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See also the BBC's episode guide .

Recaps for Doctor Who, spanning all TV series episodes from 1963 up until the present day.

Many of the First and Second Doctors' episodes (97 to be precise) are no longer accounted for in video format  though only one, "The Daleks' Master Plan" part 7, "The Feast of Steven", was almost certainly exterminated beyond recovery as no copies were ever made of it, so a delicate flicker of hope remains for the other 96. And even that isn't enough to stop fans from thinking the 97th episode has a copy lurking somewhere. All the missing episodes survive in audio form thanks to viewers at the time using tape recorders during the original broadcasts, and in addition to these soundtracks being released with narration from an original cast member to fill in the visual elements, there are also telesnap reconstructions, which marry the audio to off-screen photographs of the original broadcasts. Some of these episodes have been animated by dedicated restoration teams for official DVD releases funded by the BBC.

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The "Classic Series" (1963-1989) was done in 25-minute long episodes where every story (except for "Mission to the Unknown" and "The Five Doctors") was a multi-episode serial, between two and fourteen episodes in length. Season 22 stood out as an exception with 45-minute long episodes, but it was still in the serial format. When the series began airing in the US in the early 70's, the individual episodes were combined into full-length "movies"; thusly, some fans consider the individual episodes to be parts of one whole episode.

The "Revival Series" (2005-the present) is done mostly in 45-minute-long episodes, most of them self-contained with at least one two-part story each season (and Series 3, 9, and 10 each have a three-parter), with numerous filmed shorts to supplement the series. Series 11 ups the episode length to 50 minutes.

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Cross-reference recap pages for The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, K9 and Class, which are also part of the Whoniverse, as well as for the many tangled continuities and timelines of the Big Finish audio series, which are broadly canonical.

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First Doctor era (William Hartnell): 1963-1966

There is some dispute as to what a number of the serials up to "The Gunfighters" should be called, as these stories had individual episode titles rather than an on-screen full title. Many of the titles have been gleaned from surviving BBC paperwork, but for the very early stories, you may see alternative names being used. The names seen below are those on the DVD or video releases.

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

— The Doctor "This old body of mine is wearing a bit thin." The Doctor and his new companions Ben and Polly barely even have time to get used to each other's company before an encounter with a deadly new enemy helps push the Doctor's ageing body over the edge. Season 4 (43 episodes of which 10 survive, 10 September 1966 - 1 July 1967. No story from this season survives in a complete form.) "The Smugglers" (4 episodes, all missing) "The Tenth Planet" (4 episodes, episode 4 missing but remade with animation)

Second Doctor era (Patrick Troughton): 1966-1969

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The gist of it is that (besides the actors obviously looking older), in those two stories Jamie clearly knows about Time Lords, the Doctor has been in contact with them, is willingly working with them, and capable of actually controlling his TARDIS  none of which he could do in his own era. The Third Doctor then debuts with some items (like his TARDIS-locating watch) that he definitely wasn't wearing in "The War Games". The only logical explanation is that these adventures happen after " The War Games " but before "Spearhead From Space". Luckily, the Early Installment Weirdness of the regeneration scene makes this surprisingly plausible. The comics of the time fit into this gap (and actually show Troughton changing into Pertwee). Season 6B is basically as official as you can get in Doctor Who - there are over sixty stories set during it, including stories by both Robert Holmes and Terrance Dicks . Holmes, in particular, explicitly meant "The Two Doctors" to take place in this period.

The Second Doctor's reappearances in " The Three Doctors ", " The Five Doctors ", and " The Two Doctors " are ambiguously placed in his timeline.It has been proposed that they are set in " Season 6b ", meaning they take place during otherwise unseen adventures set after " The War Games ".

Season 4

— The Doctor "There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought." The Doctor's astounding transformation leaves him badly drained and his friends wondering if he's even the same person. The universe obligingly brings out the ultimate test: a confrontation with the Daleks. From there, the new Doctor — with highlander Jamie McCrimmon also joining the team — takes on everything from mad scientists to Cybermen to giant crabs... before coming face-to-face with his worst enemies once more. Season 4 (Continued) "The Power of the Daleks" (6 episodes, all missing but remade with animation) "The Highlanders" (4 episodes, all missing) "The Underwater Menace" (4 episodes, 1 & 4 missing) "The Moonbase" (4 episodes, 1 & 3 missing but remade with animation) "The Macra Terror" (4 episodes, all missing but remade with animation) "The Faceless Ones" (6 episodes, 2, 4, 5, and 6 missing but remade with animation) "The Evil of the Daleks" (7 episodes, only episode 2 known to survive)

Season 5

Season 6

Third Doctor era (Jon Pertwee): 1970-1974

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The concept of regeneration was not fully defined yet, the writers more or less used an excuse to change his appearance and there was no fuss to be made about showing the transition

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The exception is part one of "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" , as the recolourisation method was only partially successful; a "best efforts" colour version was included on the DVD, but as an alternative to the monochrome version.

The actual regeneration sequence from Patrick Troughton to Jon Pertwee was not televised, but a possible version based on the idea that the Doctor actually managed to escape the Time Lords at the end of "The War Games" was depicted in a comic (the TV Comic story "The Night Walkers") shortly before Season 7 began (and later explored in a psuedo-canon fan project work titled Devious that is loosely connected to official Doctor Who and featured Pertwee himself in a filmed regeneration sequence). While this was the last era to be affected by the BBC's routine archive purges, from this point onwards all episodes survive and can be found in the BBC archives, albeit as telerecordings alone in many cases. This era also marked the start of the series being in full colour, although a handful of Third Doctor episodes had survived only in black and white. These have since been restored to full colour by various methods.

Season 7

— The Brigadier "We deal with the odd... the unexplained. Anything on Earth... or beyond." Having been executed by his own people and exiled to Earth, the Doctor finds himself on the front lines of an Auton invasion. With no way off-planet for the foreseeable future, he grudgingly joins forces with UNIT, acting as their scientific advisor against various alien threats. Season 7 (25 episodes, 3 January - 20 June 1970) "Spearhead from Space" (4 episodes) "Doctor Who and the Silurians" (7 episodes) "The Ambassadors of Death" (7 episodes) "Inferno" (7 episodes)

Season 8

Season 9

Season 10

When the Doctor  with the help of his previous two incarnations  helps save the Time Lords and the universe from a threat from their ancient past, his Earthly exile is lifted at last. But the freedom to explore time and space once more paves the way for more confrontations with old enemies... Season 10 (26 episodes, 30 December 1972 - 23 June 1973) "The Three Doctors" (4 episodes, 10th anniversary special, multi-Doctor, with First and Second Doctors) "Carnival of Monsters" (4 episodes) "Frontier in Space" (6 episodes) "Planet of the Daleks" (6 episodes) "The Green Death" (6 episodes)

Season 11

The Doctor takes on a new companion, plucky reporter Sarah Jane Smith, on the way to meeting his destiny when an event from his recent past turns out to have paved the way for a terrible new threat. Season 11 (26 episodes, 15 December 1973 - 8 June 1974) "The Time Warrior" (4 episodes) "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" (6 episodes, part 1 titled "Invasion" to preserve the twist and is the only Pertwee episode not to survive in full colour) "Death to the Daleks" (4 episodes) "The Monster of Peladon" (6 episodes) "Planet of the Spiders" (6 episodes)

Fourth Doctor era (Tom Baker): 1974-1981

From this point onwards, no episodes were ever junked, so all episodes survive. Furthermore, from Season 16 on, no episodes were ever in danger of being junked, as it was in 1978 that the BBC ended its junking policy. A twelve-regeneration (thirteen incarnations) limit was also put into practice during Tom Baker's tenure for the sake of explaining the return of an old villain, and as a way of bringing a definite end to the series if the need arose, back during the days when its future was in doubt.

Season 12

a doctor, but I am the Doctor. The definite article, you might say." — The Doctor "You may bedoctor, but I amDoctor. The definite article, you might say." The Fourth Doctor is itching to get away from UNIT more than ever, even as he helps them deal with mysterious thefts. With both Sarah Jane Smith and amiable UNIT doctor Harry Sullivan in tow, he journeys to a far-future space station. But solving a crisis involving the future of humanity is just the beginning of a roundabout journey through time and space that will set him against three of his most powerful adversaries... and give him the chance to stop one of them from ever existing. Season 12 (20 episodes, 28 December 1974 - 10 May 1975) "Robot" (4 episodes) "The Ark in Space" (4 episodes) "The Sontaran Experiment" (2 episodes) "Genesis of the Daleks" (6 episodes) "Revenge of the Cybermen" (4 episodes)

Season 13

Season 14

Season 15

Season 16 (The Key to Time)

Season 17

Season 18

— The Doctor "It's the end, but the moment has been prepared for." This season features two mini-arcs: First, the Doctor, Romana II, and K-9 Mark III become trapped in "E-Space", a pocket universe. The journey to escape it will bring a new companion, child genius Adric, aboard the TARDIS  but also see Romana and K-9 depart. Next, an old enemy of the Doctor sets in motion a plan that will lead to the arrival of more companions... and the near-destruction of the universe. Season 18 (28 episodes, 30 August 1980 - 21 March 1981) "The Leisure Hive" (4 episodes) "Meglos" (4 episodes) "Full Circle" (4 episodes) "State of Decay" (4 episodes) "Warriors' Gate" (4 episodes) "The Keeper of Traken" (4 episodes) "Logopolis" (4 episodes)

Fifth Doctor era (Peter Davison): 1982-1984

The Sonic Screwdriver was retired during this era, and remained out of use onscreen until the TV Movie. Also, due to an oversight regarding what date "Mawdryn Undead" took place in-universe and vagueness over the date of retirement of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart , it became impossible to tell if any stories featuring UNIT while he was an enlisted officer took place in the 1970s or 1980s without narratives contradicting each other . This became known as the "UNIT dating controversy", and has been riffed on in the revival: even the Doctor isn't sure when it happened, while Kate Stewart claims it depends on "dating protocol".

Season 19

— The Doctor "An apple a day keeps the... No, never mind." The Fifth Doctor, after a bout of regeneration sickness and one more attempt by the Master to undo him, quickly ingratiates himself with Adric and his newest companions: Tegan Jovanka, a sharp-tongued stewardess, and the gentle Nyssa of Traken. But as he tries to get Tegan back to the present day, their adventures sometimes take tragic turns... Season 19 (26 episodes, 4 January - 30 March 1982) "Castrovalva" (4 episodes) "Four to Doomsday" (4 episodes) "Kinda" (4 episodes) "The Visitation" (4 episodes) "Black Orchid" (2 episodes) "Earthshock" (4 episodes) "Time-Flight" (4 episodes)

Season 20

note The fact that every story featured an enemy from the series' past was a coincidence, but when it was pointed out John Nathan-Turner decided it made a good promotional hook  most importantly the Black Guardian, who recruits Vislor Turlough, an exiled alien prince masquerading as a schoolboy on Earth, to become the Doctor's newest companion and finish the Time Lord off for good. But even under pain of death if he fails, can Turlough bring himself to do this once he gets to know him? A plethora of old enemies are gunning for the Doctor most importantly the Black Guardian, who recruits Vislor Turlough, an exiled alien prince masquerading as a schoolboy on Earth, to become the Doctor's newest companion and finish the Time Lord off for good. But even under pain of death if he fails, can Turlough bring himself to do this once he gets to know him? Season 20 (22 episodes, 3 January - 16 March 1983) "Arc of Infinity" (4 episodes) "Snakedance" (4 episodes) "Mawdryn Undead" (4 episodes) (first part of the Black Guardian trilogy) "Terminus" (4 episodes) (second part of the Black Guardian trilogy) "Enlightenment" (4 episodes) (third part of the Black Guardian trilogy) "The King's Demons" (2 episodes) 20th Anniversary Special  1983 Children in Need Special (23 November 1983 [US], 25 November 1983 [UK]; not officially part of any season, but listed here for sanity's sake) "The Five Doctors" (1 90-minute special, multi-Doctor, with First, Second, Third, and Fourth Doctors) note The Fourth Doctor only appeared via reused footage from Shada, as Tom Baker declined to appear. This was produced as one episode, but has been aired as four 25-minute episodes in reruns.

Season 21

It is a time of great changes in the TARDIS. There are departures as Tegan grows disillusioned with the tragedies that surround the Doctor, Turlough comes to terms with his past, and even the shapeshifting robot Kamelion's story comes full circle. From this, the Doctor takes on Peri Brown, but when they are caught up in skullduggery on a distant planet he will have to risk everything in the hopes of saving her from the horrors that ensue... Season 21 (24/26 episodes, 5 January - 30 March 1984) "Warriors of the Deep" (4 episodes) "The Awakening" (2 episodes) "Frontios" (4 episodes) "Resurrection of the Daleks" (produced as 4 episodes, aired as 2 45-minute episodes) "Planet of Fire" (4 episodes) "The Caves of Androzani" (4 episodes)

Sixth Doctor era (Colin Baker): 1984-1986

Colin Baker's era is notable for starting at the tail end of Peter Davison's final season, and for experimenting with the show's format. However, due to troubled production values, criticisms and Executive Meddling , Season 23 was placed on hiatus, had its runtime drastically reduced and retooled into a large story arc, causing several planned stories featuring him to be dropped entirely; you can find the missing pieces of his Doctor's existence here . Baker's era ended just as roughly as it began, with severely reduced ratings, general public and executive apathy towards the show, and Baker himself being unceremoniously fired after Season 23's conclusion, marking the only time an actor was outright axed from the role of the Doctor during the show's run.

Season 21

am the Doctor, whether you like it or not." — The Doctor "Whatever else happens, Ithe Doctor, whether you like it or not." Season 21 (Continued) "The Twin Dilemma" (4 episodes)

Season 22

Season 23 (The Trial of a Time Lord)

Ten million years of absolute power! That's what it takes to be REALLY corrupt!" — The Doctor "In all my travelling throughout the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here! The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core! Power-mad conspirators? Daleks? Sontarans? Cybermen? They're still in the nursery compared to us! The Doctor is captured and put on trial by the Time Lords over his interfering with events across time and space. The menacing Valeyard makes his case for the Doctor's guilt by revealing the details of two recent adventures of his  including the fate of Peri  while the Doctor counters with a story from his future. But all is not as it seems in the present, and the Doctor, with the help of his future companion Melanie Bush, is on the path to a showdown with an enemy he never could have imagined. Season 23 (14 episodes, 6 September - 6 December 1986) note "The Trial of a Time Lord" is a 14-part story, split into four distinctive parts. This is either treated as one story or four (the only on-screen title used is "The Trial of a Time Lord"); it was produced and novelised as four "parts", and all commercial releases treat it as four stories forming a wider whole, so TV Tropes has separate pages for each of the four "parts" of the serial. The series resumes 25-minute episodes but retains a reduced overall episode count. "The Mysterious Planet" (4 episodes) "Mindwarp" (4 episodes) "Terror of the Vervoids" (4 episodes) "The Ultimate Foe" (2 episodes, Part 2 is 30 minutes long)

Seventh Doctor era (Sylvester McCoy): 1987-1989

This was the last era of the classic series, after Doctor Who was not renewed for a 27th season. The series kept its reduced episode count and suffered a timeslot bump that pitted it against Coronation Street , stifling any chance at regaining its massive ratings losses from the previous two seasons despite significant improvements in fan and critical reception before finally being cancelled in 1989 (though the BBC repeatedly insisted that it was an indefinite hiatus). However, Sylvester McCoy made guest appearances as the Seventh Doctor on children's shows throughout the 1990s, such as Search Out Science and a Children in Need special, before finally returning for the 1996 Doctor Who television movie.

Season 24

— The Doctor "Think about me when you're living your life one day after another, all in a neat pattern. Think about the homeless traveller and his old police box, with his days like crazy paving." The Seventh Doctor and Mel Bush embark upon a more whimsical series of adventures befitting a more lighthearted Doctor. Season 24 (14 episodes, 7 September - 7 December 1987) "Time and the Rani" (4 episodes) "Paradise Towers" (4 episodes) "Delta and the Bannermen" (3 episodes) "Dragonfire" (3 episodes)

Season 25

Davros: You flatter yourself, Doctor. In the end, you are merely another Time Lord!

The Doctor: Oh, Davros. I am far more than just "another" Time Lord. note This exchange was cut from the actual broadcast, but can be seen on the DVD. You flatter yourself, Doctor. In the end, you are merely another Time Lord!Oh, Davros. I am far more than just "another" Time Lord. The Doctor has a new companion in the quick-witted, scrappy teenager Ace. She had a strange life even before she met the Doctor... but she comes to learn that it can't compare to the mysteries surrounding the man she calls "Professor", whose clownish bumbling is giving way to the machinations of a chessmaster with many secrets in his distant past... some of which are now coming to light. Season 25 (14 episodes, 5 October 1988 - 4 January 1989) "Remembrance of the Daleks" (4 episodes) "The Happiness Patrol" (3 episodes) "Silver Nemesis" (3 episodes, 25th anniversary special) "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" (4 episodes)

Season 26

— The Doctor "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do." With the help of the Doctor  and whether she wants to or not  Ace must learn and come to terms with the mysteries of her past on the way to returning to the present and facing the future. Season 26 (14 episodes, 6 September - 6 December 1989) "Battlefield" (4 episodes) "Ghost Light" (3 episodes) "The Curse of Fenric" (4 episodes) "Survival" (3 episodes) Search Out Space  Special Episode of Search Out Science (21 November 1990) A special guest episode of Search Out Science, a children's education programme, K9 returned as did Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred, returning as the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Presumably non-canon due to its ties to Doctor Who being tangential at most. 30th Anniversary Special  1993 Children in Need Special (2 parts, 26 November 1993 to 27 November 1993) "Dimensions in Time" (2 episodes, multi-Doctor, with Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Doctors, and posthumously, the First and Second Doctors, considered Canon Discontinuity by the BBC)

Eighth Doctor era (Paul McGann): 1996

Paul McGann did not receive a full televised tenure, due to the the television movie not being picked up for a new series. Instead, his character was explored in a very wide range of Expanded Universe material. His two on-screen appearances act as bookends to his life, with his 2013 regeneration story name-checking his Big Finish Doctor Who audio companions. The Eighth Doctor's second on-screen appearance, " The Night of the Doctor ", is listed under the Eleventh Doctor era.

The TV Movie

— The Doctor "Grace, I came back to life before your eyes. I held back death. Look, I can't make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today!" Made-for-TV Special (1 episode, 90 minutes, 12 May 1996 [Canada], 27 May 1996 [UK]) The TV Movie (with Seventh Doctor) note Episode Trivia , Episode YMMV

War Doctor era (Sir John Hurt): 2013

The War Doctor, played by Sir John Hurt , was introduced retroactively in 2013 as a bygone, concealed incarnation of the Doctor who fought in the Last Great Time War. His on-screen appearances are contained to the Eleventh Doctor era, and are listed in that section below: "The Name of the Doctor" "The Night of the Doctor" and "The Day of the Doctor" . You'll find the rest of his adventures in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio range and the Expanded Universe

Ninth Doctor era (Christopher Eccleston): 2005

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He also has a notorious reputation for being overshadowed. Due to only being the Doctor for only a few months in TV time, his presence in the Expanded Universe was heavily diminished, as only a handful of show-concurrent novels and Doctor Who Magazine comic stories exist featuring him. However, he saw a reemergence in 2015 with the release of a Doctor Who Titan comic miniseries. Unfortunately, his short television run is sometimes sorely overlooked by both first-time viewers and in network reruns, leading to the coining of the phrase " Don't skip Nine.

This series marks the beginning of the revived TV series; all episodes before this series are considered "Classic Who", on account of both the 16-year cancellation/hiatus and the massive retool in both format and presentation upon the show's eventual return. Notably, Christopher Eccleston limited his tenure to one 13-episode season for personal reasons, stemming from a troubled working atmosphere behind the scenes . He is well-known among fan circles for maintaining a professional attitude on the matter, where he will only come back if the offer is truly enticing to him, and thus took fandom rather by surprise when it was announced in August 2020 that he was reprising the role for 12 Big Finish audio episodes.For some years Eccleston was technically the shortest-tenured actor of them all in terms of time actually playing the part due to Hurt and McGann's tenures playing the Doctor in the Big Finish audio plays, although Eccleston's own audio adventures will go some way to redressing the balance.

Series 1

Tenth Doctor era (David Tennant): 2005-2010

David Tennant's era re-introduced old companions, such as Sarah Jane Smith and K9. It also bore witness to the creation of the spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures . At this point in the series, Doctor Who saw a huge popularity boom with a new generation.

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

2009 Specials

These specials are part of production Series 4, but are listed separately due to being a mini-series. Carmen: But you be careful, because your song is ending, sir.

The Doctor: What do you mean?

Carmen: It is returning, it is returning through the dark. And then Doctor... oh, but then... But you be careful, because your song is ending, sir.What do you mean?It is returning, it is returning through the dark. And then Doctor... oh, but then... he will knock four times The Doctor is on his own now, and all is well at first. But soon enough he learns he won't be "himself" much longer, and without the influence of a companion he becomes less stable, more willing to take risks he shouldn't. When an old enemy returns as the harbinger of an even more terrible force, the Tenth Doctor will have to face up to his responsibilities, his destiny, at last. 2009 Specials (5 episodes, 25 December 2008 - 1 January 2010) "The Next Doctor" (2008 Christmas special, 60 minutes) "Planet of the Dead" (2009 Easter special, 60 minutes) "The Waters of Mars" (2009 Fall special, 60 minutes) Dreamland (6 mini-episodes, 21 November 2009 to 27 November 2009) "Dreamland" (set some time between "The Waters of Mars" and "The End of Time") 2009 Specials (Continued) The 50th Anniversary, for the Tenth Doctor, takes place in between "The Waters of Mars" and "The End of Time". Due to overlapping timelines, he doesn't recall the full details, only the wedding. The 50th Anniversary, for the Tenth Doctor, takes place in between "The Waters of Mars" and "The End of Time". Due to overlapping timelines, he doesn't recall the full details, only the wedding. "The End of Time" (Part 1  2009 Christmas special, 60 minutes, Part 2  2010 New Year's special, 75 minutes)

Eleventh Doctor era (Matt Smith): 2010-2013

Matt Smith's tenure incorporated the franchise's 50th anniversary, and his finale overcame the 12-regeneration limit established by the series in the 1970s. His era also saw the introductions of Amy Pond, Rory Williams and Clara Oswald, the three longest-serving companions of the Modern Era (although most of Clara's tenure actually is set in the Twelfth Doctor's era). This was also the point where the series had its popularity cross into North America.

Series 5

Series 6

Series 7

2013 Specials

— The Doctor "Everything ends, Clara. And sooner than you think." The Doctor finally comes to terms with his actions in the Last Great Time War in a way he never could have expected. From there, he learns the origin of the forces that have plagued him ever since he regenerated, and prepares to make his final stand... Web Specials (14 November - 21 November 2013) "The Night of the Doctor" (prequel to "The Day of the Doctor", starring the Eighth Doctor)

"The Last Day" (another prequel to "The Day of the Doctor") 50th Anniversary Special (23 November 2013) "The Day of the Doctor" (Multi-Doctor, with War and Tenth Doctors, as well as cameos by all Doctors so far, including Twelve, 76 minutes) Christmas Special (25 December 2013) "The Time of the Doctor" (60 minutes)

Twelfth Doctor era (Peter Capaldi): 2014-2017

This era returned to uninterrupted runs and season-long story arcs. Each series has 12 episodes rather than 13; Series 9 is unique to the revival in that it has only one definitively standalone episode. (According to Steven Moffat, Series 9 was deliberately designed to challenge perceptions as to whether each episode was a one-parter, two-parter or even a three-parter, and hence there is some argument about whether some episodes are standalone or not.) The longer-than-usual gap between Series 9 (Fall 2015) and Series 10 (Spring 2017) was relieved by the annual Christmas Episodes in 2015 and '16; a short-lived spinoff, Class , also aired during this gap.

Series 8

Series 9

Series 10

Thirteenth Doctor era (Jodie Whittaker): 2018-present

Announced after the Wimbledon Men's Finals in 2017, Jodie Whittaker is the first canon female incarnation of the Doctor. Her first series, under new showrunner Chris Chibnall (who previously wrote several episodes for the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors and helmed Torchwood ), launched on October 7, 2018 with "The Woman Who Fell to Earth".

Chibnall becoming showrunner also caused a change to the format followed since the birth of NewWho, with the show now consisting of 50-minute episodes airing on Sundays, with the post-series special moved from Christmas to New Year's Day. In addition, for the third time, there was a one-year gap between series, with Series 12 not airing until 2020.

Series 11

Series 12

Expanded Universe recaps