# Dr. Who episode recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-episode-recommendations/822267 "2018-10-01T15:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-episode-recommendations/822267/21 "2018-10-02T16:34:36Z")
It’s a shame Capaldi didn’t stick around another season. I would have liked to see him working with fresh writers and ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Celidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-episode-recommendations/822267/22 "2018-10-02T17:24:53Z")
If you’re looking for creepy, then the Steven Moffat episodes during Russell T Davies run as showrunner are probably the best. - The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances is, IMO, probably still the creepiest pair (1st season / Eccelston). “Are you my mummy?” indeed. Wanna be scared? Watch it at night with the lights off. - Blink (3rd season / Tennant) is downright awesome - as you’ve noted - Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead (4th season / Tennant) is very good the first time out, though knowing what happens to the River Song character it looses a little bit. It’s still fairly creepy. Which is why I was very excited when Moffat took over during Matt Smith’s first year (season 5). Some of my favorite episodes from the first 4 seasons were his. And I think he did a great job with season 5, as a whole, I find it an excellent story back to front. The rest of his tenure kind of went downhill, though. Way too much “The Doctor’s Dying! Or is he! No really this time! Hah, nope!” By the end, I honestly can’t think of a single Capaldi episode I really liked. They were all … meh. Anyway, I’ll also throw in +1s for “Midnight” (essentially a 1-room play that’s really frightening), and I think some of the Cybermen episodes (especially the first time they came back in Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel) can hit you in a certain place. ---
**Author:** ![betonbill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b782af/32.png) [@betonbill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betonbill)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-episode-recommendations/822267/23 "2018-10-02T18:19:44Z")
I’m reigniting my romance with The Doctor. Became a fan when PBS was running all of the old series that were available, then jumped right back in with the new series. Never quite liked Matt Smith, and threw in the towel with Capaldi (also, had to pay extra for BBC America and didn’t think it was worth it). Just discovered that my cable channel does indeed include BBC America and have gotten entangled in the Doctor marathon. The new Doctor looks interesting. Maybe I’ll stay with it again. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-episode-recommendations/822267/24 "2018-10-02T18:28:51Z")
Since we’re talking Doctor Who. I hate to see them shift the show to Sunday. Sat nights on BBC America has been a comfortable time slot since the beginning with _Rose_ in 2006. [https://www.google.com/amp/s/ew.com/tv/2018/09/26/doctor-who-premiere-time/amp/](https://www.google.com/amp/s/ew.com/tv/2018/09/26/doctor-who-premiere-time/amp/) > [@](#): > > BBC America announced today that the premiere episode of the first season to star Jodie Whittaker will be broadcast at 1.45pm ET, Oct. 7, the same moment the episode begins in the UK. Simultaneously, fans at New York Comic Con will start watching the premiere, which will be followed by a panel with Whittaker, showrunner Chris Chibnall, and executive producer Matt Strevens at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater. BBC America will air a special encore of the premiere at 8pm ET, the time the series will regularly screen on Sundays. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-episode-recommendations/822267/25 "2018-10-02T18:31:34Z")
Lots of good suggestions. Here are a few more, from my favorite Doctors (Ten and Twelve): Ten: - School Reunion: It helps to know a little about Sara Jane Smith, but it works as a creepy, cool episode even without that. - Smith and Jones: Yes, it’s in space, but it takes place entirely inside a hospital so the “space-ness” isn’t annoying. 42: Again, it’s in space but it’s a one shot and very creepy and tense. No aliens. (BTW, it’s nice to see another “Idiot’s Lantern” fan. That’s one of my favorites, but most fans aren’t big on it) Twelve: - Listen (once again in space, but no aliens and very creepy. One of his best) - Flatline - the TARDIS gets reeeeally small, with the Doctor inside! Great ep. - Mummy on the Orient Express - just what it says on the tin. Creepy and good! - I’d also recommend The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion - they do have rubber-suit aliens, but the Doctor’s speech in “Inversion” is one of the best in all of Who’s history, IMO (and also very relevant to today’s world). ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-episode-recommendations/822267/26 "2018-10-02T18:54:58Z")
From the original run, there’s _The Brain of Morbius_, which is a Frankenstein tale. There’s the ones mentioned in the New Who era. And then Capaldi’s eleventh and penultimate episode of the ninth series, _Heaven Sent_, has the final reveal that I find very scary. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-episode-recommendations/822267.md?page=1)