Ranking The Doctor Who Series Finales From Worst To Best

8. The Wedding Of River Song (Series 6)

First broadcast: Saturday 1st October 2011 The Wedding of River Song served as the culmination of a whole year's worth of mysteries and red herrings but it was all rather anticlimactic in the end, wasn't it? It all began when the Eleventh Doctor was dramatically shot dead by an impossible astronaut in the Series 6 premiere but, as it turns out, the beginning of the story was actually the conclusion because in traditional timey-wimey style, the whole thing played out in r-r-r-reverse. To summarise, River Song was revealed as Amy and Rory's daughter who was kidnapped by the Silence at birth to be conditioned into a psychopathic Time Lord killing machine. She ended up falling in love with, and subsequently "marrying", the Doctor, though, and couldn't actually bring herself to perform the sinful deed after all that fanfare. Classic River. As a result, most of the finale took place in an alternative reality wherein everything was Churchill and pterodactyls and chaos because the Doctor's death - à la, one of those formidable 'fixed points' in time that fans have learned to accept but still don't completely understand - had been altered. Things went back to normal in the end (or, as 'normal' as the Doctor Who universe can get, at least!) but you can't help but wonder what the whole debacle were even for. It makes for a great drinking game, though. Take a shot every time someone asks "Doctor who?" and it all gets a whole lot more interesting. You're welcome.