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 24th August
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1968: The Dominators: Episode 3The Dominators plan to turn a planet into a radioactive wasteland to power their fleet
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1978: The Sun Makers: Part Three (repeated)The Usurians have enslaved the human colony on the planet of Pluto
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1983: Kinda: Part Three (repeated)On Deva Loka Tegan is enchanted and falls under the influence of the Mara
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2006: The Age Of Steel (repeated)The Doctor and Rose face the terrifying Cybermen on an alternate Earth
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2010: The Hungry Earth (repeated)A drilling project unearths more than the organisers expected