Pertwee is best known for a series of famous roles, firstly his 18-year stint on BBC Radio as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark, secondly his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974 and thirdly as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge.

After a stint between 1974 and 1978 as the host of the Thames Television murder-mystery game show Whodunnit !, Pertwee took the starring role in Worzel Gummidge, based on the books written by Barbara Euphan Todd.

Worzel Gummidge Down Under aired for the next two years and was screened in the UK on Channel 4.

Pertwee also played the character on stage and recorded an album, Worzel Gummidge Sings, as well as a Christmas single.

) He was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium with a toy Worzel Gummidge affixed to the coffin, following the instructions in his will.

* In 1980 he released " Worzel's Song ", from the album Worzel Gummidge Sings.

From 1979 until 1981 she played the recurring character Mrs Bloomsbury-Barton in Worzel Gummidge for Southern Television.

Worzel Gummidge is a British children's fictional character who originally appeared in a series of books by the novelist Barbara Euphan Todd.

Worzel Gummidge was a scarecrow that could come to life on Scatterbrook Farm.

* Worzel Gummidge ( 1936 )

* More About Worzel Gummidge ( 1938 )

* Worzel Gummidge And Saucy Nancy ( 1947 )

* Worzel Gummidge Takes A Holiday ( 1949 )

* Earthy Mangold And Worzel Gummidge ( 1954 )

* Worzel Gummidge And The Railway Scarecrows ( 1955 )

* Worzel Gummidge At The Circus ( 1956 )

* Worzel Gummidge And The Treasure Ship ( 1958 )

* Detective Worzel Gummidge ( 1963 )

In July 1967 five Worzel Gummidge stories were read on Jackanory by Gordon Rollings.

Television New Zealand and Channel 4 ( UK ) co-funded a follow-up series that ran for two seasons in 1987 and 1989, with Worzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally, still played by Pertwee and Stubbs, relocated to New Zealand.

* The Completely Unofficial Worzel Gummidge Website — fansite relating to the 1979 to 1981 television series.

Notable programmes produced by Southern Television over the years included the flagship regional news magazine Day by Day presented by an able team of presenters including Barry Westwood, Peter Clark, and long-serving weatherman Trevor Baker ; Out of Town, a countryside programme introduced by Jack Hargreaves, who would later join Southern's board of directors ; How, a children's science programme also featuring Hargreaves along with Fred Dinenage, Bunty James ( later replaced by Marian Davies ) and Jon Miller ; Freewheelers, a children's spy series ; Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years and Worzel Gummidge, starring Jon Pertwee as the eponymous walking scarecrow.

Murphy explained that the relatively simple mask, as opposed to the full scarecrow costume usually seen in the comics, was done because Murphy " wanted the Scarecrow to avoid the Worzel Gummidge look, because he's not a very physically imposing man-he's more interested in the manipulation of the mind and what that can do.

* Worzel Gummidge, a British book

Again in 1937 he stated about his son-" I would rather have no offspring than sacrifice our nation's interests.

* Cheyenne Rides Again ( 1937 )

*( 1937 ) " Where or When ", I Wish I Were in Love Again ", " My Funny Valentine ", " Johnny One Note ", " The Lady is a Tramp " ( from Babes in Arms )

* Farewell Again ( 1937 )

* Farewell Again ( 1937 )

* Saddles Again ( 1937 )

* Farewell Again ( 1937 )

* Zorro Rides Again ( 1937 )

* Zorro Rides Again ( 1937 )

* Farewell Again ( 1937 )

* Zorro Rides Again ( 1937 )

* Zorro Rides Again ( 1959 ) ( Feature version of the 1937 serial )

* Farewell Again ( 1937 )

* Farewell Again ( 1937 )

* Zorro Rides Again ( 1937 )-J.

* Farewell Again ( 1937 )

* Egghead Rides Again ( 1937 )

He played Lincoln in a public-service short subject, The Road Is Open Again, appeared in a rare comic role as an actor exasperated at being typecast as Lincoln in the 1937 comedy Stand-In, and played Lincoln's father in the film version of Robert E. Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ).