Doctor Who has more than 800 episodes. That number is enough to confuse and overwhelm even someone like me who has been watching the show for years.
If you're new to the show, the overwhelming episode titles may become more of a headache than a source of entertainment.
But worry not! Our team made this list of Doctor Who episodes from the main series as your ultimate episode guide whether you're a new or veteran fan.
Doctor Who Synopsis & Fun Facts
Doctor Who, the iconic British sci-fi series, follows the adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels through time and space using TARDIS.
The TARDIS looked like a police locked-up box you would usually find around London. The appearance was caused by the chameleon circuit malfunction during the Doctor's planet Earth visit in 1963.
Peter Capaldi (Twelfth Doctor) and Karen Gillian (Amy Pond) played different roles in the Doctor Who series before getting cast as major characters [1].
David Tennant is always considered the most famous actor to portray the Time Lord. Well, I couldn't agree more with that, considering the swag and charisma he brought to the show.
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FIRST DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: William Hartnell |
Series 1 |
Number of Episodes |
An Unearthly Child |
4 |
The Daleks |
7 |
The Edge Of Destruction |
2 |
Marco Polo |
7 |
The Keys Of Marinus |
6 |
The Aztecs |
4 |
The Sensorites |
6 |
The Reign Of Terror |
6 |
Series 2 |
Number of Episodes |
Planet Of Giants |
3 |
The Dalek Invasion Of Earth |
6 |
The Rescue |
2 |
The Romans |
4 |
The Web Planet |
6 |
The Crusade |
4 |
The Space Museum |
4 |
The Chase |
6 |
The Time Meddler |
4 |
Series 3 |
Number of Episodes |
Galaxy 4 |
4 |
Mission To The Unknown |
1 |
The Myth Makers |
4 |
The Daleks' Masterplan |
12 |
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve |
4 |
The Ark |
4 |
The Celestial Toymaker |
4 |
The Gunfighters |
4 |
The Savages |
4 |
The War Machines |
4 |
Series 4 |
Number of Episodes |
The Smugglers |
4 |
The Tenth Planet |
4 |
SECOND DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Patrick Troughton |
The Power Of The Daleks |
6 |
The Highlanders |
4 |
The Underwater Menace |
4 |
The Moonbase |
4 |
The Macra Terror |
4 |
The Faceless Ones |
6 |
The Evil Of The Daleks |
7 |
Series 5 |
Number of Episodes |
The Tomb Of The Cybermen |
4 |
The Abominable Snowmen |
6 |
The Ice Warriors |
6 |
The Enemy Of The World |
6 |
The Web Of Fear |
6 |
Fury From The Deep |
6 |
The Wheel In Space |
6 |
Series 6 |
Number of Episodes |
The Dominators |
5 |
The Mind Robber |
5 |
The Invasion |
8 |
The Krotons |
4 |
The Seeds Of Death |
6 |
The Space Pirates |
6 |
The War Games |
10 |
THIRD DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Jon Pertwee |
Series 7 |
Number of Episodes |
Spearhead From Space |
4 |
The Silurians |
7 |
The Ambassadors Of Death |
7 |
Inferno |
7 |
Series 8 |
Number of Episodes |
Terror Of The Autons |
4 |
The Mind Of Evil |
6 |
The Claws Of Axos |
4 |
Colony In Space |
6 |
The Daemons |
5 |
Series 9 |
Number of Episodes |
Day Of The Daleks |
4 |
The Curse Of Peladon |
4 |
The Sea Devils |
6 |
The Mutants |
6 |
The Time Monster |
6 |
Series 10 |
Number of Episodes |
The Three Doctors |
4 (First Doctor and Second Doctor) |
Carnival Of Monsters |
4 |
Frontier In Space |
6 |
Planet Of The Daleks |
6 |
The Green Death |
6 |
Series 11 |
Number of Episodes |
The Time Warrior |
4 |
Invasion Of The Dinosaurs |
6 |
Death To The Daleks |
4 |
The Monster Of Peladon |
6 |
Planet Of The Spiders |
6 |
FOURTH DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Tom Baker |
Series 12 |
Number of Episodes |
Robot |
4 |
The Ark In Space |
4 |
The Sontaran Experiment |
2 |
Genesis Of The Daleks |
6 |
Revenge Of The Cybermen |
4 |
Series 13 |
Number of Episodes |
Terror Of The Zygons |
4 |
Planet Of Evil |
4 |
Pyramids Of Mars |
4 |
The Android Invasion |
4 |
The Brain Of Morbius |
4 |
The Seeds Of Doom |
6 |
Series 14 |
Number of Episodes |
The Masque Of Mandragora |
4 |
The Hand Of Fear |
4 |
The Deadly Assassin |
4 |
The Face Of Evil |
4 |
The Robots Of Death |
4 |
The Talons Of Weng-Chiang |
6 |
Series 15 |
Number of Episodes |
Horror Of Fang Rock |
4 |
The Invisible Enemy |
4 |
Image Of The Fendahl |
4 |
The Sun Makers |
4 |
Underworld |
4 |
The Invasion Of Time |
6 |
Series 16 |
Number of Episodes |
The Ribos Operation |
4 |
The Pirate Planet |
4 |
The Stones Of Blood |
4 |
The Androids Of Tara |
4 |
The Power Of Kroll |
4 |
The Armageddon Factor |
6 |
Series 17 |
Number of Episodes |
Destiny Of The Daleks |
4 |
City Of Death |
4 |
The Creature From The Pit |
4 |
Nightmare Of Eden |
4 |
The Horns Of Nimon |
4 |
Series 18 |
Number of Episodes |
The Leisure Hive |
4 |
Meglos |
4 |
Full Circle |
4 |
State Of Decay |
4 |
Warriors' Gate |
4 |
The Keeper Of Traken |
4 |
Logopolis |
4 |
FIFTH DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Peter Davidson |
Series 19 |
Number of Episodes |
Castrovalva |
4 |
Four To Doomsday |
4 |
Kinda |
4 |
The Visitation |
4 |
Black Orchid |
2 |
Earthshock |
4 |
Time-Flight |
4 |
Series 20 |
Number of Episodes |
Arc Of Infinity |
4 |
Snakedance |
4 |
Mawdryn Undead |
4 |
Terminus |
4 |
Enlightenment |
4 |
The King's Demons |
2 |
The Five Doctors (Special Episode) |
1 (First to Fifth Doctor) |
Series 21 |
Number of Episodes |
Warriors Of The Deep |
4 |
The Awakening |
2 |
Frontios |
4 |
Resurrection Of The Daleks |
2 (45 minutes) |
Planet Of Fire |
4 |
The Caves Of Androzani |
4 |
SIXTH DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Colin Baker |
The Twin Dilemma |
4 |
Series 22 |
Number of Episodes |
Attack Of The Cybermen |
2 (45 minutes) |
Vengeance On Varos |
2 (45 minutes) |
The Mark Of The Rani |
2 (45 minutes) |
The Two Doctors |
3 (45 minutes) (Second Doctor and Sixth Doctor) |
Timelash |
2 (45 minutes) |
Revelation Of The Daleks |
2 (45 minutes) |
Series 23 |
Number of Episodes |
The Mysterious Planet |
4 |
Mindwarp |
4 |
Terror Of The Vervoids |
4 |
The Ultimate Foe |
2 |
SEVENTH DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Sylvester McCoy |
Series 24 |
Number of Episodes |
Time And The Rani |
4 |
Paradise Towers |
4 |
Delta And The Bannermen |
3 |
Dragonfire |
3 |
Series 25 |
Number of Episodes |
Remembrance Of The Daleks |
4 |
The Happiness Patrol |
3 |
Silver Nemesis |
3 |
The Greatest Show In The Galaxy |
4 |
Series 26 |
Number of Episodes |
Battlefield |
4 |
Ghost Light |
3 |
The Curse Of Fenric |
4 |
Survival |
3 |
EIGHTH DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Paul McGann |
Doctor Who: The Movie |
TV Movie |
NINTH DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Christopher Eccleston |
Season 1 (REBOOT) |
Season One Episodes |
Rose |
1 |
The End Of The World |
1 |
The Unquiet Dead |
1 |
Aliens Of London |
1 |
World War Three |
1 |
Dalek |
1 |
The Long Game |
1 |
Father's Day |
1 |
The Empty Child |
1 |
The Doctor Dances |
1 |
Boom Town |
1 |
Bad Wolf |
1 |
The Parting Of The Ways |
1 |
TENTH DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: David Tennant |
Season 2 (REBOOT) |
Season Two Episodes |
The Christmas Invasion |
Christmas Special Episode |
New Earth |
1 |
Tooth and Claw |
1 |
School Reunion |
1 |
The Girl in the Fireplace |
1 |
Rise of the Cybermen |
1 |
The Age of Steel |
1 |
The Idiot's Lantern |
1 |
The Impossible Planet |
1 |
The Satan Pit |
1 |
Love & Monsters |
1 |
Fear Her |
1 |
Army of Ghosts |
1 |
Doomsday |
1 |
Season 3 (REBOOT) |
Season Three Episodes |
The Runaway Bride |
Christmas Special Episode |
Smith and Jones |
1 |
The Shakespeare Code |
1 |
Gridlock |
1 |
Daleks in Manhattan |
1 |
Evolution of the Daleks |
1 |
The Lazarus Experiment |
1 |
42 |
1 |
Human Nature |
1 |
The Family of Blood |
1 |
Blink |
1 |
Utopia |
1 |
The Sound of Drums |
1 |
The Last of the Time Lords |
1 |
Season 4 (REBOOT) |
Season Four Episodes |
Voyage of the Damned |
Christmas Special Episode |
Partners in Crime |
1 |
The Fires of Pompeii |
1 |
Planet of the Ood |
1 |
The Sontaran Stratagem |
1 |
The Poison Sky |
1 |
The Doctor's Daughter |
1 |
The Unicorn and the Wasp |
1 |
Silence in the Library |
1 |
Forest of the Dead |
1 |
Midnight |
1 |
Turn Left |
1 |
The Stolen Earth |
1 |
Journey's End |
1 |
Special Episodes |
Numbers of Episodes |
The Next Doctor |
1 |
Planet of the Dead |
1 |
The Waters of Mars |
1 |
The End of Time |
2 |
ELEVENTH DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Matt Smith |
Season 5 (REBOOT) |
Season Five Episodes |
The Eleventh Hour |
1 |
The Beast Below |
1 |
Victory Of The Daleks |
1 |
The Time Of Angels |
1 |
Flesh And Stone |
1 |
The Vampires Of Venice |
1 |
Amy's Choice |
1 |
The Hungry Earth |
1 |
Cold Blood |
1 |
Vincent And The Doctor |
1 |
The Lodger |
1 |
The Pandorica Opens |
1 |
The Big Bang |
1 |
Season 6 (REBOOT) |
Season Six Episodes |
A Christmas Carol |
Christmas Special Episode |
The Impossible Astronaut |
1 |
Day Of The Moon |
1 |
The Curse Of The Black Spot |
1 |
The Doctor's Wife |
1 |
The Rebel Flesh |
1 |
The Almost People |
1 |
A Good Man Goes To War |
1 |
Let's Kill Hitler |
1 |
Night Terrors |
1 |
The Girl Who Waited |
1 |
The God Complex |
1 |
Closing Time |
1 |
The Wedding Of River Song |
1 |
Season 7 (REBOOT) |
Season Seven Episodes |
The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe |
Christmas Special Episode |
Asylum Of The Daleks |
1 |
Dinosaurs On A Spaceship |
1 |
A Town Called Mercy |
1 |
The Power Of Three |
1 |
The Angels Take Manhattan |
1 |
The Snowmen |
1 |
The Bells Of Saint John |
1 |
The Rings Of Akhaten |
1 |
Cold War |
1 |
Hide |
1 |
Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS |
1 |
The Crimson Horror |
1 |
Nightmare In Silver |
1 |
The Name Of The Doctor |
1 (with War Doctor) |
The Night Of The Doctor |
Mini episode (7 mins) (War Doctor and Eighth Doctor) |
Special Episodes |
Number of Episodes |
The Day Of The Doctor |
50th Anniversary Special (75 mins) (Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor and War Doctor) |
The Time Of The Doctor |
Special (75 mins) |
TWELFTH DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Peter Capaldi |
Season 8 (REBOOT) |
Season Eight Episodes |
Deep Breath |
1 |
Into the Dalek |
1 |
Robot of Sherwood |
1 |
Listen |
1 |
Time Heist |
1 |
The Caretaker |
1 |
Kill the Moon |
1 |
Mummy on the Orient Express |
1 |
Flatline |
1 |
In the Forest of the Night |
1 |
Dark Water |
1 |
Death in Heaven |
1 |
Last Christmas |
Christmas Special Episode |
Season 9 (REBOOT) |
Season Nine Episodes |
The Magician's Apprentice |
1 |
The Witch's Familiar |
1 |
Under the Lake |
1 |
Before the Flood |
1 |
The Girl Who Died |
1 |
The Woman Who Lived |
1 |
The Zygon Invasion |
1 |
The Zygon Inversion |
1 |
Sleep No More |
1 |
Face the Raven |
1 |
Heaven Sent |
1 |
Hell Bent |
1 |
The Husbands of River Song |
Christmas Special Episode |
Season 10 (REBOOT) |
Season Ten Episodes |
The Return of Doctor Mysterio |
Christmas Special Episode |
The Pilot |
1 |
Smile |
1 |
Thin Ice |
1 |
Knock Knock |
1 |
Oxygen |
1 |
Extremis |
1 |
The Pyramid at the End of the World |
1 |
The Lie of the Land |
1 |
Empress of Mars |
1 |
The Eaters of Light |
1 |
World Enough and Time |
1 |
The Doctor Falls |
1 |
Twice Upon a Time |
Christmas Special Episode (First Doctor, 12th Doctor, and 13th Doctor) |
THIRTEENTH DOCTOR |
Doctor Who Actor: Jodie Whittaker |
Season 11 (REBOOT) |
Season Eleven Episodes |
The Woman Who Fell to Earth |
1 |
The Ghost Monument |
1 |
Rosa |
1 |
Arachnids in the UK |
1 |
The Tsuranga Conundrum |
1 |
Demons of the Punjab |
1 |
Kerblam! |
1 |
The Witchfinders |
1 |
It Takes You Away |
1 |
The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos |
1 |
Resolution |
New Year Special |
Season 12 (REBOOT) |
Season Twelve Episodes |
Spyfall |
2 |
Orphan 55 |
1 |
Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror |
1 |
Fugitive of the Judoon |
1 |
Praxeus |
1 |
Can You Hear Me? |
1 |
The Haunting of Villa Diodati |
1 |
Ascension of the Cybermen |
1 |
The Timeless Children |
1 |
Revolution of the Daleks |
New Year Special |
Season 13 (REBOOT) |
Season Thirteen Episodes |
The Halloween Apocalypse |
1 |
War of the Sonrtarans |
1 |
Once, Upon Time |
1 |
Village of the Angels |
1 |
Survivors of the Flux |
1 |
The Vanquishers |
1 |
Special Episodes |
Number of Episodes |
Eve of the Daleks |
New Year Episode |
Legend of the Sea Devils |
Easter Sunday Episode |
The Power of the Doctor |
BBC's Centenary celebration |
FAQs
How many episodes of Doctor Who have there been since 2005?
Doctor Who has had more than 160 episodes since its reboot in 2005.
An entire season of Doctor Who, starring Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th version of the Time Lord, is expected to be released in 2024. For the Doctor's new companion, Millie Gibson will play the role of Ruby Sunday [2].
Should you watch the Doctor Who episodes in order?
Yes, you should watch Doctor Who episodes if they are in the same series or season. However, you don't have to watch Doctor Who from its very first episode, released in 1963.
The executive producer of the reboot released in 2005 claimed that the backstory would be ignored except for some good parts [3].
In Summary
Doctor Who started in 1963, following the adventures through time and space of a Time Lord, also known as the Doctor [4].
It was revived in 2005 with a different story arc, production team, and more advanced visuals, focusing more on adventures here on planet Earth. As of 2022, it has over 800 episodes that may confuse new viewers and fans.
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References:
- https://ew.com/article/2013/11/22/doctor-who-15-facts/
- https://screenrant.com/doctor-who-season-14-release-window-revealed-removed/
- https://www.cnet.com/culture/watch-doctor-who-viewing-guide-perfect-order/
- https://collider.com/doctor-who-celebrities-you-forget-starred-on-the-show/