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“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[...]

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=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 fun to see the first version of the Cybermen, designed with barely any budget so their faces were just cloth masks[...]

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.[caption id="attachment_1007881" align="aligncenter" width="541"] //Credit: BBC[/caption]"The Macra Terror" originally aired between March and April of 1967, and found the Second Doctor and his companions Polly (Anneke[...]

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 […]

We are therefore delighted to be able to bring fans these missing episodes in a completely new form." - Paul Hembury, Executive Producer, BBC StudiosOriginally 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[...]

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 […]

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[...]

Actor and comedian Reece Shearsmith got to enter the Doctor Who universe tangentially two years ago when he portrayed Patrick Troughton, the actor who played the Second Doctor, in the film An Adventure In Space And Time.Now Shearsmith has been cast in a guest spot for an upcoming episode of Doctor Who, written by Mark Gatiss..[...]

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[...]