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Section 15 · Screen

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series that has followed the Doctor, a rogue Time Lord, through space and time since 1963, with fourteen actors having headlined the role and Ncuti Gatwa the most recent. Fans are sometimes called Whovians, and the show holds Guinness World Records as the longest-running science-fiction television series and, based on broadcast ratings, DVD and book sales, the most successful of all time. Source

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The essentials

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First broadcast

BBC, 1963

Created by

Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber, Donald Wilson

The Doctor

extraterrestrial Time Lord

TARDIS

time travelling spaceship resembling a British police box

Regeneration

plot device for changing actors

Fourteen actors

have headlined as the Doctor, starting with William Hartnell

Ncuti Gatwa

Fifteenth Doctor, 2023 to 2025

Whovians

fans of the series

Original run

1963 to 1989

Relaunch

2005, production moved to BBC Wales in Cardiff

Whoniverse

franchise spanning spin-offs, literature, audio dramas and films

Recurring enemies

Daleks, Davros, Cybermen, the Master