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 13th June
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1964: The Aztecs: The Day Of DarknessBarbara attemepts to use her new status as a High Priest to alter human history
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1970: Inferno: Episode SixIn a parallel universe Earth is destroyed, and the real Earth is heading for the same fate
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2008: Forest Of The Dead (repeated)Having an irrational fear of the dark may be rational
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2010: The Lodger (repeated)After the TARDIS disappears the Doctor becomes a lodger on Earth
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2014: The Crimson Horror (repeated)In Victorian Yorkshire bodies are turning up in the canal, and they are red
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2014: Hide (repeated)The Doctor and Clara help a psychic to save a woman from a collapsing universe
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2014: Nightmare In Silver (repeated)The Doctor and Clara find an old menace in a galactic theme park
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2026: Dark Water (repeated)After Danny's death the Doctor helps Clara to find him
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2026: Death In Heaven (repeated)After Danny's death the Doctor helps Clara to find him