I can't vote until Kill the Moon is on the list.

Sound of Drums/Last of the Timelords for me.

From the choice offered Forest of the Night is a clear winner/loser.

What about New Earth or Runaway Bride?

Two HUGE stinkers - Piper and Tate at their VERY WORST.

Was stuck betwen Fear Her (well I didnt) , Widow/Wardrobe/Whatever, Sleep No More (sent me to sleep) and that forest one.

Also an honorable mention to the absent "the moon is an egg" episode.

The moon is an egg. Yep and that blue box is a time machine. A silly or amazing idea whatever way you look at it.

Where is Robot of Sherwood? Awful episode.

Last of the Timelords for me. Absolutely dreadful.

ITFOTN and KTM were insulting to human intelligence... but Wardrobe and the latter half of Fear Her and L&M are very cringe inducing... the line humany wumany from Wardrobe and the Olympic torch run with news commentary in Fear Her are both like a finger down the throat in verbal form......... Its one of those 5 episodes for sure.

Edit: posted without finishing by accident, never mind!

Its nice to see that, despite being the most frequently mentioned clanger of New Who, Love and Monsters isn't in any way a clear winner.

Okay, second attempt without posting accidentally halfway through...

My choice would be none of these; it would be Night Terrors. It's absolutely awful and has no redeeming qualities in my opinion. It takes all the worst qualities of thay oft-mentioned clanger Fear Her and emphasises them (annoying child alien, drab council estate setting, generic concerned parent as main guest star, no discernible villain, ultra-low stakes). It manages to be boring and seriously irritating at the same time. Amy and Rory might as well be absent for all that they add and Matt is on autopilot. I would happily never watch it again.

As for the options above:

Aliens of London deserves to be forgiven for its sins. It was only the second story produced and is still finding its tone (fat farting aliens alongside Iraq War satire). It makes mistakes that the show learnt from and should be treated with due consideration for that. Plus, World War Three was my first episode, and I'm still here, so it must have been alright...

Love and Monsters is very poor. But it isn't totally without merit - Marc Warren and Shirley Henderson are very good and I actually really like the central ideas. Jackie's scenes are fantastic. But other than that it's pretty terrible, very tedious and unnecessary, and once Peter Kay starts chewing the scenery in that ridiculous green costume the whole thing descends into a nightmarish farce that I'm rather embarrassed for. But not the very worst.

Fear Her is not the very worst either, but again, it's pretty awful. I do think that most of its faults are worse in Night Terrors, but it certainly shows those faults. The whole idea is terrible and it's so astoundingly throwaway that I struggle to care about anything in the whole episode. The resolution is utterly stupid and the cartoon abusive father come to life is a serious "what were they thinking" concept. I don't mind the Olympic torch finale with Tennant but it does serve to highlight the awful deifying of the Doctor thay plagues the new series. It's a regrettable episode indeed.

I have no particular issues with Daleks in Manhattan. It's undoubtedly less than the sum of its parts - it had the potential to be an amazing story. And HumanDalek Sec is pretty rubbish. But I like the ambition, love the theatre climax, and it has some great moments. I don't see why this story gets such a beating.

Victory of the Daleks, again, is not that bad but it's certainly ly not awful. It's unrelentingly silly of course and the Mighty Morphin Power Daleks are rightly one of the most infamous misfires in the new series' history. Churchill is a complete caricature as well. But I kind of love the silliness, I like Matt's performance and as a massive Star Wars fan I just can't help but enjoy the spitfire laser battle. It's totally ridiculous though and I'm not a big fan.

The Curse of the Black Spot is terrible. It takes an immediately dull premise (at least five years' late with the "pirates" fad of the mid-00s) and makes it worse with lazy clichés, shameless stealing from other works and some really stupid lines ("a ship's a ship" in particular). Don't like this one at all and I don't really have any positives.

I love The Rings of Akhaten. I love the design, I love the look of it, I love the music, I (for once) love Clara, and although the story is extremely thin and it's all a bit wishy-washy, the goods totally outweigh the bads for me.

In the Forest of the Night is probably the runner-up in my "worst ever episode" list. Where to start? More annoying children, no real plot, not even a whiff of a villain (what is this modern trend with having no villain? I don't like it at all). Worst of all is Clara at her most unlikeable, deciding to condemn a bunch of 12-year-olds to fiery death without asking them if they would like to take the offer of being saved instead. Jeez. There's a scene which directly tells children to refuse medication without question. Wow. And that final scene - without a shadow of a doubt the worst final scene in Doctor Who history. Appalling episode.

Sleep No More is by a million miles the worst of Series 9 and a totally failed experiment. Found-footage doesn't work in Doctor Who, at all - and especially not when they choose to wuss out of it by not really sticking to the idea. It's unbelievably boring and the sleep-in-the-eye monster is just ridiculous. It gets points for ambition and for having a good performance from Reese Shearsmith, but that's it.

The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe really isn't that bad. I love the magic of it and the music is one of Murray Gold's finest scores for Matt's era. Matt gives it his all and so does Claire Skinner. Yes, there are some terrible parts ("humany wumany" is a massive cringe moment) and not much particularly happens which is unforgivable for Doctor Who, but it's very well suited to its Christmas Day slot and I like what it was attempting to do. And the final scene is fantastic.

So a totally mixed bag of episodes. From the poll, I would choose ITFOTN but Night Terrors is definitely my personal worst.

I didnt' think End of time was too bad but the problem for me was the final 20 minutes saying goodbye to everybody. God that dragged.

Been rewatching series 9. Quite enjoyed up to the zygon inversion, even enjoyed the girl who lived/died which i wasn't so keen on 1st watch. Last night it was sleep no more. I genuinely think this is the biggest load of rubbish ever. Time and the rani, rings of akatan, the space pirates, the twin dilemma all beat it. Ordered the season 9 dvd, don't think i will ever be able to watch it again.

I can tell by the energy in the room we are going to love part 2 of sleep no more!

I don't see Love and Monsters as a proper Dr Who episode, just an hour of daft geeks and a blobby green northern thing. So its not so bad.

No matter what is thrown at me in future episodes, Fear Her will always be the biggest turd.

That could have been condensed into 1 episode and should have the first 10 mins I enjoyed then it just got into a bore.

The 2nd episode however picked up a more enjoyable pace well until the last 10 minutes where the viewer had to endure every new series companion saying goodbye.

Now from the moment Wilf leaves the doctor and he goes into the tardis a straight regeneration would be much better. Why is it these days you cant just have a actor leave it has to be a bloody 5 minute speech!

Because people these days think overly long speeches make it more emotional. I have never understood why, not being able to say goodbye just makes it that much worse.

I think it worked okay in The End of Time because it was a big goodbye to an entire cast, crew - basically the whole show in that format. It justified a big farewell.

Whereas Hell Bent took it beyond a joke, and spent the entire thing going on and on and on about how the Doctor just cannot survive without Clara. It was too much.

So in general I agree with you about not pushing the sentiment buttons, but I could forgive it for The End of Time.

I can agree with End of Time a bit, but i did feel it went on a tad too long.

With Hell Bent i agree, and what made it even worse is we honestly had the same conversations earlier in the season all combined into one episode worded slightly different.

Love and Monsters, rightly or wrongly gets slaughtered for a terrible mundane plot with a fat oaf mugging for the camera.

By that logic The lodger should also be right up there. Yet it doesn't get the same scorn despite actually being 10 thousand times worse.
At least Peter Kay's career outside Doctor Who has some merit. James Corden is just the worst and in Doctor Who didn't even bother to act.
Closing Time takes that a step further by somehow making the Cybermen armour also bigger on the inside by being able to accommodate his frame without more metal being needed.
And then his baby cried and the cybermen died. Rubbish.
Matt was also mugging it in that episode, wall to wall awful.

These need to be added to the poll immediately or it is invalid.

Not a Corden fan, then?

I love The Lodger!

(and find Closing Time quite likeable too.)

Well, it's a three horse race, then! (or should that be Turkey?) But if these *were* the worst of C21 Who (so subjective) I see 2 pretty meta, interesting and quite experimental stories that will have their acolytes and one rather average one with a cringeworthy last quarter or so. ("Not you as well, Dave?" Cheers Huw, bless him.)

None of the above but the award for'Worst Worst Doctor Who Story Thread' goes to this one for the lack of options. Baffling.

I don't get the hate for end of time. The only problem is the goodbye in part 2. The doctor should have regenerated after he came out of the chamber. The rose, jack, Martha cameos were just padding. Not perfect but no where near the worst.

Sorry, but that's a really weak analogy. Time machines don't really exist and so can be any form the creator imagines, including a 'blue box' (which is a huge simplification of what it really is anyway). The moon however is real and so fiction involving it has to have a degree of verisimilitude.

The old 'the show is about time travel which isn't real so nothing has to make sense' argument is really, really weak. There has to be a logic behind the concepts presented (which indeed there is with the TARDIS) or we are dealing with literal nonsense. I personally think the show should be aiming a little higher than nonsense.

You know, I wholeheartedly agree with you.

But, besides that, my main Doctor Who watching group is watching The Time Monster for the first time and, well, I just got your name. Good show.