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.
Shirley Bingham and Ruby Sunday
fromShirley: Yeah, but you're different from us lot. Pardon me if I don't frisk you, but you seem very non-disabled to me.
Ruby: Oh! Ha! Well, I could be taller. But, yeah.
Doctor Who shown on 4th September
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1976: Masque Of Mandragora: Part OneThe Mandragora Helix finds a way into the TARDIS and escapes into Italy
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2005: Father's Day (repeated)Rose wants to go back to 1987 to get to know her Dad
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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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2010: The Lodger (repeated)After the TARDIS disappears the Doctor becomes a lodger on Earth
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2011: Night Terrors (repeated)The Doctor helps a young boy who fears that monsters are lurking in his bedroom
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2014: Into The Dalek (repeated)The Doctor and Clara go inside a Dalek to see what makes it good