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.
The Fifteenth Doctor and Lux
fromDoctor: You will talk to me and tell me, how did you enter this world?
Lux: I'm a two-dimensional character. You can't expect backstory!
Doctor Who shown on 29 April
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1967: The Faceless Ones: Episode 4People travelling with Chameleon Tours have been disappearing
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1972: The Mutants: Episode FourThe Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod
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2006: School ReunionThe Doctor is reunited with old friends Sarah Jane Smith and K9
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2007: Evolution Of The Daleks (repeated)In 1930s New York the Daleks of the Cult of Skaro are experimenting on humans
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2009: Love & Monsters: Love & Monsters (repeated)A group of people are tying to found out more about the Doctor
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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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2011: The Impossible Astronaut (repeated)The Doctor invites his friends to witness his own death
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2017: Smile (repeated)The Doctor takes Bill to a spectacular city on a distant planet - but where are the colonists? A band of 'cute' droids hold the deadly answer.
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2017: Thin IceLondon, 1814. The entire city has turned out for the biggest Frost Fair in decades. But beneath the frozen Thames, revellers are disappearing.