10 Best Doctor Who Time Travel Stories
7. The Curse of Fenric
The Seventh Doctor's transition from cosmic clown to dark manipulator comes to a thrilling climax in 1989's The Curse of Fenric. It's discovered that the Doctor has been playing a long game across time and space against Fenric, an evil from the dawn of time. Picking up elements from previous adventures such as Dragonfire and Silver Nemesis, it's a game that takes place in the present, the future and concludes in our past. Wibbly wobbly, etcetera etcetera.
Much like City of Death, this is a story that portrays time zones taking place simultaneously. The Doctor can seamlessly travel from one to the other, wherever he needs to be. It's one of the main appeals of the show.
An additional time travel spin is given to the story when Ace meets widowed mother Kathleen Dudman, who is revealed to be her grandmother. It's a reveal that comes towards the end of the story, after Ace has cradled and made googly eyes at her own mother as a baby. The mother that she hated. It's a moving moment, and another time travel trope we don't often see in the show.
Who were these people in our lives before we met them? They were scared little children like the rest of us.