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.
Shirley Bingham and Ruby Sunday
fromShirley: Yeah, but you're different from us lot. Pardon me if I don't frisk you, but you seem very non-disabled to me.
Ruby: Oh! Ha! Well, I could be taller. But, yeah.
Doctor Who shown on 14th June
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1969: The War Games: Episode 9People have been kidnapped and set down in recreations of their own time zones to fight
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2008: MidnightThe Doctor takes an eventful trip over the planet of Midnight
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2010: The Lodger (repeated)After the TARDIS disappears the Doctor becomes a lodger on Earth
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2014: The Name Of The Doctor (repeated)The Doctor is forced to visit Trenzalore... and his tomb
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2024: Rogue (repeated)The Doctor and Ruby land in 1813, where guests at a duchess's party are being murdered, and a mysterious bounty hunter called Rogue is about to change the Doctor's life forever.