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.
Thirteen actors have portrayed the role of the Doctor in the television series (excluding stand-ins) with David Tennant returning as the Fourteenth Doctor in 2023. Ncuti Gatwa, will become the Fifteenth Doctor for the next series in 2024.
Ruby Sunday and Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
fromRuby: I keep wondering how the world survives without him.
Kate: Well, that's classified. I think I can say, skin of our teeth.
Doctor Who shown on Saturday, July 27,
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1968: The Evil Of The Daleks: Episode 6 (repeated)In 1867, during an experiment in time travel, a Dalek appears
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1978: The Invisible Enemy: Part Three (repeated)The Doctor becomes infected with the Nucleus of a virus
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2007: Last Of The Time Lords (repeated)The new Prime Minister begins his reign of terror
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2008: Silence In The Library (repeated)Having an irrational fear of the dark may be rational
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2009: The Empty Child (repeated)Something is infecting people in London, 1941
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2011: The Pandorica Opens (repeated)The TARDIS exploding causes the end of, and the start of, the Universe
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2012: The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe (repeated)A family escape warn-torn London for Christmas in Dorset, and meets a strange caretaker
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2012: The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe (repeated)A family escape warn-torn London for Christmas in Dorset, and meets a strange caretaker