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.
Belinda Chandra and Hassan Chowdry
fromBelinda: What happens in Blink?
Hassan Chowdry: It's this story where you're not allowed to blink.
Belinda: Well that sounds like an absolute epic.
Doctor Who shown on Friday, February 27,
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1965: The Web Planet: Escape To DangerThe TARDIS is drawn to the planet Vortis, the web planet, by a strange force
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1971: The Mind Of Evil: Episode FiveThe Master uses a machine to increase negative emotions in inmates at a prison
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2009: Daleks In Manhattan (repeated)In 1930s New York the Daleks of the Cult of Skaro are experimenting on humans
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2011: Flesh And Stone (repeated)A ship crashes on a planet where the Weeping Angels were waiting
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2015: The Caretaker (repeated)The Doctor takes on the role of Caretaker at a school to capture an alien