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 21st May
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1966: The Gunfighters: The OK CorralThe Doctor, suffering from toothache, visits Tombstone, 1881, to find a dentist
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2005: The Empty ChildSomething is infecting people in London, 1941
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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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2008: The Poison Sky (repeated)The Sontarans plan to invade Earth by making it uninhabitable by humans
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2009: Human Nature (repeated)Hiding from alien pursuers the TARDIS arrives on Earth, 1913; and the Doctor becomes human
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2010: Amy's Choice (repeated)Five years after Amy Pond last travelled with the Doctor he re-enters her life
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2011: The Rebel FleshAt an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war