Doctor Who - Part 1

9) Amy's Choice
Episode 7, Season 5
Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith)
Companion: Amy Pond (Karen Gilliam) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill)
Plot: The Doctor, Amy, and Rory keeping moving between 2 realities. In one, it is five years into the future with Amy and Rory married and Amy is pregnant. Rory is the village doctor in their hometown of Leavenworth that has a very large elderly population. The elderly people of the village are actually aliens that can vaporize anyone with their poisoned breath. In the other reality, all three are trapped in a powerless TARDIS that is slowly traveling toward a cold star (so they are slowly freezing to death). They must choose between with world is real because if they die in the false world, they will return to the real world but they will die if the chose the wrong world.

What I Love about this Episode: I love unraveling a mystery so I was fun trying to decide which world was the real one. You get to see more interactions between Amy and Rory which is really nice. And how the whole situation gets resolved is interesting and emotional. Seeing Rory using garden tools to fend off the aliens is pretty hilarious. Plus Toby Jones!

10) School Reunion
Episode 3, Season 2
Tenth Doctor (David Tennant)
Companion: Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke)
Plot: the Doctor, Rose, and Mickey are investigating strange happening at a local school. And while checking out the school, the Doctor runs into an old companion, Sarah Jane Smith who is played by Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane was a companion of the Third and Fifth Doctors). Turns out the the school administrators are aliens in disguise who are increasing the intelligence of the students and then using them to solve the Skasis Paradigm (the theory of everything).
What I love about this episode: This episodes ties the reboot Doctor Who with the original Doctor Who is a really good way without being too over the top. And it is interesting to see what happens to a Doctor's companion after he or she stops traveling with the Doctor. There are some really funny moments, and Mickey starts becoming less of a complete idiot and more competent.

Honorable Mention: Love & Monsters (a Doctor-lite episode that focuses more on a group of people who come together because of the Doctor but all members of the group blossom in each others company, plus ELO!), Eleventh Hour (a fantastic introduction to the new Doctor as well as Amy and Rory), and all Season finales (the build up during the 2 part episodes are so good, a great mixture of adventure and emotion. And in the finale of season 4, all the of Doctor's companions/allies come back which makes it like a reunion with old friends).