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.
Tegan and the First Doctor (played by Richard Hurndall)
fromTegan: And who might you be?
First Doctor: I might be any number of things, young lady. As it happens I am the Doctor. The original, you might say.
Doctor Who shown on 31st August
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1968: The Dominators: Episode 4The Dominators plan to turn a planet into a radioactive wasteland to power their fleet
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1978: The Sun Makers: Part Four (repeated)The Usurians have enslaved the human colony on the planet of Pluto
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1983: Black Orchid: Part One (repeated)The Doctor is expected at a cricket game, and Nyssa is the subject of mistaken identity
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2006: Doomsday (repeated)Ghosts are appearing starting an invasion
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2007: Smith And Jones (repeated)The Doctor checks into a hospital to investigate strange phenomena
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2012: The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe (repeated)A family escape warn-torn London for Christmas in Dorset, and meets a strange caretaker
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2013: The Bells Of Saint John (repeated)Something is harvesting human souls through the Wi-Fi and storing them in the cloud
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2014: Into The Dalek (repeated)The Doctor and Clara go inside a Dalek to see what makes it good