Fourteenth Doctor Archives

Want to enjoy stories featuring the Fourteenth Doctor Who – the return of David Tennant? 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 14th Doctor, David Tennant (again!)

David Tennant returned to Doctor Who not as the Tenth Doctor, but as an all-new Fourteenth Doctor on 25 November 2023 in a series of three 60th Anniversary specials before regenerating (sortof) into the Fifteenth Doctor – Ncuti Gatwa (more on that in the Fifteenth Doctor Guide).

In 2021, the BBC announced that previous showrunner Russell T. Davies would return to take the helm of Doctor Who for the 60th Anniversary in the wake of the departure of Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whitaker. Ncuti Gatwa was announced as the next Doctor on 8 May 2022 – still months before Whitaker’s final adventure aired.

Yet, in the run-up to that final episode, some curious set photos began to leak. They showed David Tennant – the Tenth Doctor – on set! This mystery deepened with the final episode of the Thirteenth Doctor on 23 October 2022, where her regeneration had her transforming not into Gatwa, but into Tennant!

The BBC promptly announced that David Tennant was the Fourteenth Doctor and that he would be reuniting with former co-star Catherine Tate as Donna Noble for a trio of 60th Anniversary specials prior to Ncuti Gatwa taking over as the Fifteenth Doctor.

The 60th Anniversary specials were both a celebration of past continuity (and Companions) and a simplified introduction for new viewers. That was important, since the BBC entered an agreement with Disney+ for global distribution of the show outside of the UK! The three episodes celebration some of the Doctor’s continuity and several of his past companions and supporting characters, all while staying intentionally accessible to new fans.

This brief era of the Fourteenth had an open-ended conclusion thanks to an unusual regeneration. It was more of bi-generation, that meant the Tennant’s incarnation of Fourteenth could continue his adventures while the Fifteenth Doctor began his. Though there is no further media confirmed with Tennant in the role of the Fourteenth Doctor, the extended universe of Doctor Who may be allowed to use him in the future in tales that are contemporaneous with Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor!