12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) Best to Worst Episodes
The Two-Parter stories will be only placed the first part. If the list does not specifies whether the two-parters are together means I personally prefer one over the other.
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- DirectorRachel TalalayStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanJami Reid-QuarrellTrapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone...
- DirectorRachel TalalayStarsPeter CapaldiPearl MackieMatt LucasTrapped on a giant spaceship, caught in the event horizon of a black hole, he witnesses the death of someone he is pledged to protect. Are events already out of control?World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
- DirectorDouglas MackinnonStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanSamuel AndersonWhen ghosts of past and future crowd into their lives, The Doctor and Clara are thrown into an adventure that takes them to the very end of the universe.
- DirectorHettie MacdonaldStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanMichelle GomezWhen the skies of Earth are frozen by a mysterious alien force, Clara needs her friend, the Doctor. But where is he and what is he hiding from?The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar
- DirectorPaul WilmshurstStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanSamuel AndersonOn the most beautiful train in history, speeding amongst the stars of the future, a deadly and immortal creature is stalking the passengers.
- DirectorDaniel O'HaraStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanColin McFarlaneThe Doctor and Clara find themselves on a underwater station where the crew live in fear of deadly ghosts which have taken over the station.Under the Lake/Before the Flood
- DirectorDouglas MackinnonStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanJoivan WadeA problem happens with the Tardis, trapping the Doctor inside and leaving Clara to fend for herself against a two dimensional enemy.
- DirectorCharlie PalmerStarsPeter CapaldiPearl MackieMatt LucasWhen the Doctor, Bill and Nardole become trapped on a space station without oxygen, they discover the spacesuits are trying to kill them.
- DirectorDaniel NettheimStarsPeter CapaldiPearl MackieMatt LucasThe Doctor is called by the Vatican to solve the mystery of a text called the Veritas, that when someone reads it dies soon after. But something is dwelling in the Vatican, and doesn't want the Veritas to be read.
- DirectorLawrence GoughStarsPeter CapaldiPearl MackieMatt LucasThe Doctor and Nardole team up with a university student to take down a sinister life-mimicking alien.
- DirectorRachel TalalayStarsPeter CapaldiDavid BradleyPearl MackieThe Twelfth Doctor, still refusing to change, goes on a last adventure with the First Doctor.
- DirectorPaul WilmshurstStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanNick FrostThe Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!
- DirectorJustin MolotnikovStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanMaisie WilliamsThe Doctor and Clara are called back to Earth when Rigsy discovers a strange tattoo on the back of his neck that appears to be counting down to zero. Their investigation leads them to a hidden street in the middle of London, the discovery that Rigsy has been issued a death sentence, and one of them facing the choice of having to make the ultimate sacrifice; to face the Raven!
- DirectorDouglas MackinnonStarsPeter CapaldiAlex KingstonMatt LucasWhen a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song's squad and hurled into a chase across the galaxy.
- DirectorDaniel NettheimStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanIngrid OliverZygons, a shape-shifting alien race, and humans live in peace together on earth, but a group of rogue zygons threaten the peace between humans and zygons.The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion
- DirectorRachel TalalayStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanSamuel AndersonIn the mysterious world of the Nethersphere, plans have been drawn. Old friends and old enemies manoeuvre around the Doctor, and an impossible choice is looming over him.Dark Water/Death in Heaven
- DirectorBen WheatleyStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanNeve McIntoshWhen the newly-regenerated doctor arrives in Victorian London, he finds a dinosaur rampant in the Thames and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions.
- DirectorDouglas MackinnonStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanKeeley HawesThe Doctor and Clara wake up in a room with two other people, unable to remember how they got there. As it turns out Someone known as the Architect has employed them to Break into the Universe's most secure bank.
- 2005–202246mTV-PG7.6 (4.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorDaniel NettheimStarsPeter CapaldiPearl MackieMatt LucasA 5,000-year-old pyramid appears overnight, baffling everyone including the Doctor.The Pyramid at the End of the World/Lie of the Land
- DirectorRachel TalalayStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanDonald SumpterEscaping his confession dial, the Doctor finds himself back home on Gallifrey and confronts those who have conspired against him. However, the Time Lords are unprepared for the lengths the Doctor will go to in order to save his friend.
- DirectorEdward BazalgetteStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanMaisie WilliamsEngland, 1651. A deadly highwayman known only as 'The Knightmare' plagues the dark streets of London, his fire-breathing accomplice by his side. There's something clearly more than human here, and that includes the loot as much as the outlaws. Who are these creatures, and are they enemies to be fought, or friends who might possibly save the Doctor from certain doom on the gallows?
- DirectorBill AndersonStarsPeter CapaldiPearl MackieMatt LucasThe Doctor and Bill visit London during the last of the River Thames frost fairs in February 1814. They soon discover that there is something under the ice which is causing people to disappear.
- DirectorEdward BazalgetteStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanMaisie WilliamsIn a Viking village, a girl named Ashildr is about to make a desperate mistake. The Mire are the deadliest mercenaries in the galaxy, famed for showing no mercy and Ashildr has just declared war on them. The Doctor and Clara have 12 hours to turn a peaceful village into strong fighters, ready for the deadly Mire.
- DirectorEdward BazalgetteStarsPeter CapaldiMatt LucasJustin ChatwinOne fateful night in New York City, the Doctor inadvertently causes a young boy to gain superpowers. Returning years later on the trail of the shady Harmony Shoal Institute, he finds the boy all grown up as masked superhero The Ghost.
- DirectorBen WheatleyStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanZawe AshtonThe Doctor's greatest enemy surrounds a rebel ship. To save everyone, he and Clara must choose to venture into the most dangerous place in the universe. The Doctor is forced to examine his conscience and ask if he is a good man.
- DirectorLawrence GoughStarsPeter CapaldiPearl MackieMatt LucasThe Doctor brings Bill to a future human colony, where cute EmojiBots work as willing servants and make sure everybody's happy, but if they're not happy ,they're harvested, so Bill and The Doctor better smile, or else.
- DirectorCharlie PalmerStarsPeter CapaldiPearl MackieMatt LucasA long time ago, the Roman legion of the ninth vanished into the mists of Scotland. Bill has a theory about what happened, and the Doctor has a time machine. But when they arrive in ancient Aberdeenshire, what they find is a far greater threat than any army. In a cairn, on a hillside, is a doorway leading to the end of the world.
- DirectorBill AndersonStarsPeter CapaldiPearl MackieMatt LucasBill is moving in with some friends and they've found the perfect house rented by the landlord. The wind blows, the floorboards creak and the Doctor thinks something is very wrong.
- DirectorWayne YipStarsPeter CapaldiPearl MackieMatt LucasThe Doctor, Bill and Nardole discover a tomb of the Queen of the Ice Warriors on Mars in 1881.
- DirectorPaul MurphyStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanSamuel AndersonThe terrifying Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity - but worse, and any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet.
- DirectorPaul WilmshurstStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanSamuel AndersonIn the near future, the Doctor and Clara find themselves on a space shuttle making a suicide mission to the Moon. Crash-landing on the lunar surface they find the most terrible things.
- DirectorPaul MurphyStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanTom RileyIn Sherwood Forest, the Doctor uncovers a sinister alien plot and forms an alliance with Robin Hood. With Nottingham at stake, the Doctor must decide who is real and who is fake.
- DirectorJustin MolotnikovStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanReece ShearsmithVision recovered from the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station shows how the Doctor and Clara became entangled in a rescue mission. As the footage plays out, a horrifying secret is uncovered.
- DirectorSheree FolksonStarsPeter CapaldiJenna ColemanSamuel AndersonOne morning in London, and every city and town in the world, the human race wakes up to the most surprising invasion yet: the trees have moved back in. Everywhere, in every land, a forest has grown and taken back the Earth.