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 23rd July
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1971: Spearhead From Space: Episode Three (repeated)The Doctor, after being forced to regenerate, begins his exile on Earth
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2007: The Family Of Blood (repeated)Hiding from alien pursuers the TARDIS arrives on Earth, 1913; and the Doctor becomes human
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2008: The Unicorn And The Wasp (repeated)The Doctor and Donna meet Agatha Christie
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2009: Dalek (repeated)A collector of alien artefacts has one living specimen...
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2010: The End Of Time: The End Of Time, Part One (repeated)The Time Lords have a plan to escape the Time War and ascend
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2010: The End Of Time: The End Of Time, Part Two (repeated)The Time Lords have a plan to escape the Time War and ascend