This is tough. I love all of them, but Bad Wolf / Parting of the Ways has a special place in my heart. I have so much nostalgia around it and I never get tired of watching it (I guess the same can be said for the other stories) and I never get bored (looking at you, Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks). And it's my 3rd favourite DW story ever and my favourite finale ever, so yeah...

1. Bad Wolf / Parting of the Ways

2. The Stolen Earth / Journey's End

3. Dalek

4. Army of Ghosts / Doomsday

5. Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks

Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks was really bad. Ima say it. But The Stolen Earth/Journey's End is like, my favorite Tenth Doctor story. I'm going with that.

I always feel bad about disliking Daleks in Manhattan. It has, in theory, what I love most in Dalek episodes and Doctor Who in general; that exploring of the nature of the Daleks and how it shows them as more than unanimous killing robots but individual creatures with their own ideas - up to a point. However, I feel they just don’t execute these ideas very well in this story, which is such a shame because I really like the ideas presented in this story, but not the story itself. It would definitely have been better as a single episode as opposed to a two-parter.

I chose Dalek, because it's the easiest choice. That episode was touching and horrifying at the same time, and I never knew I wanted that combo to exist. BUT. I really liked the mystery around that capsule in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, and the Cult of Skaro emerging from it is a great scene, in my opinion. This episode also has one of the funniest scenes, with Daleks sassing the Cybermen.

Daleks in Manhattan and Bad Wolf two-parters were good, but they didn't blow my mind. And I feel like The Stolen Earth's main focus wasn't actually on the Daleks, but on Doctor's relationship with his companions and his history with Davros.

1. Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

2. Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

3. The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

4. Dalek

5. Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

all great but army of ghost is my childhood episode i watched over and over