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.
I am far more than just another Time Lord.
Doctor Who shown on 20th July
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1968: The Evil Of The Daleks: Episode 5 (repeated)In 1867, during an experiment in time travel, a Dalek appears
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1978: The Invisible Enemy: Part Two (repeated)The Doctor becomes infected with the Nucleus of a virus
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1984: The Awakening: Compilation (repeated)War game reconstructions provide the Malus with the psychic energy it needs to reawake
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2007: 42 (repeated)The TARDIS materialises on a spaceship that is hurtling towards the sun
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2008: The Sontaran Stratagem (repeated)The Sontarans plan to invade Earth by making it uninhabitable by humans
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2009: The Unquiet Dead (repeated)Cardiff, 1869: The dead are being reanimated
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2011: Cold Blood (repeated)A drilling project unearths more than the organisers expected