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.
The Fifteenth Doctor and Lux
fromDoctor: You will talk to me and tell me, how did you enter this world?
Lux: I'm a two-dimensional character. You can't expect backstory!
Doctor Who shown on 29th August
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1964: The Reign Of Terror: The Tyrant Of France1794: The TARDIS materlialises near Paris during the French Revolution
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2006: Fear Her (repeated)A girl breathes in a spore and gains the ability to make people disappear
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2007: Doomsday (repeated)Ghosts are appearing starting an invasion
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2014: Deep Breath (repeated)Trouble in Victorian London: Where else would the Doctor be?
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2026: Oxygen (repeated)Trapped on a space station with no oxygen, the Doctor, Bill and Nardole are horrified to discover the automated spacesuits keeping them alive are also trying to kill them
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2026: Extremis (repeated)Everyone who has ever read the Veritas has been found dead. In a library at the heart of the Vatican, the pope urges the Doctor to read the ancient text.