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As the BBC announced in their press release, "Their worlds should[ 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" 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. However, the old producers wanted me to play it for laughs, you can see that in the first episode.

The hat business. The shower. I had already decided I want to play it straight. Luckily those producers left after the first story and were replaced by Barry Letts who let me play it my way Some of his answers will surprise you! He was the second choice for the role; Ron Moody was the first but was unavailable. He played the Doctor for five seasons from early to mid, a longer stint than either of his predecessors in the role, William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton, although the Pertwee era of Doctor Who 'only' had episodes compared to the Hartnell era having had episodes, as the BBC relaxed its shooting schedule from 39—45 episodes per season to 25—26 episodes per season at the start of Pertwee's tenure as Doctor Who.

Pertwee credited his performance as the Third Doctor for helping him work out exactly who he really was when he was not resorting to comedic disguises or voices: a dapper, technologically oriented man of action. This was because Terrance Dicks had advised him to act out the Third Doctor as himself: in effect, to "play Jon Pertwee.

Filming in the summer of , between his first and second Doctor Who seasons, Pertwee played the lead in the last segment of the film as Paul Henderson, an arrogant horror film star who meets his doom thanks to a genuine vampire cloak.

In early , Pertwee announced he would step down as the Doctor 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 The Master and the departures of co-star Katy Manning and producer Barry Letts.

His last full-time appearance in the series was in the story Planet of the Spiders in June , which finished with Tom Baker replacing him in the role. Although ratings for the series rose higher under his successor, who overtook him in popularity and became widely viewed as the definitive Doctor, [19] Pertwee's tenure in Doctor Who has been praised by The Daily Telegraph critic Dr.

Tim Stanley as "the high point of the programme as a serious piece of science-fiction". After a stint between and as the host of the Thames Television murder-mystery game show Whodunnit? First aired in on ITV , the series saw Pertwee as a scarecrow , as well as using several comedic voices.

The show was an immediate hit and ran on the channel until Keen to continue beyond this, Pertwee campaigned for the series and it was picked up by a New Zealand TV network in In , Pertwee played the role one last time in a one-off special for ITV, which celebrated 40 years of the channel. Pertwee also recorded an album, Worzel Gummidge Sings , [20] as well as a Christmas single.

Neuross and another nine characters. In Pertwee also had the key voice of Death and other voice characterisations in the PC and PlayStation renditions of " Discworld ". He returned to the role of the Doctor in the 20th anniversary television special The Five Doctors and in the charity special Dimensions in Time for Children in Need.

He also presented the Doctor Who video releases The Troughton Years showcasing selected surviving episodes of otherwise wiped stories and The Pertwee Years a look back at his time on the show, with his three selected episodes in the early s.

When asked in an interview for this documentary if the show should be brought back he simply replied with 'No Pertwee would continue to act in films and television as well as make appearances worldwide in support of Doctor Who. In April , he appeared in Devious , an amateur video drama set between the second Doctor's trial at the end of The War Games and before the start of Spearhead From Space , which shows an interim between second and third Doctor played by Tony Garner being told he was "never meant to be the Doctor" and that the third will complete him.

Pertwee's final film role was in a short film entitled Cloud Cuckoo for Scottish Screen, released on 18 June His last formal television appearance was on Cilla 's Surprise, Surprise , broadcast on 21 April At the date of his death, Pertwee was regularly being seen in the closing moments of an enigmatic UK TV commercial for mobile phone operator Vodafone : dressed somewhat in his flamboyant 'Doctor' manner.

His character walked wordlessly across an alleyway in sight of a Liverpool landmark, and entered a garage evidently containing some kind of 'time machine'.

Pertwee continued on the Doctor Who convention circuit, and with his voice and television acting, until his death; he died in his sleep from a heart attack in Connecticut on 20 May , at the age of Some reports place the location of his death in New York City.

He was survived by his wife Ingeborg Rhoesa, and two children who had followed him into the acting profession, Sean Pertwee and Dariel Pertwee. His immediate successor in the starring role of Doctor Who , Tom Baker , paid tribute, saying: "I am very sorry to hear the news. I was a great admirer of such a stylish actor. I can't believe he has gone — it is a great shock.

Of all of the interpretations of the Doctors his was the most straight in terms of avoiding comedy.