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.
Mike Gabbastone and the Fifteenth Doctor
fromMike: Look, that's 100,000 people. Frozen and suspended in space. To reach them, and catch them, and revive every single one of them... You'd need to be some sort of insane genius.
The Doctor. Hello. I'm the Doctor.
Doctor Who shown on 7th May
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1966: The Gunfighters: Don't Shoot The PianistThe Doctor, suffering from toothache, visits Tombstone, 1881, to find a dentist
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1993: Battlefield: Part Three (repeated)U.N.I.T. are at the centre of a battle between dimensions
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2005: The Long Game (repeated)The Doctor takes Rose to a time in the future where human advacement is being held back
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2006: The Girl In The Fireplace (repeated)A spaceship from the 51st century is stalking a girl from the 18th
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2009: The Shakespeare Code (repeated)The Doctor takes Martha for a trip into the past to meet William Shakespeare
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2010: Flesh And Stone (repeated)A ship crashes on a planet where the Weeping Angels were waiting
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2011: Day Of The Moon (repeated)The Doctor invites his friends to witness his own death
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2011: The Curse Of The Black SpotThe Doctor, Amy and Rory are trapped on a pirate ship that is being attacked