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.
Mike Gabbastone and the Fifteenth Doctor
fromMike: Look, that's 100,000 people. Frozen and suspended in space. To reach them, and catch them, and revive every single one of them... You'd need to be some sort of insane genius.
The Doctor. Hello. I'm the Doctor.
Doctor Who shown on 29th May
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1965: The Chase: The Death Of TimeThe Doctor tries to outrun a group of Daleks who are pursuing in their own time machine
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1971: The Dæmons: Episode TwoThe Master summons a daemon, Azal, in the hope of receiving Azal's powers
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2005: The Doctor Dances (repeated)Something is infecting people in London, 1941
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2009: Last Of The Time Lords (repeated)The new Prime Minister begins his reign of terror
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2010: Cold BloodA drilling project unearths more than the organisers expected
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2011: The Almost People (repeated)At an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war