First Doctor: William Hartnell (November 1963 – October 1966) Crotchety, eccentric, not always truthful with his companions, came to care deeply for them. Set the pattern for later companions. “There ...

The first episode of Doctor Who was aired on 23 November 1963. The cover of the Radio Times that week announced "a new Saturday-afternoon television series of adventures in time and space".

The longest running Sci-Fi program in the history of this universe. The Doctor is a Time Lord who travels the universe for kicks because his planet is the dullest in the universe and Earth is much ...