Doctor Who - TV Episode Recaps & News

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Episode 3 The Giggle

Doctor Who Recap: Strings Attached The Doctor bi-generates and Neil Patrick Harris nails the theatrical absurdity of a classic-era villain.
Episode 2 Wild Blue Yonder

Doctor Who Recap: On Edge Is the Doctor finally in his feels?

Episode 12 Death in Heaven

Doctor Who Recap: Blame It on the Rain A great season delivers an uneven, yet strangely compelling, finale.

Episode 16 The Time of the Doctor

Doctor Who Christmas Special Recap: A Whole New Life Cycle The Matt Smith era comes to a bombastic, unsatisfying close.
Episode 15 The Day of the Doctor

Doctor Who Recap: All the Doctors The series celebrates 50 years and gives itself a new mission.
Episode 14 The Name of the Doctor

Doctor Who Recap: What’s in a Name? Season seven’s dramatic close comes with a shocking, must-see cliffhanger.
Episode 13 Nightmare in Silver

Doctor Who Recap: Upgrade Is Progress Neil Gaiman delivers the best episode of the season.
Episode 12 The Crimson Horror

Doctor Who Recap: Seeing Red A half great–half bad episode.
Episode 11 Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Doctor Who Recap: Press the Big Friendly Button “Picture the biggest ship you’ve ever seen … “

Episode 10 Hide

Doctor Who Recap: A-Haunting We Will Go The Doctor is spooked and Clara goes for a ride.
Episode 9 Cold War

Doctor Who Recap: Das Boo! Stop worrying and love the bomb.
Episode 8 The Rings of Akhaten

Doctor Who Recap: The Lord and the Rings Sing, sing a song!
Episode 7 The Bells of Saint John

Doctor Who Recap: Starting Over, Yet Again “Don’t click on it!”
Episode 6 The Snowmen

Doctor Who Christmas Special Recap: Everything Old Is New Again Steven Moffat’s Christmas specials are most certainly dark fairy tales.
Episode 5 The Angels Take Manhattan

Doctor Who Recap: It’s Complicated This week’s episode was all about romance.
Episode 4 The Power of Three

Doctor Who Recap: Another Point of View This week’s episode was a letdown after the last three installments.
Episode 3 A Town Called Mercy

Doctor Who Recap: Keep Out A morality tale set in the old West.
Episode 2 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

Doctor Who Recap: Child’s Play In this digital age of creating dinosaurs with ease, it’s almost amazing that it’s taken Doctor Who seven seasons to get around to doing it.
Episode 1 Asylum of the Daleks

Doctor Who Recap: A Hammer House of Dalek Horrors This may have been Steven Moffat’s best season opener yet.

Episode 13 Last Christmas

Doctor Who Christmas Special Recap: Dream a Deadly Dream of Me Hanging with Sweet Papa Chrimbo.
Episode 11 Dark Water

Doctor Who Recap: Cyber Scam A female Doctor at some point in the future now feels inevitable.
Episode 10 In the Forest of the Night

Doctor Who Recap: Fractured Fairy Tale Can’t see this forest for the trees.
Episode 9 Flatline

Doctor Who Recap: Physical Graffiti Clara is the Doctor … of lies!
Episode 8 Mummy on the Orient Express

Doctor Who Recap: Don’t Stop Me Now Having a good time, having a good time.
Episode 7 Kill the Moon

Doctor Who Recap: The Incredible Inedible Egg I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.

Episode 6 The Caretaker

Doctor Who Recap: Come and Knock on Our Door The episode that needed to happen.
Episode 5 Time Heist

Doctor Who Recap: See If You Remember This One What do you want more than anything else?
Episode 4 Listen

Doctor Who Recap: Fear Makes Friends of Us All What’s underneath your bed?
Episode 3 Robot of Sherwood

Doctor Who Recap: We Can Be Heroes A deliriously funny trip to the Middle Ages breaks up this season’s darkness.
Episode 2 Into the Dalek

Doctor Who Recap: Familiar Voyage After 50 years of Dalek stories, it cannot be easy coming up with something that hasn’t been done before.
Episode 1 Deep Breath

Doctor Who Season Premiere Recap: A Smorgasbord of New Doctor The season eight premiere with new doctor Peter Capaldi delivers an unexpectedly cinematic experience.

Episode 13 The Husbands of River Song

Doctor Who Recap: River Song is Coming to Town The Doctor and River Song are together again, for the very first time.
Episode 12 Hell Bent

Doctor Who Season Finale Recap: Duty of Care Season nine goes out with a deft series of emotional bangs.
Episode 11 Heaven Sent

Doctor Who Recap: Echoes of Death Ah, yes. Now the season’s back on track.
Episode 10 Face the Raven

Doctor Who Recap: Tattoo You Don’t read this recap until you’ve watched this episode. Really. Don’t.
Episode 9 Sleep No More

Doctor Who Recap: Enter Sandman, Exit Reason Season nine finally fumbles, stumbles, and falls.
Episode 8 The Zygon Inversion

Doctor Who Recap: The Bonnie Situation Zygon … I’m still only in Zygon.

Episode 7 The Zygon Invasion

Doctor Who Recap: Truth or Consequences Let’s let Zygons be Zygons.
Episode 6 The Woman Who Lived

Doctor Who Recap: 3 Immortals Walk Into a Bar … The episode offers some of the finest acting of Maisie’s career.
Episode 5 The Girl Who Died

Doctor Who Recap: Signs and Portents, Ripples and Tidal Waves Maisie’s more important than we ever expected.
Episode 4 Before the Flood

Doctor Who Recap: Lovely, Lovely Wibbly-Wobbly Season nine is already looking tremendous.
Episode 3 Under the Lake

Doctor Who Recap: Ghosts in the Machine All your base are belong to us.
Episode 2 The Witch’s Familiar

Doctor Who Recap: Mercy Mercy Me Things ain’t what they used to be.
Episode 1 The Magician’s Apprentice

Doctor Who Season Premiere Recap: Genesis of the Davros The season premiere loots the series’s past for riches.

Episode 13 Twice Upon a Time

Doctor Who Christmas-Special Recap: Postscript Peter Capaldi raised the bar for who and what the Doctor can be.
Episode 12 The Doctor Falls

Doctor Who Season-Finale Recap: Where I Stand Is Where I Fall A rich, emotion-drenched final episode for the Capaldi era.
Episode 11 World Enough and Time

Doctor Who Recap: Genesis of the Cybermen The shockingly horrific beginning of an end.
Episode 10 The Eaters of Light

Doctor Who Recap: History Lessons The unlikeliest TARDIS trio ever travel to second-century Scotland.
Episode 9 Empress of Mars

Doctor Who Recap: God Save the Queen “Empress of Mars” brings Doctor Who back to the sci-fi basics.
Episode 8 The Lie of the Land

Doctor Who Recap: Alternative Facts Act III of the Monk trilogy loses its way.

Episode 7 The Pyramid at the End of the World

Doctor Who Recap: Loving the Aliens Timely and political, Doctor Who delivers another splendid episode.
Episode 6 Extremis

Doctor Who Recap: The Shadow World “Extremis” is Doctor Who at its darkest and most brilliant.
Episode 5 Oxygen

Doctor Who Recap: Zombies in Space “Oxygen” is a breath of fresh air for Doctor Who.
Episode 4 Knock Knock

Doctor Who Recap: This Old House “Knock Knock” is the first truly duff episode of the season.
Episode 3 Thin Ice

Doctor Who Recap: The Frost Fair “Thin Ice” is a brilliantly cracking yarn about racism, climate change, and income inequality.
Episode 2 Smile

Doctor Who Recap: The One With the Emojibots The trip to humankind’s future in “Smile” is a feast for the eyes.
Episode 1 “The Pilot”

Doctor Who Season Premiere Recap: The Women With the Stars in Their Eyes The latest episode of Doctor Who is rife with the promise of greatness to come.
Episode 00 The Return of Doctor Mysterio

Doctor Who Christmas Special Recap: Man of Feel Steven Moffat’s love letter to old Superman movies.

Episode 11 Resolution

Doctor Who New Year’s Special Recap: Reconnaissance of the Dalek A new year brings a new Dalek in an outstanding season capper.
Episode 10 The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos”

Doctor Who Recap: Be the Better Man A game-changing season of Who ends not with a bang, but a whimper.
Episode 9 It Takes You Away

Doctor Who Recap: Pining for the Fjords Doctor Who often dances around stoner logic, but this episode does a full on waltz with it.
Episode 8 The Witchfinders

Doctor Who Recap: Strange Magic Who proves once again that historical stories are its bread and butter, in an episode that finally address how a female Doctor navigates the past.
Episode 7 Kerblam!

Doctor Who Recap: Amazon Crime What starts out seeming like a biting satire of a retail giant goes in a much different, more muddled direction.
Episode 6 Demons of the Punjab

Doctor Who Recap: Treading on Your Own History The TARDIS travels through history once again to deliver an episode that’s exceptional on just about every level.

Episode 5 The Tsuranga Conundrum

Doctor Who Recap: Light in Dark Times Chris Chibnall hasn’t found a perfect balance with his vision for Doctor Who quite yet, but he’s getting there.
Episode 4 Arachnids in the U.K.

Doctor Who Recap: Spiders in the City The Doctor and her companions encounter an eight-legged threat and an American villain with some familiar features.
Episode 3 Rosa

Doctor Who Recap: Big Trouble in the Deep South The TARDIS visits a turning point in history in a standout episode.
Episode 2 The Ghost Monument

Doctor Who Recap: Brains Beat Bullets A middling actioner of an episode is propped up by some incredible South African location work as the new era continues to roll out.
Episode 1 The Woman Who Fell to Earth

Doctor Who Season Premiere Recap: Stranger in the Night Jodie Whittaker wastes no time establishing herself as the Doctor in a season premiere that feels like an exciting fresh start.

Episode 8 Empire of Death

Doctor Who Recap: Old Dog, New Tricks The biggest mystery of the season gets a bittersweet resolution.
Episode 7 The Legend of Ruby Sunday

Doctor Who Recap: Déjà Sue The new Doctor faces his biggest challenge with the return of a Classic Who villain.
Episode 6 Rogue

Doctor Who Recap: Having a Ball Doctor Who heard our pleas for more queer love stories in the Regency era.
Episode 5 Dot and Bubble

Doctor Who Recap: Hate to Burst Your Bubble The Doctor learns a difficult lesson about saving people who maybe aren’t really worth saving.
Episode 4 73 Yards

Doctor Who Recap: She, Myself, and I Ruby’s solo adventure leaves us with more questions than answers.
Episode 3 Boom

Doctor Who Recap: Pray Son or Thought Daughter Nothing challenges one’s beliefs and faith quite like facing the military-industrial complex.

Episode 2 The Devil’s Chord

Doctor Who Recap: Here Comes the Fun The Doctor gets by with a little help from his friends.
Episode 1 Space Babies

Doctor Who Season-Premiere Recap: Babies on Board The new Doctor does a lot of hand-holding for all the babies. We’re talking about literal babies.
Episode 0 The Church on Ruby Road

Doctor Who Christmas-Special Recap: Sunday Best Our first full adventure for Ncuti Gatwa as the bi-generated Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson as his charming new companion, Ruby Sunday.

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