I Just Saw My All-Time Favorite ''Doctor Who''-Episode. What's Yours?

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Mine is "Listen" (with Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman & Samuel Anderson). And it's my favorite because of the epilogue---the monologue Coleman's "Clara" delivers to 'the boy whose bed she ends up under' (at first we think it's Anderson's "Mr. Pink," but we overhear his parents talking about how "he'll never make 'Time-Lord!' (And we remember that Clara's The Impossible Girl who stepped into a 'time-fissure' in order to be present at all the instants when The Doctor (Capaldi & dozens of others) needed someone to save him ) And that monologue summed-up the lesson of the entire series (near the bottom of the linked page): http://chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/34-4.html "Listen. This is just a dream. But very clever people can hear dreams. So, please, just listen. "I know you're afraid, but being afraid is all right. Because didn't anybody ever tell you? Fear is a superpower. Fear can make you faster and cleverer and stronger. And one day, you're going to come back to this barn. And on that day you're going to be very afraid indeed. "But that's okay. Because if you're very wise and very strong, fear doesn't have to make you cruel or cowardly. "Fear can make you kind. "It doesn't matter if there's nothing under the bed or in the dark, so long as you know it's okay to be afraid of it. "I'll show you. So, listen. If you listen to nothing else, listen to this. "You're always going to be afraid, even if you learn to hide it. Fear is like a companion. A constant companion, always there. But that's okay, because fear can bring us together. "Fear can bring you home. I'm going to leave you something, just so you'll always remember, fear makes companions of us all."