Which came first? · Tricky
Which came first: Doctor Who or E.T.?
Doctor Who came first, in 1963 (premiered). E.T. followed 19 years later, in 1982 (released).
- First1963
Doctor Who
tv show · premieredDoctor Who first aired in 1963, the day after President Kennedy was shot.
- Second1982
E.T.
film · releasedE.T., from 1982, passed Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of its time.
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Years from Wikidata, each checked against the item’s English Wikipedia article on 2026-10-18. A year stands for what its label says: a founding, a first patent, a premiere.