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, will appear in the Christmas special later in 2024.
Tenth Doctor and Rose.
fromRose: No, you're not keeping the horse.
The Doctor: I let you keep Mickey.
Doctor Who shown on Wednesday, November 20,
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1965: The Daleks' Masterplan: Day Of ArmageddonThe TARDIS materialises on the planet Kembel several months after the death of Marc Cory
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1976: The Deadly Assassin: Part FourThe Doctor returns to Gallifrey to prevent the President's assassination... and becomes the accused
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1992: The Dæmons: Episode One (repeated)The Master summons a daemon, Azal, in the hope of receiving Azal's powers
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2007: The Christmas Invasion (repeated)The Sycorax plan to invade Earth, but the Doctor is not his usual self
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2015: Sleep No More (repeated)Experiments into sleep result in a new life form ready to consume humans
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2021: Once, Upon Time (repeated)'Time is beginning to run wild.' On a planet that shouldn't exist, in the aftermath of apocalypse, the Doctor, Dan, Yaz, and Vinder, face a battle to survive.