Doctor Number Three Jon Pertwee – Fascinating Interview With A Very Funny Man

 

An Hour with Jon Pertwee. The star of 'Doctor Who', 'The Navy Lark' and 'Worzel Gummidge' entertains an audience.

An Hour with Jon Pertwee. The star of ‘Doctor Who’, ‘The Navy Lark’ and ‘Worzel Gummidge’ entertains an audience.

Three talks about his life. Available for 5 days and can be played outside the Uk. This man is hilarious! Even if you aren’t a Doctor Who fan you will enjoy the show.

Click this link to listen. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b00bdjh3

 

Doctor Who (1970–1974)

In 1969, Pertwee was selected by producer Peter Bryant to take over as the Doctor from Patrick Troughton in the television series Doctor Who. Pertwee had asked his agent to apply for the role for him and was surprised to find he was already on the shortlist for the role. He was the second choice of the producer; Ron Moody was the first but was unavailable.[7] In a departure from the Doctor’s first two incarnations, Pertwee played the character as an active crusader with a penchant for action and fancy clothes, even while the character was exiled on Earth and serving with UNIT.

Pertwee played the Doctor for five seasons from early 1970 to mid-1974, at the time the longest stint of any of the actors who played the part, surpassing predecessors William Hartnell’s and Patrick Troughton’s three years each in the role, although due to shortened broadcast seasons, he appeared in fewer episodes than Hartnell. Of the eleven actors to portray the role, only three would play the Doctor for longer chronological time: Pertwee’s immediate successor, Tom Baker (seven years from 1974 to 1981), Sylvester McCoy (eight years from 1987–1996[original research?]) and David Tennant (four years and six and a half months from June 2005 to January 2010, thus longer by a month). In early 1974, Pertwee announced he would step down as the Doctor in order to resume his stage career in The Bedwinner, also citing typecasting in the role as the reason for leaving, though later he would say that the catalyst for his departure was the death of his good friend and co-star Roger Delgado and the departures of co-star Katy Manning and producer Barry Letts. His last fulltime appearance in the series was in the story “Planet of the Spiders”‘ in June 1974. Pertwee later reprised the role in the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors, in two radio adventures and on stage in The Ultimate Adventure. On 14 April 1971, Pertwee was the subject of Thames Television’s This Is Your Life which featured the first television appearance of his son Sean Pertwee, who went on to become an actor.  Wikipedia

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