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.
The Eighth Doctor and Doctor Grace Holloway.
fromThe Doctor: Come with me.
Grace: You come with me.
The Doctor: Me come with you?
Grace: Yes.
The Doctor: Me come with you? ... It's tempting.
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1974: Invasion Of The Dinosaurs: Part SixOn returning to twentieth century Earth the Doctor and Sarah find that London is deserted
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1982: The Visitation: Part TwoThe Terileptils attempt to invade Earth by releasing the Black Death
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1983: Terminus: Part TwoThe Universe comes close to destruction when a ship's automatic pilot nearly dumps fuel
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1985: The Two Doctors: Part OneWhen something happens to the Second Doctor the Sixth Doctor travels to Spain to help
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2007: School Reunion (repeated)The Doctor is reunited with old friends Sarah Jane Smith and K9
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2007: The Girl In The Fireplace (repeated)A spaceship from the 51st century is stalking a girl from the 18th
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2010: 42 (repeated)The TARDIS materialises on a spaceship that is hurtling towards the sun
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2013: Let's Kill Hitler (repeated)The Doctor's hunt for Amy's baby takes him to a confrontation in 1930's Berlin
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2020: The Haunting Of Villa DiodatiLake Geneva, 1816. Lord Byron and the Shelleys prepare for a night telling ghost stories, but their villa proves to have ghostly presences all its own.