11 Worst Doctor Who Dalek Stories

11. Army Of Ghosts / Doomsday

Again, let's make it clear that any story here at the bottom of the list is just OK as opposed to outright awful, and there's a lot of good in this two-parter. The trash talking between the Daleks and the Cybermen is more than worth the price of admission - if there's only one scene you should watch from this story, it's that one. Or Rose's tearful goodbye to the Doctor on the beach. Or the scene in which Jackie Tyler meets for the first time her long-dead husband from another universe (long story, that one). Or... Yeah, there's a great deal here that works. Problem is, it's not that great of a Dalek story. Now, now, before you start getting out the torches and the pitchforks, hear us out. Because they're sharing the stage with the Cybermen and the alternate Earth storyline and Rose's departure and everything else shoehorned into this two-parter, the Daleks don't really get that much to do. Sure, the concept of the Cult of Skaro is a little bit marvelous, but the idea that the Time Lords remained so peaceful even during war that they imprisoned Daleks, albeit in spacious prisons, rather than killing them is a little bit bonkers. Apart from doing a bunch of aerial exterminations, even the imprisoned Daleks don't get to do a lot - they come out of the Crucible (why name a prison ship like this?), they kill a bunch of people, and then they get hoovered up into the Void. Sorry, but there's something silly about that part, especially when one of the levers disengages and the hoovering somehow slows down, but the Daleks don't break out of it... Yeah, it doesn't really bear up under scrutiny, does it? On top of it all, it also sets up a story that's even worse. True, the story in question sets up The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, which ended up on last week's list, but couldn't we have cut out the middleman?