Doctor Who Best Episodes
Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker’s best episodes
November 25, 2023 | David Farnor
In her very first episode, Season 11 opener The Woman Who Fell to Earth, Jodie Whittaker announced her Doctor as someone who was ingenious – inventing her own sonic screwdriver – and cared about her friends. That sense of kindness … Read More
Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi’s best episodes
September 30, 2018 | David Farnor
It was back in Season 4 of Nu Who that Peter Capaldi first showed his face in The Fires of Pompeii, but in 2013, he became the unlikely successor to Matt Smith in the TARDIS proper, ending a run of … Read More
Doctor Who: Matt Smith’s best episodes
November 23, 2013 | Simon Kinnear
2010. So young he barely remembered the show of old, Matt Smith somehow managed to suggest the character’s near-1,000 year age with a performance of synapse-popping eccentricity.
Under the supervision of showrunner Steven Moffat, the stories warped to Smith’s … Read More
Doctor Who: David Tennant’s best episodes
November 22, 2013 | Simon Kinnear
The first ‘rock star’ Doctor hit the ground running in 2005 – in a hipster’s pair of Converse trainers, no less – and rarely paused for breath as nu Who rekindled the nation’s love affair with a Time Lord.
Doctor Who: Christopher Eccleston’s best episodes
November 21, 2013 | Simon Kinnear
2005. The rumours reckoned Bill Nighy or (God forbid) Alan Davies. Instead, Russell T Davies bagged one of the country’s leading actors to highlight that the return of Doctor Who, after a long hiatus, was thinking big.
Eccleston delivered with … Read More
