10 Best Doctor Who Time Travel Stories
6. Blink
Originally written as an apology for being unable to produce a two-parter for the third season, Steven Moffat's Blink has become one of the all-time great Doctor Who stories, and it barely features the Doctor! And yet, it is totemic of the fundamentals of the show - time travel, creepy monsters and resourceful human beings.
The Weeping Angels feed on time paradoxes and their method of dispatch is heartbreaking, poetic and pure Moffat. They remove you from your own time and deposit you in another time and place, to live out the rest of your days with your family and friends none the wiser. Blink is the greatest iteration of this central conceit and we see Sally Sparrow chatted up by a young policeman who's simultaneously aged and dying in a hospital bed across town. "It's the same rain".
A beautiful, melancholic portrayal of time being the enemy. It's a work of genius that would stylistically form the backbone of Doctor Who from 2010 to 2017.