Doctor Who (2005)

Adventure · Drama · Sci-Fi

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

IMDb rating: 8.5 (264,301 votes)
Episode average: 7.6 -0.9 vs IMDb
Seasons: 13
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 13 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2005)

7.92 avg 13 episodes 7.5 → 9.0 45 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Rose	7.5	12,294
2	The End of the World	7.5	10,840
3	The Unquiet Dead	7.4	10,121
4	Aliens of London	6.9	9,821
5	World War Three	6.9	9,523
6	Dalek	8.6	10,776
7	The Long Game	7.0	9,361
8	Father's Day	8.3	10,218
9	The Empty Child	9.0	12,080
10	The Doctor Dances	9.1	11,228
11	Boom Town	7.1	8,955
12	Bad Wolf	8.6	10,005
13	The Parting of the Ways	9.0	10,658

Season 2 (2005)

7.80 avg 14 episodes 8.0 → 9.2 46 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	The Christmas Invasion	8.0	9,881
1	New Earth	7.3	9,352
2	Tooth and Claw	7.6	9,363
3	School Reunion	8.2	9,908
4	The Girl in the Fireplace	9.2	14,525
5	Rise of the Cybermen	7.7	8,865
6	The Age of Steel	7.8	8,780
7	The Idiot's Lantern	6.6	8,890
8	The Impossible Planet	8.6	9,919
9	The Satan Pit	8.7	10,120
10	Love & Monsters	6.1	10,179
11	Fear Her	5.8	9,128
12	Army of Ghosts	8.4	9,063
13	Doomsday	9.2	11,814

Season 3 (2006)

8.01 avg 14 episodes 7.6 → 8.3 46 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	The Runaway Bride	7.6	9,302
1	Smith and Jones	7.9	9,018
2	The Shakespeare Code	7.5	8,974
3	Gridlock	8.0	9,229
4	Daleks in Manhattan	7.0	8,469
5	Evolution of the Daleks	6.9	8,436
6	The Lazarus Experiment	6.5	8,440
7	42	7.2	8,269
8	Human Nature	8.9	10,490
9	The Family of Blood	9.2	11,495
10	Blink	9.8	28,644
11	Utopia	8.7	9,417
12	The Sound of Drums	8.7	9,443
13	Last of the Time Lords	8.3	9,664

Season 4 (2007)

8.31 avg 14 episodes 7.6 → 9.2 49 min avg

Slow burn

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Voyage of the Damned	7.6	9,109
1	Partners in Crime	7.7	8,855
2	The Fires of Pompeii	8.0	9,078
3	Planet of the Ood	8.0	8,681
4	The Sontaran Stratagem	7.4	7,892
5	The Poison Sky	7.5	7,818
6	The Doctor's Daughter	7.5	8,659
7	The Unicorn and the Wasp	7.7	8,552
8	Silence in the Library	9.3	12,379
9	Forest of the Dead	9.4	12,684
10	Midnight	9.1	11,762
11	Turn Left	8.9	9,989
12	The Stolen Earth	9.1	9,678
13	Journey's End	9.2	10,990

Season 5 (2010)

8.07 avg 13 episodes 8.8 → 9.1 47 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Eleventh Hour	8.8	11,024
2	The Beast Below	7.6	8,684
3	Victory of the Daleks	6.6	8,372
4	The Time of Angels	8.6	9,391
5	Flesh and Stone	8.5	8,744
6	The Vampires of Venice	6.9	8,103
7	Amy's Choice	8.1	8,555
8	The Hungry Earth	7.1	7,621
9	Cold Blood	7.3	7,598
10	Vincent and the Doctor	9.3	14,643
11	The Lodger	8.0	8,444
12	The Pandorica Opens	9.0	9,454
13	The Big Bang	9.1	9,678

Season 6 (2010)

8.01 avg 14 episodes 8.5 → 8.4 47 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	A Christmas Carol	8.5	9,629
1	The Impossible Astronaut	8.8	9,436
2	Day of the Moon	8.8	8,806
3	The Curse of the Black Spot	6.6	7,761
4	The Doctor's Wife	8.9	10,057
5	The Rebel Flesh	7.1	7,115
6	The Almost People	7.3	7,052
7	A Good Man Goes to War	9.0	9,801
8	Let's Kill Hitler	7.9	7,985
9	Night Terrors	7.0	6,956
10	The Girl Who Waited	8.4	8,070
11	The God Complex	8.0	7,534
12	Closing Time	7.5	7,044
13	The Wedding of River Song	8.4	8,281

Season 7 (2011)

7.67 avg 15 episodes 7.1 → 8.9 47 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe	7.1	7,304
1	Asylum of the Daleks	8.5	9,210
2	Dinosaurs on a Spaceship	7.2	7,793
3	A Town Called Mercy	7.2	7,531
4	The Power of Three	7.4	7,354
5	The Angels Take Manhattan	9.0	10,207
6	The Snowmen	8.3	8,507
7	The Bells of Saint John	7.8	7,456
8	The Rings of Akhaten	7.3	7,972
9	Cold War	7.1	6,959
10	Hide	7.6	6,909
11	Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS	7.4	6,943
12	The Crimson Horror	7.1	6,684
13	Nightmare in Silver	7.2	6,729
14	The Name of the Doctor	8.9	9,633

Season 8 (2013)

7.68 avg 13 episodes 8.4 → 7.8 50 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	The Time of the Doctor	8.4	8,931
1	Deep Breath	7.8	9,727
2	Into the Dalek	7.5	7,932
3	Robot of Sherwood	6.9	8,078
4	Listen	8.7	9,890
5	Time Heist	7.8	7,627
6	The Caretaker	7.2	6,784
7	Kill the Moon	6.6	7,613
8	Mummy on the Orient Express	8.4	7,658
9	Flatline	8.3	7,219
10	In the Forest of the Night	6.0	7,006
11	Dark Water	8.5	7,566
12	Death in Heaven	7.8	7,281

Season 9 (2014)

7.99 avg 13 episodes 8.1 → 8.6 49 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Last Christmas	8.1	7,222
1	The Magician's Apprentice	8.3	7,716
2	The Witch's Familiar	8.4	7,044
3	Under the Lake	8.1	6,792
4	Before the Flood	8.0	6,463
5	The Girl Who Died	7.4	6,458
6	The Woman Who Lived	7.2	6,309
7	The Zygon Invasion	7.6	6,224
8	The Zygon Inversion	8.4	6,715
9	Sleep No More	5.7	6,655
10	Face the Raven	8.5	7,339
11	Heaven Sent	9.6	15,191
12	Hell Bent	8.6	8,223

Season 10 (2016)

7.65 avg 13 episodes 7.3 → 9.0 47 min avg

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	The Return of Doctor Mysterio	7.3	6,669
1	The Pilot	7.8	6,694
2	Smile	7.1	5,889
3	Thin Ice	7.2	5,673
4	Knock Knock	7.3	5,650
5	Oxygen	7.9	5,779
6	Extremis	8.3	5,954
7	The Pyramid at the End of the World	7.6	5,291
8	The Lie of the Land	7.1	5,147
9	Empress of Mars	6.9	5,071
10	The Eaters of Light	6.8	5,054
11	World Enough and Time	9.1	6,956
12	The Doctor Falls	9.0	6,963

Season 11 (2017)

6.26 avg 11 episodes 8.3 → 5.3 51 min avg

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Twice Upon a Time	8.3	8,659
1	The Woman Who Fell to Earth	6.9	12,246
2	The Ghost Monument	6.1	9,712
3	Rosa	7.1	11,356
4	Arachnids in the UK	5.1	9,074
5	The Tsuranga Conundrum	5.1	8,492
6	Demons of the Punjab	6.6	8,689
7	Kerblam!	6.3	7,790
8	The Witchfinders	5.8	7,361
9	It Takes You Away	6.3	7,115
10	The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos	5.3	6,583

Season 12 (2020)

6.09 avg 10 episodes 6.7 → 5.1 53 min avg

Season 12 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Spyfall: Part One	6.7	7,391
2	Spyfall: Part Two	6.5	6,706
3	Orphan 55	4.1	7,528
4	Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror	6.5	6,186
5	Fugitive of the Judoon	7.5	6,755
6	Praxeus	5.2	5,727
7	Can You Hear Me?	5.7	5,258
8	The Haunting of Villa Diodati	7.1	5,610
9	Ascension of the Cybermen	6.5	5,186
10	The Timeless Children	5.1	7,157

Season 13 (2021)

6.45 avg 6 episodes 6.7 → 5.3 54 min avg

Season 13 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Flux: Chapter One - The Halloween Apocalypse	6.7	5,449
2	Flux: Chapter Two - War of the Sontarans	7.0	4,535
3	Flux: Chapter Three - Once, Upon Time	5.9	4,224
4	Flux: Chapter Four - Village of the Angels	7.7	4,615
5	Flux: Chapter Five - Survivors of the Flux	6.1	3,906
6	Flux: Chapter Six - The Vanquishers	5.3	4,046

Doctor Who (2005)

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