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 Yasmin Khan
fromDoctor: Why are you calling me madam?
Yaz: Because you're a woman.
Doctor: Am I? Does it suit me?
Yaz: What?
Doctor: Oh, yeah! I remember. Sorry, half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman.
Doctor Who shown on Thursday, April 9,
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1966: The Celestial Toymaker: The Hall Of DollsThe TARDIS materialises in a strange domain presided over by the Toymaker
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1995: Reveleation Of The Daleks: Part Four (repeated)A new breed of Daleks is being created from the bodies of the dead
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2005: The Unquiet DeadCardiff, 1869: The dead are being reanimated
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2006: The Christmas Invasion (repeated)The Sycorax plan to invade Earth, but the Doctor is not his usual self
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2008: The Daleks: The Ordeal (repeated)The TARDIS crew arrive on a radioative world home to two races
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2008: The Daleks: The Rescue (repeated)The TARDIS crew arrive on a radioative world home to two races
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2010: The Eleventh Hour (repeated)The Doctor investigates a crack in Amy's bedroom whilst remembering who he is
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2011: Cold Blood (repeated)A drilling project unearths more than the organisers expected