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Doctor Prisoner

Doctor Prisoner (닥터 프리즈너) is a 2019 KBS2 Korean medical suspense drama starring Namgoong Min as surgeon Na Yi-je, who becomes a prison medical chief for revenge; 32 episodes, aired March 20 to May 15, 2019.

Doctor Shin (닥터신)

Doctor Shin (닥터신) is a 2026 TV Chosun Korean weekend medical thriller, 16 episodes, written by Phoebe (Im Sung-han) and directed by Lee Seung-hoon, starring Jung E-chan as genius doctor Shin Ju-shin and Baek Seo-ra as Mo-mo, whose mother donates her brain in a brain-change surgery; it opened at 1.4% Nielsen and ended at 2.3%.

Doctor Sivana

Doctor Sivana (Thaddeus Bodog Sivana) is DC Comics' mad-scientist archenemy of Captain Marvel/Shazam, debuting in Whiz Comics #2 (1940), created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck, later reimagined in the New 52 and played by Mark Strong in the 2019 Shazam! film.

Doctor Sleep (2019 film)

Doctor Sleep (2019) is Mike Flanagan's supernatural horror film adapting Stephen King's 2013 novel as a sequel to both the novel and Kubrick's 1980 The Shining, starring Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, and Kyliegh Curran.

Doctor Sleep (novel)

Doctor Sleep is Stephen King's 2013 Scribner sequel to The Shining, following adult Dan Torrance, a recovering alcoholic hospice worker, who protects Abra Stone from the True Knot and Rose the Hat.

Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) is a Marvel Comics sorcerer and former surgeon created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Strange Tales #110 (July 1963); he serves as the Sorcerer Supreme and stars in the MCU films with Benedict Cumberbatch.

Doctor Strange (2016 film)

Doctor Strange is a 2016 Marvel Studios superhero film directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a neurosurgeon who discovers magic at Kamar-Taj after a car accident.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, also known as Doctor Strange 2, is a 2022 Marvel Studios superhero film directed by Sam Raimi, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen.

Doctor Stranger (닥터 이방인)

Doctor Stranger (닥터 이방인, Dakteo Yibangin) is a 2014 SBS 20-episode Korean medical-espionage-romance drama directed by Jin Hyuk, starring Lee Jong-suk as surgeon Park Hoon; it averaged 11.7-11.8% nationwide ratings and streams on Netflix and Viki.

Doctor Syn

Doctor Syn is the vicar-smuggler hero of Russell Thorndike's Romney Marsh novels, first appearing in Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh (1915); secretly pirate Captain Clegg, he leads the Scarecrow's night-riding smugglers, spawning six prequels and film adaptations.

Doctor Thorne (TV series)

Doctor Thorne (2016) is a three-part ITV period drama miniseries adapted by Julian Fellowes from Anthony Trollope's 1858 novel, starring Tom Hollander, Stefanie Martini, and Ian McShane, later an Amazon Original in the US.

Doctor Who

Doctor Who: long-running BBC British science fiction TV series (first aired 23 November 1963), starring the Doctor, a Time Lord who travels in the TARDIS and recasts through regeneration; ran 1963–1989, revived 2005, now in competitive tender for 2028/29.

Doctor Who (film)

Doctor Who: The Movie (1996 TV movie) starred Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Eric Roberts as the Master; a $5 million BBC-Fox-Universal backdoor pilot shot in Vancouver that failed to revive the series.

Doctor Who (series 14)

Doctor Who series 14, advertised as Season 1 (2024), stars Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor with Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday under returning showrunner Russell T Davies, produced by Bad Wolf for BBC and Disney+, premiering 10-11 May 2024.

Doctor Who (series 15)

Doctor Who series 15 (Season 2 on Disney+) is the 2025 Ncuti Gatwa season of the BBC sci-fi show, eight episodes from 12 April to 31 May 2025 with Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra, ending in Gatwa's regeneration and a later production tender.

Doctor Who and the Silurians

Doctor Who and the Silurians (also The Silurians) is a seven-part 1970 BBC1 Doctor Who serial by Malcolm Hulke, the second story of Season 7, introducing the Silurians, Earth's pre-human reptilian race, and ending with UNIT destroying their base.

Doctor Who missing episodes

Doctor Who missing episodes: around 95 lost 1960s episodes of the BBC series Doctor Who, wiped for tape reuse; survived as 16mm telerecordings, fan audio, and recoveries from Nigeria and Film is Fabulous!.

Doctor Who spinoffs

Doctor Who spinoffs are licensed TV, audio, and mixed-media series spun from the BBC's Doctor Who, from K9 and Company (1981) and Torchwood to The War Between the Land and the Sea, plus unlicensed Reeltime and BBV productions.

Doctor X

Doctor X is a 1932 Warner Bros./First National horror film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, and Lee Tracy; the first horror film shot in color, in two-strip Technicolor, about the cannibalistic Moon Killer.

Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia

Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia (닥터X: 하얀 마피아의 시대) is a 2026 SBS Korean medical-noir drama, a licensed remake of Japan's Doctor-X, starring Kim Ji-won as surgeon Gye Su-jung and Son Hyun-joo, 12 episodes, streamed on Netflix.

Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго) (film)

Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго), David Lean's 1965 MGM epic adapted by Robert Bolt from Pasternak's banned 1957 novel, starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie; shot mainly in Spain, it won five Oscars and ranks among the highest-grossing films adjusted for inflation.

Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго) (novel)

Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго), Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel of physician-poet Yuri Zhivago through the Russian Revolution; published in Milan by Feltrinelli, banned in the USSR until Novy Mir printed it in 1988, and the cause of Pasternak's declined 1958 Nobel Prize.

Doctor–patient relationship

The doctor–patient relationship is the trust-based bond between physician and patient, the core of medical practice. Covers its ethical and legal (fiduciary) status, Szasz–Hollender and Emanuel models, communication, continuity, and AI-era changes.

Doctor's Advocate

Doctor's Advocate (2006) is The Game's second studio album, released on Geffen Records after his split from G-Unit. Made without Dr. Dre production, it topped the Billboard 200 for one week and centers on his broken mentor relationship with Dre.

Doctor's bag

A doctor's bag is a portable, wide-mouthed bag, traditionally leather with a spring-open metal frame, used by physicians to carry instruments and medicines on house calls.

Doctorate

Doctorate: the highest university degree, from medieval licentia docendi (Paris, 1150) to the 19th-century research PhD at Berlin; covers professional doctorates (EdD, DBA), examination, supervision, and OECD mobility and STEM trends.

Doctors (2000 TV series)

Doctors (2000 TV series) was a British medical soap opera on BBC One, set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, running 26 March 2000 to 14 November 2024, cancelled over rising drama costs, with a 1.6 million-viewer finale.

Doctors (2024 TV series)

Doctors (डॉक्टर्स वेब सीरीज) is a 2024 Hindi medical drama web series directed by Sahir Raza, set at the Elizabeth Blackwell Medical Centre in Mumbai, streaming on JioCinema from December 27, 2024, starring Sharad Kelkar and Harleen Sethi in a revenge-to-romance resident-mentor plot across ten episodes.

Doctors' plot

Doctors' Plot (дело врачей): fabricated 1953 Soviet case in which Stalin accused mostly Jewish Kremlin doctors of murdering Zhdanov and Shcherbakov; repudiated 4 April 1953 after Stalin's death.

Doctrina Christiana (1593)

The Doctrina Christiana is a Christian catechism printed in Manila in 1593, generally regarded as the first book printed in the Philippines, in Spanish and Tagalog.