48 Facts About Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

The Doctor Who explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS.

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 Who fled Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, in a stolen TARDIS, a time machine that travels by materialising into, and dematerialising out of, the time vortex.

The Doctor Who is centuries old and, as a Time Lord, has the ability to regenerate when there is mortal damage to the body.

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Doctor Who first appeared on the BBC Television Service at 17:16:20 GMT on Saturday, 23 November 1963; this was eighty seconds later than the scheduled programme time, because of announcements concerning the previous day's assassination of John F Kennedy.

Once Star Wars had happened, Doctor Who effectively was out of date from that moment on really, judged by that level of technological expertise.

Doctor Who had Colin Baker removed from the starring role in 1986.

Jodie Whittaker was announced as the first female Doctor Who, and has appeared in three series, the last of which was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BBC audience research survey conducted in 1972 found that, by their own definition of violence Doctor Who was the most violent of the drama programmes the corporation produced at the time.

Doctor Who originally ran for 26 seasons on BBC One, from 23 November 1963 until 6 December 1989.

Occasionally, serials were loosely connected by a story line, such as season 8 focusing on the Doctor Who battling a rogue Time Lord called the Master, season 16's quest for the Key to Time, season 18's journey through E-Space and the theme of entropy, and season 20's Black Guardian trilogy.

On 8 May 2022 it was announced that Ncuti Gatwa would take over from Jodie Whittaker as the Fourteenth Doctor Who, making him the first black actor to headline the series.

Doctor Who is shown in mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor" retroactively inserted into the show's fictional chronology between McGann and Eccleston's Doctors, although his introduction was written so as not to disturb the established numerical naming of the Doctors.

In other media, the Doctor Who has been played by various other actors, including Peter Cushing in two films.

Additionally, multiple incarnations of the Doctor Who have met in various audio dramas and novels based on the television show.

In 2017, the First Doctor Who returned alongside Peter Capaldi in "The Doctor Who Falls" and "Twice Upon a Time".

In Mawdryn Undead, the Fifth Doctor Who explicitly confirmed that he was then currently in his fifth incarnation.

The 2005 series reveals that the Ninth Doctor Who thought he was the last surviving Time Lord, and that his home planet had been destroyed; in "The Empty Child", Dr Constantine states that, "Before the war even began, I was a father and a grandfather.

The Eleventh Doctor Who became the first to travel with a married couple, Amy Pond and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill), whilst out-of-sync meetings with River Song (Alex Kingston) and Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) provided ongoing story arcs that continued with the Twelfth Doctor Who.

The Thirteenth Doctor Who has primarily traveled with Ryan Sinclair, Graham O'Brien (Bradley Walsh), Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill), and Dan Lewis (John Bishop).

Doctor Who was responsible for a new version of the theme which was reported to have had a hostile reception from some viewers.

Versions of the "Doctor Who Theme" have been released as pop music over the years.

Many of the stories of the William Hartnell period were scored by electronic music pioneer Tristram Cary, whose Doctor Who credits include The Daleks, Marco Polo, The Daleks' Master Plan, The Gunfighters and The Mutants.

Doctor Who made a cameo appearance in The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

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Doctor Who pressed 1, 000 copies of the set on "Metallic Silver" vinyl, dubbed the "Cyberman Edition".

Premiering the day after the assassination of John F Kennedy, the first episode of Doctor Who was repeated with the second episode the following week.

Doctor Who has always appeared initially on the BBC's mainstream BBC One channel, where it is regarded as a family show, drawing audiences of many millions of viewers; episodes were repeated on BBC Three, before its transition to an online-only channel.

Doctor Who has been broadcast internationally outside of the United Kingdom since 1964, a year after the show first aired.

Doctor Who is one of the five top-grossing titles for BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm.

BBC Worldwide CEO John Smith has said that Doctor Who is one of a small number of "Superbrands" which Worldwide will promote heavily.

Series 1 through 3 of Doctor Who were broadcast on various NHK channels from 2006 to 2008 with Japanese subtitles.

Concept art for an animated Doctor Who series was produced by animation company Nelvana in the 1980s, but the series was not produced.

Doctor Who has been satirised and spoofed on many occasions by comedians including Spike Milligan and Lenny Henry.

References to Doctor Who have appeared in the young adult fantasy novels Brisingr and High Wizardry, the video game Rock Band, the Adult Swim comedy show Robot Chicken, the Family Guy episodes "Blue Harvest" and "420", and the game RuneScape.

Doctor Who has been a reference in several political cartoons, from a 1964 cartoon in the Daily Mail depicting Charles de Gaulle as a Dalek to a 2008 edition of This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow in which the Tenth Doctor informs an incredulous character from 2003 that the Democratic Party will nominate an African-American as its presidential candidate.

Since its beginnings, Doctor Who has generated hundreds of products related to the show, from toys and games to collectible picture cards and postage stamps.

Ten years later, the first original Doctor Who audio was released on LP record; Doctor Who and the Pescatons featuring the Fourth Doctor.

Doctor Who books have been published from the mid-sixties through to the present day.

Doctor Who: Battle of Time was a digital collectible card game developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment and released for iOS and Android.

In 2011, Matt Smith became the first Doctor Who to be nominated for a BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor and in 2016, Michelle Gomez became the first female to receive a BAFTA nomination for the series, getting a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work as Missy.

In 1996, BBC television held the "Auntie Awards" as the culmination of their "TV60" series, celebrating 60 years of BBC television broadcasting, where Doctor Who was voted as the "Best Popular Drama" the corporation had ever produced, ahead of such ratings heavyweights as EastEnders and Casualty.

In 2000, Doctor Who was ranked third in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, produced by the British Film Institute and voted on by industry professionals.

In 2004 and 2007, Doctor Who was ranked number 18 and number 22 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.

In 2009, Doctor Who was voted the 3rd greatest show of the 2000s by Channel 4, behind Top Gear and The Apprentice.

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The episode "Vincent and the Doctor Who" was shortlisted for a Mind Award at the 2010 Mind Mental Health Media Awards for its "touching" portrayal of Vincent van Gogh.

The 2016 Christmas special "The Return of Doctor Who Mysterio" is a finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

Doctor Who has been nominated for over 200 awards and has won over a hundred of them.