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.
When I meet a regime that needs to import savage alien life forms as security guards I begin to wonder who the real criminals are!
Doctor Who shown on 19th October
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1987: Paradise Towers: Part ThreeIn the neglected Paradise Towers people are disappearing
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1988: Remembrance Of The Daleks: Part ThreeTwo Dalek factions are pursuing the Doctor in the hunt for the Hand of Omega
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2009: Silence In The Library (repeated)Having an irrational fear of the dark may be rational
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2013: The Impossible Astronaut (repeated)The Doctor invites his friends to witness his own death
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2014: Flatline (repeated)With the Doctor trapped in the TARDIS Clara has to assume his role