List of Doctor Who Episodes (2005-present)
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- This article is about the 1963–1989 episodes and 1996 film. For the episodes starting from 2005, see List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989).
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. As of 23 November 2013, 799 individual episodes, including one television movie of Doctor Who, have been aired, encompassing 240 stories. Additionally, four charity specials and two animated serials have also been aired. The show's high episode count resulted in Doctor Who holding the world record for the highest number of episodes for a science-fiction programme.
Doctor Who ceased airing in 1989 and began again in 2005. Each story in the original series (1963–89) is a multi-episode serial, with two exceptions: the 1965 cutaway episode "Mission to the Unknown" and the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors. The characters in the column after the serial titles indicate the code used by the production team to designate the serial, where applicable, and are followed either by the titles of the individual episodes where given or by the number of episodes otherwise. Unless otherwise noted, episodes in this period are 25 minutes long. During the early seasons of the programme most serials were linked together and one would usually lead directly into the next. Starting with the 2005 revival, the production team abandoned the traditional serial format for a largely self-contained episodic format with occasional multi-part stories and loose story arcs.
Due to the BBC's 1970s junking policy, 97 episodes from the 1960s are missing, with the result that 26 serials are incomplete, although all of these still exist as audio recordings, and some have been reconstructed. In the first two seasons and most of the third, each episode of a serial had an individual title; no serial had an overall on-screen title until The Savages. The serial titles given below are the most common title for the serials as a whole, used in sources such as the Doctor Who Reference Guide and the BBC's classic episode guide, and are generally those used for commercial release. The practice of individually titled episodes resurfaced with the show's 2005 revival, when Doctor Who's serial nature was abandoned in favour of an episodic format.
The three-digit story numbers are not official designations but are merely to serve as a guide to where the story stands in the overall context of the programme. There is some dispute about, for example, whether to count Season 23's The Trial of a Time Lord as one or four serials, and whether the uncompleted Shada should be included. The numbering scheme used here reflects the current internal practice of describing "Planet of the Dead (2009) as the 200th story, used in the official magazine's 407th issue. Other sources, such as the Region 1 DVDs of classic Doctor Who serials, use different numbering schemes which diverge after the 108th story, The Horns of Nimon (1979/80).
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Series overview
The following table dictates the season or series in question; singular specials are not included in episode counts or viewer totals.
| Season / Series | Era | Doctor | Serials | Episodes | Originally aired | Viewers (millions) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||||||
| Season 1 | Classic era | First Doctor | 8 | 42 | 23 November 1963 | 12 September 1964 | 8.08 | |
| Season 2 | 9 | 39 | 31 October 1964 | 24 July 1965 | 10.46 | |||
| Season 3 | 10 | 45 | 11 September 1965 | 16 July 1966 | 8.65 | |||
| Season 4[a] | Second Doctor | 9 | 43 | 10 September 1966 | 1 July 1967 | 6.05 | ||
| Season 5 | 7 | 40 | 2 September 1967 | 1 June 1968 | 7.23 | |||
| Season 6 | 7 | 44 | 10 August 1968 | 21 June 1969 | 6.38 | |||
| Season 7 | Third Doctor | 4 | 25 | 3 January 1970 | 20 June 1970 | 7.17 | ||
| Season 8 | 5 | 25 | 2 January 1971 | 19 June 1971 | 7.96 | |||
| Season 9 | 5 | 26 | 1 January 1972 | 24 June 1972 | 8.30 | |||
| Season 10 | 5 | 26 | 30 December 1972 | 23 June 1973 | 8.87 | |||
| Season 11 | 5 | 26 | 15 December 1973 | 8 June 1974 | 8.78 | |||
| Season 12 | Fourth Doctor | 5 | 20 | 28 December 1974 | 10 May 1975 | 10.00 | ||
| Season 13 | 6 | 26 | 30 August 1975 | 6 March 1976 | 10.14 | |||
| Season 14 | 6 | 26 | 4 September 1976 | 2 April 1977 | 11.08 | |||
| Season 15 | 6 | 26 | 3 September 1977 | 11 March 1978 | 8.98 | |||
| Season 16[b] | 6 | 26 | 2 September 1978 | 24 February 1979 | 8.61 | |||
| Season 17 | 5[c] | 20 | 1 September 1979 | 12 January 1980 | 11.21 | |||
| Season 18 | 7 | 28 | 30 August 1980 | 21 March 1981 | 5.82 | |||
| Season 19 | Fifth Doctor | 7 | 26 | 4 January 1982 | 30 March 1982 | 9.24 | ||
| Season 20 | 6 | 22 | 3 January 1983 | 16 March 1983 | 7.03 | |||
| Season 21[d] | 7 | 24 | 5 January 1984 | 30 March 1984 | 7.14 | |||
| Season 22 | Sixth Doctor | 6 | 13 | 5 January 1985 | 30 March 1985 | 7.12 | ||
| Season 23[e] | 1 | 14 | 6 September 1986 | 6 December 1986 | 4.81 | |||
| Season 24 | Seventh Doctor | 4 | 14 | 7 September 1987 | 7 December 1987 | 4.94 | ||
| Season 25 | 4 | 14 | 5 October 1988 | 4 January 1989 | 5.34 | |||
| Season 26 | 4 | 14 | 6 September 1989 | 6 December 1989 | 4.15 | |||
| TV movie | TV movie | Eighth Doctor | 1 | 1 | 12 May 1996 | 9.08 | ||
| Series 1 | Revived era | Ninth Doctor | 10 | 13 | March 2005 | 18 June 2005 | 7.95 | |
| Series 2 | Tenth Doctor | 10 | 13 | 15 April 2006 | 8 July 2006 | 7.71 | ||
| Series 3 | 9 | 13 | 31 March 2007 | 30 June 2007 | 7.55 | |||
| Series 4 | 10 | 13 | 5 April 2008 | 5 July 2008 | 8.05 | |||
| Specials | 4 | 5 | 25 December 2008 | 1 January 2010 | 11.50 | |||
| Series 5 | Eleventh Doctor | 10 | 13 | 3 April 2010 | 26 June 2010 | 7.73 | ||
| Series 6 | 11 | 13 | 23 April 2011 | 1 October 2011 | 7.52 | |||
| Series 7 | 13 | 13 | 1 September 2012 | 18 May 2013 | 7.44 | |||
| Specials | 2 | 2 | 23 November 2013 | 25 December 2013 | 11.97 | |||
| Series 8 | Twelfth Doctor | 11 | 12 | 23 August 2014 | 8 November 2014 | 7.26 | ||
| Series 9 | 9 | 12 | 19 September 2015 | 5 December 2015 | 6.03 | |||
| Series 10 | 11 | 12 | 15 April 2017 | 1 July 2017 | 5.45 | |||
| Series 11 | Thirteenth Doctor | 10 | 10 | 7 October 2018 | TBA | TBA | ||
