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.
Ruby Sunday and Jocelyn Sancerre
fromRuby: Hang on, so the planet below down below who refused to stop the babies being born... But once they're born then don't look after them?
Jocelyn: It's a very strange planet.
Ruby: It's not that strange.
Doctor Who shown on Thursday, June 19,
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1965: The Chase: The Death Of Doctor WhoThe Doctor tries to outrun a group of Daleks who are pursuing in their own time machine
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2005: The Parting Of The Ways (repeated)The Dalek race has been manipulating the human race in order to rebuild
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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: Silence In The Library (repeated)Having an irrational fear of the dark may be rational
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2010: The Pandorica OpensThe TARDIS exploding causes the end of, and the start of, the Universe
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2010: The Pandorica OpensThe TARDIS exploding causes the end of, and the start of, the Universe