Doctor Who In Detail is a guide to the long running BBC Television programme Doctor Who. The first episode was broadcast in 1963, and the programme celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2023, making Doctor Who the longest running science fiction television programme.
Fourteen actors have portrayed the role of the Doctor in the television series (excluding stand-ins) with David Tennant returning to the role as the Fourteenth Doctor in 2023. Ncuti Gatwa, the Fifteenth Doctor, recently completed his second series with a mysterious regeneration.
Shirley Bingham and Ruby Sunday
fromShirley: Yeah, but you're different from us lot. Pardon me if I don't frisk you, but you seem very non-disabled to me.
Ruby: Oh! Ha! Well, I could be taller. But, yeah.
Doctor Who shown on Tuesday, July 15,
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2006: The Christmas Invasion (repeated)The Sycorax plan to invade Earth, but the Doctor is not his usual self
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2007: The Shakespeare Code (repeated)The Doctor takes Martha for a trip into the past to meet William Shakespeare
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2008: The Fires Of Pompeii (repeated)In Pompeii, AD79, the Doctor and Donna face a moral crisis