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Originally aired in 1969, The War Games marked the end of an era for the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), following him and his companions Zoe and Jamie as they land on a battlefield that appears to be a World War I military zone—but all is not as it seems They soon discover that soldiers from different historical periods have[...]

When Patrick Troughton took over as the Second Doctor, he was younger and did a lot of running from monsters, but nobody thought of him as an action hero as Troughton based his performance partly on Charlie Chaplin. It was when Jon Pertwee took over the show that they leaned into the two-fisted action-hero tropes in[...]

The main draw was watching Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee bicker with each other as they developed their off-screen friendship, with an ailing William Hartnell pre-recorded on video from a screen for just one scene Bickering is just basic Dramatic Conflict 101 in scriptwriting It's also the default mode for every Marvel Comic where another[...]

"Extraction" is the fifth part of the story, where she takes on multiple jobs that all turn out to be linked together, and along the way, she encounters both the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) Alas, neither is the Doctor she needs to find. "Extraction" features all the fan service you[...]

It was introduced in 1968 during the Second Doctor's (Patrick Troughton) era but became popular during the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) era when he used it a lot because Pertwee liked gadgets and cars and encouraged them in his stories What better than a make-believe gadget to fire up kids' imaginations? "Doctor Who": BBC Doctor Who: Is[...]

Patrick Troughton, who played the Second Doctor when William Hartnell left the series, has been posthumously awarded a blue plaque at the Patrick Troughton Theatre at Mill Hill School, his former school in London In the United Kingdom, blue plaques are posthumous commemoration plaques installed to celebrate people who have made significant historical contributions to[...]

"Evil of the Daleks," Patrick Troughton's first story as the Second Doctor in Doctor Who, is lost to time forever in the BBC's infinite wisdom of erasing tapes back in the old days It only exists in prose and a stiffly animated adaptation using existing audio Now Frazer Hines, who played the Second Doctor's companion[...]

It's one of the Second Doctor's (Patrick Troughton) earliest surviving stories because the BBC, in its infinite lack of foresight, erased a whole bunch of shows on videotape so they could reuse them This was decades before VHS & DVD sales came along to bring in additional revenue for the broadcaster It's a crime that[...]

The plot is largely irrelevant as the point is to have more than one Doctor bantering and bickering with the others. Who really even remembers or cares about the plots for "The Three Doctors" or "The Five Doctors" anyway? "The Two Doctors", featuring the two most neglected incarnations -the 2nd (Patrick Troughton) and the 6th (Colin[...]

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:[...]

What might be a slightly bigger deal is the announcement that the lost 3rd episode of the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) story "The Web of Fear" is getting animated. "Doctor Who: The Web of Fear" animated teaser still, BBC "The Web of Fear" is one of the most important stories in the Doctor Who canon[...]

"The Faceless Ones" was first broadcast in six weekly parts from April to May 1967, starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor Only two of the six episodes are held in the BBC film archives with snippets of footage and still images existing from the other four Fortunately, off-air audio recordings of the soundtrack also still[...]

"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 / 18% Matt Smith[...]

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[...]

They never showed up until The Second Doctor's (Patrick Troughton) final story The War Game The Timelords took him into custody for running around Time and Space and interfering with history They forced him to regenerate as they exiled him to Earth He turned into the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) for the next few seasons[...]

The Cyberman wanted everyone to be like them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtEPOTRWm7IVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Cybermen | Doctor Who (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtEPOTRWm7I) Cybermen from the Start The Cybermen made their debut in "The Tenth Planet", William Hartnell's final story as the First Doctor before he regenerated into Patrick Troughton[...]

It's a shame – possibly a crime – that the majority of Patrick Troughton's Doctor Who episodes were erased The BBC, in their infinite wisdom, erased many shows to recycle the tapes they were filmed on They never dreamed that content could be a valuable or profitable resource There was a certain attitude that TV[...]

A long missing piece of Patrick Troughton's run as the Second Doctor is available for the first time in nearly 50 years, albeit not in the form it originally aired. //Credit: BBC "The Macra Terror" originally aired between March and April of 1967, and found the Second Doctor and his companions Polly (Anneke Wills), Ben (Michael Craze),[...]

While there have been attempts to alter the look of the Daleks over the years, it seems like Doctor Who viewers are really big fans of "bronze"...

We are therefore delighted to be able to bring fans these missing episodes in a completely new form." – Paul Hembury, Executive Producer, BBC Studios Originally broadcast in spring 1967 and starring Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor as well as Anneke Wills, Michael Craze, and Frazer Hines, no film copies of "The Macra Terror" series are known to have survived[...]

Bleeding Cool ranks 18 official title sequences from the past 55 years of Doctor Who, from the good to the bad to the near-seizure bizarre.

The London native first connected with the BBC's enigmatic Time Lord when he played a non-speaking scientist in the four-episode series, The Moonbase, with the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton This may be his only acting credit But it led to him being hired as a script editor for the filming of The Tomb of the[...]

The name Troughton is of course very familiar to Whovians as Michael's father Patrick Troughton played the second incarnation of the Doctor. The cast will also include Natalie Gumede, Faye Marsay and Nathan McMullen. The BBC announced the cast for this years Doctor Who Christmas episode and two names jump out Nick Frost (The World's End)[...]

BBC Worldwide have done their best to keep a lid on all the 'rediscovered Doctor Who episodes' rumours until today. But now, at last, they're happy for us to tell you that Phillip Morris, director of TIEA, has turned up 11 episodes from the Patrick Troughton era 9 of the shows had previously been thought to[...]

Few Patrick Troughton stories have been recovered sadly, so no Fury from the Deep, Abominable Snowmen, or Evil Of The Daleks. And while Philip Morris continued to deny any knowledge or involvement, I understand he may be giving an exclusive interview about all this to Starburst Magazine… All this remains unconfirmed rumour, of course, and may well[...]