10 Best Doctor Who Episodes According To YOU
8. Turn Left
Rating: 8.9/10
Turn Left also missed out on our own top ten but again, it came close!
This is an episode that could only work in the era of the show it was created for. RTD spent years building a connected universe of spinoffs, and the back half of Series 4 is where we really saw this pay off, with Turn Left bringing these Whoniverse characters together… and systematically killing off every single one of them.
It's a true powerhouse of a ‘what if’ story. How would various Earth-based adventures play out without the Doctor’s intervention? Catastrophically, is the answer. Seriously, Doctor Who has rarely, if ever, been so bleak.
This is without a doubt Catherine Tate’s best performance as Donna, showcasing a vulnerability we don’t see much outside this story, and we’d argue it’s also the strongest performance of the late Bernard Cribbins. If Wilf’s reaction to the government opening labour camps doesn’t get your lip quivering, you are a stone-cold robot.