Top Ten Stories Of Doctor Who With Religious Elements And Themes

Honorable mentions:

Televised stories: The Massacre, The Daemons, The Curse of Peladon, The Power of Kroll, City of Death, The Parting of the Ways, and The God Complex. The best of these is the City of Death written by the legend, Douglas Adams.

Untelevised story: The Masters of Luxor (written by Anthony Coburn, this story was replaced by the Daleks). This is a complex story of the relationship between faith and science, one

Cover of Holy Terror, Fair Use Intended.

which raises serious questions of the wisdom of strict positivism in action. An audio edition of this tale has been made, but I have yet to listen to it.

Audio adventures: The Holy Terror, Seasons of Fear, Faith Stealer, The Council of Nicea and Signs and Wonders.

Of the audio stories, the top of the list is the dark comedy, The Holy Terror, which gives us a classic story of the Sixth Doctor with his shape-changing companion, Frobisher, who likes to stay in the form of a penguin. It is a work of genius, and representative of the way Doctor Who can take comedy, and humorous situations, and use them as a foundation for a very serious story.

After all, we have a talking bird here. A penguin. With attitude. Sorry Ash of Evil Dead fame, it’s not hail to the king, but rather, it’s all hail the talking bird: