11th Doctor (Matt Smith) Best to Worst Episodes
by alejo-82829 | created - 23 May 2017 | updated - 23 May 2017 | 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. Some episodes I consider better in general "best espisodes" lists, but not for a specific doctor. For example, Day of the Doctor in my opinion is the best Doctor Who espisode, but not as a Matt Smith episode.
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1.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Eleventh Hour
(2010)
TV-PG | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
With his TARDIS in ruins, the newly-regenerated Doctor with the help of Amy Pond must save the world in less than twenty minutes from galactic policemen known as the Atraxi.
Director: Adam Smith | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Caitlin Blackwood
Votes: 9,583
2.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Impossible Astronaut
(2011)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Amy, Rory and River Song are reunited in the Utah desert.
Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Votes: 8,270
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
3.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Angels Take Manhattan
(2012)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
After Rory has an encounter with a weeping angel, the doctor and Amy travel to 1930's New York to save him, but they soon discover that the weeping angels have taken over Manhattan, and soon, maybe, the world.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Votes: 9,068
4.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Day of the Doctor
(2013)
TV-PG | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt, Christopher Eccleston
Votes: 19,821
5.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
A Good Man Goes to War
(2011)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A member of The Doctor's team has been abducted and he will call in every favor and maybe even go to war to get them back.
Director: Peter Hoar | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Votes: 8,587
6.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Doctor's Wife
(2011)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor is lured to a sentient asteroid outside of the Universe by a Time Lord distress signal and soon realises his TARDIS is in grave danger.
Director: Richard Clark | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Suranne Jones
Votes: 8,881
7.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Pandorica Opens
(2010)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
River Song returns to deliver The Doctor a serious warning from his allies: the mythical Pandorica, said to contain the most feared creature in the entire Universe, is opening.
Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Alex Kingston, Arthur Darvill
Votes: 8,213
The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
8.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The God Complex
(2011)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Amy and Rory become trapped in a hotel of horrors unable to escape and unable to find the TARDIS. The Doctor must save as many people as he can taking many twists and seeing his own worst fear.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Sarah Quintrell
Votes: 6,514
9.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Vincent and the Doctor
(2010)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Amy travel back in time to meet Vincent Van Gogh and face an invisible monster that only the painter can see.
Director: Jonny Campbell | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Tony Curran, Nik Howden
Votes: 12,712
10.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Name of the Doctor
(2013)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor's friends are being kidnapped, which leads him to the fields of Trenzalore, where his greatest secret will be revealed and Clara's mystery will be solved.
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Alex Kingston, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 8,627
11.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Asylum of the Daleks
(2012)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Amy, Rory and the Doctor are reunited when they are kidnapped by the Daleks, who send them on a mission to destroy the most horrifying place in the universe- the asylum of the Daleks.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Jenna Coleman
Votes: 8,213
12.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Girl Who Waited
(2011)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility where time moves faster than in reality, while the Doctor is confined to the TARDIS. Can Rory save his wife in time?
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Josie Taylor
Votes: 6,995
13.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Time of Angels
(2010)
TV-PG | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Amy emerge from the TARDIS to find the wreck of the Byzantium spaceship. Down below the Weeping Angels are stirring, but the Doctor has someone else to contend with; none other than the mysterious Professor River Song.
Director: Adam Smith | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Alex Kingston, Simon Dutton
Votes: 8,127
The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
14.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
A Christmas Carol
(2010)
TV-PG | 62 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Festive edition of the time-travelling drama. The Doctor has one hour to save a crashing spaceship and a miser's soul - but what lurks in the fog?
Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Michael Gambon
Votes: 8,483
15.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Amy's Choice
(2010)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Five years after finally leaving the TARDIS, Amy and Rory, now married, live in the quiet little village of Leadworth; but everything is not what it would seem.
Director: Catherine Morshead | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Toby Jones
Votes: 7,379
16.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Snowmen
(2012)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
London, 1892. Snow is evolving, turning into icy monstrosities, but this is no concern for the Doctor who has given up trying to save the universe, leaving it to a clever young governess named Clara to save the day.
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Tom Ward, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 7,531
17.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Bells of Saint John
(2013)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The doctor finds Clara in present day, where they work together to solve the mystery of people disappearing which as it turns out, has a sinister link to WiFi.
Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Manpreet Bachu, Sean Knopp
Votes: 6,545
18.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Let's Kill Hitler
(2011)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The search for Melody Pond brings the Doctor and his friends to Berlin in 1938, face-to-face with Adolf Hitler, River Song and a justice-serving, shapeshifting robot.
Director: Richard Senior | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Votes: 6,957
19.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Wedding of River Song
(2011)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
April 22nd, 2011; 5:02pm. Having finally accepted his fate the Doctor travels to Lake Silencio for his final day. But one woman refuses to let time take its course.
Director: Jeremy Webb | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Votes: 7,285
20.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Hide
(2013)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Clara arrive at a supposedly haunted mansion where they find a ghost hunter and a psychic who are on the search for a legendary ghost known as 'the witch of the well'
Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Dougray Scott, Jessica Raine
Votes: 6,044
21.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Time of the Doctor
(2013)
TV-PG | 61 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor's worst enemies, The Daleks, The Cybermen, The Angels and The Silence, return, as the doctor's eleventh life comes to a close, and his twelfth life begins.
Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Orla Brady, James Buller
Votes: 7,887
22.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Vampires of Venice
(2010)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Amy cross swords in more ways than one with a horde of blood-sucking vampires in 16th century Venice.
Director: Jonny Campbell | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Helen McCrory
Votes: 6,977
23.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
A Town Called Mercy
(2012)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor gets a Stetson (and a gun), and finds himself the reluctant Sheriff of a Western town under siege by a relentless cyborg who goes by the name of The Gunslinger. But who is he and what does he want?
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Andrew Brooke
Votes: 6,598
24.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Lodger
(2010)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
After the TARDIS teleports without him, the doctor tries to find out what is stopping it from landing and traces it to a seemingly ordinary, two storey house.
Director: Catherine Morshead | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, James Corden, Daisy Haggard
Votes: 7,318
25.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Nightmare in Silver
(2013)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor takes Clara and the children she babysits to a rundown amusement park in space where Cybermen are hiding, and ready to invade the most precious place in the universe, The Doctor's mind.
Director: Stephen Woolfenden | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Eve De Leon Allen, Kassius Carey-Johnson
Votes: 5,875
26.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Closing Time
(2011)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor makes one last stop before his death to see an old friend. But people are disappearing, there are reports of a silver rat and metal men are lurking in the shadows.
Director: Steve Hughes | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, James Corden
Votes: 6,098
27.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Cold War
(2013)
TV-PG | 41 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Clara find themselves on a Russian submarine that is falling to the bottom of the ocean because of an attack by a rogue Martian warrior that's still on board.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Liam Cunningham, David Warner
Votes: 6,092
28.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Power of Three
(2012)
TV-PG | 41 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Earth is suddenly visited by millions of small black cubes of unknown origin. The Doctor joins Amy, Rory and Rory's father, Brian, to help discover what these cubes bring for humanity.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Mark Williams
Votes: 6,444
29.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Curse of the Black Spot
(2011)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves aboard a marooned pirate ship whose crew is being picked off one by one by a beautiful - and deadly - Siren.
Directors: Jeremy Webb, Julian Simpson | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Hugh Bonneville
Votes: 6,760
30.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
(2013)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
After the TARDIS is caught accidentally by an outer space trash collector, Clara is trapped deep inside of it where she finds herself on a journey through the doctor's past and her future.
Director: Mat King | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Ashley Walters, Mark Oliver
Votes: 6,091
31.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Rings of Akhaten
(2013)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The doctor takes Clara to the rings of Akhaten, A partly destroyed planet, where a religious ceremony is about to be carried out, but a darkness is stirring, a hungry darkness that could consume the rings of Akhaten and the universe.
Director: Farren Blackburn | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Michael Dixon, Nicola Thorp
Votes: 7,031
32.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
(2011)
TV-PG | 59 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
On Christmas Eve 1941, the Doctor poses as a caretaker to give recently widowed Madge Arwell and her two children an unforgettable Christmas but things quickly get out of hand when her son Cyril enters a snowy forest world full of dangers.
Director: Farren Blackburn | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Claire Skinner
Votes: 6,425
33.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Night Terrors
(2011)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Receiving a powerful distress call from a terrified little boy, the Doctor and his friends soon find that the monsters in his cupboard are real - and deadly.
Director: Richard Clark | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Daniel Mays
Votes: 6,002
34.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
(2012)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The doctor gathers some of his old friends to help him investigate an unmanned spaceship on a crash course to earth that when it collides, will destroy it, they soon discover the ship's precious and dangerous cargo- dinosaurs.
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Rupert Graves
Votes: 6,868
35.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Beast Below
(2010)
TV-PG | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor takes Amy to the future inside Starship UK, which contains in addition to British explorers, an intimidating race known as the Smilers.
Directors: Andrew Gunn, Euros Lyn | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Sophie Okonedo, Terrence Hardiman
Votes: 7,497
36.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Rebel Flesh
(2011)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A solar tsunami sends the TARDIS crew to an acid mining factory in the 22nd century, where a small team of workers come under attack from their doppelgangers.
Director: Julian Simpson | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Mark Bonnar
Votes: 6,144
The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People
37.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Hungry Earth
(2010)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When a drill drills too deep into the earth, something that had been hibernating beneath the earth's crust is woken, and it's hungry for revenge.
Director: Ashley Way | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Neve McIntosh
Votes: 6,559
The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood
38.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Crimson Horror
(2013)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When they find a picture of the Doctor in a recently dead man's eye, it's up to Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax to save The Doctor and find out what sinister secrets are going on at Sweetsville, Yorkshire.
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Diana Rigg, Rachael Stirling
Votes: 5,844
39.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
Victory of the Daleks
(2010)
TV-PG | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The TARDIS takes The Doctor and Amy to war-torn Britain in the middle of World War Two. Not only do they meet Winston Churchill himself, but the Doctor comes face to face once again with his greatest enemy of all.
Director: Andrew Gunn | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Ian McNeice, Bill Paterson
Votes: 7,237
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