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 8th October
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1966: The Tenth Planet: Episode 1The Cybermen launch the first of many attacks on Earth
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1977: The Invisible Enemy: Part TwoThe Doctor becomes infected with the Nucleus of a virus
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2009: Planet Of The Ood (repeated)On the Oods' home planet the Doctor and Donna find out the truth of the Ood-sphere
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2010: Fear Her (repeated)A girl breathes in a spore and gains the ability to make people disappear
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2010: Army Of Ghosts (repeated)Ghosts are appearing starting an invasion