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".

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 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 ...