The Best Episodes Written By Terrance Dicks

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.8/10(5 votes)

   #1 - The War Games (1)

   S6:E354/19/1969

   The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe realise they have arrived in the trenches of the First World War, where the sinister General Smythe accuses them of espionage.

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   8.3/10(7 votes)

   #2 - The Brain of Morbius (1)

   S13:E171/3/1976

   The storm-lashed planet Karn. Near a graveyard of crashed starships, the demented surgeon Solon hides in his castle, the last acolyte of the Time Lord despot Morbius. He only needs one final item to make his master live again... and then the Doctor and Sarah arrive...

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   8.3/10(6 votes)

   #3 - The Brain of Morbius (3)

   S13:E191/17/1976

   While the Doctor goes to confront the Sisterhood to seek a cure for Sarah Jane's blindness, Solon realizes that he must transfer Morbius' brain into a new body before it is too late.

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   8.3/10(6 votes)

   #4 - The Brain of Morbius (4)

   S13:E201/24/1976

   Morbius lives once more, but as a rampaging beast. The Doctor is forced to ally with Dr. Solon to bring him to heel, but the two disagree about what should happen to Morbius.

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   8.0/10(6 votes)

   #5 - The Brain of Morbius (2)

   S13:E181/10/1976

   The Doctor is captured by the Sisterhood, and Sarah Jane is blinded freeing him. The Doctor has no choice but to go back for a cure, unaware that he is leaving Sarah Jane in the hands of a treacherous Dr. Solon and the renegade Time Lord Morbius.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - The Bringers of Wonder (1)

   S2:E188/4/1977

   Everyone on Moonbase is electrified by the arrival of a spaceship from earth. Everyone, that is, except Commander Koenig. Where the others see long-lost friends and relatives, he sees hideous aliens, bent on taking over the Moonbase...

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   7.6/10(5 votes)

   #7 - The Seeds of Death (1)

   S6:E231/25/1969

   21st century Earth is entirely dependent on the T-Mat transport system but the control centre on the moon has stopped functioning. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe meet the one man who can solve the crisis.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #8 - Horror of Fang Rock (1)

   S15:E19/3/1977

   The English channel, the 1900s AD. The TARDIS lands on barren Fang Rock, inhabited until now only by three lighthouse keepers. But what is the strange fog covering the island, and can it be connected to the falling star sighted earlier that night?

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   7.0/10(5 votes)

   #9 - Robot (4)

   S12:E41/18/1975

   UNIT attempt to get into the bunker to stop Miss Winters setting off the world's nuclear missiles but first they have to get past the K1.

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    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Horror of Fang Rock (3)

    S15:E39/17/1977

    The Doctor barricades everyone in the lighthouse to protect them from the mysterious deadly creature in the fog. But it may already be inside, biding its time…

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11. 

    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Horror of Fang Rock (4)

    S15:E49/24/1977

    The Rutan starts picking off the surviving humans one by one as the Doctor and Leela struggle to defeat not only the alien but an entire fleet waiting to occupy Earth.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Lambda Factor

    S2:E1712/23/1976

    A pretty, young Alpha technician dies a horrible and unexplained death. Dr. Russell's experiments reveal that one of the crew is possessed of paranormal mental powers and is trying to take control of Moonbase Alpha....

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13. 

    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Mauritius Penny

    S2:E711/10/1962

    The owner of a stamp shop is murdered when excitedly talking on the phone to a contact about the rare Mauritius Penny that has turned up on a list. Cathy Gale applies for a job in the shop, and she and Steed witness another murder in an auction room.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Intercrime

    S2:E151/5/1963

    Steed wants Mrs. Gale to impersonate Hilda Stern, a recently arrested assassin about to be used by the trans-national crime syndicate Intercrime. Things go swimmingly, until the real Hilda Stern breaks out of Holloway and confronts the imposter.

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Horror of Fang Rock (2)

    S15:E29/10/1977

    The survivors of a wrecked ship are stranded with the lighhouse crew on Fang Rock as a deadly menace slithers through the fog. Has the Beast of Fang Rock returned?

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16. 

    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #16 - Robot (3)

    S12:E31/11/1975

    Sarah Jane and Kettlewell infiltrate an SRS meeting to try and find out what Miss Winters is up to but there is a surprise in store.

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    6.6/10(7 votes)

    #17 - Robot (1)

    S12:E112/28/1974

    The Doctor changes form again. Before he has fully re-covered, something of colossal strength steals a secret weapon, and the convalescent Doctor starts to investigate.

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    6.4/10(5 votes)

    #18 - Robot (2)

    S12:E21/4/1975

    The Doctor and Sarah Jane become convinced Think Tank are behind the electronic component thefts but are unable to stop them carrying out another raid.

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    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #19 - State of Decay (1)

    S18:E1311/22/1980

    Still trapped in negative E-Space, the TARDIS lands on an unnamed world to find a society sliding back into feudalism. What is the secret of the Three Who Rule? And what ancient enemy of the Time Lords is stirring again on this world...?

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    6.2/10(4 votes)

    #20 - The Five Doctors

    S0:E4111/25/1983

    The Doctor’s past incarnations are being snatched out of time and space and transported to the Death Zone on Gallifrey, where they are reunited with some old friends and pitted against their deadliest enemies in the Game of Rassilon. Someone is manipulating the Doctor and his companions in order to claim the most ancient and powerful secret of the Time Lords, but can they survive the challenges and uncover the traitor before it is too late?

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - State of Decay (2)

    S18:E1411/29/1980

    The Doctor and Romana are escorted to the tower to meet the royal leaders, hoping they can find answers to why this society evolves backwards. The Doctor recognizes the tower as an old Earth spaceship, and further finds that the old fuel tanks, far from empty, are full - but with blood. Meanwhile, Councilor Aukon senses intelligence in Adric and selects him to be the their first "Chosen One."

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - State of Decay (3)

    S18:E1512/6/1980

    The Doctor finds archive material in the TARDIS that tells him he's dealing with an ancient enemy of the Time Lords, a nearly indestructible king vampire who's ready to revive and reenter normal space, spreading death, once again, across the universe.

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - State of Decay (4)

    S18:E1612/13/1980

    The Doctor joins the villagers' revolt against their vampire rulers, unsure how to kill the king vampire. Meanwhile Adric is first in line to join the new vampire order while Romana is laid out as a sacrificial Time Lord for the awakening king vampire and his swarm of bats.

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    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Homicide And Old Lace

    S6:E263/26/1969

    It's Mother's birthday and he is visiting two of his aunts, Harriet and Georgina. To celebrate he tells them a hair-colour changing story, 'The Great Great British Crime'.

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    2.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - The War Games in Colour

    S0:E1012/23/2024

    For the first time, these original episodes have been meticulously colourised and enhanced with updated visual effects edited into a new, 90-minute feature-length experience. In addition, the episode will also feature the Second Doctor's never-before-seen regeneration into the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee), alongside recovered footage not seen since the original broadcast. Originally aired in 1969, The War Games marked the end of an era for the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), following him and his companions Zoe and Jamie as they land in a battlefield that appears to be a World War I military zone -- but all is not as it seems. They soon discover that soldiers from different historical periods have been abducted and are being manipulated in a cruel game. As they work to uncover the mystery behind the War Lord and his twisted experiments, the Doctor faces one of hist most difficult challenges.

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