Doctor Who: EVERY Modern Series Ranked Worst To Best

Series 7 is well-documented as being a result of Steven Moffat’s ‘year from hell’, with the overworked showrunner capping off his immensely popular Sherlock series and also ensuring that Doctor Who's 50th anniversary wouldn't be a massive letdown (which it wasn't).

It’s a series that lacks cohesion, and also marks a frustrating flanderisation of the Eleventh Doctor, who spends his time skidding round corners and behaving very innapropriately towards his female friends at times (did we really need him daydreaming about Clara’s tight skirt?).

A mid-series companion swap doesn't help matters either. The Ponds find themselves staying beyond the natural completion of their story arc, forcing Moffat to introduce the horrible ‘divorce’ plotline, though the pair do get two more bangers in the criminally underrated A Town Called Mercy, and their heartbreaking sendoff in The Angels Take Manhattan.

Fortunately, Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman have pretty good chemistry, especially in The Snowmen. The only downside is that Clara is relegated to being ‘the impossible girl’ rather than her own character. The Bells Of Saint John is another super underrated script, The Rings Of Akhaten bumbles its way into one of the best scenes ever, and the rest of the series, while never really churning out a great episode, is pretty good.

It's not a series that there's too much to dislike in – it just lacks that 'wow' factor.