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 Grace Holloway and the Eighth Doctor
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Doctor Who shown on 20 April
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1968: Fury From The Deep: Episode 6An oil refinery has been experiencing problems and has sucked up a form of parasitic weed
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1974: The Monster Of Peladon: Part FiveFifty years after the Doctor's previous vist the Ice Warriors are at war with the Federation
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2007: Gridlock (repeated)In the far future, in New Earth, people are trapped in a perpetual roundabout
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2008: Planet Of The Ood (repeated)On the Oods' home planet the Doctor and Donna find out the truth of the Ood-sphere
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2009: The Girl In The Fireplace (repeated)A spaceship from the 51st century is stalking a girl from the 18th
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2012: Forest Of The Dead (repeated)Having an irrational fear of the dark may be rational
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2013: HideThe Doctor and Clara help a psychic to save a woman from a collapsing universe