Worst Doctor Who Stories

Even though Doctor Who has some amazing episodes, there are many that are absolutely terrible. What is your worst story ever? This covers classic and modern stories.
The Top Ten
1 Love and Monsters

This episode is just: no. No episode has had a face sucking overweight mcdonalds mascot as a monster. This episode dissapointed me. Come on. No one cares about Jackie Tyler anyways, and they make a big fit about how (whatever the guys name is, I don't want to remember) is actually spying on her. Doctor who has failed at a love story, but angels take manhattan comes back for the saddest episode ever.

I used to love this episode when I first watched it, but when I recently re-watched, I realised how unfunny, badly written and odd this episode was. Considering this was such a good era for Who, this episode could definitely have been better.

Whoever written this episode must have been high, drunk or plain stupid. I watched this episode and felt like this was the worst 45 minutes of my life... What a joke...

This story shouldn't have ever been made. EVER! I will never rematch this episode when I reach the series again.

2 The Twin Dilemma

I have nothing against Colin Baker or the Sixth Doctor, but the episodes were just too atrocious to watch. And the beginning, The Twin Dilemma, was a perfect sign to show how bad Doctor Who was gonna get.

A perfect example of getting everything wrong and why you should NEVER PORTRAY THE DOCTOR AS A ARSEHOLE!

Colin Baker is not really good at all as the doctor

3 In the Forest of the Night

I think this one is underrated. Not great, but I'd give it a 3/5.

Boring, stupid plot and very annoying characters. 3/10

The doctor is unneeded in this episode. The matter resolves itself.

Anyone else think Doctor Who is now under Steven Moffat's control and he doesn't care about continuity post Revived Series or making the show scientifically accurate? Still not agreeing, watch this episode and try denying those facts.

4 Fear Her

This episode sucked, but Stephen Moffat never wrote this, to the person who said he did. Moffat only wrote four stories while Davies was show runner (one from each of the first four series) story from series 1 (The Empty Child/Doctor Dances) 1 from series 2 (The Girl in the Fireplace) one from series 3 (Blink) and 1 from series 4. Silence in the Library/The Forest of the Dead

Fear Her was written by Matthew Graham who was never asked back after this abomination.

Once this girl was identified as dangerous, the notion that she'd ever be left alone at any time was ludicrous. Still not sure how the monster dad in the closet helped the story.

This is the absolute worst episode of the new series since 2005 that I have seen. However, I have not seen series 9 yet and I hear the episode Sleep No More is really bad too.

It had its moments... Like when the doctor parked the tardis the wrong way and when the doctor was doing his speech about edible ball bearings... That's about it... The rest was tripe...

5 Time-Flight

The plot makes no sense! Why was the master tacked on to the story and why were the planes even stolen!

Oh my gosh. This episode is so BORING! One of the most boring Doctor Who episodes I've ever seen.

I'm so sorry Peter Davison, but this story was quite obviously an absolute flop

I do recall this one being a drag and a run about for nothing. Forgettable

6 Kill the Moon

Oh how I hate this episode. To be fair, it wasn't TERRIBLE for the first bit of the episode, but Courtney is obnoxious the whole time, and that plot twist... is just so bad. I absolutely despise this episode, and 20 is not a good place for it. It's worse than Love and Monsters, and honestly, I think Fear Her is an excellent episode, at least when compared to this one.

I just cannot take the whole concept of the Moon being a bloody egg, I hate the cast and I hate the new Doctor Who. This has got to be the most terrible episode of the new Doctor

"Kill the moon" should be used in the same sense as "Jump the shark", or "Nuke the fridge".

Good atmosphere and pace but the idea was so so dull

7 The Rings of Akhaten

Not quite as bad as "Closing Time", but it's pretty damn close. Conveniently placed space scooter vender, who just happens to accept Clara's mother's wedding ring as payment? New, never-before-seen (or after) forcefield function from the sonic screwdriver, keeping enemies at bay? A big, long-winded speech about being really old, but just once more saving everyone? An equally long-winded speech about the infinite potential energy of a leaf? That part honestly reminded me of Krusty the Clown making up guests like 'Professor Gas Can'. Over-sentimental rubbish, trying to pull a few heartstrings to cover up a severe lack of any substance.

This is absolute rubbish. The Rings Of Akhaten is a beautiful masterpiece.
The visuals are amazing, the script is brilliant, the characters are unforgettable
And the emotions it carries are beautiful. Not only is it the most underrated
Doctor Who episode, but it is one of the best pieces of television I've seen in
My life.

My god, this one was both boring, full of one dimensional characters and just ridiculous. How else can I put it as than 'WORST DOCTOR WHO EPISODE EVER! '

This deserves to be #1 I honestly don't see how people like this episode! I give this 2.5/5 trust me if The Doctor's speech wasn't there it would have been 1/5

8 Let's Kill Hitler
9 Sleep No More

Whilst it does try a new perspective on the found footage genre, it was really generic and too scary to show to children. I know Doctor Who has been too "silly" in the past, but you can't go into slasher-horror mode and perform that feat before the watershed hour.

Extremely boring piece of DW. I didn't care about the supporting cast. Monster of the week was an eye dust something. Moments which should have been scary or thrilling were just boring. Only the ending saves th

I found it to be average

I vowed to never watch this episode after the first time. Enough said.

10 Terminus

Bye bye Nyssa. Shame. This story from Davison could have actually been very good, if the acting wasn't like carrot juice!

The Contenders
11 The Wedding of River Song
12 Boom Town

As if Aliens of London & Wrold War Three were bad enough with a full army of farting green Teletubbies, this only has one, that just wants to get home. It's just the definition of a filler episode. They just didn't know when to stop using the Slitheen.

Every episode with those aliens in it sucked
-really bad alien
- really bad plot
-the people who played the aliens could not act
-just really bad

After the masterpiece and memetic fountain that was The Doctor Dances, we get this underwhelming junkie.

Boom Town is the definition of a filler episode, but it's not really that terrible.

13 Hell Bent

Positives: Peter is always good even if what he is given is wrong he acts brilliantly, and the first 20 minutes was tolerable even if a little bit boring. Negatives: They brought back Clara which I really disagreed with as she had an amazing death in Face The Raven, the doctor shoots the general which totally goes against the doctors character and everything he stands for. Gallifrey is wasted as they just leave the place at the halfway mark in the story, the doctor loses all his memories of Clara which I wouldn't mind if she hadn't died already and to top this awful mess off the hybrid story arc is just brushed away as apparently the doctor didn't know if it was real or not it was just theories. In conclusion: Hell Bent is a mess of a story with it bringing Clara back which undermines Face The Raven and Heaven Sent which are some of the better episodes in series 9, Gallifrey is just used to bring Clara back and then the doctor just leaves and the hybrid story arc is completely ruined ...more

I much preferred the version where the Doctor returned to Gallifrey to find the Capitol in ruins and an alliance between the Davros and Missy. The population of the Capitol had been evacuated and are now somewhere in the desert areas of the planet. Working together, Miss and Davros create the legendary Hybrid - the Dalek that can never die - and they prepare to invade the Universe with this Genius Level Dalek to lead the fight. Clara was captured and placed on Gallifrey using Time Lord/Dalek time travel technology. She is in the moment between life and death. The villains threaten to kill her if the Doctor interferes in their plan. Eventually the Doctor finds himself next to the body of Clara having tricked his way into the Stasis Room. He places her consciousness in to the Matrix and tearfully leaves her inanimate body. As he leaves the Stasis Chamber he sets his Sonic to create a force field around the chamber and expands and expands this to cover the whole Capitol. As the Dalkes ...more

I speak for everyone who's watch this episode for when I say "Why the hell would you bring back a character to send them off when you've already brought a fitting end to their story? ". I won't spoil who it is, but seriously, this episode is the worst of all series finales in the show's run, and, believe me, I've seen some terrible ones.

This episode undermines "Face the Raven" and "Heaven Sent", both of which present great character development for the Doctor. It also leaves the hybrid story arch is left unexplained and wastes the return to Gallifrey, which had been building up since the 50th anniversary. That's why people hate it so much.

14 Heaven Sent

This episode features the Doctor punching a wall for billions of years as a plot twist. The only upside is the ironic enjoyment, since it is symbolic of how Moffat has artificially aged the program.

So boring! Yes it was a good story line but the episode was him just walking around!

This is the best episode in the whole doctor who

15 Robot of Sherwood

Loved it. The quarrels of the Doctor and Robin Hood may seem extrodinarily annoying to some, but to me it was "FANTASTIC! "

Really? What a dissapointment. After all the robot stories done in thr Doctors universe, this is just uninspired.

Extremely crappy acting (sans Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman)

Peter capaldi's acting is enough. Its really enough.

16 Timelash

Worst story ever, the plot has more holes than Swiss Cheese, the villain is absolutely crap, and it is boring. The worst part is that it's not even fun to watch fail, like Love & Monsters, or Fear Her.

I felt insulted as a fan of the show after I saw this episode. It's uncreative, extremely dull to just look at, and full of plot holes that could have been easily covered up.

The Doctor has to stop people using a windy tinsel-covered play area/time vortex and get rid of an evil dictator with a half hippopotamus face

When your titular Timelash device looks like something made of cardboard and tinfoil... Just give up.

17 The Face of Evil

A very tedious story, the plot was a computer who wanted the doctor's face? Seriously?

18 A Good Man Goes to War

I agree there is a turning point here, the Doctor as an intergalactic threat has rarely been actually shown(the incredible ease he causes so much destruction and mayhem- not implied as a nickname like "the Oncoming Storm" but actual beings killing each other for him...) Kind of the beginning of Moffat's insane ego trip for me.

This was brilliantly paced and was gripping, happy when it wanted to be and sad when it wanted to be, this is an absolute gem of the modern series of doct- oh wait it was crap!

This set up all the weird, confusing story arc stuff that is hard to keep track of. I prefer an episode with its own plot.

A bit rushed and that "Doctor's darkest hour" is named by an amature. Come on! He's been in worse scrapes. Otherwise, I enjoyed it.

19 The Eaters of Light
20 Time and the Rani

Poor Sylvester McCoy. What a terrible start. A first episode worse than Colin Baker's.
This episode is full of uninspired dialogue and plot points, ridiculous monsters, pantomime-ish performances, and, worst of all, it's SO dull.

This is just unfortunate. It is not bad because of the stars and crew, it is bad because the BBC clearly did not care anymore about DW at this point.

21 Warriors of the Deep

Terrible plot, embarrassing acting, Turlough deciding that the Doctor drowned after he fell in the water, and that Myrka pantomime horse sea monster thing. I don't know if the story about this episode putting classic Who on track for cancellation are true... but seeing that Myrka and the waste of the classic Silurians AND Sea Devils, it is plausible.

22 The Long Game

The best aspect of it is that Simon Pegg looks like he's having so much fun on set, but his character was really wasted, as was him as an actor. There were some interesting ideas, but the execution was not very good. Also, Adam comes across as really annoying in this one, by design or not.

. #Dumbest episode

23 Victory of the Daleks

I was excited for this episode at first, Daleks showing up in World War II? Seemed pretty cool! But the Daleks were not the Daleks we all saw as the evil war machines they were before, this time they were serving tea and pretending to be soldiers of the humans... Despite the Dalek's highest priority is to exterminate all life forms except them. The writing was terrible, it didn't all make sense, the Daleks were transformed into a bunch of colorful non-intimidating jokes. Also, don't get me started on the World War II Spitfires flying up to space and taking a Dalek Ship down!
This is the worst episode in my opinion because with other terrible episodes like "Fear Her" and "Love & Monsters" they are easily forgettable, but this one isn't.
This episode can't be ignored since it has a big impact on the Daleks, the monsters that appear far more frequent than any other in Doctor Who.

It's not the worst episode of the revived series (in fact, there are episodes that are much, much, much, MUCH worse than this) but the concept of spitfires in orbit around Earth and Daleks that look like colourful bowling pins kind of drags it down.
But undoubtedly the worst thing in this episode by fifty country miles is the scene where the Doctor seems to think that a jammy dodger is a suitable weapon of choice for the Daleks and aims it at them thinking they're gonna retreat.
This is probably the stupidest decision the Doctor has made in nearly three hundred stories and fifty dozen books, audio stories, fan fiction and pretty much everything in the Doctor Who universe.
It had so much potential, but some of the concepts unfortunately didn't quite gel with me.
4/10

A prime example of the new series' overuse of the daleks. Poorly written with incredibly stupid resolutions, with the worst design of the daleks by a very large margin.

Would you care for some tea?

24 Survival
25 The Curse of the Black Spot

Bad idea. Bad execution. Bad story.

Boring and badly written. 4/10

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