A time-traveling alien, with the power to assume a new body and personality with each incarnation, has adventures going back decades. Yes, I went through The Simpsons and decided to give Doctor Who a try. Let’s see how far I get in this show…
The First Doctor
William Hartnell was the First Doctor, when the show was largely meant to be educational or something along those lines. He’s pompous and superior in a way that makes him the most interesting character on the show.
An Unearthly Child
The Daleks
The Edge of Destruction
The Keys of Marinus
- The Sea of Death
- The Velvet Web
- The Screaming Jungle
- The Snows of Terror
- Sentence of Death
- The Keys of Marinus
The Aztecs
The Sensorites
- Strangers in Space
- The Unwilling Warriors
- Hidden Danger
- A Race Against Death
- Kidnap
- A Desperate Venture
Planet of Giants
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Rescue
The Romans
The Web Planet
The Space Museum
The Chase
- The Executioners
- The Death of Time
- Flight Through Eternity
- Journey into Terror
- The Death of Doctor Who
- The Planet of Decision
The Time Meddler
The Ark
The Gunfighters
The War Machines
The Second Doctor
Patrick Troughton took over the role of the Doctor in 1966, leading to a different version of the character than had been played by William Hartnell. This Doctor was more childishly comical, but much smarter than he lets on when he needed to be. Troughton arguably was the most important Doctor in the show’s history as his work made the concept of recasting the Doctor every so many years plausible.
The Power of the Daleks
The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Enemy of the World
The Web of Fear
The Wheel in Space
The Dominators
The Mind Robber
The Invasion
The Krotons
The Seeds of Death
The War Games
The Third Doctor
Jon Pertwee’s time as the Doctor caused some drastic changes. The show shifted to color, produced less episodes per season, largely kept the Doctor stuck on Earth as an associate adviser to UNIT to save some money, and took on a more action-adventure theme over the broader comedy of the Second Doctor’s era.
Spearhead from Space
Doctor Who and the Silurians
The Ambassadors of Death
Inferno
Terror of the Autons
The Mind of Evil
The Claws of Axos
Colony in Space
The Daemons
Day of the Daleks
The Curse of Peladon
The Sea Devils
The Mutants
The Time Monster
The Three Doctors
Carnival of Monsters
Frontier in Space
Planet of the Daleks
The Green Death
The Time Warrior
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Death to the Daleks
The Monster of Peladon
Planet of the Spiders
The Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is probably the guy everybody who isn’t a big fan of the show pictures if they have any idea what the Doctor looks like. Really long scarf, floppy hat, mass of curly hair, all on a tall dude. Yeah, that’s Tom Baker’s longest-running Doctor.
Robot
The Ark in Space
The Sontaran Experiment
Genesis of the Daleks
Revenge of the Cybermen
Terror of the Zygons
Planet of Evil
Pyramids of Mars
The Android Invasion
The Brain of Morbius
The Seeds of Doom
The Masque of Mandragora
The Hand of Fear
The Deadly Assassin
The Face of Evil
The Robots of Death
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Horror of Fang Rock
The Invisible Enemy
Image of the Fendahl
The Sun Makers
Underworld
The Invasion of Time
The Ribos Operation
The Pirate Planet
The Stones of Blood
The Androids of Tara
The Power of Kroll
The Armageddon Factor
Destiny of the Daleks
City of Death
The Creature from the Pit
Nightmare of Eden
The Horns of Nimon
The Leisure Hive
Meglos
Full Circle
State of Decay
Warriors’ Gate
The Keeper of Traken
Logopolis
The Fifth Doctor
Fifth Doctor Peter Davison was the youngest Doctor at the time he was cast, and the first who was already a well-known TV actor. His Doctor comes across as basically a nice young man with some upper class manners.
Castrovalva
Four to Doomsday
Kinda
The Visitation
Black Orchid
Earthshock
Time-Flight
Arc of Infinity
Snakedance
Mawdryn Undead
Terminus
Enlgihtenment
The King’s Demons
Warriors of the Deep
The Awakening
Frontios
Resurrection of the Daleks
Planet of Fire
The Caves of Androzani
The Sixth Doctor
Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor was probably the opposite of his immediate predecessor in every way possible. Vain, arrogant even by the standards of the Doctor, and a know-it-all, this Doctor may have been one of the least popular when he first appeared, and his tenure was among the shortest, but Baker never gave it less than his all and it shows. If only his stories were better written…
The Twin Dilemma
Attack of the Cybermen
Vengeance on Varos
The Mark of the Rani
The Two Doctors
Timelash
Revelation of the Daleks
The Trial of a Time Lord
- The Mysterious Planet Part One
- The Mysterious Planet Part Two
- The Mysterious Planet Part Three
- The Mysterious Planet Part Four
- Mindwarp Part Five
- Mindwarp Part Six
- Mindwarp Part Seven
- Mindwarp Part Eight
- Terror of the Vervoids Part Nine
- Terror of the Vervoids Part Ten
- Terror of the Vervoids Part Eleven
- Terror of the Vervoids Part Twelve
- The Ultimate Foe Part Thirteen
- The Ultimate Foe Part Fourteen
The Seventh Doctor
At the end of the original run, Sylvester McCoy took on the role of the Doctor, here a character who was alternately a bit silly or very Machiavellian. Or sometimes both at once.
Time and the Rani
Paradise Towers
Delta and the Bannermen
Dragonfire
Remembrance of the Daleks
The Happiness Patrol
Silver Nemesis
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Battlefield
Ghost Light
The Curse of Fenric
Survival
The Eighth Doctor
Eighth Doctor Paul McGann made one TV movie, but thanks to Big Finish, is actually the longest running Doctor.
The Ninth Doctor
Christopher Eccleston’s run as the Ninth Doctor may have been cut short due to behind-the-scenes drama and other issues, but he did help revive the popular franchise for a modern era.
- Rose
- The End of the World
- The Unquiet Dead
- Aliens of London
- World War Three
- Dalek
- The Long Game
- Father’s Day
- The Empty Child
- The Doctor Dances
- Boom Town
- Bad Wolf
- The Parting of the Ways
The Tenth Doctor
Would the new Doctor Who have taken off the way it did without fan-favorite Tenth Doctor David Tennant stepping into the role? I don’t know. He’s the only actor to really rival Tom Baker in terms of popularity when it comes to actors who’ve played the Doctor, and he’s a big time fan himself, so that helped.
- The Christmas Invasion
- New Earth
- Tooth and Claw
- School Reunion
- The Girl in the Fireplace
- Rise of the Cybermen
- The Age of Steel
- The Idiot’s Lantern
- The Impossible Planet
- The Satan Pit
- Love & Monsters
- Fear Her
- Army of Ghosts
- Doomsday
- The Runaway Bride
- Smith and Jones
- The Shakespeare Code
- Gridlock
- Daleks in Manhattan
- Evolution of the Daleks
- The Lazarus Experiment
- 42
- Human Nature
- The Family of Blood
- Blink
- Utopia
- The Sound of Drums
- Last of the Time Lords
- Voyage of the Damned
Torchwood
Modern Doctor Who managed to get a spin-off or two, the first of which was Torchwood. Set in Cardiff, Wales, it followed the adventures of Captain Jack Harkness, the immortal con man, as he and his crew worked to keep an eye on the Cardiff Rift and retrieve alien artifacts before they could cause trouble. A more adult show set in the Doctor Who Universe, it had a lot more sex, profanity, and violence.
Series One
- Everything Changes
- Day One
- Ghost Machine
- Cyberwoman
- Small Worlds
- Countrycide
- Greeks Bearing Gifts
- They Keep KIlling Susie
- Random Shoes
- Out of Time
- Combat
- Captain Jack Harkness
- End of Days
Series Two
- Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- Sleeper
- To the Last Man
- Meat
- Adam
- Reset
- Dead Man Walking
- A Day in the Death
- Something Borrowed
- From Out of the Rain
- Adrift
- Fragments
- Exit Wounds
The Sarah Jane Adventures
And then on the opposite end of the spectrum from Torchwood was another spin-off series, this one a rather charming show aimed at a much younger audience featuring fan favorite Classic Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith as she protects people from alien threats with the help of neighborhood kids.
Series One