Breaking Down The Doctor Who Series 10 Episode Titles

These episode titles give us some big clues about what dangers the Doctor may face in series 10 of Doctor Who.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Doctor Who series 10. Unless you have a Tardis this is the closest you can get to the future of Doctor Who. You have been warned.

Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat shared the titles for series ten in the most recent issue of Doctor Who Magazine.

Here are the episode titles and their writers:

Episode 01 “The Pilot” – Steven Moffat
Episode 02 “Smile” – Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Episode 03 “Thin Ice” – Sarah Dollard
Episode 04 “Knock Knock” – Mike Bartlett
Episode 05 “Oxygen” – Jamie Mathieson
Episode 06 “Extremis” – Steven Moffat
Episode 07 “The Pyramid at the End of the World” – Peter Harness
Episode 08 “The Lie of the Land” – Toby Whithouse
Episode 09 “The Empress of Mars” – Mark Gatiss
Episode 10 “The Eaters of Light” – Rona Munro
Episode 11 “World Enough and Time” – Steven Moffat
Episode 12 “The Doctor Falls” – Steven Moffat

It’s not just episode titles though. Moffat also gave some clues about what the episodes would be about.

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We know that “The Pilot” will be about how Bill Potts meets the Doctor and becomes as a companion. This one is of course written by Moffat himself and will set up the final season of Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat.

“Smile” is about a futuristic city with emojibots. Emojibots sound ridiculous, but once you see them… they are bloody creepy indeed. Could the Emojibots become a fan favorite Doctor Who villain?

“Thin Ice” is about the frozen river Thames. There may be something menacing living beneath the river and causing the river’s snake like bend through England.

“Knock Knock” sounds like classic Who to us. It’s all about the sounds you hear in the walls and floorboards, and what’s really causing those sounds.

Steven Moffat says that “Oxygen” is one of his favorite episodes of Doctor Who ever. It’s set on a space station in a dark economic future where you have to pay for each breath.

“Extremis” is about the Vatican’s secret library of heresy. This episode is the return of Missy, but will it also see a return of the Master? We know that Missy and the Master meet up and possibly work together at some point in this series.

Pyramids, alien invaders, the American, Chinese, and Russian armies about to attack each other, there’s a lot going on in “The Pyramids at the End of the World.”

“The Lie of the Land” is a story that mirrors the tale of Cassandra. Cassandra in greek mythology could see the future, but no one would believe what she saw. In this case, it’s Bill Potts who can see what’s going on, but no one else, even the Doctor, can see she’s right.

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“The Empress of Mars” there’s only one thing to say about this one, female ice warriors.

“Eaters of Light” is about what happened to the missing Roman legion in Scotland and a door to the end of the world.

Episode 11 is “World Enough and Time.” This time the Doctor is once again on the edge of a black hole and once again he’s trying to save someone he loves.

“The Doctor Falls” will see finally the return of the classic version of the Cybermen. This may be Capaldi’s Doctor’s last battle.