42 Best Doctor Who Story Arcs (2005-2013 Series)
These are my favorite story arcs of Doctor Who since the reboot in 2005.
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- DirectorJames StrongStarsDavid TennantBillie PiperDanny WebbWhen the Doctor and Rose become stranded on a planet orbiting a black hole, they find a human expedition crew and their servants, the Ood, being terrorised by the Devil.
- DirectorEuros LynStarsDavid TennantJohn SimmBernard CribbinsThe Ood have given a warning to The Doctor. The Master is returning yet that is not the biggest threat. A darkness is coming which brings with it The End of Time.
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsDavid TennantCatherine TateBillie PiperThe return of an old enemy leaves Earth along with 26 other planets stolen from their places. As the Doctor and Donna look for the whereabouts of Earth, former companions of the Doctor assemble a resistance against the new Dalek Empire.
- DirectorCharlie PalmerStarsDavid TennantFreema AgyemanJessica HynesIn 1913, Martha watches in jealousy from afar as The Doctor learns what it is to be human and to fall in love with the local school nurse, Joan Redfern.
- DirectorSaul MetzsteinStarsMatt SmithJenna ColemanAlex KingstonThe Doctor's friends are being kidnapped, which leads him to the fields of Trenzalore, where his greatest secret will be revealed and Clara's mystery will be solved.
- DirectorAlice TroughtonStarsDavid TennantCatherine TateFreema AgyemanCaught in the middle of a war between the Humans and the Hath in the planet Messaline, the Doctor finds himself once again a father.
- DirectorEuros LynStarsDavid TennantBillie PiperNoel ClarkeThe Doctor, Mickey and Rose land on a spaceship in the 51st century only to find 18th century Versailles on board, the time of Madame De Pompadour! To find out what's going on the Doctor must enter Versailles and save Madame De Popmpadour but it turns into an emotional roller coaster for the Doctor.
- DirectorJonny CampbellStarsMatt SmithKaren GillanTony CurranThe Doctor and Amy travel back in time to meet Vincent Van Gogh and face an invisible monster that only the painter can see.
- DirectorNick HurranStarsMatt SmithKaren GillanArthur DarvillAmy is trapped in a quarantine facility where time moves faster than in reality, while the Doctor is confined to the TARDIS. Can Rory save his wife in time?
- DirectorJoe AhearneStarsChristopher EcclestonBillie PiperJohn BarrowmanThe Doctor, Rose and Jack are separated and forced to compete in twisted and deadly games on the Game Station.
- DirectorToby HaynesStarsMatt SmithKaren GillanArthur DarvillFestive edition of the time-travelling drama. The Doctor has one hour to save a crashing spaceship and a miser's soul - but what lurks in the fog?
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsDavid TennantLindsay DuncanPeter O'BrienIn a Mars base the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.
- DirectorFarren BlackburnStarsMatt SmithJenna ColemanMichael DixonThe doctor takes Clara to the rings of Akhaten, A partly destroyed planet, where a religious ceremony is about to be carried out, but a darkness is stirring, a hungry darkness that could consume the rings of Akhaten and the universe.
- 2005–202247mTV-PG7.4 (6.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorMat KingStarsMatt SmithJenna ColemanAshley WaltersAfter the TARDIS is caught accidentally by an outer space trash collector, Clara is trapped deep inside of it where she finds herself on a journey through the doctor's past and her future.
- DirectorJames HawesStarsChristopher EcclestonBillie PiperKate HarveyWhen a spaceship crashes in the middle of the London Blitz the Doctor, Rose and the enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness find themselves investigating a plague of physical injuries and a little boy in a gas mask.
- DirectorNick HurranStarsMatt SmithKaren GillanArthur DarvillAfter Rory has an encounter with a weeping angel, the doctor and Amy travel to 1930's New York to save him, but they soon discover that the weeping angels have taken over Manhattan, and soon, maybe, the world.
- DirectorColin TeagueStarsDavid TennantFreema AgyemanJohn BarrowmanThe Doctor, Martha and Jack return to the 21st Century eighteen months after the Doctor and Martha left. They find they've missed the election, and the new Prime Minister, Harold Saxon, is someone they've met before by another name.
- DirectorSaul MetzsteinStarsMatt SmithJenna ColemanTom WardLondon, 1892. Snow is evolving, turning into icy monstrosities, but this is no concern for the Doctor who has given up trying to save the universe, leaving it to a clever young governess named Clara to save the day.
- DirectorHettie MacdonaldStarsDavid TennantFreema AgyemanCarey MulliganSally Sparrow receives a cryptic message from the Doctor about a mysterious new enemy species that is after the TARDIS.
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsDavid TennantCatherine TateFenella WoolgarWith a 1926 dinner party turning into a murder mystery, The Doctor and Donna Noble get the chance to meet Agatha Christie on the eve of her well-known 9-days disappearance.
- DirectorDouglas MackinnonStarsDavid TennantCatherine TateFreema AgyemanUNIT's newest recruit Martha Jones enlists The Doctor's help to investigate kid genius Luke Rattigan and his ATMOS system that is used in every car on Earth.
- DirectorNick HurranStarsMatt SmithKaren GillanArthur DarvillAmy, Rory and the Doctor are reunited when they are kidnapped by the Daleks, who send them on a mission to destroy the most horrifying place in the universe- the asylum of the Daleks.
- DirectorJames StrongStarsDavid TennantMichelle RyanLee EvansA meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worst for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.
- DirectorColin TeagueStarsDavid TennantCatherine TatePhil CornwellInstead of Rome, The Doctor and Donna Noble end up visiting Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Before anyone even knew it was actually a volcano, the entire city is doomed for destruction.
- DirectorRichard ClarkStarsMatt SmithKaren GillanArthur DarvillThe Doctor is lured to a sentient asteroid outside of the Universe by a Time Lord distress signal and soon realises his TARDIS is in grave danger.