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.
When I meet a regime that needs to import savage alien life forms as security guards I begin to wonder who the real criminals are!
Doctor Who shown on 14th September
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1968: The Mind Robber: Episode 1The Doctor and his companions become trapped in a land of fiction
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1987: Time And The Rani: Part TwoThe Rani hijacks the TARDIS, causing the Doctor to regenerate
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2006: The Doctor Dances (repeated)Something is infecting people in London, 1941
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2006: Boom Town (repeated)Margaret plans to leave Earth by destroying the planet
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2007: Blink (repeated)Whatever you do - don't blink
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2009: Smith And Jones (repeated)The Doctor checks into a hospital to investigate strange phenomena
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2012: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship (repeated)A spaceship, with dinosaurs on board, is on a collision course with Earth
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2013: Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS (repeated)The TARDIS is on the brink of an explosion after hit by a salvage vessel
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2014: Listen (repeated)When you are alone how do you know there isn't something listening?