Doctor Who is a long-running British sci-fi series about the Doctor, a time-travelling alien known as a Time Lord who explores the universe, often with human companions, solving problems and battling foes. The Doctor travels in the TARDIS, a ship disguised as a blue police box that's much bigger on the inside.
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TARDIS stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space. It resembles an old police box because its chameleon circuit broke during a visit to London.
Tenth Doctor David Tennant’s childhood ambition was to play the Doctor. He had a Doctor doll and wrote school essays inspired by the show.
Ninety-seven of the show’s episodes are not held in the BBC’s archives, as many were wiped between 1967 and 1978.
The Daleks first appeared on 21 December 1963, in the show’s fifth episode.
The 50th anniversary episode, The Day of the Doctor, was the world’s biggest TV drama simulcast, showing in 98 countries.
The first episode of Doctor Who aired on Saturday, 23 November 1963, and initially ended in 1989, before being relaunched in 2005.
In a 2000 industry poll, Doctor Who placed third in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century.
Mission to the Unknown (1965) is the only episode in the series’ history not to feature the Doctor.