Oh, all four of the examples I gave were definitely sensational titles designed to get good ratings. That doesn't make them any less misleading, though.

True. But my favorite does-what-it-says-on-the-tin episode has got to be Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.

The good news is that those two episodes really are the worst of Doctor Who. Once you're past them, you know that the show will never be that bad again.

Oh man, showing us the Doctor as Merlin setting the events of Battlefield in motion is like my biggest wish of Classic plots for the new show to pick back up. And you're right, Capaldi looks like he'd be an excellent Doctor for that story.

"Hoping emotions will triumph over the plot logic" sums up a lot of Russell T. Davies's work on Doctor Who, unfortunately. I generally view the attempt as a success, but I can understand the complaints of people who don't.

No worries! Definitely an easy mistake to make.

Matthew GRAHAM, not Matt Jones. Jones wrote The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit (as well as the Torchwood episode Dead Man Walking); Graham wrote Fear Her, The Rebel Flesh, and The Almost People.

The fact that Jack and River (have thus far) never shared an adventure together is a damn shame.

Don't forget Night in there as well. It was those four titles all in a row that really frustrated people, I think.

Ha! Good call on The Five Doctors.

How about a thread for most misleading titles in the show's history? I'll start:

I know the rules for when the Doctor can hop away in the TARDIS and hop back again have always been fuzzy, but I still feel like the parking fail here raises too many questions for the comedy to be worth it.

That's a great line, and the majority of the episode is pretty solid. It's really just the ten minutes or so before the end that sinks it.

The God Complex and The Eleventh Hour get my votes for best play on words in Doctor Who titles. Cold War and School Reunion are cute, too.

Maybe their society favored (eternal) life imprisonment over the death penalty? That's hardly unheard of…

Ace is a solid choice. I'd also like to see some on-screen closure between the Doctor and Susan, although I'm guessing that's never gonna happen. It might be cute to see Ian pop back up now that Clara is teaching at his old school, though there's a line in The Sarah Jane Adventures that says he and Barbara have never…

Isn't the implication in The End of Time that Martha has left UNIT and is working freelance with Mickey now? Still no reason she couldn't team up with them again, of course, or have adventures with the Doctor away from UNIT.

The Time of the Doctor is the only one of the lot that I think is a bad title in and of itself. The others — Name, Night, and Day — I think all have their merits… They just look really silly all together, especially happening all in a row like that.

He says that they burned along with the Daleks, but I always thought that was more ambiguous as to whether the Doctor was responsible for their deaths too. There certainly seems to be a shift over the first few seasons of the show from "the Doctor is the only surviving Time Lord" to "the Doctor is the reason there are…

Also under This Week in Mythos: the Beast refers to the Doctor as "the killer of his own kind." I could be wrong, but I think this is the first indication that we get that the Doctor struck against the Time Lords in the war.