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 19 April
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1969: The War Games: Episode 1People have been kidnapped and set down in recreations of their own time zones to fight
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1975: Revenge Of The Cybermen: Part OneThe Cybermen plan to destroy Voga, the planet of Gold, and the Vogans
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2008: Planet Of The OodOn the Oods' home planet the Doctor and Donna find out the truth of the Ood-sphere
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2010: Victory Of The Daleks (repeated)The Doctor is summoned by an old friend, and meets an old enemy
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2013: Cold War (repeated)A lone Ice Warrior awakens after 5,000 years on a submarine
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2025: LuxThe Doctor's quest to get Belinda home takes the TARDIS to Miami in 1952 where an abandoned cinema is hiding a terrifying secret.