Doctor Who is British.
British television science fiction . The BBC 's Doctor Who is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world and as the `` most successful '' science fiction series of all time . Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963 . The show is a significant part of British popular culture , and elsewhere it has gained a cult following . `` 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 Time Lords are a fictional , ancient extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , of which the series ' protagonist , the Doctor , is a member .