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.
Rose and the Ninth Doctor.
fromRose: There's no signal. We're out of range. Just a bit.
The Doctor: With a bit of jiggery pokery...
Rose: Is that a techical term?
The Doctor: Yeah. I came first in jiggery pokery. How about you?
Rose: No. I failed hullabaloo.
Doctor Who shown on 11th September
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1965: Galaxy Four: Four Hundred DawnsThe Doctor finds two species have crashed on a planet that soon self-destruct
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1976: Masque Of Mandragora: Part TwoThe Mandragora Helix finds a way into the TARDIS and escapes into Italy
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2005: The Empty Child (repeated)Something is infecting people in London, 1941
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2005: The Doctor Dances (repeated)Something is infecting people in London, 1941
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2006: Dalek (repeated)A collector of alien artefacts has one living specimen...
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2007: 42 (repeated)The TARDIS materialises on a spaceship that is hurtling towards the sun
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2010: The Christmas Invasion (repeated)The Sycorax plan to invade Earth, but the Doctor is not his usual self
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2014: Robot Of Sherwood (repeated)Clara asks the Doctor to take her to see the fictional Robin Hood
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2015: Dark Water (repeated)After Danny's death the Doctor helps Clara to find him