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.
Thirteenth Doctor and Ruth Clayton
fromThe Doctor: You can't be me. I know what I've done. I know my own life.
Ruth: One of us has to be wrong.
Doctor Who shown on 31st May
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1969: The War Games: Episode 7People have been kidnapped and set down in recreations of their own time zones to fight
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2008: Silence In The LibraryHaving an irrational fear of the dark may be rational
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2010: Cold Blood (repeated)A drilling project unearths more than the organisers expected
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2014: Cold War (repeated)A lone Ice Warrior awakens after 5,000 years on a submarine
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2014: Hide (repeated)The Doctor and Clara help a psychic to save a woman from a collapsing universe
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2024: 73 Yards (repeated)Landing on the Welsh coast the Doctor and Ruby embark on the strangest journey of their lives. In a rain-lashed pub, the locals sit in fear of ancient legends coming to life.
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2025: The Reality WarBattle rages across the skies as the Unholy Trinity unleash their deadly ambition. The Doctor, Belinda, and Ruby, have to risk everything in the quest to save one innocent life.