The Twelfth Doctor is from an English television show.
Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963 . Gastank was an English television show that aired between 1982 -- 1983 in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 . `` The Time of the Doctor '' is an episode of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who , written by Steven Moffat and directed by Jamie Payne , and was broadcast as the ninth Doctor Who Christmas special on 25 December 2013 on BBC One . The Twelfth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor , the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who .