Complete series cast summary: | |||
Tom Baker | ... | Doctor Who 173 episodes, 1974-1984 | |
William Hartnell | ... | Dr. Who / ... 140 episodes, 1963-1984 | |
Jon Pertwee | ... | Doctor Who / ... 129 episodes, 1970-1984 | |
Patrick Troughton | ... | Dr. Who / ... 127 episodes, 1966-1985 | |
Frazer Hines | ... | Jamie / ... 116 episodes, 1966-1985 | |
Nicholas Courtney | ... | Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart / ... 106 episodes, 1965-1989 | |
Pat Gorman | ... | Guard / ... 34 episodes, 1964-1985 | |
Elisabeth Sladen | ... | Sarah Jane Smith 81 episodes, 1973-1984 | |
Jacqueline Hill | ... | Barbara Wright / ... 81 episodes, 1963-1980 | |
William Russell | ... | Ian Chesterton 78 episodes, 1963-1965 | |
Katy Manning | ... | Jo Grant 77 episodes, 1971-1984 | |
John Scott Martin | ... | Dalek / ... 66 episodes, 1965-1988 | |
John Levene | ... | Sergeant Benton / ... 70 episodes, 1967-1983 | |
Peter Davison | ... | The Doctor / ... 70 episodes, 1981-1984 | |
Traveling across time and space, the immortal time-lord known as 'The Doctor' travels across the universe with his many companions and his loyal shape-shifting space-ship: The TARDIS. The Doctor faces many threats across many generations: from The Daleks, The Cybermen and his time-lord adversary The Master to the sinister Davros, creator of The Daleks. Written by Johnny
`Doctor Who', in a nutshell, is probably the most imaginative show ever created. Initially, it was about an eccentric time-traveller from another planet, who looked human and affected an English manner and style. The interior of his time machine (called a TARDIS) was huge and highly advanced, but the exterior quaintly resembled an English public call box. The Doctor was a self-imposed exile from a race of powerful beings called the Time Lords. The Time Lords observed history, but never interfered with it. This bored the almighty heck out of the Doctor, so he made off with an older TARDIS and decided to see the Universe for himself.
When the original actor who played the Doctor decided to leave the show, the writers came up with the inventive concept of `regeneration'. Whenever the Doctor was close to death, or actually killed, he would `regenerate' into a new body (and persona). The show went through seven highly talented actors in this fashion.
The format of the show was highly adaptable. Didn't like the way the show was going? Just wait two or three years. The style always seemed to change whenever there was a change of Doctor, producer and/or script editor. The series went from educational children's drama to monster show to intelligent adult sci-fi/drama to gothic horror to high camp, et cetera, et cetera, and so forth.
This was a wonderful, imaginative, fun show when it was on. I was sad to see it go.