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Thursday, February 6, 2025

A guide to Doctor Who episodes on YouTube

The following is a list of Doctor Who stories that are available to watch in their entirety on the official Doctor Who Classic YouTube channel. (We know that it's an official channel because a few of the same stories were also uploaded to the main Doctor Who channel later, using the same title wording. The videos also have a BBC icon in the corner, presumably to act as a watermark preventing unauthorized copying for resale.)

Doctor Who is a British science fiction TV series that aired from 1963 to 1989 (this era is usually referred to as "classic Doctor Who"). After a TV special in 1996, the series was revived in 2005 and has been on the air ever since. This list contains only the episodes that aired from 1963 to 1989. Back then, each story was usually segmented into half-hour episodes. Most of the stories were four episodes long, although several were six episodes, and a few were even longer than that. Each YouTube video linked below contains the entire story, with all of its individual episodes, within a single video.

If you want more information about the series, I wrote a blog post in 2015 where I listed my favorite episodes of the series as follows (listed chronologically). Note that these days I would probably replace "The End of the World" on my top 10 list with "The Five Doctors" (1983).

1.) "Spearhead from Space" (1970)

2.) "Terror of the Autons" (1971)

3.) "Robot" (1974-75)

4.) "Genesis of the Daleks" (1975)

5.) "The Seeds of Doom" (1976)

6.) "Kinda" (1982)

7.) "The End of the World" (2005)

8.) "Human Nature / Family of Blood" (2007)

9.) "Blink" (2007)

10.) "The Day of the Doctor" (2013)

I have created the list below for easy access to all of the stories that have been uploaded so far, in chronological order. Although it may be tempting to watch the series from beginning to end, I recommend that new viewers watch the more well-regarded episodes first, or perhaps start watching from a particular Doctor's era. (Whenever an actor left the role of the Doctor, the character was "regenerated" to explain his changed appearance.)

It is not necessary to start watching the series from the first episode in 1963, since some of the show's concepts didn't develop until many years later. Some modern viewers may find the older episodes to be too slow-moving and hard to watch. Personally I recommend new viewers start with "Spearhead from Space" (1970), the first story to be filmed in color. (It was also the first story to be uploaded by the channel.)

Click the story title below to watch the episode on YouTube. Click the "wiki" link next to the story title to read more information about that particular story on its Wikipedia page. A number in brackets appears after the "wiki" link; that number shows in what order the favorite stories of each Doctor were ranked in a 2023 Doctor Who Magazine survey. (Each Doctor's stories were ranked separately from each other.) So, if you just want to sample the best stories of each Doctor, just watch the highest-ranked ones. Keep in mind, however, that those rankings are subjective, and just because Doctor Who fandom judges a story to be a particular Doctor's worst story doesn't mean that you will think the same. Personally I quite enjoy a few of those lower-ranked stories!

You will notice that some of the videos below are animated, rather than live-action. These are modern attempts at reconstructing the 1960s episodes for which no video or film has survived. Thankfully the audio for all of these missing episodes was saved, and this original audio has been combined with new animation so that these episodes can be watched today. The episodes that have missing episodes are noted below. You can read more about missing Doctor Who episodes here.

This page will be updated as more videos become available on the "Doctor Who Classic" YouTube channel. The list below was last updated on July 15, 2026.

The WILLIAM HARTNELL era: 1963-1966

Season One (1963-1964):

1. "An Unearthly Child" (a.k.a. "100,00 B.C.") (wiki) [#10]

2. "The Daleks" (a.k.a "The Mutants") (wiki) [#5]

3. "The Edge of Destruction" (a.k.a. "Inside the Spaceship")(wiki) [#17]

4. "Marco Polo" (wiki) [#7] (MISSING STORY)

5. "The Keys of Marinus" (wiki) [#18]

6. "The Aztecs" (wiki) [#4]

7. "The Sensorites" (wiki) [#27]

8. "The Reign of Terror" (wiki) [#19] (MISSING ep. 4 & 5)

Season Two (1964-1965):

1. "Planet of Giants" (wiki) [#25]

2. "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" (wiki) [#1, highest ranked Hartnell story]

3. "The Rescue" (wiki) [#12]

4. "The Romans" (wiki) [#9]

5. "The Web Planet" (wiki) [#29, lowest ranked Hartnell story]

6. "The Crusade" (wiki) [#13] (MISSING ep. 2 & 4)

- Episode One (surviving episode)

- Episode Three (surviving episode)

7. "The Space Museum" (wiki) [#28]

8. "The Chase" (wiki) [#14]

9. "The Time Meddler" (wiki) [#2]

Season Three (1965-1966):

1. "Galaxy 4" (wiki) [#26] (MISSING STORY except ep. 3)

- Episode Three (surviving episode)

- Animated version (color)

- Animated version (B&W)

2. "Mission to the Unknown" (wiki) [#16] (MISSING STORY)

3. "The Myth Makers" (wiki) [#15] (MISSING STORY)

4. "The Daleks' Master Plan" (wiki) [#3] (MISSING STORY except ep. 1-3, 5 & 10)

- Episode One (surviving episode; found in 2026)

- Episode Two (surviving episode)

- Episode Three (surviving episode; found in 2026)

- Episode Five (surviving episode)

- Episode Ten (surviving episode)

5. "The Massacre" (wiki) [#11] (MISSING STORY)

6. "The Ark" (wiki) [#20]

7. "The Celestial Toymaker" (wiki) [#23] (MISSING STORY except ep. 4)

- Episode Four (surviving episode)

- Animated version (B&W, 2024)

8. "The Gunfighters" (wiki) [#21]

9. "The Savages" (wiki) [#22] (MISSING STORY)

10. "The War Machines" (wiki) [#8]

Season Four (1966-1967):

1. "The Smugglers" (wiki) [#24] (MISSING STORY)

2. "The Tenth Planet" (wiki) [#6] (MISSING ep. 4)

The PATRICK TROUGHTON era: 1966-1969

Season Four (continued):

3. "The Power of the Daleks" (wiki) [#3] (MISSING STORY)

- Animated version (color, 2016)

- Animated Special Edition version (B&W, 2020)

4. "The Highlanders" (wiki) [#16] (MISSING STORY)

5. "The Underwater Menace" (wiki) [#19] (MISSING ep. 1 & 4)

- Episode Two (surviving episode)

- Episode Three (surviving episode)

- Animated version (color)

- Animated version (B&W)

6. "The Moonbase" (wiki) [#11] (MISSING ep. 1 & 3)

7. "The Macra Terror" (wiki) [#12] (MISSING STORY)

- Animated version (color)

- Animated version (B&W)

8. "The Faceless Ones" (wiki) [#14] (MISSING STORY except ep. 1 & 3)

- Episode One (surviving episode)

- Episode Three (surviving episode)

- Animated version (color)

- Animated version (B&W)

9. "The Evil of the Daleks" (wiki) [#6] (MISSING STORY except ep. 2)

- Episode Two (surviving episode)

- Animated version (color, 2021)

- Animated version (B&W, 2021)

Season Five (1967-1968):

1. "The Tomb of the Cybermen" (wiki) [#2]

2. "The Abominable Snowmen" (wiki) [#10] (MISSING STORY except ep. 2)

- Episode Two (surviving episode)

- Animated version (color, 2022)

- Animated version (B&W, 2022)

3. "The Ice Warriors" (wiki) [#15] (MISSING ep. 2 & 3)

4. "The Enemy of the World" (wiki) [#7]

5. "The Web of Fear" (wiki) [#5] (MISSING ep. 3)

- Animated version of Episode Three (color)

6. "Fury from the Deep" (wiki) [#9] (MISSING STORY)

- Animated version (B&W)

7. "The Wheel in Space" (wiki) [#17] (MISSING STORY except ep. 3 & 6)

- Episode Three (surviving episode)

- Episode Six (surviving episode)

Season Six (1968-1969):

1. "The Dominators" (wiki) [#20]

2. "The Mind Robber" (wiki) [#8]

3. "The Invasion" (wiki) [#4] (MISSING ep. 1 & 4)

4. "The Krotons" (wiki) [#18]

5. "The Seeds of Death" (wiki) [#13]

6. "The Space Pirates" (wiki) [#21, lowest ranked Troughton story] (MISSING STORY except ep. 2)

- Episode Two (surviving episode)

7. "The War Games" (wiki) [#1, highest ranked Troughton story]

The JON PERTWEE era: 1970-1974

Season Seven (1970): (For the full season in one video, click here.)

1. "Spearhead from Space" (wiki) [#3]

2. "Doctor Who and the Silurians" (wiki) [#10]

3. "The Ambassadors of Death" (wiki) [#15]

4. "Inferno" (wiki) [#1, highest ranked Pertwee story]

Season Eight (1971):

1. "Terror of the Autons" (wiki) [#9]

2. "The Mind of Evil" (wiki) [#14]

3. "The Claws of Axos" (wiki) [#19]

4. "Colony in Space" (wiki) [#21]

5. "The Daemons" (wiki) [#4]

Season Nine (1972): (For the full season in one video, click here.)

1. "Day of the Daleks" (wiki) [#11]

2. "The Curse of Peladon" (wiki) [#12]

3. "The Sea Devils" (wiki) [#8]

4. "The Mutants" (wiki) [#22]

5. "The Time Monster" (wiki) [#24, lowest ranked Pertwee story]

Season Ten (1972-1973):

1. "The Three Doctors" (wiki) [#5]

2. "Carnival of Monsters" (wiki) [#7]

3. "Frontier in Space" (wiki) [#17]

4. "Planet of the Daleks" (wiki) [#18]

5. "The Green Death" (wiki) [#2]

Season Eleven (1973-1974):

1. "The Time Warrior" (wiki) [#6]

2. "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" (wiki) [#13]

3. "Death to the Daleks" (wiki) [#20]

4. "The Monster of Peladon" (wiki) [#23]

5. "Planet of the Spiders" (wiki) [#16]

The TOM BAKER era: 1974-1981

Season Twelve (1974-1975):

1. "Robot" (wiki) [#23]

2. "The Ark in Space" (wiki) [#9]

3. "The Sontaran Experiment" (wiki) [#27]

4. "Genesis of the Daleks" (wiki) [#2]

5. "Revenge of the Cybermen" (wiki) [#31]

Season Thirteen (1975-1976):

1. "Terror of the Zygons" (wiki) [#7]

2. "Planet of Evil" (wiki) [#24]

3. "Pyramids of Mars" (wiki) [#3]

4. "The Android Invasion" (wiki) [#28]

5. "The Brain of Morbius" (wiki) [#11]

6. "The Seeds of Doom" (wiki) [#6]

Season Fourteen (1976-1977):

1. "The Masque of Mandragora" (wiki) [#26]

2. "The Hand of Fear" (wiki) [#19]

3. "The Deadly Assassin" (wiki) [#10]

4. "The Face of Evil" (wiki) [#21]

5. "The Robots of Death" (wiki) [#4]

6. "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" (wiki) [#5]

Season Fifteen (1977-1978): (For the full season in one video, click here.)

1. "Horror of Fang Rock" (wiki) [#8]

2. "The Invisible Enemy" (wiki) [#34]

3. "Image of the Fendahl" (wiki) [#22]

4. "The Sun Makers" (wiki) [#29]

5. "Underworld" (wiki) [#41, lowest ranked Tom Baker story]

6. "The Invasion of Time" (wiki) [#36]

Season Sixteen (1978-1979):

"THE KEY TO TIME"

1. "The Ribos Operation" (wiki) [#20]

2. "The Pirate Planet" (wiki) [#17]

3. "The Stones of Blood" (wiki) [#13]

4. "The Androids of Tara" (wiki) [#18]

5. "The Power of Kroll" (wiki) [#38]

6. "The Armageddon Factor" (wiki) [#37]

Season Seventeen (1979-1980): (For the full season in one video, click here.)

1. "Destiny of the Daleks" (wiki) [#30]

2. "City of Death" (wiki) [#1, highest ranked Tom Baker story]

3. "The Creature from the Pit" (wiki) [#35]

4. "Nightmare of Eden" (wiki) [#33]

5. "The Horns of Nimon" (wiki) [#40]

6. "Shada" (unfinished) (wiki) [not ranked]

Season Eighteen (1980-1981):

1. "The Leisure Hive" (wiki) [#32]

2. "Meglos" (wiki) [#39]

3. "Full Circle" (wiki) [#25]

4. "State of Decay" (wiki) [#15]

5. "Warriors' Gate" (wiki) [#16]

6. "The Keeper of Traken" (wiki) [#14]

7. "Logopolis" (wiki) [#12]

The PETER DAVISON era: 1982-1984

Season Nineteen (1982):

1. "Castrovalva" (wiki) [#10]

2. "Four to Doomsday" (wiki) [#17]

3. "Kinda" (wiki) [#4]

4. "The Visitation" (wiki) [#7]

5. "Black Orchid" (wiki) [#13]

6. "Earthshock" (wiki) [#2]

7. "Time-Flight" (wiki) [#20, lowest ranked Davison story]

Season Twenty (1983):

1. "Arc of Infinity" (wiki) [#16]

2. "Snakedance" (wiki) [#9]

3. "Mawdryn Undead" (wiki) [#8]

4. "Terminus" (wiki) [#15]

5. "Enlightenment" (wiki) [#5]

6. "The King's Demons" (wiki) [#18]

7. "The Five Doctors" (wiki) [#3]

Season Twenty-One (1984):

1. "Warriors of the Deep" (wiki) [#19]

2. "The Awakening" (wiki) [#12]

3. "Frontios" (wiki) [#11]

4. "Resurrection of the Daleks" (wiki) [#6]

- Two-episode version (original)

- Four-episode version (worldwide)

5. "Planet of Fire" (wiki) [#14]

6. "The Caves of Androzani" (wiki) [#1, highest ranked Davison story]

The COLIN BAKER era: 1984-1986

Season Twenty-One (continued):

7. "The Twin Dilemma" (wiki) [#8, lowest ranked Colin Baker story]

Season Twenty-Two (1985): (For the full season in one video, click here.)

1. "Attack of the Cybermen" (wiki) [#6]

- Two-episode version (original)

- Four-episode version (worldwide)

2. "Vengeance on Varos" (wiki) [#2]

- Two-episode version (original)

- Four-episode version (worldwide)

3. "The Mark of the Rani" (wiki) [#5]

- Two-episode version (original)

- Four-episode version (worldwide)

4. "The Two Doctors" (wiki) [#3]

- Three-episode version (original)

- Six-episode version (worldwide)

5. "Timelash" (wiki) [#7]

- Two-episode version (original)

- Four-episode version (worldwide)

6. "Revelation of the Daleks" (wiki) [#1, highest ranked Colin Baker story]

- Two-episode version (original)

- Four-episode version (worldwide)

Season Twenty-Three (1986): (For the full season in one video, click here.)

"THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD" [#4, season rated in its entirety as one long story arc]

1. "The Mysterious Planet" (wiki)

2. "Mindwarp" (wiki)

3. "Terror of the Vervoids" (wiki)

4. "The Ultimate Foe" (wiki)

The SYLVESTER McCOY era: 1987-1989

Season Twenty-Four (1987):

1. "Time and the Rani" (wiki) [#12, lowest ranked McCoy story]

2. "Paradise Towers" (wiki) [#10]

3. "Delta and the Bannermen" (wiki) [#11]

4. "Dragonfire" (wiki) [#8]

Season Twenty-Five (1988-1989): (For the full season in one video, click here.)

1. "Remembrance of the Daleks" (wiki) [#1, highest ranked McCoy story]

2. "The Happiness Patrol" (wiki) [#7]

3. "Silver Nemesis" (wiki) [#9]

4. "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" (wiki) [#5]

Season Twenty-Six (1989):

1. "Battlefield" (wiki) [#6]

2. "Ghost Light" (wiki) [#4]

3. "The Curse of Fenric" (wiki) [#2]

4. "Survival" (wiki) [#3]

P.S.: If you notice any errors in the links above, please let me know in the comments and I will try to fix them. Thanks!

Monday, September 18, 2023

DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE issues that I DON"T have

This post is a visual checklist of the issues of DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE (including Specials) that I'm missing in my collection. (Since I live in the United States, there is a delay of a month or two usually before new issues become available here, which will be reflected in the list.)

Each issue below will contain a link to its entry at the Doctor Who Wiki, TARDIS Wiki, which is where most of the cover images were taken from, in case you want to read more information about that particular issue (since they are indexed there). Comic-strip collections are not included below, unless they are considered part of an ongoing DWM series (like DWM Special Edition); you can find a list of DWM graphic novels here and here. Certain spin-off series of less interest to me are also not included, such as Doctor Who Poster Magazine and Doctor Who Insider.

Technically I don't have the first issue of DWM -- although I used to, as can be seen in this YouTube video that I made in 2015. I later sold the issue, since I have a replica edition that was included with DWM #350 in 2004; after doing a side-by-side, page-by-page comparison, I decided to part with the original and keep the replica, since I didn't need both. In retrospect, I probably should have just kept the original, so I wouldn't need to add this caveat every time I talk about the issues of DWM that I'm missing! You can view more of my videos about Doctor Who Magazine here.

In addition to the issues that I'm missing, I could use upgrades on a few of them due to some defects, which can be found over on my website, where I mainly keep track of my DWM collection, as well as other stuff that I collect. But I will try to update this post as well, as I obtain more issues. This post was last updated on September 1, 2025.

DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE (1979 to present)

The magazine was originally published by Marvel UK and titled Doctor Who Weekly, with the comic strip being more prominent than it is now. The magazine became a monthly in 1980, and finally adopted its current series title (after minor variations of wording) in 1985. Below are shown the issues that I'm missing.

#337 (Dec. 2003) [wiki]

#359 (Aug. 2005) [wiki]

#369 (May 2006) [wiki]

#395 (May 2008) [wiki]

#416 (Jan. 2010) [wiki]

#529 (Oct. 2018) [wiki]

The cover shown here is the outside bag. The interior cover can be seen on the Wiki link.

#550 (May 2020) [wiki]

The cover shown here is the exterior bag in which the issue was contained. This issue and #551 were published during the height of the pandemic lockdowns in the U.S. and are therefore very difficult to obtain here.

#551 (June 2020) [wiki]

#578 (July 2022) [wiki]

#579 (Summer 2022) [wiki]

#580 (Aug. 2022) [wiki]

#581 (Sept. 2022) [wiki]

#584 (Dec. 2022) [wiki]

#593 (Aug. 2023) [wiki]

#594 (Sept. 2023) [wiki]

#598 (Jan. 2024) [wiki]

Released in the UK on December 7, 2023.

#604 (June 2024) [wiki]
Released in the UK on May 23, 2024.

#605 (July 2024) [wiki]
Released in the UK on June 20, 2024.

#608 (October 2024) [wiki]
Released in the UK on September 12, 2024.

#609 (November 2024) [wiki]
Released in the UK on October 10, 2024. The cover shown here is the exterior bag in which the issue (and a Target paperback novel) was contained.

#610 (December 2024) [wiki]
Released in the UK on November 7, 2024.

#613 (February 2025) [wiki]
Released in the UK on January 30, 2025.

#615 (April 2025) [wiki]
Released in the UK on March 27, 2025.

#617 (June 2025) [wiki]
Released in the UK on May 22, 2025. The cover shown here is the exterior bag in which the issue (and a Target paperback novel) was contained.

#618 (July 2025) [wiki]
Released in the UK on June 19, 2025.

#619 (August 2025) [wiki]
Released in the UK on July 17, 2025.

#620 (September 2025) [wiki]
Released in the UK on August 14, 2025.

#621 (October 2025) [wiki]
Released in the UK on September __, 2025.

DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE SPECIAL

These were seasonal specials that were released in addition to the regular monthly magazine. The series ran 28 issues, from 1980 to 1996. I'm missing 8 issues, which are shown below.

#5 (Winter 1982) [wiki]

#7 (Winter 1983/84) [wiki]

#10 (Summer 1985) [wiki]

This issue was mainly a color Doctor Who comic strip.

#15 (Nov. 1988): 25th Anniversary Special [wiki]

#19 (Summer 1992): Sarah Jane Smith [wiki]

#24 (Summer 1994): The Dalek Chronicles comic strip [wiki]

#27 (Spring 1996): The Sixties Dalek Movies [wiki]

#28 (May 1996): The Doctor Who Movie Special [wiki]

This was the last of the seasonal Marvel Specials, which were discontinued once DWM was acquired by Panini from Marvel UK.

DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE SPECIAL EDITION

Panini revived the seasonal specials with a new series in 2002, and the series is still being published today. Shown below are the issues that I'm missing.

#2 (Sept. 2002): The Complete Third Doctor [wiki]