List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)

This article is about the episodes starting from 2005. For the 1963–1989 episodes and 1996 film, see List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989).

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. As of 23 October 2022, 826 episodes of Doctor Who have aired, concluding the thirteenth series. This includes one television movie and multiple specials, and encompasses 263 stories over 39 seasons, starting in 1963. Additionally, four charity specials and two animated serials have also been aired. The programme's high episode count has resulted in Doctor Who holding the world record for the highest number of episodes of a science-fiction programme. In May 2017, it was announced that BBC Worldwide sold the right of refusal on future series of the programme until and including series 15 in China.

Doctor Who ceased broadcasting in 1989, then resumed in 2005. The original series (1963–1989), generally consists of multi-episode serials. The 2005 revival trades the earlier serial format for a run of self-contained episodes, interspersed with occasional multi-part stories and structured into loose story arcs.

The story numbers below are meant as a guide to placement in the overall context of the programme. There is some dispute, for instance, about whether to count Season 23's The Trial of a Time Lord as one or as four serials, and whether the unfinished serial Shada should be included. The numbering scheme in this list follows the official website's episode guide. Other sources, such as the Region 1 classic Doctor Who DVD releases, use different numbering schemes, which diverge after the 108th story, The Horns of Nimon (1979–1980).

Series overview

The following table dictates the season or series in question for the programme as a whole.

Regular seasons

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired	Average viewers (millions)	Average AI
	1	42	23 November 1963 (1963-11-23)	12 September 1964 (1964-09-12)
	2	39	31 October 1964 (1964-10-31)	24 July 1965 (1965-07-24)
	3	45	11 September 1965 (1965-09-11)	16 July 1966 (1966-07-16)
	4	43	10 September 1966 (1966-09-10)	1 July 1967 (1967-07-01)
	5	40	2 September 1967 (1967-09-02)	1 June 1968 (1968-06-01)
	6	44	10 August 1968 (1968-08-10)	21 June 1969 (1969-06-21)
	7	25	3 January 1970 (1970-01-03)	20 June 1970 (1970-06-20)
	8	25	2 January 1971 (1971-01-02)	19 June 1971 (1971-06-19)
	9	26	1 January 1972 (1972-01-01)	24 June 1972 (1972-06-24)
	10	26	30 December 1972 (1972-12-30)	23 June 1973 (1973-06-23)
	11	26	15 December 1973 (1973-12-15)	8 June 1974 (1974-06-08)
	12	20	28 December 1974 (1974-12-28)	10 May 1975 (1975-05-10)
	13	26	30 August 1975 (1975-08-30)	6 March 1976 (1976-03-06)
	14	26	4 September 1976 (1976-09-04)	2 April 1977 (1977-04-02)
	15	26	3 September 1977 (1977-09-03)	11 March 1978 (1978-03-11)
	16	26	2 September 1978 (1978-09-02)	24 February 1979 (1979-02-24)
	17	20	1 September 1979 (1979-09-01)	12 January 1980 (1980-01-12)
	18	28	30 August 1980 (1980-08-30)	21 March 1981 (1981-03-21)
	19	26	4 January 1982 (1982-01-04)	30 March 1982 (1982-03-30)
	20	22	3 January 1983 (1983-01-03)	16 March 1983 (1983-03-16)
	21	24	5 January 1984 (1984-01-05)	30 March 1984 (1984-03-30)
	22	13	5 January 1985 (1985-01-05)	30 March 1985 (1985-03-30)
	23	14	6 September 1986 (1986-09-06)	6 December 1986 (1986-12-06)
	24	14	7 September 1987 (1987-09-07)	7 December 1987 (1987-12-07)
	25	14	5 October 1988 (1988-10-05)	4 January 1989 (1989-01-04)
	26	14	6 September 1989 (1989-09-06)	6 December 1989 (1989-12-06)
	27	13	26 March 2005 (2005-03-26)	18 June 2005 (2005-06-18)
	28	13	15 April 2006 (2006-04-15)	8 July 2006 (2006-07-08)
	29	13	31 March 2007 (2007-03-31)	30 June 2007 (2007-06-30)
	30	13	5 April 2008 (2008-04-05)	5 July 2008 (2008-07-05)
	31	13	3 April 2010 (2010-04-03)	26 June 2010 (2010-06-26)
	32	13	23 April 2011 (2011-04-23)	1 October 2011 (2011-10-01)
	33	13	1 September 2012 (2012-09-01)	18 May 2013 (2013-05-18)
	34	12	23 August 2014 (2014-08-23)	8 November 2014 (2014-11-08)
	35	12	19 September 2015 (2015-09-19)	5 December 2015 (2015-12-05)
	36	12	15 April 2017 (2017-04-15)	1 July 2017 (2017-07-01)
	37	10	7 October 2018 (2018-10-07)	9 December 2018 (2018-12-09)
	38	10	1 January 2020 (2020-01-01)	1 March 2020 (2020-03-01)
	39	6	31 October 2021 (2021-10-31)	5 December 2021 (2021-12-05)
	40	8	2024 (2024)	TBA

Specials

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Average viewers (millions)	Average AI

Episodes

Ninth Doctor

In 2005, the BBC relaunched Doctor Who after a 15-year absence from episodic television, with Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, and Mal Young as executive producers, Phil Collinson as producer, and Christopher Eccleston taking the lead role of the Ninth Doctor.

The revival is a continuation of the original series. The new series is formatted to a 16:9 widescreen display ratio, and a standard episode length of 45 minutes. For the first time since the 1965–1966 season, each episode has a title, and most stand alone as complete stories. The show also returned to its traditional Saturday evening slot.

Series 1 (2005)

Main article: Doctor Who (series 1)

The 2005 series constitutes a loose story arc, dealing with the consequences of the Time War and the mystery of the seemingly omnipresent phrase 'Bad Wolf'.

Story	Episode	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions)	AI
157	1	"Rose"	Keith Boak	Russell T Davies	26 March 2005 (2005-03-26)	1.1	10.81	81
In the basement of the shop where she works, plastic mannequins begin to attack Rose Tyler. A mysterious man known as "the Doctor" rescues her and they flee the building, which he blows up. The next day Rose and her boyfriend, Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) visit the man named Clive (Mark Benton) who runs a conspiracy theory website about a man fitting the Doctor's description who has appeared throughout history. While Rose is talking to Clive, Mickey is kidnapped and replaced by a plastic duplicate. Rose meets the Doctor again where he reveals Mickey to be an Auton and he and Rose locate the Nestene Consciousness which controls the Autons: the London Eye. At this point, Autons come alive everywhere (mainly mannequins), and start killing other people. Rose saves the Doctor and many others the Autons had been killing and she decides to travel with the Doctor through time and space in his TARDIS.
158	2	"The End of the World"	Euros Lyn	Russell T Davies	2 April 2005 (2005-04-02)	1.2	7.97	79
The Doctor takes Rose to the year 5 billion where they land on a space station (Platform 1) which is orbiting the Earth and observing its destruction by the expanding Sun. Among the elite alien guests assembled to watch the phenomenon is Lady Cassandra (Zoë Wanamaker), who takes pride in being the last pure human, though she has received many operations that have altered her image. It is discovered that Cassandra, to receive money for her many operations, plans to let the guests die and then profit from the stock increases of their competitors. She releases discreet robotic spiders all over Platform 1, and they start interfering with the systems. She departs via teleportation and the spiders bring down the shields, causing harmful direct solar radiation to penetrate the station. The Doctor manages to reactivate the system and save Rose, after which he brings Cassandra back and she ruptures from the intense solar heat.
159	3	"The Unquiet Dead"	Euros Lyn	Mark Gatiss	9 April 2005 (2005-04-09)	1.3	8.86	80
The Doctor and Rose travel back to Cardiff in 1869, where a funeral parlour run by Gabriel Sneed (Alan David) with his clairvoyant servant girl Gwyneth (Eve Myles) contains corpses which have been animated by a mysterious blue vapour. Sneed and Gwyneth kidnap Rose and the Doctor teams up with Charles Dickens (Simon Callow) to track her down. In the funeral parlour the group is reunited and the Doctor determines that the blue vapour is the result of a being trying to cross a rift in spacetime the parlour is built on. They are revealed to be the Gelth, who animate bodies until they can build their own and are using Gwyneth as a bridge. As the Gelth respond negatively to gas, Gwyneth volunteers to ignite the gas which will kill all the Gelth, and the Doctor, Rose, and Dickens escape before the parlour is engulfed in flames.
160	4	"Aliens of London"	Keith Boak	Russell T Davies	16 April 2005 (2005-04-16)	1.4	7.63	81
The Doctor takes Rose back to her home, but they arrive a year after she left. Her mother Jackie (Camille Coduri) is furious with the Doctor, and Mickey has been suspected of murdering Rose. Rose and the Doctor witness a spaceship crash into Big Ben and fall into the River Thames. The Doctor suspects this is a trick and discovers that the ship was launched from earth and the pilot is a pig modified by alien technology. The Prime Minister cannot be located and is replaced by Joseph Green (David Verrey), while Margaret Blaine (Annette Badland) and Oliver Charles, other high-ranking members of the government, are also called. The group is revealed to be Slitheen, an alien family who have compressed themselves into human "suits".
5	"World War Three"	Keith Boak	Russell T Davies	23 April 2005 (2005-04-23)	1.5	7.98	82
The Doctor learns that the Slitheen are not invading Earth but rather raiding it for commercial gain. The Slitheen claim there is a threat to national security and request that the United Nations release the nuclear activation code so they can strike down a dangerous ship hovering over London. The Doctor speculates they will fire at other countries, start World War III and sell the remaining radioactive weapons. The Doctor helps Mickey hack online to fire a non-nuclear missile at 10 Downing Street to destroy the Slitheen gathered there, and the Doctor, Rose, and MP Harriet Jones (Penelope Wilton) manage to hide in a reinforced cabinet and survive. Meanwhile, the Doctor has earned Jackie's trust and she allows Rose to continue travelling with him.
161	6	"Dalek"	Joe Ahearne	Robert Shearman	30 April 2005 (2005-04-30)	1.6	8.63	84
The TARDIS is drawn off course by a signal and Rose and the Doctor end up near Salt Lake City, Utah in 2012, in an underground bunker owned by Henry van Statten (Corey Johnson), a rich collector of alien artefacts. The Doctor encounters his one living exhibit which the Doctor is horrified to discover is a Dalek that survived the Time War, the last survivor of a race of genetically manipulated mutants bound on purging the universe of all non-Dalek life and the Doctor's greatest enemy. One of van Statten's technicians Adam Mitchell (Bruno Langley) leads Rose to the Dalek, but she takes pity on it and touches it, allowing it to absorb her DNA and become active. The Dalek kills many soldiers before catching up with Rose, Adam and The Doctor. Rose becomes trapped with the Dalek, but it spares her life as it has gained sympathy from Rose's DNA and destroys itself. As the Doctor and Rose leave, Adam boards the TARDIS to avoid the closure of van Statten's Vault.
162	7	"The Long Game"	Brian Grant	Russell T Davies	7 May 2005 (2005-05-07)	1.7	8.01	81
The Doctor, Rose, and Adam travel to the year 200,000 and land on the space station Satellite 5, which controls journalism. Ever since the satellite began broadcasting, something has held the human race's attitude and technology back. The Editor (Simon Pegg) invites the Doctor and Rose to the elite Floor 500 where he holds them captive, explaining that he and a creature known as the Jagrafess have made through Satellite 5 the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire a place where the news has installed fear in the human race, keeping them in a closed society. Meanwhile, Adam has installed a port in his head and is transmitting all the knowledge on Satellite 5 to his parent's answering machine at home. Meanwhile, Cathica (Christine Adams) (another journalist with an info spike linked to Adam's) redirects the heat to Floor 500, allowing Rose and the Doctor to escape, while the Editor and the Jagrafess are destroyed by the heat. The Doctor is furious at Adam and returns him to his house, destroying the answering machine and banishing Adam from the TARDIS.
163	8	"Father's Day"	Joe Ahearne	Paul Cornell	14 May 2005 (2005-05-14)	1.8	8.06	83
Rose asks the Doctor to take her back to the day her father Pete Tyler (Shaun Dingwall) died in a hit and run accident, but when she saves him she creates a paradox. The TARDIS appears to be an ordinary police box and flying creatures known as Reapers appear and attempt to treat the wound in time and space by consuming everyone in it. Everyone hides in a church while the Doctor tries to summon the TARDIS. Jackie accuses Pete of having another daughter, and to prove that Rose is the same as the baby Rose, he puts the baby in the older Rose's arms, causing a bigger paradox, and the Doctor is taken by the reapers. Pete realises he must die for everything to be repaired, and throws himself in front of the car which has been appearing and reappearing around the corner of the church, causing the Doctor to return.
164	9	"The Empty Child"	James Hawes	Steven Moffat	21 May 2005 (2005-05-21)	1.9	7.11	84
Chasing a metal cylinder marked as "dangerous" through the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Rose land in London during The Blitz of World War II. Rose follows a young boy in a gas mask (Albert Valentine) who repeatedly asks if she is his mother; she climbs a rope which is attached to a barrage balloon that rises into the air. Meanwhile, the Doctor talks with a young woman named Nancy (Florence Hoath) who seems to know about the boy, whom she knows is connected to a bomb-like object which had fallen. Rose is rescued by a Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), a time agent-turned-con man who interests Rose in buying a valuable warship. Nancy directs the Doctor to a hospital where Dr Constantine (Richard Wilson) shows him patients with injuries and gas masks identical to the child's, who Nancy claims is her brother, Jamie. Rose and Jack arrive to save the Doctor as Constantine begins to transform like his patients had.
10	"The Doctor Dances"	James Hawes	Steven Moffat	28 May 2005 (2005-05-28)	1.10	6.86	85
Jack explains that he sent the metal object through the time vortex to attract "Time Agents" to this time period, where he would have them pay for the object, but before they could receive it, a bomb would fall on it. Jack claims that it is a perfectly safe and "empty" old medical transport, but the Doctor is suspicious. At the site where the transport is held, the Doctor realises that it once contained nanogenes that are able to heal wounds and deduces that the nanogenes attempted to heal Jamie, but thought that all humans should have similar injuries and gas masks. Nancy claims it is all her fault as she is actually Jamie's mother, which she admits in front of the child. As they hug, the nanogenes identify Nancy's DNA as being his mother's and reverse Jamie's transformation so that they resemble each other; the rest is done to all the others who had been converted. Jack captures the bomb that would have fallen on the site and the Doctor and Rose rescue him before it explodes, inviting him on the TARDIS.
165	11	"Boom Town"	Joe Ahearne	Russell T Davies	4 June 2005 (2005-06-04)	1.11	7.68	82
The Doctor, Rose, and Jack visit Cardiff to refuel the TARDIS at the rift, and Mickey meets them there. They discover that the Slitheen impersonating Margaret Blaine is now the mayor of Cardiff and capture her, suspicious of what she has done. The Doctor sees that she has created a nuclear power plant designed to open the rift and destroy Earth, and a device she would use to flee. Margaret objects to being taken back to her home planet, as she is considered a criminal there. After several failed attempts in killing the Doctor, Margaret requests to be taken to another planet. Jack sees the opportunity to use Margaret's extrapolator to speed up recharging the TARDIS, but this proves to be a trap as it was meant to send the nearest alien power source to the rift. As an earthquake strikes Cardiff, Margaret looks into the heart of the TARDIS, which gave her a second chance at life, restoring her back into an egg.
166	12	"Bad Wolf"	Joe Ahearne	Russell T Davies	11 June 2005 (2005-06-11)	1.12	6.81	85
The Doctor, Rose, and Jack wake up from amnesia into various reality television and game shows; the Doctor is in a Big Brother-like house, Rose is a contestant on The Weakest Link where those eliminated are thought to be disintegrated by the Anne Droid (Anne Robinson), and Jack is on a What Not to Wear-like show where two female robots (Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine) offer to give contestants a new image. The Doctor and Jack escape from their shows and find they are on Satellite 5 one hundred years later, where it is run by the Badwolf Corporation and known as the Game Station. The Doctor, Jack, and Big Brother contestant Lynda (Jo Joyner) find Rose as she is disintegrated on The Weakest Link and travel to Floor 500, where the Controller (Martha Cope) informs them that the contestants are not disintegrated but rather transmitted to a point in space. They learn that Rose has arrived on a ship containing Daleks and the Doctor vows to rescue her and destroy the Daleks, which prompt the fleet of 400,000 Daleks to begin invading Earth.
13	"The Parting of the Ways"	Joe Ahearne	Russell T Davies	18 June 2005 (2005-06-18)	1.13	6.91	89
The Doctor and Jack take the TARDIS to Rose, where they bring her back to the Game Station after talking to the Dalek Emperor. The Doctor prepares to destroy the Daleks using a Delta Wave and asks Rose to hold something on the TARDIS console for him while he fetches something outside; while she is inside, he uses his sonic screwdriver to send her back home to safety. The Daleks invade the Game Station, killing Lynda and Jack among many others. As Rose regains her composure at home, she notices the words "Bad Wolf" around the area where the TARDIS has landed and realises it is a message. With the help of Jackie, Mickey, and a tow truck, she is able to pry open the heart of the TARDIS in hope that its telepathic circuits would see her desire to return to the Doctor. Rose becomes empowered by the Time Vortex and returns to the Doctor, where she uses the vortex's power to destroy all the Daleks, revive Jack (also making him immortal), and scatter the words "Bad Wolf" throughout time and space to lead herself here. To prevent the power from killing Rose, the Doctor absorbs it by kissing her; she wakes up in the TARDIS as the time energy is destroying the Doctor's cells, forcing him to regenerate into the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant).

Tenth Doctor

The Tenth Doctor was portrayed by David Tennant, who was cast before the first series aired.

Series 2 (2006)

Main article: Doctor Who (series 2)

The back-story for the spin-off series Torchwood is "seeded" in various episodes in the 2006 series. Each episode also has an accompanying online Tardisode.

Story	Episode	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions)	AI
167	—	"The Christmas Invasion"	James Hawes	Russell T Davies	25 December 2005 (2005-12-25)	2X	9.84	84
Rose and the newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor return to Rose's house, where Rose, her mother Jackie (Camille Coduri) and her former boyfriend Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) carry him inside to rest. When out shopping, Rose and Mickey are attacked by Santa robots; the Doctor theorises that energy from his regeneration has lured them here. Prime Minister Harriet Jones (Penelope Wilton) is threatened by the leader of the Sycorax to give them half of the Earth's population as slaves; Harriet tries to negotiate and is transmatted on their ship. Rose, Mickey, and Jackie drag the Doctor onto the TARDIS, but the TARDIS is detected by the Sycorax and they transport it to their ship, with Rose, Mickey, and the Doctor inside. After the Doctor has fully recovered, he challenges the Sycorax leader to a sword fight for the future of the Earth, which he eventually wins. However, the Sycorax ship is destroyed against the Doctor's wishes by Harriet Jones, who had called Torchwood on the matter.
168	1	"New Earth"	James Hawes	Russell T Davies	15 April 2006 (2006-04-15)	2.1	8.62	85
The Doctor and Rose go to New Earth, the planet which humanity inhabited after the Earth's destruction by the Sun. They go into a hospital in New New York, where Rose meets the villain Cassandra (Zoë Wanamaker) again. Cassandra possesses Rose's body as she is in need of one, but the Doctor is suspicious of "Rose"'s actions. They discover that the hospital holds hundreds of artificially-grown humans that have been infected with diseases so the Sisters of Plenitude can find their cures. "Rose" releases several of the humans as a distraction, but they release others and a zombie-like attack begins. The Doctor sprays the infected humans with the solution from a disinfectant shower, curing them. The Doctor orders Cassandra out of Rose and she transfers her consciousness to her servant Chip (Sean Gallagher), but his cloned body fails and Cassandra accepts her death.
169	2	"Tooth and Claw"	Euros Lyn	Russell T Davies	22 April 2006 (2006-04-22)	2.2	9.24	83
The Doctor and Rose end up in Scotland in 1879, where Queen Victoria (Pauline Collins) invites them to Torchwood Estate. Unknown to them, the estate has been captured by a group of monks who have brought a werewolf in hopes to infect Queen Victoria. The Doctor notices the trap and tries to shield himself, Victoria, and Rose from the werewolf. He learns that the estate was designed as a trap for the werewolf as it contains a large telescope which, with Victoria's Koh-i-Noor diamond and full moonlight, can force the werewolf into a human form. Though they save her, Queen Victoria is appalled by the Doctor and Rose's modern eccentricities and founds Torchwood Institute to defend Britain from further alien attacks.
170	3	"School Reunion"	James Hawes	Toby Whithouse	29 April 2006 (2006-04-29)	2.3	8.31	85
The Doctor works undercover as a teacher in a school which Mickey believes is suspicious. Rose, working as a dinner lady, notices the cafeteria's chips have an adverse effect on other members of the kitchen staff, while the Doctor notes the chips seem to make the students more intelligent. The success of headmaster Mr Finch (Anthony Head) has aroused media attention; investigative journalist and the Doctor's former companion Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) arrives at the school and discovers the TARDIS one night. She and her robotic dog K-9 join up with the Doctor, Rose, and Mickey and they discover that the teachers are actually Krillitanes and the chips are coated with Krillitane oil, intended to make the children smart enough so they can decode the "Skasis Paradigm", a theory of everything, which will give the Krillitanes full control of time and space. The Doctor refuses to join the Krillitanes and evacuates the children of the school, after which K-9 detonates the container of the chip oil which destroys the Krillitanes, the school, and K-9. Sarah Jane declines the Doctor's offer to travel with him and suggests that Mickey do so instead, and the Doctor gives her a brand new model of K-9.
171	4	"The Girl in the Fireplace"	Euros Lyn	Steven Moffat	6 May 2006 (2006-05-06)	2.4	7.90	84
The Doctor, Rose, and Mickey arrive on an abandoned spaceship which contains several "time windows" into the life of Madame de Pompadour, known as "Reinette" (Sophia Myles). The Doctor first enters her bedroom through an 18th-century fireplace when she is seven years old and saves her from a clockwork man which has hidden under her bed. On the ship, the Doctor and his companions discover more time windows into Reinette's life and see that the clockwork droids continue stalking her, but do not consider her "complete". The Doctor discovers that the ship's human crew have died out and the droids have recycled some of their organs for use in the ship but still needs Reinette's brain to be fully functional. The brain must be 37 years old, the age of the ship; the ship is actually named after Madame de Pompadour. The Doctor manages to arrive at her 37th birthday costume ball and save her from the droids, who shut down because they have no way of returning to their ship.
172	5	"Rise of the Cybermen"	Graeme Harper	Tom MacRae	13 May 2006 (2006-05-13)	2.5	9.22	86
A problem causes the Doctor, Rose, and Mickey to reach a parallel universe, in which most of the people of London wear EarPods that feeds information directly into the wearer's brain and Rose's father Pete (Shaun Dingwall) is still alive. The EarPods are designed by John Lumic (Roger Lloyd-Pack), who is trying to give them an "upgrade" which will ultimately turn the humans into Cybermen. Though he has not received permission to do this, he has been abducting and converting numerous homeless people. Mickey is mistaken for his parallel universe self Ricky and is taken by Jake Simmonds (Andrew Hayden-Smith), a member of a gang called the "Preachers" who are aware of the dangers of the EarPods. Cybermen begin attacking at the parallel universe Jackie's birthday party, at which the Doctor and Rose are posing as waiters. They, along with Pete, escape and run into Mickey and the Preachers, but the Cybermen close in on them.
6	"The Age of Steel"	Graeme Harper	Tom MacRae	20 May 2006 (2006-05-20)	2.6	7.63	86
Escaping from the Cybermen, the group go to the Battersea Power Station, where Lumic has ordered the people of London to go for conversion into Cybermen. On the way, Ricky is killed by the Cybermen. The group splits up to destroy the EarPod transmitter in the zeppelin; Mickey and Jake board the zeppelin, Rose and Pete pose as humans marching for conversion, and the Doctor and Mrs. Moore head to Lumic. Eventually, Mrs. Moore is killed and the Doctor, Rose and Pete are captured by the Cybermen and taken to Lumic, who has become the Cyber Controller. Mickey and Jake disable the transmitter, freeing the humans who had not been converted. The Doctor tricks Lumic into giving the inhibitor code which Mickey hears on surveillance and sends to Rose's phone; the Doctor plugs the phone into the computer systems which changes the signal and sends the Cybermen into despair. The group flees, leaving Lumic to his death. Mickey decides to stay and help fix the parallel universe with Jake, as he understands Rose prefers the Doctor.
173	7	"The Idiot's Lantern"	Euros Lyn	Mark Gatiss	27 May 2006 (2006-05-27)	2.7	6.76	84
The Doctor and Rose land in Muswell Hill, London in 1953 on the day before Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. The Doctor befriends teenager Tommy Connolly (Rory Jennings), whose grandmother is hidden because she lacks any facial features and has no brain activity, a phenomenon that is common with those who have purchased television sets sold cheap for the coronation from Magpie Electricals, owned by Mr Magpie (Ron Cook). Rose, investigating the shop, finds that Mr Magpie is under the influence of an entity known as "The Wire" (Maureen Lipman), a refugee who has converted herself to an electrical form and is using the televisions and hopefully the upcoming coronation to consume enough minds to rebuild its body; she takes Rose's face as well. In discovery of this the Doctor is outraged and foils the Wire's plan with a device he creates, and those whose minds and faces were consumed are returned and London can safely watch the coronation.
174	8	"The Impossible Planet"	James Strong	Matt Jones	3 June 2006 (2006-06-03)	2.8	6.32	85
The Doctor and Rose arrive on a base on a planet which is impossibly orbiting a black hole. The crew of the base, who are there on an expedition to drill to the middle of the planet, is led by Captain Zachary Cross Flane (Shaun Parkes). A race of aliens known as the Ood serve them. A quake strikes the planet, causing several sections of the base, including the one where the TARDIS was, to fall into the planet. As the drill nears the planet's centre, the Ood begin foretelling the awakening of a "Beast", which possesses archaeologist Toby Zed (Will Thorp) and later the Ood. The drilling finishes, and the Doctor offers to go with Ida Scott (Claire Rushbrook) to the depths of the planet, where they discover a disc with unreadable markings found on the base and the possessed Toby's face. The Doctor believes the disc to be a door, and as it begins to open the possessed Toby tells Rose that the planet has begun to fall into the black hole and the voice of the Beast (Gabriel Woolf) announces that he is free.
9	"The Satan Pit"	James Strong	Matt Jones	10 June 2006 (2006-06-10)	2.9	6.08	86
Ida and the Doctor investigate the door and Rose and the other members of the crew witness a force leaving Toby's body and assume that he is no longer possessed. The Doctor descends into the dark pit and the Beast speaks to him, revealing he is the epitome of evil of several religions and has been sealed inside the planet, but is seeking to escape. The Doctor runs out of rope and believes he can survive the drop and falls, the news of which distresses Rose. Most of the crew and Rose escape from the Ood and board and launch an escape rocket. The Doctor discovers he has survived the crash and finds the physical form of the Beast, who reveals that his consciousness has managed to escape. Having faith in Rose, the Doctor triggers the sequence for the Beast and the planet to fall into the black hole, but as the Beast's consciousness is inside Toby the rocket begins to pull toward the black hole. Rose realises this and releases Toby from the rocket, and the Doctor finds the TARDIS in the pit and uses it to rescue Rose.
175	10	"Love & Monsters"	Dan Zeff	Russell T Davies	17 June 2006 (2006-06-17)	2.10	6.66	76
Through his video diary, Elton Pope (Marc Warren) tells how he first saw the Doctor in his living room when he was a boy, and that he plans to find the Doctor again. Through Internet searches he finds Ursula Blake (Shirley Henderson), who has also had past experiences with the Doctor. Elton, Ursula, and three other members who have had encounters with the Doctor, form the London Investigation 'N' Detective Agency (LINDA) to discuss these encounters, but their meetings soon become more social. One day a man known as Victor Kennedy (Peter Kay) interrupts one of the group's meetings and reinvigorates LINDA's purpose to locate the Doctor. Later, two members of the group mysteriously go missing, and one day Ursula and Elton return to the meeting room to retrieve Ursula's phone. There Kennedy reveals himself to be an Abzorbaloff, who has absorbed the other three LINDA members. Ursula receives the same fate and the Abzorbaloff corners Elton, but the TARDIS appears and the Doctor discovers the Abzorbaloff's cane is a field generator and Elton breaks it, destroying the creature. The Doctor manages to preserve Ursula in a paving slab, which Elton takes home.
176	11	"Fear Her"	Euros Lyn	Matthew Graham	24 June 2006 (2006-06-24)	2.11	7.14	83
The Doctor and Rose arrive in a London neighbourhood just prior to the start of the 2012 Olympic Games. Children have been disappearing and the Doctor and Rose discover the source is a 12-year-old girl named Chloe Webber (Abisola Agbaje), who can cause people to disappear by drawing them. The Doctor finds that she is possessed by an Isolus, an alien life form that has crashed on Earth and can relate to Chloe's loneliness. For the Isolus to leave Chloe's body, they must find the Isolus' pod and give it power; Rose finds it under just-poured tar in the street and is able to power it by throwing it into the Olympic Torch as it comes by the street, giving the pod heat and emotional strength. As the missing children reappear, the demon-like drawing of Chloe's violent and dead father comes to life, but Chloe's mother (Nina Sosanya) calms Chloe's fears. The Isolus peacefully leaves Chloe's body.
177	12	"Army of Ghosts"	Graeme Harper	Russell T Davies	1 July 2006 (2006-07-01)	2.12	8.19	86
The Doctor and Rose return to London and visit Jackie and learn that for a few months the Earth has experienced silhouettes which appear at a certain time each day around the world. The public have accepted these as ghosts. However, the Doctor thinks they are the impressions of something forcing its way into the universe and tracks the source to the headquarters of a secret organisation known as Torchwood. Torchwood's director Yvonne Hartman (Tracey-Ann Oberman) reveals that the ghosts are a result of a breach in the universe which a spherical "void ship", kept at Torchwood, has arrived. Three employees of Torchwood become manipulated by an unseen party and open the breach, which breaks down and causes millions of the ghosts to appear worldwide and shift into their true form of the Cybermen from the parallel universe. However, the Cybermen merely followed the void ship through the breach, and the ship is revealed to contain four Daleks.
13	"Doomsday"	Graeme Harper	Russell T Davies	8 July 2006 (2006-07-08)	2.13	8.22	89
The four Daleks, later identified as the Cult of Skaro, have brought a device known as the Genesis Ark through the breach and declare war on the Cybermen and the two races soon begin fighting worldwide. Meanwhile, the Doctor has discovered that Jake Simmonds, Pete Tyler, and Mickey - who masqueraded as a Torchwood employee and is with Rose and the Daleks - have been able to travel between the universes. The Cult of Skaro is keeping Rose and Mickey alive because they, being time travellers, would activate the Genesis Ark, which the Daleks are incapable of as it is stolen Time Lord technology. The Doctor plans to open the breach, which will pull in anyone who has crossed the Void including the Daleks, Cybermen, and Rose's family, and then close the breach forever. Rose refuses to reside in the parallel universe and stays to help the Doctor, but she is unable to hold on and becomes marooned in the parallel universe forever. The Doctor is able to use the power of a supernova to transmit his image through one of the final breaches, and the two share a tearful goodbye before a mysterious woman named Donna Noble in her wedding dress appears in the TARDIS.

Series 3 (2007)

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This series introduces Martha Jones and deals with the Face of Boe's final message, the mysterious Mr. Saxon, and the Doctor dealing with the loss of Rose Tyler.

Story	Episode	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions)	AI
178	—	"The Runaway Bride"	Euros Lyn	Russell T Davies	25 December 2006 (2006-12-25)	3X	9.35	84
Donna (Catherine Tate), a woman about to walk down the aisle on her wedding day, suddenly materialises in the TARDIS, much to the shock of both her and the Doctor, who has just said his final goodbyes to Rose Tyler. While trying to get her back to her wedding, the Time Lord discovers that Donna has unwittingly been placed into the center of an alien plot to release an alien spider's offspring trapped in the centre of the Earth, which would thereby destroy the planet. The two must face the Empress of Racnoss (Sarah Parish), the alien spider and the last of her kind, together to stop it.
179	1	"Smith and Jones"	Charles Palmer	Russell T Davies	31 March 2007 (2007-03-31)	3.1	8.71	88
The Doctor goes undercover at the Royal Hope Hospital in London, where he meets medical student Martha Jones. The entire hospital is transported to the moon by an alien courier connected with the Judoon, a brutal outer-space police force, who are searching for the blood-sucking Florence Finnegan (Anne Reid). Mrs Finnegan is a Plasmavore and has been assimilating the human blood of hospital workers. The Doctor allows her to drink his blood and she is detected as the Doctor is not human. Martha revives the Doctor using CPR and he invites her to join him for a trip in the TARDIS in return.
180	2	"The Shakespeare Code"	Charles Palmer	Gareth Roberts	7 April 2007 (2007-04-07)	3.2	7.23	87
The Doctor and Martha land in 1599 London, Elizabethan England, where they discover that William Shakespeare (Dean Lennox Kelly) is under influence of witch-like aliens known as Carrionites who are forcing him to finish Love's Labour's Won using a poppet. The Doctor learns that they are using the powerful words of the play to bring back their imprisoned species; the words spoken by the actors are instructions which open a portal. The Doctor convinces Shakespeare to use his powerful gift of words to close the portal.
181	3	"Gridlock"	Richard Clark	Russell T Davies	14 April 2007 (2007-04-14)	3.3	8.41	85
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Martha to New Earth in the year Five Billion and Fifty-Three, where the Face of Boe finally reveals "The Great Secret" to the Time Lord: "You are not alone", meaning there is another living Time Lord. Meanwhile, terrifying beasts are lurking beneath the city of New New York – creatures that the Doctor believed he defeated many, many years ago.
182	4	"Daleks in Manhattan"	James Strong	Helen Raynor	21 April 2007 (2007-04-21)	3.4	6.69	86
The Doctor and Martha arrive in 1930's New York, where they expect to see dancing girls on Broadway and the dire effects of the Depression, and instead encounter trouble as the Daleks return once more, this time attempting to create a Dalek/Human hybrid.
5	"Evolution of the Daleks"	James Strong	Helen Raynor	28 April 2007 (2007-04-28)	3.5	6.97	85
Concluding part to Daleks in Manhattan. The Dalek plan is in full force until the human-Dalek hybrid, Dalek Sec, begins raising doubts among the three remaining Daleks. When Dalek Sec asks for the Doctor's assistance in relocating them to a new planet, the other Daleks rebel, and The Doctor, Martha and their New York friends must fight to save the planet from the Daleks and a new type of foe.
183	6	"The Lazarus Experiment"	Richard Clark	Stephen Greenhorn	5 May 2007 (2007-05-05)	3.6	7.19	86
A 76-year-old scientist, Doctor Lazarus of LazLabs, has created a device that appears to restore eternal youth. However, the process doesn't go as planned, and The Doctor and Martha must stop Lazarus before it's too late.
184	7	"42"	Graeme Harper	Chris Chibnall	19 May 2007 (2007-05-19)	3.7	7.41	85
The Doctor and Martha answer a distress call and find themselves on a cargo ship hurtling towards the center of a star. The Doctor only has 42 minutes to save Martha and the rest of the ship's crew from an inevitable doom. The key lies behind the universe's deadliest "pub quiz", but the situation is a lot hotter than it appears.
185	8	"Human Nature"	Charles Palmer	Paul Cornell	26 May 2007 (2007-05-26)	3.8	7.74	86
John Smith is a teacher in the year 1913 who dreams of adventures that involve an alien time traveller who calls himself the Doctor and journeys through time and space in a blue box, picking up numerous companions along the way. As John and Joan Redfern (Jessica Hynes), the school nurse, begin to develop feelings for one another, a mysterious, other-worldly family with an army of animated scarecrows make their presence known, and Martha must find a way to keep the TARDIS hidden while still maintaining her school-maid identity.
9	"The Family of Blood"	Charles Palmer	Paul Cornell	2 June 2007 (2007-06-02)	3.9	7.21	86
The Great War arrives a year ahead of time as the Family of Blood takes over the bodies of four individuals and attack the school, all while the Doctor remains unaware of his true being. Martha tries to convince the Doctor that the "dreams" he has recorded in his book are real and that it is his current life as a school master that is the fantasy. As time runs out, John Smith faces an impossible decision while fighting to retain his identity.
186	10	"Blink"	Hettie MacDonald	Steven Moffat	9 June 2007 (2007-06-09)	3.10	6.62	87
In an abandoned house, the Weeping Angels wait. The only hope to stop them is a young woman named Sally Sparrow and her friend Larry Nightingale. The only catch: The Weeping Angels can move in the blink of an eye. To defeat the ruthless enemy – with only a half of a conversation from the Tenth Doctor as help – the one rule is this: don't turn your back, don't look away and don't blink!
187	11	"Utopia"	Graeme Harper	Russell T Davies	16 June 2007 (2007-06-16)	3.11	7.84	87
Professor Yana (Derek Jacobi) is trying to save mankind in the very distant future at the end of the universe, but is he what he seems? Featuring the return of Captain Jack Harkness.
12	"The Sound of Drums"	Colin Teague	Russell T Davies	23 June 2007 (2007-06-23)	3.12	7.51	87
The Doctor, Martha, and Jack return to the 21st Century, just four days after leaving. They arrive to find that they've missed the election, and the new Prime Minister, Harold Saxon (John Simm), is the Master, the Doctor's old enemy, who was seen to regenerate in the previous episode.
13	"Last of the Time Lords"	Colin Teague	Russell T Davies	30 June 2007 (2007-06-30)	3.13	8.61	88
It's been a year since The Master unleashed the mysterious Toclafane onto Earth. With the human race and the Doctor enslaved under the Master's control, Martha Jones secretly returns to England. The Toclafane are building a fleet of rockets they will use to attack other worlds, and The Master takes great pleasure in humiliating the Doctor and has Martha's family doing menial chores. However, Martha turns the Master's mind-control satellite technology against him; having travelled the world to gather support for the captured Doctor, she has instructed them to think of the Doctor just as the Master intends to launch his fleet, so that their combined thoughts, travelling through the network, are able to give him immense powers. The events of the Master's reign are undone so that no one who was not directly involved will remember, and Lucy Saxon, the Master's wife, shoots him dead.

Series 4 (2008)

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This series explores the coincidences binding the Doctor and Donna together. There is also the loose story arc of both planets and bees disappearing.

Story	Episode	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions)	AI
188	—	"Voyage of the Damned"	James Strong	Russell T Davies	25 December 2007 (2007-12-25)	4X	13.31	86
The Doctor finds his TARDIS colliding with an interstellar replica of the famous ocean liner Titanic orbiting present-day Earth, during a Christmas party. With the help of a waitress named Astrid (Kylie Minogue) and several passengers, the Doctor must take on an enemy called the Heavenly Host as the lives of the Titanic crew and those on Earth are in danger. The angels have been tasked with killing everyone aboard and crashing the space liner into the Earth. The reason why is not obvious though the ship's owner, Max Capricorn, has his reasons. Can the Doctor stop the Christmas inferno?
189	1	"Partners in Crime"	James Strong	Russell T Davies	5 April 2008 (2008-04-05)	4.1	9.14	88
With a new weight-loss pill tested in London by Adipose Industries, the Doctor goes to investigate the sinister truth behind the product, only to find out that his former companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) is investigating as well. Together, they attempt to stop businesswoman Miss Foster (Sarah Lancashire) from killing thousands of people in London during the birth of the Adipose, short white aliens made from body fat.
190	2	"The Fires of Pompeii"	Colin Teague	James Moran	12 April 2008 (2008-04-12)	4.3	9.04	87
The Doctor and Donna land in Pompeii during the 79AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The Doctor's activities in Pompeii are impeded by the rock-like Pyrovile and their allies, the Sybilline Sisterhood, who are using the volcano to convert the humans to Pyroviles. The Doctor is faced with a moral dilemma: whether to rescue himself and all of Pompeii from the situation and leave the Pyroviles to have their way, or to make Vesuvius erupt, killing the Pyroviles and the population of Pompeii- himself and Donna included.
191	3	"Planet of the Ood"	Graeme Harper	Keith Temple	19 April 2008 (2008-04-19)	4.2	7.50	87
The Doctor and Donna arrive on the Ood-Sphere in the year 4126. They arrive at a factory where the Ood are prepared for sale to anyone willing to pay the price. When they find a group of unprocessed Ood, they become horrified at the alterations performed and resolve to free the Ood.
192	4	"The Sontaran Stratagem"	Douglas Mackinnon	Helen Raynor	26 April 2008 (2008-04-26)	4.4	7.06	87
The Doctor gets a call from previous travelling companion, now medical officer at UNIT, Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) with a request that he return to Earth immediately. She requests the Doctor's help in investigating ATMOS (Atmospheric Omission System) and why 52 people around the world all died simultaneously. The Doctor learns that the Sontarans are planning to take over the Earth. They take Martha prisoner and she is cloned. Donna meanwhile misses her family and decides to pay them a visit.
5	"The Poison Sky"	Douglas Mackinnon	Helen Raynor	3 May 2008 (2008-05-03)	4.5	6.53	88
Continuing from the end of "The Sontaran Stratagem", the Sontarans launch the attack with their poison gas slowly encircling the Earth. The Doctor—impeded by a Sontaran-controlled clone of Martha—aids UNIT in repelling the Sontarans in the ATMOS factory while Donna infiltrates the Sontarans' warship. He decides to try to burn the poison gas that now encircles the Earth and, with the help of the Sontarans' teleportation system, send them a little surprise as well. At the end of it all, both Martha and Donna have to decide if they want to stay with the Doctor.
193	6	"The Doctor's Daughter"	Alice Troughton	Stephen Greenhorn	10 May 2008 (2008-05-10)	4.6	7.33	88
The TARDIS, as seen before, seems to display a mind of its own and whisks the Doctor, Donna, and the Time Lord's former companion Martha Jones to the planet Messaline, in the midst of a savage war between humans and the fish-like Hath. Martha is abducted by the Hath shortly after the time travellers arrive. Rescuing Martha becomes the Doctor and Donna's main priority, as well as attempting to put a stop to the ugly war that has consumed the planet. But that would have been complicated enough had it not been for the fact that the humans had just used the Doctor's DNA to create a warrior clone, Jenny (Georgia Moffett).
194	7	"The Unicorn and the Wasp"	Graeme Harper	Gareth Roberts	17 May 2008 (2008-05-17)	4.7	8.41	86
The Doctor and Donna travel to December 1926 and meet the renowned murder mystery writer Agatha Christie (Fenella Woolgar), who is attending a party at Lady Eddison's (Felicity Kendal) country manor. They investigate a jewel robbery perpetrated by the "Unicorn" (Robina Redmond, portrayed by Felicity Jones) and a spree of murders committed by an extraterrestrial wasp (Reverend Golightly, portrayed by Tom Goodman-Hill), and discover, in true Agatha Christie's fashion, that the solution to the murder and the meaning of Agatha's famous disappearance are found in a false identity and events that occurred long ago.
195	8	"Silence in the Library"	Euros Lyn	Steven Moffat	31 May 2008 (2008-05-31)	4.9	6.27	89
The Doctor and Donna land in the 51st century to visit the greatest library in the universe, encompassing an entire planet, but are baffled when they find it deserted. To the best he can determine, the library has been closed for 100 years, so the arrival of a team of archaeologists led by River Song (Alex Kingston) comes as something of a surprise. They discover the Vashta Nerada, carnivorous creatures living in the shadows, are responsible. All they have is one warning - count the shadows.
9	"Forest of the Dead"	Euros Lyn	Steven Moffat	7 June 2008 (2008-06-07)	4.10	7.84	89
Continuing from the end of "Silence in the Library", the Doctor and the team of archaeologists flee the Vashta Nerada, while Donna finds herself trapped in an alternate reality, in the care of Doctor Moon (Colin Salmon). As the Doctor progresses closer to the library's command centre, he discovers that the alternate reality—and the missing people—are sustained by CAL (Eve Newton). The solution to it all lies in understanding what the computer has been telling them all along.
196	10	"Midnight"	Alice Troughton	Russell T Davies	14 June 2008 (2008-06-14)	4.8	8.05	86
The Doctor and Donna are taking a bit of a break from their adventures and spending a bit of time on the planet Midnight. The Doctor leaves Donna at a spa while he takes a four-hour trip to the beautiful Sapphire Waterfalls. When the vehicle stops for no apparent reason, the passengers hear a noise coming from outside the vehicle and begin to panic. When an unknown lifeform capable of stealing voices takes control of Sky Silvestry (Lesley Sharp), the passengers' paranoia and fear know no bounds, and the focus of their solution is to eliminate the Doctor.
197	11	"Turn Left"	Graeme Harper	Russell T Davies	21 June 2008 (2008-06-21)	4.11	8.09	88
On a visit to the Chino-planet Shan-Shen, Donna agrees to have her fortune read by a fortune teller (Chipo Chung). She inexplicably finds herself in an alternate timeline, where she never meets the Doctor and saving his life, thus resulting in alien invasions and other disasters, which the Doctor wasn't around to stop. The Doctor's previous companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), who has managed to travel from her parallel universe, works with Donna to restore the status quo and warn the Doctor of impending doom.
198	12	"The Stolen Earth"	Graeme Harper	Russell T Davies	28 June 2008 (2008-06-28)	4.12	8.78	91
The universe is beginning to crumble and the Earth is stolen, along with twenty-six other planets, by Davros (Julian Bleach), creator and commander of the Daleks. As the Doctor and Donna try to find Earth, the Doctor's previous companions and what comes to be called the Doctor's private army--Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman), and Rose Tyler--convene together to contact the Doctor and mount a defence against the Daleks. However, the wounded Doctor is forced to regenerate.
13	"Journey's End"	Graeme Harper	Russell T Davies	5 July 2008 (2008-07-05)	4.13	10.57	91
At the beginning of the episode the Doctor aborts a regeneration halfway through to heal himself from a Dalek attack. The Doctor and his companions prepare to do battle with Davros and the Daleks, who are out to destroy everything and everyone in the universe other than themselves. All seems lost when the Daleks apparently destroy the TARDIS, but it's not that simple, as an empowered Donna and a half-human Doctor who formed from the Doctor's regeneration take control and face the Dalek menace head on. The two Doctors, Donna, Jack, Rose, Martha, and Sarah Jane, along with Rose's ex-boyfriend Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) and mother Jackie Tyler (Camille Coduri), attempt to foil Davros' plans to destroy reality itself. However, Donna has her mind wiped of all her adventures with the Doctor because otherwise the Time Lord knowledge will overwhelm and kill her.

Specials (2008–2010)

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The specials focus on the "four knocks" and the death of the Tenth Doctor. From "Planet of the Dead", episodes were filmed in HD.

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Eleventh Doctor

The Eleventh Doctor was portrayed by Matt Smith. Steven Moffat took over as showrunner from the fifth series.

Series 5 (2010)

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This series deals with cracks spreading throughout time, the Pandorica and the Silence which are mentioned in various episodes.

Story	Episode	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions)	AI
203	1	"The Eleventh Hour"	Adam Smith	Steven Moffat	3 April 2010 (2010-04-03)	1.1	10.09	86
The failing TARDIS crashlands outside the house of seven-year-old Amelia Pond (Caitlin Blackwood), who welcomes newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor into her house to investigate the crack in her bedroom wall. He must use the TARDIS to regulate its engines, and promises he will return in five minutes which Amelia waits for. However, the TARDIS takes him twelve years into the future, where he joins the adult "Amy" Pond and her boyfriend Rory Williams in capturing the shapeshifting alien known as Prisoner Zero who has escaped from the crack in Amy's wall and the failure of which will lead to the destruction of Earth by the galactic police force known as the Atraxi. After the Earth is saved, the Doctor tests the newly remodelled TARDIS and accidentally returns for Amy two years later, the night before her wedding to Rory, and where she joins him for the promised travels of space and time.
204	2	"The Beast Below"	Andrew Gunn	Steven Moffat	10 April 2010 (2010-04-10)	1.2	8.42	86
The Doctor takes Amy to the distant future, where they explore the Starship UK, a spaceship holding the population of Britain (with the exception of Scotland) after they fled Earth due to dangerous solar flares. They discover that the ship is guided by a Star Whale, who is being tortured out of fear that when let to make its own decisions it will abandon them. Believing that the future cannot go on this way, the Doctor prepares to render Star Whale brain-dead so it will continue to operate the ship but not feel it; however, Amy discovers that it is willing to serve the ship as it could not stand the children crying because of the solar flares.
205	3	"Victory of the Daleks"	Andrew Gunn	Mark Gatiss	17 April 2010 (2010-04-17)	1.3	8.21	84
The Doctor and Amy respond to a call from Winston Churchill (Ian McNeice) and visit him during the London Blitz, where he has employed "Ironsides", a scientific creation of Professor Bracewell (Bill Paterson) but which the Doctor recognises as his arch-enemies the Daleks. The Daleks reveal their plan to detonate a device built around Bracewell, who is revealed to be an android, and destroy planet Earth. As the device begins to activate, the Doctor and Amy convince Bracewell that he is human, which deactivates the device.
206	4	"The Time of Angels"	Adam Smith	Steven Moffat	24 April 2010 (2010-04-24)	1.4	8.59	87
River Song (Alex Kingston), a woman from the Doctor's future, summons the Doctor and Amy to help her and Father Octavian (Iain Glen) and his group of militarized clerics destroy the last Weeping Angel in the site of the crashed ship Byzantium on the planet Alfava Metraxis. However, it is revealed that all statues in the stone labyrinth where the ship has crashed are Angels and are becoming more powerful from the radiation leaking from the ship. As the Angels surround the group and several clerics are revealed to be dead, the Doctor destroys the gravity globe that had been causing the labyrinth not to be affected by gravity.
5	"Flesh and Stone"	Adam Smith	Steven Moffat	1 May 2010 (2010-05-01)	1.5	8.50	86
In continuation from "The Time of Angels", the group finds themselves thirty feet above at the opening of the Byzantium, which they enter to try escaping from the Weeping Angels. A crack very similar to the one in Amy's bedroom appears in the interior of the ship, which the Doctor discovers erases persons and objects from existence and was caused by an explosion on 26 June 2010. Meanwhile, it is discovered that a projection of an Angel had entered Amy's eye after she had looked into an Angel's eye in the previous episode, and the Doctor instructs her to keep her eyes closed. As the gravity fails, the Weeping Angels fall into the crack, erasing them from history and from Amy's eye, and the Doctor takes Amy to her house on her request. He resists her attempt to seduce him and discovers that the day of Amy and Rory's wedding is 26 June 2010.
207	6	"The Vampires of Venice"	Jonny Campbell	Toby Whithouse	8 May 2010 (2010-05-08)	1.6	7.68	86
The Doctor takes Amy and Rory to 16th century Venice as a romantic date, where they meet a man named Guido (Lucian Msamati) whose daughter Isabella (Alisha Bailey) was entered into the House of Calvierri, a school for girls. Guido is distressed because Isabella did not recognize him on the street and bore vampire-like fangs. The Doctor, Amy and Rory investigate the school, where they discover that the city's patron, Rosanna Calvierri (Helen McCrory), is a race of vampiric fish from another planet and has sealed off Venice in attempt to overtake it and make it a place for her race to live after they fled their planet because of the cracks in the universe. She transforms the girls admitted to her school into her race to become mates of ten thousand of her male children waiting in the water. Despite the Doctor's reasoning, she activates a storm which will flood Venice, but the Doctor deactivates the device and she sacrifices herself. As they leave, Amy asks Rory to stay and travel with her.
208	7	"Amy's Choice"	Catherine Morshead	Simon Nye	15 May 2010 (2010-05-15)	1.7	7.55	84
The Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves travelling between two realities; in one, Amy and Rory are happily married but are being pursued by elderly people possessed by aliens, while in another they are in a powerless TARDIS that will slowly crash into a cold star which will freeze them to death. A man known as the Dream Lord (Toby Jones) says that he has put them in this trap and they must decide which is real and which is fake and die in the false one to wake up in the real reality and escape the trap. When Rory dies in the future reality, Amy decides that it must be fake because she does not want a life without Rory. At the conclusion it is revealed that psychic pollen had entered the TARDIS and caused the dream state, and the Dream Lord is revealed to be a psychic manifestation of the Doctor's dark side and self-loathing.
209	8	"The Hungry Earth"	Ashley Way	Chris Chibnall	22 May 2010 (2010-05-22)	1.8	6.49	86
The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Wales in 2020, where Dr. Nasreen Chaudhry (Meera Syal) and Tony Mack (Robert Pugh) are drilling into the Earth for a mining experiment. Mack's son-in-law, Mo (Alun Raglan), had previously been dragged below the ground, which then happens to Amy. The Doctor discovers that reptilian humanoids the Silurians have been disturbed by the drilling project and reach the surface, where they kidnap Mo's son Elliot (Samuel Davies). Rory and the Doctor capture one known as Alaya (Neve McIntosh); the Doctor instructs Rory, Tony, and Mo's wife Ambrose (Nia Roberts) to leave Alaya alone as anything done to her may been seen as an act of war. As a Silurian is about to vivisect Amy as he had done to Mo, the Doctor takes Nasreen on the TARDIS below where they discover an immense Silurian civilisation.
9	"Cold Blood"	Ashley Way	Chris Chibnall	29 May 2010 (2010-05-29)	1.9	7.49	85
Amy and Mo escape and discover Elliot is being held in an observation chamber. The Doctor is captured and ordered to execution by Alaya's sister Restac (Neve McIntosh), but Amy and Mo interrupt the trial. They contact Rory, Tony, and Ambrose to inform them they are sending a transport up for they and Alaya, the completion of which will leave them all free to return to the surface. However, Ambrose had killed Alaya out of revenge and they return her body to her people. A deal is made that the Silurians will hibernate for a thousand years as humanity was not ready to share the planet with them. Tony and Nasreen decide to stay and hibernate as well. As they leave with Elliot, they find a crack in the cavern which the Doctor reaches into to investigate and pulls out what is later revealed to be a piece of the TARDIS. Before they leave, Restac shoots Rory and he dies and is consumed by the crack, erasing him from existence and Amy's memory altogether.
210	10	"Vincent and the Doctor"	Jonny Campbell	Richard Curtis	5 June 2010 (2010-06-05)	1.10	6.76	86
When visiting a museum, the Doctor finds a creature in the window of a church in Vincent van Gogh's The Church at Auvers, and the Doctor takes Amy back to meet Vincent (Tony Curran) and defeat the evil creature. Welcoming them, van Gogh works with the Doctor to find the Krafyis, a lost and blind alien whom only van Gogh can see. Van Gogh kills the creature, though he empathises with its pain. Before leaving, the Doctor and Amy take van Gogh to the present where he discovers that people will admire him, but Amy is devastated to learn that he still committed suicide.
211	11	"The Lodger"	Catherine Morshead	Gareth Roberts	12 June 2010 (2010-06-12)	1.11	6.44	87
The TARDIS dematerialises with Amy still inside, leaving the Doctor stranded in present-day Colchester. He tracks the disturbance that caused the TARDIS to behave that way to the second floor of a flat, where people have been persuaded to go up to but have never come down. The Doctor rents part of the downstairs apartment occupied by Craig Owens (James Corden), a man who wishes to confess his love for his close friend Sophie (Daisy Haggard). When Sophie is lured up to the second floor, the Doctor and Craig enter it and discover that it is really a TARDIS-like spaceship disguised by perception filter and has been luring passerby to find a suitable pilot. When Craig does not want to leave this counteracts the ship's protocols, breaks the ship's hold on the house and allows the TARDIS to land. On the TARDIS, Amy discovers her engagement ring from Rory.
212	12	"The Pandorica Opens"	Toby Haynes	Steven Moffat	19 June 2010 (2010-06-19)	1.12	7.57	88
River Song summons the Doctor and Amy to 102 A.D. where she shows them a painting by Vincent van Gogh that depics the TARDIS exploding and contains the coordinates of Stonehenge. Underneath Stonehenge, they discover a prison box called the Pandorica, which is fabled to contain the most powerful and feared being in the universe. However, it is revealed that the Pandorica is empty and an Alliance of the Doctor's enemies arrive to put him in the Pandorica as the deadly cracks in the universe were linked to the TARDIS. The trap, which was constructed from Amy's memories, also contains an Auton version of Rory, who shoots Amy. Meanwhile, the TARDIS takes River outside Amy's house on 26 June 2010 and explodes, causing the cracks to widen and the universe to begin erasing.
13	"The Big Bang"	Toby Haynes	Steven Moffat	26 June 2010 (2010-06-26)	1.13	6.70	89
The Doctor from the future gives Rory his sonic screwdriver and Rory uses it to get him out of the Pandorica; they place the dead Amy in the Pandorica, which will force her to stay alive once her DNA is given in the form of seven-year-old Amelia in 1996 who places her hand on the Pandorica by way of instructions left by the Doctor. As the universe is collapsing, the Doctor rescues River from the time loop in the exploding TARDIS and realises that if he flew the Pandorica, which contains a restoration field, and collided with the exploding TARDIS it would restore the universe, though this process erases him from history as it closes the cracks. However, Amy is able to bring him back at her wedding with Rory due to something the Doctor told her as he was being erased, and the newly wedded couple continue to travel with him.

Series 6 (2011)

Main article: Doctor Who (series 6)

The series centres on River Song's relation to the Doctor, the Doctor's "death" and discovering what the Silence is. The original transmission of series 6 was split into two parts, with the first seven episodes airing April to June 2011 and the final six from late August to October 2011.

Story	Episode	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions)	AI
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213	–	"A Christmas Carol"	Toby Haynes	Steven Moffat	25 December 2010 (2010-12-25)	2.X	12.11	83
A space liner containing 4,000 people and Amy and Rory on their honeymoon becomes caught in an electrified cloud. The Doctor, summoned by Amy, lands on the planet beneath and discovers that the atmosphere is controlled by the miserly Kazran Sardick (Michael Gambon) who refuses to let the ship safely land. The Doctor travels back to Kazran's youth and attempts to alter his past to make him kinder, spending time adventuring with young Kazran and a young woman named Abigail (Katherine Jenkins), who was released from a cryogenic chamber as her singing abilities calm the sharks which occupy the atmosphere. However, Abigail was suffering from an incurable disease, and Kazran grows up bitter that she cannot be let out again or she will die; however, the Doctor shows Kazran's younger self what he would become and he decides to release the ship. As he needs his sonic screwdriver which had been eaten by a shark, the Doctor convinces Kazran to release Abigail to sing, and the two enjoy their last time together.
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214	1	"The Impossible Astronaut"	Toby Haynes	Steven Moffat	23 April 2011 (2011-04-23)	2.1	8.86	88
Amy, Rory and River Song receive invitations to the Utah desert where they meet the Doctor, who claims to be nearly 200 years older than when they had last seen him and says that he will take them to "Space: 1969". As they dine beside Lake Silencio they witness an unknown figure in a spacesuit kill the Doctor and are then met by an old man called Canton Everett Delaware III (William Morgan Sheppard), who had also been invited. They meet a younger version of the Doctor who had been invited and land in the Oval Office in 1969, where they are enlisted by President Nixon (Stuart Milligan) to assist a younger version of Canton (Mark Sheppard) in saving a terrified little girl (Sydney Wade) from a mysterious spaceman. The Doctor traces her to a warehouse in Florida where they investigate, unaware that the warehouse contains creatures which they forget after looking away from. After Amy tells the Doctor she is pregnant, the little girl appears in a spacesuit and Amy shoots at her.
2	"Day of the Moon"	Toby Haynes	Steven Moffat	30 April 2011 (2011-04-30)	2.2	7.30	87
Amy's shot had missed and she, Rory, and River spend three months searching for the creatures — later revealed to be called Silence — while the Doctor and the TARDIS are held in Area 51 by Canton. The group reunites and discuss the Silence, which have been found throughout America and have the ability to implant post-hypnotic suggestions in the humans they encounter. While the Doctor tampers with Apollo 11, Amy and Canton visit a Silence-infested orphanage where the little girl was kept. Amy sees a woman with an eye-patch through a hatch and finds a picture of herself with a baby in the little girl's room before she is kidnapped by the Silence. Canton wounds a Silent in the Doctor's prison and records it taunting him, "you should kill us all on sight." The Doctor tracks down Amy in the Silence's base and shows them the live broadcast of the moon landing. He implants Canton's recording of the Silence into the footage, thereby instructing all humans watching it to attack the Silence when they see them. Later, Amy tells the Doctor that she was afraid travelling on the TARDIS would have an effect on the possible development of her child; Amy denies that she is actually pregnant but the Doctor initiates a scan, the result of which is inconclusive. Six months later in New York City, the little girl is dying but reveals that she can regenerate, a trait of which only the Time Lords are capable.
215	3	"The Curse of the Black Spot"	Jeremy Webb	Stephen Thompson	7 May 2011 (2011-05-07)	2.9	7.85	86
Following a distress signal, the TARDIS lands on a 17th-century pirate ship captained by Henry Avery (Hugh Bonneville), whose crew is terrorised by a Siren-like creature (Lily Cole) who marks crew members with black spots when they are injured and then seemingly disintegrates them. Rory receives a cut, and Amy and the Doctor keep him away from the Siren. Discovering that the Siren uses reflection as a portal, they rid the ship of any reflective surfaces. When Rory and Avery's son Toby (Oscar Lloyd) are taken by the Siren, the Doctor, Amy, and Avery prick themselves and the Siren teleports them on an invisible alien spaceship which occupies the same spot as the pirate ship. There they find a sickbay where Rory and Toby are kept; Amy and the Doctor pull Rory off life support and Amy performs CPR to revive him.
216	4	"The Doctor's Wife"	Richard Clark	Neil Gaiman	14 May 2011 (2011-05-14)	2.3	7.97	87
A distress signal from a Time Lord sends the Doctor, Amy and Rory outside the universe to a junkyard on an asteroid. They are introduced to the place's strange inhabitants — Auntie (Elizabeth Berrington), Uncle (Adrian Schiller), an Ood known as Nephew, and an excited woman named Idris (Suranne Jones), who seems attracted to the Doctor. An intelligence called "House" (voiced by Michael Sheen) is controlling the asteroid. The Doctor discovers that other Time Lords have been lured to the asteroid and killed so House could feed off the energy. Upon learning that the Doctor is the last of the Time Lords, House takes possession of the TARDIS to escape to the regular universe, with Amy and Rory trapped inside. The Doctor learns that House has trapped the personality of the TARDIS inside Idris, causing her body to fail quickly. The two decide to build a makeshift TARDIS out of the scraps in the junkyard to pursue Amy, Rory and House. As they materialise inside the TARDIS, Idris releases the TARDIS's matrix, destroying House and liberating the TARDIS.
217	5	"The Rebel Flesh"	Julian Simpson	Matthew Graham	21 May 2011 (2011-05-21)	2.5	7.35	85
Caught in a "solar tsunami", the TARDIS crash-lands on a 22nd century monastery which been turned into a factory for pumping the deadly acid off an island. The crew of the factory, headed by Miranda Cleaves (Raquel Cassidy), creates doppelgängers (called "Gangers") of themselves using a self-replicating fluid known as the Flesh, which they can safely operate through dangerous duties and are disposable. Cleaves refuses to heed the Doctor's warning about the solar storm until she receives official orders. The Doctor attempts to disconnect the solar connector, but an electrical strike knocks everyone unconscious and have caused the crew's Gangers to become sentient, and the Gangers are planning on killing the humans. As the Doctor herds the humans to a safe place in the monastery, Rory leaves to find Jennifer (Sarah Smart), whose estranged Ganger is hunting her. In the chapel, Amy and the Doctor discover a Flesh version of the Doctor.
6	"The Almost People"	Julian Simpson	Matthew Graham	28 May 2011 (2011-05-28)	2.6	6.72	86
Amy does not trust the Flesh version of the Doctor but accidentally tells it about his future death at Lake Silencio. Jennifer's Ganger, leading the war against the humans, kills her human counterpart and creates another Ganger, manipulating Rory into imprisoning the humans in an acid storage room. The Doctor's Ganger persuades the Gangers to liberate the humans, but they are pursued by Jennifer's Ganger, who has transformed herself into a monster. The Doctor reveals that Amy was actually distrusting the real version of him, and his Ganger and Cleaves' Ganger stay behind to destroy the monster. Amy begins experiencing contractions, and the Doctor explains she is going into labour and had been replaced by a Ganger which her real self is controlling. He disintegrates her Flesh form and she awakes in her real body fully pregnant in a white tube, watched over by the "Eye Patch Lady" (Frances Barber), who instructs her to "push".
218	7	"A Good Man Goes to War"	Peter Hoar	Steven Moffat	4 June 2011 (2011-06-04)	2.7	7.51	88
The Doctor assembles an army and he and Rory infiltrate the asteroid base Demon's Run, where Amy is held captive and her newborn child, Melody Pond, has been taken by the Eye Patch Lady, Madame Kovarian. River Song refuses to join the Doctor, explaining that she cannot be there until the end, when he discovers her identity. The Doctor and Rory secure the base, free Amy, and take back Melody. The Doctor's allies discover that Melody contains both human and Time Lord DNA, a result of her being conceived on the TARDIS on Amy and Rory's wedding night ("The Big Bang"). As Rory and the rest of the Doctor's allies battle the Headless Monks, the Doctor learns that he has been tricked: Melody has been replaced by a Ganger duplicate, and he is too late. River Song arrives communicates her identity to the Doctor and he races off in the TARDIS, promising Amy and Rory that he will get their daughter back. River then informs the couple that she is in fact their daughter; "River Song" is a translation of "Melody Pond" in the language of the Gamma Forest.
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219	8	"Let's Kill Hitler"	Richard Senior	Steven Moffat	27 August 2011 (2011-08-27)	2.8	8.10	85
Amy and Rory summon the Doctor to Leadworth, and he admits he has not found Melody. They are met by Mels (Nina Toussaint-White), their childhood friend responsible for Amy and Rory's relationship and whom Amy named Melody after. Mels hijacks the TARDIS and causes it to spin out of control and crash into Hitler's office in 1938 Berlin. They accidentally save Hitler, as they disrupted a Teselecta, a shapeshifting robot piloted by miniaturised people to punish criminals, from killing him. Before Rory locks him away, Hitler shoots at the Teselecta but hits Mels instead. Instead of dying, however, Mels begins to regenerate into another incarnation which they recognise as River Song. She attempts to kill the Doctor several times before she kisses him; he discovers her lipstick was laced with poison that will kill him in 32 minutes. The Teselecta identifies River as responsible for the Doctor's death and thus a criminal, but Amy and Rory plead they not torture her and turn the Teselecta's security robots against the crew, who promptly teleport out. River saves the dying Doctor by giving up all her remaining regenerations.
220	9	"Night Terrors"	Richard Clark	Mark Gatiss	3 September 2011 (2011-09-03)	2.4	7.07	86
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory make a "house call" to a young boy named George (Jamie Oram) who is terrified of almost everything, especially the wardrobe in his room. As the Doctor talks to his father Alex (Daniel Mays), Amy and Rory find themselves suddenly transported from the lift to a life-size doll house where other members of the housing estate have arrived, only to be turned into life-size peg dolls, which soon happens to Amy. The Doctor investigates and Alex suddenly realises that his wife Claire (Emma Cunniffe) was never pregnant and cannot have children. The Doctor asserts that George is a Tenza child, an empathic alien who took on the form of Alex and Claire's desired child through a perception filter, and has the ability to literally lock away his fears within the wardrobe. George panics, causing the Doctor and Alex to be sucked into the doll's house in his wardrobe. The Doctor soon realizes that if George faces his fears by opening the wardrobe, the world in the dollhouse will be destroyed and the inhabitants safe. George opens the wardrobe and is surrounded by dolls due to his belief that he is not wanted. Alex stops the fear when he embraces George as a son, causing the dollhouse world to cease to exist and so the earlier inhabitants are returned to their world.
221	10	"The Girl Who Waited"	Nick Hurran	Tom MacRae	10 September 2011 (2011-09-10)	2.10	7.60	85
The Doctor takes Amy and Rory to the planet Apalapucia, but they find that the planet is under quarantine as the two-hearted natives are susceptible to a deadly plague which will kill the infected within a day. Those infected by the plague are placed in an accelerated time stream, allowing them to live out their lives whilst in communication with their loved ones. Amy accidentally enters one of these rooms and is separated from the Doctor and Rory. The Doctor uses the TARDIS to locate her and Rory leaves to rescue her; the Doctor, who has two hearts, must remain on the TARDIS to avoid catching the plague. However, they have arrived 36 years later in Amy's time stream and the older Amy refuses to let them rescue her younger self. She later softens, however, and the Doctor says that both versions of Amy will be able to travel on the TARDIS. However, as both Amys are brought together and proceed to enter the TARDIS, the Doctor locks the older Amy out, explaining to Rory that the TARDIS would not allow this paradox.
222	11	"The God Complex"	Nick Hurran	Toby Whithouse	17 September 2011 (2011-09-17)	2.11	6.77	86
The TARDIS lands in what appears to be a 1980s hotel, which the Doctor recognises as a disguised alien structure. The layout of the hotel is constantly shifting, and they soon lose the TARDIS. They meet others who had also suddenly found themselves in the hotel: humans Rita (Amara Karan), Howie (Dimitri Leonidas), Joe (Daniel Pirrie), and the alien Gibbis (David Walliams). One by one, Joe, Howie, and Rita are seemingly possessed by a minotaur-like monster and lured to it and subsequently killed. The Doctor surmises that the minotaur fed on a specific faith each of them had and discovers that Amy will be next, as she has faith in him. He convinces her to break her faith and the monster collapses and the hotel setting is revealed to be part of a simulation taking place on a prison ship. The Doctor takes Amy and Rory back to Earth, believing it is best for them to stop travelling with him before they are killed.
223	12	"Closing Time"	Steve Hughes	Gareth Roberts	24 September 2011 (2011-09-24)	2.12	6.93	86
Nearly 200 years have passed for the Doctor, and as he nears his death at Lake Silencio he decides to visit his friend Craig Owens (James Corden), previously seen in "The Lodger". Craig has moved in with his girlfriend Sophie (Daisy Haggard) and the two are raising their baby son, Alfie. The Doctor arrives just as Sophie has departed for a holiday and is compelled to stay and investigate strange electrical disturbances in the area. He traces this back to a department store, which The Doctor and Craig discover contains a teleporter to a Cyberman spacecraft as well as a Cybermat. The Doctor finds the ship underneath the building and is captured by the Cybermen; Craig follows and is nearly converted to a Cyberman, but he hears Alfie crying and recovers the strength to reverse the conversion. Elsewhere, Kovarian and the Silence strap River into the astronaut suit.
224	13	"The Wedding of River Song"	Jeremy Webb	Steven Moffat	1 October 2011 (2011-10-01)	2.13	7.67	86
Understanding his death cannot be avoided, the Doctor gives the invitations to Lake Silencio for Amy, Rory, River, and Canton to a Teselecta. However, the River in the astronaut suit refuses to kill him, but as it was meant to be a fixed point in time the Earth is thrown into an aborted timeline where all of history is running at once. He is found by Amy who is able to remember the universe as it was due to the crack in her wall, though she is unaware that one of her soldiers is Rory. The Doctor is taken to River, who is aware that if the two of them touch the correct time will resume. Amy realises who Rory is and kills Madame Kovarian for taking their child. The Doctor, believing the universe will collapse if they stay in the aborted timeline as River suggests, whispers something in River's ear and then marries her. They kiss, allowing the universe to return. Later, Amy and Rory are visited by River, who reveals that the Doctor had revealed to her that the Teselecta was impersonating him while he was safely inside it, and therefore he did not really die. Elsewhere, the Doctor is warned by the head of his ally Dorium (Simon Fisher-Becker) that the question the Silence were attempting to prevent will be asked as they did not succeed in killing him: "Doctor who?"

Series 7 (2012–2013)

Main article: Doctor Who (series 7)

Series 7 started with five episodes and a Christmas special in late 2012, followed by eight episodes in 2013. The series dealt with the exit of the Ponds, the Great Intelligence and the mystery of Clara Oswald, the Impossible Girl.

No. story	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
Special (2011)
225	–	"The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"	Farren Blackburn	Steven Moffat	25 December 2011 (2011-12-25)	10.77	84
The Doctor crash-lands on Earth in 1938. He is helped back to the TARDIS by Madge Arwell. Three years later, Madge's husband Reg has disappeared while piloting an Avro Lancaster bomber in the Second World War, but she keeps it a secret from her two children, Lily and Cyril. They evacuate London to stay at a house in Dorset, where the Doctor masquerades as the caretaker. Cyril is lured through a present, which is a portal to a winter planet. Looking for Cyril, the Doctor and Lily and later Madge enter the box; Madge encounters miners, who plan to harvest the trees. Lily and the Doctor follow Cyril's tracks to a tower where wooden humanoids attempt to put a crown on Cyril, which will allow the souls of the trees to escape. When Madge arrives, she is deemed strong enough to pilot the top of the tower to safety. When they land, Reg is alive as he had followed the light from the tower and landed safely. The Doctor turns down Christmas dinner with the family and visits Amy and Rory, two years after he last saw them.
Part 1
226	1	"Asylum of the Daleks"	Nick Hurran	Steven Moffat	1 September 2012 (2012-09-01)	8.33	89
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory are kidnapped by the Daleks, who explain that a planet they use as an asylum must be destroyed, but to do that its force-field must be disabled. The field has already been ruptured due to the crash-landing of a young woman, Oswin Oswald one year previously. The Daleks provide the three with bracelets to protect them against the planet's defense system, which will convert visitors into Dalek puppets. Although they are guided by Oswin, who has hacked into the planet's systems, the converted remains of Oswin's crew steal Amy's bracelet. The Doctor goes to find Oswin, as she claims to be able to disable the planet's force-field, and Oswin hacks into the Dalek psychic link and erases all memory of the Doctor from the Daleks. The Doctor discovers that Oswin has been fully converted into a Dalek, yet she still believes herself to be human. She ultimately realises the truth, but lowers the force-field and the Doctor, Amy, and Rory escape via teleporter before Daleks destroy the planet. The Doctor returns to the Dalek Parliament to find they have no memory of him due to Oswin's interference.
227	2	"Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"	Saul Metzstein	Chris Chibnall	8 September 2012 (2012-09-08)	7.57	87
The Doctor attempts to prevent the destruction of an unmanned spaceship with a cargo of dinosaurs alongside Rory's father, Brian, Queen Nefertiti, and big-game hunter John Riddell. The Doctor and his companions discover that the ship is a Silurian ark designed to carry the reptilian humanoids to a new planet along with flora and fauna from their time period. They find that a man named Solomon had killed the Silurian inhabitants in order to sell the dinosaurs on board, and goes after Nefertiti after seeing her value. The Doctor foils Solomon's plan and prevents the missiles from destroying the ship, but does not extend mercy to Solomon.
228	3	"A Town Called Mercy"	Saul Metzstein	Toby Whithouse	15 September 2012 (2012-09-15)	8.42	85
The TARDIS accidentally lands in Mercy, a town in the American West around 1870. The TARDIS crew discovers that the town's doctor, Jex, is an alien being sought by the cyborg Gunslinger. The Doctor discovers Jex was a scientist who experimented on volunteers to create cyborgs to fight in a war on his home planet; the Gunslinger is seeking revenge for what was done to him. The Doctor faces a moral dilemma of whether he should offer Jex to the Gunslinger; he devises a plan to help Jex escape, but Jex commits suicide to save more innocent people from being harmed. The Doctor saves the Gunslinger from self-destruction and makes him the marshal of Mercy.
229	4	"The Power of Three"	Douglas Mackinnon	Chris Chibnall	22 September 2012 (2012-09-22)	7.67	87
Amy and Rory begin to wonder whether they should choose between normal life and "Doctor life." Many black cubes appear around the world, and the Doctor stays with the Ponds to investigate but the cubes are inactive and the Doctor leaves UNIT in charge. A year goes by and the cubes suddenly begin activating random features before stopping the hearts of one-third of humanity. The Doctor eventually tracks the cubes to the Shakri, who plan to eliminate humanity before they can colonise in space, believing them to be an infestation. The Doctor reverses the electric pulse used to stop people's hearts and destroys the Shakri ship. At Brian's urging the Doctor takes Amy and Rory back as full-time companions.
230	5	"The Angels Take Manhattan"	Nick Hurran	Steven Moffat	29 September 2012 (2012-09-29)	7.82	88
The Doctor takes Amy and Rory to Central Park. While the Doctor is reading Amy a novel about Melody Malone, Rory is taken by a Weeping Angel on his way back from getting coffee. In 1938 New York City, Rory meets River Song, the author of the novel. The Doctor and Amy use the novel to break their way into 1938 and find Rory, while he and River investigate the Angels' takeover of Manhattan. At the Winter Quay hotel, they find an aged Rory on his deathbed. The Angels created the hotel in order to keep their victims and maintain a constant source of potential energy. To escape his fate, Rory and Amy jump off the top of the building to their deaths, creating a paradox. Waking up in a graveyard with the TARDIS, Rory is transported by a surviving Angel. As the Doctor begs Amy to come back into the TARDIS, she bids him a tearful farewell and allows the Angel to send her back to Rory. Later, the devastated Doctor reads an afterword by Amy in the novel, telling him all is well and requesting he visit young Amelia Pond as she waits for him.
Special (2012)
231	–	"The Snowmen"	Saul Metzstein	Steven Moffat	25 December 2012 (2012-12-25)	9.87	87
Depressed after the loss of Amy and Rory, the Doctor hides himself in Victorian London. The "Great Intelligence", a form of "memory snow" which can mirror the thoughts of anything around it, hatches a plot to create an army of ice people. While Strax drives the Doctor around, they run into Clara, a barmaid. The Doctor refuses to investigate the snowmen and returns to the TARDIS, in a cloud above London, accessible via a staircase. Clara soon returns to her job as a governess and learns of the danger to all of humanity. She turns to the Doctor for help and he takes action. With Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Strax, the Doctor and Clara defeat the Great Intelligence and its human servant. In the process, the Doctor regains his enthusiasm, deciding to take Clara on as his companion. However, Clara is thrown off the edge of a cloud and falls to her death. The Doctor discovers Clara's full name – Clara Oswin Oswald – and realises that Clara is the same person as Oswin Oswald. He concludes that she is likely still alive in some other time and leaves in the TARDIS to find her.
Part 2
232	6	"The Bells of Saint John"	Colm McCarthy	Steven Moffat	30 March 2013 (2013-03-30)	8.44	87
The Doctor manages to find another version of Clara in the present day. Meanwhile, Miss Kizlet and her employees at The Shard are using walking Wi-Fi base stations nicknamed "Spoonheads" to upload people's souls to a datacloud, allowing her client the Great Intelligence to grow stronger. The Doctor saves Clara from this fate by tricking Miss Kizlet into returning all the souls back to their bodies. The Great Intelligence erases all memory of working for him from the employees' minds, effectively making them innocent of any wrongdoing. The Doctor invites Clara to be his companion, but she requests that he come back the next day; she wants time to think about it.
233	7	"The Rings of Akhaten"	Farren Blackburn	Neil Cross	6 April 2013 (2013-04-06)	7.45	84
The Doctor investigates Clara's past, finding nothing unusual but discovering that her mother died when she was young. When he returns to Clara, she requests that she be taken to see "something awesome". The Doctor takes her to the Rings of Akhaten, a ring system orbiting a large planet where the local religion believes life began. The society's currency is items of sentimental value. Clara runs into a young girl named Merry Gejelh, who is about to be sacrificed in the Festival of Offerings to appease the Old God. The Doctor and Clara save Merry and discover that the Old God is really a parasite of memories and sentiment that lives inside the large planet. Clara offers it her treasured leaf that caused her parents to meet, and as she points out that there are infinite possibilities to every choice, she defeats the parasite.
234	8	"Cold War"	Douglas Mackinnon	Mark Gatiss	13 April 2013 (2013-04-13)	7.37	84
The Doctor and Clara attempt to land in Las Vegas; however, the TARDIS instead lands in a Russian submarine in 1983 and takes off without them. To the Doctor's surprise, he finds an Ice Warrior, the famed Grand Marshal Skaldak, who had been thawed out of the ice after 5000 years. However, Captain Zhukov distrusts both the Doctor and Clara and has Skaldak chained up to prevent damage to the submarine. By Martian Law, Skaldak now considers that humanity as a whole has declared war on the Ice Warriors. The Doctor tries to convince Skaldak that he and Clara are peaceful; when Skaldak believes no other Ice Warriors are left, he exits his armour to begin forensic analysis of human bodies. Skaldak tricks Lieutenant Stepashin into revealing the circumstances of the Cold War, and prepares to start an alternate timeline by firing off a single nuclear missile. However, Clara manages to convince him that it would be wrong to end innocent lives, just as an Ice Warrior ship arrives and retrieves Skaldak. Out of danger, the Doctor's sonic screwdriver tells him the Hostile Action Displacement System had been activated and sent the TARDIS to the South Pole.
235	9	"Hide"	Jamie Payne	Neil Cross	20 April 2013 (2013-04-20)	6.61	85
Thinking empathic psychic Emma Grayling may be able to shed some light on Clara, the Doctor goes to 1974, where Emma and her future husband Prof. Alec Palmer are investigating a ghost known as the Witch of the Well, in Caliburn House. After the house grows cold and the message "help me" appears, the Doctor borrows Alec's camera and uses the TARDIS to take pictures of the mansion's location throughout time. Thanks to this, the Doctor learns it's not a ghost in the pictures, but a time traveler named Hila Tukurian who got stuck in a pocket dimension; she's running from a hideous creature. The Doctor quickly constructs a device that amplifies Emma's psychic abilities, creating a portal to the pocket dimension. Emma cannot keep the portal open long enough for the Doctor to escape. Clara manages to persuade the TARDIS to briefly fly through and collect the Doctor, who hangs on to the exterior and is dragged back to reality. The Doctor explains Hila is a descendant of Emma and Alec. The Doctor realises another creature was inside the mansion and its mate was the creature in the pocket dimension; he quickly returns to save it.
236	10	"Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"	Mat King	Stephen Thompson	27 April 2013 (2013-04-27)	6.50	85
The TARDIS is picked up by a salvage crew, knocking Clara into the depths of the TARDIS. The Doctor promises the Van Baalen brothers the salvage of a lifetime to rescue her. The Doctor locks everyone in to save Clara. Clara runs from a molten creature and discovers the TARDIS library, where she finds the Doctor's real name. Reunited, everyone races to the engine room, which is damaged by the Van Baalens' "magno-grab", and the Doctor reveals the molten zombies are their future selves, resulting from staying too long in the room housing the Eye of Harmony. The Doctor and Clara arrive in the engine room, where he confronts her about her other lives; Clara has no clue about her other lives, making the Doctor happy to know she's not the one responsible. Clara asks the Doctor about his name. The Doctor sends a remote control device to his past self through a time fissure so the earlier Doctor can send the TARDIS to a different location just as the Van Baalens detected it. This rewrites the moment the Van Baalens pick up and damage the TARDIS and erases Clara's memories.
237	11	"The Crimson Horror"	Saul Metzstein	Mark Gatiss	4 May 2013 (2013-05-04)	6.47	85
Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax investigate the mystery of the "Crimson Horror." Bodies have been found completely red, with a substance on them Vastra recognises from before the Silurians went into hibernation as the venom of an ancient leech, in a diluted version. An investigator shows Vastra optographs, one of which shows the Doctor, screaming. As Sweetville, run by Mrs. Gillyflower, proves suspicious, Jenny is sent to investigate and find the Doctor. She succeeds, finding him a victim of the venom, but still alive; he quickly reverses the process for him and Clara. Confronting Mrs. Gillyflower, they discover "Mr. Sweet" working with Mrs. Gillyflower is one of the leeches; she plans to use his venom to preserve humanity by making a rocket with it explode. However, the rocket goes off without the venom on board, thanks to Vastra and Jenny. Strax shoots at her, and Mrs. Gillyflower tumbles and dies, after being revealed to have tested Mr. Sweet's venom on her daughter. Mr. Sweet is killed by Ada's cane. Once Clara is back home, she finds that the Maitland children have found photos of her from her travels, along with a picture of Victorian Clara.
238	12	"Nightmare in Silver"	Stephen Woolfenden	Neil Gaiman	11 May 2013 (2013-05-11)	6.64	84
Because Artie and Angie are blackmailing Clara, the Doctor decides to take the children to Hedgewick's World Of Wonders; however, it has long been abandoned since the Cyber-wars. Seeing strange insects, the Doctor decides to stay; at the same time, the Emperor of several galaxies has also gone missing. Cybermites, the upgraded versions of Cybermats, graft a cybernetic piece to the Doctor's head, giving him a split personality, the Cyber-Planner; they agree to play chess to win complete dominance over their shared mind. The Cybermen, now faster and sleeker, capture Artie and Angie, putting them under their mind control. The Cyber-Planner makes the Doctor sacrifice his queen piece to free the children. The Doctor makes a half-bluff, gets a neural shock device, amplifies it, and fries the headpiece. Now free, the Doctor sees there's no way to stop the Cybermen unless they blow up the planet; Porridge, someone who worked with Wibbly to con customers, is revealed to be the missing Emperor. Porridge voice-activates a bomb, getting everyone and the TARDIS teleported to an imperial ship. Clara rejects an offer of marriage from Porridge and the Doctor returns everyone home.
239	13	"The Name of the Doctor"	Saul Metzstein	Steven Moffat	18 May 2013 (2013-05-18)	7.45	88
An imprisoned murderer tells Madame Vastra that the Doctor's secret will be taken to his grave. She uses a soporific to bring herself, Jenny and Strax to a conference call in their dreams; she sends a letter to Clara to include her. River Song attends, and explains Vastra misunderstood the message; it is his grave that has been discovered. The Whispermen kidnap Vastra's group, while Clara awakens and informs the Doctor, making him realise the prophecy the Silence predicted is unfolding. At Trenzalore, the Doctor's resting place is a dying, monolithic TARDIS. Inside, the Great Intelligence waits for them; it demands the Doctor speak his true name to unlock the TARDIS. When the Doctor refuses, River speaks it instead. The Doctor explains that the TARDIS houses his entire timeline. The Great Intelligence steps into it and scatters itself throughout the Doctor's life, to rewrite all his victories into defeats. Clara follows after it, becoming two of the echoes of herself that the Doctor met. The Doctor enters his own timeline to rescue Clara, after she discovers a previously unseen incarnation of the Doctor that apparently broke the promise that goes alongside the title The Doctor.

Specials (2013)

Main article: Doctor Who (2013 specials)

The specials focus on various incarnations of the Doctor, including the return of the Tenth Doctor and the reveal of the War Doctor and his actions during the Time War.

Story	Episode	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
240	1	"The Day of the Doctor"	Nick Hurran	Steven Moffat	23 November 2013 (2013-11-23)	12.80	88
The Eleventh Doctor and Clara are called in by UNIT to investigate mysterious three-dimensional paintings, including one depicting the Time War of Gallifrey. In the war, the War Doctor, a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor, plans to use an ancient weapon called "The Moment" to end the ongoing war between Time Lords and Daleks. The Moment, knowing the disasters its use will cause, shows the War Doctor how its use will affect him by uniting him with the Eleventh Doctor, as well as the Tenth Doctor. Together, the three Doctors are able to end a Zygon invasion by enacting peace between Zygons and humans. Though the Doctors still contemplate using the Moment anyway, Clara convinces them to try another way to end the war. Uniting with all their previous and future incarnations, the Doctors use their TARDISes to trap Gallifrey in a pocket universe. In the aftermath, the War and Tenth Doctors return to their own times, with the War Doctor regenerating into the Ninth Doctor, and the Eleventh Doctor is told by a mysterious curator resembling the Fourth Doctor that it is his mission to find Gallifrey, which the Doctor vows to do.
241	2	"The Time of the Doctor"	Jamie Payne	Steven Moffat	25 December 2013 (2013-12-25)	11.14	83
A message echoing through all of time and space emanates from the farming town of Christmas on the planet Trenzalore, where a prophecy states the Doctor will spend the last of his years. With the help of the Papal Mainframe, the Doctor and Clara travel to the village and discover that the message is being sent from Gallifrey by the Time Lords. Sending Clara home, he proceeds to spend hundreds of years fighting and defending Trenzalore against hordes of aliens determined to prevent the Time Lords from returning. Clara returns to find the Daleks are the last remaining aliens, and that the Doctor has fought for so long, with no more regenerations, that he is on the cusp of dying of old age. As the Doctor faces his last stand, Clara convinces the Time Lords to give the Doctor a new regeneration cycle. The Doctor begins to regenerate, destroying the Daleks and ending the war. Clara returns to the TARDIS to find a rejuvenated Doctor about to finish his regeneration. After vowing to remember the incarnation he was and hallucinating a final goodbye to Amy Pond, he finally regenerates into the Twelfth Doctor, as the TARDIS suddenly begins crashing.

Twelfth Doctor

The Twelfth Doctor was portrayed by Peter Capaldi.

Series 8 (2014)

Main article: Doctor Who (series 8)

For series 8 to 10, the episode count was reduced from thirteen to twelve. This series dealt with the mystery identity of the character "Missy" and the mystery around "The Promised Land".

No. story	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
242	1	"Deep Breath"	Ben Wheatley	Steven Moffat	23 August 2014 (2014-08-23)	9.17	82
In Victorian London, a dinosaur spits out the TARDIS onto the banks of the River Thames. The newly-regenerated Twelfth Doctor, and Clara, emerge from the TARDIS. The Doctor rests at the Paternoster Gang's residence to recover. After the spontaneous combustion of the dinosaur, the Doctor and Clara take on the case of the dinosaur's death and similar recent human combustions. The Doctor and Clara are called to a restaurant, where they find it is part of a spaceship that crashed in the past and is filled with humanoid robots. Upon Clara's prompting, the robots' cyborg control node, the Half-Face Man, reveals that he is trying to reach the "promised land" and killed the dinosaur to use her as parts for his computer. The Doctor confronts the Half-Face Man, claiming the Half-Face Man does not want to continue his existence because of how many times his body was replaced. The Half-Face Man falls to his death from a hot-air balloon, and the other robots go lifeless. Unsure about continuing to travel with the new Doctor, Clara is convinced by a phone call from the Eleventh Doctor. Meanwhile, the Half-Face Man awakes in the promised land, greeted by a woman called Missy.
243	2	"Into the Dalek"	Ben Wheatley	Phil Ford and Steven Moffat	30 August 2014 (2014-08-30)	7.29	84
Clara asks fellow Coal Hill School teacher and former soldier Danny Pink out for a drink. The Doctor brings Clara to the human rebel ship Aristotle to help the "good" Dalek Rusty, despite the Doctor's contention that Daleks cannot be turned good. The Doctor, Clara, and a team of rebels from the Aristotle are miniaturised and sent into Rusty. The Doctor repairs Rusty's power cell, but it reverts to its old way of thinking and forgets the memory of seeing the beauty of a star being born that had made it want to destroy the other Daleks. It sends a message to the Dalek mothership, giving the other Daleks the rebel ship's location. Clara awakens Rusty's memory of seeing the star being born. In an attempt to show Rusty the beauty of the universe, the Doctor connects his mind with Rusty's. Rusty, however, sees the Doctor's hatred for the Daleks, and decides to exterminate its own race. The Doctor turns down the surviving soldier Journey's offer to travel with him.
244	3	"Robot of Sherwood"	Paul Murphy	Mark Gatiss	6 September 2014 (2014-09-06)	7.28	82
The Doctor and Clara meet the outlaw Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest. The Doctor wins a duel against Robin by knocking him into a river. Robin takes part in an archery contest against the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Doctor challenges Robin before blowing up the target. The Doctor allows the Sheriff's robot knights to capture him, Robin and Clara so he can learn more about the Sheriff's plans. The Doctor and Clara discover the Sheriff has been trying to repair a crashed spaceship and intends to repair its circuitry with the countryside's gold, so that he can take over the world. However, there is not enough gold to make orbit, and the damage to the engines would destroy half of England. Robin defeats the Sheriff in a duel by knocking him into a gold vat. Since Robin's arm is injured (and the Doctor cheated during the archery contest), the Doctor, Clara, and Robin work together to fire the golden arrow from the contest into the ship, which then climbs into orbit and detonates harmlessly. The Doctor admits that Robin will be remembered as a legend rather than as a man, and finds Maid Marian for him before departing.
245	4	"Listen"	Douglas Mackinnon	Steven Moffat	13 September 2014 (2014-09-13)	7.01	82
After a failed date with Danny, Clara returns to her home to find the Doctor awaiting her. He seeks a creature he believes has perfected its ability to hide and is related to a childhood fear everyone has of a hand grabbing someone's leg from under the bed. Clara tries to home in on her childhood using the TARDIS' telepathic circuits, but lands at the children's home where Danny, as a boy called Rupert, grew up. The Doctor comforts Rupert from his fear when something under his bedspread scares him. After failing to apologise to Danny on the date, Clara is beckoned back to the TARDIS by time traveller Orson Pink. Clara is taken to the end of the universe where Orson's ship was stranded and the Doctor attempts to observe the hiding creature. When something on the ship knocks the Doctor out, Clara triggers the TARDIS' departure to a barn, where she finds a crying child. Hiding beneath the bed, she realises that the child is the Doctor. When the boy gets up, Clara accidentally grabs his leg. She comforts him with the Doctor's previous advice to Rupert. Orson is returned home, and Clara and Danny reconcile.
246	5	"Time Heist"	Douglas Mackinnon	Stephen Thompson and Steven Moffat	20 September 2014 (2014-09-20)	6.99	84
The TARDIS' phone rings in Clara's apartment, and the Doctor and Clara find themselves in a strange chamber suffering from memory loss along with Psi the augmented human and Saibra the mutant human. They have been recruited by the Architect to rob the Bank of Karabraxos. The quartet collect the tools required for their heist, before witnessing a mysterious alien named the Teller melt the brain of a criminal with its psychic abilities. Saibra is later caught by the Teller and activates an atomic shredder to dissolve herself, and Psi soon follows her in the same manner. Clara and the Doctor gain access to the vaults of the bank to gain the rewards of their heist, and proceed to the Private Vault, after finding Psi and Saibra; the shredders were really teleporters. The Doctor regains his lost memories back from the Teller, revealing himself as the Architect, set up to rejoin the Teller with the only other one of its species, after the bank's director, Madame Karabraxos, regretted leaving the Teller's mate in the vault to die in a solar storm and phoned the TARDIS. The Teller frees its mate. The Doctor takes the two aliens away to live out their lives.
247	6	"The Caretaker"	Paul Murphy	Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat	27 September 2014 (2014-09-27)	6.82	83
Clara is trying to maintain two separate lives: one as the Doctor's companion, and the other as a schoolteacher in a relationship with Danny. The Doctor goes into deep cover as the caretaker at Coal Hill. Tracking the Skovox Blitzer, one of the deadliest machines created, he plans to displace it a billion years into the future where nothing else can be harmed. Danny accidentally tampers with the Doctor's trap, and the Skovox Blitzer is only sent 74 hours into the future. The Doctor learns of Danny's relationship with Clara, and Danny about Clara's double life. The Doctor believes that Clara made an error in dating a soldier. When the Skovox Blitzer rematerialises earlier than expected, the three work together to trick it into deactivating. Danny warns Clara about the Doctor pushing her into dangerous actions. A disintegrated community support officer awakens in the promised land, also called the Nethersphere, being greeted Missy's assistant Seb.
248	7	"Kill the Moon"	Paul Wilmshurst	Peter Harness	4 October 2014 (2014-10-04)	6.91	82
The Doctor takes Clara and her student Courtney on a trip. They arrive in 2049 on a Space Shuttle to the Moon with one hundred nuclear bombs. Noting the Moon's higher gravity and meeting Captain Lundvik, the Doctor questions her, where he's told that her team are on a suicide mission to blow up the Moon. A sudden mass high tide had threatened humanity's existence. Miners are found entombed in spider webs. The Doctor notices from the miners' photographs that the Moon is starting to break apart. A spider-like being attacks the group. The Doctor determines that the Moon is an egg, with the creature inside ready to hatch. The Doctor abandons them, forcing Lundvik, Clara, and Courtney to decide the fate of the creature. They let Earth's population decide; people of Earth vote to destroy the creature. Clara intervenes and stops the bombs' countdown, and the Doctor rescues them from the Moon. From Earth, they watch the creature hatch and the shell disintegrate, with the creature laying a new egg as a new Moon. Clara confronts the Doctor, claiming that it was his decision to make too. She leaves the Doctor, to be comforted by Danny.
249	8	"Mummy on the Orient Express"	Paul Wilmshurst	Jamie Mathieson	11 October 2014 (2014-10-11)	7.11	85
Clara rejoins the Doctor for one last outing before she leaves the TARDIS and the Doctor. They arrive on a train which travels through space, which is modelled after Orient Express. The Doctor then discovers that an elderly woman called Mrs. Pitt has recently been murdered by a mummy only she could see. When other occupants die in the same way, the Doctor realises that the mummy, identified as a legendary entity called the Foretold, is invisible to all but the one about to die. Once it is seen, it kills its victim in exactly sixty-six seconds. The train's computer program, Gus, reveals to the Doctor that he has tasked him to capture the Foretold. The Doctor discovers that it is a dead soldier powered by phase-shifting technology with unfinished business. The Doctor discharges the soldier by surrendering, and the train's occupants are saved. The Doctor uses the phase-shifting technology to teleport the train's occupants to safety. After a conversation with the Doctor about whether or not he is really cold-hearted, Clara decides she is not ready to leave him yet, and they set off on further adventures together.
250	9	"Flatline"	Douglas Mackinnon	Jamie Mathieson	18 October 2014 (2014-10-18)	6.71	85
Arriving in Bristol, the Doctor and Clara find the TARDIS has shrunk on the outside. Clara investigates the area, encountering a young graffiti artist named Rigsy, while the Doctor stays in the TARDIS until it has shrunk down to a handheld size, theorising that something was leaching its external dimensions. The Doctor tells Clara that the thing they are facing is an alien from a universe with two dimensions which is flattening people that went missing on Rigsy's estate. The creatures, known as the Boneless, can make 3D objects 2D. Clara, Rigsy, and community service people run from the Boneless into tunnels. The Doctor creates a device that can change the dimensions of objects similarly to the Boneless. The Doctor turns on Siege Mode to prevent the TARDIS from being damaged, but leaving him without enough power to deactivate Siege Mode. The Boneless have also learned to make themselves three-dimensional, and assume guises of the people they have flattened. Clara has Rigsy tricks the creatures into restoring the TARDIS by placing the TARDIS on the other side of a fake door Rigsy painted. The Doctor uses its power to send the Boneless back into their dimension.
251	10	"In the Forest of the Night"	Sheree Folkson	Frank Cottrell-Boyce	25 October 2014 (2014-10-25)	6.92	83
Clara's student Maebh knocks on the TARDIS after hearing a thought from Clara to find the Doctor. The Doctor answers, and realises that a forest has grown over the world. Clara and Danny lead a group of students out into the new forest after a museum sleepover. They regroup in Trafalgar Square to recover Maebh. The Doctor realises Maebh is missing, and he and Clara set out to find her. They find Maebh. Some bug-like creatures talk through Maebh, telling them they had grown the forest and previous big forests. The Doctor believes a giant solar flare Maebh predicted in her notebook is heading towards Earth. Heading back to the TARDIS, the Doctor offers an escape route. Clara refuses to become the last of her kind, and Danny decides to stay with the students. The Doctor realises the trees have grown to protect Earth. Maebh reads off a message prepared by the other students to send a message to the world to not destroy the trees. Danny tells Clara he wants to know the truth about her travels with the Doctor and asks her to think about it first. The solar flare passes by harmlessly and the excess trees disappear.
252a	11	"Dark Water"	Rachel Talalay	Steven Moffat	1 November 2014 (2014-11-01)	7.34	85
While Clara attempts to gain the courage to tell Danny about her life with the Doctor, Danny is killed. Clara attempts to blackmail the Doctor into saving Danny. The Doctor removes her from the dream state he placed on her and uses the TARDIS' telepathic interface to find Danny. The Doctor and Clara are brought to the 3W Institute, in which skeletons are contained in a blue liquid called "dark water" that hides the exoskeletons that support the skeletons. In an apparent afterlife called the Nethersphere, Danny is being consoled by Seb for his death. Missy greets the Doctor and Clara. The scientist Doctor Chang explains that the dead are conscious. Meanwhile, Missy awakens the skeletons and the tanks begin to drain. Clara talks with Danny, but Danny refuses to let her be with him in death. The skeletons are revealed to be Cybermen. Missy tells the Doctor that dying minds are uploaded to the Nethersphere—a Time Lord "hard drive"—where emotions are deleted and the mind is downloaded into Cyberman bodies. The Doctor and Missy exit and find themselves on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral. Missy reveals that she is the Master.
252b	12	"Death in Heaven"	Rachel Talalay	Steven Moffat	8 November 2014 (2014-11-08)	7.60	83
Cybermen detonate themselves around the British Isles, to reincarnate and transform the dead into Cybermen with clouds that rain "Cyberpollen". Similar events occur all over the world. Danny is one of these Cybermen, and he rescues Clara. UNIT bring the Doctor and Missy aboard a plane, where the Doctor is inducted "President of Earth". Missy overpowers UNIT, kills Osgood, and blows up the plane. She reveals she gave Clara the phone number to the TARDIS. The Doctor reunites with Clara and Danny in a graveyard. Danny reveals that a forthcoming rainfall will convert all living people into Cybermen. Missy arrives and gifts the Doctor with control of the Cybermen to prove he and Missy are the same. The Doctor refuses and gives control to Danny, who leads other Cybermen into exploding and stopping the rainfall. Missy claims the planet Gallifrey is in its original location. The Doctor threatens to kill Missy to prevent Clara from doing so herself. Missy is seemingly disintegrated by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, reanimated as a Cyberman. Clara and the Doctor bid farewell with lies to each other: Clara tells the Doctor that Danny was brought back from the Nethersphere, and the Doctor tells Clara he found Gallifrey.

Series 9 (2015)

Main article: Doctor Who (series 9)

This series dealt with the consequences of the Doctor and Clara's relationship, and the Doctor's confession about the Hybrid.

No. story	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
Special (2014)
253	–	"Last Christmas"	Paul Wilmshurst	Steven Moffat	25 December 2014 (2014-12-25)	8.28	82
Clara discovers Santa Claus on her rooftop. The Twelfth Doctor arrives and takes her away in the TARDIS. At the North Pole, a group of scientists work on trying to save their fellow base personnel who have been taken over by Dream Crabs, alien crabs that induce a dream state while devouring a person's brain. The Doctor and Clara arrive at the base and come under attack from the crabs, only to be rescued by Santa. Clara is slowly devoured by a crab. The Doctor enters Clara's dream with another crab to wake her. Clara and the Doctor wake up, which kills the crabs devouring them. The Doctor realises everyone is in a multi-layered dream, with Santa being part of it. They escape when they dream that Santa is flying them home. One by one they wake up until only Clara is left. The Doctor awakens and removes the crab from Clara, only to discover that Clara is now an elderly woman. Santa appears and the Doctor realises he is still dreaming. Waking up, the Doctor frees Clara, now a young adult, from the crab. He asks Clara if she wants to rejoin him aboard the TARDIS; she accepts.
Series
254a	1	"The Magician's Apprentice"	Hettie MacDonald	Steven Moffat	19 September 2015 (2015-09-19)	6.54	84
The Doctor attempts to rescue a boy on a battlefield, but upon discovering that the boy is a young Davros, abandons him and goes missing. On Earth, Clara is summoned by UNIT when all of the world's aircraft freeze in the sky, and they discover Missy is causing the phenomenon. Missy has the last will and testament of the Doctor, called his confession dial, and tells Clara that they must search for him. They trace him to Essex in 1138, where he has spent three weeks throwing a party. When Clara and Missy reunite with the Doctor, an agent of Davros called Colony Sarff arrives and explains that the elderly Davros wishes to see the Doctor, before taking the three to a hospital space station. Clara and Missy discover the station is a building on an invisible planet, but as the landscape reappears, Missy identifies the planet as Skaro, the home planet of the Daleks. They are captured by the Daleks, who appear to kill them and destroy the TARDIS. The Doctor returns to the battlefield, holding a Dalek weapon, preparing to save his friend.
254b	2	"The Witch's Familiar"	Hettie MacDonald	Steven Moffat	26 September 2015 (2015-09-26)	5.71	83
Using Dalek energy, Missy was able to power her teleporter for her and Clara to escape. The two attempt to find the Doctor, going through the sewers, which are filled with decaying Daleks. They successfully kill a Dalek and empty its case to disguise Clara inside of it. Meanwhile, the Doctor comforts the dying Davros, feeling compassion for him having abandoned him as a boy in the past. The Doctor uses a little regeneration energy to power Davros' life support, which is also connected to every Dalek. This turns out to be a trap, and begins draining the Doctor to regenerate Davros and the Daleks. Missy saves the Doctor, and the energy also restores the dying Daleks, who wish to destroy the functional Daleks. While escaping, the Doctor and Missy encounter Clara's Dalek. Missy tries to trick the Doctor into killing her, but fails after the Dalek asks for mercy. Missy escapes. Using his new sonic sunglasses, the Doctor summons the TARDIS, which also had avoided destruction by its automated systems. The Doctor then returns to the battlefield, where he does not kill Davros, but destroys the mines to free him, and then helps him home.
255a	3	"Under the Lake"	Daniel O'Hara	Toby Whithouse	3 October 2015 (2015-10-03)	5.63	84
The Doctor and Clara arrive in an underwater base in 2119. The military team there have discovered an alien craft in the ruins of a submerged Scottish town with glyphs scratched in its inside walls, but Commander Moran was killed upon its discovery. At night, the ghosts of Moran and a Tivolian appear. The Doctor and the others attempt to capture the ghosts and understand what they want, and find out that they are repeating coordinates. They find an unopenable stasis chamber at the church where the coordinates led. The Doctor concludes that the ghosts are being used to send a call to the location. The Doctor decides to go back to before the flood and find out the true meaning behind the signal. Clara, acting commander Cass, and crewmember Lunn are separated from the Doctor and crewmembers O'Donnell and Bennett. Shortly after the Doctor, O'Donnell, and Bennett leave in the TARDIS, Clara spots a new ghost in the lake, only to discover that it is the Doctor.
255b	4	"Before the Flood"	Daniel O'Hara	Toby Whithouse	10 October 2015 (2015-10-10)	6.05	83
The Doctor, Bennett, and O'Donnell land in 1980. They discover that the Tivolian, Prentis, is still alive, the writing has not yet been scratched into the wall, and Prentis landed on Earth to bury his former enslaver the Fisher King. The Doctor contacts Clara in 2119, who tells him the Doctor's ghost is mouthing their names. The ghost releases the others from the Faraday cage. In 1980, the Fisher King awakes, killing Prentis and writing the glyphs on the wall. O'Donnell is killed, confirming the suspicion that the Doctor's ghost is saying the order in which they will die. Attempting to save Clara, the Doctor confronts the Fisher King. He tells the Doctor the ghosts created by the glyphs will send a signal that will draw an armada. The Fisher King is drawn away from the chamber, and the Doctor destroys the dam wall, flooding the town. The stasis chamber opens in 2119 to reveal the Doctor inside; his "ghost" is a hologram, programmed by the Doctor. The hologram lures the ghosts back inside the Faraday cage. The plot is a bootstrap paradox—the Doctor programmed the ghost to say the names because that is what the ghost's message said.
256	5	"The Girl Who Died"	Ed Bazalgette	Jamie Mathieson and Steven Moffat	17 October 2015 (2015-10-17)	6.56	82
After being captured by Vikings, the Doctor and Clara are brought to their village. A race of conquerors called the Mire kill the village's warriors and drain them of their testosterone and adrenaline. The Doctor and Clara begin training the villagers for battle after a woman from the village called Ashildr declares war on the Mire. The next day, the Mire invade, and the Doctor steals a helmet for Ashildr to use. She broadcasts a vision of a dragon into the Mire's other helmets and forces them to retreat, but she dies from the use of her helmet. The Doctor and Clara mourn, but then the Doctor realises his face is a reminder that he does not have to follow the rules of time and space. He uses a Mire medical chip to bring Ashildr back to life. This makes her immortal. He provides the second chip in hope she would give it to one she cares for.
257	6	"The Woman Who Lived"	Ed Bazalgette	Catherine Tregenna	24 October 2015 (2015-10-24)	6.11	81
The Doctor is alone and on the trail of an alien artefact in 1651 England. He interrupts Ashildr, now calling herself "Me", attempting to rob Lucie Fanshawe. Throughout her immortal life, she has lost many memories, and now isolates herself as to not lose loved ones. Me and the Doctor steal the artefact from Lucie's house. The Doctor meets Me's ally Leandro, a leonine alien stranded on Earth who uses the artefact to open portals into space. In return for Me tricking the Doctor into helping him, Leandro has agreed to let her come with him to travel the galaxy. However, in order for the portal to be activated, the artefact requires another person's death. Me kills the outlaw Sam Swift, opening the portal. Leandro reveals that his intent is to assist his people in invading Earth. When Me rediscovers her humanity after seeing spaceships attack the crowd, she uses the medical chip to save Swift, closing the portal. Leandro's people kill him for his failure. Afterwards, Me says that she will look after those that the Doctor leaves behind.
258a	7	"The Zygon Invasion"	Daniel Nettheim	Peter Harness	31 October 2015 (2015-10-31)	5.76	82
A peace treaty has allowed 20 million Zygons to remain on Earth, peacefully living out as disguised humans. Two versions of the scientist Osgood, a human and a Zygon duplicate, kept the peace until one of them died and the other disappeared. The Doctor leaves the Osgoods the Osgood Box to be used as a last resort. In New Mexico, a Zygon splinter group kidnaps Osgood. In London, a splinter group member called Bonnie takes over Zygon High Command. At the block of flats where Clara lives, Clara is knocked unconscious and hidden in a pod underground. Bonnie takes Clara's place. Bonnie tricks UNIT troops into going to a series of underground tunnels, which many other lifts across the city are connected to. The troops are killed by the splinter group when they attempt to escape. Kate Stewart is attacked by a splinter group member disguised as a sheriff while investigating Osgood in New Mexico. The Doctor rescues Osgood from captivity in Turmezistan and the two set off back to London. A Zygon captured and taken on board the plane tells the Doctor the invasion has already taken place. Bonnie fires a missile at their plane.
258b	8	"The Zygon Inversion"	Daniel Nettheim	Peter Harness and Steven Moffat	7 November 2015 (2015-11-07)	6.03	84
The Doctor and Osgood escape the plane before it is shot down. Within Clara's mind, Bonnie learns that the Osgood Box is held in UNIT's Black Archive. Against the wishes of the Zygons who are not aligned with the splinter group, Bonnie intends to start a war against humanity by using the Osgood Box to unmask 20 million Zygons on Earth. Clara telepathically breaks through Bonnie's control and alerts the Doctor to her whereabouts. Kate, having survived the encounter in New Mexico, joins the Doctor and Osgood. The three arrive at the Black Archive where Bonnie has found there are two Osgood Boxes, one which would either unmask the Zygons or make their human forms permanent, and the other which would destroy either every Zygon or everyone in London. When Bonnie and Kate prepare to activate the boxes, the Doctor talks them out by explaining the Boxes are a means to assure peace because of the consequences of declaring a war. Bonnie realises the boxes are empty as a ploy. The Doctor wipes Kate's memories to keep the peace treaty. Bonnie calls off the splinter group and says they will live peacefully. Bonnie becomes the new Osgood duplicate.
259	9	"Sleep No More"	Justin Molotnikov	Mark Gatiss	14 November 2015 (2015-11-14)	5.61	78
A four-person rescue team from Triton arrives at Le Verrier Lab, a space station in the 38th century in orbit around Neptune which has fallen silent. They meet the Doctor and Clara, who claim to be assessors. They then meet Gagan Rassmussen, the last survivor of Le Verrier and creator of large pods called Morpheus, which reduces the time a person sleeps to allow them to work more but also mutates the rheum in the corner of the eye into a carnivorous life form called the Sandmen. Chopra, Deep-Ando, and 474 are killed during their escape. Rassmussen plans to use the rescue ship to return to Triton and release Morpheus there with a Sandman, which he says is now spread by spores. The Doctor destroys the gravity shields, sending the station and ship into Neptune. The Doctor comments that the inconsistencies in how Morpheus is spread seems to be contrived like a story. The Doctor, Clara, and Nagata escape in the TARDIS. Rassmussen, revealed to be a Sandman himself, orchestrated the events to use footage collated from people's vision to create a video that people would watch to transmit the Morpheus signal across the Solar System to create more Sandmen.
260	10	"Face the Raven"	Justin Molotnikov	Sarah Dollard	21 November 2015 (2015-11-21)	6.05	84
The Doctor and Clara receive a phone call from Rigsy, who informs them of strange numbers that have appeared on the back of his neck that are counting down with no memory of how he got it. After examining him, they trace his movements to a trap street in present-day London that houses extraterrestrial refugees. They then discover Rigsy was sentenced to death by Me, the street's mayor, for murdering an alien called Anah and that Rigsy will be killed by an alien raven when the tattoo, known as a Chronolock, reaches zero. Clara discovers that the Chronolock can be transferred to a willing recipient and takes it from Rigsy, believing that Me will spare her, buying them more time. The Doctor realises from the medical data in the stasis pod Anah is stored inside that Anah is still alive; Me made a deal with an unknown party to have the Doctor transported far away to keep the street safe. As the Chronolock has been passed on to Clara, Me cannot remove it and Clara cannot be saved. Clara pleads with the Doctor not to take revenge for her. The raven kills Clara, and the Doctor is teleported away.
261	11	"Heaven Sent"	Rachel Talalay	Steven Moffat	28 November 2015 (2015-11-28)	6.19	80
The Doctor teleports into a chamber in a castle. He is followed by a creature which intends to torture him, but discovers that after giving a confession of some kind, the creature will temporarily retreat and the castle will shift its form. The Doctor seeks to escape, and investigates clues that direct him to a particular room, in which he finds a wall made of Azbantium, a mineral harder than diamond. He determines that he has already been in the castle for 7000 years. Understanding what this and other clues imply, he tries in vain to break the wall with his fist, but the creature appears and mortally wounds him. He crawls back to the room he appeared in, and sacrifices himself just as the configuration of the castle resets, rematerializing a copy of himself exactly as he originally teleported in. By exactly repeating this entire cycle of events innumerable times, the Azbantium wall is eventually weakened and he breaks through. Stepping through the breach, the Doctor sees he was inside his confession dial all along, and is now on Gallifrey, eons from now. He tells a nearby child to go to the city and inform the Time Lords he is on his way and that he knows what they did.
262	12	"Hell Bent"	Rachel Talalay	Steven Moffat	5 December 2015 (2015-12-05)	6.17	82
Aided by the Gallifreyan military, the Doctor usurps and exiles Lord President Rassilon. Now the new President, the Doctor learns that Rassilon imprisoned him in the dial to force him to confess about the Hybrid, which is prophesied by the Time Lords to stand in Gallifrey's ruins and unravel the Web of Time. The Doctor has the Time Lords retrieve Clara from her timeline at the instant of her death, ostensibly so the Doctor can consult her about the Hybrid. The Doctor escapes Gallifrey with Clara with a TARDIS stolen from the workshops under the Capitol, attempting to take her far away enough that she will return to life, despite this potentially damaging time. At the end of the universe, the Doctor encounters Ashildr in Gallifrey's ruins; the two conclude the Hybrid is the Doctor and Clara together. The Doctor decides to remove Clara's memories of him to prevent the Time Lords from finding her, but Clara alters the device so it will affect the Doctor. The Doctor wakes in the Nevada desert where his own TARDIS has been moved. Clara, travelling with Ashildr, begins her trip to Gallifrey in the TARDIS stolen from Gallifrey to return to her death.
Special (2015)
263	–	"The Husbands of River Song"	Douglas Mackinnon	Steven Moffat	25 December 2015 (2015-12-25)	7.69	82
The Doctor is on the planet Mendorax Dellora in 5343, where due to a case of mistaken identity he is recruited by his former companion and wife River Song to assist her in removing a diamond from the head of King Hydroflax after his maligned attempt to steal it. Surprised that River cannot identify his newest face, the Doctor struggles to break the news to her while learning how she acts on her own – and how many other lovers she has had. The Doctor and River bring the head of Hydroflax to the starship Harmony and Redemption to sell it, and a series of events causes River to discover the Doctor's identity. The starship is caught in a meteor strike and crashes into the planet Darillium, where the Doctor and River are fated to have their final date together before River dies meeting a younger Doctor. Having deliberately held it off for as long as possible, the Doctor finally decides to give in and arranges for a restaurant to be constructed on the planet. The Doctor and River then have their final date together, which lasts for 24 years – the span of a night on Darillium.

Series 10 (2017)

Main article: Doctor Who (series 10)

This series dealt with the mystery of the vault and the Doctor's oath, later exploring the Doctor and Missy's relationship, and the possibility of Missy "turning good". This season introduces Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie) and Nardole (Matt Lucas) as the Doctor's companions.

No. story	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
Special (2016)
264	–	"The Return of Doctor Mysterio"	Ed Bazalgette	Steven Moffat	25 December 2016 (2016-12-25)	7.83	82
The Doctor and Nardole investigate the New York branch of "Harmony Shoal", a multinational research company. Also investigating is journalist Lucy Fletcher, and they discover that Harmony Shoal is transplanting alien brains into humans. One of the alien workers finds the three, but they are rescued by the superhero called the Ghost, an alter ego for Grant Gordon, whom the Doctor met several years before when Grant was a child and accidentally turned him into a superhero. Grant is also a nanny working for Lucy, who is unaware of Grant's true identity. The Doctor and Nardole find the aliens' ship but soon discover that it has been turned into a bomb that will crash into New York as part of a complex plan to implant the alien brains into world leaders, thereby giving them control of the Earth. The Doctor aims the ship towards New York earlier than planned and the collision is stopped by Grant, revealing his identity to Lucy. After he and Lucy announce their love for each other, Grant throws the ship into the sun. UNIT then shuts down Harmony Shoal, but an alien brains implants itself into a UNIT soldier.
Series
265	1	"The Pilot"	Lawrence Gough	Steven Moffat	15 April 2017 (2017-04-15)	6.68	83
The Doctor and Nardole have occupied themselves under the guise of a university professor and assistant. Bill Potts is called to the Doctor's study, where she becomes his student. Bill is intrigued by a student named Heather. Heather asks her to inspect a puddle, asking her if she can see what's wrong with her reflection. The Doctor investigates the puddle and notes that it is not a reflection, but something mimicking them. Bill returns to her flat, where she is chased by a living fluid from an alien ship that has absorbed Heather and her feelings for Bill. Bill runs to the Doctor's study and they flee into the TARDIS. The Doctor moves the TARDIS, where he and Nardole check on a vault they are guarding. The TARDIS lands again in Australia, where the Doctor admits who he is. The fluid follows them to another planet, then through a Dalek battle. Bill convinces "Heather" to let her go, and it departs. The Doctor and Bill return to his study, where he attempts to wipe Bill's memories of the day but she stops him. As Bill leaves, she finds the Doctor waiting with the TARDIS, and joins him.
266	2	"Smile"	Lawrence Gough	Frank Cottrell-Boyce	22 April 2017 (2017-04-22)	5.98	83
The Doctor and Bill arrive on one of Earth's first colonised planets, Gliese 581d. They are greeted only by two different types of robots: swarm robots (Vardies) and slow but sentient emojibots. An emojibot gives the Doctor and Bill discs that communicate their true emotions. The Doctor theorises that the planet is awaiting the colonists but soon realises that the setup crew has been killed by emojibots and their skeletons crushed to feed the plants. Determined to blow up the city, he finds the main ship within it and its engine room, but Bill runs into a child who has awoken from a pod. The colonists were cryogenically frozen, with a few "shepherds" woken early to work. After one shepherd died, the emojibots could not recognise grief and killed all in mourning in an onslaught against sadness. The awakened colonists decide to fight back, but the Doctor wipes the memory of the robots and reboots everything... only humans must now learn to live with the Vardies, the planet's indigenous species. When the TARDIS returns the Doctor and Bill to London, they discover themselves on a frozen Thames River, with an elephant walking towards them on the ice.
267	3	"Thin Ice"	Bill Anderson	Sarah Dollard	29 April 2017 (2017-04-29)	5.61	84
The Doctor and Bill find they have arrived in 1814 London, in the midst of a frost fair on the frozen Thames. The Doctor's sonic screwdriver is stolen by Spider, an orphan pickpocket led by Kitty. The Doctor and Bill chase after Spider and Kitty. Glowing lights under the ice encircle Spider's feet and he is pulled through the ice. The Doctor and Bill don diving suits and purposely let the lights take them; they find a giant sea creature ensnared by chains. They learn from Kitty of Lord Sutcliffe; Sutcliffe affirms his family has used the creature to amass a fortune by collecting and selling its waste as a replacement for coal. Sutcliffe sends the Doctor and Bill to be eaten, while he rigs a bomb to cause the ice to shatter. The Doctor and Bill escape, and the Doctor takes the bomb and places it on the creature's chains. When Sutcliffe sets off the bomb, the creature is freed. They return to the present, where Nardole scolds the Doctor for breaking his oath. While checking the Vault beneath the University, Nardole hears something behind it knock repeatedly.
268	4	"Knock Knock"	Bill Anderson	Mike Bartlett	6 May 2017 (2017-05-06)	5.73	83
Bill and five students sign a lease with a mysterious Landlord to live in his house. After helping Bill move in, the Doctor becomes suspicious of the Landlord. A number of the students mysteriously disappear and the groups are separated. The Doctor along with Harry, one of the students, discover a strange cockroach-like creature which the former nicknames "Dryads". Down in the basement they discover leases from decades ago. The Landlord reveals the whole incident was to keep his daughter, Eliza, alive. Bill and another student, Shireen, come across Eliza who is revealed to be composed of wood. After finding Bill, the Doctor realises that the Landlord is actually Eliza's son. The Landlord attempts to send the Dryads after the Doctor and Bill, but Eliza manages to control them. She embraces the Landlord as the Dryads consume them. The students are restored to their physical bodies as the house collapses. Back at the university, the Doctor enters the vault to feed their prisoner as piano music echoes from inside.
269	5	"Oxygen"	Charles Palmer	Jamie Mathieson	13 May 2017 (2017-05-13)	5.27	83
Nardole accompanies the Doctor and Bill to a space station to answer a distress call. Most of the crew have been killed by their smartsuits, robotic spacesuits capable of independent movement which are the only source of oxygen on the station, forcing the TARDIS crew to don spares. The suits received an order to "deactivate organic components"; some crew survived by being disconnected, but networked suits can transmit the command by touch. Bill's suit malfunctions, forcing the Doctor to give her his helmet to save her, exposing himself to the vacuum of space, which blinds him; he later leaves her behind to be electrocuted, knowing her suit hasn't the power for a lethal shock. The algorithm used by the company determined the crew was inefficient and thus too expensive to keep alive. He wires the survivors' life signs to the station so that if they die it will explode, making it more expensive to kill them, so the suits give over their remaining oxygen. Bill is revived, the Doctor's eyes are repaired, and the survivors return to their head office to complain. Back at the university, the Doctor reveals to Nardole he is still blind.
270	6	"Extremis"	Daniel Nettheim	Steven Moffat	20 May 2017 (2017-05-20)	5.53	82
A long time ago, the Doctor is sent to execute Missy. Nardole interrupts on the behest of River Song. The Doctor refuses to kill Missy, instead imprisoning and guarding her for 1000 years. In the present, the Pope visits the Doctor, asking to help translate a text called "Veritas". Everyone who has read it has committed suicide, and the Doctor, Nardole, and Bill are brought to the Vatican to investigate. While there, Bill and Nardole discover a portal that leads them to the Pentagon. They find the portals being projected lead to different locations all over the world. The Doctor temporarily restores his sight using Time Lord technology but is ambushed by aliens. Nardole realises the projectors are not projecting portals, but the whole world. His realization causes him to dematerialise. Bill finds the Doctor, who tells her the world is a simulation, and Veritas contains the proof. Bill then disappears due to the alien's intervention, the Doctor realizing this is a test to see if they can conquer the Earth. However, the simulation is too exact, as his sonic sunglasses still work, and the virtual Doctor sends his information to the real Doctor warning of the coming invasion.
271	7	"The Pyramid at the End of the World"	Daniel Nettheim	Peter Harness and Steven Moffat	27 May 2017 (2017-05-27)	5.79	82
The Doctor is called by the Secretary-General of the U.N. after a pyramid mysteriously appears on the strategic border of the Russian, Chinese, and U.S. armies. It is revealed the Monks are responsible for the pyramid and that they have foreseen a disaster through their simulations, offering an opportunity to save humanity if they consent to their rule. The Secretary-General offers his consent but is killed when he is viewed to be acting out of fear. Elsewhere in a biochemical lab, a scientist accidentally misreads the levels of chemicals in an experiment releasing deadly biochemical bacteria. The Doctor surmises that the disaster was unrelated to war, but may be biochemical. After the Doctor and Nardole locate the lab, Nardole collapses following exposure to the bacteria whilst waiting in the TARDIS. The Doctor with the assistance of Erica, a lab worker, surmises the only way to stop it would be to destroy the lab. He becomes stuck on the side of a manual lock however, due to his blindness. Bill makes a deal with the Monks to restore the Doctor's sight despite his protests. He manages to escape but at the expense of handing the planet over to the Monks.
272	8	"The Lie of the Land"	Wayne Yip	Toby Whithouse	3 June 2017 (2017-06-03)	4.82	82
The Monks now rule the planet, and to most of humanity, they appear to have been on Earth for millions of years, guiding human development. Bill and a few others know the truth. Nardole locates Bill, and they search for the Doctor. They locate him, but he is cooperating with the Monks. Bill shoots him and it appears he is regenerating, but it is all a trick to see whether Bill has been fooled by the Monks. At the university, the Doctor speaks to Missy, who reveals Bill has to die to break the Monk's influence on Earth. The Doctor hopes there is another solution and infiltrates the Monk's pyramid in London. The Doctor attempts to break the link but fails. Bill prepares to sacrifice herself, however, the Monk's images are replaced with those of Bill's mother, which represents hope. Due to their actions, the Monks leave and humanity recalls none of the events. Back in the Vault, Missy expresses remorse at those she has murdered.
273	9	"Empress of Mars"	Wayne Yip	Mark Gatiss	10 June 2017 (2017-06-10)	5.02	83
NASA finds the words "God save the Queen" buried under the ice cap of Mars. The Doctor, Bill, and Nardole venture to Mars in 1881 and discover soldiers from Victorian Britain. Nardole goes back into the TARDIS, but it returns to the university, and he asks Missy for help getting back. The humans have befriended an Ice Warrior named Friday. Captain Catchlove says they rescued Friday from his crashed spaceship, and Friday allowed the soldiers to use his technology to mine Mars. They unearth the tomb of the Ice Empress Iraxxa; one guard revives her. Friday tells Iraxxa that the Martian surface is uninhabitable. She decides to relent, but a soldier fires his rifle; provoked, she returns fire. Iraxxa starts reviving Ice Warriors. The Doctor threatens to use the mining device to bury them all. Catchlove holds Iraxxa at knifepoint and attempts to force her to help him pilot a spaceship. Godsacre kills Catchlove. Iraxxa calls off the attack in exchange for Godsacre pledging himself to her. The Doctor contacts Alpha Centauri to assist the Ice Warriors, and also leaves the message for NASA. Nardole re-appears with the TARDIS and Missy, who expresses concern about the Doctor.
274	10	"The Eaters of Light"	Charles Palmer	Rona Munro	17 June 2017 (2017-06-17)	4.73	81
The Doctor and Bill, disagreeing about the fate of the Ninth Legion of the Imperial Roman army, travel to 2nd-century Scotland. Bill goes her own way, while the Doctor and Nardole look for their bodies. Bill encounters the Legion's soldiers hiding from a creature drawn to any light source, killing those in its path. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Nardole discover the corpses of the remaining Legion. They later come across a Pict tribe guarding a cairn. The Doctor enters the cairn, passing into an interdimensional portal. The Pict explains that a warrior goes through the cairn to defeat an "Eater of Light", but with the invading Roman army, she allowed one to escape to fight them. Bill leads the surviving legion away from the creature and reunites with the Doctor and Nardole. The Doctor plans to lure the Eater back to the portal during daylight, but requires someone inside preventing the creature's escape. Once the creature is trapped, The Pict and the Ninth Legion sacrifice themselves to stop the creatures. Back in the TARDIS, Missy awaits their return, to the surprise of Bill and Nardole. The Doctor tells Missy that he has hope she will turn good.
275a	11	"World Enough and Time"	Rachel Talalay	Steven Moffat	24 June 2017 (2017-06-24)	5.00	85
The Doctor stumbles from the TARDIS into a snowy landscape and begins regenerating. Earlier, the Doctor proposed to test Missy by having her answer a distress call. They arrive via TARDIS on a colony ship reversing away from a black hole. They are held at gunpoint by Jorj, who demands to know which of them is human then shoots Bill. The Doctor, Missy, and Nardole learn that a few days ago, some of the crew had gone down to the ship's lower decks but never returned. Jorj claims the ship is empty, but there are thousands of humans, descendants of the crew: due to time dilation, time moves faster on the furthest decks. Bill awakens in a hospital with a replacement heart. Razor, the caretaker, explains that some of the patients are waiting to be "upgraded". Years later, they see footage of the Doctor coming down the lift, while only a few minutes have passed for the Doctor. The Doctor, Nardole, and Missy discover the origin of the ship: Mondas. Razor approaches Missy and reveals himself to be her previous incarnation of the Master. The Doctor and Nardole find a Cyberman who reveals itself as Bill.
275b	12	"The Doctor Falls"	Rachel Talalay	Steven Moffat	1 July 2017 (2017-07-01)	5.30	83
Escaping to a higher floor, the Doctor tries to comfort Bill, who has just retained her humanity. This floor is a simulated countryside, where the group helps defend the villagers from the oncoming Cybermen. The Doctor attempts to convince Missy and the Master to help him. They refuse, though Missy seems conflicted. Hoping to save the villagers, the Doctor tells Nardole to take them to another floor. Bill opts to stay with the Doctor, and Nardole says goodbye, taking the villagers to safety. Elsewhere, Missy betrays the Master by stabbing him in the back, triggering the regeneration process. He shoots her in return, killing her and preventing her regeneration. The Doctor fights off the Cybermen but is wounded in the process. He proceeds to blow up the whole floor, killing himself. Bill survives, with Heather appearing before her. Heather reveals she has changed Bill into her species so she could live on. The two take the Doctor's body back to his TARDIS before they leave to see the universe together. The Doctor awakens as the regeneration process begins. He attempts to stop it and exits the TARDIS into a snowy landscape, where he is greeted by the First Doctor.
Special (2017)
276	–	"Twice Upon a Time"	Rachel Talalay	Steven Moffat	25 December 2017 (2017-12-25)	7.92	81
Returning to his TARDIS at the South Pole, the First Doctor refuses to regenerate. He encounters the Twelfth Doctor outside his own TARDIS in a similar state of mind. The pair are approached by a displaced First World War British captain. All three are abducted by a spaceship, where they meet Bill Potts. They are offered freedom by the ship's glass-like holographic pilot in exchange the return of the Captain. They escape and take the First Doctor's TARDIS to Villengard. The Twelfth Doctor meets with the Dalek Rusty. Given access to the Dalek Hivemind, the Doctor learns that the pilot is designed to extract people when they died, such as Bill, and archive their memories. The Doctors agree to return the Captain to his timeline, which happens to be minutes before the Christmas truce. The First Doctor is prepared to regenerate, and returns to his TARDIS. After being alone with Bill's avatar, the Doctor returns to the TARDIS and regenerates after relaying advice to his next incarnation. After the Thirteenth Doctor examines her reflection, the TARDIS suffers multiple failures. As the console room explodes and the TARDIS dematerialises, the Doctor is thrown out of the ship and plummets towards the Earth.

Thirteenth Doctor

The Thirteenth Doctor was portrayed by Jodie Whittaker. Chris Chibnall took over as showrunner from the eleventh series.

Series 11 (2018)

Main article: Doctor Who (series 11)

For series 11, the episode count was reduced from twelve to ten with each episode's runtime increasing by ten minutes. The Thirteenth Doctor initially searched for her lost TARDIS, inadvertently bringing her companions with her on her travels, who contemplated returning to their lives but decided to continue travelling. The series also dealt with grief, and saw the time slot change to Sunday.

No. story	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
277	1	"The Woman Who Fell to Earth"	Jamie Childs	Chris Chibnall	7 October 2018 (2018-10-07)	10.96	83
Ryan Sinclair, a warehouse packer with dyspraxia, calls the police, receiving help from PC Yasmin Khan, his old friend, after a blue pod appears. Ryan's grandmother Grace O'Brien, her husband, Graham, and Karl, a crane worker, find themselves trapped on board their train with a floating orb of tentacles and electricity. Ryan and Yasmin head for the train, arriving just as the Doctor falls through the ceiling. The orb departs after implanting everyone with DNA destroying bombs. The Doctor and others track the pod down to a warehouse, where they encounter a humanoid alien. The Doctor constructs a new sonic screwdriver from spare parts. The group intercepts the orb, a mass of biological data-gathering coils. The second alien suddenly appears, revealing himself as Tzim-Sha, nicknamed "Tim Shaw", a warrior of the Stenza race. The group track down Karl. Tzim-Sha captures Karl, but the Doctor confronts Tzim-Sha. Tzim-Sha detonates the bombs, but the Doctor transferred them into the coils, which were self-implanted into Tzim-Sha. Grace destroys the coils and dies. The Doctor later tells the group she must find the TARDIS. She leaves, but accidentally teleports all four of them into deep space.
278	2	"The Ghost Monument"	Mark Tonderai	Chris Chibnall	14 October 2018 (2018-10-14)	9.00	82
The Doctor and others are rescued by Angstrom and Epzo, pilots competing in an intergalactic race. Reaching the hostile planet of Desolation, the group and pilots meet with the race's organiser Ilin. They learn that the race's final event involves reaching the Ghost Monument for extraction before the planet completes a single rotation. The Doctor learns that it is the TARDIS, stuck in mid-phasing. Joining the pilots, the Doctor promises to get her new friends home. The group and the pilots locate and repair a solar-powered boat, using it to reach the ruins of a former civilisation, now inhabited by sniper robots. The Doctor uses the remains of one robot to disable all of the others with an electromagnetic pulse, locating a series of tunnels to use as a shortcut. Trapped by a group of Remnants, cloth-like creatures, the Doctor destroys them with Epzo's self-lighting cigar. Reaching the monument's location, the pilots claim joint victory. Ilin reluctantly agrees to this but refuses to teleport the Doctor and her friends off the planet. The Doctor then hears the TARDIS emerging, using her sonic screwdriver to fully materialise it, and the Doctor offers her friends a trip home as she promised.
279	3	"Rosa"	Mark Tonderai	Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall	21 October 2018 (2018-10-21)	8.41	83
When the Doctor attempts to return to Sheffield, the TARDIS instead takes her to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. The Doctor finds traces of time travel energy in the area. Investigating, the group learns that they have arrived the day before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat as bus driver James F. Blake demanded, influencing the civil rights movement. Tracing the energy, the group locates a suitcase of equipment from the future but are forced to flee from its owner, a rehabilitated murderer named Krasko, who is attempting to change history by ensuring Parks never had to refuse her seat. Destroying the vortex manipulator he used, the Doctor and her friends focus on thwarting him by ensuring Parks refuses her seat to Blake. While Ryan removes false notices at bus stops, he encounters Krasko blocking the bus route. Ryan uses Krasko's displacement device to send him into the past. Removing the blockage, he and the others rejoin the Doctor on the bus as passengers. As the moment arrives, the Doctor realises they have become forced to stay aboard the bus. The police arrest Parks for violating segregation laws, and history has been kept intact.
280	4	"Arachnids in the UK"	Sallie Aprahamian	Chris Chibnall	28 October 2018 (2018-10-28)	8.22	83
Having returned to Sheffield, the Doctor meets Yasmin's family, while Graham heads home to grieve over Grace. After Yasmin leaves to pick up her mother, Najia Khan, the Doctor and Ryan encounter arachnologist Jade McIntyre. The group discovers that a large spider killed McIntyre's colleague. After Graham rejoins them, the group learns that McIntyre has been investigating bizarre behaviour in spider ecosystems. The Doctor deduces that the spiders are linked to a luxury hotel complex, which Najia worked at until fired by its owner Robertson. Arriving at the hotel and joined by Robertson, the group learns the spiders have infested the complex. The spiders came from abandoned mine tunnels beneath the complex, which was used as a dumping ground for industrial waste. McIntyre, whose experiments involved genetically modified spiders, realises the giant spiders are offspring of a specimen that had been dumped there, the toxicity of the dumping ground mutating them. The group lures the offspring into a panic room, before encountering the specimen itself in the ballroom. Before the Doctor can deal with it, Robertson kills it with a gun. Ryan, Yasmin and Graham decide to see more of the universe with the Doctor.
281	5	"The Tsuranga Conundrum"	Jennifer Perrott	Chris Chibnall	4 November 2018 (2018-11-04)	7.76	79
While scavenging on an alien junkyard planet, the Doctor, Graham, Yasmin, and Ryan are caught in a sonic mine's detonation. They wake aboard the Tsuranga, a spaceship travelling to a medical space station. The Doctor meets the patients - Eve Cicero, a renowned general; her brother Durkas; Eve's synth robot partner Ronan; and Yoss, a pregnant man. The Doctor and head nurse Astos gain access to the ship's systems and notice an alien entity heading for the ship. Astos becomes trapped in a pod and dies when the pod is jettisoned and explodes. Mabli, Astos' colleague, tells the Doctor that the entity is a Pting, a creature that eats any non-organic material. While Yasmin and Ronan defend the ship's anti-matter power source, Ryan and Graham help Yoss as he enters labour. Eve, who has a critical heart condition, sacrifices herself to pilot the ship through a dangerous asteroid field. The Doctor finds a bomb attached to the ship's power source, removes it, and tricks the Pting into eating it, ensuring that the energy of the blast feeds the creature before jettisoning it into space. The Tsuranga safely arrives at the space station, and the group honours the death of Eve.
282	6	"Demons of the Punjab"	Jamie Childs	Vinay Patel	11 November 2018 (2018-11-11)	7.48	80
After talking with her grandmother Umbreen, Yaz is curious about her deceased Muslim grandfather. The group arrives in Punjab in August 1947, and Yaz is shocked to learn Umbreen will marry a Hindu man, Prem. The Doctor learns the group arrived on 14 August, the day before the partition of India. The Doctor sees flashes of two aliens, and she finds them with the dead body of a sadhu, Bhakti. Joined by Prem, who saw the "demons" during the Battle of Singapore, the Doctor assumes they killed Bhakti and recognizes them as Thijarian, a race of assassins. After the Doctor is teleported back to their ship while the others prepare for the wedding, she learns the Thijarians are the last of their kind, acting as witnesses to those who die alone, and they show the Doctor that Bhakti was murdered by Prem's brother Manish, a Hindu nationalist who opposes the wedding. After the wedding, the Doctor accosts Manish for the crime, and he calls some armed colleagues. The Doctor and her friends help Umbreen escape, while Prem remains behind to reason with Manish. One of the nationalists murders Prem, as the travellers return to the present.
283	7	"Kerblam!"	Jennifer Perrott	Pete McTighe	18 November 2018 (2018-11-18)	7.46	81
The group travels to Kerblam!, a galaxy-wide online shopping service consisting of automated warehouses and a robotic workforce. As new employees, the group attempt to find out who had sent them a call for help. They learn from their new colleagues – Dan in delivery, Kira in dispatch, and Charlie in maintenance – that staff have been vanishing. When Dan disappears, the Doctor suspects something is wrong with the company's artificial intelligence. When Kira is abducted, the Doctor tracks her, and she finds the remains of the missing workforce and an army of bots. With an early model of the bot, she learns the AI called for her help directly. Yasmin, Ryan, and Charlie witness Kira die when playing with bubble wrap, and the Doctor discovers someone weaponised the material. Charlie, the culprit, used the staff as test subjects, intending to use the bubble wrap upon the company's customers, knowing that blame would be placed upon automation and a lack of human diligence, his motive to prevent automation making human workforces redundant. The Doctor re-programmes the bots to deliver to themselves, and the floor is destroyed. Maddox and Slade undertake to rebuild Kerblam! with a mostly human workforce.
284	8	"The Witchfinders"	Sallie Aprahamian	Joy Wilkinson	25 November 2018 (2018-11-25)	7.21	81
The group arrives in Lancashire in 1612, landing near Pendle Hill. They observe Becka Savage duck her grandmother as a witch. To prevent further trials, the Doctor informs Savage she is the Witchfinder General, only to be greeted by King James I, who is paranoid and obsessed with witches. Yasmin meets with Savage's cousin Willa and protects her when a tendril attacks them. The Doctor discovers that an alien entity has possessed trial victims. Savage reveals she was infected with the entity whilst chopping down a tree on the Hill. The trial victims arrive and possess her; Savage, now completely taken over, identifies the entity as the Morax and herself as queen. The Doctor discovers that Savage damaged a high-tech jail on the Hill, which the Morax had been imprisoned. Learning that they intend to have their king possess James, the Doctor uses the tree Savage took to fight them back. The group rescues James and re-establish the jail, imprisoning the Morax. James declares that all records of the event will be erased, and he and Willa watch as the group leave in the TARDIS.
285	9	"It Takes You Away"	Jamie Childs	Ed Hime	2 December 2018 (2018-12-02)	6.42	80
The group arrives in Norway. Meeting blind teen Hanne, they learn that she and her father Erik moved following the death of her mother Trine and that her father is missing. They discover a mirror with no reflections; the mirror is a portal. She, Graham and Yasmin enter, while Ryan remains behind. Hanne knocks him out and follows them, forcing Ryan to follow. The group finds themselves in the Anti-Zone, a buffer-space between universes to prevent catastrophic damage, which they quickly escape by entering another portal. They find themselves in a cabin within a parallel universe, and encounter Erik talking with Trine, and Graham encounters Grace. The Doctor deduces they have encountered the Solitract, a sentient universe incompatible with the real one. When Hanne arrives and recognises Trine is not real, the Doctor convinces the Solitract to release them. The Doctor offers the Solitract her experience of travelling the universe, leaving the Doctor in a white space along with a talking frog, a form of the Solitract. She explains she can't stay and makes her way back through the Anti-Zone before the portal collapses. Erik returns to Oslo with Hanne, while Ryan bonds with Graham.
286	10	"The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos"	Jamie Childs	Chris Chibnall	9 December 2018 (2018-12-09)	6.65	79
The TARDIS lands on Ranskoor Av Kolos, a planet with a psychic field that alters one's perception of reality; the Doctor provides her companions with counteracting neurobalancers. They come across an amnesiac pilot, Paltraki. Paltraki gets a video signal from a woman, Andinio, and Tzim-Sha, who warns Paltraki to bring him an item, a rock floating in a protective shell, in exchange for his crew. Graham and Ryan look for the crew, while the Doctor, Yasmin, and Paltraki seek Tzim-Sha. They encounter Andinio, who takes them to Tzim-Sha and Delph; Andinio and Delph are the Ux, a telekinetic race. Tzim-Sha has been trapped on Ranskoor and the Ux consider him their "creator"; he has had them shrink planets to tiny objects: the item from Paltraki's ship. Yasmin and Paltraki discover four similar planets, while Tzim-Sha begins the same to Earth. The Doctor convinces the Ux to stop the process and help her return the planets. Graham and Ryan find the crew in stasis chambers, Ryan leads the crew to safety, and they stow Tzim-Sha in a stasis chamber. The Doctor, the Ux, and Paltraki's crew work together to return the planets, and the Doctor and her companions leave.
Special
287	–	"Resolution"	Wayne Yip	Chris Chibnall	1 January 2019 (2019-01-01)	7.13	80
On New Year's Day 2019 in Sheffield, archaeologists Lin and Mitch unintentionally revive a deadly intelligence that has been separated and dormant on Earth since the 9th century. The Doctor is alerted to its presence and lands the TARDIS at Lin and Mitch's dig. The Doctor takes a sample of the creature's slime, while the squid-like creature attaches itself to Lin's back. At Graham and Ryan's home, the latter's father Aaron returns. Ryan agrees to talk to him, while the Doctor discovers that the creature she faces is a Dalek. Controlling Lin, the Dalek steals a ray gun belonging to its race from an archive base and constructs a makeshift Dalek casing out of scrap metal. The Doctor and her friends find Lin, freed from the Dalek's control, and the Doctor confronts the rebuilt creature. The Dalek flies off and attempts to summon a battle fleet, but the Doctor follows and defeats it with the help of Aaron's microwave oven. The exposed mutant creature possesses Aaron in an attempt to force the Doctor to take it to Skaro, but she releases it into a supernova instead. Afterward, Aaron and Ryan reconcile.

Series 12 (2020)

Main article: Doctor Who (series 12)

This series dealt with a new incarnation of the Master, the return of Jack Harkness, the appearance of an unknown incarnation of the Doctor who existed at some point before the Time War, and the "lone Cyberman", while following the destruction of Gallifrey and the secret of the Timeless Child. The special marked the last regular appearance of Graham and Ryan.

No. story	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
288a	1	"Spyfall, Part 1"	Jamie Magnus Stone	Chris Chibnall	1 January 2020 (2020-01-01)	6.89	82
The Doctor, Yaz, Graham, and Ryan are called into MI6 by C to investigate mysterious deaths. Their only lead is Daniel Barton, the CEO of a media company. The Doctor contacts Agent O, who was tasked with monitoring extraterrestrial activities. An alien Kasaavin kills C, but the Doctor and her companions escape. Yaz and Ryan investigate Barton, who invites them to his birthday party. Graham and the Doctor find O in the Australian outback. Both groups encounter the Kasaavin, though the Doctor is able to capture one of them, discovering their hostile intentions. While sneaking into Barton's headquarters with Ryan, Yaz is captured by a Kasaavin, and the Doctor's captured Kasaavin frees itself by replacing itself with Yaz. Joined by O, the four investigate Barton at his party. After the Doctor reveals him, Barton tries to escape, so the Doctor and her companions pursue on motorbikes to Barton's private jet. Leaping aboard the jet, O reveals he is actually The Master – having been in control of Barton and the Kasaavins the whole time. A bomb detonates, and the Master escapes while the Doctor is captured by one of the aliens, leaving her companions in the falling plane.
288b	2	"Spyfall, Part 2"	Lee Haven Jones	Chris Chibnall	5 January 2020 (2020-01-05)	6.07	82
In the aliens' dimension, the Doctor meets Ada Lovelace, and they are both transported to 1834. The Doctor summons a Kasaavin, hoping it will take her back to the 21st century, but Ada abruptly joins her. In the present, Ryan discovers how to safely land the plane after finding a recording of the Doctor, but Barton brands the companions as fugitives. The Doctor and Ada accidentally land in Paris during World War II, but are rescued by Noor Inayat Khan. The Master tracks the Doctor disguised as a Nazi, though she arranges a meeting between them. The Master claims Gallifrey has been destroyed before the Doctor blows his cover and escapes with Ada and Noor to the present in the Master's TARDIS. Barton speaks at a conference, revealing that the Kasaavin will rewrite humanity's DNA. The Master arrives to see the device activate, only for it to fail. The Doctor exposes the Master's machinations to the Kasaavin, provoking them into taking him with them as they're forced back to their dimension. The Doctor visits a destroyed Gallifrey to confirm the Master's claim, and learns from a recording of him that their lives were based on lies.
289	3	"Orphan 55"	Lee Haven Jones	Ed Hime	12 January 2020 (2020-01-12)	5.38	77
The Doctor, Ryan, Yaz and Graham are transported to Tranquility Spa, a vacation facility built in a dome on a desolate uninhabitable world. Seemingly peaceful at first, the facility is quickly overrun by Dregs, humanoid monsters, due to an intentional disruption of the security systems. Several guests and facility workers are killed before the Doctor re-establishes the security fields. The survivors leave the dome to save a fellow survivor, but the Dregs lead them into a trap, and they retreat to a tunnel to return to the facility. One of the guests, Bella, reveals she purposely disrupted the security field as revenge against her mother Kane, who built Tranquility Spa and ignored her childhood. The Doctor discovers the orphan planet is really Earth after years of climate change and war, and the Dregs are mutated human survivors. Kane and Bella sacrifice themselves to destroy the facility and protect the others as the Doctor safely transports them to their original planets.
290	4	"Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"	Nida Manzoor	Nina Metivier	19 January 2020 (2020-01-19)	5.20	79
In 1903, Nikola Tesla works on his wireless power transmission system. He comes across a floating orb and runs away as a cloaked figure shoots at him. The Doctor arrives and they escape aboard a train headed to New York City, where they find protesters waiting outside Tesla's lab, believing negative stories about Tesla circulated by Thomas Edison. The Doctor, Graham and Ryan visit Edison's workshop. The cloaked figure arrives at Edison's lab and pursues Edison. The Doctor tries to warn Tesla and Yaz back at his lab, but they are captured and transported to an invisible alien ship, belonging to the Queen of the Skithra, a scorpion-like alien, who demands help to fix it. The Doctor transports herself, Tesla and Yaz back to Tesla's lab. The Queen refuses to leave, threatening to destroy Earth if Tesla is not surrendered. Tesla and the Doctor hook up the TARDIS to help power Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower, which activates, shooting electrical bolts through the ship, forcing it to leave Earth. Yaz learns that Tesla's future reputation remains unchanged by his involvement.
291	5	"Fugitive of the Judoon"	Nida Manzoor	Vinay Patel and Chris Chibnall	26 January 2020 (2020-01-26)	5.57	83
The Judoon search Gloucester for a fugitive. The Doctor questions Lee and Ruth Clayton, a married couple. Graham, Ryan, and Yaz are transported to a spaceship piloted by Jack Harkness. Lee surrenders and is killed by Gat for being Ruth's accomplice, the Judoon's employer. When Judoon surrounds the Doctor and Ruth, Ruth subdues them with sudden inexplicable power. A text from Lee triggers Ruth's memories, which leads them to a lighthouse. Unable to teleport the Doctor, Harkness gives the companions a message from the future and is forced to teleport away, returning them to Gloucester. Ruth finds an alarm box outside, breaks it, and is engulfed in energy; the Doctor discovers a buried TARDIS, which Ruth claims is hers, introducing herself as the Doctor. In Ruth's TARDIS, the Doctor and Ruth discover that neither of them remembers the other. Ruth once worked for Gat and hid her identity with a chameleon arch. The TARDIS is brought aboard the Judoon ship. Under orders to bring Ruth back to Gallifrey, Gat is shown a vision of a destroyed Gallifrey by the Doctor. Gat shoots at Ruth but the gun backfires. Ruth returns the Doctor to Gloucester; the mystery of the two Doctors remains unexplained.
292	6	"Praxeus"	Jamie Magnus Stone	Pete McTighe and Chris Chibnall	2 February 2020 (2020-02-02)	5.22	78
The Doctor and her companions investigate a bacterium that covers human bodies in a crystalline substance before disintegrating them. Aided by ex-police officer Jake, blogger Gabriela, and medical researcher Suki, they find Jake's husband Adam in the early stages of infection, and take him to Suki's lab to evaluate him while Yaz and Gabriela explore the site where they found Jake, eventually finding a teleport to an alien location. The Doctor determines the bacterium is drawn to microplastics. Suki reveals she is from an alien race devastated by this bacterium, which they called Praxeus, and had come to Earth to evaluate it further for a cure. While the Doctor finds a cure for humans, using it on the willing Adam to test it, it cannot stop Praxeus from affecting Suki and soon disintegrates her. Travelling to Yaz's location, they find they are under the Indian Ocean garbage patch, where Suki's ship is located. They load the ship's reserves with the antidote and set the ship to self-destruct in the atmosphere to disperse it, but Jake willingly pilots the vessel when the auto-pilot fails. The Doctor materialises the TARDIS around Jake, saving him moments before the explosion. With Praxeus stopped, the Doctor suggests Jake, Adam, and Gabriela travel the world together.
293	7	"Can You Hear Me?"	Emma Sullivan	Charlene James and Chris Chibnall	9 February 2020 (2020-02-09)	4.90	78
The Doctor returns her companions home, where they simultaneously begin to experience supernatural events. Graham sees visions of an imprisoned girl telling him to find her, Ryan sees a mysterious figure cause his friend to vanish, and Yaz sees an unfamiliar woman among memories of her past. The Doctor, still in the TARDIS, receives a signal from 14th century Aleppo, where she meets a young woman named Tahira, who has a mental health condition. Following their strange experiences, the companions contact the Doctor, who uses Graham's visions to track the source of the nightmares with the TARDIS. They are led to a ship in the future piloted by Zellin, who claims to be immortal and omnipotent. After putting the companions and Tahira out of action, Zellin uses the Doctor's instincts to free the imprisoned girl, Rakaya, another immortal being like himself, who has been feeding on their dreams. The Doctor tricks Zellin and Rakaya back into their imprisonment.
294	8	"The Haunting of Villa Diodati"	Emma Sullivan	Maxine Alderton	16 February 2020 (2020-02-16)	5.07	80
The Doctor takes her companions to 1816 to Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to witness Mary Shelley gain the inspiration to write Frankenstein. However, they found the villa seemingly haunted, and Mary's future husband Percy Shelley has gone missing. A spectral figure appears and reveals itself as a Cyberman named Ashad seeking the missing Cyberium, the collected knowledge of the Cybermen. The Doctor discovers Percy, finding he had found the Cyberium earlier and had gone crazy from it, with the Cyberium creating haunted imagery to prevent discovery. Despite knowing of Jack's previous warning of the lone Cyberman, the Doctor extracts the Cyberium from Percy and, under threat, gives it to Ashad, who returns to the future. The Doctor and her companions pursue, while Mary was inspired by Ashad, "this modern Prometheus," to write a story.
295a	9	"Ascension of the Cybermen"	Jamie Magnus Stone	Chris Chibnall	23 February 2020 (2020-02-23)	4.99	81
The Doctor and companions arrive at the last outpost of humanity in the far future, in time to protect them from an attacking wave of Cybermen drones, though some humans are killed. The Doctor has Graham and Yaz take the others in their ship to safety while she, Ryan and Ethan, one of the survivors, travel to Ko Sharmus, known as humanity's last hope. They discover Ko Sharmus is a person acting as a ferryman for other humans to escape through a portal to the other side of the universe for safety. Aboard the humans' ship, they pass through a battlefield with debris of dead Cybermen and board a seemingly-abandoned Cyber carrier. However, too late they discover that Ashad and a group of Cyberwarriors have arrived, and have since seized the control deck and directed the ship towards the Doctor, and are waking the other Cybermen in stasis. Yaz contacts the Doctor about their impending arrival, just as Ko Sharmus opens the portal. The portal is revealed to be the new location of the ruins of Gallifrey, much to the Doctor's surprise. The Master jumps through and tells the Doctor that she should be afraid because everything is about to change forever.
295b	10	"The Timeless Children"	Jamie Magnus Stone	Chris Chibnall	1 March 2020 (2020-03-01)	4.69	82
The Master forcibly teleports the Doctor to Gallifrey, where he imprisons her in the Matrix. While in the Matrix, the Master reveals that the Doctor was an orphaned female child from another dimension founded and experimented on by a Shobogan woman named Tecteun. After many years, Tecteun eventually discovers how the Child can regenerate thus leading to the creation of the Time Lords. Meanwhile, the Master contacts Ashad to lead the Cybermen to Gallifrey but realises that he cannot have the Cyberium if Ashad is alive, prompting him to shrink Ashad and absorb the Cyberium. He then uses the Cyberium to convert the dead Time Lords into Cybermen, which he dubbed the "CyberMasters". Yaz and Graham safely reunite with Ryan and the others then follow the Cybermen to Gallifrey. Ruth helps the Doctor escape the Matrix by transmitting her old and new memories. Back in the chamber, the Doctor plans to detonate the death particle from Ashad's remains to stop the Master, but Ko Sharmus arrives and takes her place as his penance so the Doctor can escape, detonating the particle in his final moments. Before it detonated, the Master ordered the CyberMasters to follow him elsewhere. The companions return to Earth in a house disguised TARDIS and the Doctor makes her way back to her own TARDIS. Suddenly, the Judoon appear to arrest the Doctor and take her to a distant prison elsewhere in space.
Special
296	–	"Revolution of the Daleks"	Lee Haven Jones	Chris Chibnall	1 January 2021 (2021-01-01)	6.36	79
The shell of the reconnaissance Dalek is intercepted by Jack Robertson, who has funded a defence drone. Graham and Ryan meet at a disguised TARDIS, where Yaz is trying to find the Doctor. Graham shows her a video of the defence drone and they confront Robertson. Jo Patterson, projected to be elected the Prime Minister, requests Robertson to increase the drone production. Scientist Leo discovers organic cells in the Dalek remnants and clones the cells into a creature, that escapes and takes control of Leo. Leo travels to Osaka, Japan, where Dalek clones are being grown. The Doctor has been imprisoned for a number of decades and comes across Jack Harkness who breaks her free. They rejoin with her companions. Jack and Yaz investigate the facility while the Doctor, Graham, and Ryan confront Robertson. The Dalek reveals its plan to take over Earth. Using ultraviolet light, the Dalek clones transport themselves into the defence drones. The Doctor sends out a signal to a death squad of Daleks, who eliminate the reconnaissance Daleks. Roberston makes an alliance with the Daleks. Jack, Graham, and Ryan rig the Dalek ship with explosives. The Doctor tricks the Daleks into the other TARDIS where it is set to be transported to the Void to be destroyed. Ryan and Graham decide to stay on Earth.

Series 13 (2021)

Main article: Doctor Who (series 13)

Series 13 consisted of a single story arc, subtitled Flux. The series dealt with a universe-ending anomaly called the "Flux", which brought several enemies together in an attempt to take over Earth. It also featured the Division from Series 12. Dan Lewis (John Bishop) joined the series as a new companion.

No. story	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
297a	1	"The Halloween Apocalypse"	Jamie Magnus Stone	Chris Chibnall	31 October 2021 (2021-10-31)	5.81	76
The Doctor and Yaz pursue Karvanista, of the Lupari species, to Liverpool, where he kidnaps tradesman Dan Lewis. The Doctor experiences a psychic vision of the mysterious Swarm, who claims to share a history with her, escaping from his imprisonment by the Time Lord Division. Before leaving Liverpool the Doctor and Yaz meet Claire, a woman from their future. Shortly after, a Weeping Angel sends Claire to 1965. On Karvanista’s ship, Yaz rescues Dan while the Doctor confronts Karvanista over his connection to the Division, before addressing the Lupari’s apparent invasion plan. Karvanista tells them the Lupari are actually saving humanity from Earth’s destruction by the Flux, an unknown, all-consuming phenomenon that defies all laws of space and time. The Flux causes Vinder, the sole occupant of a remote space outpost, to evacuate, and catches the attention of the Sontarans. Following another psychic interaction between the Doctor and Swarm, the Flux accelerates its attack on Earth. The Doctor has Karvanista form a defensive shield with the other Lupari ships, protecting Earth from the Flux. Unable to transport behind the shield, the TARDIS is overtaken by the Flux, with the Doctor, Yaz and Dan inside.
297b	2	"War of the Sontarans"	Jamie Magnus Stone	Chris Chibnall	7 November 2021 (2021-11-07)	5.13	77
The Doctor, Yaz and Dan wake up in Crimean War-era Sevastopol, where the Sontarans have replaced the Russians throughout history, and meet Mary Seacole and General Logan. The Flux's effects send Dan back to 2021 Liverpool, and Yaz to a damaged temple full of dying priests, beside Joseph Williamson and Vinder. The Doctor deduces that the Sontarans slipped past the Lupari's defences. Dan infiltrates the Sontarans' shipyard. Swarm arrives at the temple and reveals it to be on the planet Time, killing the priests and taking Yaz and Vinder hostage. The Doctor enlists Seacole to gather intelligence on the Sontaran camp, then summons the Sontarans to negotiate a retreat, only to be arrested by Logan's soldiers, who later fight a disastrous battle with them. The Doctor regroups with Seacole and Logan's men, and they disrupt the Sontarans' supplies, but Logan reneges and bombs the camp. The Sontarans discover Dan, but Karvanista rescues him before destroying the shipyard, which resets the timeline. The Doctor manages to recover the TARDIS and collect Dan, but it is hijacked and brought to the temple, where they are forced to watch as Swarm is about to kill Yaz and Vinder.
297c	3	"Once, Upon Time"	Azhur Saleem	Chris Chibnall	14 November 2021 (2021-11-14)	4.70	75
The Doctor jumps into the temple's time storm and stalls Swarm by hiding Dan, Yaz and Vinder in their pasts, albeit with many details changed. Vinder reluctantly relives his time assisting the dictatorial Grand Serpent, and his demotion upon revealing the Serpent's misdeeds. Bel, a survivor of the Flux, travels through its ruins in a Lupari ship, evading Daleks, Sontarans and Cybermen. The Doctor jumps into her own timestream and recovers memories of her past incarnation, the Fugitive Doctor, and her time in the Division. It is revealed that she and Karvanista had previously raided the temple to defeat Swarm and rescue the priests. The present Doctor finds the priests and encourages them to return to the temple, but they separate her from her past to protect her. A mysterious old entity reprimands the Doctor. Bel is revealed to be searching for Vinder as his paramour, and is carrying his child. The Doctor returns Yaz, Dan and Vinder to the present and fixes the timestreams. She returns Vinder to his Flux-ravaged home planet, after which a Weeping Angel that had been stalking Yaz intercepts the TARDIS.
297d	4	"Village of the Angels"	Jamie Magnus Stone	Chris Chibnall and Maxine Alderton	21 November 2021 (2021-11-21)	4.57	79
The Doctor reboots the TARDIS, forcing the Angel out and stranding them in the English village of Medderton, 1967. Former soldier Professor Jericho conducts psychic experiments on Claire, who been sent back in time by the same Angel that had hijacked the TARDIS. An Angel sends Yaz and Dan back to Medderton in 1901, where they find a missing girl named Peggy. They discover a barrier to 1967 and Peggy's future self, who had to live out the rest of her life until then. The Doctor, Claire, and Jericho barricade themselves in his basement as the Angels close in. Claire reveals she is having visions of becoming an Angel, having one that has taken residence in her mind. Connecting to the Angel telepathically, the Doctor discovers the Angel is hiding from the other Angels, who are after it as apart of the Division. The Doctor and Claire escape through a tunnel surrounded by Angels, whilst Jericho is sent to 1901. The Doctor learns the Angels have taken the village out of time to capture the rogue Angel, who reveals it has offered the Doctor to the Angels for its own safety. The Doctor is turned into an Angel and transported to the Division, stranding the others in 1901. Bel arrives on Puzano and sees Swarm's accomplice Azure tricking survivors into being harvested for energy. She saves a local from falling into their trap and leaves a message for Vinder.
297e	5	"Survivors of the Flux"	Azhur Saleem	Chris Chibnall	28 November 2021 (2021-11-28)	4.83	77
The Weeping Angels transport the Doctor to the Division where she meets the entity that had previously chastised her, revealed to be her adoptive mother, Tecteun. She reveals that the Division orchestrated the Flux to kill the Doctor for interfering with their plans, and that they have knowledge of the multiverse. In 1904, Yaz, Dan, and Jericho search the world for artifacts and psychics to decipher when the world will end. They meet Williamson, who had discovered several doorways that led to various other places while excavating tunnels under Liverpool. Over many decades, the Grand Serpent infiltrates UNIT as an officer, eliminating those who pose a threat to him. After being threatened by Kate Stewart, he deactivates all UNIT defences, allowing the Sontarans to enter Earth. Vinder discovers Swarm harvesting energy from Flux survivors, but he is caught and trapped in a Passenger where he meets Dan's friend Diane, who had been kidnapped earlier by Swarm and Azure. The Doctor watches helplessly as Swarm arrives, disintegrating Tecteun and threatening to do the same to her.
297f	6	"The Vanquishers"	Azhur Saleem	Chris Chibnall	5 December 2021 (2021-12-05)	4.64	76
The Doctor is split into three copies due to time distortion, as Azure reveals that her and Swarm plan to engineer the Flux into a vehicle of constant universal destruction. Yaz, Dan, Jericho, and Williamson travel to 2021 and meet Kate Stewart and the second copy, who gives Claire and Jericho to the Sontarans and takes her TARDIS from Kate. The third crashes Bel's ship into the Sontaran command. The Sontarans remove the third copy, whom the second rescues, and commit genocide against the Lupari. They offer an alliance with the Cybermen and Daleks, a ruse to sacrifice them to the Flux while the Lupari shield ensconces the Sontarans. Claire escapes the Sontarans; Jericho cannot. The two copies rescue Vinder and Diane, and reform the Lupari shield behind the Sontarans, leaving the Flux to consume the Sontarans, Jericho, Daleks and Cybermen, and be absorbed by the Passenger. Azure and Swarm bring the first copy to Atropos to sacrifice her to Time, but Time destroys the duo and reunifies the Doctor, telling her to beware of the forces that mass against her, and their master. Using the tunnel doors, Kate and Vinder maroon the Serpent on a small asteroid. Vinder and Bel decide to travel with Karvanista. Diane refuses Dan's date offer, as the Doctor invites Dan to join her and Yaz. She deposits her lost memories deep into the TARDIS interior, deciding to live without them.

Specials (2022)

Main article: Doctor Who (2022 specials)

Series 13 was followed by three specials in 2022. The first was broadcast on New Year's Day, the second on Easter Sunday, and Whittaker's final feature-length special, in which the Thirteenth Doctor regenerated, on 23 October, as part of the BBC's Centenary celebrations. The specials loosely continued from Flux, and dealt with Yaz and the Doctor's relationship.

No. story	No. in specials	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
298	1	"Eve of the Daleks"	Annetta Laufer	Chris Chibnall	1 January 2022 (2022-01-01)	4.40	77
On New Year's Eve, Nick arrives at ELF Storage to drop off a Monopoly board to the irritation of Sarah, the owner. The Doctor, Yaz and Dan attempt to reset the TARDIS to remove damage and anomalies caused by the Flux, intending to spend time at a beach. Instead, it lands in ELF Storage and causes a time loop. Nick finishes in his storage unit, but as he exits he gets exterminated by a Dalek which then proceeds to kill Sarah and the TARDIS crew. The loop then resets as the crew start to suspect something strange. Together, they have to figure out how to escape the complex before the time loop closes as the Daleks hunt the Doctor; a Dalek execution squad assembles and advances their tactics with each loop. They encounter many of the strange things that Jeff, Sarah's employee, keeps in the complex, including boxes of fireworks and high explosives. As the loop closes, the group move unpredictably to outsmart the Daleks until they trick them into shooting the boxes of fireworks, destroying the ELF facility and the Daleks whilst facilitating the Doctor's escape. They watch the ensuing firework display having survived the time loop.
299	2	"Legend of the Sea Devils"	Haolu Wang	Ella Road and Chris Chibnall	17 April 2022 (2022-04-17)	3.47	76
Geomagnetic anomalies cause the TARDIS to land in 1807 China, whereupon the Doctor, Yaz and Dan encounter the pirate queen Madame Ching and young villager Ying Ki, after Ching accidentally frees the rampaging Sea Devil Marsissus from imprisonment. Ching reveals to Dan and Ying she is searching for the legendary sailor Ji-Hun's lost treasure. The Doctor and Yaz discover Ji-Hun apparently made a pact with the Sea Devils but was betrayed. They infiltrate the Sea Devils' undersea lair, bluffing them into inspecting Ji-Hun's rebuilt ship, and find and free Ji-Hun from stasis aboard. The Doctor learns the key to Marsissus' imprisonment, Ying's gem that he inherited from Ji-Hun's trusted crewmate's descendants, is necessary for the Sea Devils to flood and colonize Earth. The TARDIS crew, Ching, Ying and Ji-Hun engage the Sea Devils in a swordfight. The Doctor uses the gem to disrupt the Sea Devils' plans, but Ji-Hun sacrifices himself to ensure the sabotage succeeds. Ching recovers the treasure, while Dan attempts to bond with Diane; and the Doctor and Yaz start to discuss their feelings for each other.
300	3	"The Power of the Doctor"	Jamie Magnus Stone	Chris Chibnall	23 October 2022 (2022-10-23)	5.30	82
The Doctor and her companions rescue a space bullet train from a Cyberman attack, but Dan is nearly killed, so he parts ways to return to his life. A renegade Dalek contacts the Doctor, claiming that the Daleks need to be destroyed. Kate Stewart informs her famous artworks have been defaced by the Master and seismologists have been abducted. Reuniting with Tegan Jovanka and Ace, the Doctor learns the Master, his CyberMasters and the Daleks plan to end humanity by setting off lava from volcanoes worldwide. The Doctor is lured by the renegade Dalek, leaving the Daleks to capture her. The Master sends a miniaturised Ashad to Tegan, which acts as a portal to bring the Cybermen to UNIT. The Daleks take the Doctor to the Master in 1916, who forces her to regenerate into him. An AI program leads Ace to meet with Graham O'Brien to destroy the volcano machine, Tegan to destroy the Cyberman converter, and Yaz and Vinder to force the Master to undo the Doctor's transformation. The Master mortally wounds the Doctor, causing her to regenerate into the Fourteenth Doctor, who discovers that he has regained the form of his tenth incarnation.

Fourteenth Doctor

The Fourteenth Doctor is portrayed by David Tennant, who previously portrayed the Tenth Doctor. Russell T Davies is returning as showrunner, partnering with Bad Wolf to celebrate the 60th anniversary and "series beyond".

Specials

Main article: Doctor Who (2023 specials)

Three hour-long specials will air as part of the 60th anniversary in November 2023.

No. story	No. special	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
301	1	"The Star Beast"	Rachel Talalay	Russell T Davies, from a story by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons	25 November 2023 (2023-11-25)	7.61	84
The Fourteenth Doctor runs into Donna Noble and her family, and a spaceship crashes. Meeting with UNIT scientist Shirley Anne Bingham, the Doctor questions why he resembles his tenth incarnation and why destiny is converging on Donna. Donna's daughter, Rose encounters a furry alien called the Meep and hides it in the shed, but Donna discovers it just as the Doctor arrives at her house. The Meep's benevolent nature is found to be a lie and it is, in fact, a megalomaniac, would-be dictator whose ship will destroy London if allowed to take off. The Doctor is forced to reawaken Donna's memories in order to shut down the Meep's ship. Donna does not die; because of Rose's birth, Donna has passed down part of the metacrisis, making it nonlethal for both. The Meep is captured, and Donna and Rose expel the metacrisis from their bodies. The Doctor suggests he and Donna visit Wilfred, but the newly re-built TARDIS goes haywire and dematerialises.
302	2	"Wild Blue Yonder"	Tom Kingsley	Russell T Davies	2 December 2023 (2023-12-02)	7.14	83
The TARDIS crash-lands on a spaceship at the edge of the known universe. Sensing hostile action, the TARDIS dematerialises, stranding the Doctor and Donna who begin exploring the ship, finding it abandoned. After locating the bridge, they are confronted by a pair of unknown entities from outside the known universe, taking the forms of imperfect copies of the Doctor and Donna. After a series of interactions, the Doctor figures out that the creatures are attempting to use them as a way to reach the known universe, and that they learn by forcing their targets to act quickly and impulsively. They discover that the ship's captain initiated an extremely delayed self-destruct sequence before killing herself to prevent the entities from taking control of the ship. The Doctor speeds up the self-destruct sequence, and the TARDIS returns, allowing the Doctor and Donna to escape while the entities are destroyed. Returning to the alley from which they departed, they encounter Wilfred, who tells them that the world is ending and asks for the Doctor's help.
303	3	"The Giggle"	Chanya Button	Russell T Davies	9 December 2023 (2023-12-09)	6.85	85
In 1925 Soho, an assistant to television inventor John Logie Baird purchases a puppet at a toy shop owned by the Toymaker. In the present day, the Toymaker causes havoc worldwide and faces off against the Doctor and Donna. Playing a second game against him, the Doctor loses, but they agree to a tie-breaker match. The Doctor and Donna go to UNIT, reuniting with Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Mel Bush, and together they discover the Toymaker has been using a laughing sound hidden in all screens since the advent of television. The Toymaker attacks UNIT and mortally wounds the Doctor with a galvanic beam, causing him to "bi-generate", allowing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors to co-exist. The two Doctors defeat the Toymaker in a game of catch and banish him from existence as he threatens his legions' arrival. A mysterious woman takes his golden tooth that is imprisoning the Master. Before departing in his TARDIS, the new Doctor creates a new one for his predecessor, who decides to temporarily settle down on Earth with Donna and her family.

Fifteenth Doctor

The Fifteenth Doctor will be portrayed by Ncuti Gatwa.

Series 14

Main article: Doctor Who (series 14)

The following eight-episode fourteenth series will screen in 2024. Filming started on 5 December 2022.

No. story	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)	AI
Special
TBA	–	TBA	Mark Tonderai	Russell T Davies	Late 2023 (2023)	TBD	TBA

See also

• Doctor Who missing episodes
• List of Doctor Who Christmas and New Year's specials
• List of unmade Doctor Who serials and films
• List of Doctor Who audio releases
• List of Doctor Who home video releases
• List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish
• List of Doctor Who radio stories
• List of supplementary Doctor Who episodes
• Doctor Who spin-offs

External links

• BBC Classic Series Episode Guide
• BBC Episode Guide (Classic and New Series)
• Doctor Who Reference Guide – detailed descriptions of all televised episodes, plus spin-off audio, video, and literary works.
• Doctor Who at IMDb: 1963–1989, 1996, 2005–