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.
Mike Gabbastone and the Fifteenth Doctor
fromMike: Look, that's 100,000 people. Frozen and suspended in space. To reach them, and catch them, and revive every single one of them... You'd need to be some sort of insane genius.
The Doctor. Hello. I'm the Doctor.
Doctor Who shown on Sunday, March 15,
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1969: The Space Pirates: Episode 2Space pirates have been destroying navigation beacons on the search for agonite
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1975: Genesis Of The Daleks: Part TwoThe Doctor is sent on a mission by the Time Lords to destroy the Daleks
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1983: The King's Demons: Part OneThe Master plans to alter the course of history by preventing the Magna Carta from being signed
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1984: The Caves Of Androzani: Part ThreeThe TARDIS arrives in the middle of a battle between a military force and rebels
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2010: Forest Of The Dead (repeated)Having an irrational fear of the dark may be rational
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2013: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship (repeated)A spaceship, with dinosaurs on board, is on a collision course with Earth
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2014: Cold Blood (repeated)A drilling project unearths more than the organisers expected