The Ninth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Christopher Eccleston during the first series of the show's revival in 2005.
Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor
The companions of the Ninth Doctor. From left to right, Rose Tyler, Adam Mitchell and Captain Jack Harkness.
Eccleston's successor, David Tennant, felt that he had "an awful lot to live up to".
The Doctor is the protagonist of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. They are an extraterrestrial Time Lord who travels the universe in a time travelling spaceship, called the TARDIS, often with companions. Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by fourteen lead actors. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show's narrative through the plot device of regeneration, a biological function of Time Lords that allows a change of cellular structure and appearance with recovery following a mortal injury.
The Doctor (Doctor Who)
The episode title screen of the unaired pilot episode of Doctor Who.
The temporarily human Doctor, John Smith, draws his dreams of past incarnations in "Human Nature". (Left hand page: Tenth and Ninth; Right hand page, left to right, top to bottom: Fourth, Third, Second, Seventh, Eighth, First, Sixth, Fifth)
