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.
Well, I wonder what caused this. This is huge! Well, not literally huge. Slightly smaller than usual. Which is huge.
Doctor Who shown on 19th August
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2005: World War Three (repeated)London, 2005: The Slitheen family plan to make Earth radioactive, and then sell it
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2006: New Earth (repeated)The Doctor and Rose stumble upon a "plague farm" in the far future
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2007: The Idiot's Lantern (repeated)England during the 1950s: an unusual sort of alien intelligence travels through the airwaves
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2008: Father's Day (repeated)Rose wants to go back to 1987 to get to know her Dad
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2009: Army Of Ghosts (repeated)Ghosts are appearing starting an invasion
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2009: Doomsday (repeated)Ghosts are appearing starting an invasion
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2011: The Rebel Flesh (repeated)At an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war
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2011: The Almost People (repeated)At an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war