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This classic series stars the First Doctor, William Hartnell, and companions Peter Purves as Steven Taylor and Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet, with the late Michael Gough (now best known as Alfred in the Tim Burton Batman movies) as the Toymaker. Here's a clip from the surviving live-action episode It's the end of that story where The Doctor defeats the[...]

That short clip features how The First Doctor defeated the Toymaker (then played by Michael Gough) The Doctor mentions that the Toymaker is immortal, near-omnipotent, and a sore loser That scene alone might explain why he's so pissed off as to come after The Doctor again after more than fifty years Who wants a spiteful[...]

He was played by Michael Gough, a stalwart character actor who would go on to play Alfred in Michael Keaton's Batman in the 1980s movies "The Celestial Toymaker" serial is one of the stories that was lost when the BBC erased a big chunk of their video tapes in the 1970s, though, and only the[...]