Doctor Who (2005)
Time Crash
Friday 16 November 2007 on BBC-1

Location : TARDIS Date : none Enemies : None After Martha says goodbye to the Doctor and leaves, he is surprised to find a problem with the TARDIS. Suddenly, a man materialises - the Fifth Doctor. But why's he here, and what's happened to the TARDIS?

Peter contributed a Doodle to the National Doodle Campaign (2008), which auctions off celebrity doodles for charity (The Neurofibromatosis Association). (edit) Peter provides a commentary for the 25th Anniversary DVD release of The Five Doctors. (edit) Peter starred with tenth Doctor David Tennant in the 2007 Children in Need, Doctor Who special: Time Crash. It was the first multi-doctor storyline since the show was revived in 2005. (edit) Peter Davison was good friends with Patrick Troughton (The Second Doctor.) Troughton urged Davison to only play the Doctor for three years. Davison followed Pat Troughton's advice and left the show. Davison regretted leaving the show, but by the time he wanted to come back, Colin Baker was the new Doctor. (edit) Peter's daughter Georgia auditioned for the role of Rose Tyler in the new Doctor Who series, but the role went to Billie Piper. However, Georgia appeared in Series 4 as the title character of the episode The Doctor's Daughter. (edit)

(on why it's not nepotism that his daughter Georgia got a part in his old show)
Peter: She got it off her own bat. I would love to get another part in Doctor Who, I'm certainly not going to get her one first. (edit) (on whether he would return to "Doctor Who" for a longer stint)
Peter: Oh, absolutely. I don't think it would happen - I have to be straight on that, because it sounds as if I'm prophesying about it, which I'm not. I can't think of a reason why I would say 'Sorry, I don't want to be in one of the most successful television series ever'. I think it's unlikely. I loved doing Time Crash, but I don't know it would go any further. Unless there's a spin-off for old codgers roaming around the universe! (edit) (on his daughter Georgia getting a part in "Doctor Who")
Peter: I was very pleased for her. People think she got it because of me. I think she got it despite me. I think they had to think very carefully they cast her, as people would say 'oh, it's Doctor Who's daughter', but she's a great actress. I'm looking forward to it. (edit) Peter: Dangerous Davies is an unassuming detective, who seems unfazed by anything that is thrown at him. In a way, he is my ideal, because I have to confess I do get irate at times, especially when I'm driving in traffic (edit) Peter Davison: (On the experience on doing Time Crash) I loved it. When I got into my costume, which they created - most of it was real, though they had to buy another hat – I felt a bit out of place, because I felt that my costume was designed to be overly 'BBC Television Centre Studio', and suddenly I was on this proper atmospheric set. David was dressed in this cool dark outfit, suit and tie, stuff like that, and I was in pyjamaed Victorian garb, hat…so it took me a bit of time to get used to that. But once I got into it I had a great time doing it. He was a bit in awe of me because I was 'his' Doctor, I was in awe of him because he's a terrific actor and I was on his territory. So in a way it kind of balanced out. There was that wonderful moment you always kind of get at the read-through; people first of all brace time by showing off the set and saying 'First of all we'll start out here, and then this is the way up' and so on, and then eventually they say 'Okay, shall we just try a run-through of the lines?' . And the moment you run through the lines, it's great. It was all very quick. The only thing I felt about it was that we are both so quick in terms of speed...I timed it at something like ten minutes and it ended up as just under eight minutes - we just zipped through it.
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Distant Shores Bill Shore	Doctor Who Doctor Who

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Doctor Who Confidential Himself

Guest Star
Agatha Christie's Marple At Bertram's Hotel Hubert Curtain	All Creatures Great and Small Calf Love Tristan Farnon
Children in Need 1983 [4 Parts] Himself	Children in Need Pause For Pudsey (4) The Doctor
Children in Need 1993 [2 Parts] Himself	Comic Relief RND 1988 - A Night of Comic Relief Celebrity call taker

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