
Scripted series · BBC One
Doctor Who
Space. For all.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Doctor Who actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Doctor Who reads strongest on Spectacle, Character Depth and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
The run
Seasons
13 seasons · 153 episodes.

Season 0 · Complete
Specials
2005199 episodes
Special installments of the series.
Best episode · S00E82 The Night of the Doctor

Season 1 · Complete
Series 1
200513 episodes
7.6IMDbThe first series features Christopher Eccleston as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, his only series in the role, accompanied by Billie Piper, as his first and main companion Rose Tyler, whom he plucks from obscurity on planet Earth, and to whom he grows increasingly attached. He also travels briefly with unruly boy-genius Adam Mitchell, played by Bruno Langley, and with 51st-century con man and former "Time Agent" Captain Jack Harkness, portrayed by John Barrowman. Episodes in the series form a loose story arc, based upon the recurring phrase "Bad Wolf".
Best episode · S01E13 The Parting of the Ways (2)

Season 2 · Complete
Series 2
200613 episodes
7.5IMDbThis is the first series to feature David Tennant as the tenth Doctor. He continues to travel with his companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), with whom he has grown increasingly attached. They also briefly travel with Rose's boyfriend Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke), and Camille Coduri reprises her role as Rose's mother Jackie. The series is connected by a loose story arc consisting of the recurring word "Torchwood". This is also the first series to be preceded by a Christmas special, which was commissioned to see how well the show could do at Christmas. The success of "The Christmas Invasion" led to the Christmas special becoming an annual tradition.
Best episode · S02E13 Doomsday (2)

Season 3 · Complete
Series 3
200713 episodes
7.7IMDbThe series stars David Tennant as the Doctor. In the Christmas special he is joined by Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. The series also introduces Freema Agyeman as the Doctor's new companion Martha Jones. John Barrowman also reprises his role as Captain Jack Harkness in the final three episodes which serve as the finale. The series is connected by a loose story arc consisting of the recurring phrase "Vote Saxon".
Best episode · S03E10 Blink

Season 4 · Complete
Series 4
200813 episodes
8.0IMDbAdventures in time and space with the Tenth Doctor and his companion Donna Noble.
Best episode · S04E09 Forest of the Dead (2)

Season 5 · Complete
Series 5
201013 episodes
7.7IMDbThis is the first series to feature Matt Smith as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor. Karen Gillan is introduced as the Doctor's new companion, Amy Pond. Alex Kingston returns as River Song, a mysterious woman from the Doctor's future who summons him twice. The main story arc concerns a pattern of cracks in the universe that are sometimes unnoticed by the characters. It is discovered that the cracks can erase things from existence.
Best episode · S05E10 Vincent and the Doctor

Season 6 · Complete
Series 6
201113 episodes
7.5IMDbThe Doctor returns, alongside newly weds Amy and Rory, to face monsters and mysteries and adventures all across time and space. Together they find themselves in sixties America, battling the invasion the world forgot, then aboard a pirate ship on the high seas of 1696, to solve the mystery of the Siren. In a bubble universe at the edge of reality, the Doctor meets an old friend with a new face.
Best episode · S06E01 The Impossible Astronaut (1)

Season 7 · Complete
Series 7
201213 episodes
7.2IMDbThe main story arc of the series focused on the significance of the character of Clara, whom the Doctor had encountered twice before as Oswin in "Asylum of the Daleks" and as a governess in "The Snowmen". It also features the recurring appearance of the Doctor's enemy, The Great Intelligence.
Best episode · S07E05 The Angels Take Manhattan

Season 8 · Complete
Series 8
201412 episodes
7.1IMDbThe series is the first to star Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor and Jenna Coleman as his companion, Clara Oswald. Also playing a major recurring role in the series is Samuel Anderson as Danny Pink, Clara's boyfriend. The main story arc revolves around a mysterious woman called Missy (portrayed by Michelle Gomez), who is often seen welcoming people who have died throughout the series to the "Promised Land", a place that serves as an apparent afterlife to deceased characters.
Best episode · S08E09 Flatline

Season 9 · Complete
Series 9
201512 episodes
7.2IMDbNow that the Doctor and Clara have established a dynamic as a partnership of equals, they’re relishing the fun and thrills that all of space and time has to offer. Tangling with ghosts, Vikings and the ultimate evil of the Daleks, they embark on their biggest adventures yet. Missy is back to plague the Doctor once more, the Zygons inspire fear as they shape-shift into human clones, and a new arrival moves in cosmic ways.
Best episode · S09E11 Heaven Sent (1)

Season 10 · Complete
Series 10
201712 episodes
7.1IMDbThe series introduces Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts, and also features Matt Lucas as Nardole. Michelle Gomez and John Simm return as their respective incarnations of the Master. The main story arc for the first half of the series revolves around the Doctor and Nardole occupying themselves at a university while they guard an underground vault containing Missy. Missy later travels with the team in the TARDIS, and eventually partners with her previous incarnation as they battle a Cyberman onslaught.
Best episode · S10E11 World Enough and Time (1)

Season 11 · Complete
Series 11
201810 episodes
5.9IMDbSeries 11 follows the Thirteenth Doctor as she initially searches for her lost TARDIS, inadvertently bringing Graham, Ryan, and Yasmin with her on her travels. All three later contemplate returning to their normal lives but decide to continue travelling with the Doctor.
Best episode · S11E06 Demons of the Punjab

Season 12 · Complete
Series 12
202010 episodes
6.0IMDbThe series follows the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions as they meet a new incarnation of the Master, and his destruction of Gallifrey, the return of Jack Harkness, the appearance of an unknown incarnation of the Doctor, the Cybermen, and the secret of the "Timeless Child". Jodie Whittaker returns for her second series as the Thirteenth Doctor. It also stars Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill as the Doctor's travelling companions, playing Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan, respectively.
Best episode · S12E05 Fugitive of the Judoon

Season 13 · Complete
Flux
20216 episodes
6.3IMDbFrom Liverpool to the depths of space, via the Crimean war and a planet named Atropos which shouldn’t even exist, fighting old foes and new creatures from beyond our dimension, the Doctor and company face a race against (and through!) time to uncover a universe-spanning mystery: what is the Flux?
Best episode · S13E04 Village of the Angels
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S03E10
Blink
Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.
- Directed by Hettie Macdonald
- Written by Steven Moffat

S04E09
Forest of the Dead (2)
As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song.
- Directed by Euros Lyn
- Written by Steven Moffat

S04E08
Silence in the Library (1)
The Doctor and Donna land in a frightening position in the far future. While investigating a derelict library, the duo come face to face with the disembodied mind of a little girl, an archaeological team led by a woman from the Doctor's future, and swarms of flesh-eating creatures that are seen only as shadows.
- Directed by Euros Lyn
- Written by Steven Moffat

S00E82
The Night of the Doctor
On the eve of his most terrible battle, the Time Lord is faced with a choice that will change the course of his life. The darkest of days are about to begin.
- Directed by John Hayes
- Written by Steven Moffat

S00E78
An Adventure in Space and Time
This special one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
- Directed by Terry McDonough
- Written by Mark Gatiss

S02E13
Doomsday (2)
Humanity is caught in the crossfire as the Cybermen and the Daleks wage war against each other. When the mysterious Genesis Ark opens, the Tenth Doctor is faced with an impossible decision: saving the world could mean losing Rose Tyler forever…
Recently aired
Latest Episodes

S00E210
The Power of the Doctor
- Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone
- Written by Chris Chibnall

S00E209
Legend of the Sea Devils
- Directed by Haolu Wang
- Written by Ella Road


S13E06
The Vanquishers
- Directed by Azhur Saleem
- Written by Chris Chibnall

S13E05
Survivors of the Flux
- Directed by Azhur Saleem
- Written by Chris Chibnall

S13E04
Village of the Angels
- Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone
- Written by Maxine Alderton, Chris Chibnall
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.

Donald Wilson
Creator

C. E. Webber
Creator

Sydney Newman
Showrunner

Mal Young
Executive producer

Russell T Davies
Executive producer

Julie Gardner
Executive producer

Steven Moffat
Executive producer
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Caroline Skinner
Executive producer
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Piers Wenger
Executive producer
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Brian Minchin
Executive producer

Matt Strevens
Executive producer

Phil Collinson
Executive producer
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Beth Willis
Executive producer

Nikki Wilson
Executive producer

Chris Chibnall
Executive producer
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James Moran
Writer
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Tom MacRae
Writer
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Vinay Patel
Writer

Toby Whithouse
Writer

Steve Thompson
Writer
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Nina Metivier
Writer
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Joy Wilkinson
Writer

Robert Shearman
Writer

Gareth Roberts
Writer

Mark Gatiss
Writer
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Simon Nye
Writer

Richard Curtis
Writer
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Mike Bartlett
Writer

Neil Cross
Writer
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Catherine Tregenna
Writer
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Ed Hime
Writer

Frank Cottrell Boyce
Writer
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Maxine Alderton
Writer

Peter Harness
Writer

Matthew Graham
Writer
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Paul Cornell
Writer

Neil Gaiman
Writer
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Helen Raynor
Writer

Phil Ford
Writer
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Rona Munro
Writer
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Sarah Dollard
Writer

Pete McTighe
Writer

Malorie Blackman
Writer
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Jamie Mathieson
Writer
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Stephen Greenhorn
Writer

Matt Jones
Writer
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Keith Temple
Writer
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Charlene James
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Mal YoungExecutive Producer
- Susie LiggatProducer
- Sanne WohlenbergProducer
- Russell T DaviesExecutive Producer
- Denise PaulProducer
- Julie GardnerExecutive Producer
Writing
- James MoranWriter
- Tom MacRaeWriter
- Russell T DaviesWriter
- Vinay PatelWriter
- Toby WhithouseWriter
- Steve ThompsonWriter
Direction
- Jennifer PerrottDirector
- Ashley WayDirector
- Mat KingDirector
- Dan ZeffDirector
- Colin TeagueDirector
- Paul WilmshurstDirector
Cinematography
- Stephan PehrssonDirector of Photography
- Simon ArcherDirector of Photography
- Jake PolonskyDirector of Photography
- Nic MorrisDirector of Photography
- Neville KiddDirector of Photography
- Ali AsadDirector of Photography
Music
- Murray GoldOriginal Music Composer
- Segun AkinolaOriginal Music Composer
- Delia DerbyshireOriginal Music Composer
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