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.
Thirteen actors have portrayed the role of the Doctor in the television series (excluding stand-ins) with David Tennant returning as the Fourteenth Doctor in 2023. Ncuti Gatwa, will become the Fifteenth Doctor for the next series in 2024.
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Clara: So, you must have thought I was dead for a while. Yeah. How was that?
The Doctor: Longest month of my life.
Clara. It could only have been five minutes.
The Doctor: I'll be the judge of time.
Doctor Who shown on Saturday, April 27,
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1968: The Wheel In Space: Episode 1The Cybermen use Cybermats to attack a space station as part of an invasion plan
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1974: The Monster Of Peladon: Part SixFifty years after the Doctor's previous vist the Ice Warriors are at war with the Federation
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2007: Daleks In Manhattan (repeated)In 1930s New York the Daleks of the Cult of Skaro are experimenting on humans
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2008: The Sontaran Stratagem (repeated)The Sontarans plan to invade Earth by making it uninhabitable by humans
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2009: The Impossible Planet (repeated)The Doctor and Rose visit a world that should not be able to exist
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2012: Turn Left (repeated)Donna finds out how a simple decision can destroy her world
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2013: Journey To The Centre Of The TARDISThe TARDIS is on the brink of an explosion after hit by a salvage vessel