About All Seven Regenerations: John Pertwee

Born 7 July 1919.

Jon Pertwee portrayed the 3d Doctor from Spearhead From Space, his first Doctor Who story in January 1970 to Planet Of The Spiders, his last story in June 1974. He returned for The Five Doctors in November 1983. But ever so sadly Jon Pertwee passed away on May 20, 1996.

The third Doctor spent all of season seven trapped in Earth's present. In the next two seasons, he left 20th-century Earth, but without control of the TARDIS, which was being operated remotely by a faction group of Timelords called the Celestial Intervention Agency. After the tenth anniversary story, The Three Doctors (1972-'73), his freedom was restored and he travelled widely in time and space, but returned frequently to twentieth-century Earth to help the Brigadier. The Master, a renegade Timelord first played by Roger Delgado, was introduced in the Pertwee era, and became one of the most popular villains, appearing in different regenerations in stories up to and including Survival, the last televised story of the original series, and the 1996 Fox TV movie.

While, unlike his predecessors, none of the third Doctor's twenty-three stories were completely destroyed by the BBC, a few exist only in black & white form. Jon Pertwee reprised his role as the third Doctor in the twentieth anniversary episode, The Five Doctors.

The third Doctor's first story, Spearhead from Space, was the first story to be shot in color, and introduced UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, lead by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The third Doctor had the arrogance of Hartnell, experience equal to, or greater than Troughton, and an infusion of Jon Pertwee's own personality.

Audio theme for the third Doctor (size: 355 KB. run time: 33.4 seconds).

Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor) starred in the following episodes:

1•Spearhead from Space
2•Silurians, The
3•Ambassadors of Death, The
4•Inferno
5•Terror of the Autons
6•Mind of Evil, The
7•Claws of Axos, The
8•Colony in Space
9•Daemons, The
10•Day of the Daleks, The
11•Curse of Peladon, The
12•Sea Devils, The
13•Mutants, The
14•Time Monster, The
15•Three Doctors, The
16•Carnival of Monsters
17•Frontier in Space
18•Planet of the Daleks
19•Green Death, The
20•Time Warrior, The
21•Invasion of the Dinosaurs
22•Death to the Daleks
23•Monster of Peladon, The
24•Planet of the Spiders.

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