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'Doctor Who': Mark Gatiss recreates Dalek invasion for 50th - video

18 February 2013 3:47 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »

The BBC has released a new video from the filming of An Adventure in Space and Time.

The Doctor Who biopic - commissioned to celebrate 50 years of the BBC sci-fi drama - will explore the show's 1960s origins.

In a new video clip - running at just under 2 minutes - writer Mark Gatiss acts as a guide on an early morning shoot at London's Westminster Bridge, which recreates scenes from classic 1964 Who serial 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth'.

The original six-part adventure starred actor William Hartnell, who will be played by Harry Potter's David Bradley in the biopic.

Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton will also feature as a character in the docu-drama, played by Gatiss's League of Gentlemen co-star Reece Shearsmith.

Also cast in the film - directed by Breaking Bad's Terry McDonough - are Brian Cox (BBC head of drama Sydney Newman), Jessica Raine (Doctor Who's first »

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Reece Shearsmith to play Patrick Troughton in 'Doctor Who' 50th biopic

18 February 2013 1:55 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »

Reece Shearsmith is to play Patrick Troughton in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary biopic.

An Adventure in Space and Time - which will tell the story of the BBC sci-fi drama's early days - has been written by Shearsmith's League of Gentlemen co-star Mark Gatiss.

"I first asked Reece [to play this role] about 12 years ago when I started thinking about this project," Gatiss told the Radio Times. "We were in the midst of League of Gentlemen and I just remember thinking, if anyone plays Patrick Troughton, it should be Reece.

"Like the second Doctor, he's small, saturnine and a comic genius. The complete package. He thought it was a fantastic idea and I've kind of nurtured it all this time."

Troughton played the second Doctor between 1966 and 1969, inheriting the show's lead role from original star William Hartnell, who will be played by Harry Potter's David Bradley in the biopic.

"Reece [is] not steeped in Doctor Who like I am, »

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