For over 60 years now, Doctor Who, with its many adventures through time and space, relationships between The Doctors and companions, aliens, and so much more, has been delighting viewers. And just as timey wimey as the trips through space and time are its romances. So when better than Doctor Who Day—the first episode of the long-running sci-fi showaired on November 23, 1963—to take a look at those?
To say that it’s been complicated when it comes to love for The Doctor and those around him is an understatement. After all, you have the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and Rose (Billie Piper), whose eventual reunion includes another version of him. There’s the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) and the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi)—and a bit of the Tenth—with River Song (Alex Kingston); each always knows more than the other about their history and future when they cross paths. There’s one that’s (hopefully) just getting started (Ncuti Gatwa‘s Fifteenth Doctor and Jonathan Groff‘s Rogue) and one that never had the chance to be anything (Jodie Whittaker‘s Thirteenth Doctor and Mandip Gill‘s Yaz).