Doctor Who In Detail
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 50th anniversary in 2013, making Doctor Who the longest running
science fiction television programme.
Thirteen actors have portrayed the role of the Doctor in the television series (excluding stand-ins) with Jodie Whittaker taking on role as the Thirteenth Doctor in 2018, the first time the Doctor has been portrayed by a woman.
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.
Thirteenth Doctor and Yasmin Khan
Doctor Who shown on Friday, August 19,
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2005: World War Three (repeated)
London, 2005: The Slitheen family plan to make Earth radioactive, and then sell it
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2006: New Earth (repeated)
The Doctor and Rose stumble upon a "plague farm" in the far future
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2007: The Idiot's Lantern (repeated)
England during the 1950s: an unusual sort of alien intelligence travels through the airwaves
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2008: Father's Day (repeated)
Rose wants to go back to 1987 to get to know her Dad
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2009: Army Of Ghosts (repeated)
Ghosts are appearing starting an invasion
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2009: Doomsday (repeated)
Ghosts are appearing starting an invasion
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2011: The Rebel Flesh (repeated)
At an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war
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2011: The Almost People (repeated)
At an acid mining facility humans and dopplegangers are close to a civil war
Doctor Who on TV today Friday, August 19,
No Doctor Who is scheduled to be shown today.