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.
Ruby Sunday and Jocelyn Sancerre
fromRuby: Hang on, so the planet below down below who refused to stop the babies being born... But once they're born then don't look after them?
Jocelyn: It's a very strange planet.
Ruby: It's not that strange.
Doctor Who shown on 16th July
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1966: The War Machines: Episode 4A computer that thinks for itself considers itself superior to humans
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1971: Spearhead From Space: Episode Two (repeated)The Doctor, after being forced to regenerate, begins his exile on Earth
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2007: Gridlock (repeated)In the far future, in New Earth, people are trapped in a perpetual roundabout
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2008: Planet Of The Ood (repeated)On the Oods' home planet the Doctor and Donna find out the truth of the Ood-sphere