1963 · BBC One · Drama, Action & Adventure
How long does it take to watch Doctor Who (1963)?
Doctor Who (1963) takes about 292 hours to watch: 694 episodes across 26 seasons, 17,535 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 694
- Seasons
- 26
- Per episode
- 25 min
- Status
- Ended in 1989
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 17.4h | 42 eps | |
| Season 2 | 15.9h | 39 eps | |
| Season 3 | 18.5h | 45 eps | |
| Season 4 | 17.8h | 43 eps | |
| Season 5 | 16.7h | 40 eps | |
| Season 6 | 17.6h | 44 eps | |
| Season 7 | 10.4h | 25 eps | |
| Season 8 | 10.4h | 25 eps | |
| Season 9 | 10.8h | 26 eps | |
| Season 10 | 10.8h | 26 eps | |
| Season 11 | 10.8h | 26 eps | |
| Season 12 | 8.3h | 20 eps | |
| Season 13 | 10.8h | 26 eps | |
| Season 14 | 10.8h | 26 eps | |
| Season 15 | 10.8h | 26 eps | |
| Season 16 | 10.8h | 26 eps | |
| Season 17 | 8.3h | 20 eps | |
| Season 18 | 11.1h | 28 eps | |
| Season 19 | 10.8h | 26 eps | |
| Season 20 | 9.2h | 22 eps | |
| Season 21 | 10.8h | 24 eps | |
| Season 22 | 9.8h | 13 eps | |
| Season 23 | 5.9h | 14 eps | |
| Season 24 | 5.8h | 14 eps | |
| Season 25 | 5.8h | 14 eps | |
| Season 26 | 5.8h | 14 eps |
Longest: season 3, 18.5 hours. Shortest: season 24, 5.8 hours.
At your pace
- 1 episode a night
- 694 nights, about 23 months
- 3 episodes a night
- 232 nights, about 8 months
- Weekend binges, 8 hours a day
- 19 weekends
- Straight through, no sleep
- 12 days, 4 hours
Counts aired regular-season episodes only; specials are excluded. Runtimes come from TMDB, so totals can differ from other sources.
How it holds up
- Best-rated season
- Season 12 8.2
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 24 5.6
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 1989
- Networks
- BBC One, BBC Television
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- First aired
- 1963
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