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.
Doctor: 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 1st August
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1964: The Sensorites: A Desperate VentureAfter a visit by humans Sensorites start dying from poisoning
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2007: World War Three (repeated)London, 2005: The Slitheen family plan to make Earth radioactive, and then sell it
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2009: The Next Doctor (repeated)The Doctor helps a man known as the Doctor save London from the Cybermen
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2011: The Big Bang (repeated)The TARDIS exploding causes the end of, and the start of, the Universe
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2026: Heaven Sent (repeated)The Doctor is trapped in his own nightmare. The only way out is to confess.
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2026: Hell Bent (repeated)With the Time Lords' help the Doctor is prepared to fracture time in order to save Clara.