I absolutely loved “The Next Doctor”, “Closing Time”, “Last of the Time Lords” Each episode revealed a deeper sense of The Doctor’s faith in humanity.

Am I the only one that was super frustrated by not being able to clearly read "Sweatshirt" on his sweatshirt

I understand Craig’s transformation being stopped because cybermen have no emotion and Craig obviously felt emotion. But I don’t know how the others exploded. Unless the doctor did something we didn’t see.

I saw the title and I knew immediately that love and monsters would be on the list lol

To be fair they literally had NO choice with Power of Three. The actor refused to do his lines properly and refused to do his job literally as they were filming and they didn't have any time to do anything other than what they filmed

Well, Love and Monsters is a weird episode for a few good reasons. It was basically a non-main-cast episode because the main cast was filming the Christmas special of the year, so the show had to focus on other people as much as possible. Davies got inspired by combining the two concepts of "The Zeppo" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and "Lower Decks" from Star Trek. And the show was deanded to include the winner of a "Design a Doctor Who monster" (yes, that is a thing), and the winner was the 9-year-old William Grantham. Only that he envisaged it far bigger, but the production-team was never informed of that, so poor William was a bit disappointed on that end. So yea, that's just one of the episodes that will always be a point of discontent.

honestly i thought the ending of closing time was very fitting. the cybermen’s whole thing is that they remove all emotion and hate any kind of weakness, so naturally they’d be overwhelmed by an extreme emotional response. it reminds me of when yvonne was able to overcome her conversion through here extreme sense of loyalty to her responsibilities.

In my opinion - Love and Monsters features the best use of Jackie Tyler

Rory's dad Brian was actually a hoot, loved him in the couple episodes he was in especially the one with the dinosaurs queen Nefertiti and the Silurian ship. One of the better comedic actors to pop up over the years. Like so many others who are attached to a current companions family or some such when a new Doctor appears we lose those excellent characters who added a lot to the show.

The Abzorbaloff was literally designed by a child who won a contest and it really shows, definitely one of the worst villains in Who history. And yes that paving slab joke was just weird and gross

Does anyone realise love and monsters was a episode where the monster was created by a kid who won a Blue Peter competition? Like I never hear anyone mention this part of the episode

after spending 2 hours convincing us Gangers were people, the very last thing the Doctor does is . . . . murder Amy's ganger

There are some very enjoyable parts of love & monsters; especially the part where Elton witnesses the Thru the door chase scene with Rose, the Doctor & some alien baddie that ends with the Doctor popping back out & saying’ do I know you?’ & Elton bails at high speed….😆

"The Power of Three" is one of those episodes where the "Threat" would have worked better had it actually been a miscommunication or misunderstanding of sorts. The Doctor thinks it's a threat but they discover the cubes were actually some alien race crying out for help, like messages in a bottle. Then the episode requires less clean up at the end of the episode and you can get away with the Doctor fixing it quickly, while not undoing the mystery of the cubes, and it still allows the episode to have it's final exploration and impact of Amy and Rory having to pick between their home and TARDIS lives, while having their last adventures with the Doctor.

Everything ends. But my popcorn machine isn't everything!

Doctor once said "there are no god in the universe i checked" mh a few seasons later 2 evil gods that can do everything

Ironic an episode called resolution is let down by its... resolution.

I often find the same problem with novels. The author creates an amazing story that is so intricate that there is no possible outcome. The ending is therefore just a wet blanket. It's most annoying but is probably due to authors making up the story as they go along. It's very easy to build up tension but not so easy to find a logical finale.

I thought the downright wrong paving stone sex joke was a redeeming point of the episode. Then again I have a warped sense of humor.

Love & Monsters - the monster was designed by a kid as a "send in challenge" so that is a positive thing about that episode.

Love and Monsters...the only good thing is Rose scolding Elton :D Rose: "You upset my mum." Elton: "There's a big fat human absorbing alien and your shouting at me?" Rose: "No one upsets my mum"

Oh, just for a moment I thought I'd see someone agree with me. I absolutely agree that Love and Monsters had the worst ending. But the rest of it I really enjoy. That said, the one episode notably missing is the moon one, whatever it was called. High tension, high drama, again impossible situation to resolve - so the space dragon lays an egg of exactly the same size in exactly the same position with exactly the same crater patterns.

My main problem with the "closing time" ending is that... Every other person converted just didn't have strong emotions or something?

Everybody after The Almost People : "Are we the baddies?"

Timelash. It just ends with the Doctor and Perri flying away in the TARDIS after the doctor fixes the thing and Perri asks the Doctor how he did it. To which the Doctor just turns to her and says, "Oh, it's a neat little trick. I'll tell you about it someday." And then... cut to closing credits.

I'd put the episode about the moon being an egg right at the top. Maybe it was so bad you forgot it?

the biggest problem with Power of Three is that the sonic solved the plot the sonic becomes too much like a solve all instead of a tool like The Doctor should have done something else

Well, as Mark Kermode said, they just had a punch-up, reversed the polarities of the neutron flow, and everything was Bob's your uncle!

Live and monsters: absorbalof was inspired by a kids design, that’s positive! Made a list of outside influences in doctor who designs!

nuh-uh. you cannot calle the doctor "space jesus" when young Obi-Wan exists

I agree the psychic regeneration wasn't great but I didn't mind because right after we had the final interaction between the doctor and the master

Where is Rich We loved him we miss him ???

Still waiting on a list of the Doctor's Best Speeches. It's such an iconic part of his character

Finally convinced my dad to give doctor who a try back when 10 was on tv. And the first episode he saw was love and monsters.

Almost People felt like an origin story for the Nestene.

Love & Monsters wasn't ruined by the ending. It was ruined by Peter Kay's character existing.

My problem with 7:21 is physically walking around the Earth. One straight line (24,901 miles according to Google) would be 4.25 mph for 16 hours a day for 365 days. That's a quick walk, WITHOUT spending time to talk to everyone you meet, gaining their trust, and giving them the instructions.

Could you do a list on the top episodes without the doctor because even if it is not many I would like to see them explained?

I feel like the Resolution Dalek was killed off with the right amount of power...they tossed him into a collapsing sun.

As someone who's at the end of season 2 i wish there was a list in the description so I only see the part of the video that wont have spoilers

Ah yes! PLEASE do a music episode!!!! Murray Gold is AMAZING!

The worst thing about the lame ending of Last of the Time Lords is that we KNEW It would end that way. RTD era Who never dealt with consequences, so anyone paying attention knew that the more irreversible the development, the more RTD would backpedal, or else ignore the implications. That and the fact that all his finales were the same.

Oh I just loved the James C episodes. They work well together and James' is such a natural.

*Here's my Timeless Child theory:* After John Simm's Master lasers Missy with the full blast of his laser screwdriver in "The Doctor Falls," Missy regenerates anyway into Sacha Duan's Master. He somehow then makes his way to Gallifrey when the Timelords Reveal that he is the Timeless Child, causing him to go insane realizing that he would never die and have a limitless regeneration supply, which explains his insanity during his return in Spyfall. Later in Season 12, the Master's insanity increases, leading him back to Gallifrey where he uses The Moment, determined to discover any survivors. (If any did survive, he would not be the only Timeless Child and therefore not alone, but Gallifrey falls.) This is how the Master could destroy Gallifrey in "one night." Furthermore, if my theory is true, Ruth must also be an incarnation of the Master and therefore could be the true reason as to why the Judoon were pursuing her, meaning that there should be a big reveal that she is another incarnation. Because of her sanity, it would make the most sense for her to be the incarnation right before Derek Jacobi's Master. A good plot of the Season 13 finale would be Ruth's reveal, the Doctor discovering the true story of the Timeless Child, and a final conclusion between the Masters' two incarnations. Because Sacha Duan's Master still desperately wants to die, the Doctor, after her and the Master's arcs are completed and they have sympathy for each other, somehow gives the Master the ability to die. However, Ruth's Mistress doesn't understand the Master's arc yet just like how John Simm's Master didn't understand Missy's perspective in "The Doctor Falls" when she stabbed him. Ruth therefore tries to prevent the Master from killing himself by locking him in the Matrix. Eventually, after battling his previous incarnation along with saving the Doctor and her companions from Ruth for an interval of the finale, Sacha Duan's Master begins to realize that he's turning good; He's saving people like the Doctor's companions that didn't need to be saved in order to get him what he wanted. By the end of the episode, the Master tells Ruth that he will live through his last incarnation (because he now has the ability to die) and help people like the Doctor instead of continuing to be a bad person. Unfortunately, Ruth still hasn't turned and decides it's better for the Master to die than to stand with the Doctor, so she blasts him with her laser screwdriver (Which wasn't revealed that she had one until this moment), taking everyone by surprise as the Master slowly lies down and rests. The Doctor is pushed to the edge; She uses [some weapon that has a reason to be present] to kill Ruth's Mistress, following even more shock from her companions and everybody who previously acknowledged her hate for violence. The Doctor then seals Ruth's identity in the pocket watch once she regenerates into Derek Jacobi's Master which is then later opened during Season 3, allowing the Master to continue his tasks and then jumps back in the tardis with Yaz and her other companion/companions. Horrified by her decision, Yaz and the others leave the TARDIS fam in a peaceful and farewell manner, leaving the 13th Doctor to go on her last New Year Special episode journey alone. This is a perfect setup. Please share this idea to as many people as you can, no need to give credit, just so this plot shines out among the Doctor Who Community. Thank you for taking your time to read this and have a nice day!

Closing times ending was short because well a longtime has passed and of course he becomes popular and the cyber man had to cut off their emotions or they would go insane. Another Cyberman having emotions and the crying makes the Cyberman remember their conversion because of all the emotion short circuits them and they blow up. Without Cyberman to pilot the ship it explodes as a backup measure to kill the one who blew them up. This is what I got from the ending. I kinda tuned out so sorry if some stuff is wrong. A better ending for the almost people would be the monster chasing them and getting the doctor. The doctor switched shoes with the ganger but we don’t know that so we think he is dead. Amy stops and cries over the doctor. Rory stares at the doctors dead body body and grabs Amy and tell her to leave. The monster stares at the doctors dead body and doesn’t know if it’s a ganger or not. It stares at the body and questions if it’s doing the right thing. The doctor comes in and announces that he is the real doctor and that was the ganger. The monster stops as it realises what it’s doing and everyone realises the building is about to explode so they start running. As they run acid leaks and one of the gangers gets trapped on the other side. The monster now back to being Jenny sacrifices herself to save the ganger and everyone get back to the tardiness and then the rest of the regular ending happens. This I think would be a better ending. If you think otherwise I would love to hear your thoughts.

What did you think of the ending of the 11th Doctor graphic novel "Assimilation 2"?

the cybermen have always been defeated by emotion... almost literally every time.

The one that always sticks in my mind is "Terror of the Autons" - never understood why the scriptwriters couldn't have come up with a better ending.

In the Almost People, I was trying to keep track of which Doctor was the clone. They made a mistake and put the wrong Doctor in one scene. It's been years since I have seen that episode, but if I remember right, he had his sonic screwdriver the wrong hand.

How about the opposite now, episodes that was better because of the ending

Does anyone know the thought and reasoning (or lack of) for the Love and Monsters ending?

As soon as I saw the title of the episode I thought of Last of the Time Lords😂 I disagree with you on Closing Time though, I thought that was a really good ending and actually my favourite bit of the episode.

Half expected dinosaurs on a space ship to take number one 😂

Love and Monsters; All the Doctor Who episodes that end with a happy ending.

Nitpicking. In case you haven't watch Doctor Who for a long time those sudden solutions are the result of the Doctor's (and Time lords in general) super power. In fact some books describe this plot shield as a power of all Time Lords. As Time Lords are by their nature space time events their mere appearance in a time-zone warps reality in subtle undetectable ways that work to their advantage. A self destruct button may appear in a control panel, enemies will be compelled to listen to the Time Lord instead of just shooting the individual on sight, a bullet may miss or hit in an area that will allow regeneration or a sudden distraction will allow the Time Lord to escape before the weapon is fired. Not to mention that The Doctor ( and probably all Time Lords) have massively faster than light body reactions and thought speed. So even 30 seconds in a room the Doctor already has a plan A, B, C D...and so on. About the Eternals...The Doctor is no joke. The 7th Doctor turned an eternal into a mortal. An angry Doctor can take almost anything in fiction.

Great video, it also shows how great 9th (Eccleston) and 12th (Capaldi) doctor episodes are as there's no 9th or 12th doctor episodes on this list ruined by their endings.

The ganger episode is one of my favourites but it started to go downhill a lot when the ganger Jenny was basically acting like a spoiled brat. Also they spend at least couple of minutes in the tunnel where the ganger character is supposebly breaking through. It literally seems like it's given up until the goodbyes are said like "oh they saying heartfelt stuff, don't want to be interrupting that".

totally agree with you! some other episodes I would mention ended rather poorly for me are... 1. The Timeless Children (Season 12) 2. PRAXEUS (Season 12) 3. Orphan 55 (Season 12) 4. The Battle for Ranskor Av Kolos (Season 11) 5. (trigger warning on this one) The Doctor Falls (Season 10) (I really love the episode it's one of my favorites, but we didn't need to have that ridiculous "The Pilot" deus ex machina in the middle of a rather emotional punch in the gut) 6. Knock, Knock. (Season 10) 7. The Witch's Familiar (Season 9, remember the death by Dalek goop?) 8. Kill the Moon (Season 8, would've been better if a giant chicken came out of the moon than... whatever the heck that was) 9. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (Season 7, you know the one where the Doctor plan flat murdered a guy!) 10. The God Complex (Season 6, a brilliant episode that has to end on a Star Trek holodeck... seriously?!) there's loads more but I probably don't have the space. anyways, there's my top ten (I haven't seen the first 4 seasons in a long time and I've forgotten some of the episodes.

comming back the craig, it's actually not the first time that love over came the cybermen. in the season 2 finale. Evon Hartman, the head of torchwood, is coverted into a cyberman and then due to her love for queen and country, breaks through this programming, gets a pete's world gun and uses it to hold off the entire cyberman army

My bug-bear bad ending will forever be "Listen". Such a good premise that builds and builds, and... then in the end we dont just turn away from the entire premise of the creature that we've been building up, but it turns into a sentimental drama fest? Dont mind it on its own but we hade a really great scary episode going that I personally wanted to see the end of(!).

I think the idiots lantern should have been on here. It had a dreadful ending

I like how Sean (or Shaun) is wearing a sweatshirt with its’ definition on it.

Not at all different from that one Dalek from the beginning of RTD because it ended up stopped via esoteric means before making its way out of the building. That Dalek demonstrated itself to be just as capable of doing literally that, they just didn't waste a ton of money having it fight a progressively bigger and scarier materiel it would obviously no-sell.

Love and Monsters. One of my favorite all time Who scenes is the Doctor and Rose chasing the monster of the week in the ware house at the beginning of the episode. Thats classic! The rest of the episode should never have been made. Just terrible. Terrible ending.

For me, none of these episodes even come close to the infuriating ending of Series 7 episode 'Hide'; it has a genuinely scary premise and atmosphere, not to mention having all the ingredients of a great horror movie, until that controversial 'twist' that is akin to 'turning Freddy Kruger into a sympathetic and misunderstood victim of circumstances' ("This isn't a ghost story, it's a LOVE story!" 😖). Although I've grown softer to the ending on my second watch, it still feels like a BIG missed opportunity to utilize the show's horror elements to its full potential.

In spite of the fat suit and slab joke, Love and Monsters is one of my favorites!

I would love so see a sonic screwdriver episode. How does the sonic screwdriver differ between each doctor with ability and looks? When did the sonic screwdriver go from a tool to a thing that fixed everything regardless of whether or not it makes sense?

You should have added that scene where the Doctor just dismissed Graham's fears of his cancer returning.

I definitely think the ending to The Haunting of Villa Diodati was incredibly disappointing since that whole “character is told to not do something no matter what and immediately does that thing afterwards” trope is so over used. It would’ve been so much better if the Doctor refused to give the “Cyberman” the orb thing and they had to duke it out. And the follow up was just as disappointing since it was the standard usual “this is the last of humanity and now we get to watch them die off one by one against insanely hopeless odds” and the other standard usual “behold this new unkillable and basically god like enemy that literally won’t die no matter what- oh look they’re all dead now” bullshit. The writing is way too predictable and leads to boring stories.

Does anyone have an idea for a better ending for can you head me?

I loved the next doctor episode... but yes, I would have loved it more if that dude had actually become the next doctor. He was so good! :D

I really expected the moon hatching... oh well. As always, thank you so very much for the video.

I think The Return of Doctor Mysterio was a let down, not just the ending but all of it. It didn't have enough super hero in it and cheap copy of superman, and found it was too predictable, also stupid on the love part. I mean the women knew the guy for years then suddenly she fall for him?

I completely agree with the black cubes one. It started off so cool and sinister and then...

4:11 Hey he may be badass physically but he looks stupid, he looks like that cylinder bin you have in the corner of the room that you have left a bag of garbage or clothes placed on top and then you put the head of a Dalek on top of it and called it a day.

The whole "Key to Time" season arc with Tom Baker, the first season arc ever in Doctor Who. He spends all season hunting the key only to throw it away at the end.

the Last of the Time lords I called theTinkkerbell regeneration..."Clap if you want the Doctor to live"

How many people are gonna tag 5:09 and make a reference to some episode that was like that?

This channel must really like Love and Monsters they often featured it in their videos..lol

You forgot Orphan 55 which was a fine episode that ended in a ridiculous speech.

Isn't it nice that no classic stories had terrible endings apparently *cough* Time and the Rani.

Love saves the day is such a trite plot device anymore. I was just rewatching "Victory of the Daleks" and once again, love saves the world by somehow convincing a walking bomb that he's not a bomb because he remembers having a crush on somebody once.

If you did the best music of Who I nominate "The Eleventh Hour" fantastic intro of the Doctor

As someone who hates James Corden, the power of love ending works

That's why Marc Warren looked familiar: he portrayed Albert Blithe in Band of Brothers.

What I'll never understand about DW is why some episodes look terrific. Good CGI, set pieces and practical effects and some just look thrown together and cheap. Like children built the set. Like it or not this show is a British iconic institution and a lucrative export. People love it.. The writing and acting is usually good so..spend the money. Game of Thrones spent 92 million per episode and made more than double on each . Whoever controls the money please give it to the production team.

I think you’re saying “‘New Who’ needs better writers & then it’ll be a good show”.

how is the Orphan episode not on here... Not to mention timeless child

I think that closing time wasn’t that bad like you know it makes sense because they haven’t felt emotion in forever and they are all connected in a hive mind so One breaks free with emotion then all other cyber men are gona feel it too they never felt it so it broke them

Marie-Clare Gauthey's watch of Classic has just passed City of Death, Tom Baker era. It has an utterly rubbish anticlimctic ending. A villain who exists in 12 time solinters and wants to wipe the whole history of Earth life to reset time before an ancient spaceship crash, and who has been doing funny things with duplicate Mona lisas and a fast-ageing machine, a very tangled multu-thread story. The ending goes back to the start of life on Earth, infuriating many viewers by scientifically wrongly calling that only 400 million ya when it shoud be 4 billion! and he is defeated by - a single punch! Someone who he had not expected to pursue him back to this time takes him by surprise during his confrintation with the Doctor, + conveniently floors him with 1 punch, shortly before his presence in that time zone expires. End of. It's ridiculous. Yet because of a strike in the rival TV channel when it aired, itts said to be the highest ratings episode there ever was, undeservedly.

Love and Monsters...it was like Rassilon's immortality chamber had been built into Peter Kay's stomach...yuck!

I appreciate someone mentioning how creepy the Design is for the ganger monster

'Nope' *cuts to Absorbaloff*

I had several question marks and red flags springing up when the Doctor spoke to Graham that way, and there was no point to the episode Can you Hear Me? But I did enjoy the Master's first appearance in the NuWho series. But I would have preferred for him to escape in a TARDIS instead of being shot. Just out of interest, Sean, how come the last episode of the Flux arc isn't on this list? In that episode we didn't discover what happened to the universe after the Flux; how much of the universe was saved? Was the whole thing reversed by going back through time? What about the watch?

The Timeless Children. In all honesty, I thought the first half-or-so was a strong continuation of the brilliant Ascension of the Cybermen, but that ending... Woof, that ending...

Why is it that whenever Whoculture does a negative top 10 they always go for New Who?

The opening related to me 😂 Just when you thought college would be great then you find out it's terrible I was like that with college 😂 hated it

The Timeless Children

And not a single mention of Kill the Moon, In The Forest of the Night, or Orphan 55, all of which managed to jump the shark in their last minutes. And that's just going with New Who! You really need to find a better writer, guys, because I can think of a dozen Who stories with worse endings than this list without even trying.

You won't die alone on that hill, Sean, I'm there with you. I've hated the ending of "Dalek" since its original broadcast. It was just over-the-top melodrama.