12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) Best to Worst Episodes
by alejo-82829 | created - 15 May 2017 | updated - 04 Jan 2018 | PublicThe Two-Parter stories will be only placed the first part. If the list does not specifies whether the two-parters are together means I personally prefer one over the other.
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1.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Heaven Sent
(2015)
TV-PG | 55 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone...
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Jami Reid-Quarrell
Votes: 12,838
2.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
World Enough and Time
(2017)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Trapped on a giant spaceship, caught in the event horizon of a black hole, he witnesses the death of someone he is pledged to protect. Are events already out of control?
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Michelle Gomez
Votes: 6,003
World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
3.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Listen
(2014)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When ghosts of past and future crowd into their lives, The Doctor and Clara are thrown into an adventure that takes them to the very end of the universe.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Remi Gooding
Votes: 8,899
4.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Magician's Apprentice
(2015)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When the skies of Earth are frozen by a mysterious alien force, Clara needs her friend, the Doctor. But where is he and what is he hiding from?
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Michelle Gomez, Jami Reid-Quarrell
Votes: 6,826
The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar
5.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Mummy on the Orient Express
(2014)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
On the most beautiful train in history, speeding amongst the stars of the future, a deadly and immortal creature is stalking the passengers.
Director: Paul Wilmshurst | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Frank Skinner
Votes: 6,691
6.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Under the Lake
(2015)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Clara find themselves on a underwater station where the crew live in fear of deadly ghosts which have taken over the station.
Director: Daniel O'Hara | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Colin McFarlane, Sophie Stone
Votes: 5,922
Under the Lake/Before the Flood
7.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Flatline
(2014)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A problem happens with the Tardis, trapping the Doctor inside and leaving Clara to fend for herself against a two dimensional enemy.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Joivan Wade, Samuel Anderson
Votes: 6,322
8.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Oxygen
(2017)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When the Doctor, Bill and Nardole become trapped on a space station without oxygen, they discover the spacesuits are trying to kill them.
Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Kieran Bew
Votes: 4,977
9.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Extremis
(2017)
TV-PG | 48 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor is called by the Vatican to solve the mystery of a text called the Veritas, that when someone reads it dies soon after. But something is dwelling in the Vatican, and doesn't want the Veritas to be read.
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Michelle Gomez
Votes: 5,121
10.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Pilot
(2017)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Nardole team up with a university student to take down a sinister life-mimicking alien.
Director: Lawrence Gough | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Jennifer Hennessy
Votes: 5,848
11.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Twice Upon a Time
(2017)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Twelfth Doctor, still refusing to change, goes on a last adventure with the First Doctor.
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Peter Capaldi, David Bradley, Pearl Mackie, Mark Gatiss
Votes: 7,774
12.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Last Christmas
(2014)
TV-PG | 61 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!
Director: Paul Wilmshurst | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Nick Frost, Samuel Anderson
Votes: 6,346
13.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Face the Raven
(2015)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Clara are called back to Earth when Rigsy discovers a strange tattoo on the back of his neck that appears to be counting down to zero. Their investigation leads them to a hidden street in the middle of London, the discovery that Rigsy has been issued a death sentence, and one of them facing the choice of having to make the ultimate sacrifice; to face the Raven!
Director: Justin Molotnikov | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Maisie Williams, Joivan Wade
Votes: 6,408
14.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Husbands of River Song
(2015)
TV-PG | 56 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song's squad and hurled into a chase across the galaxy.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Alex Kingston, Matt Lucas, Greg Davies
Votes: 6,415
15.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Zygon Invasion
(2015)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Zygons, a shape-shifting alien race, and humans live in peace together on earth, but a group of rogue zygons threaten the peace between humans and zygons.
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Ingrid Oliver, Jemma Redgrave
Votes: 5,388
The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion
16.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Dark Water
(2014)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the mysterious world of the Nethersphere, plans have been drawn. Old friends and old enemies manoeuvre around the Doctor, and an impossible choice is looming over him.
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Michelle Gomez
Votes: 6,635
Dark Water/Death in Heaven
17.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Deep Breath
(2014)
TV-PG | 76 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When the newly-regenerated doctor arrives in Victorian London, he finds a dinosaur rampant in the Thames and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Neve McIntosh, Dan Starkey
Votes: 8,734
18.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Time Heist
(2014)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Clara wake up in a room with two other people, unable to remember how they got there. As it turns out Someone known as the Architect has employed them to Break into the Universe's most secure bank.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Keeley Hawes, Jonathan Bailey
Votes: 6,694
19.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Pyramid at the End of the World
(2017)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A 5,000-year-old pyramid appears overnight, baffling everyone including the Doctor.
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Togo Igawa
Votes: 4,525
The Pyramid at the End of the World/Lie of the Land
20.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Hell Bent
(2015)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Escaping his confession dial, the Doctor finds himself back home on Gallifrey and confronts those who have conspired against him. However, the Time Lords are unprepared for the lengths the Doctor will go to in order to save his friend.
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Donald Sumpter, Ken Bones
Votes: 7,208
21.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Woman Who Lived
(2015)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
England, 1651. A deadly highwayman known only as 'The Knightmare' plagues the dark streets of London, his fire-breathing accomplice by his side. There's something clearly more than human ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bazalgette | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Maisie Williams, Rufus Hound
Votes: 5,494
22.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Thin Ice
(2017)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Bill visit London during the last of the River Thames frost fairs in February 1814. They soon discover that there is something under the ice which is causing people to disappear.
Director: Bill Anderson | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Nicholas Burns
Votes: 4,882
23.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Girl Who Died
(2015)
TV-PG | 48 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a Viking village, a girl named Ashildr is about to make a desperate mistake. The Mire are the deadliest mercenaries in the galaxy, famed for showing no mercy and Ashildr has just ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bazalgette | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Maisie Williams, David Schofield
Votes: 5,640
24.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Return of Doctor Mysterio
(2016)
TV-PG | 61 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
One fateful night in New York City, the Doctor inadvertently causes a young boy to gain superpowers. Returning years later on the trail of the shady Harmony Shoal Institute, he finds the boy all grown up as masked superhero The Ghost.
Director: Edward Bazalgette | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Matt Lucas, Justin Chatwin, Charity Wakefield
Votes: 5,884
25.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Into the Dalek
(2014)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor's greatest enemy surrounds a rebel ship. To save everyone, he and Clara must choose to venture into the most dangerous place in the universe. The Doctor is forced to examine his conscience and ask if he is a good man.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Zawe Ashton, Michael Smiley
Votes: 7,029
26.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Smile
(2017)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor brings Bill to a future human colony, where cute EmojiBots work as willing servants and make sure everybody's happy, but if they're not happy ,they're harvested, so Bill and The Doctor better smile, or else.
Director: Lawrence Gough | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Kiran L. Dadlani
Votes: 5,078
27.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Eaters of Light
(2017)
TV-PG | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A long time ago, the Roman legion of the ninth vanished into the mists of Scotland. Bill has a theory about what happened, and the Doctor has a time machine. But when they arrive in ancient... See full summary »
Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Michelle Gomez
Votes: 4,323
28.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Knock Knock
(2017)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Bill is moving in with some friends and they've found the perfect house rented by the landlord. The wind blows, the floorboards creak and the Doctor thinks something is very wrong.
Director: Bill Anderson | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, David Suchet
Votes: 4,846
29.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Empress of Mars
(2017)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Bill and Nardole discover a tomb of the Queen of the Ice Warriors on Mars in 1881.
Director: Wayne Yip | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Michelle Gomez
Votes: 4,325
30.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Caretaker
(2014)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The terrifying Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity - but worse, and any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet.
Director: Paul Murphy | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Ellis George
Votes: 5,934
31.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Kill the Moon
(2014)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the near future, the Doctor and Clara find themselves on a space shuttle making a suicide mission to the Moon. Crash-landing on the lunar surface they find the most terrible things.
Director: Paul Wilmshurst | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Ellis George
Votes: 6,723
32.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Robot of Sherwood
(2014)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In Sherwood Forest, the Doctor uncovers a sinister alien plot and forms an alliance with Robin Hood. With Nottingham at stake, the Doctor must decide who is real and who is fake.
Director: Paul Murphy | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Tom Riley, Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Votes: 7,182
33.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Sleep No More
(2015)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Vision recovered from the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station shows how the Doctor and Clara became entangled in a rescue mission. As the footage plays out, a horrifying secret is uncovered.
Director: Justin Molotnikov | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Reece Shearsmith, Elaine Tan
Votes: 5,821
34.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
In the Forest of the Night
(2014)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
One morning in London, and every city and town in the world, the human race wakes up to the most surprising invasion yet: the trees have moved back in. Everywhere, in every land, a forest has grown and taken back the Earth.
Director: Sheree Folkson | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Abigail Eames
Votes: 6,138
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