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.
Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap. If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever, put in a trap. Me!
Doctor Who shown on 22nd May
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1965: The Chase: The ExecutionersThe Doctor tries to outrun a group of Daleks who are pursuing in their own time machine
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1971: The Dæmons: Episode OneThe Master summons a daemon, Azal, in the hope of receiving Azal's powers
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2005: The Empty Child (repeated)Something is infecting people in London, 1941
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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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2009: The Christmas Invasion (repeated)The Sycorax plan to invade Earth, but the Doctor is not his usual self
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2010: The Hungry EarthA drilling project unearths more than the organisers expected
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2011: The Rebel Flesh (repeated)At an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war