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Dr. Who I believe ...
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Dr WHO !
(For those people outside of the UK, it was a children's TV Sci-Fi that ran so long that parents who watched it as children now watch it with their children!)
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"What" is not the character's name but "Who" as in Dr. Who. (With apologies to Abbot and Costello. )
BTW William Hartnell was the original Dr. Who (1963-1966).
Peter Davidson played The doctor from 1981 - 1984 in the wake of the actor with the longest run as the Doctor, Tom Baker, who was, IMHO, the best Doctor ever.
Paul McGann played The Doctor in a TV movie (which I haven't seen) in 1996.
Andrew C. Eisenberg
Nashville, TN, USA (a.k.a. Music City USA)
(Yes Virginia, there are rock and roll stations in Nashville! )
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Doctor Who
Christopher Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."
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The News from Jordon wrote: What's the character's name?
"The Doctor" in the TV Series Doctor Who
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The ten faces of the Doctor are William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant.
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Coram wrote: The ten faces of the Doctor are William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant.
You've forgotten Peter Cushing who played the Dr in the first two films.
Andy
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StandardLife wrote: You've forgotten Peter Cushing who played the Dr in the first two films.
However, that isn't regarded as Canon.
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Peter Cushing = Two films
Paul McGann = One film
Not Canon? It's very difficult to deny what your eyes have seen. I hope Canon didn't provide the cameras or lenses for Cushing's films. Anyway, WHO regards it as "Not Canon"? Having watched it from behind the sofa since the very first episode (everyone remembers the TV they were watching the week Kennedy got shot) I think that he is a very significant part of the culture. You have to remember that Cushing appeared with the Daleks and that their use had to be licensed from Terry Nation who created the things in the first place - that's credability to me.
More to the point, Jordan's question was, what was the character's name. As we all know, his title was "The Doctor". We've never known WHO he is, which is the point of the show's title! We could suppose that he has an English style name as his grand-daughter's name was Susan.
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StandardLife wrote: Not Canon? It's very difficult to deny what your eyes have seen. I hope Canon didn't provide the cameras or lenses for Cushing's films. Anyway, WHO regards it as "Not Canon"?
How about this quote from wikipedia on the subject:
Wikipedia wrote: The Doctor has also appeared in two cinema films: Dr. Who and the Daleks in 1965 and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD in 1966. Both were essentially retellings of existing stories on the big screen, with a larger budget and numerous alterations to the series concept. In these films, Peter Cushing played a human scientist named Dr. Who, who travelled with his two granddaughters and other companions in a time machine he invented. Due to this and numerous other changes (not to mention the storylines that duplicated televised episodes), the movies are not regarded as part of the ongoing continuity of the series.
Simple fact is that in the film with Peter Crushing he is not playing an alien Time Lord styled as "The Doctor", he is playing a human.
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That brief mention is hardly a ringing endorsement of Peter Cushing's Doctor as canon.
-- modified at 4:38 Thursday 3rd August, 2006
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I'd trust the BBC site far more than Wikipedia, especially as the BBC is also the home of the Doctor.
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A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.
I guess we are going to have to agree to disagree on this one.
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So, where do you stand on Jordan's original question?
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I already gave my answer here[^]
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They have all played the lead role in either the TV series of Dr Who or one of the films.
Just to be pedantic, the character doesn't actually have a name
Cheers chums
Andy
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Well guys to be technical - 'The Doctor', or 'Doctor'. (Not Dr Who. Dr Who is the name of the series. The character is called The Doctor).
But nice work!!!!
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
The Code Project Insider
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To be even more pedantic, you asked for the character's name, which has never been known. He's only ever been known by his title which is, as you say, "The Doctor". A title is not a name!
Cheers
Andy
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A famous leader's first name of Mohandas is commonly replaced by a first name that means 'great soul'; who was he?
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
The Code Project Insider
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The News from Jordon wrote: who was he?
A: Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi of India.
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