Doctor Who Story Titles (No "The")

Simply name all the Doctor Who story titles that don't contain the word "the"!
This quiz uses the official BBC DVD/CD releases' titles.
2005— multi-episode stories are considered as one entity - as listed on the TARDIS Wiki page (so be careful for Series 9 and 10!).
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Last updated: December 2, 2023
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Year
Answer
1963
An Unearthly Child
1964
Marco Polo
1964
Planet of Giants
1965
Galaxy 4
1970
Spearhead from Space
1970
Inferno
1971
Colony in Space
1973
Carnival of Monsters
1973
Frontier in Space
1974
Robot
1975
Planet of Evil
1975
Pyramids of Mars
1977
Horror of Fang Rock
1978
Underworld
1979
City of Death
1979
Nightmare of Eden
1980
Meglos
1980
Full Circle
1980
State of Decay
1981
Warriors' Gate
1981
Logopolis
1982
Castrovalva
1982
Four to Doomsday
1982
Kinda
1982
Black Orchid
1982
Earthshock
1982
Time-Flight
1983
Arc of Infinity
1983
Snakedance
1983
Mawdryn Undead
1983
Terminus
1983
Enlightenment
1984
Frontios
1984
Planet of Fire
1985
Vengeance on Varos
1985
Timelash
1987
Paradise Towers
1987
Dragonfire
1988
Silver Nemesis
1989
Battlefield
1989
Ghost Light
1989
Survival
1996
Doctor Who
2005
Rose
2005
Aliens of London/World War Three
2005
Dalek
2005
Father's Day
2005
Boom Town
2006
New Earth
2006
Tooth and Claw
2006
School Reunion
2006
Love & Monsters
2006
Fear Her
2006
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
2007
Smith and Jones
2007
Gridlock
2007
42
2007
Blink
2008
Partners in Crime
2008
Midnight
2008
Turn left
2010
Amy's Choice
2010
A Christmas Carol
2011
A Good Man Goes to War
2011
Let's Kill Hitler
2011
Night Terrors
2011
Closing Time
2012
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
2012
A Town Called Mercy
2013
Cold War
2013
Hide
2013
Nightmare in Silver
2014
Deep Breath
2014
Robot of Sherwood
2014
Listen
2014
Time Heist
2014
Flatline
2014
Dark Water/Death in Heaven
2014
Last Christmas
2015
Sleep No More
2015
Heaven Sent
2015
Hell Bent
2017
Smile
2017
Thin Ice
2017
Knock Knock
2017
Oxygen
2017
Extremis
2017
Empress of Mars
2017
Twice upon a Time
2018
Rosa
2018
Kerblam!
2018
It Takes You away
2019
Resolution
2020
Spyfall
2020
Orphan 55
2020
Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
2020
Praxeus
2020
Can You Hear Me?
2021
Flux
2023
Wild Blue Yonder
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Level 62
Dec 2, 2023
A few small oddities:

The Series 3 finale is three episodes long, so the first part qualifying for this list is undone by the other two not.

Shada is not included because the logical best fit (between CYHM and Flux, when it was finally completed) would get complaints at being "out-of-sequence".

The quiz will always be up-to-date by *announcements*, so may occasionally contain spoilers for future episode titles.

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Level 84
Mar 16, 2022
Not even a pre-answered Shada?
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Level 62
Mar 16, 2022
I did consider putting Shada, but which year should I assign it? 1980 (when it would’ve been shown)? 1992 (the VHS release)? 2017 (the omnibus animation I’ll never watch)? 2021 (the BD “definitive version”)? 🤷‍♂️
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Level 67
Mar 16, 2022
It's not a hot take really it wasn't broadcast so it doesn't need to be included.
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Level 62
Mar 16, 2022
Actually, it isn’t. UK DVD releases do not include a story number; that’s just the US one.

Also, the official line is that Planet of the Dead is the 200th story, which is not possible if Shada is counted as the 109th (which it would be if it had been shown originally).

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Level 62
Mar 16, 2022
It’s just a shame this couldn’t have been spotlit in two days’ time as a birthday present for me! 🎉🥳
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Level 84
Mar 17, 2022
Extremis is listed as Story #270 with no letter, while The Pyramid at the End of the World is 271. That makes it a standalone episode, as opposed to Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways (166a and 166b) or World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls (275a and 275b).

Turn Left, Twice Upon a Time, and It Takes You Away should be capitalized. Those are the official spellings.

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Level 62
Mar 17, 2022
I did try and update the quiz for Extremis before spotlighting it, but it hasn’t gone through the JP system yet, unfortunately.

(The others won’t be changed, though, both because they don’t interfere with the answers, and also because the way they are is proper Title Case [and how can you tell how they “should be” capitalised when it’s written in block capitals in the title sequence?].)

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Level 62
Mar 17, 2022
And it’s been fixed! All done!
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Level 42
Apr 29, 2022
the ordering of empress of mars and twice upon a time need to be changed
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Level 62
May 7, 2022
That update (plus a few other little ones I noticed at the same time) has just been submitted for approval. 👍 Thanks for the help!