Ranking The Doctor Who Series Premieres From Worst To Best

5. Asylum Of The Daleks (Series 7)

First broadcast: Saturday 1st September 2012 The Doctor looked set to return in his most ambitious adventure yet in Series 7 and they even went as far as to claim that it was a story that would finally make the Daleks scary again. No pressure, then! In Steven Moffat's defence, he came pretty close to restoring the show's oldest and most iconic foes to their former glory when our established TARDIS team found themselves on yet another an impossible mission. The Daleks had been overused to the point of losing their original effect since the show's 2005 reinvention (lone ones, human ones, rogue ones, Power Ranger ones...) but here they were bigger and badder than ever before against the backdrop of a planetary prison containing a plethora of persistent pepperpots gone mad. Because they weren't mad already, apparently. Oh, and then there was all that stuff with Jenna Louise-Coleman, of course, who shocked the entire nation when she made an impromptu appearance as the Doctor's new companion (sort of), 3 months before her expected Christmas debut. And then she died at the end of it, just to make the whole debacle even more confusing, but it was the shock introduction of the savvy "soufflé girl" that made this episode so memorable. Run, you clever boy, and remember me...