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.
Tegan and the First Doctor (played by Richard Hurndall)
fromTegan: And who might you be?
First Doctor: I might be any number of things, young lady. As it happens I am the Doctor. The original, you might say.
Doctor Who shown on 15th October
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1966: The Tenth Planet: Episode 2The Cybermen launch the first of many attacks on Earth
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1977: The Invisible Enemy: Part ThreThe Doctor becomes infected with the Nucleus of a virus
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2009: The Doctor's Daughter (repeated)The Doctor's fight becomes a personal matter on Messaline
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2009: Planet Of The Dead (repeated)The Doctor is transported to an alien planet in a London bus
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2010: The Shakespeare Code (repeated)The Doctor takes Martha for a trip into the past to meet William Shakespeare
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2010: Gridlock (repeated)In the far future, in New Earth, people are trapped in a perpetual roundabout