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 21st August
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1975: The Ark In Space: Edited Compilation (repeated)The Wirrrn plan to lay their eggs in the cryogenically preserved people of Earth
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2005: Dalek (repeated)A collector of alien artefacts has one living specimen...
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2006: School Reunion (repeated)The Doctor is reunited with old friends Sarah Jane Smith and K9
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2007: The Satan Pit (repeated)The Doctor and Rose visit a world that should not be able to exist
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2008: The Doctor Dances (repeated)Something is infecting people in London, 1941