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 Eleventh Doctor and Clara.
fromThe Doctor: Imagine that. Human souls trapped like flies in the world wide web. Stuck forever, crying out for help.
Clara: Isn't that basically Twitter?
Doctor Who shown on Saturday, February 21,
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1970: Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode FourCreatures have been draining power from a secret atomic research centre
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1976: The Seeds Of Doom: Part FourWhen a Krynoid seed pod is stolen a Krynoid grows and threatens all animal life
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1981: The Keeper Of Traken: Part FourThe Master, after using all his regenerations, tries to steal the Keeper's power
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1992: The Mind Robber: Episode 4 (repeated)The Doctor and his companions become trapped in a land of fiction
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2011: The Pandorica Opens (repeated)The TARDIS exploding causes the end of, and the start of, the Universe
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2014: The Crimson Horror (repeated)In Victorian Yorkshire bodies are turning up in the canal, and they are red
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2014: Nightmare In Silver (repeated)The Doctor and Clara find an old menace in a galactic theme park
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2026: The Wedding Of River Song (repeated)Only the Doctor's death will save the Universe