Doctor Who: Every Doctor's BEST Episode
13. The Second Doctor - The Evil of the Daleks
You can see Patrick Troughton working out what does and doesn't work throughout his first season as the Doctor. His experiments with hats, disguises, and performance styles eventually allow him to perfect the Second Doctor that we know and love. Evil of the Daleks is all the better for this, given that David Whitaker's script demands a Doctor who is every bit as multi-faceted as Patrick Troughton.
Evil of the Daleks allows Troughton to demonstrate multiple layers of the character across all seven episodes; reluctant hero, manipulative schemer and scientific genius.
Troughton balances the Doctor's scientific curiosity with a childlike glee and defines future portryals of the character as he does so. Evil of the Daleks is also an absolute corker of a story, taking us from 1960s London to Skaro, via Victorian Kent. It's the perfect distilation of what Doctor Who is.