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.
Clara: So, you must have thought I was dead for a while. Yeah. How was that?
The Doctor: Longest month of my life.
Clara. It could only have been five minutes.
The Doctor: I'll be the judge of time.
Doctor Who shown on 1st July
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1967: The Evil Of The Daleks: Episode 7In 1867, during an experiment in time travel, a Dalek appears
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2006: Army Of GhostsGhosts are appearing starting an invasion
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2007: Last Of The Time Lords (repeated)The new Prime Minister begins his reign of terror
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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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2017: World Enough And Time (repeated)A huge spaceship trapped in the gravity well of a black hole, teeming with impossible lifeforms, harbours one of the Doctor's most feared enemies.
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2017: The Doctor FallsThe Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen to protect a tiny band of humans from destruction.