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Doctor G (डॉक्टर जी)

Doctor G (डॉक्टर जी) is a 2022 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Anubhuti Kashyap, produced by Junglee Pictures, starring Ayushmann Khurrana as a male medical student placed in gynaecology; released 14 October 2022, streaming on Netflix.

Doctor Glas

Doctor Glas (Doktor Glas) is a 1905 diary-form novel by Hjalmar Söderberg, about a Stockholm physician who murders to save a young woman from her unhappy marriage.

Doctor in the House

Doctor in the House: 1952 Richard Gordon novel (physician Gordon Ostlere) about St. Swithin's medical students, basis of the 1954 Ralph Thomas film starring Dirk Bogarde, six sequels, and the 1969 ITV sitcom.

Doctor John (TV series)

Doctor John (의사 요한) is a 2019 South Korean medical drama on SBS, starring Ji Sung as an anesthesiologist who investigates patients' mysterious pain and confronts the ethics of euthanasia.

Doctor Manhattan

Doctor Manhattan (Jon Osterman) is the only superpowered being in DC's Watchmen, created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in Watchmen #1 (September 1986); a physicist transformed by an intrinsic-field accident, he is named for the Manhattan Project, shaped Cold War history, and appears in the 2009 film, HBO series, and 2024 animation.

Doctor Mid-Nite

Doctor Mid-Nite, also spelled Dr. Midnight, is a blind superhero physician published by DC Comics since 1941, held by Charles McNider, Beth Chapel, and Pieter Cross.

Doctor Minerva

Doctor Minerva (Minn-Erva) is a Marvel Comics Kree geneticist and spy, created in Captain Marvel #50 (May 1977) by Scott Edelman and Al Milgrom; Starforce member, Nega-Bomb plotter, Carol Danvers antagonist, and Gemma Chan's sniper role in the 2019 film.

Doctor Octopus

Doctor Octopus (Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius) is a Marvel Comics supervillain created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #3 (July 1963). A scientist fused to four mind-controlled mechanical tentacles, he founded the Sinister Six and became the Superior Spider-Man.

Doctor Odyssey

Doctor Odyssey is an American medical drama created by Ryan Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, and Joe Baken for ABC, starring Joshua Jackson as cruise-ship doctor Max Bankman with Don Johnson, Phillipa Soo, and Sean Teale; it ran one 18-episode season (2024-2025) before cancellation.

Doctor on the Edge

Doctor on the Edge (닥터 섬보이) is a 2026 ENA/Disney+ Korean medical romcom adapted from Kim Tae Poong's webtoon Holdout Doctor, starring Lee Jae-wook and Shin Ye-eun as a doctor and nurse on the remote island Pyeondongdo, 12 episodes, June-July 2026.

Doctor Poison

Doctor Poison is a DC Comics villain identity used by several enemies of Wonder Woman, starting with Princess Maru in Sensation Comics #2 (1942), later her granddaughter Marina Maru, and Isabel Maru in the 2017 film.

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.