10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Doctor Who

You think you know Doctor Who ? Just like his straggle time auto , the Doctor ’s mythology and mystery are too expansive and weird to be contained in a finite infinite . Here are 10 things you might not know about Doctor Who .

10 ) The Doctor almost assemble God .

John Wiles , who took over as manufacturer of the show after original producer Verity Lambert left in 1965 , wanted to push the show in a more data-based direction . And one of his ideas was a story called “ The Face of God . ”According to Wiles , “ the TARDIS is stopped in mid - melodic phrase by this tremendous face which claims to be that of God himself . Of of course towards the end it would be rise that all was not as it seemed . ” shenanigan was surprised to see his thought appear , about a quarter of a century later on , in the movie Star Trek V : The Final Frontier . ( you could just picture William Hartnell necessitate , “ What does God need with a time machine ? ” )

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9 ) At least three different backwash have secretly pass the human raceway and help oneself us prepare our current technology . The Daemon , Azal , reveals that the Daemons have helped humanity to advance to its present Department of State of sophistication , and now we ’re to be tested ( in “ The Daemons . ” ) The Fendahl also twist out to have guided the whole of human account to the minute where it could be released ( in “ Image of the Fendahl . ” ) And Scaroth , last of the Jagaroth , use his various prison term - splintered self to help the human race come along more apace throughout history , so he can ramp up a time machine in the 20th 100 . ( “ City of Death . ” ) Plus there ’s some implication the Osirians ( from “ Pyramids of Mars ” ) did some guiding of mankind here and there . You have to question if they were n’t falling over each other at some point .

Several actors fiddle one - off role on the show before becoming regulars . Peter Purves played American tourist Morton Dill ( with a ridiculous accent ) before join the show as new companion Steven . Nicholas Courtney played Space Security Service Agent Bret Vyon in “ The Daleks Master Plan ” and then later played the Brigadier . John Levene was a Cyberman in “ The Moonbase ” and a Yeti in “ The Web of reverence ” and then became the recurring UNIT character Sgt . Benton . Ian Marter played the boxing - obsessed Lt . Andrews in “ The Carnival of Monsters ” and then take on Harry Sullivan for a year or so . Lalla Ward was the awesomely name Princess Astra in “ The Armageddon Factor ” before becoming Romana . Colin Baker was a thuggish Time Lord , Maxil , in “ Arc of Infinity , ” and then became the Doctor himself . Freema Agyeman was Adeola , a Cyber - victim , in “ Army of Ghosts , ” and then play Martha Jones . And Karen Gillan was the Soothsayer in “ Fires of Pompeii ” before act Amy Pond .

7 ) The Fourth Doctor , Tom Baker , tried to make a couple of Doctor Who movies . One of them wasDoctor Who Meets Scratchman , a film in which the Doctor would have tangled with the Devil ( aka Scratchman , as he ’s sometimes called in folklore ) along with Daleks and robots called Cybors . There were also straw man made of bones , which come to life . And both Vincent Price and Twiggy would have co - star . And then there was Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen , which Baker adjudicate to evolve with then - writer Douglas Adams — who wound up using many of the thought in his third Hitchhiker ’s book , Life , The Universe and Everything .

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6 ) Mick Jagger ’s estate , Stargroves , was used in two 1970s Doctor Who stories . These were “ Pyramid of Mars ” and “ Image of the Fendahl . ” As far as we eff , Jagger was n’t in reality present during the filming of either story , and they only inject exterior emplacement shots at Stargroves . Nor were any Jagaroth involved .

5 ) The Doctor was originally plan to be an anti - science ultraconservative . With a time machine . All of the original documents behind the creation of Doctor Who are on-line at the BBC , and they make for fascinating reading . Among other thing , there ’s a memorandum outlining a very dissimilar type of show about a team of “ Troubleshooters ” who solve problems . Also , various ideas for how the Doctor ’s time machine could be disguised — like , it ’s a clear house of cards , or we never even see it at all — are tossed out . But the craziest notion is that the Doctor is traveling through metre and space to find a perfect , idyllic past , gratis of science and engineering . “ He is an extension of the scientist who has prefer out … One symptom of this is his hate of scientists , inventor , improvers . … He malignantly try out to stop progress ( the future ) wherever he chance it , while search for his ideal ( the past ) . ”

4 ) Tom Baker wanted to have a talking cabbage as a comrade . At least , so legend has it . The talking cabbage would have been an foreign creature that sat on the Doctor ’s shoulder , and could have served as a permutation when Louise Jameson ( Leela ) left the series . Baker was also quite dandy on the estimation of the Doctor having a much honest-to-god fair sex as a companion .

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3 ) One of Peter Davison ’s first companions could have been a former Tom Baker companion . As Tom Baker neared the end of his run of playing the Doctor , the new producer , John Nathan - Turner , want to wreak back a former fellow traveller to help bridge the gap between the Fourth and Fifth Doctor of the Church . He approached Elisabeth Sladen , who did n’t want to bring back to the show , but check to asterisk ina twisting - offinstead . But he also was in talks with Louise Jameson , who ’d played Leela , for quite a while . Jamesonwaskeento come back for two or three stories , but Nathan - Turner desire her to send to a whole season , and she articulate no . So instead , thenew character of Tegan Jovankawas created .

2 ) The Daleks almost did n’t appear in the new serial at all . The original co - creator of the Daleks , Terry Nation , own the copyright of the show ’s most famous monsters . At various points during the show ’s story , the Daleks had been off terminus ad quem ( notably 1968 - 1971 ) and Nation ’s Estate was wary of letting the revamped show use them in 2005 . While Rob Shearman was working on his script , “ Dalek , ” negotiations fall apart down altogether — the show could n’t include the Daleks at all . Shearman explained to Den of Geek :

I ’m afraid I panicked a bite for a week or two . I came up with other approximation for young episodes altogether , but I was adjudicate too intemperately – and eventually Russell sit me down , gave me a new monster to punch the gap , and send me back to employment . The identity of that monster , the fact it was n’t an iconic Dalek , changed the entire script from top to bottom – it made it much funnier , actually , which I rather liked . What he apply me was a silver Lucille Ball , and separate me that within it he ’d later reveal an entire human fountainhead from the close of time – they had issue forth out of nowhere , these mysterious creatures , down the Time Lords , kill the Daleks … .

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Russell differentiate me that he had in mind that those fluent balls were part of a time of year three idea he ’d now brought onwards – and , sure enough , at the end of season three there they were , now called the Toclafane . He ’s a cunning chap , Russell .

Of of course , in the end , the Terry Nation estate relented and the Daleks were able to appear after all . But it ’s gripping to imagine how thing could have play out differently if the Toclafane had been the villains of season one .

1 ) The physician could have had an evil son . The show ’s original star , William Hartnell , was keen on doing a storyline called “ The Son of Doctor Who . ” No , this would n’t have been an earlier version of “ The Doctor ’s Daughter . ”As Hartnell explained :

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At one time ( in late 1964 ) I mean we might extend the series and I suggested giving the Doctor a son and calling the program The Son of Doctor Who . The estimate was for me to have a unholy Logos . We would both look alike , each have a TARDIS and travel in outer space . In actual fact , it would have imply that I had to represent a double role when I ` met ’ my son .

Would this son have been the don of the Doctor ’s granddaughter Susan ? The BBC shot down the mind , so we ’ll never know .

Additional reporting by Alasdair Wilkins .

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