Series 9 – my personal favourite series. Peter Capaldi is at the height of his power as The Doctor, and the pairing of the 12th Doctor and Clara is perhaps the strongest duo the show has ever seen.
Series 4 – The fan favourite series, and for good reason. Tennant and Tate are magnetic on screen, and the culmination of Russel T Davies’ era as showrunner in the finale is a triumph that hasn’t been topped.
Series 1 – The series that (re)started it all. Eccleston burns bright as The Doctor, ensuring the show would survive until Tennant took on the reigns, and enjoying perhaps some of the best writing of the show’s history.
Series 5 – Moffat’s first series as Doctor Who showrunner, and the fairytale themes of childhood and imagination are some of the strongest points of Matt Smith’s era. The Ponds also solidify themselves as an all-time Tardis team.
Series 10 – Opinions of Matt Lucas notwithstanding, series 10 features my personal favourite Tardis team in Bill and Nardole (Comedy Relief and Exposition), and the show’s boldest finale in World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls.
Series 3 – Although the Doctor and Martha’s relationship is questionable now, series 3 was a breath of fresh air for fans straining with the Rose romance, and the Vote Saxon / YANA prophecy through-line was executed masterfully.
Series 2 – Tennant’s first series as The Doctor struggles to find its feet initially, with the show’s biggest stinkers like ‘Fear Her’ and ‘Love and Monsters’, but lands one of the most iconic breakup scenes of all time.
Series 8 – Tonally out of place with the rest of Capaldi’s era, series 8 suffers from a showrunner experiencing an identity crisis, which bleeds through into The Doctor’s incessant questioning of ‘Am I a good man?’
Series 6 – With a mind-bogglingly convoluted series arc, even for a show about travelling through time and space in a blue police box, series 6 is a hard one to follow, and not in a good way.
Series 14 – Although not scoring as many technical faults as others on this list, Ncuti Gatwa’s first series is all the more disappointing for being such a weak first entry in the supposed new era of the Whoniverse.
Series 7 - Sabotaging itself by splitting into two halves, series 7 wastes the precious little time left with the Ponds with a shoe-horned divorce drama, all to make way for a severely underbaked Clara Oswin Oswald.
Series 13 – Also known as The Flux, this series is one of the least terrible of Chris Chibnall’s tenure. Jodie Whittaker shines through the terrible writing, and the VFX is the best the show has ever seen.
Series 12 – This series has a few emerging pros from its predecessor, namely having Bradley Walsh as a Doctor Who companion, which is at least kinda funny, and a chilling Davros-equivalent villain for the Cybermen in Ashad.
Series 11 – The series that, not to be hyperbolic, ended the Whovian fandom as we knew it. We’ve seen many stunts since then to resurrect this beloved franchise with Disney, but nothing has quite healed the damage.
