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She will also appear alongside the Third Doctor as portrayed by Jon Pertwee and the first Master as portrayed by Roger Delgado The four-issue series begins in April and we have a first look at the artwork from the series below, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first appearance of The Master in Terror[...]

And each actor played the character as a different archetype: William Hartnell played him as the last of the Edwardian patriarchs; Patrick Troughton played him as a Chaplin-esque hobo; Jon Pertwee played him as a dandyish playboy; Tom Baker played a wandering bohemian and so on The 21st Century Doctors were even more modern archetypes:[...]

Season 8 of Doctor Who stars Jon Pertwee as the 3rd Doctor in his second season and the introduction of Katy Manning as companion Jo Grant This is considered a classic season for many old school fans, since it features the debut of Roger Delgado as The Master and includes classic stories like “Terror of[...]

This was at least touched upon back in 1974 when a Tibetan abbot who was a Time Lord (played by a white actor with a cod-Asian accent… the show has had its moments of racism and cultural appropriation that warrants a separate article for another time) oversaw the 3rd Doctor’s (Jon Pertwee) regeneration and reassured[...]

“But with Jodie Whittaker hot on his heels and a great showing for other recent Doctors like Peter Capaldi, it looks like fans also now hold other Time Lords close to their heart(s).”Here are the full numbers and results of the poll:David Tennant 10518 / 21% Jodie Whittaker 10423 / 21% Peter Capaldi 8897[...]

When you watch past versions played by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Paul McGann, and Sylvester McCoy and their deeply ambivalent interactions with Gallifrey takes on new meaning knowing their origin as the Timeless Child Chibnall has also introduced more unknown incarnations out there prior to the First[...]

He turned into the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) for the next few seasons They didn’t even call it regenerating then, and it took a while before Gallifrey was even named.The rest of the video shows the emergence of the corrupt, callous and bureaucratic High Council of Gallfirey The High Council were a bunch of old[...]

Who dis?"Then we'll declare a 50 year "moratorium" on straight, white dudes playing the Doctor - and as for Jon Pertwee?We're guessing he cashed the paycheck - if it helps, you can always assume it was "The Master" in disguise. I was torn about what to do with this post - whether it was worth[...]

The BBC’s official Doctor Who Channel on YouTube realised a video excerpt of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s program celebrating the centenary of Jon Pertwee’s birth The Jon Pertwee Files is an hour-long radio program featuring Pertwee’s son Sean Pertwee talking about his father’s career.Jon Pertwee had a long acting career before and after he played[...]

MacKenzie Crook is set to play Worzel Gummidge, a role previously played by Jon Pertwee, otherwise known as Doctor Who's Third Doctor The BBC has released the first photograph of Crook in full make-up and costume in the new children’s series adapted from the classic books.As the BBC announced in their press release, “Their worlds should[...]

Variety reports that the deal includes  Doctor Who episodes featuring Tom Baker (including “The Deadly Assassin,” “The Ark in Space,” and “The Robots of Death”), Peter Davison (including “EarthShock,” “The Caves of Androzani”), Jon Pertwee (including “Planet of the Spiders,” “Terror of the Autons”), and William Hartnell (including “The Dalek Invasion Of Earth”).https://youtu.be/sjciw9A5D0o BBC Studios SVP of[...]

If there was one major takeaway from this year's BBC Doctor Who New Year's Special 'Resolution,' it's that there's definitely a new Dalek in town. It's broke and has no casing, broken off by a bunch of warriors hundreds of years ago. So what's a poor Dalek in "The Big City" to do when it finally […]

Last week, in honor of Doctor Who's 55th Anniversary, BBC posted an updated compilation of all of the Doctor Who title sequences on the show's YouTube channel. The approximately eleven minute long video includes both the audio and visual sequence changes over the course of the show, 18 different versions. Notably, the collection does not include […]