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 Jocelyn Sancerre
fromRuby: Hang on, so the planet below down below who refused to stop the babies being born... But once they're born then don't look after them?
Jocelyn: It's a very strange planet.
Ruby: It's not that strange.
Doctor Who shown on 7th September
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1968: The Dominators: Episode 5The Dominators plan to turn a planet into a radioactive wasteland to power their fleet
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1987: Time And The Rani: Part OneThe Rani hijacks the TARDIS, causing the Doctor to regenerate
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2006: The Christmas Invasion (repeated)The Sycorax plan to invade Earth, but the Doctor is not his usual self
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2006: The Unquiet Dead (repeated)Cardiff, 1869: The dead are being reanimated
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2012: Asylum Of The Daleks (repeated)The Daleks need the Doctor's help
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2013: Cold War (repeated)A lone Ice Warrior awakens after 5,000 years on a submarine
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2014: Robot Of Sherwood (repeated)Clara asks the Doctor to take her to see the fictional Robin Hood