Doctor Who: The 10 Best Amy Pond Episodes (According To IMDb)

Of all the companions in Doctor Who since the show’s revival in 2005, Amy Pond is definitely one of the most memorable. During her time on the TARDIS, she is the Eleventh Doctor’s best friend, confidante, and technically even his mother-in-law.

Like all companions, Amy was forced to eventually leave the Doctor. But from her debut in 2010, all the way to her heartbreaking departure in 2012, the pair shared plenty of memorable adventures. According to fans, these are the best.

10 The Time Of Angels – 8.7

The Weeping Angels are some of the scariest monsters in all of Doctor Who. After their grand debut in season three, they returned in season five’s “The Time of Angels,” alongside the Doctor’s future (at least to him) wife, River Song.

This spells a lot of trouble for Amy. When she and the Doctor answer River’s distress call and arrive on Alfava Metraxis, they encounter the Weeping Angels, whose image Amy accidentally watches in security footage. The entire episode is a masterclass on dramatic tension. The moments where Amy believes she’s frozen are terrifying and serve her first real induction to the dangers of exploring the universe with the Doctor.

9 Day Of The Moon – 8.8

The second half of season six’s premiere is dark, cinematic, and wildly innovative. In short, it’s classic Moffat-era Who. Managing to sustain the same tense atmosphere as the first half of this two-part Doctor Who episode, it sees Amy, Rory, River, and ex-FBI agent Canton Everett Delaware III join the Doctor as they try to track down the Silence.

The Silence are what makes this episode so great – not only do they look nightmarish, they’re forgotten as soon as they’re out of sight. But it’s really Amy’s palpable, unhinged fear that wraps it up in one totally terrifying package.

8 The Eleventh Hour – 8.8

“The Eleventh Hour” has big boots to fill after the Tenth Doctor’s regeneration, but ends up making a soft reboot look easy. A lot of this comes down to Amy herself. When the Doctor crash lands in her childhood garden, her younger self is full of childish, magical wonder, bouncing off the equally youthful (and equally quirky) Eleventh Doctor.

It only gets better once Amy grows up. Facing off against the Atraxi as they try to retrieve Prisoner Zero from Earth, her older self is feisty and confident in a way that’s endlessly entertaining as a foil to the Doctor. Amy’s debut is wacky and wonderful from start to finish and heralds a whole new era for Who.

7 The Impossible Astronaut – 8.9

In the season six premiere, Doctor Who hopped across the pond for a raucous adventure. Picking up on the previous season’s ominous warnings of “Silence will fall,” it introduces the Silence and depicts something nobody expected to see: the Doctor’s devasting death.

The latter happens early on, giving Amy, River, and Rory time to recoup with a 200-years-younger version of the Doctor – to whom they refuse to tell the truth. It’s a plot that can’t be encapsulated in a few sentences, with endless twists and turns. However, it’s Amy’s emotions that pack the biggest punch. Her response to her best friend’s death is devastating, as is her expression in the final scene when she realizes she’s shot not a mysterious creature, but a young girl.

6 The Doctor’s Wife – 9.0

“The Doctor’s Wife” is a different kind of episode for Doctor Who. At its heart, it’s a love story – one between the show’s most iconic duo, the Doctor and the TARDIS (in the form of Idris).

However, Amy still has a big role to play. With her and Rory held prisoner by House (the malevolent asteroid on which they’ve landed), Idris forms a psychic connection to help save them. Even the TARDIS loves the Doctor’s companions.

5 The Angels Take Manhattan – 9.0

Like every companion’s final episode, “The Angels Take Manhattan” is a real tearjerker. On what’s supposed to be an average trip to New York, Amy and the Doctor travel back to 1938 when Rory is transplanted through time by a Weeping Angel.

The ensuing entanglement with the iconic stone monster gets very “timey-wimey,” ultimately leading to a paradox that destroys the Angels. It might get a bit over-the-top once the Statue of Liberty is unveiled as an Angel, but it’s a pitch-perfect departure for both Amy and Rory. The Doctor’s pleas for her not to purposefully follow Rory back in time – where she’ll never see the Doctor again – are heartbreaking, leaving him alone once again.

4 The Pandorica Opens – 9.1

The first half of season five’s finale is completely bonkers, but it works. Summoned (again) by River Song, Amy and the Doctor visit Roman Britain, where there is a legendary prison named the Pandorica hidden beneath Stonehenge that’s rumored to contain the most dangerous creature in the universe.

Ultimately, it’s revealed as a trap. Rory – who died earlier in the season and Amy forgot – is there, his consciousness locked in an Auton. In the episode’s final moments, he kills Amy, the TARDIS explodes, and the Doctor’s greatest enemies unite to lock him in the Pandorica. It seems like there’s no coming back from this, cementing it as one of the show’s tensest, ever.

3 The Big Bang – 9.1

After a madcap first part to the season five finale, “The Big Bang” somehow ties it all up in one breathless spectacle. As the universe collapses due to the TARDIS’ explosion, the Doctor races to put it back together – ultimately rewriting it completely.

Everything revolves around Amy, who is saved by her younger self and visited by the Doctor in the last moments before he is shut out of this new universe. The climax is the Doctor being summoned to Amy and Rory’s wedding by her sheer force of will. A lot of the episode might not make much sense, but it wraps up Amy’s first season arc perfectly.

2 A Good Man Goes To War – 9.1

Pregnancy isn’t really a topic that comes up much in Doctor Who, but Amy’s was a core part of the show. Her pregnancy is in question for several episodes, until she is abducted and held by Madame Kovarian – who ultimately takes her baby, Melody, to use as a weapon against the Doctor. Meanwhile, the man in question races to save Amy with Rory.

Everything works out in the end. Sort of. Amy is saved but loses the chance to raise her baby. Then come two big twists: Melody has traces of Time Lord DNA, as she was conceived in the Time Vortex, and is actually River Song. It’s an emotional blow on so many levels. Not only is losing Melody one of the saddest things that happens to Amy in Doctor Who, it’s also one of the saddest plot twists for any Doctor Who companion.

1 Vincent And The Doctor – 9.3

“Vincent and the Doctor” doesn’t just rank as one of the fanbase’s favorite Amy episode – it’s one of its favorite episodes, ever. Unlike much of season five, it takes a simple approach to storytelling, looking at Amy and the Doctor’s efforts to catch a mysterious monster haunting painter, Vincent van Gogh.

For once, the focus isn’t really on the monster, but the episode’s human element. Amy’s relationship with Vincent is innocent and heartwarming, as is his final dedication of “Vase with Twelve Sunflowers” to her. What really cinches this episode’s position as one of the greats is the scene in which Amy and the Doctor take Vincent to see how his work is appreciated in the future.

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