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.
Tegan and the First Doctor (played by Richard Hurndall)
fromTegan: And who might you be?
First Doctor: I might be any number of things, young lady. As it happens I am the Doctor. The original, you might say.
Doctor Who shown on Friday, April 17,
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1964: The Crusade: The War LordsThe TARDIS materialises in the midst of the harsh, cruel world of the 12th century Crudaes
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1971: Colony In Space: Episode TwoThe Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to retrieve a file stolen by the Master
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2005: Aliens Of London (repeated)London, 2005: The Slitheen family plan to make Earth radioactive, and then sell it
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2009: Planet Of The Dead (repeated)The Doctor is transported to an alien planet in a London bus
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2010: Victory Of The DaleksThe Doctor is summoned by an old friend, and meets an old enemy
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2010: Victory Of The DaleksThe Doctor is summoned by an old friend, and meets an old enemy
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2011: The Pandorica Opens (repeated)The TARDIS exploding causes the end of, and the start of, the Universe
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2022: Legend of the Sea-Devils: Legend of the Sea DevilsLegendary pirate queen Madam Ching comes searching for a lost treasure, and terrifying forces lurk beneath the oceans of the 19th century.