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.
Ruby Sunday and Jocelyn Sancerre
fromRuby: Hang on, so the planet below down below who refused to stop the babies being born... But once they're born then don't look after them?
Jocelyn: It's a very strange planet.
Ruby: It's not that strange.
Doctor Who shown on 28th May
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1966: The Savages: Episode 1The Doctor and his companions help Savages co-exist with Elders
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2005: The Doctor DancesSomething is infecting people in London, 1941
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2006: The Idiot's Lantern (repeated)England during the 1950s: an unusual sort of alien intelligence travels through the airwaves
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2009: The Sound Of Drums (repeated)The new Prime Minister begins his reign of terror
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2010: The Hungry Earth (repeated)A drilling project unearths more than the organisers expected
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2011: The Rebel Flesh (repeated)At an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war
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2011: The Almost PeopleAt an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war