Want to enjoy stories featuring the Fifteenth Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa? This is a collecting guide and viewing order for episodes, novels, comic books, magazines, audio dramas, and more. Find every release and appearance! A part of the Guide to Doctor Who on Crushing Comics, edited by AdjectiveNoun. Last updated March 2024 with titles scheduled for release through June 2024.
The 15th Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa
Ncuti Gatwa made his debut as The Fifteenth Doctor on 9 December 2023 in the final episode in a trio of 60th Anniversary specials starring David Tenant as The Fourteenth Doctor (having re-regenerated to the same form he had as The Tenth Doctor – more on that in the Fourteenth Doctor Guide).
The debut of a new Doctor Who had been over two years in the making, starting from a July 2021 announcement that The Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whitaker, would be departing the show along with showrunner Chris Chibnall at the end of their 2022 series. The BBC didn’t waste much time assuring fans that more Doctor Who was on the way, announcing the return of prior showrunner Russell T. Davis to produce a series of 60th Anniversary specials as well as a new series.
When Whitaker’s run reached its conclusion in October 2022, fans were left with a surprising cliffhanger! Gatwa had already been announced as the next Doctor back in May, but Whitaker’s Thirteenth Doctor didn’t regenerate into Gatwa! Instead, the regeneration revealed David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor!
This lead to a trio of 2023 60th Anniversary specials with Tennant playing the Fourteenth Doctor, which celebrated some of the show’s past continuity – including bringing back prior Companions and even referencing an old Doctor Who Comic book!
At the end of that trio of episodes, we saw the regeneration to Gatwa as the Fifthteenth Doctor in The Giggle. Gatwa had the lengthiest introduction out of any of the modern regeneration handoffs, starring alongside Tennant for over 15 minutes of the episode.
The Fifteenth Doctor made his solo debut in “The Church on Ruby Road,” a 2023 Christmas special. His first full series debuts on 11 May 2023, with a second series already shot by the time that one airs.
Since we are at the beginning of a period of a new Doctor, there isn’t much supporting media yet for Gatwa’s incarnation as of this writing. In addition to their television episodes, each Doctor is also featured in novel adaptions of those episodes, original novels and short stories, audio dramas, comic books, content in the long-running Doctor Who Magazine, and occasional multimedia crossover events.. This page will track all of those stories for the Fifteenth Doctor as they are released.
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