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List of Doctor Who episodes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ19838686 ↗
Source-derived summary

For the British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who, List of Doctor Who episodes may refer to:

List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989), a list of the 1963–1989 episodes and 1996 film of Doctor Who

List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–2025), a list of the episodes starting from 2005 of Doctor Who

Series overview

The following table dictates the season or series in question for the programme as a whole. The numbering system present is the same one used by the BBC; other sources may have alternate numbering.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 1989, 1996, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, Doctor and episodes.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19838686. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1963, 1989, 1996 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Doctor Who episodes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.