List of Doctor Who television stories

Following is a list of stories in the original (1963 – 1989) and new (2005 – Present) BBC Doctor Who television series, plus the 1996 Television movie, per the BBC Episode Guide.

Names used are those given by the BBC. Alternative titles are noted.

This list does not include spin-off series K-9 and Company, Torchwood or The Sarah Jane Adventures, also set in the Doctor Who Universe.

Season One - 1963-64

 * An Unearthly Child a.k.a. "100,000 BC", "The Tribe of Gum"
 * The Daleks a.k.a. "The Mutants", "The Dead Planet"
 * The Edge of Destruction a.k.a. "Inside the Spaceship", "Beyond the Sun"
 * Marco Polo a.k.a. "A Journey to Cathay"
 * The Keys of Marinus
 * The Aztecs
 * The Sensorites
 * The Reign of Terror a.k.a. "The French Revolution"

Season Two - 1964-65

 * Planet of Giants
 * The Dalek Invasion of Earth
 * The Rescue
 * The Romans
 * The Web Planet
 * The Crusade
 * The Space Museum
 * The Chase
 * The Time Meddler

Season Three - 1965-66

 * Galaxy 4
 * Mission to the Unknown a.k.a. "Dalek Cutaway"
 * The Myth Makers
 * The Daleks' Master Plan
 * The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve a.k.a. "The Massacre"
 * The Ark
 * The Celestial Toymaker
 * The Gunfighters
 * The Savages
 * The War Machines

Season Four - 1966

 * The Smugglers
 * The Tenth Planet

Season Four - 1966-67 (continued)

 * The Power of the Daleks
 * The Highlanders
 * The Underwater Menace
 * The Moonbase
 * The Macra Terror
 * The Faceless Ones
 * The Evil of the Daleks

Season Five - 1967-68

 * The Tomb of the Cybermen
 * The Abominable Snowmen
 * The Ice Warriors
 * The Enemy of the World
 * The Web of Fear
 * Fury from the Deep
 * The Wheel in Space

Season Six - 1968-69

 * The Dominators
 * The Mind Robber
 * The Invasion
 * The Krotons
 * The Seeds of Death
 * The Space Pirates
 * The War Games

Season Seven - 1970
Colour production begins.


 * Spearhead from Space
 * Doctor Who and the Silurians
 * The Ambassadors of Death
 * Inferno

Season Eight - 1971

 * Terror of the Autons
 * The Mind of Evil
 * The Claws of Axos
 * Colony in Space
 * The Dæmons

Season Nine - 1972

 * Day of the Daleks
 * The Curse of Peladon
 * The Sea Devils
 * The Mutants
 * The Time Monster

Season Ten - 1972-73

 * The Three Doctors
 * Carnival of Monsters
 * Frontier in Space
 * Planet of the Daleks
 * The Green Death

Season Eleven - 1973-74

 * The Time Warrior
 * Invasion of the Dinosaurs
 * Death to the Daleks
 * The Monster of Peladon
 * Planet of the Spiders

Season Twelve - 1974-75

 * Robot
 * The Ark in Space
 * The Sontaran Experiment
 * Genesis of the Daleks
 * Revenge of the Cybermen

Season Thirteen - 1975-76

 * Terror of the Zygons
 * Planet of Evil
 * Pyramids of Mars
 * The Android Invasion
 * The Brain of Morbius
 * The Seeds of Doom

Season Fourteen - 1976-77

 * The Masque of Mandragora
 * The Hand of Fear
 * The Deadly Assassin
 * The Face of Evil
 * The Robots of Death
 * The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Season Fifteen - 1977-78

 * Horror of Fang Rock
 * The Invisible Enemy
 * Image of the Fendahl
 * The Sun Makers
 * Underworld
 * The Invasion of Time

Season Sixteen - 1978-79

 * The Ribos Operation
 * The Pirate Planet
 * The Stones of Blood
 * The Androids of Tara
 * The Power of Kroll
 * The Armageddon Factor

Season Seventeen - 1979-80

 * Destiny of the Daleks
 * City of Death
 * The Creature from the Pit
 * Nightmare of Eden
 * The Horns of Nimon
 * Shada (never completed or broadcast)

Season Eighteen - 1980-81

 * The Leisure Hive
 * Meglos
 * Full Circle
 * State of Decay
 * Warriors' Gate
 * The Keeper of Traken
 * Logopolis

Season Nineteen - 1982

 * Castrovalva
 * Four to Doomsday
 * Kinda
 * The Visitation
 * Black Orchid
 * Earthshock
 * Time-Flight

Season Twenty - 1983

 * Arc of Infinity
 * Snakedance
 * Mawdryn Undead
 * Terminus
 * Enlightenment
 * The King's Demons

Twentieth Anniversary Special - 23rd November 1983

 * The Five Doctors

Season Twenty-One - 1984

 * Warriors of the Deep
 * The Awakening
 * Frontios
 * Resurrection of the Daleks
 * Planet of Fire
 * The Caves of Androzani

Season Twenty-One (continued) - 1984

 * The Twin Dilemma

Season Twenty-Two - 1985
Format changes to 45-minute episodes


 * Attack of the Cybermen
 * Vengeance on Varos
 * The Mark of the Rani
 * The Two Doctors
 * Timelash
 * Revelation of the Daleks

Season Twenty-Three - 1986
25-minute episodes resume.


 * The Trial of a Time Lord
 * The Mysterious Planet
 * Mindwarp
 * Terror of the Vervoids
 * The Ultimate Foe a.k.a. "Time, Inc."

Season Twenty-Four - 1987

 * Time and the Rani
 * Paradise Towers
 * Delta and the Bannermen
 * Dragonfire

Season Twenty-Five - 1988

 * Remembrance of the Daleks
 * The Happiness Patrol
 * Silver Nemesis
 * The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Season Twenty-Six - 1989

 * Battlefield
 * Ghost Light
 * The Curse of Fenric
 * Survival

Television Movie - 1996

 * Doctor Who: The TV Movie, a.k.a. "Enemy Within" or "The Movie"

Series 1 / Season Twenty-Seven - 2005
Note: Beginning with this season, the multi-episode serial format was abandoned in favour of a mixture of standalone single-episode stories and two (and later three) parters, along side an ongoing story arc. Standard episode length changes to 45 minutes, with occasional longer exceptions. For promotional purposes, the BBC chose to start numbering the seasons anew, although unofficially the count continued from 1989's Season 26.


 * Rose
 * The End of the World
 * The Unquiet Dead
 * Aliens of London / World War Three
 * Dalek
 * The Long Game
 * Father's Day
 * The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
 * Boom Town
 * Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways

Tenth Doctor - David Tennant
Beginning with Tennant's era, the producers began varying the episode formats, adding occasional special mini-episodes (usually produced for charity) and an annual Christmas special episode (both of which are is generally considered separate from the season that follows). Several episodes have exceeded the 45-minute standard, including the Christmas specials and several regular-season episodes.

Children in Need Special - 2005

 * Children in Need Special

Christmas Special - 2005

 * The Christmas Invasion

Interactive Christmas Special - 2005

 * Attack of the Graske

Series 2 / Season Twenty-Eight - 2006

 * New Earth
 * Tooth and Claw
 * School Reunion
 * The Girl in the Fireplace
 * Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel
 * The Idiot's Lantern
 * The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit
 * Love & Monsters
 * Fear Her
 * Army of Ghosts / Doomsday

Christmas Special - 2006

 * The Runaway Bride

Series 3 / Season Twenty-Nine - 2007

 * Smith and Jones
 * The Shakespeare Code
 * Gridlock
 * Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks
 * The Lazarus Experiment
 * 42
 * Human Nature / The Family of Blood
 * Blink
 * Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords

Animated mini-series - 2007
Produced as part of the behind-the-scenes series, Totally Doctor Who.


 * The Infinite Quest

Children in Need Special - 2007

 * Time Crash

Christmas Special - 2007

 * Voyage of the Damned

Series 4 / Season Thirty 2008

 * Partners in Crime
 * The Fires of Pompeii
 * Planet of the Ood
 * The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky
 * The Doctor's Daughter
 * The Unicorn and the Wasp
 * Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
 * Midnight
 * Turn Left
 * The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

Proms Special 2008

 * Music of the Spheres

Christmas Special 2008

 * The Next Doctor

2009 specials
Four special episodes are planned for broadcast in 2009 in lieu of a regular series. In DWM 400 RTD confirmed they would be part of series 4.
 * Planet of the Dead
 * 3 names TBA

Series 5 / Season Thirty-One - 2010
The BBC has announced that a 13-episode 5th series will be broadcast in 2010.

Pilot episode

 * An Unearthly Child (unaired)

''Jim'll Fix It mini-episode - 1985

 * A Fix with Sontarans

Search Out Science mini-episode - 1990

 * Search Out Space

Children in Need Special - 1993

 * Dimensions in Time

Comic Relief/Red Nose Day Special - 1999

 * The Curse of Fatal Death