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The Second Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by character actor Patrick Troughton.
To capitalise on the continuing popularity of the "Doctor Who" strip, featuring the likeness of Jon Pertwee (the actor who was then playing the Doctor on TV), that strip now became the regular cover feature. As an added inducement, for the first time the publisher obtained a licence to include popular villains the Daleks in the strip. Hence the first re-launch issue had a colour cover featuring the Third Doctor and the Daleks. "Doctor Who" had an unshakeable popularity; it had emerged from, and would ultimately return to, the pages of "TV Action"'s sister publication, "TV Comic".
Clive Swift and Geoffrey Palmer have had previous roles in "Doctor Who". Swift portrayed Jobel in "Revelation of the Daleks" (1985), while Palmer played Undersecretary Masters in "Doctor Who and the Silurians" (1970), and the Administrator in "The Mutants" (1972). Jessica Martin had played Mags in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" (1988–89). In addition, Bernard Cribbins played Tom Campbell in "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.", the second "Doctor Who" feature-film adaptation starring Peter Cushing as well as Arnold Korns in the audio play "Horror of Glam Rock". Colin McFarlane, who provided the voices of the Heavenly Host for the episode, went on to play General Pierce in "" (2009), before later reappearing in "Doctor Who" as Moran in "Under the Lake". Jimmy Vee had previously played aliens in "The End of the World" and "Aliens of London" (2005), and would later play other aliens in "The End of Time" (2009–10) and "The Caretaker" (2014).
The second release is "The Second Doctor Boxset", another four-disc boxed set including Dick Sharples' "The Prison in Space". Sharples' story has been adapted by Simon Guerrier, and is performed by Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury, who played Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. The set also includes "The Destroyers", the unmade pilot episode of a proposed Dalek-centred spin-off series for American TV. The episode has been adapted as a full-cast drama, with Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks.
"Philip Hinchcliffe Presents" is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the TV show Doctor Who. It sees the return of Philip Hinchcliffe, the producer from a popular period during Fourth Doctor era, with Tom Baker and Louise Jameson reprising the Fourth Doctor and Leela respectively. The first boxset of two stories was released in September 2014. A second and third release has been announced for release in 2016 and 2017.
Dalek Attack is a computer game based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", in which the player controls the Doctor and fights recurring adversaries, the Daleks and other enemies. In most versions of the game, the player can choose between playing as the Fourth, Fifth or Seventh Doctor; in the MS-DOS and Amiga versions, the player can play as the Second, Fourth or Seventh Doctor, and in the ZX Spectrum version only the Seventh Doctor was available. A second player may play as the Doctor's companion (Ace or a UNIT soldier, although in the Spectrum version only Ace is available). K-9 also makes appearances later in the game as does Davros, creator of the Daleks in the TV series, as the final end of level boss. The game is set in London, Paris, New York, Tokyo and Skaro.
Hallard has appeared in cult BBC TV shows such as "Doctor Who" as Alan-a-Dale in the 2014 episode "Robot of Sherwood"; in "Sherlock" as Mr Crayhill in the 2011 episode "The Reichenbach Fall", and on the long-running BBC Daytime TV series "Doctors". He played one of the original directors of "Doctor Who", Richard Martin, in the BBC docu-drama "An Adventure in Space and Time". He appears (unaccredited) in the sixth episode of the second season (“Vergangenheit”) of Netflix's series "The Crown," as an employee of the minister of foreign affairs.
Doctor Who: The Lost Stories is a range of "Doctor Who" audio plays by Big Finish Productions, adapted from unused TV stories.
In 1975, at London's Royal Court Theatre, Dyall played Dr. Rance in a major revival of Joe Orton's play, "What the Butler Saw". Between 1977 and 1979, he made regular appearances as Dr. Pascal Keldermans in all three seasons of the BBC TV series "Secret Army". He then joined the cast of the BBC's "Doctor Who", portraying the Black Guardian in several serials ("The Armageddon Factor" in 1979 and the "Mawdryn Undead'Terminus'Enlightenment" trilogy in 1983) and voicing the role of Captain Slarn for the "Doctor Who" radio serial "Slipback". Around the same time, he featured in the radio version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", playing Gargravarr. In the TV and LP versions, he voiced the computer Deep Thought. He also played the character Norl in the "Blake's 7" episode "City at the Edge of the World" and Lord Angus in the 1983 "Black Adder" episode "Witchsmeller Pursuivant". Also in 1983, he joined many other Doctor Who cast and crew members at Longleat for the "Doctor Who" 20th Anniversary celebrations.
The Second Doctor comic stories is a range of offscreen adventures featuring the second incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sc-fi BBC One series, Doctor Who. These comics from the late sixties were the first Doctor Who TV Comics to be printed in colour.
When the War Games aired on the BBC and there was an absence in Doctor Who episodes broadcast, TV Comic continued to print comics featuring the second doctor and tied this into the series with the story line of when the second doctor was captured by the Time Lords in the end of the War Games and was put on trial for meddling in the affairs of other races and was forced to regenerate, he escaped with the help of the CIA (Celestial Intervention Agency) and worked with them for a while, until he was forced to return to Earth, where furthermore he hid from the Time Lords, fighting monsters until they sent what appeared to be scarecrows working for the Time Lords to force the second doctor to regenerate into the third. This story line became known as the Doctor Who Season 6B.
The second story, "More than a Messiah", adapted the "Doctor Who" Audio Visuals story of the same name, but with the Stranger and Miss Brown substituted for the Doctor and companion Ria (who was modelled after Peri). In a further connection, it co-starred Sophie Aldred, better known as Ace from "Doctor Who", and Peter Miles, who had co-starred (opposite Wisher) in the TV serial "Genesis of the Daleks" – both in completely different roles.
The War Doctor, announced in October 2015, is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the TV show "Doctor Who". It sees the return of Sir John Hurt as the War Doctor, a role he previously portrayed in the TV story "The Name of the Doctor" as well as more prominently in the 50th Anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor". The series consists of four box sets, each made up of three hour-long episodes, the first released in December 2015, the remaining three volumes followed across 2016 and into 2017.The War Doctor faces the Daleks in four seasons of the Time War.
Sir John Hurt passed away on 25 January, 2017. Recording of the series had been completed. It was released posthumously.
The Eighth Doctor: The Time War, is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the television programme "Doctor Who" and serves as a prequel to the previous series "The War Doctor". It focused on the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) and his experiences in the war before having a change of heart and regenerating into his warrior form (as seen in the television mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor").
The TV Quick Awards (or TV Choice Awards) are awarded every year by the British magazine "TV Choice".
"Doctor Who" won Best Loved Drama, later changed to Best Family Drama, every time since 2005. The actor who played the Doctor and the actress who played his main companion during a series was nominated every year since 2005: Best Actor had been won one time by Eccleston and three times by Tennant, and Best Actress had been won once by Piper, once by Tate and once by Gillan.
Patrick Troughton was a familiar face on BBC TV from playing the Second Doctor in "Doctor Who"; a contemporary "Blue Peter" feature on the drama makes the connection that in the role of Cole Hawlings, the kindly Punch and Judy Man, Troughton was playing another mysterious, scruffy time traveller. Renny Rye noted that Troughton "who was my favourite Doctor Who...had a quality that is unsurpassed, I think, as someone to pull you into a tale."
When the first doctor regenerated into the second in 1966, TV Comic changed the face of the doctor in the comics to suite the change in the show's history, although kept the same companions, the doctor's grandchildren like in the TV series, John and Gillian. They were soon replaced with Jamie McCrimmon, to better match with the TV series of Doctor Who.
In the autumn of 2003, it was announced that "Doctor Who" would be resurrected in 2005 after a sixteen-year absence from TV; the casting of Piper as Rose Tyler, a travelling companion to the ninth incarnation of The Doctor (to be played by Christopher Eccleston), was announced in May 2004. Piper won the Most Popular Actress category at the 2005 and 2006 National Television Awards for her work on "Doctor Who". BBC News named her one of its "Faces of the Year" for 2005, primarily due to her success in "Doctor Who". At "The South Bank Show" Awards in January 2006, she was awarded "The Times" Breakthrough Award for her successful transition from singing to acting. In March, the Television and Radio Industries Club named her as the best new TV talent at their annual awards ceremony. In September, she was named Best Actress at the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards.
Heather McCrimmon was a companion of the Tenth Doctor in the comic strips printed in the Doctor Who Adventures magazine. A history student at Edinburgh university, she was created by a reader as part of a competition to create and design a new companion for the strip. She debuted in the issue on sale 31 December 2008. During her travels she was joined by another companion Wolfgang 'Wolfie' Ryter, who was likewise designed by a reader of the magazine. It is also suggested she's a descendent of Second Doctor TV companion Jamie McCrimmon. She departed in the story "Dead Line" which was published in the issue on sale 4 February 2010. However, she returned for a final appearance in the story "Lucky Heather" published on 25 March 2010 which, unusually for a Doctor Who Adventures comic story, took place during the Tenth Doctor's final TV story The End of Time.
Tamsin Drew is a character that appears in the series of Big Finish Productions "Doctor Who" audio dramas. She initially is a companion of the Eighth Doctor, until she was turned against him by the Meddling Monk and became his companion. She is mentioned by the Eighth Doctor in the TV mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor". Tamsin is played by Niky Wardley.
He has also written two "Doctor Who" audio plays, "Dead London" (2008) and "The Scapegoat" (2009) for Big Finish Productions, featuring the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller. The first audio play was released as the first part of the second season of the Eighth Doctor Adventures and the second as part of the third season. In 2010 Mills adapted a story that had been started by him and Wagner for Doctor Who in the 1980s and was produced by Big Finish as "The Song of Megaptera".
Comic strip adventures of the Doctor appeared almost from the beginning of the television series, first in the 1960s publication "TV Comic", and during the 1970s in the mainly Gerry Anderson-related comic "Countdown", later renamed "TV Action". After "TV Action" ceased publication, the strip returned to "TV Comic" until 1978. Both the First and Second Doctors were, for a time, shown travelling with two youngsters named John and Gillian who are identified as the Doctor's grandchildren. Their place within established continuity has challenged fans ever since, although attempts have been made to reconcile their existence in various spin-off fiction venues.
"Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure" was mounted at Wimbledon Theatre in London for several months starting in March 1989. This musical play paired the Doctor with a set of new companions in a battle against not only the Daleks but the Cybermen as well. Jon Pertwee initially starred in the play for the first half of its run, reprising the Third Doctor. For the second half of the run, Colin Baker starred as the Sixth Doctor. For two performances during Pertwee's tenure, Davis Banks (best known for playing various Cybermen in the TV series) played the Doctor when Pertwee fell ill.
The comic-strip adventures of the Doctor appeared almost from the beginning of the television series, first in the 1960s publication "TV Comic" and then during the 1970s in the mainly Gerry Anderson-related comic "Countdown", later renamed "TV Action". After "TV Action" ceased publication, the strip returned to "TV Comic" until 1978. Both the First and Second Doctors were, for a time, shown travelling with two children named John and Gillian who were identified as the Doctor's grandchildren. Their place within established continuity has challenged fans ever since, although various spin-off fiction venues have attempted to reconcile their existence.
Charlotte Pollard is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the TV show "Doctor Who". This series follows Charlotte "Charley" Pollard, a longtime companion of the Doctor, after she leaves the Sixth Doctor in "Blue Forgotten Planet". A second series was released March 2017. A third series has been announced for production after Series 2.
Up until 2007, Hines was the only surviving Second Doctor companion actor not to have acted in a Big Finish Productions "Doctor Who" audio play. (The others have played characters other than their television roles.) In November 2007, he starred as Jamie in "Helicon Prime", the second installment in Season 2 of Big Finish's Companion Chronicles. Since then he has appeared in many more Companion Chronicles, where his uncanny ability to mimic Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor has been welcomed by fans of the show. Hines has also recorded linking narration for many Second Doctor serials which no longer exist in video form; the soundtracks, along with Hines' narration, have been released on CD by BBC Audio. He also appeared in an audio trilogy with Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor as an older Jamie. In 2013, Hines portrayed both Jamie and the Second Doctor in the Big Finish audio play "The Light at the End", produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Doctor Who".