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.
Thirteenth Doctor and Ruth Clayton
fromThe Doctor: You can't be me. I know what I've done. I know my own life.
Ruth: One of us has to be wrong.
Doctor Who shown on 12th October
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1968: The Mind Robber: Episode 5The Doctor and his companions become trapped in a land of fiction
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1987: Paradise Towers: Part TwoIn the neglected Paradise Towers people are disappearing
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1988: Remembrance Of The Daleks: Part TwoTwo Dalek factions are pursuing the Doctor in the hunt for the Hand of Omega
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2006: The Satan Pit (repeated)The Doctor and Rose visit a world that should not be able to exist
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2013: The Name Of The Doctor (repeated)The Doctor is forced to visit Trenzalore... and his tomb
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2014: Mummy On The Orient Express (repeated)The Doctor helps investigate a legend of a Mummy on the Orient Express