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 Ruby Sunday
fromDoctor: What happened to you, John?
John: I was humanely terminated on the discovery of the fatal condition, blindness.
Ruby: Blindness isn't fatal.
Doctor: You literally just said that to a dead blind guy.
Doctor Who shown on Thursday, March 5,
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1966: The Ark: The Steel SkyWhen Dodo's cold infects the humans on an Ark the Monoid slaves stage an uprising
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1971: The Mind Of Evil: Episode SixThe Master uses a machine to increase negative emotions in inmates at a prison
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1977: The Talons Of Weng-Chiang: Part TwoA series of murders have been committed by a Chinese Tong of the Black Scorpian
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1993: The Caves Of Androzani: Part Three (repeated)The TARDIS arrives in the middle of a battle between a military force and rebels
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2009: 42 (repeated)The TARDIS materialises on a spaceship that is hurtling towards the sun