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, will appear in the Christmas special later in 2024.
One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then there must be no regrets. No tears. No anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.
Doctor Who shown on Friday, April 4,
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1964: Marco Polo: Assassin At PekingCentral Asia, 1289: The Doctor gambles, and loses, the TARDIS to the Kublai Kahn
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1970: The Ambassadors Of Death: Episode ThreeU.N.I.T. are called in to investigate the mystery of the Mars Probe 7
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2010: The Eleventh Hour (repeated)The Doctor investigates a crack in Amy's bedroom whilst remembering who he is
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2011: Amy's Choice (repeated)Five years after Amy Pond last travelled with the Doctor he re-enters her life
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2014: The Impossible Astronaut (repeated)The Doctor invites his friends to witness his own death
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2014: Day Of The Moon (repeated)The Doctor invites his friends to witness his own death