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.
Correctomundo. A word I have never used and hopefully never will again.
Doctor Who shown on Sunday, February 22,
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1964: Marco Polo: The Roof Of The WorldCentral Asia, 1289: The Doctor gambles, and loses, the TARDIS to the Kublai Kahn
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1975: The Sontaran Experiment: Part OneA Sontaran is running experiments on the humans that have returned to Earth
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1982: The Visitation: Part ThreeThe Terileptils attempt to invade Earth by releasing the Black Death
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1983: Terminus: Part ThreeThe Universe comes close to destruction when a ship's automatic pilot nearly dumps fuel
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2000: Genesis Of The Daleks: Part Five (repeated)The Doctor is sent on a mission by the Time Lords to destroy the Daleks
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2010: Blink (repeated)Whatever you do - don't blink
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2013: Night Terrors (repeated)The Doctor helps a young boy who fears that monsters are lurking in his bedroom
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2014: The Name Of The Doctor (repeated)The Doctor is forced to visit Trenzalore... and his tomb
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2020: The Haunting Of Villa Diodati (repeated)Lake Geneva, 1816. Lord Byron and the Shelleys prepare for a night telling ghost stories, but their villa proves to have ghostly presences all its own.