Doctor Who: EVERY Regeneration Story Ranked Worst To Best

13. Honourable Mentions

Before the main ranking, some honourable mentions have to go to the regeneration stories that didn't quite make the cut.

The Sixth Doctor’s regeneration didn’t occur at the end of his own era but at the start of his successor’s, in 1987's Time and the Rani. And to add insult to injury, it didn’t even feature Colin Baker, but rather Sylvester McCoy in a curly blonde wig! Though Baker’s reason for not coming back, having essentially been sacked, was entirely justified.

Likewise, the Seventh Doctor departed twenty minutes into The TV Movie, which was the Eighth Doctor’s first (and only) full-length adventure.

Both stories should be commended for actually featuring regenerations in the first place, when they could so easily have ignored the previous Doctor altogether.

That’s exactly what happened when the show returned in 2005, with the Eighth Doctor’s own regeneration left purely to the imagination. Thankfully this was remedied in 2013 with the excellent minisode The Night of the Doctor, which gave Paul McGann six more minutes of fame.

2013 also introduced John Hurt’s War Doctor, whose regeneration was incorporated into the closing sequences of The Day of the Doctor.

And now, onto the twelve actual regeneration stories in the show, starting with...