List Of Doctor Who Episodes (1963–1989)
Doctor Who ceased production in 1989 after 695 episodes. A one-off TV movie was produced in the US in 1996, before the series resumed in 2005. 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. 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.
For 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 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. With the show's revival in 2005, the programme returned to individual episode titles.
Due to the BBC's 1970s junking policy, 97 episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s are no longer known to exist. 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. For commercial release, some episodes have been reconstructed using off-air audio recordings, paired to surviving visuals or newly commissioned animation.
The story numbers below are meant as a guide to placement in the overall context of the programme. 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 numbering scheme in this list follows the official website's episode guide. 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).
Series overview
The following table dictates the season or series in question for the programme as a whole.
Regular seasons
Season / Series | Doctor | Episodes | Serials | Originally aired (UK) | Average viewers (millions) | Average AI | ||||||
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First aired | Last aired | |||||||||||
Classic era | ||||||||||||
Season 1 | First Doctor | 42 | 8 | 23 November 1963 | 12 September 1964 | 8.08 | 59 | |||||
Season 2 | 39 | 9 | 31 October 1964 | 24 July 1965 | 10.46 | 54 | ||||||
Season 3 | 45 | 10 | 11 September 1965 | 16 July 1966 | 7.65 | 49 | ||||||
Season 4 | Second Doctor | 43 | 9 | 10 September 1966 | 1 July 1967 | 7.10 | 49 | |||||
Season 5 | 40 | 7 | 2 September 1967 | 1 June 1968 | 7.23 | 53 | ||||||
Season 6 | 44 | 7 | 10 August 1968 | 21 June 1969 | 6.38 | 54 | ||||||
Season 7 | Third Doctor | 25 | 4 | 3 January 1970 | 20 June 1970 | 7.17 | 59 | |||||
Season 8 | 25 | 5 | 2 January 1971 | 19 June 1971 | 7.96 | – | ||||||
Season 9 | 26 | 5 | 1 January 1972 | 24 June 1972 | 8.30 | – | ||||||
Season 10 | 26 | 5 | 30 December 1972 | 23 June 1973 | 8.87 | – | ||||||
Season 11 | 26 | 5 | 15 December 1973 | 8 June 1974 | 8.78 | 60 | ||||||
Season 12 | Fourth Doctor | 20 | 5 | 28 December 1974 | 10 May 1975 | 10.00 | 56 | |||||
Season 13 | 26 | 6 | 30 August 1975 | 6 March 1976 | 10.14 | 57 | ||||||
Season 14 | 26 | 6 | 4 September 1976 | 2 April 1977 | 11.08 | 59 | ||||||
Season 15 | 26 | 6 | 3 September 1977 | 11 March 1978 | 8.98 | 62 | ||||||
Season 16 | 26 | 6 | 2 September 1978 | 24 February 1979 | 8.61 | 64 | ||||||
Season 17 | 20 | 5 | 1 September 1979 | 12 January 1980 | 11.21 | 65 | ||||||
Season 18 | 28 | 7 | 30 August 1980 | 21 March 1981 | 5.82 | 63 | ||||||
Season 19 | Fifth Doctor | 26 | 7 | 4 January 1982 | 30 March 1982 | 9.24 | – | |||||
Season 20 | 22 | 6 | 3 January 1983 | 16 March 1983 | 7.03 | 67 | ||||||
Season 21 | 24 | 7 | 5 January 1984 | 30 March 1984 | 7.14 | 65 | ||||||
Season 22 | Sixth Doctor | 13 | 6 | 5 January 1985 | 30 March 1985 | 7.12 | 64 | |||||
Season 23 | 14 | 1 | 6 September 1986 | 6 December 1986 | 4.81 | 69 | ||||||
Season 24 | Seventh Doctor | 14 | 4 | 7 September 1987 | 7 December 1987 | 4.94 | 60 | |||||
Season 25 | 14 | 4 | 5 October 1988 | 4 January 1989 | 5.34 | 68 | ||||||
Season 26 | 14 | 4 | 6 September 1989 | 6 December 1989 | 4.15 | 68 | ||||||
Revived era | ||||||||||||
Series 1 | Ninth Doctor | 13 | 10 | 26 March 2005 | 18 June 2005 | 7.95 | 82 | |||||
Series 2 | Tenth Doctor | 13 | 10 | 15 April 2006 | 8 July 2006 | 7.71 | 84 | |||||
Series 3 | 13 | 9 | 31 March 2007 | 30 June 2007 | 7.55 | 86 | ||||||
Series 4 | 13 | 10 | 5 April 2008 | 5 July 2008 | 8.05 | 88 | ||||||
Series 5 | Eleventh Doctor | 13 | 10 | 3 April 2010 | 26 June 2010 | 7.73 | 86 | |||||
Series 6 | 13 | 11 | 23 April 2011 | 1 October 2011 | 7.52 | 86 | ||||||
Series 7 | 13 | 13 | 1 September 2012 | 18 May 2013 | 7.44 | 86 | ||||||
Series 8 | Twelfth Doctor | 12 | 11 | 23 August 2014 | 8 November 2014 | 7.26 | 83 | |||||
Series 9 | 12 | 9 | 19 September 2015 | 5 December 2015 | 6.03 | 82 | ||||||
Series 10 | 12 | 11 | 15 April 2017 | 1 July 2017 | 5.46 | 83 | ||||||
Series 11 | Thirteenth Doctor | 10 | 10 | 7 October 2018 | 9 December 2018 | 7.96 | 81 | |||||
Series 12 | 10 | 8 | 1 January 2020 | 1 March 2020 | 5.40 | 80 | ||||||
Series 13 | 6 | 1 | 31 October 2021 | 5 December 2021 | 4.95 | 77 | ||||||
Series 14 | Fifteenth Doctor | 8 | 7 | 11 May 2024 | 22 June 2024 | 3.71 | – | |||||
Series 15 | 8 | TBA | 2025 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Specials
Special(s) | Doctor | Episodes | Originally aired | Average viewers (millions) | Average AI | ||
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20th anniversary | Fifth Doctor | 1 | 25 November 1983 | 7.70 | 75 | ||
Television movie | Eighth Doctor | 1 | 12 May 1996 | 9.08 | 75 | ||
2005 Christmas | Tenth Doctor | 1 | 25 December 2005 | 9.84 | 84 | ||
2006 Christmas | 1 | 25 December 2006 | 9.35 | 84 | |||
2007 Christmas | 1 | 25 December 2007 | 13.31 | 86 | |||
2008–2010 specials | 5 | 25 December 2008 – 1 January 2010 | 11.50 | 88 | |||
2010 Christmas | Eleventh Doctor | 1 | 25 December 2010 | 12.11 | 83 | ||
2011 Christmas | 1 | 25 December 2011 | 10.77 | 84 | |||
2012 Christmas | 1 | 25 December 2012 | 9.87 | 87 | |||
2013 specials | 2 | 23 November – 25 December 2013 | 11.97 | 86 | |||
2014 Christmas | Twelfth Doctor | 1 | 25 December 2014 | 8.28 | 82 | ||
2015 Christmas | 1 | 25 December 2015 | 7.69 | 82 | |||
2016 Christmas | 1 | 25 December 2016 | 7.83 | 82 | |||
2017 Christmas | 1 | 25 December 2017 | 7.92 | 81 | |||
2019 New Year | Thirteenth Doctor | 1 | 1 January 2019 | 7.13 | 80 | ||
2020 New Year | – | 1 January 2020 | 6.89 | 82 | |||
2021 New Year | 1 | 1 January 2021 | 6.36 | 79 | |||
2022 specials | 3 | 1 January – 23 October 2022 | 4.39 | 78 | |||
2023 specials | Fourteenth Doctor | 3 | 25 November – 9 December 2023 | 7.20 | 84 | ||
2023 Christmas | Fifteenth Doctor | 1 | 25 December 2023 | 7.49 | 82 | ||
2024 Christmas | 1 | 25 December 2024 | TBA | TBA |