Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor's Stories Ranked From Worst To Best

9. Silver Nemesis

This story falls so low on our list largely through disappointment. SIlver Nemesis was broadcast as Doctor Who's 25th anniversary story. Featuring classic foes, the Cybermen, it aimed to answer that age-old question: 'who is the Doctor?' With a premise like that, this one couldn't fail! Or so you'd think. In actual fact, the story is a muddle. It's full of too many characters and a lack of narrative focus. When a vastly powerful superweapon crashes on Earth, the Doctor must stop not one, not two but three foes - the Cybermen, a seventeenth-century sorceress and a group of Neo-Nazis intent on beginning the Fourth Reich - from getting their hands on it. In truth, it's a half-baked copy of the far superior Remembrance of the Daleks of the same season (which - starring the Daleks and set in 1963 - can be retroactively labelled as the true 25th anniversary story) but with the Cybermen being used far less well than the Daleks were in that story. Still, if you like your Doctor Who jam-packed with action and threat and don't mind a bit less depth than this is the story for you.