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 Sunday, February 8,
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1964: The Edge Of DestructionThe TARDIS is on course for Event One - the big bang
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1969: The Seeds Of Death: Episode 3The Ice Warriors try to invade Earth by altering the planet's weather
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1975: The Ark In Space: Part ThreeThe Wirrrn plan to lay their eggs in the cryogenically preserved people of Earth
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1982: Kinda: Part ThreeOn Deva Loka Tegan is enchanted and falls under the influence of the Mara
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1983: Mawdryn Undead: Part ThreeA group of scientists who have achieved immortality seek death
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1984: Resurrection Of The Daleks: Part OneThe Daleks attempt to rescue Davros from the ship taking him to trial
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2000: Genesis Of The Daleks: Part Two (repeated)The Doctor is sent on a mission by the Time Lords to destroy the Daleks
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2000: Genesis Of The Daleks: Part Three (repeated)The Doctor is sent on a mission by the Time Lords to destroy the Daleks
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2010: The Runaway Bride (repeated)A woman in her wedding dress mysteriously appears on board the TARDIS
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2013: The Rebel Flesh (repeated)At an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war
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2020: Praxeus (repeated)What connects a missing astronaut in the Indian Ocean, birds behaving strangely in Peru and a US naval officer who washes up on a Madagascan beach?