The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 6

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.8/10(9288 votes)

   #1 - The Impossible Astronaut (1)

   S6:E14/23/2011

   Placing his life entirely in their hands, the Doctor agrees to search for the recipient of the fourth envelope - just who is Canton Everett Delaware the Third? And what is the relevance of their only other clue: 'Space 1969'? Their quest lands them - quite literally - in the Oval Office, where they are enlisted by President Nixon himself to assist enigmatic former-FBI agent Canton, in saving a terrified little girl from a mysterious spaceman.

   Director:Toby Haynes

   Writer:Steven Moffat

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   Director:Toby Haynes

   Writer:Steven Moffat
2. 

   8.8/10(8650 votes)

   #2 - Day of the Moon (2)

   S6:E24/30/2011

   The Doctor is locked in the perfect prison. Amy, Rory and River Song are being hunted down across America by the FBI. With the help of new friend and FBI-insider, Canton Everett Delaware the Third, our heroes are reunited to share their discoveries, if not their memories. For the world is occupied by an alien force who control humanity through post-hypnotic suggestion and no one can be trusted. Aided by President Nixon and Neil Armstrong's foot, the Doctor must mount a revolution to drive out the enemy and rescue the missing little girl. No-one knows why they took her. Or why they have kidnapped Amy Pond...

   Director:Toby Haynes

   Writer:Steven Moffat

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   Director:Toby Haynes

   Writer:Steven Moffat
3. 

   6.6/10(7616 votes)

   #3 - The Curse of the Black Spot

   S6:E35/7/2011

   The TARDIS is marooned onboard a 17th-century pirate ship whose crew is being attacked by a mysterious and beautiful sea creature. Becalmed and beset by cabin fever, the pirates have numerous superstitious explanations for the Siren's appearance. The Doctor has other ideas but, as his theories are disproved and every plan of escape is thwarted, he must work to win the trust of the implacable Captain Avery and uncover the truth behind the pirates' supernatural fears – and he must work quickly, for some of his friends have already fallen under the Siren's spell...

   Director:Jeremy Webb

   Writer:Stephen Thompson

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   Director:Jeremy Webb

   Writer:Stephen Thompson
4. 

   8.9/10(9902 votes)

   #4 - The Doctor's Wife

   S6:E45/14/2011

   The Doctor receives a distress signal from an old friend. Could there really be another living Time Lord out there? Hopes raised, he follows the signal to a junkyard planet sitting upon a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble universe, populated by a very strange family, as the time-travelling drama continues. The Doctor, Amy and Rory are given the warmest of welcomes by Auntie, Uncle and Nephew. But the beautiful and insane Idris greets them in a more unusual fashion – what is she trying to tell the Doctor? As the Doctor investigates, he unwittingly puts his friends in the gravest danger.

   Director:Richard Clark

   Writer:Neil Gaiman

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   Director:Richard Clark

   Writer:Neil Gaiman
5. 

   7.1/10(6982 votes)

   #5 - The Rebel Flesh (1)

   S6:E55/21/2011

   A solar tsunami sends the TARDIS hurtling towards a futuristic factory on Earth, where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid, as the time-travelling adventures continue. A second wave hits and the "Gangers" separate. They can remember every second of their "original's" life and feel every emotion they've ever experienced. But are these memories stolen or have they been bequeathed? Are the Gangers merely faulty machinery that must be shut down or are they living, breathing, sentient beings? Can the Doctor convince the terrified humans to accept these "almost people" and prevent an all-out civil war before the factory explodes?

   Director:Julian Simpson

   Writer:Matthew Graham

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   Director:Julian Simpson

   Writer:Matthew Graham
6. 

   7.3/10(6922 votes)

   #6 - The Almost People (2)

   S6:E65/28/2011

   As the solar storm rages, Jennifer, a Ganger driven mad by the memories of being "decommissioned", is seeking revenge, as the time-travelling drama continues. She can remember every excruciating second of every "execution" and is determined that the humans will pay. And she isn't just talking war; she's talking revolution. As the crumbling factory fills with toxic fumes and drips lethal acid, the "Originals" wait desperately for the shuttle from the Mainland to rescue them. But Jennifer has other ideas. Can the Doctor convince the terrified factory workers to embrace their own humanity and work together with their Gangers to overcome a monster of their own making?

   Director:Julian Simpson

   Writer:Matthew Graham

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   Director:Julian Simpson

   Writer:Matthew Graham
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   9.0/10(9629 votes)

   #7 - A Good Man Goes to War (1)

   S6:E76/4/2011

   Amy Pond has been kidnapped and the Doctor is raising an army to rescue her as the drama continues. But as he and Rory race across galaxies, calling in long-held debts and solemnly given promises, his enemies are laying a carefully concealed trap. In her cell in Stormcage, River Song sadly acknowledges that the time has come at last – today will mark the Battle of Demons Run and the Doctor’s darkest hour. Both sides will make their sacrifices and River Song must finally reveal her most closely guarded secret to the Doctor.

   Director:Peter Hoar

   Writer:Steven Moffat

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   Director:Peter Hoar

   Writer:Steven Moffat
8. 

   7.9/10(7838 votes)

   #8 - Let's Kill Hitler (2)

   S6:E88/27/2011

   In the desperate search for Melody Pond, the TARDIS crash lands in Thirties Berlin, as the time-travelling drama returns for the second half of the series shown earlier in the year. The Doctor comes face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. Old friendships are tested to their limits as the Doctor suffers the ultimate betrayal and learns a harsh lesson in the cruelest warfare of all. As precious time ebbs away, the Doctor must teach his adversaries that time travel has responsibilities. And he must succeed before an almighty price is paid.

   Director:Richard Senior

   Writer:Steven Moffat

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   Director:Richard Senior

   Writer:Steven Moffat
9. 

   7.0/10(6822 votes)

   #9 - Night Terrors

   S6:E99/3/2011

   A little boy named George sends a distress signal to the Doctor when he discovers that monsters live in his bedroom cupboard.

   Director:Richard Clark

   Writer:Mark Gatiss

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   Director:Richard Clark

   Writer:Mark Gatiss
10. 

    8.4/10(7919 votes)

    #10 - The Girl Who Waited

    S6:E109/10/2011

    The TARDIS brings its crew to a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague. When Amy is trapped, Rory must rescue her from the facility's doctors but learns something surprising about his wife.

    Director:Nick Hurran

    Writer:Tom MacRae

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    Director:Nick Hurran

    Writer:Tom MacRae
11. 

    8.0/10(7394 votes)

    #11 - The God Complex

    S6:E119/17/2011

    The trio arrive at a hotel where the layout of the rooms keeps changing. It also contains rooms that hold the greatest fears of each visitor.

    Director:Nick Hurran

    Writer:Toby Whithouse

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    Director:Nick Hurran

    Writer:Toby Whithouse
12. 

    7.5/10(6923 votes)

    #12 - Closing Time

    S6:E129/24/2011

    As the Doctor prepares for his inevitable death at Lake Silencio, he visits a former roommate and learns that the Cybermen are responsible for a series of disappearances at a local department store and resolves to investigate.

    Director:Steve Hughes

    Writer:Gareth Roberts

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    Director:Steve Hughes

    Writer:Gareth Roberts
13. 

    8.4/10(8153 votes)

    #13 - The Wedding of River Song

    S6:E1310/1/2011

    As the Doctor makes his final journey to the shores of Lake Silencio in Utah, he knows only one thing can keep the universe safe – his own death – in the concluding episode of this series of the time-travelling drama. But has he reckoned without the love of a good woman?

    Director:Jeremy Webb

    Writer:Steven Moffat

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    Director:Jeremy Webb

    Writer:Steven Moffat