Modern Doctors

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series that first premiered on November 23, 1963, on the BBC. Created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber, and Donald Wilson, the show has become one of the longest-running and most iconic science fiction series in television history.

The central character of the series is the Doctor, an extraterrestrial Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels through time and space in the TARDIS, a time machine that looks like a British police box on the outside. The Doctor has the ability to regenerate, allowing for a change in appearance and personality, which has allowed different actors to portray the character over the years.

Although the series proper ended in 1989, with a TV movie in 1996, a new run of Doctor Who – often referred to as “Modern” Doctor Who or sometimes even “Nu Who” – spans 2005 to the present day.

During this period, numerous actors have played the role of the Doctor, including some as occasional cameos in the stories of other Doctors, notably Doctors played by John Hurt and Jo Martin. The main body of Doctors for this period, however, runs as: Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Jodie Whittaker, David Tennant, and Ncuti Gatwa.