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 Third Doctor and Jo Grant
fromJo: I thought the TARDIS was working again.
The Doctor: What gave you that idea?
Jo: Oh, being dragged off to an alien planet 500 years in the future, for example. You know, all that business with the miners and the colonists.
The Doctor: My dear Jo, the TARDIS was being operated under remote control by the High Council of the Time Lords.
Jo: Well, if it worked for them...
The Doctor: I don't want it to work for them. I want it to work for me.
Doctor Who shown on 22nd June
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1968: The Evil Of The Daleks: Episode 3 (repeated)In 1867, during an experiment in time travel, a Dalek appears
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2008: Turn Left (repeated)Donna finds out how a simple decision can destroy her world
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2012: The Pandorica Opens (repeated)The TARDIS exploding causes the end of, and the start of, the Universe
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2012: The Big Bang (repeated)The TARDIS exploding causes the end of, and the start of, the Universe
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2024: Empire of DeathThe Doctor has lost, his ageless enemy reigns supreme, and a shadow is falling over creation. Nothing can stop the devastation - except, perhaps, one woman