Doctor Who

Drama

C.E. Webber

50 minutes (S53-)

BBC Wales

625-line PAL (1970–93)

576i 4:3 PAL (1994-1997)

576i 14:9 PAL (1998)

576i 16:9 PAL (1999-2007)

1080i 16:9 PAL (2007-17)

1080i 2.35:1 PAL (2017-pres,)

***Doctor Who*** is both a television show and a global multimedia franchise created and controlled by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).

It centres on a time traveller called "the Doctor", who comes from a race of beings known as Time Lords. They travel through space and time in a time machine they call the TARDIS. This ship — which looks like a small, London police box on the outside — has nearly infinite dimensions on the inside. It has become such an iconic shape in British culture that it is currently the intellectual property of the BBC rather than its actual makers, the Metropolitan Police Service.

In order to accommodate cast changes, the narrative allows the Doctor to regenerate into an essentially new person on occasion. The cast is rounded out by one or more "companions", often females. On average, the main cast completely changes once every three or four years — a significant factor in the longevity of the programme.

## First Doctor

The First Doctor was portrayed by William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966.

## Second Doctor

The Second Doctor was portrayed by Patrick Troughton from 1966 to 1969.

## Third Doctor

The Third Doctor was portrayed by Jon Pertwee from 1970 to 1974.

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## Fourth Doctor

The Fourth Doctor was portrayed by Tom Baker from 1974 to 1981.

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### Season 17

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Planned transmission dates: *19 January-23 February 1980*

## Fifth Doctor

The Fifth Doctor was portrayed by Peter Davison from 1982 to 1984.

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## Sixth Doctor

The Sixth Doctor was portrayed by Colin Baker from 1984 to 1986.

### Season 22

The show's format changed to 45-minute episodes in this season.

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### Season 23 (*The Trial of a Time Lord*)

25-minute episodes resumed. *The Trial of a Time Lord* was produced as four separate serials (*The Mysterious Planet*, *Mindwarp*, *Terror of the Vervoids*, *The Ultimate Foe*) with 3 of them consisting of 4 episodes and the last being 2 episodes, making up 14 episodes.

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## Seventh Doctor

The Seventh Doctor was portrayed by Sylvester McCoy from 1987 to 1990.

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## Eighth Doctor

The Eighth Doctor was portrayed by Richard Griffiths from 1991 to 1995.

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## Ninth Doctor

The Ninth Doctor was portrayed by Hugh Bonneville from 1996 to 1999.

## Tenth Doctor

The Tenth Doctor was portrayed by Aidan Gillen from 2000 to 2003.

## Eleventh Doctor

The Eleventh Doctor was portrayed by Liam Cunningham from 2004 to 2006.

## Twelfth Doctor

The Twelfth Doctor was portrayed by Robert Carlyle from 2007 to 2009.

## Thirteenth Doctor

The Thirteenth Doctor was portrayed by Peter Capaldi from 2010 to 2013.

## Fourteenth Doctor

The Fourteenth Doctor was portrayed by Damien Molony from 2014 to 2017.

## Fifteenth Doctor

The Fifteenth Doctor was portrayed by Jemma Redgrave from 2017 to 2022.

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## Sixteenth Doctor

The Sixteenth Doctor was portrayed by Rakhee Thakrar from 2022 to ????.