Doctor Who: Every Russell T Davies Episode Ranked From Worst To Best
5. The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End
If The End of Time was the end of the Tenth Doctor then The Stolen Earth/Journey's End was the end of RTD1, an epic Dalek invasion story that brought back every Series 1–4 companion and crossed over with The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood.
It also brought the era's Dalek stories to a head, with returns for Caan and Davros, alongside a red and gold Supreme Dalek (which is still the coolest thing ever).
It's RTD at his blockbuster best, with some of his best jokes (Wilf and the paintball gun), drama (Davros taunting the Doctor), and the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers.
As with The Giggle, the resolution relies on a magical duplicate Doctor, which is a tad cheap, but on this occasion there is at least a throughline – the Metacrisis only happens because the Doctor’s hand was chopped off all those episodes ago.
And frankly it’s such a thrilling, celebratory story that stuff like that gets a pass. No subsequent era has come close to bringing things as full circle as this.