The BEST episodes written by Eric Saward

Earthshock (4)
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8.38
162 votes

#1 - Earthshock (4)

Doctor Who - Season 19 - Episode 22

The Doctor realises the freighter is now a huge bomb and sends it back through time where it can explode millions of years ago... but Adric is still aboard...

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Earthshock (1)
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8.12
185 votes

#2 - Earthshock (1)

Doctor Who - Season 19 - Episode 19

The TARDIS crew arrives on Earth in the 26th Century in a cave system where a military force is investigating the disappearance of a palaentological expedition.

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Resurrection of the Daleks (1)
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7.90
142 votes

#3 - Resurrection of the Daleks (1)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 11

London's Docklands, 1984. Why are uniformed policemen gunning down strangely-dressed vagrants in broad daylight? A prison ship in the far future - who is the sole prisoner aboard the craft? And why are these two locations linked by the time corridor the TARDIS has been sucked into? Lytton's men revive Davros as the Doctor fights off the Dalek in the warehouse. But alliances are shifting with each passing moment. Can anyone be trusted?

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Resurrection of the Daleks (2)
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7.89
140 votes

#4 - Resurrection of the Daleks (2)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 12

As the surviving station crew work to destroy the space station, Davros consolidates his power and the Daleks launch a fiendish scheme to use the Doctor against the Time Lords. The Doctor and his companions strive to defeat both Davros and the Daleks. But their victory may come at a terrible price.

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Earthshock (3)
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7.83
188 votes

#5 - Earthshock (3)

Doctor Who - Season 19 - Episode 21

The Cybermen are released from their silos and are on the march, attacking Briggs's crew and ensuring that the freighter remains on course for Earth. But why?

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The Trial of a Time Lord (13)
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7.65
164 votes

#6 - The Trial of a Time Lord (13)

Doctor Who - Season 23 - Episode 13

With the Doctor now reluctantly admitting to genocide, things look bad. But the Doctor's nemesis, the Master, intervenes, and the real truth behind the trial comes to light - and with it, the shocking secret of the Valeyard's true identity...

Earthshock (2)
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7.62
182 votes

#7 - Earthshock (2)

Doctor Who - Season 19 - Episode 20

With her crew vanishing mysteriously, Captain Briggs assumes the Doctor is the guilty party, but the traitor is closer to home… as are the Cybermen.

The Visitation (4)
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7.35
172 votes

#8 - The Visitation (4)

Doctor Who - Season 19 - Episode 16

With Tegan and Richard under alien control, and the manor sealed against anyone leaving or entering, it's a question whether or not the Doctor can get to London before the Terileptils release their improved strain of black death upon the world.

The Visitation (3)
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7.33
169 votes

#9 - The Visitation (3)

Doctor Who - Season 19 - Episode 15

The Doctor makes the fugitive Terileptils a rare offer they shouldn't refuse; but, though few in numbers, they have a plan in the works for the quick and complete domination of Earth and mean to see it through.

Revelation of the Daleks (2)
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7.33
136 votes

#10 - Revelation of the Daleks (2)

Doctor Who - Season 22 - Episode 13

The planet Necros, the future. The Doctor arrives for the cryogenic interment of an old friend at Tranquil Repose, a vast repository of bodies in suspended animation. But what does the 'Great Healer' really have in mind for them...?

The Visitation (1)
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7.23
145 votes

#11 - The Visitation (1)

Doctor Who - Season 19 - Episode 13

As plague sweeps 17th century England, the Doctor discovers a more exotic threat at work - shipwrecked Terileptil convicts, intent on making the planet their own.

The Visitation (2)
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7.22
168 votes

#12 - The Visitation (2)

Doctor Who - Season 19 - Episode 14

To rescue Tegan and Adric, captured and interrogated by the Terileptil fugitive leader, the Doctor must get past the locals under alien control and overcome Death (an android servant dressed up as The Grim Reaper).

Revelation of the Daleks (1)
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7.15
108 votes

#13 - Revelation of the Daleks (1)

Doctor Who - Season 22 - Episode 12

The planet Necros, the future. The Doctor arrives for the cryogenic interrment of an old friend at Tranquil Repose, a vast repository of bodies in suspended animation. But what does the 'Great Healer' really have in mind for them...?

Attack of the Cybermen (1)
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7.02
208 votes

#14 - Attack of the Cybermen (1)

Doctor Who - Season 22 - Episode 1

London, 1985. The alien mercenary Lytton has been stranded here for nearly a year, but now he has a plan to escape. But how does it involve the Doctor's old enemies - and why are they on Earth at this point in history?