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The Ninth Doctor is the ninth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by Christopher Eccleston.

Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who travels in time in his TARDIS, frequently with companion. When the Doctor is critically injured, he can regenerate his body but in doing so gains a new physical appearance and with it, a distinct new personality. Eccleston portrays the ninth such incarnation, a brooding and melancholic war survivor after a Time War in which he wiped out both his race and the enemy Dalek. His first companion is Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), whom he plucks from obscurity on the planet Earth and to whom he grows increasingly attached. Eccleston's Doctor also travels briefly with unruly boy-genius Adam (Bruno Langley) and with 51st-century con man and former 'Time Agent' Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman).

The original Doctor Who television series ceased production in 1989 with the Seventh Doctor. The Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann appeared in the role just once on screen in the Doctor Who television movie in 1996. The appearance of the Ninth Doctor marked the regular return of the character to television screens after nearly sixteen years, and as a result for many young fans and new viewers he was the first Doctor they had ever seen. He was introduced without any information on his recent past, though it is implied in "Rose" that he had recently regenerated. The Doctor looks in a mirror and comments on his face and ears as though he hadn't seen them before. The circumstances of that regeneration are unclear.

The Ninth Doctor is (to the best of his knowledge) the only survivor of the Time War. Despite this, it is implied it was the previous incarnation who actually fought in the war.

The Ninth Doctor has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.