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.
Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap. If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever, put in a trap. Me!
Doctor Who shown on 23rd September
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1967: The Tomb Of The Cybermen: Episode 4An archaeological team are trying to discover why the Cybermen disappeared
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1978: The Ribos Operation: Part FourThe White Guardian selects the Doctor for a special mission - to reassemble the Key to Time
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2005: The Doctor Dances (repeated)Something is infecting people in London, 1941
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2006: The Age Of Steel (repeated)The Doctor and Rose face the terrifying Cybermen on an alternate Earth
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2009: Human Nature (repeated)Hiding from alien pursuers the TARDIS arrives on Earth, 1913; and the Doctor becomes human
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2011: The God Complex (repeated)A strange hotel where a Minotaur feeds on guests' faith