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 Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday
fromDoctor: What happened to you, John?
John: I was humanely terminated on the discovery of the fatal condition, blindness.
Ruby: Blindness isn't fatal.
Doctor: You literally just said that to a dead blind guy.
Doctor Who shown on 27th August
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2006: The Impossible Planet (repeated)The Doctor and Rose visit a world that should not be able to exist
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2007: Fear Her (repeated)A girl breathes in a spore and gains the ability to make people disappear
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2008: The Parting Of The Ways (repeated)The Dalek race has been manipulating the human race in order to rebuild
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2011: Let's Kill HitlerThe Doctor's hunt for Amy's baby takes him to a confrontation in 1930's Berlin