Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a 1963 BBC One TV series created by Donald Wilson, C. E. Webber and Sydney Newman. It stars Sylvester McCoy, Samuel Anderson, Pearl Mackie and others.
Synopsis
Doctor Who is a British science fiction adventure series that first aired in 1963. It combines action, time travel and a steady supply of strange worlds, and it has remained on screen for decades by letting its central role pass from one performer to the next.
The title character is the Doctor, a curious and eccentric traveller who explores time and space aboard a ship called the TARDIS. From the outside it looks like an ordinary blue police box. Inside it is far larger than it appears, able to carry its crew to any place and any period. The Doctor rarely travels alone. Companions from ordinary life join the journeys, and the series follows what happens when they step out of the door into an unfamiliar era or a distant planet.
Episodes tend to set up a puzzle or a threat, such as a hostile alien force, a historical event that has gone wrong, or a technology nobody should have, and then send the travellers to deal with it using wit rather than weapons. Over the years the cast has included Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald, Alex Kingston as River Song and Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts.
Crew & production
- Composer
- Murray Gold
- Production company
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- Original language
- British English
Top cast
66 peopleSylvester McCoy
Samuel Anderson
Pearl Mackie
Penelope Wilton
Jenna Coleman
Alex Kingston
Arthur Darvill
Karen Gillan
John Barrowman
Catherine Tate
Freema Agyeman
Noel Clarke
More cast
- Billie Piper Rose Tyler
- Elisabeth Sladen Sarah Jane Smith
- Kate O'Mara Rani
- Jon Pertwee Third Doctor
- Tom Baker Fourth Doctor
- William Hartnell First Doctor
- David Tennant Tenth Doctor, Fourteenth Doctor
- Patrick Troughton Second Doctor
- Peter Capaldi Twelfth Doctor
- Jacqueline Hill Barbara Wright
- Colin Baker Sixth Doctor
- Peter Davison Fifth Doctor
- Paul McGann Eighth Doctor
- William Russell Ian Chesterton
- Christopher Eccleston Ninth Doctor
- Matt Smith Eleventh Doctor
- Carole Ann Ford Susan Foreman
- Sarah Sutton Nyssa
- Roy Skelton
- Geoffrey Beevers
- Katy Manning Jo Grant
- Caroline John
- Bonnie Langford
- Nicholas Courtney Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Deborah Watling
- Frazer Hines Jamie McCrimmon
- Lalla Ward Romana
- Roger Delgado The Master
- Richard Hurndall First Doctor
- Nicola Bryant Peri Brown
- Peter Purves
- John Leeson K9
- John Scott Martin
- Anthony Ainley The Master
- David Banks
- Michael Sheard
- Louise Jameson Leela
- Sophie Aldred Ace
- Anneke Wills
- Peter Pratt
- Mark Strickson
- Janet Fielding Tegan Jovanka
- John Hurt War Doctor
- Jodie Whittaker Thirteenth Doctor
- Sacha Dhawan The Master
- Alisha Bailey Isabella
- Ncuti Gatwa Fifteenth Doctor
- Bradley Walsh Graham O'Brien
- Tosin Cole Ryan Sinclair
- Mandip Gill Yasmin Khan
- John Bishop Dan Lewis
- Millie Gibson Ruby Sunday
- Matt Lucas Nardole
- Varada Sethu Belinda Chandra
Sources
- Wikidata (Q34316), accessed October 2026
- Cast photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each profile
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