^ The First Doctor remained for the first two serials of season 4.Other sources, such as the Region 1 classic Doctor Who DVD releases, use different numbering schemes, which diverge after the 108th story, The Horns of Nimon (1979–1980). The numbering scheme in this list follows the official website's episode guide. There is some dispute, for instance, about whether to count Season 23's The Trial of a Time Lord as one or as four serials, and whether the unfinished serial Shada should be included. The story numbers below are meant as a guide to placement in the overall context of the programme. For commercial release, some episodes have been reconstructed using off-air audio recordings, paired to surviving visuals or newly commissioned animation. As a result, 26 serials are currently incomplete, with one or more episodes represented only by audio, which in many cases is in addition to clips or still frames. With the show's revival in 2005, the programme returned to individual episode titles.ĭue to the BBC's 1970s junking policy, 97 episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s are no longer known to exist. The titles below, for these early serials, are those in most common circulation, used for commercial releases and in resources such as the Doctor Who Reference Guide and the BBC's classic episode guide. The 2005 revival trades the earlier serial format for a run of self-contained episodes, interspersed with occasional multi-part stories and structured into loose story arcs.įor the first two seasons of Doctor Who and most of the third (1963–1966), each episode carries its own title the show displays no titles for overarching serials until The Savages, at which point the episodic titles cease. The original series (1963–1989), generally consists of multi-episode serials in the early seasons, and occasionally through its run, serials tend to link together, one story leading directly into the next. A one-off TV movie was produced in the US in 1996, before the series resumed in 2005. The programme's high episode count has resulted in Doctor Who holding the world record for the highest number of episodes of a science-fiction programme. Additionally, four charity specials and two animated serials have also been aired. This includes one television movie and multiple specials, and encompasses 300 stories over 39 seasons, starting in 1963. As of 23 October 2022, 871 episodes of Doctor Who have aired, concluding the thirteenth series. For the episodes starting from 2005, see List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present).ĭoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. This article is about the 1963–1989 episodes and 1996 film.

Doctor Who by Rebecca Gyllenhaal