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Doctor Who

2005TV-PG13 seasons7.6 / 10

Space. For all.

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.

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Synopsis

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.

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Episode 1

Smith and Jones

47m7.7 / 10

Trainee doctor Martha Jones has her hands full balancing her medical studies with placating her demanding family. So the last thing she needs is to find that the hospital where she works has been transported to the moon, where it's invaded by an overbearing alien police force. There she encounters a patient called John Smith, who seems curiously at ease with the situation…

Episode credits

Directed by Charles PalmerWritten by Russell T DaviesGuest stars Anne Reid, Roy Marsden, Vineeta Rishi, Kimmi Richards, Paul Kasey, Nicholas Briggs, Adjoa Andoh, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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Episode 2

The Shakespeare Code

48m7.2 / 10

Martha takes her first trip in the Tardis, all the way back to Elizabethan England. She and the Doctor hear of a series of bizarre deaths and discover that playwright William Shakespeare is being controlled by dangerous witch-like creatures. It seems the time-travelling duo must defeat ancient forces to prevent history from being rewritten.

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Directed by Charles PalmerWritten by Gareth RobertsGuest stars Dean Lennox Kelly, Christina Cole, Sam Marks, Amanda Laerence, Linda Clark, Jalaal Hartley, David Westhead, Andrée Bernard

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Episode 3

Gridlock

48m7.6 / 10

The Doctor takes Martha to New Earth, in the far future, only to find that an entire city has become a deadly trap.

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Directed by Richard ClarkWritten by Russell T DaviesGuest stars Bridget Turner, Ardal O'Hanlon, Lenora Crichlow, Jennifer Hennessy, Anna Hope, Travis Oliver, Georgine Anderson, Simon Pearsall

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Episode 4

Daleks in Manhattan (1)

50m6.9 / 10

The Doctor investigates disappearances in New York at the height of the depression in the 1930s. Nefarious Pig Men linger in the sewers and the Daleks prepare an audacious plan at the top of the Empire State Building

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Directed by James StrongWritten by Helen RaynorGuest stars Miranda Raison, Eric Loren, Flik Swan, Alexis Caley, Peter Brooke, Ian Porter, Ryan Carnes, Hugh Quarshie

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Episode 5

Evolution of the Daleks (2)

49m6.9 / 10

The newly-created Dalek-human hybrid, and the other three members of the Cult of Skaro launch an attack on Hooverville, along with their Pig Slaves. The Doctor, Martha, and Frank manage to escape, but discover that the Daleks' plan involving the Empire State Building...

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Directed by James StrongWritten by Helen RaynorGuest stars Miranda Raison, Ryan Carnes, Hugh Quarshie, Andrew Garfield, Eric Loren, Earl Perkins, Paul Kasey, Ian Porter

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Episode 6

The Lazarus Experiment

46m6.3 / 10

Martha has to save her family from the lunatic schemes of the monstrous Professor Lazarus.

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Directed by Richard ClarkWritten by Stephen GreenhornGuest stars Mark Gatiss, Thelma Barlow, Lucy O'Connell, Bertie Carvel, Adjoa Andoh, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Reggie Yates

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Episode 7

42

48m7.1 / 10

In a far-flung galaxy, saboteurs are at work, and crew members are being possessed. The TARDIS crew find themselves in the 42nd century on a spaceship, SS Pentallian, slowly being pulled into a sun, and must find a way to survive

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Directed by Graeme HarperWritten by Chris ChibnallGuest stars Michelle Collins, William Ash, Anthony Flanagan, Matthew Chambers, Gary Powell, Vinette Robinson, Rebecca Oldfield, Adjoa Andoh

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Episode 8

Human Nature (1)

48m8.4 / 10

England, 1913. A schoolteacher called John Smith dreams of adventures in time and space. The Doctor, along with Martha, heads to a boarding school, but what he finds is far from ordinary...

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Directed by Charles PalmerWritten by Paul CornellGuest stars Jessica Hynes, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rebekah Staton, Harry Lloyd, Tom Palmer, Gerard Horan, Lauren Wilson, Pip Torrens

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Episode 9

The Family of Blood (2)

46m8.6 / 10

It's 1913, and war comes to England early as the terrifying Family hunt for the Doctor.

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Directed by Charles PalmerWritten by Paul CornellGuest stars Jessica Hynes, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rebekah Staton, Harry Lloyd, Tom Palmer, Gerard Horan, Lauren Wilson, Pip Torrens

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Episode 10

Blink

46m9.3 / 10

Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.

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Directed by Hettie MacdonaldWritten by Steven MoffatGuest stars Carey Mulligan, Lucy Gaskell, Finlay Robertson, Richard Cant, Michael Obiora, Louis Mahoney, Thomas Nelstrop, Ian Boldsworth

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Episode 11

Utopia (1)

49m8.1 / 10

After being brought back to life in The Parting of the Ways, Captain Jack Harkness was just left on the Gamestation by the Doctor and Rose. In this episode, Captain Jack Harkness storms back into the Doctor's life, and the TARDIS is thrown to the end of the universe itself.

Episode credits

Directed by Graeme HarperWritten by Russell T DaviesGuest stars Derek Jacobi, Chipo Chung, René Zagger, Neil Reidman, Paul Marc Davis, Robert Forknall, John Bell, John Simm

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Episode 12

The Sound of Drums (2)

52m8.3 / 10

Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister and his reign of terror begins – but that's only the start of his ambitions, as he announces mankind's first contact with an alien race, the Toclafane. An audacious plan spanning the whole of time and space begins to close around the Earth, in the penultimate episode of Russell T Davies's Doctor Who.

Episode credits

Directed by Colin TeagueWritten by Russell T DaviesGuest stars Colin Stinton, Nichola McAuliffe, Nicholas Gecks, Sharon Osbourne, Alexandra Moen, Adjoa Andoh, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Trevor Laird

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Episode 13

Last of the Time Lords (3)

49m7.7 / 10finale

One year has passed since the events of "The Sound of Drums." The Earth has been conquered and its population enslaved, the Doctor is the Master's prisoner, and the warships of a new Time Lord Empire rise from the ashes. The fate of the world is in Martha Jones' hands.

Episode credits

Directed by Graeme Harper, Colin TeagueWritten by Russell T DaviesGuest stars Alexandra Moen, Adjoa Andoh, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Trevor Laird, Reggie Yates, John Simm, Tom Ellis, Ellie Haddington

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Episode information updated Jul 23, 2026

More about Doctor Who

Cast

Christopher EcclestonDoctor Who
Matt SmithThe Doctor
Jenna ColemanClara Oswald
David TennantThe Doctor
Jodie WhittakerThe Doctor
Pearl MackieBill Potts
Mandip GillYasmin 'Yaz' Khan
Bradley WalshGraham O'Brien

Credits

Created by
Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber, Donald Wilson

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
153
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • BBC OneUnited Kingdom
  • BBC Cymru WalesUnited Kingdom
  • BBC StudiosUnited Kingdom
  • CBCCanada
  • BBC Studios Drama ProductionsUnited Kingdom

Themes

alientime machinetime travel