The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 3

#1 Fan Favorite
9.8/10(28896 votes)
#1 - Blink
S3:E106/9/2007
Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.
Director:Hettie Macdonald
Writer:Steven Moffat
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Director:Hettie Macdonald
Writer:Steven Moffat
9.2/10(11600 votes)
#2 - The Family of Blood (2)
S3:E96/2/2007
It's 1913, and war comes to England early as the terrifying Family hunt for the Doctor.
Director:Charles Palmer
Writer:Paul Cornell
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Director:Charles Palmer
Writer:Paul Cornell
8.9/10(10597 votes)
#3 - Human Nature (1)
S3:E85/26/2007
England, 1913. A schoolteacher called John Smith dreams of adventures in time and space. The Doctor, along with Martha, heads to a boarding school, but what he finds is far from ordinary...
Director:Charles Palmer
Writer:Paul Cornell
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Director:Charles Palmer
Writer:Paul Cornell
8.7/10(9519 votes)
#4 - Utopia (1)
S3:E116/16/2007
After being brought back to life in The Parting of the Ways, Captain Jack Harkness was just left on the Gamestation by the Doctor and Rose. In this episode, Captain Jack Harkness storms back into the Doctor's life, and the TARDIS is thrown to the end of the universe itself.
Director:Graeme Harper
Writer:Russell T Davies
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Director:Graeme Harper
Writer:Russell T Davies
8.7/10(9540 votes)
#5 - The Sound of Drums (2)
S3:E126/23/2007
Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister and his reign of terror begins – but that's only the start of his ambitions, as he announces mankind's first contact with an alien race, the Toclafane. An audacious plan spanning the whole of time and space begins to close around the Earth, in the penultimate episode of Russell T Davies's Doctor Who.
Director:Colin Teague
Writer:Russell T Davies
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Director:Colin Teague
Writer:Russell T Davies
8.3/10(9759 votes)
#6 - Last of the Time Lords (3)
S3:E136/30/2007
One year has passed since the events of "The Sound of Drums." The Earth has been conquered and its population enslaved, the Doctor is the Master's prisoner, and the warships of a new Time Lord Empire rise from the ashes. The fate of the world is in Martha Jones' hands.
Directors:Graeme Harper, Colin Teague
Writer:Russell T Davies
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Directors:Graeme Harper, Colin Teague
Writer:Russell T Davies

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8.0/10(9340 votes)
#7 - Gridlock
S3:E34/14/2007
The Doctor takes Martha to New Earth, in the far future, only to find that an entire city has become a deadly trap.
Director:Richard Clark
Writer:Russell T Davies
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Director:Richard Clark
Writer:Russell T Davies
7.9/10(9123 votes)
#8 - Smith and Jones
S3:E14/1/2007
Trainee doctor Martha Jones has her hands full balancing her medical studies with placating her demanding family. So the last thing she needs is to find that the hospital where she works has been transported to the moon, where it's invaded by an overbearing alien police force. There she encounters a patient called John Smith, who seems curiously at ease with the situation…
Director:Charles Palmer
Writer:Russell T Davies
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Director:Charles Palmer
Writer:Russell T Davies
7.5/10(9082 votes)
#9 - The Shakespeare Code
S3:E24/7/2007
Martha takes her first trip in the Tardis, all the way back to Elizabethan England. She and the Doctor hear of a series of bizarre deaths and discover that playwright William Shakespeare is being controlled by dangerous witch-like creatures. It seems the time-travelling duo must defeat ancient forces to prevent history from being rewritten.
Director:Charles Palmer
Writer:Gareth Roberts
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Director:Charles Palmer
Writer:Gareth Roberts
7.2/10(8364 votes)
#10 - 42
S3:E75/19/2007
In a far-flung galaxy, saboteurs are at work, and crew members are being possessed. The TARDIS crew find themselves in the 42nd century on a spaceship, SS Pentallian, slowly being pulled into a sun, and must find a way to survive
Director:Graeme Harper
Writer:Chris Chibnall
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Director:Graeme Harper
Writer:Chris Chibnall
7.0/10(8569 votes)
#11 - Daleks in Manhattan (1)
S3:E44/21/2007
The Doctor investigates disappearances in New York at the height of the depression in the 1930s. Nefarious Pig Men linger in the sewers and the Daleks prepare an audacious plan at the top of the Empire State Building
Director:James Strong
Writer:Helen Raynor
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Director:James Strong
Writer:Helen Raynor
6.9/10(8534 votes)
#12 - Evolution of the Daleks (2)
S3:E54/28/2007
The newly-created Dalek-human hybrid, and the other three members of the Cult of Skaro launch an attack on Hooverville, along with their Pig Slaves. The Doctor, Martha, and Frank manage to escape, but discover that the Daleks' plan involving the Empire State Building...
Director:James Strong
Writer:Helen Raynor
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Director:James Strong
Writer:Helen Raynor
6.5/10(8540 votes)
#13 - The Lazarus Experiment
S3:E65/5/2007
Martha has to save her family from the lunatic schemes of the monstrous Professor Lazarus.
Director:Richard Clark
Writer:Stephen Greenhorn
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Director:Richard Clark
Writer:Stephen Greenhorn