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David Tennant. Matt Smith. Peter Capaldi. Jodie Whittaker. Ncuti Gatwa. Fourteen actors have portrayed the Doctor in a leading role in Doctor Who. Fourteen actors have portrayed the Doctor in a leading role in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series' protagonist, the Doctor is an extraterrestrial Time Lord.
In 2007, David Tennant showed enthusiasm for the idea of a multi-Doctor story but expressed doubts about the practicality of episodes involving multiple previous Doctors, given that three of the actors who played the character were deceased. [64] The temporarily human Doctor, John Smith, draws his dreams of past incarnations in "Human Nature".
Doctors logo. Doctors is a British medical soap opera which began broadcasting on BBC One on 26 March 2000. Set in the fictional West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff and patients of the Mill Health Centre, a fictional NHS doctor's surgery, as well as its two sister surgeries, the University of Letherbridge Campus Surgery and Sutton Vale Surgery. The ...
The final special, "The Power of the Doctor", commemorating the BBC's centenary, saw the return of David Bradley, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann as the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth doctors, respectively. [97]
Other actors considered included Bernard Cribbins, [10] who played Tom Campbell in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) and later played Wilfred Mott in the Revived Series, and Fulton Mackay, who had previously played Dr. Quinn in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970). [11] Richard Hearne was offered the role but his insistence that he play ...
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in Doctors in 2003 and 2004, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the programme's executive producer, Mal Young. January 2003 saw the introduction of George Woodson (Stirling Gallacher) and her husband Ronnie (Seán Gleeson), as well as Julia Parsons .
The Doctor is usually accompanied in his travels by one to three companions (sometimes called assistants). These characters provide a surrogate with whom the audience can identify, and further the story by asking questions and getting into trouble, (similar to Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.)
Doctor Who follows the adventures of the title character, a rogue Time Lord with somewhat unknown origins who goes by the name "the Doctor".The Doctor fled Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, in a stolen TARDIS ("Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space"), a time machine that travels by materialising into, and dematerialising out of, the time vortex.