Doctor Who: Every Russell T Davies Episode Ranked From Worst To Best

For his first futuristic story, RTD chose to go five billion years into the future, to the day the Earth is engulfed by the Sun.

The resulting story lures you in with all the aliens and groundbreaking (for the time) CGI work, but is actually more concerned with developing the Doctor and Rose’s relationship and the ongoing thread about the Time War.

Does The End of the World hold up so well as a complete package? Not quite so much. The middle section feels slightly aimless, like they’d spent all the money on the aliens and CGI then thought, “Now what?”.

Indeed, they actually had to go back and add the scene with Raffalo because the story was under-running.

That said, the final scene where the Doctor tells Rose that his home also planet died is breathtaking. We’d defy anyone to watch that and not get chills.