With Verity Lambert at the helm, William Hartnell was cast as the grandfatherly, enigmatic 'Doctor' and the series was first shown on 23rd November 1963.ĭoctor Who initially endured a rough ride, though audiences seemed positive on the whole. Webber, and produced by the BBC's drama department as a family viewing, intended to be educational and exciting.
Something was also needed to plug a gap in the Saturday early evening schedules of sport and music programmes Doctor Who was created by Sydney Newman, Donald Wilson and C.E. In the early 1960s, Doctor Who was the eventual product of a desire within the BBC to bring science fiction to the small screen. Capaldi announced in January 2017 that he would step down from the role with the following special Christmas episode.Ĭurrently, Doctor Who appears to have won a new generation of followers of varying ages: the UK children's magazine show Blue Peter, for example, reported that their 'Design a Doctor Who Monster' competition received the largest number of entries for any such event since 1993. Whittaker's predecessor, Peter Capaldi, took over at the end of 2013, and made a short cameo in the 50th anniversary special, Day of the Doctor, broadcast on 23rd November that year. Her successor, Ncuti Gatwa, will take on the role later in 2022.
Whittaker is the first woman to play the Doctor in the official broadcast series. His/her time machine, the TARDIS, is famously disguised as an old British police box and is bigger on the inside than out some well-known adversaries include the Daleks - mutants inside pepperpot-shaped casings - and the Cybermen.ĭoctor Who is executive- produced by Chris Chibnall, who took over from Steven Moffat (2010-2017) for the 2018 series, with Jodie Whittaker in the lead role.
As of 2020, thirteen successive actors have played the lead role in the television series, as listed in the panel on the right, with others appearing as additional Doctors and stand-ins in some programmes and in unofficial or alternative productions. The programme has lasted since 1963 partly because the Doctor, who has an alien physiology, is able to 'regenerate' when badly injured, allowing the lead actor to be recast. On television and in other media, it features the adventures of a time-traveller known as the ' Doctor', who journeys through time and space, righting wrongs and fighting injustice, usually accompanied by friends known to fans as 'companions'. Peter Capaldi played the central character of Doctor Who from 2013 to 2017, portraying the Doctor as a more alien and ancient figure than his recent predecessors.ĭoctor Who is a British science-fiction television series which started in 1963 and was relaunched in 2005 following its original 26-year run on the BBC, plus a 1996 television movie.
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