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 Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
fromRuby: I keep wondering how the world survives without him.
Kate: Well, that's classified. I think I can say, skin of our teeth.
Doctor Who shown on 20th August
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2006: Tooth And Claw (repeated)Scotland, 1879: The Doctor must protect Queen Victoria from a werewolf
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2007: The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit: The Impossible Plant (repeated)The Doctor and Rose visit a world that should not be able to exist
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2008: The Empty Child (repeated)Something is infecting people in London, 1941
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2009: The Runaway Bride (repeated)A woman in her wedding dress mysteriously appears on board the TARDIS
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2011: The Rebel Flesh (repeated)At an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war