In the "Doctor Who Magazine" season poll for 1988, "Remembrance of the Daleks" was voted as the best story of season twenty-five with 64% of the vote, 46% ahead of runner-up "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy". Ten years later, the magazine conducted a poll of readers to find the most popular "Doctor Who" stories of all time for the programme's 35th anniversary; "Remembrance of the Daleks" was voted in 6th position. In 2003, the magazine conducted a similar poll for the programme's 40th anniversary – this time, "Remembrance of the Daleks" finished in 7th place. "Remembrance of the Daleks" was placed in 14th position in the magazine's "Mighty 200" reader survey in 2009, which ranked all of the 200 "Doctor Who" stories made up to that point in order of preference. In the magazine's "Doctor Who" 50th anniversary poll, the results of which were released in 2014, readers placed "Remembrance of the Daleks" in 10th position.