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.
The Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday
fromDoctor: What happened to you, John?
John: I was humanely terminated on the discovery of the fatal condition, blindness.
Ruby: Blindness isn't fatal.
Doctor: You literally just said that to a dead blind guy.
Doctor Who shown on 2nd June
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1973: The Green Death: Episode ThreePeople welcome Global Chemical's new refinery, but not the giant maggots
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2006: The Idiot's Lantern (repeated)England during the 1950s: an unusual sort of alien intelligence travels through the airwaves
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2007: The Family Of BloodHiding from alien pursuers the TARDIS arrives on Earth, 1913; and the Doctor becomes human
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2009: Partners In Crime (repeated)Donna Noble investigates Adipose Industries, trying to find the Doctor
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2012: The Hungry Earth (repeated)A drilling project unearths more than the organisers expected
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2024: Dot and Bubble (repeated)The world of Finetime seems happy and harmonious. But an awful terror is preying on the citizens, The Doctor and Ruby must make them see the truth before it's too late.