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Who will be the 14th Doctor Who? ›

This character, portrayed by David Tennant, was confirmed to be the Fourteenth Doctor, with later clarification that Gatwa would actually portray the Fifteenth Doctor. Davies admitted that the team placed "a few false stories" in the media to inhibit any guesses of Gatwa.

Tom Baker thought a woman could take over from him after his tenure as the Time Lord ended in 1981. The show's creator, Sydney Newman, suggested in the 80s that, if the show were to continue, the Doctor should change gender. Joanna Lumley even portrayed a female incarnation of the Doctor in a 1999 Comic Relief sketch.

Jodie Whittaker, the first female Doctor, was a brilliant Doctor. It was everything around her that failed. The stories were weak, convoluted, and overstuffed; there were too many companions, and the scheduling was erratic, thanks in part to the pandemic.

In December, in the Christmas special “The Church on Ruby Road,” we got acquainted with the newest Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa (“Sex Education”) — the 15th Doctor and the first Black, openly queer one in series history. Gatwa's first season as the Doctor begins with a two-episode premiere on Disney+ on Friday.

Ncuti Gatwa Exits Doctor Who, Matt Smith Returns as the 16th Doctor.

Georgia Moffett, who plays Jenny, is the real-life daughter of Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy actress Sandra Dickinson.

“I mean, we discussed [a Yaz and Doctor kiss]; I think it's an unrequited love story,” said Chibnall. “I don't know whether that's the right decision, you know, but it is an unrequited love story. I felt it was more heartbreaking if they didn't.

Although defeated narrowly by Yaz and some of the Doctor's friends and past companions, the Master is able to land a fatal laser attack on the Doctor.

Why is Peter Cushing not counted as a Doctor? ›

He's never counted as a Doctor because he is not an incarnation of the Doctor. At best, if you want something to consider him canon, there's a few lines in the novelisation for Day of the Doctor that reference the Cushing films as existing in-universe as films based on the Doctor's adventures.

leaving the page. 'Three series and out' was the pact agreed between Jodie Whittaker and Doctor Who's outgoing showrunner Chris Chibnall when they teamed up in 2017, having decided that, as they'd joined the show together, they'd leave at the same time too.

Whittaker's final lines as aired used in the show were: "Oh, the blossomiest blossom. It's the only sad thing. I wanna know what happens next. Right then, Doctor-whoever-I'm-about-to-be, tag.

Jodie Whittaker(I)

In 2017 she made history as the thirteenth actor and first woman to play the Doctor in Doctor Who (2005).