who story in the best possible way!
Should give an honorable mention to the 2009 "Specials" season that closed out David Tennant's run. The Next Doctor and Planet of the Dead are a little forgettable, but the Waters of Mars and the End of Time 2-part finale was the perfect send off to arguably the best actor to play the Doctor. Nothing will ever top the emotion of "I don't want to go!"
I decided to gather the average rating for every episode of each series from IMDB and their ranking is as follows 14: series 12 (6.1) 13: series 11 (6.3) 12: flux (6.5) 11: season 1 (7.1) 10: series 8 (7.7) 9: series 10 (7.7) 8: series 7 (7.7) 7: series 2 (7.8) 6: series 1 (7.9) 5: series 9 (8) 4: series 3 (8) 3: series 6 (8) 2: series 5 (8.1) 1: series 4 (8.3)
Yeah I knew she'd put 11th doctor as #1 because of her love for river song and I knew she'd but series 2 at the bottom because of her hatred for Rose and 10. She claims nostalgia glasses but she has hate glasses on that she won't take off.
I'd either call it season 40, or Series 14. Calling it season 1 just butchers it.. It basically is like: "Wait.. which season 1?" Which I hate. If you say season, you're refering to Seasons 1-26 (Classic Who Era), if you say Movie, then your refering to the Movie in 1996 (Reboot Era), and if you say series, you're refering to season 27 onward, (2005+, New Who Era).
2:59 Ellie! No, never! I love that two-parter! It's one of the few times where we visit a parallel world in Doctor Who! I wish we had more episodes with that topic. Like Doctor Who's equivalent to His Dark Materials where we find ourselves in a world slightly similar yet slightly different to our own!
Nope. It was absurdly childish - Rose was just embarrassingly bad even by cbbc standards, with End of the World just about compensating, Unquiet Dead being definitively nondescript, and any promise of political satire being smothered in Aliens of London by the appalling slitheen and no-one telling Davies that fart jokes are just embarrassing and he has no talent for comedy whatsoever, until Dalek and Father's Day finally showed its potential (interestingly, both mining talent from Big Finish - which is the true spiritual successor to Classic Who - a fact RTD would do well to remember)
Series 2 is easily in the top 3 series of all time. Our opinions differ on quality of the “meh” episodes. Putting it this low is crazy to me but each to their own.
I always wish that The Ponds arc ended with The God Complex when The Doctor leaves them with a happy ending to save them. Having said that, I do enjoy the stories in s7a even if they overstayed their welcome. Sometimes I think The Doctor went back to visit them like at the end of The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe and or even the episodes in s7a (just out of order) after the events in The Angels Take Manhattan.
Series 5 was simply magical. It’s the best introduction for people to get into DW. Matt Smith was electrifying and brought so much charisma to the character. I’d give anything to go back to is Golden Era of DW.
12:35 = The Eaters of Light has the novelty of being the only episode of modern Who written by someone who wrote an episode of Classic Who (Rona Munro, Survival).
Controversial yet brave: I ADORED love and monsters. I loved seeing the world from a normal perspective, growing a genuine affection for these people and their mundane lives, actually FEELING the jarring experience of the doctor just showing up and ripping me out of the story which had come to feel like reality/normality and witnessing the lasting consequences of the doctor’s half-fixes. I love each of those club members deeply and still get a nostalgic, bitter sweet feeling remembering their lives and how I was sucked in. Could have been a movie, up there as a contender for the most moved I’ve ever been by a doctor who episode.
14. Series 12 13. Series 11 12. Series 13 11. Season 1 / Series 14 10. Series 6 9. Series 7 8. Series 9 7. Series 8 6. Series 2 5. Series 5 4. Series 10 3. Series 3 2. Series 1 1. Series 4
I would rank all of the David Tennant years as the best, followed by Eggleston and the Matt Smith years. Jodi Whitaker years could have been marvelous with her talents, if she had been given decent scripts. Capaldi years were so so. I really like Gatwa, but I am hoping for improved scripts and character development.
Series 2 at the bottom? The 10/Rose dynamic was one of the best things about it, and it has RTDs best episodes, what's wrong with you? The only stinker was Love and Monsters, and i honestly don't understand why Fear Her gets so much flack. And no, who forgets the Cybermen episodes, wtf You seriously put Series 14 above it, yikes Edit: The only thing this list got right was putting the 13th doctor at the bottom.
I was beginning to think I was the only person who loved the 10 and Rose pairing 😅. The chemistry is just 10/10 between the two, and I am genuinely invested in the story because of the phenomenal acting between Tennant and Piper.
Nah there's no way you say series 2 and 7 is worse than series 12 and 14, series 2 three 2 parters and series 7 with the ponds alone are better than them Also doing this list proves how stupid it is calling series 14 season 1.
I can feasibly see how someone could consider Series 7 worse than Series 14. Series 7 has only three good episodes. Dinosaurs, Hide and Bells of St John. The rest was awful. Series 14 has the same three good, albeit flawed, episodes and the rest sucked, but it did it all in 8 episodes instead of 13. The only reason I rank Series 7 higher is it has better characters. Series 2 though. I have no idea how you can rank a series containing Rise of the Cybermen, the Satan Pit and Doomsday, 6 of the greatest episodes in the show, below Series 14. It also has Tooth and Claw, Girl in the Fireplace, and School Reunion why the fuck does anyone dislike this series?
@@cameronjosephvideos5942 its a Mixed bag really just like Series 14. For every Satan's pit there's a love and Monsters. For a School Reunion and a girl in the Fireplace there's a fear her and new earth. Same with Season 1, but it's far more experimental. I would also say I would rate both finales as the same for me. The first part set up and showed so much premise that they couldn't capitalise on in the second part, with both very underwhelming finishes to the story and the utilisation of the Villains in their respective story. I can't stand that tenrose ending as much as I can't stand the "reveal" of Ruby's mum which we don't even know if there is more to come.
For me, I honestly think series 9 and 10 are the best. Peter Capaldi was just amazing as was the final series with Clara and World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls is for me the best Two-Parter of the entire show. Please let us have Michelle Gomez back. And I think The Husbands of River Song was a true banger.
I love Capaldi's Doctor! It needed one more season. I feel that Doctor has been the darkest of all of them and would have loved a little more of that exploration of soul he was going thru. Plus it would have tied up just a few loose threads that may never be touched on again. Though the Christmas special with him and River is one I tell people to save for last, and not the episode "Twice Upon a Time"
Ellie, Sean, would you take on the gargantuan task of ranking every individual episode of NuWho? (including the Ncuti season since it’s wrapped) You point out some episodes in the lower series that are better but outweighed by the other issues, and I’d love to see what you both, along with everyone else thinks of the individual spots! I figured it would be worth an ask haha, fantastic video as always! Thank you!
@@WhoCulture Just waiting to get their lord-and-saviour RTD permission first. Never bite the hand that wears the One-Ring-to-Ruin-It-ALL. Call Ncuti season NuWHO if you must give it a label. But season 1 for all the people over 30 that have watched this back to the 70's for some is an insult and just dumb. I call it NuWHO as it is short for NcutiWHO. Yes you may use but I need a shoutout. See it anywhere else they owe me a royalty. I actually call it The Turd-is Season 1, but you may not get that cleared by your Overlords at BBC you incessantly play up to. Your kiss-up has gotten worse the past 2 years .. ... But hey you gotta eat right. Replace good criticism(which you used to do with all your channels) with YES BOSS (which you do here mainly.. you did kiss PICARD's ass a lot so there's that).
Series 5 is a good Series but definitely not as good as Series 4. The first half of 5 is very middling until Amy's Choice which is really good. Series 4 might not have the better overall ark like the Crack but i think Series 4 has the better conclusion to a series.
Series 4 has, overall, much better episodes than Series 5. I mean Series 5 has The Beast Below, The Lodger, Victory of the Daleks, nothing in Series 4 is anywhere as bad
@@dogswifty7800that's subjective. Beast Below I find underrated, while Series 4 stories like the Sontaran two parter, the doctors daughter, partners in crime, planet of the ood and unicorn and the Wasp i find to be overrated. Nobody is going to have the same opinion so its impossible to have an overall consensus of what seasons are better, just your own opinion.
1. Series 4 2. Series 5 3. Series 1 4. Series 9 5. Series 6 6. Series 3 7. Series 2 8. Series 10 9. Series 8 10. Series 7 11. Series 14 12. Series 13 13. Series 11 14. Series 12
14 - Series 14 - Could've been way better, Love Ncuti Gatwa though. 13 - Series 11 12 - Series 10 11 - Series 13 10 - Series 12 9 - Series 5 8 - Series 7 7 - Series 6 6 - Series 3 5 - Series 2 4 - Series 1 3 - Series 4 (counting specials) 2 - Series 8 1 - Series 9 If I had to rank them..... Then the Writers: 1 Steven Moffat 2 Russell T. Davies 3 Chris Chibnall (I mean, why does everybody hate his writing, he's actually quite good)
While I find Chris the weakest of the three, he still did alright! Interesting list here. Genuine question, what do you dislike about Series 10 and 5 over other series?
My 2005- 2024 ranking: 15.Series 6 12. Series 2 14.Season 1 (2024) 13. 60th Anniversary Specials 11. Series 1 10. Series 8 9. Series 4 (Counting specials) 8. Series 3 7. Series 5 6. Series 7 5. Series 9 4. Series 12 3. Series 10 2. Series 11 1. Series 13 (Counting specials) Chris Chibnall is my favourite Doctor Who writer, but I enjoy all eras of the show, new and old.
Series 3 deserves to at least be in the top 3! It has the strongest series opener ever (Smith and Jones), the strongest run of 6 episodes ever (Human Nature, The Family of Blood, Blink, Utopia, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords) including the best series finale ever (The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords) and best of all, it has Martha! A companion who was down to Earth, special because she was clever and had skills not because of any cosmic reason, and had the agency to leave the Tardis under her own accord. My ranking looks something like this: 1. Series 10 2. Series 3 3. Series 1 4. Series 8 5. Series 4 6. Series 6 7. Season 1 8. Series 5 9. Series 2 10. Series 9 11. Series 7 12. Series 12 13. Series 11 14. Flux
Rosa having to deal with a recognizable human in such a loaded context makes things harder and the sci-fi bits of the plot don't work great, but man, that ending. Punjab I find straight hard to watch, not because it's bad but because it's so dark and serious. They're definitely both great, though.
Rosa is a good episode, but its so straightforward that it doesn't really feel like a Doctor Who episode at times. Almost like it was originally written for a show like Quantum Leap or Timeless.
I personally preferred Punjab because unlike Rosa it better depicts the nuances of the events it depicts. I also like that it doesn’t feel the need to shoehorn a bland sci-fi villain like Krasko into the narrative. The Thijarians are only there to mourn what humans are doing to their own.
Series 3-7 are the ones that I regularly go back and watch my personal favourite being series 4 and Martha is by far the most underrated companion. And I disagree that her arc being that she realises the doctor loved rose more was bad. To me in the end she realised just what was important to her and how she didn’t need to rely on anyone and she was a strong brilliant woman who could (and did) save the world. Her self growth in that series was unmatched!
For me, 4 and 6 are definitely better than 5. This could be down to remembering how Matt Smith felt like David Tennant Lite to me, and also the weeping angels two-parter still just irritates me with how it breaks and changes the way they work. But, everyone’s got their own rankings, and if you love series 5, I’m happy for you!
My ranking for the modern era series of doctor who would be: 1) Series 4 2) Series 3 3) Series 1 4) Series 2 5) Series 5 6) Season 1 7) Series 10 8) Series 7 9) Series 6 10) Series 8 11) Series 9 12) Series 12 13) Series 11 14) Series 13 My ranking is series 4 being my favourite and series 13 my least. I love all these series, but the bottom few have a few episodes that I didn't love. 😊😊
@@Luke88888 To be fair you're probably right, I think I only put series 11 above series 13 just because I really enjoyed episodes like Rosa and Kerblam!. But series 13 was better for the fact it had a stronger overall storyline! 😊😊
Ain't no way you put season 2 that high. I mean sure different opinions and everything but season 2 has like 3 of the worst episodes on the level of orphan 55. But I do agree with series 4 being 1. I also thought that season 10 was the best of the 12th Doctor.
TBH I have a strong suspicion that Jodie's era is going to have a late resurgence much like Capaldi's did. I absolutely loved Capaldi's series from the start even when everyone around me did not like it. I can find text on my phone from me talking with someone half way through his first series saying how I loved it and now I feel the same way about Jodie. I loved her era. I loved how busy the Tardis was and how chaotic it felt. I strongly suspect that it will be looked on fondly in hindsight.
Imma be honest. It took me a LONG time to actually get to like the 11th Doctor and Amy. I'm sure I'll probably catch some flak for it, but I genuinely got pissed about the way they treated Rory in the beginning. Poor guy was just trying his best, and they both immediately treated him like a total chump. It wasn't until midway through series 6 that I started to soften on it a little. Because I kinda wanted to smack the fire out of both of them at first. But, maybe that's just because I really know how it feels to be treated like Rory was. Just for that and that alone Rory was low-key my favorite character, and I was rooting for him the whole way through.
@@altinaykor364 See, the thing is... With everything The Doctor had gone through up to this point, I can see "neglectful." Right? I can see The Doctor being introspective to the point of introversion, and maybe even a little cold and distant. But.. Dood literally acted like some meathead Gymbro, got in Rory's face, and basically said, "Yeah bro, I f***ed yo gurl bro. Wassup bro? You wanna do something about it bro? You don't want this here smoke bro. I don't care bro, I'm right here bro..... P***y." It literally made me sick to my stomach. And I'm sure it has to do with character developement and Rory's arc or whatever because he goes from a being a bit bumbly and unsure of himself, to a literal Star-Crossing, Time-Hopping Roman Centurion. But I thought that it was really poorly handled in the beginning and made Amy and 11 SUPER unlikable to me. The amount of "Brodudes" I see walking around like this on a daily basis in real life? I thought The Doctor was supposed to be better than this.. But we give him a pass, because "Matt Smith is cute".. 😑
Okay, I've done my job and ranked everything. This is what I've come to (in order, best to worst): GOD TIER: Season Five - it's just great EXCELLENT: Season 14 - I'm sorry, the finalé may have not landed well, but I loved every single episode from The Devil's Chord to The Legend of Ruby Sunday, and while space babies, the finale and church on ruby road weren't amazing, there is *no episode in this season which is a complete dud*. It could have been longer. They could have done more character development. But genuinely, this is amazing stuff. Season 6 - another one with a bit of a dud ending, but SO much to love in the rest of the series. Felt like proper event television. Just brilliant. Season 10 - almost the opposite - such a sublime ending - World Enough and Time / Doctor Falls is hard to beat - and some brilliant episodes, but still a few duds Season 4 - Great fun ending, a stunning block in the second half. Donna and Tennant are amazing. Season 3 - Martha is awesome. Totally under appreciated. Family of Blood and the Utopia / Sound of Drums arc is just stunning. The first half is a bit rough though. REALLY GOOD: Season 2 - Some rough bits, The Cybermen aren't so great. New Earth is poor. Good ending though. Endings count for a lot. Season 1 - without the great ending, this season would not have totally held together. About half of it is ... rough. The other half is really good. But it is the ending that makes this one work so well Season 9 - some of the best of the entire show's history, also some real clangers in it More good than bad, but also the finalé doesn't land Season 8 - Same as above. Love Flatline, love Listen. The ending is dark AF. Capaldi isn't the doctor straight away. Takes a while to find itself MiXED / NOT SO GREAT Season 7 - Yeah, look, Day of the Doctor was so good. Getting there was rough as hell. Some good episodes in this run, but also... some real WTF moments. Driving a bike up the Shard? No. Sorry. No. Season 12 - Jodie's seasons are all a bit of a mixed bag, and it's hard to split them up super well. This season could have come together so much better than it did. A mixed bag of episodes, no absolute bangers, but some fun ones and a great season opening with some more scale and fun. But also then the worst dud of a finalé I can remember. It's just an exposition dump. Season 13 - Flux was so weird. I have no idea what happened in it. Some of the episodes were good, but less than half. Finalé made no sense to me at all. Season 11 - Just the most meh of all the show's history. Some good episodes - loved Demons of the Punjab, and it opened well, but generally really uninspired and flat feeling. The finalé fell straight on its face. Hard.
Maybe get someone less biased than Ellie to this type of thing in future. The River Song thing with Matt Smith’s doctor always felt a little wrong, almost creepy because of the age difference
@@altinaykor364 I got one sentence to say that disproves all naysayers... "Meet my assistants -Legs -Nose -And Mrs Robinson" come back when you are real "Whovians"
@@altinaykor364 She was 2 years younger when David Tennant met her. No issues there? The whole forced thing is part of the entire ARC. The Doctor old, but in a younger version. River, she already know him but him not her really. Their times work opposite. Like two trains heading towards each other. She knows him, and if you watch the show then you know she even describes Capaldi's Doctor to David Tennant in Silence in The Library. The forced bit was the discomfort of the doctor NOT knowing what she knew. Even when she said his real name to David Tennant the tension was there. The Doctor is used to being the one in the room will all the details, and very off put when someone has "spoilers" that he doesn't. This isn't just with her, he likes to be the one with the AHA! And the answers and you see this more often than not. In a nutshell I felt the love he had for Clara was genuine and Capaldi showed it very naturally, and actually appeared younger when around her... Got cringe with that?
@@daTribbleMaker this nonsense of love in opposite timeline is always a nutshell, especially since the moment the Doctor realized that he has actually groomed River (no knowing) he had to just stop. every damn thing they did, especially on his side, was to not mess with the timeline and live up to the future version which River supposedly knows, especially since she already overwhelmed him by all of those knowledge. now if the knowledge was about something else, maybe I could say the Doctor's arrogance is hurt by her, but no! imagine someone tells you that they know you better than yourself and you do this or...or...it's pure gaslighting. how can you be sure that any of their feelings is real when both basically just live up to what's already written? especially given the fact that the Doctor missed his other companions, even those he hasn't see since 70s or 80s more than he ever did for River. and only in her presence he remembers she in fact exists, while we all know the amount of time he spent pining for Rose. well, maybe we can consider fair since River also has other husbands and wives outside of him. but there comes her origins. how she's the daughter of the couple that he can consider his younger siblings or students (gross) and she's a part time lord because of his Tardis, which means she can in a way be considered his daughter. you people really like shipping incest? speaking of being part time lord because of Tardis, she wouldn't even have existed if it wasn't for the Doctor and he wouldn't even survived to regenerate if it wasn't for her. such a self serving relationship! besides everything about River's character felt forced, from the first episodes where everyone says she and the Doctor act like old married couple (which they didn't at all. just a forced dialogue) to her making Dalek panic. only Moffat written Daleks act like that because he wanted it to. River was more like a burden than an actual character. a burden both us and the Doctor are forced to accept because destiny and the writer says so despite all the red flags. you mentioned Clara with 12? well, I don't exactly ship them as a couple, hell I'm not even a huge fan of Clara, however she's far better written than River and one of the reasons is that at least she's not a burden that we're forced to accept and the Doctor's love for her (whatever it was, romantic or platonic) was real and not something he has to do
Series 2 as third from worst to best!!! It’s before series 12?! The only thing I loved about that series was The Master. You’re breaking my heart Ellie. 😂❤
The Rise of the Cybermen and Age of Steel are a solid two parter up there with The Impossible Planet and the Satan Pit. How can you possible rate series 2 that poorly when series 3 is right there trying to eat it's own shoes?
Listen here Elle we did NOT forget about Rise of the Cybermen and Age of Steel, some of us did enjoy that two parter and I'll never forget it because Age of Steel premiered the same night as my cousins 30th. As retaliation for saying that we forgot it, here's my Top 10 list of stories that I TOTALLY forgot existed. 1. Vincent and the Doctor 2. Angels Take Manhatten 3. Asylum of the Daleks 4. Amy's Choice 5. The Eleventh Hour 6. Every single story out of series 6 7. Power of Three 8. The Beast Below 9. Hungry Earth and Cold Blood 10. Vampires in Venice Do you know what they all have in common? They all star that Irish Woman who wanted her Raggedy Doctor, so how do you like them apples ?
I loved how dark Season 8 was. In fact i loved how dark all of Capaldis era was. Dark Water and Death in Heavens 2 parter was and still is my favourite 2 parter ever (not favourite episode, that belongs to Turn Left) even if it is a difficult watch. Actually, come to think of it, so was Turn Left. Huh...
Re: Series 3, I find Hybrid Dalek Sec to be an interesting character and wish they did more with him, or explored how his Dalek roots might affect his quest for redemption of his people.
I think rating series 14 above any of davies' old series is pure recency bias, all of the negative things you pointed out about series 2 such as the childishness are exacerbated in series 14 but we don't even have a solid doctor companion dynamic to ground it unlike in series 2
@@dylanmcwilliam all Moffat fans are childish and blind. They can't even notice the concept of grooming and incest and they glorify such a disgusting things 🤮🤮🤮
I'll defend the Caretaker (series 8) like hell. It's a really great episode. And I personally rank series 11 higher than 12 or Flux : Demons of the Punjab and It Takes You Away are amazing but dont forget the overlooked Witchfinders as well.
15:09 RTD definitely had some standout episodes before this point! I mean Gridlock is such an underated gem no one talks about. So is Boom Town and Utopia! He had other brilliant episodes that I think people like to hate on for a couple of bits of poor execution like Love and Monsters and The Slitheen 2 parter as well. I think they're all standouts. (Plus most of his OG finales are great!)
14. Series 9 (3/10) 13. Series 8 (4/10) 12. Series 11 (6/10) 11. Season 1 (7/10) 10. Series 12 (7/10) 9. Series 7 (7/10) 8. Series 3 (8/10) 7. Series 2 (9/10) 6. Series 13 (9/10) 5. Series 10 (9/10) 4. Series 1 (9/10) 3. Series 6 (10/10) 2. Series 4 (10/10) 1. Series 5 (10/10)
My ranking would be: 1. Series 8 - Easily my favourite & the strongest set of episodes. It was the series which introduced my favourite Doctor and brought Moffat back to his most interesting season finale. 2. Series 10 - While I prefer his first season, this is Capaldi's swansong with some of the all time greats. Although just the definative Doctor speech on kindness puts this season this high. This is the only season, which doesn't have a 'bad' episode in my opinion. I love 'em all 3. Series 1 - The one which started it all... and I wish we got more of Eccelstone. Don't forget, its RTD's best finale, it set a high standard for the rest to follow. 4. Series 9 - While the individual stories range from great to meh, its the character work between Capalidi & Clara that makes this series. Its a master piece in showing the dangers of addiction & toxic relationships. Plus, it has the best episode in Heaven sent. 5. Series 4 (+specials) - Of course, this one was going to be high up... but I'm probably going to get people angry that its only number five. In short, while it has great episodes, its a very hit or miss series but saved by the combination of Tennant & Tate. If it didn't have them, I'd skip probably half the episodes, which is what drags it down 6. Series 5 - Moffat's first season as show runner & he did not disappoint. Smith was at his best & the crack in time storyline had me hooked. Problem is, I'm not a big fan of Amy & her storyline so it felt like something was missing. Maybe its because they were following on from the dynamic duo but I can't put it up any higher 7. Series 6 - This was basically a continuation on from S5 with some higher highs but also lower lows. In short, it was the lack luster finale which pulled this one down slightly. 8. Series 14 / Season 1 - A good strong start to the new era. The episode were very hit or miss but I loved the combo of Ruby & Doctor. I didn't like the numerous Doctor-lite episodes & it was very short on the numbers of episodes 9. Series 3 - This one has very good episodes.... but the majority of them were lack luster. I liked Martha as a character but her storyline was just a waste. 10. Series 13 - I'm nicer on this season then most due to the challenge of the lockdown. It has easily some of Jodie's best episodes, including the Sontaron's best modern episode & the best Weeping Angel's episode since their introduction 11. Series 12 - This has very hit or miss episodes but since it has the worst episode of the series, I had to pull it further down further then others might. 12. Series 11 - This is the bland series. No episode really offends me from this series but none excite me either. 13. Series 7 - This season had so much potential but it was a big let down. I can forgive it because of the amazing 50th special but the season is still lack luster. 14. Series 2 - I can't defend this series. The annoying Rose-romance and a majority of skip-able episodes. I just don't like it
Would have liked to see both series of Specials ranked in there too, as both broke a lot of new ground, and the Waters of Mars is fantastic. Also we mustn't forget the 14th Doctor in all his brief glory.
An interesting list. I respectfully can't agree with it though 😅 Here's my ranking: 16: Series 11 - There were a few good moments in here, but each episode fell flat overall. The ending scene of the Ghost Monument with the Doctor reuniting with the TARDIS is genuinely one of my favourite moments in the show, so beautifully written. 15: Series 14 - A weak series overall. The first episode was too weird, the finale ended up being very disappointing. I feel the lack of two-parters again hindered some of the stories to really go deeper and have more type to cook. Everything in between from start to finish was either lacklustre or mid in my opinion. 14: 60th anniversary specials - Was great to have David and Catherine back for a little while. The Star Beast was okay, Wild Blue Yonder was good, The Giggle would've benefitted from being a two-parter, and I feel Ncuti didn't get chance to shine as the new doctor while still being stood by 14. 13: Series 13 + 13's specials - Yes it's a mess, but I still enjoyed it. Village of the angels I really liked, and the while the story was rushed, it still was okay for me. Plus adding the specials, I really like Eve of the Daleks, and the Power of the Doctor is a better 60th special than the 60th anniversary specials. 12: Series 12 - Nice to have a story arc back, after series 11 lacked one. While yes it was controversial, it's got guts to do that. While I don't think it should've messed with the Doctor's past, I appreciate it trying to add mystery to The Doctor again, it is called Doctor Who after all. 11: Series 9 - While it has the absolute God tier episode that is Heaven Sent, I feel it is actually a little weaker than other series. The Dalek two-parter wasn't great. I loved Under the Lake, but Before the Flood was a little less hype. I didn't like Ashildr, nothing against Maisie Williams. I wasn't a fan of Hell Bent at all, essentially retconning the Doctor's memories of the past three series. Face the Raven and Heaven Sent are amazing episodes. 10: Series 8 - I liked the darker tone this series brought. But the episodes are hit and miss for me. Maybe this will rank higher when I get round to rewatching it. 9: Series 6 - Starts off very strong with The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon. The Curse of the Black Spot I find fun. The Doctor's Wife is in my top 10, it's that good in my opinion. But then after that, the series starts to get rocky. The flesh two-parter is boring. A Good Man Goes to War is fantastic. But then when we hit part 2, I only thought The Girl Who Waited was the good one, the rest were okay, or bad. 8: Series 7 - I love the series probably more than most people. Yes it has some lacklustre ones like Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and The Power of Three, but I always have fun watching this one. Plus the 50th Anniversary and The Time of the Doctor are amazing. 7: Series 10 - When the nailed the tone of Capaldi's Era perfectly. Really enjoyed having Bill and Nardole on the TARDIS team and the episodes overall I thought were quite fun. Plus that finale was the best one since Series 5. 6: Series 2 - The 10 and Rose dynamic I don't mind too much. I feel this series is still very strong. School Reunion is good purely for Sarah Jane. The Girl in the Fireplace is great. The Cyberman two-parter I still enjoy, I wouldn't call it amazing, but it's still good. The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit remains my favourite Doctor Who story of all time. Army of Ghosts and Doomsday is a good finale overall. For me, the good outweighs the bad here. 5: Series 4 Specials - I've given this it's own slot as it's enough to stand on it's own. The Next Doctor is fun, and was exciting marketing back in the day. Planet of the Dead is the weakest of the bunch. The Waters of Mars is an amazing story and I love how it shows the start of the Time Lord Victorious arc for the 10th Doctor. The End of Time is okay overall, and broke me as a young'un. 4: Series 4 - Doctor Who's best Doctor and companion duo still to this day. The dynamic is unrivalled for me. The majority of the episodes are great. Ones I'm not a fan of are the Sontaran two-parter, I think it's okay overall. The Doctor's Daughter is rushed, but the ending moral of not taking a life is a great speech. Midnight... I've never been a fan of, sorry, still a good episode though. The library two-parter is up there as one of the greatest stories. Turn Left is fantastic. The finale is great, but does have an easy resolution. 3: Series 5 - The most perfect full asset refresh Doctor Who has ever received. I loved the fairy-tale mood they went for here. Matt Smith blew me away with how good he was from day one. Always a joy to rewatch and for me is the last golden era series of Doctor Who. 2: Series 3 - Doctor Who's underrated peak. A great series opener with Smith and Jones. Gridlock I enjoy. The Dalek two-parter is way better than people give it credit for. Yes there's Lazarus Experiment and 42, not great. But then, you get four straight BANGERS in a row. Human Nature and The Family of Blood is an amazing two-parter and has fantastic performances from David and Freema. Blink deserves the praise it gets, a genius episode. Utopia was an amazing start to the finale, the Master coming back was a hype moment. The two parts that followed were great to, while the ending was a bit naff, the rest of the story made up for it for me. 1: Series 1 - The one that brought it back, and the one that's still the best. For me, there's not a single unwatchable episode, yes even The Long Game. The balance of science fiction and comedy is gold here. Dalek is amazing. Father's Day is beautiful. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances is an amazing two-parter. The Dalek finale is still their best one to date and has a very satisfying ending. If you read all this... thank you! Sorry it was a long description. I hope you like my list 😁
I was about to complain about daring to rank Series 4 as anything less than #1, but the greatness of Series 5 cannot be dinied. There’s a reason why I say my favorite Doctors are 10 or 11, depending on which one I’m watching at the moment.
Totally agree the Martha Jones very underrated companion. And sorry to say river gets upstaged in series 6 by canton Delaware lll with so cracking lines in the first two episodes
That was my instinct to start with, but there were some really poor episodes that series as well as some great ones, and I'm not a fan of Dr Who romance stories with his companions either. It's all about opinions though.
@@cooluncle4242 i did enjoy rose and the doctor, but it doesn’t compare to most relationships between the doctor and other companions ( sarah, donna, amy, clara, bill..
Whoever wrote this list is insane. Every season of 9, 10, 11, and 12 puts every season of 15 and especially 13 in the shade. The tiresome backlash against romance, the Ponds, and especially against Clara - by FAR the best companion - is just ridiculous. Did Hutson or perhaps Wet Blanket Will contribute to the list?
I got confused when u said 15. wholeheartly agree with you. Disney+ ruined it from stories to casting to even tardis and sonic screwdriver design. 12th had that one bad season with glasses but atleast the stories were good and capaldi killed it being a die hard fan.
I was so disappointed with the start of Smith. I can't believe people are still quoting "fish fingers and custard". By the time they got to that point I was shouting at the screen to move on from that dumb bit because it goes on for like ten minutes. Victory of the Daleks may be the worst Daleks story in the show's history. I like Vincent and the Doctor despite the frankly goofy sci-fi subplot, and I find The Lodger cute, controversial as it was at the time. The finale, though? There's so much handwavy nonsense to it and so little that actually makes sense. And if I never see the Doctor making a big speech about himself that makes bad guys run away I'll be perfectly fine with that. It's bad enough as a flourish, but it's rolled out as an actual plot point multiple times that series. Moffat's run got better and then worse than series 5, but man, did it feel like a downgrade after 4. And that's with the fact that the specials year was a bit of a mess already, which admittedly did do a lot to soften the blow.
@@mademedothis424That’s why Doctor Who is so unique and special. There is a Doctor, companion(s), TARDIS, villain, series and showrunner for everyone to pick and choose what to love.
I agree. Series 4 had no bad episode, while series had plenty like The Beast Below and the silurian 2 parter. Moffat started to ruin the Angels with the whole neck snapping and Amy really bothered me from the snog to the rest to end of that series. Amy's choice is great though and if it wasn't for the monster Victor and the doctor would be an absolutely perfect episode
Lol theres so many episodes from season 2 i loved when it aired.. girl in the fireplace, army of ghosts/doomsday, school reunion and i LOVE impossible planet/satan pit. I can definitely recognise theres a lot of bad though. I really feel that seen 10 so happy and sickly really contributes to contrast how far he falls by water of mars
I do not agree with some of the ranking but the top spot is spot on. No matter how much I loved Ten and Rose and Donna, nothing beats Elevens first season. Amy is my favourite companion, she and Rory own my heart. I wish we could have seen those three (and River) for years and years more Edited to add: Vincent and the Doctor is the best of all episodes ever
I think this is my ranking, my favorites and least favorites were easy, but the ones in the middle can probably shift around a bit 1) Series 9 2) Series 10 3) Series 5 4) Series 4 5) Season 1 (or Series 14) 6) Series 6 7) Series 8 8) Series 3 9) Series 7 10) Series 1 11) Series 11 12) Series 2 13) Series 13 14) Series 12
I feel bad Capaldi's are so low because it took a minute to find his footing, and Moffat couldn't figure out who he wanted Clara to be. After a recent rewatch, S10 is now one of my top faves. Series 4 and 5 are also my top 2. Pure magic
I like your list but here’s mine: 14.series 11 bad 13.series 13 bad 12.series 12 okay 11.Season 1 good 10.Series 7 good 9.Series 2 good 8.Series 1 good 7.Series 3 great 6.Series 6 great 5.Series 9 amazing 4.Series 10 amazing 3.Series 4 amazing 2.Series 8 amazing 1.Series 5 amazing
16: Series 12 15: Series 11 14: Series 13 13: Series 7 12: 2008-09 Specials 11: Series 14 10: Series 6 9: Series 9 8: Series 8 7: 2023 Specials 6: Series 3 5: Series 5 4: Series 10 3: Series 2 2: Series 1 1: Series 4
To the tune of "Scooby-Doo": Ellie Littlechild, Where are you? Can we see more of you now? - etc. But! Your collection and sorting and narrating of such a lot of content is always hugely impressive. Your videos stay interesting beginning to end. You are a research phenom. Keep up the good work.
I agree so hard on the Ten/Rose thing, made it impossible for me to watch that season first time around. Also she’s twenty and he over 900 - there is a Big Finish story which mentions Eight forgot his age and started a new song who knows how old the Doctor really is at that time. River/The Doctor felt more natural.
@@marionbaggins part time lord thanks to his own Tardis and child of couple he could call, his own younger siblings and students🤮 incest is such a shippable thing for you people then👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
I’m convinced that the new series is only called Season 1 just because Disney+ is running it, so it’s been slightly Americanised and relabelled as a ‘new age’, which we can only hope it will be
Agreed, @altinaykor364 The Idiot's Lantern has some great moments, from The Doctor climbing the Radio tower to defeat the wire to even Tommy standing up to Eddie Connelly. Sure, the Wire isn't the greatest villain and the Doctor and Rose still have the luvvy-duvvy romance going on, but overall the Idiot's Lantern is criminally underrated. 42 is another story. I would rate this episode a lot higher than others, simply because it was mainly the start of Martha's "mettle" in the back half of series 3, since she basically saves the whole ship at the end. The visuals of the sun, the emotional conversations between Martha and her mum, the ticking clock, the solar parasite, pretty much everything here is pretty great once you take a step back and look at it I say "pretty much" though, because, yes, they both have pretty nonchalant endings and their memorability drags them down a lot. Such a shame, because they're both great one-time stories
My top 4 would be: 1: Season 6 2: Season 5 3: Season 3 4: Season 4 A Good Man Goes to War is probably my favorite episode of all time. "A good man doesn't need rules. Now's not the time to find out why I have so many." The Doctor has some chilling quotes, but that one always gets me.
The series 9 ranking here is insane (#1, please, 7.1-7.4 is the best opening to a season ever), and 4 and 6 are high (although I adore 6B) but I'll get on board with the rest of this.
Series 2 is better than 12 unarguably. Cyberman 2 parter, finale, impossible planet 2 parter and girl in the fire place are all better than the best of 12. 12 has Viodotti, Spyfall, Juddoon, and Nicholas tesler going for it which are all worse than all do those.
I would shuffle the top three, but this seems pretty consistent with reactions along the way. It is amusing that the same complaints are being wheeled out about various seasons even now. Whereas I think when we were dependent more on memory we sometimes got pleasantly surprised. These days you can watch them at will. (and not just the 21st century version - I'm recreating 'Doctor Who and the Monsters' at the moment!).
If Capadli's first two series were on the same level as his third, he could easily have been one of the best doctors, but alas his first two were lackluster.
Interested to see how you'd rank these - vastly different to ours? Let us know!
Very good. really i'd like to cut 13 completely out. Not because of Jodie, She is a great actress, but because of Chibnal. What a terrible writer.
@@WhoCulture We want an episode about the deposits for next season
You're just feeding trolls.
The problem is we didn't have a female Doctor. We got David Tennant in a wig.
Last two creeps that woman and this freak are pure woke filth garbage Dr who will now goe broke
Once I heard Ellie’s voice, I knew that S5 and S6 would be ranked high for one reason and one reason alone: River Song. 😉
They're not my favorites in fact I would rank them as the worst, which is saying something because Series nine ain't that great either.
@@josephcooter5763What don’t you like about either one?
@@MatthewVlossak You mean besides the fact that the general plot remains unresolved, the stories are not engaging and it has one of the most over rated episodes in Vincent and the Doctor. I don't know what is there to love about eitehr series.
I had hoped that River Song would become an ongoing female counterpart to the male Doctor, even having her own experiences that intersect with the Doctor from time to time.
@@josephcooter5763 you would rank series 5 and 6 as the worst, even though series 11, 12, and 13 exist? what are you on?
You will rip series 2 from my cold, dead hands. I love series 2.
Yeah. This channel is starting to become unwatchable to me due to Ellie’s biased opinions and backhanded comments against Rose
here here
I like it too
@@DogsAreTheBest312 not that deep, just her opinion
For series 9, I would deem Under the Lake/Before the Flood as a great two-parter! I personally love it and I always watch it every now and then.
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The rock intro to Before The Flood was the cherry on the cake. And the cliff hanger with the doctors ghost at the end of Under The Lake was also brilliant. Criminally underrated
@@DittoGTI And the beautifully designed alien 🤩
@@crismatos2723 Honestly so well modelled and designed. It looked like they took real care to make. And it shows
Completely agree, it’s definitely in my top 5 episodes. It’s got a bit of everything really, familiar but unique base setting, scary enemies(s), great and fleshed out supporting cast, time travel and paradoxes. It’s a quintessential Doctor Who story in the best possible way!
I can't believe series 5 is 14 years old. I love the series as its what I grew up on...
When the first episode aired I was in hospital about to have my first child. Watched it on I player when got home
@@theimmortalzombie1150 I was 9.5 When it aired.
the same number of years that Amy waited!
I mostly grew up with season 6 but season 5 was still fire back then!
I can cuz I was 21 when it aired now I'm 35
series 9 was amazing. the two-part episodes were a treat.
It's my favourite series and whenever I think about doing a rewatch, it's S9 I consider first tbh. A lot of that is down to the two-parters I believe!
@@SleepyHarryZzz Same!
12 and Clara were a wonderful match.
Under the Lake/Before the Flood may be the most underrated episode, IMO
Series is pretty much just 2 part stories
Should give an honorable mention to the 2009 "Specials" season that closed out David Tennant's run. The Next Doctor and Planet of the Dead are a little forgettable, but the Waters of Mars and the End of Time 2-part finale was the perfect send off to arguably the best actor to play the Doctor. Nothing will ever top the emotion of "I don't want to go!"
And he still hasn't.
I decided to gather the average rating for every episode of each series from IMDB and their ranking is as follows
14: series 12 (6.1)
13: series 11 (6.3)
12: flux (6.5)
11: season 1 (7.1)
10: series 8 (7.7)
9: series 10 (7.7)
8: series 7 (7.7)
7: series 2 (7.8)
6: series 1 (7.9)
5: series 9 (8)
4: series 3 (8)
3: series 6 (8)
2: series 5 (8.1)
1: series 4 (8.3)
I agree with this more than with the video
Putting series 2 at 12 is criminal
Yeah, because it should be 14th
Ranking anything after Peter C high is delusional
It’s should have been in 13th place
Yeah I knew she'd put 11th doctor as #1 because of her love for river song and I knew she'd but series 2 at the bottom because of her hatred for Rose and 10. She claims nostalgia glasses but she has hate glasses on that she won't take off.
@@Dude_in_a_tophat Why?
I refuse to call series 14, season 1
why
but there was no Doctor Who on for three or four years
@@geoffroi-le-Hookyes, there was
I refuse to call season 40, season 1
I'd either call it season 40, or Series 14. Calling it season 1 just butchers it.. It basically is like: "Wait.. which season 1?" Which I hate.
If you say season, you're refering to Seasons 1-26 (Classic Who Era), if you say Movie, then your refering to the Movie in 1996 (Reboot Era), and if you say series, you're refering to season 27 onward, (2005+, New Who Era).
2:59 Ellie! No, never! I love that two-parter! It's one of the few times where we visit a parallel world in Doctor Who! I wish we had more episodes with that topic. Like Doctor Who's equivalent to His Dark Materials where we find ourselves in a world slightly similar yet slightly different to our own!
I love his dark materials and doctor who too!! ❤❤
Turn Left did far better at exploring an alternate Earth (fucking love Turn Left)
Series 1 was campy not childish and the camp worked thank you very much
Nope. It was absurdly childish - Rose was just embarrassingly bad even by cbbc standards, with End of the World just about compensating, Unquiet Dead being definitively nondescript, and any promise of political satire being smothered in Aliens of London by the appalling slitheen and no-one telling Davies that fart jokes are just embarrassing and he has no talent for comedy whatsoever, until Dalek and Father's Day finally showed its potential (interestingly, both mining talent from Big Finish - which is the true spiritual successor to Classic Who - a fact RTD would do well to remember)
yep
It was kinda childish, but I think@@richardbradbury3658is stressing it a bit far
Brooooo series nine is CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED
Series 2 is easily in the top 3 series of all time. Our opinions differ on quality of the “meh” episodes. Putting it this low is crazy to me but each to their own.
I always wish that The Ponds arc ended with The God Complex when The Doctor leaves them with a happy ending to save them. Having said that, I do enjoy the stories in s7a even if they overstayed their welcome. Sometimes I think The Doctor went back to visit them like at the end of The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe and or even the episodes in s7a (just out of order) after the events in The Angels Take Manhattan.
Season 1 may have been Earth based, but it was not fixed to the early XXIst century like the early years of Pertwee.
This plus Victorian Clara as the main companion would’ve immediately elevated Series 7 so much higher.
Series 5 was simply magical. It’s the best introduction for people to get into DW. Matt Smith was electrifying and brought so much charisma to the character. I’d give anything to go back to is Golden Era of DW.
Agreed. This run is what Doctor Who is all about
S1 is the best introduction imo, it gives you every staple of the series you need to know within one season.
@@littleredruri Because nothing brings in new viewers like a b**y trampoline....?
but it has victory of the daleks in it yuck XD
@@Jazzdumpling Yes! Whenever anyone asks me where to start with the modern series, I always point them to S5 first. SO GOOD!
12:35 = The Eaters of Light has the novelty of being the only episode of modern Who written by someone who wrote an episode of Classic Who (Rona Munro, Survival).
Controversial yet brave: I ADORED love and monsters. I loved seeing the world from a normal perspective, growing a genuine affection for these people and their mundane lives, actually FEELING the jarring experience of the doctor just showing up and ripping me out of the story which had come to feel like reality/normality and witnessing the lasting consequences of the doctor’s half-fixes. I love each of those club members deeply and still get a nostalgic, bitter sweet feeling remembering their lives and how I was sucked in. Could have been a movie, up there as a contender for the most moved I’ve ever been by a doctor who episode.
I agree with the Series 8 comments. Very underrated.
No matter what anyone says, series 4 will always remain my favourite. You just can’t compete with Donna and the doctor.
14. Series 12
13. Series 11
12. Series 13
11. Season 1 / Series 14
10. Series 6
9. Series 7
8. Series 9
7. Series 8
6. Series 2
5. Series 5
4. Series 10
3. Series 3
2. Series 1
1. Series 4
I would rank all of the David Tennant years as the best, followed by Eggleston and the Matt Smith years. Jodi Whitaker years could have been marvelous with her talents, if she had been given decent scripts. Capaldi years were so so. I really like Gatwa, but I am hoping for improved scripts and character development.
Series 2 at the bottom? The 10/Rose dynamic was one of the best things about it, and it has RTDs best episodes, what's wrong with you? The only stinker was Love and Monsters, and i honestly don't understand why Fear Her gets so much flack.
And no, who forgets the Cybermen episodes, wtf
You seriously put Series 14 above it, yikes
Edit: The only thing this list got right was putting the 13th doctor at the bottom.
I was beginning to think I was the only person who loved the 10 and Rose pairing 😅. The chemistry is just 10/10 between the two, and I am genuinely invested in the story because of the phenomenal acting between Tennant and Piper.
their dynamic was so much more genuine and real than the disgusting fake flirty romance we had in later seasons which ignorants like her praise
@altinaykor364 I'm sorry, but are you dissing River Song? Bc if so, you can get off my thread right now
@@EterPuralis I'll diss whatever that felt more like force upon me than being actually genuine
@@altinaykor364 Troll.
Nah there's no way you say series 2 and 7 is worse than series 12 and 14, series 2 three 2 parters and series 7 with the ponds alone are better than them
Also doing this list proves how stupid it is calling series 14 season 1.
I can feasibly see how someone could consider Series 7 worse than Series 14. Series 7 has only three good episodes. Dinosaurs, Hide and Bells of St John. The rest was awful. Series 14 has the same three good, albeit flawed, episodes and the rest sucked, but it did it all in 8 episodes instead of 13. The only reason I rank Series 7 higher is it has better characters.
Series 2 though. I have no idea how you can rank a series containing Rise of the Cybermen, the Satan Pit and Doomsday, 6 of the greatest episodes in the show, below Series 14. It also has Tooth and Claw, Girl in the Fireplace, and School Reunion why the fuck does anyone dislike this series?
@@cameronjosephvideos5942 its a Mixed bag really just like Series 14. For every Satan's pit there's a love and Monsters. For a School Reunion and a girl in the Fireplace there's a fear her and new earth. Same with Season 1, but it's far more experimental. I would also say I would rate both finales as the same for me. The first part set up and showed so much premise that they couldn't capitalise on in the second part, with both very underwhelming finishes to the story and the utilisation of the Villains in their respective story. I can't stand that tenrose ending as much as I can't stand the "reveal" of Ruby's mum which we don't even know if there is more to come.
For me, I honestly think series 9 and 10 are the best. Peter Capaldi was just amazing as was the final series with Clara and World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls is for me the best Two-Parter of the entire show. Please let us have Michelle Gomez back. And I think The Husbands of River Song was a true banger.
I love Capaldi's Doctor! It needed one more season. I feel that Doctor has been the darkest of all of them and would have loved a little more of that exploration of soul he was going thru. Plus it would have tied up just a few loose threads that may never be touched on again. Though the Christmas special with him and River is one I tell people to save for last, and not the episode "Twice Upon a Time"
Ellie, Sean, would you take on the gargantuan task of ranking every individual episode of NuWho? (including the Ncuti season since it’s wrapped)
You point out some episodes in the lower series that are better but outweighed by the other issues, and I’d love to see what you both, along with everyone else thinks of the individual spots!
I figured it would be worth an ask haha, fantastic video as always! Thank you!
Something like this has been considered, yes!
@@WhoCulture Oh awesome!! It’ll be a whopper!
@@WhoCulture Just waiting to get their lord-and-saviour RTD permission first. Never bite the hand that wears the One-Ring-to-Ruin-It-ALL.
Call Ncuti season NuWHO if you must give it a label. But season 1 for all the people over 30 that have watched this back to the 70's for some is an insult and just dumb.
I call it NuWHO as it is short for NcutiWHO.
Yes you may use but I need a shoutout. See it anywhere else they owe me a royalty.
I actually call it The Turd-is Season 1, but you may not get that cleared by your Overlords at BBC you incessantly play up to. Your kiss-up has gotten worse the past 2 years ..
... But hey you gotta eat right.
Replace good criticism(which you used to do with all your channels) with YES BOSS (which you do here mainly.. you did kiss PICARD's ass a lot so there's that).
@@WhoCulture That would be awesome, and this probably would be a good time to do before it gets to be way too big of a task.
Series 9 has to be higher it’s one of the best
Yeah, she said if it's still good without heaven sent but the answer is DEFINITELY YES
@RM618h it definitely isn’t hell bent is very good
Season 1 is the first season of anything I have wanted to rewatch in years. Dot and Bubble is my new favorite episode of Doctor Who. Full stop.
Series 5 is a good Series but definitely not as good as Series 4. The first half of 5 is very middling until Amy's Choice which is really good. Series 4 might not have the better overall ark like the Crack but i think Series 4 has the better conclusion to a series.
Series 4 has, overall, much better episodes than Series 5. I mean Series 5 has The Beast Below, The Lodger, Victory of the Daleks, nothing in Series 4 is anywhere as bad
@@dogswifty7800that's subjective. Beast Below I find underrated, while Series 4 stories like the Sontaran two parter, the doctors daughter, partners in crime, planet of the ood and unicorn and the Wasp i find to be overrated. Nobody is going to have the same opinion so its impossible to have an overall consensus of what seasons are better, just your own opinion.
1. Series 4
2. Series 5
3. Series 1
4. Series 9
5. Series 6
6. Series 3
7. Series 2
8. Series 10
9. Series 8
10. Series 7
11. Series 14
12. Series 13
13. Series 11
14. Series 12
That series 9 placement is an actual crime
14 - Series 14 - Could've been way better, Love Ncuti Gatwa though.
13 - Series 11
12 - Series 10
11 - Series 13
10 - Series 12
9 - Series 5
8 - Series 7
7 - Series 6
6 - Series 3
5 - Series 2
4 - Series 1
3 - Series 4 (counting specials)
2 - Series 8
1 - Series 9
If I had to rank them.....
Then the Writers:
1 Steven Moffat
2 Russell T. Davies
3 Chris Chibnall (I mean, why does everybody hate his writing, he's actually quite good)
While I find Chris the weakest of the three, he still did alright! Interesting list here. Genuine question, what do you dislike about Series 10 and 5 over other series?
My 2005- 2024 ranking:
15.Series 6
12. Series 2
14.Season 1 (2024)
13. 60th Anniversary Specials
11. Series 1
10. Series 8
9. Series 4 (Counting specials)
8. Series 3
7. Series 5
6. Series 7
5. Series 9
4. Series 12
3. Series 10
2. Series 11
1. Series 13 (Counting specials)
Chris Chibnall is my favourite Doctor Who writer, but I enjoy all eras of the show, new and old.
Series 3 deserves to at least be in the top 3! It has the strongest series opener ever (Smith and Jones), the strongest run of 6 episodes ever (Human Nature, The Family of Blood, Blink, Utopia, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords) including the best series finale ever (The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords) and best of all, it has Martha! A companion who was down to Earth, special because she was clever and had skills not because of any cosmic reason, and had the agency to leave the Tardis under her own accord.
My ranking looks something like this:
1. Series 10
2. Series 3
3. Series 1
4. Series 8
5. Series 4
6. Series 6
7. Season 1
8. Series 5
9. Series 2
10. Series 9
11. Series 7
12. Series 12
13. Series 11
14. Flux
1:07 - Rosa is better than Punjab, but Punjab is right there. They're the two best of the series.
Rosa having to deal with a recognizable human in such a loaded context makes things harder and the sci-fi bits of the plot don't work great, but man, that ending. Punjab I find straight hard to watch, not because it's bad but because it's so dark and serious. They're definitely both great, though.
It takes you away is awesome!
@@txsportsfreak02 It gets a bit handwavy by the end, but I mostly agree.
Rosa is a good episode, but its so straightforward that it doesn't really feel like a Doctor Who episode at times. Almost like it was originally written for a show like Quantum Leap or Timeless.
I personally preferred Punjab because unlike Rosa it better depicts the nuances of the events it depicts. I also like that it doesn’t feel the need to shoehorn a bland sci-fi villain like Krasko into the narrative. The Thijarians are only there to mourn what humans are doing to their own.
Series 3-7 are the ones that I regularly go back and watch my personal favourite being series 4 and Martha is by far the most underrated companion. And I disagree that her arc being that she realises the doctor loved rose more was bad. To me in the end she realised just what was important to her and how she didn’t need to rely on anyone and she was a strong brilliant woman who could (and did) save the world. Her self growth in that series was unmatched!
For me, 4 and 6 are definitely better than 5. This could be down to remembering how Matt Smith felt like David Tennant Lite to me, and also the weeping angels two-parter still just irritates me with how it breaks and changes the way they work. But, everyone’s got their own rankings, and if you love series 5, I’m happy for you!
My ranking for the modern era series of doctor who would be:
1) Series 4
2) Series 3
3) Series 1
4) Series 2
5) Series 5
6) Season 1
7) Series 10
8) Series 7
9) Series 6
10) Series 8
11) Series 9
12) Series 12
13) Series 11
14) Series 13
My ranking is series 4 being my favourite and series 13 my least. I love all these series, but the bottom few have a few episodes that I didn't love. 😊😊
I quite agree, even though series 11 is worse than series 13
@@Luke88888 To be fair you're probably right, I think I only put series 11 above series 13 just because I really enjoyed episodes like Rosa and Kerblam!. But series 13 was better for the fact it had a stronger overall storyline! 😊😊
Ain't no way you put season 2 that high. I mean sure different opinions and everything but season 2 has like 3 of the worst episodes on the level of orphan 55. But I do agree with series 4 being 1. I also thought that season 10 was the best of the 12th Doctor.
TBH I have a strong suspicion that Jodie's era is going to have a late resurgence much like Capaldi's did. I absolutely loved Capaldi's series from the start even when everyone around me did not like it. I can find text on my phone from me talking with someone half way through his first series saying how I loved it and now I feel the same way about Jodie. I loved her era. I loved how busy the Tardis was and how chaotic it felt. I strongly suspect that it will be looked on fondly in hindsight.
Imma be honest. It took me a LONG time to actually get to like the 11th Doctor and Amy. I'm sure I'll probably catch some flak for it, but I genuinely got pissed about the way they treated Rory in the beginning. Poor guy was just trying his best, and they both immediately treated him like a total chump. It wasn't until midway through series 6 that I started to soften on it a little. Because I kinda wanted to smack the fire out of both of them at first. But, maybe that's just because I really know how it feels to be treated like Rory was. Just for that and that alone Rory was low-key my favorite character, and I was rooting for him the whole way through.
I agree
11 straight up neglected both Amy and Rory (even River) and had no real protectiveness over his companions the same way all 9th, 10th and 12th did
@@altinaykor364 See, the thing is... With everything The Doctor had gone through up to this point, I can see "neglectful." Right? I can see The Doctor being introspective to the point of introversion, and maybe even a little cold and distant. But.. Dood literally acted like some meathead Gymbro, got in Rory's face, and basically said, "Yeah bro, I f***ed yo gurl bro. Wassup bro? You wanna do something about it bro? You don't want this here smoke bro. I don't care bro, I'm right here bro..... P***y." It literally made me sick to my stomach. And I'm sure it has to do with character developement and Rory's arc or whatever because he goes from a being a bit bumbly and unsure of himself, to a literal Star-Crossing, Time-Hopping Roman Centurion. But I thought that it was really poorly handled in the beginning and made Amy and 11 SUPER unlikable to me. The amount of "Brodudes" I see walking around like this on a daily basis in real life? I thought The Doctor was supposed to be better than this.. But we give him a pass, because "Matt Smith is cute".. 😑
Having series 6, 8 and 10 above series 1 is a crime worth lifetime imprisonment!!!!
She is a Rose 🌹 hater, it’s so obvious.
I always loved Idiot's Lantern 😢 Feels like I'm the only one
I love it as well. people are just blind to see the value of it. or just want childish things
Yes! What was wrong with it?? That was bog standard, par-for-the-course, good old fashioned Dr Who!
"The Unquiet Dead" was a FANTASTIC story. It was the first one of the series where I said to myself, "Yes, *this* is Doctor Who."
1, 2, 4, and then 3 is my order of favourite series.
@RM618h shut it
👏👏👏
Okay, I've done my job and ranked everything. This is what I've come to (in order, best to worst):
GOD TIER:
Season Five - it's just great
EXCELLENT:
Season 14 - I'm sorry, the finalé may have not landed well, but I loved every single episode from The Devil's Chord to The Legend of Ruby Sunday, and while space babies, the finale and church on ruby road weren't amazing, there is *no episode in this season which is a complete dud*. It could have been longer. They could have done more character development. But genuinely, this is amazing stuff.
Season 6 - another one with a bit of a dud ending, but SO much to love in the rest of the series. Felt like proper event television. Just brilliant.
Season 10 - almost the opposite - such a sublime ending - World Enough and Time / Doctor Falls is hard to beat - and some brilliant episodes, but still a few duds
Season 4 - Great fun ending, a stunning block in the second half. Donna and Tennant are amazing.
Season 3 - Martha is awesome. Totally under appreciated. Family of Blood and the Utopia / Sound of Drums arc is just stunning. The first half is a bit rough though.
REALLY GOOD:
Season 2 - Some rough bits, The Cybermen aren't so great. New Earth is poor. Good ending though. Endings count for a lot.
Season 1 - without the great ending, this season would not have totally held together. About half of it is ... rough. The other half is really good. But it is the ending that makes this one work so well
Season 9 - some of the best of the entire show's history, also some real clangers in it More good than bad, but also the finalé doesn't land
Season 8 - Same as above. Love Flatline, love Listen. The ending is dark AF. Capaldi isn't the doctor straight away. Takes a while to find itself
MiXED / NOT SO GREAT
Season 7 - Yeah, look, Day of the Doctor was so good. Getting there was rough as hell. Some good episodes in this run, but also... some real WTF moments. Driving a bike up the Shard? No. Sorry. No.
Season 12 - Jodie's seasons are all a bit of a mixed bag, and it's hard to split them up super well. This season could have come together so much better than it did. A mixed bag of episodes, no absolute bangers, but some fun ones and a great season opening with some more scale and fun. But also then the worst dud of a finalé I can remember. It's just an exposition dump.
Season 13 - Flux was so weird. I have no idea what happened in it. Some of the episodes were good, but less than half. Finalé made no sense to me at all.
Season 11 - Just the most meh of all the show's history. Some good episodes - loved Demons of the Punjab, and it opened well, but generally really uninspired and flat feeling. The finalé fell straight on its face. Hard.
Maybe get someone less biased than Ellie to this type of thing in future. The River Song thing with Matt Smith’s doctor always felt a little wrong, almost creepy because of the age difference
@@StuN_UK not just age difference
@@altinaykor364 I got one sentence to say that disproves all naysayers...
"Meet my assistants -Legs -Nose -And Mrs Robinson"
come back when you are real "Whovians"
@@daTribbleMaker such a nonsense. true Whovians surely know the difference between a forced thing and genuine one
@@altinaykor364 She was 2 years younger when David Tennant met her. No issues there? The whole forced thing is part of the entire ARC. The Doctor old, but in a younger version. River, she already know him but him not her really. Their times work opposite. Like two trains heading towards each other. She knows him, and if you watch the show then you know she even describes Capaldi's Doctor to David Tennant in Silence in The Library. The forced bit was the discomfort of the doctor NOT knowing what she knew. Even when she said his real name to David Tennant the tension was there.
The Doctor is used to being the one in the room will all the details, and very off put when someone has "spoilers" that he doesn't. This isn't just with her, he likes to be the one with the AHA! And the answers and you see this more often than not. In a nutshell I felt the love he had for Clara was genuine and Capaldi showed it very naturally, and actually appeared younger when around her...
Got cringe with that?
@@daTribbleMaker this nonsense of love in opposite timeline is always a nutshell, especially since the moment the Doctor realized that he has actually groomed River (no knowing) he had to just stop. every damn thing they did, especially on his side, was to not mess with the timeline and live up to the future version which River supposedly knows, especially since she already overwhelmed him by all of those knowledge. now if the knowledge was about something else, maybe I could say the Doctor's arrogance is hurt by her, but no! imagine someone tells you that they know you better than yourself and you do this or...or...it's pure gaslighting. how can you be sure that any of their feelings is real when both basically just live up to what's already written? especially given the fact that the Doctor missed his other companions, even those he hasn't see since 70s or 80s more than he ever did for River. and only in her presence he remembers she in fact exists, while we all know the amount of time he spent pining for Rose. well, maybe we can consider fair since River also has other husbands and wives outside of him. but there comes her origins. how she's the daughter of the couple that he can consider his younger siblings or students (gross) and she's a part time lord because of his Tardis, which means she can in a way be considered his daughter. you people really like shipping incest? speaking of being part time lord because of Tardis, she wouldn't even have existed if it wasn't for the Doctor and he wouldn't even survived to regenerate if it wasn't for her. such a self serving relationship! besides everything about River's character felt forced, from the first episodes where everyone says she and the Doctor act like old married couple (which they didn't at all. just a forced dialogue) to her making Dalek panic. only Moffat written Daleks act like that because he wanted it to. River was more like a burden than an actual character. a burden both us and the Doctor are forced to accept because destiny and the writer says so despite all the red flags.
you mentioned Clara with 12? well, I don't exactly ship them as a couple, hell I'm not even a huge fan of Clara, however she's far better written than River and one of the reasons is that at least she's not a burden that we're forced to accept and the Doctor's love for her (whatever it was, romantic or platonic) was real and not something he has to do
Season 3 at 5 feels low for some of the greatest episodes in doctor who history and One of my personal favourite 2 part finale
Season 3 isn’t in here.
@RM618h the first episode of season 3 was the best introduction to a new companion.
@RM618h sure we can both agree that season 3 was a huge step up from season 2 and season 4 was a step up from 3.
3:19 THANK YOU! FINALLY! Someone understands my biggest issue with Series 2 and a good chunk of NuWho!
Series 2 as third from worst to best!!! It’s before series 12?! The only thing I loved about that series was The Master. You’re breaking my heart Ellie. 😂❤
Series 4 should be number 1 - buddy cop comedy through time and space is unmatched. Also, forever Justice for Martha.
I personally loved series 7, Matt Smith and Clara were both my all time favorite characters. And the Ponds were absolutely phenomenal
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The Rise of the Cybermen and Age of Steel are a solid two parter up there with The Impossible Planet and the Satan Pit. How can you possible rate series 2 that poorly when series 3 is right there trying to eat it's own shoes?
Listen here Elle we did NOT forget about Rise of the Cybermen and Age of Steel, some of us did enjoy that two parter and I'll never forget it because Age of Steel premiered the same night as my cousins 30th. As retaliation for saying that we forgot it, here's my Top 10 list of stories that I TOTALLY forgot existed.
1. Vincent and the Doctor
2. Angels Take Manhatten
3. Asylum of the Daleks
4. Amy's Choice
5. The Eleventh Hour
6. Every single story out of series 6
7. Power of Three
8. The Beast Below
9. Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
10. Vampires in Venice
Do you know what they all have in common? They all star that Irish Woman who wanted her Raggedy Doctor, so how do you like them apples ?
My personal top 3:
1) Series 1
2) Series 4
3) Series 8
My personal bottom 3:
1) Series 12
2) Series 11
3) Series 9
Not at all surprised that the top 3 series feature River Song
I loved how dark Season 8 was. In fact i loved how dark all of Capaldis era was. Dark Water and Death in Heavens 2 parter was and still is my favourite 2 parter ever (not favourite episode, that belongs to Turn Left) even if it is a difficult watch. Actually, come to think of it, so was Turn Left. Huh...
Peter Capaldi wasn’t in Season 8.
@@DrWhoFanJSeries 8.
Anything with Capaldi was GOLD.
@@daTribbleMaker Or Anyone.
I'd rank Season 1 as rank as possible...
I'll fight infinately for every new season of Doctor who since Rose
Re: Series 3, I find Hybrid Dalek Sec to be an interesting character and wish they did more with him, or explored how his Dalek roots might affect his quest for redemption of his people.
I think rating series 14 above any of davies' old series is pure recency bias, all of the negative things you pointed out about series 2 such as the childishness are exacerbated in series 14 but we don't even have a solid doctor companion dynamic to ground it unlike in series 2
@@dylanmcwilliam all Moffat fans are childish and blind. They can't even notice the concept of grooming and incest and they glorify such a disgusting things 🤮🤮🤮
I'll defend the Caretaker (series 8) like hell. It's a really great episode.
And I personally rank series 11 higher than 12 or Flux : Demons of the Punjab and It Takes You Away are amazing but dont forget the overlooked Witchfinders as well.
15:09 RTD definitely had some standout episodes before this point! I mean Gridlock is such an underated gem no one talks about. So is Boom Town and Utopia! He had other brilliant episodes that I think people like to hate on for a couple of bits of poor execution like Love and Monsters and The Slitheen 2 parter as well. I think they're all standouts. (Plus most of his OG finales are great!)
Thank you...Fun to watch this ranking list...
We want an episode about the deposits for next season.
14. Series 9 (3/10)
13. Series 8 (4/10)
12. Series 11 (6/10)
11. Season 1 (7/10)
10. Series 12 (7/10)
9. Series 7 (7/10)
8. Series 3 (8/10)
7. Series 2 (9/10)
6. Series 13 (9/10)
5. Series 10 (9/10)
4. Series 1 (9/10)
3. Series 6 (10/10)
2. Series 4 (10/10)
1. Series 5 (10/10)
My ranking would be:
1. Series 8 - Easily my favourite & the strongest set of episodes. It was the series which introduced my favourite Doctor and brought Moffat back to his most interesting season finale.
2. Series 10 - While I prefer his first season, this is Capaldi's swansong with some of the all time greats. Although just the definative Doctor speech on kindness puts this season this high. This is the only season, which doesn't have a 'bad' episode in my opinion. I love 'em all
3. Series 1 - The one which started it all... and I wish we got more of Eccelstone. Don't forget, its RTD's best finale, it set a high standard for the rest to follow.
4. Series 9 - While the individual stories range from great to meh, its the character work between Capalidi & Clara that makes this series. Its a master piece in showing the dangers of addiction & toxic relationships. Plus, it has the best episode in Heaven sent.
5. Series 4 (+specials) - Of course, this one was going to be high up... but I'm probably going to get people angry that its only number five. In short, while it has great episodes, its a very hit or miss series but saved by the combination of Tennant & Tate. If it didn't have them, I'd skip probably half the episodes, which is what drags it down
6. Series 5 - Moffat's first season as show runner & he did not disappoint. Smith was at his best & the crack in time storyline had me hooked. Problem is, I'm not a big fan of Amy & her storyline so it felt like something was missing. Maybe its because they were following on from the dynamic duo but I can't put it up any higher
7. Series 6 - This was basically a continuation on from S5 with some higher highs but also lower lows. In short, it was the lack luster finale which pulled this one down slightly.
8. Series 14 / Season 1 - A good strong start to the new era. The episode were very hit or miss but I loved the combo of Ruby & Doctor. I didn't like the numerous Doctor-lite episodes & it was very short on the numbers of episodes
9. Series 3 - This one has very good episodes.... but the majority of them were lack luster. I liked Martha as a character but her storyline was just a waste.
10. Series 13 - I'm nicer on this season then most due to the challenge of the lockdown. It has easily some of Jodie's best episodes, including the Sontaron's best modern episode & the best Weeping Angel's episode since their introduction
11. Series 12 - This has very hit or miss episodes but since it has the worst episode of the series, I had to pull it further down further then others might.
12. Series 11 - This is the bland series. No episode really offends me from this series but none excite me either.
13. Series 7 - This season had so much potential but it was a big let down. I can forgive it because of the amazing 50th special but the season is still lack luster.
14. Series 2 - I can't defend this series. The annoying Rose-romance and a majority of skip-able episodes. I just don't like it
To me, Series 2 and 6 were the best.
For me:
1). Series 1 (2005)
2). Series 4 (2007 - 2010)
3). Series 3 (2006 - 2007)
4). Series 5 (2010)
5). Series 2 (2005 - 2006)
6). Series 10 (2016 - 2017)
7). Series 6 (2010 - 2011)
8). Series 9 (2015)
9). Series 8 (2014)
10). Series 13 (2021 - 2022)
11). Series 14/Season 1 (2023 - 2024)
12). Series 7 (2012 - 2013)
13). Series 12 (2020 - 2021)
14). Series 11 (2018 - 2019)
9 should be higher. under the lake and before the flood were AWESOME.
14. 11
13, 14
12. 13
11. 12
10. 2
9. 7
8. 10
7. 3
6. 8
5. 1
4. 9
3. 5
2. 6
1. 4
I was rewatching series 2, and I feel like I need to find someone like rose for me, as 10 and me are incredible similar
Would have liked to see both series of Specials ranked in there too, as both broke a lot of new ground, and the Waters of Mars is fantastic. Also we mustn't forget the 14th Doctor in all his brief glory.
An interesting list. I respectfully can't agree with it though 😅
Here's my ranking:
16: Series 11 - There were a few good moments in here, but each episode fell flat overall. The ending scene of the Ghost Monument with the Doctor reuniting with the TARDIS is genuinely one of my favourite moments in the show, so beautifully written.
15: Series 14 - A weak series overall. The first episode was too weird, the finale ended up being very disappointing. I feel the lack of two-parters again hindered some of the stories to really go deeper and have more type to cook. Everything in between from start to finish was either lacklustre or mid in my opinion.
14: 60th anniversary specials - Was great to have David and Catherine back for a little while. The Star Beast was okay, Wild Blue Yonder was good, The Giggle would've benefitted from being a two-parter, and I feel Ncuti didn't get chance to shine as the new doctor while still being stood by 14.
13: Series 13 + 13's specials - Yes it's a mess, but I still enjoyed it. Village of the angels I really liked, and the while the story was rushed, it still was okay for me. Plus adding the specials, I really like Eve of the Daleks, and the Power of the Doctor is a better 60th special than the 60th anniversary specials.
12: Series 12 - Nice to have a story arc back, after series 11 lacked one. While yes it was controversial, it's got guts to do that. While I don't think it should've messed with the Doctor's past, I appreciate it trying to add mystery to The Doctor again, it is called Doctor Who after all.
11: Series 9 - While it has the absolute God tier episode that is Heaven Sent, I feel it is actually a little weaker than other series. The Dalek two-parter wasn't great. I loved Under the Lake, but Before the Flood was a little less hype. I didn't like Ashildr, nothing against Maisie Williams. I wasn't a fan of Hell Bent at all, essentially retconning the Doctor's memories of the past three series. Face the Raven and Heaven Sent are amazing episodes.
10: Series 8 - I liked the darker tone this series brought. But the episodes are hit and miss for me. Maybe this will rank higher when I get round to rewatching it.
9: Series 6 - Starts off very strong with The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon. The Curse of the Black Spot I find fun. The Doctor's Wife is in my top 10, it's that good in my opinion. But then after that, the series starts to get rocky. The flesh two-parter is boring. A Good Man Goes to War is fantastic. But then when we hit part 2, I only thought The Girl Who Waited was the good one, the rest were okay, or bad.
8: Series 7 - I love the series probably more than most people. Yes it has some lacklustre ones like Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and The Power of Three, but I always have fun watching this one. Plus the 50th Anniversary and The Time of the Doctor are amazing.
7: Series 10 - When the nailed the tone of Capaldi's Era perfectly. Really enjoyed having Bill and Nardole on the TARDIS team and the episodes overall I thought were quite fun. Plus that finale was the best one since Series 5.
6: Series 2 - The 10 and Rose dynamic I don't mind too much. I feel this series is still very strong. School Reunion is good purely for Sarah Jane. The Girl in the Fireplace is great. The Cyberman two-parter I still enjoy, I wouldn't call it amazing, but it's still good. The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit remains my favourite Doctor Who story of all time. Army of Ghosts and Doomsday is a good finale overall. For me, the good outweighs the bad here.
5: Series 4 Specials - I've given this it's own slot as it's enough to stand on it's own. The Next Doctor is fun, and was exciting marketing back in the day. Planet of the Dead is the weakest of the bunch. The Waters of Mars is an amazing story and I love how it shows the start of the Time Lord Victorious arc for the 10th Doctor. The End of Time is okay overall, and broke me as a young'un.
4: Series 4 - Doctor Who's best Doctor and companion duo still to this day. The dynamic is unrivalled for me. The majority of the episodes are great. Ones I'm not a fan of are the Sontaran two-parter, I think it's okay overall. The Doctor's Daughter is rushed, but the ending moral of not taking a life is a great speech. Midnight... I've never been a fan of, sorry, still a good episode though. The library two-parter is up there as one of the greatest stories. Turn Left is fantastic. The finale is great, but does have an easy resolution.
3: Series 5 - The most perfect full asset refresh Doctor Who has ever received. I loved the fairy-tale mood they went for here. Matt Smith blew me away with how good he was from day one. Always a joy to rewatch and for me is the last golden era series of Doctor Who.
2: Series 3 - Doctor Who's underrated peak. A great series opener with Smith and Jones. Gridlock I enjoy. The Dalek two-parter is way better than people give it credit for. Yes there's Lazarus Experiment and 42, not great. But then, you get four straight BANGERS in a row. Human Nature and The Family of Blood is an amazing two-parter and has fantastic performances from David and Freema. Blink deserves the praise it gets, a genius episode. Utopia was an amazing start to the finale, the Master coming back was a hype moment. The two parts that followed were great to, while the ending was a bit naff, the rest of the story made up for it for me.
1: Series 1 - The one that brought it back, and the one that's still the best. For me, there's not a single unwatchable episode, yes even The Long Game. The balance of science fiction and comedy is gold here. Dalek is amazing. Father's Day is beautiful. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances is an amazing two-parter. The Dalek finale is still their best one to date and has a very satisfying ending.
If you read all this... thank you! Sorry it was a long description. I hope you like my list 😁
I was about to complain about daring to rank Series 4 as anything less than #1, but the greatness of Series 5 cannot be dinied. There’s a reason why I say my favorite Doctors are 10 or 11, depending on which one I’m watching at the moment.
Totally agree the Martha Jones very underrated companion.
And sorry to say river gets upstaged in series 6 by canton Delaware lll with so cracking lines in the first two episodes
putting season 2 before season 12 should be a war crime and send to prison 💀
That was my instinct to start with, but there were some really poor episodes that series as well as some great ones, and I'm not a fan of Dr Who romance stories with his companions either.
It's all about opinions though.
@@cooluncle4242 i did enjoy rose and the doctor, but it doesn’t compare to most relationships between the doctor and other companions ( sarah, donna, amy, clara, bill..
Whoever wrote this list is insane. Every season of 9, 10, 11, and 12 puts every season of 15 and especially 13 in the shade.
The tiresome backlash against romance, the Ponds, and especially against Clara - by FAR the best companion - is just ridiculous. Did Hutson or perhaps Wet Blanket Will contribute to the list?
I got confused when u said 15. wholeheartly agree with you. Disney+ ruined it from stories to casting to even tardis and sonic screwdriver design. 12th had that one bad season with glasses but atleast the stories were good and capaldi killed it being a die hard fan.
"Whoever wrote this list is insane"
couldn't have said it better myself
Putting series 4 below series 5 is criminal.
I was so disappointed with the start of Smith. I can't believe people are still quoting "fish fingers and custard". By the time they got to that point I was shouting at the screen to move on from that dumb bit because it goes on for like ten minutes. Victory of the Daleks may be the worst Daleks story in the show's history. I like Vincent and the Doctor despite the frankly goofy sci-fi subplot, and I find The Lodger cute, controversial as it was at the time. The finale, though? There's so much handwavy nonsense to it and so little that actually makes sense. And if I never see the Doctor making a big speech about himself that makes bad guys run away I'll be perfectly fine with that. It's bad enough as a flourish, but it's rolled out as an actual plot point multiple times that series.
Moffat's run got better and then worse than series 5, but man, did it feel like a downgrade after 4. And that's with the fact that the specials year was a bit of a mess already, which admittedly did do a lot to soften the blow.
@@mademedothis424That’s why Doctor Who is so unique and special. There is a Doctor, companion(s), TARDIS, villain, series and showrunner for everyone to pick and choose what to love.
@@MatthewVlossak This is true.
Just opinions! Like my opinion, that seasons 6, 9, and 10 are also all better than 4!
I agree. Series 4 had no bad episode, while series had plenty like The Beast Below and the silurian 2 parter. Moffat started to ruin the Angels with the whole neck snapping and Amy really bothered me from the snog to the rest to end of that series. Amy's choice is great though and if it wasn't for the monster Victor and the doctor would be an absolutely perfect episode
I love a parallel universe arc! That cyberman two-parter was so much fun
WHAT NO
Series 2 is among the best the entire RTD1 era is the golden age of nu who I enjoy all of the others but it never got that good again
yep
In my personal opinion, series 9-13 is the golden age of the revival.
Series 2 showing how happy ten and rose were this is awful I mean come on the coldness from ten afterwards was awful
Lol theres so many episodes from season 2 i loved when it aired.. girl in the fireplace, army of ghosts/doomsday, school reunion and i LOVE impossible planet/satan pit. I can definitely recognise theres a lot of bad though.
I really feel that seen 10 so happy and sickly really contributes to contrast how far he falls by water of mars
I do not agree with some of the ranking but the top spot is spot on. No matter how much I loved Ten and Rose and Donna, nothing beats Elevens first season. Amy is my favourite companion, she and Rory own my heart. I wish we could have seen those three (and River) for years and years more
Edited to add: Vincent and the Doctor is the best of all episodes ever
I think this is my ranking, my favorites and least favorites were easy, but the ones in the middle can probably shift around a bit
1) Series 9
2) Series 10
3) Series 5
4) Series 4
5) Season 1 (or Series 14)
6) Series 6
7) Series 8
8) Series 3
9) Series 7
10) Series 1
11) Series 11
12) Series 2
13) Series 13
14) Series 12
I feel bad Capaldi's are so low because it took a minute to find his footing, and Moffat couldn't figure out who he wanted Clara to be. After a recent rewatch, S10 is now one of my top faves.
Series 4 and 5 are also my top 2. Pure magic
I keep seeing people rank Flux quite highly and I just cant figure out why.
I like your list but here’s mine:
14.series 11 bad
13.series 13 bad
12.series 12 okay
11.Season 1 good
10.Series 7 good
9.Series 2 good
8.Series 1 good
7.Series 3 great
6.Series 6 great
5.Series 9 amazing
4.Series 10 amazing
3.Series 4 amazing
2.Series 8 amazing
1.Series 5 amazing
16: Series 12
15: Series 11
14: Series 13
13: Series 7
12: 2008-09 Specials
11: Series 14
10: Series 6
9: Series 9
8: Series 8
7: 2023 Specials
6: Series 3
5: Series 5
4: Series 10
3: Series 2
2: Series 1
1: Series 4
To the tune of "Scooby-Doo": Ellie Littlechild, Where are you? Can we see more of you now? - etc.
But! Your collection and sorting and narrating of such a lot of content is always hugely impressive. Your videos stay interesting beginning to end. You are a research phenom. Keep up the good work.
all hail the raggedy man he's done it again
Series 1 at 7th is crazy to me. It’s such a solid series once it gets started, for me it’s 2nd only to series 4.
I agree so hard on the Ten/Rose thing, made it impossible for me to watch that season first time around. Also she’s twenty and he over 900 - there is a Big Finish story which mentions Eight forgot his age and started a new song who knows how old the Doctor really is at that time. River/The Doctor felt more natural.
River is Part Timelord, That's what helped me to love them
such a nonsense
@@marionbaggins part time lord thanks to his own Tardis and child of couple he could call, his own younger siblings and students🤮 incest is such a shippable thing for you people then👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
Having Season 6 over Season 9 is something criminal, my god.
I’m convinced that the new series is only called Season 1 just because Disney+ is running it, so it’s been slightly Americanised and relabelled as a ‘new age’, which we can only hope it will be
How dare you call The Idiot's Lantern and 42 mediocre. I know they're hardly series savers, but they're a lot better than people remember
No, they are not. Idiots lantern especially, with the most jaw dropping abuse enabling ending ever
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Agreed, @altinaykor364
The Idiot's Lantern has some great moments, from The Doctor climbing the Radio tower to defeat the wire to even Tommy standing up to Eddie Connelly. Sure, the Wire isn't the greatest villain and the Doctor and Rose still have the luvvy-duvvy romance going on, but overall the Idiot's Lantern is criminally underrated.
42 is another story. I would rate this episode a lot higher than others, simply because it was mainly the start of Martha's "mettle" in the back half of series 3, since she basically saves the whole ship at the end. The visuals of the sun, the emotional conversations between Martha and her mum, the ticking clock, the solar parasite, pretty much everything here is pretty great once you take a step back and look at it
I say "pretty much" though, because, yes, they both have pretty nonchalant endings and their memorability drags them down a lot. Such a shame, because they're both great one-time stories
I will agree with the ending of the Idiot's Lantern being laugh out loud bad, but the rest of it is at least solid
My top 4 would be:
1: Season 6
2: Season 5
3: Season 3
4: Season 4
A Good Man Goes to War is probably my favorite episode of all time. "A good man doesn't need rules. Now's not the time to find out why I have so many." The Doctor has some chilling quotes, but that one always gets me.
The series 9 ranking here is insane (#1, please, 7.1-7.4 is the best opening to a season ever), and 4 and 6 are high (although I adore 6B) but I'll get on board with the rest of this.
When you said "...write a whole episode about sentient eye bogies", it sounds so obvious that it was a dare.
Series 2 is better than 12 unarguably.
Cyberman 2 parter, finale, impossible planet 2 parter and girl in the fire place are all better than the best of 12.
12 has Viodotti, Spyfall, Juddoon, and Nicholas tesler going for it which are all worse than all do those.
I would shuffle the top three, but this seems pretty consistent with reactions along the way. It is amusing that the same complaints are being wheeled out about various seasons even now. Whereas I think when we were dependent more on memory we sometimes got pleasantly surprised. These days you can watch them at will. (and not just the 21st century version - I'm recreating 'Doctor Who and the Monsters' at the moment!).
If Capadli's first two series were on the same level as his third, he could easily have been one of the best doctors, but alas his first two were lackluster.
Series nine was amazing! And I stand by my opinion that he is the best doctor.