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, will appear in the Christmas special later in 2024.
Graham O'Brien
fromAaron.Mate. Little thing we haven't told you. Tiny thing. So word of warning, you know that blue cabinet? That is just about to blow your mind.
Doctor Who shown on Friday, March 7,
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1964: Marco Polo: Five Hundred EyesCentral Asia, 1289: The Doctor gambles, and loses, the TARDIS to the Kublai Kahn
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1970: Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode SixCreatures have been draining power from a secret atomic research centre
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1981: Logopolis: Part TwoThe Master disturbs the balance on Logopolis starting the end of the Universe
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2014: The Time Of Angels (repeated)A ship crashes on a planet where the Weeping Angels were waiting
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2014: Flesh And Stone (repeated)A ship crashes on a planet where the Weeping Angels were waiting
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2020: The Timeless Children (repeated)The Doctor and her friends face a brutal battle across the farthest reaches of space to protect the last of the human race against the deadly Cybermen.