Doctor Who is a British Science Fiction series first broadcast on BBC One on the 24th November 1963. Created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson, the show depicts the adventures of the Time Lord known only as the Doctor who travels in Time and Space in a space ship called the Tardis.
The Doctor was originally played by William Hartnell and since then has been headlined by Thirteen Actors - since 2023 Nctui Gatwa plays the current incarnation first appearing in 2023’s The Giggle. Jodie Whittaker made history in 2017, when she became the first female Doctor.
Doctor Who is a significant part of British Culture and has gained a cult following with fans being known as Whovians.
The Series is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-running science-fiction television series in the world as well as the "most successful" science-fiction series of all time.
The Series originally ran from 1963 till its cancellation in 1986 due to poor ratings and a general decline in interest in the show.
An attempt to revive regular production was launched in 1996 with a backdoor television movie titled Doctor Who but it took in till 2005 before regular production was achieved with the series being produced in house by BBC Wales in Cardiff. Since 2023, the show is co-produced by BBC Studios and Bad Wolf, also in Cardiff.
Played by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Jodie Whittaker and Ncuti Gatwa
The TARDIS stands for "Time And Relative Dimension In Space", While a TARDIS is capable of disguising itself, the exterior appearance of the Doctor's TARDIS typically mimics a police box, an obsolete type of telephone kiosk that was once commonly seen on streets in Britain. Paradoxically, its interior is shown as being much larger than its exterior, commonly described as being "bigger on the inside".
Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the original home world of the Time Lords, the civilisation to which the protagonist, the Doctor belongs. It is located in a binary star system 250 million light years from Earth.
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