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 23 April
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1966: The Celestial Toymaker: The Final TestThe TARDIS materialises in a strange domain presided over by the Toymaker
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1993: Battlefield: Part One (repeated)U.N.I.T. are at the centre of a battle between dimensions
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2005: World War ThreeLondon, 2005: The Slitheen family plan to make Earth radioactive, and then sell it
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2005: World War ThreeThe Slitheen family try to destroy all life on Earth before selling it
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2006: Tooth And Claw (repeated)Scotland, 1879: The Doctor must protect Queen Victoria from a werewolf
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2009: The Idiot's Lantern (repeated)England during the 1950s: an unusual sort of alien intelligence travels through the airwaves
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2010: Victory Of The Daleks (repeated)The Doctor is summoned by an old friend, and meets an old enemy
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2011: The Impossible AstronautThe Doctor invites his friends to witness his own death