Another season of Doctor Who is premiering on Disney+ in mere days—the perfect time to rewatch some of your favorite episodes of the decades-long series.
If you’re having trouble narrowing down what to revisit, however, the current Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, has some suggestions for you!
In a recent press conference that Reactor attended, he and Varada Sethu, who plays the Doctor’s companion this upcoming season, shared their favorite episodes of the series.
One of Gatwa’s favorites is an episode often recommended to those new to the Who. I’m talking, of course, about “Blink”: the tenth episode from the 2007 season, where David Tennant’s Doctor and introduces us to the Weeping Angels, statue-like beings who remain statue-like—as long as you’re watching them. When your eyes turn away, however, they rush toward you and cause death in conceptually devastating ways.
Gatwa’s other favorite is an excellent two-parter from 2006, which was Tennant’s first year as the Tenth Doctor. “I really, really love—I don’t know why, I guess it’s my religious upbringing—but I really loved when [the Doctor] faced the Devil, and the Devil took over the Ood and brainwashed the Ood,” he said. “That episode I found so brilliant, because I feel like it was the start of [past and current showrunner Russell T. Davies] incorporating fantasy. It was like a slight deviation from sci-fi… it felt like the first episode of that season that was less sci-fi and more mystical.”
The names of those two episodes are “The Impossible Planet” and “The Satan Pit.” They, along with “Blink,” are currently available for streaming on Max (Disney+ is home to Gatwa’s first season of Doctor Who, as well as the 2023 specials).
You’ll also be able to watch Sethu’s favorite episode on the streaming platform, though you’ll have to wait a few weeks. “I’m going to say an episode from our season,” she said during the press conference. “My favorite episode is the second episode—it’s set in 1950s Miami and we become animated, very briefly, so I just loved that. I loved the process of filming that, but also I love that it was a cartoon villain. It was just so much fun.”
Doctor Who premieres on Disney+ on April 12, 2025.
