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.
Thirteenth Doctor and Ruth Clayton
fromThe Doctor: You can't be me. I know what I've done. I know my own life.
Ruth: One of us has to be wrong.
Doctor Who shown on 25 April
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1964: The Keys Of Marinus: The Screaming JungleThe Doctor and his companions are forced to search for operating keys on Marinus
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1970: The Ambassadors Of Death: Episode SixU.N.I.T. are called in to investigate the mystery of the Mars Probe 7
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2008: Planet Of The Ood (repeated)On the Oods' home planet the Doctor and Donna find out the truth of the Ood-sphere
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2010: The Time Of Angels (repeated)A ship crashes on a planet where the Weeping Angels were waiting
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2014: A Good Man Goes To War (repeated)The Doctor raises an army in order to rescue the kidnapped Amy Pond
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2014: Let's Kill Hitler (repeated)The Doctor's hunt for Amy's baby takes him to a confrontation in 1930's Berlin
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2026: The Time Of The Doctor (repeated)The Doctor's enemies are drawn to a message emitting from a backwater planet