Reviews

Here I link to my reviews of Doctor Who stories and display accompanying ratings (which are subject to constant revision). Ratings are out of 10, where a rating of 5 is a completely average episode of Doctor Who. No objective measure is employed to determine stories’ ratings; my ratings are largely reflections of my subjective enjoyment and appreciation of the stories, and my reviews likewise don’t pretend to be an objective assessment of the quality of respective episodes (as others pretend to do), but merely articulate my personal impressions.

Two-part serials are reviewed together and given a combined rating. Where it isn’t clear whether two or more episodes are connected or separate (e.g. Utopia and The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords; The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived), I’ve made a judgment about whether to treat them as a single, multi-part story or not. Generally I prefer to treat as separate stories and review separately episodes that are clearly different scenarios (albeit narratively linked), as I did with the two Maisie Williams episodes in Series 9.

Series 11

• The Woman Who Fell to Earth — 6/10
• The Ghost Monument — 8/10
• Rosa — 8/10
• Arachnids in the UK — 7/10
• The Tsuranga Conundrum — 7/10
• Demons of the Punjab — 9/10

Series 10

• The Pilot — 8/10
• Smile — 7/10
• Thin Ice — 8/10
• Knock Knock — 6/10
• Oxygen — 9/10
• Extremis — 9/10
• The Pyramid at the End of the World — 7/10
• The Lie of the Land — 5/10
• Empress of Mars — 6/10
• The Eaters of Light (TBA)
• World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls — 10/10

Christmas special (2016)

• The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TBA)

Christmas special (2015)

• The Husbands of River Song — 8/10

Series 9

• The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar — 9/10
• Under the Lake/Before the Flood — 8/10
• The Girl Who Died — 9/10
• The Woman Who Lived — 6/10
• The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion — 10/10
• Sleep No More — 8/10
• Face the Raven — 7/10
• Heaven Sent — 10/10
• Hell Bent — 8/10
• Series 9 average — 8.33/10

Christmas special (2014)

• Last Christmas — 9/10

Series 8

• Deep Breath — 9/10
• Into the Dalek — 7/10
• Robot of Sherwood — 8/10
• Listen — 9/10
• Time Heist — 8/10
• The Caretaker — 6/10
• Kill the Moon — 8/10
• Mummy on the Orient Express — 10/10
• Flatline — 9/10
• In the Forest of the Night — 7/10
• Dark Water/Death in Heaven — 8/10
• Series 8 average — 8.09/10

Specials (2012-2013)

• The Snowmen — 8/10
• The Day of the Doctor — 10/10
• The Time of the Doctor — 9/10

Series 7

• Asylum of the Daleks — 8/10
• Dinosaurs on a Spaceship — 9/10
• A Town Called Mercy — 8/10
• The Power of Three — 6/10
• The Angels Take Manhattan — 7/10
• The Bells of Saint John — 7/10
• The Rings of Akhaten — 8/10
• Cold War — 8/10
• Hide — 9/10
• Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS — 8/10
• The Crimson Horror — 3/10
• Nightmare in Silver — 7/10
• The Name of the Doctor — 8/10
• Series 7 average — 7.39/10

Christmas special (2011)

• The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe — 8/10

Series 6

• The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon — 10/10
• The Curse of the Black Spot — 7/10
• The Doctor’s Wife — 9/10
• The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People — 9/10
• A Good Man Goes to War — 8/10
• Let’s Kill Hitler — 7/10
• Night Terrors — 8/10
• The Girl Who Waited — 9/10
• The God Complex — 10/10
• Closing Time — 6/10
• The Wedding of River Song — 8/10
• Series 6 average — 8.27/10

Christmas special (2010)

• A Christmas Carol — 10/10

Series 5

• The Eleventh Hour — 10/10
• The Beast Below — 7/10
• Victory of the Daleks — 7/10
• The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone — 9/10
• The Vampires of Venice — 8/10
• Amy’s Choice — 9/10
• The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood — 8/10
• Vincent and the Doctor — 10/10
• The Lodger — 8/10
• The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang — 10/10
• Series 5 average — 8.6/10

Specials (2008-2010)

• The Next Doctor — 6/10
• Planet of the Dead — 7/10
• The Waters of Mars — 10/10
• The End of Time — 9/10

Series 4

• Partners in Crime — 6/10
• The Fires of Pompeii — 8/10
• Planet of the Ood — 9/10
• The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky — 7/10
• The Doctor’s Daughter — 8/10
• The Unicorn and the Wasp — 8/10
• Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead — 10/10
• Midnight — 10/10
• Turn Left — 9/10
• The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End — 10/10
• Series 4 average — 8.5/10

Christmas special (2007)

• Voyage of the Damned — 8/10

Series 3

• Smith and Jones — 7/10
• The Shakespeare Code — 7/10
• Gridlock — 8/10
• Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks — 8/10
• The Lazarus Experiment — 5/10
• 42 — 8/10
• Human Nature/The Family of Blood — 10/10
• Blink — 10/10
• Utopia — 8/10
• The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords — 7/10
• Series 3 average — 7.8/10

Christmas special (2006)

• The Runaway Bride — 7/10

Series 2

• New Earth — 5/10
• Tooth and Claw — 7/10
• School Reunion — 9/10
• The Girl in the Fireplace — 9/10
• Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel — 8/10
• The Idiot’s Lantern — 6/10
• The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit — 9/10
• Love & Monsters — 2/10
• Fear Her — 4/10
• Army of Ghosts/Doomsday — 9/10
• Series 2 average — 6.8/10

Christmas special (2005)

• The Christmas Invasion — 6/10

Series 1

• Rose — 8/10
• The End of the World — 7/10
• The Unquiet Dead — 7/10
• Aliens of London/World War Three — 7/10
• Dalek — 9/10
• The Long Game — 7/10
• Father’s Day — 8/10
• The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances — 10/10
• Boom Town — 8/10
• Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways — 10/10
• Series 1 average — 8.1/10