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The Essential (New) Doctor Who

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Following on my Star Trek: TNG guide, here’s the best of the 2005-era Doctor Who.

  • 1×02 – The End of the World
  • 1×06 – Dalek
  • 1×07 – The Long Game
  • 1×09-10 – The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
  • 1×12-13 – Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways
  • 2×04 – The Girl in the Fireplace
  • 2×08-09 – The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit
  • 3×01 – Smith and Jones
  • 3×03 – Gridlock
  • 3×04-05 – Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
  • 3×08-09 – Human Nature/Family of Blood
  • 3×10 – Blink
  • 3×11-13 – Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords
  • 4×06 – The Doctor’s Daughter
  • 4×9-10 – Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
  • 4×08 – Midnight
  • 4×17-18 – End of Time

Starting here, the season arcs became more important. Episodes that are arc-essential but not as good are italicized.

  • 5×01 – The Eleventh Hour
  • 5x04–05 – The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
  • 5×07 – Amy’s Choice
  • 5×10 – Vincent and the Doctor
  • 5×11 – The Lodger
  • 5×12-13 – The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
  • 6×01-02 – The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
  • 6×04 – The Doctor’s Wife
  • 6x05–06 – The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People
  • 6×07 – A Good Man Goes to War
  • 6×08 – Let’s Kill Hitler
  • 6×09 – The Girl Who Waited
  • 6×11 – The God Complex
  • 6×12 – Closing Time
  • 6×13 – The Wedding of River Song
  • 7×01 – Asylum of the Daleks
  • 7×03 – A Town Called Mercy
  • 7×05 – The Angels Take Manhattan

 

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The Essential Star Trek: The Next Generation

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If you’re looking for good TV, here’s the essential Star Trek:TNG.

Note: If there’s interest, I can do short recommendations for some of the best episodes.

  • 1×06 – Where No One Has Gone Before
  • 2×03 – Elementary, Dear Data
  • 2×09 – Measure of a Man
  • 2×16 – Q Who
  • 3×03 – The Survivors
  • 3×04 – Who Watches the Watchers
  • 3×14 – A Matter of Perspective
  • 3×15 – Yesterday’s Enterprise
  • 3×26-4×02 – Best of Both Worlds + Family
  • 4×04 – Suddenly Human
  • 4×08 – Reunion
  • 4×13 – Devil’s Due
  • 4×15 – First Contact (just because aliens get hot for Riker)
  • 4×21 – The Drumhead
  • 4×25 – In Theory
  • 5×02 – Darmok
  • 5×05 – Disaster
  • 5×14 – Conundrum
  • 5×19 – The First Duty
  • 5×23 – I, Borg
  • 5×25 – The Inner Light
  • 6×05 – Schisms
  • 6×06 – True Q
  • 6×09 – The Quality of Life
  • 6×10/6×11 – Chain of Command
  • 6×15 – Tapestry
  • 6×19 – Lessons
  • 6×24 – Second Chances
  • 7×10 – Inheritance
  • 7×12 – The Pegasus
  • 7×15 – Lower Decks
  • 7×16 – Thine Own Self
  • 7×25/7×26 – All Good Things

And episodes that aren’t as good but should be watched anyway:

  • 1×09 – The Battle
  • 1×13 – Datalore
  • 1×20 – Heart of Glory
  • 2×14 – The Icarus Factor
  • 2×20 – The Emissary
  • 3×07 – The Enemy
  • 3×25 – Transfigurations
  • 4×11 – Data’s Day
  • 4×16 – Galaxy’s Child
  • 4×19 – The Nth Degree
  • 5×03 – Ensign Ro
  • 5×07/5×08 – Unification
  • 5×24 – The Next Phase
  • 6×04 – Relics
  • 7×08 – Attached
  • 7×09 – Force of Nature
  • 6×08 – A Fistful of Datas
  • 7×17 – Masks
  • 7×20 – Journey’s End
  • 7×23 – Emergence