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 )

* Worzel Gummidge Again ( 1937 )

* 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 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

At the 1st Academy Awards, Chaplin was given a special award " For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus.

) She also performed some acrobatics while trying to steal a wallet from Groucho Marx in the Marx Brothers film At the Circus ( 1939 ).

* At the Circus ( 1939 )

At the Circus Maximus, two armies of war captives, each of 2, 000 people, 200 horse and 20 elephants, fought to the death.

At Oxford Circus the tunnel runs close to the Bakerloo line tunnel of the London Underground.

At the end of June, a mob demonstrated against Cleander during a horse race in the Circus Maximus: he sent the praetorian guard to put down the disturbances, but Pertinax, who was now City Prefect of Rome, dispatched the Vigiles Urbani to oppose them.

Many see Beyond the Fringe as the forerunner to British television programmes That Was the Week That Was, At Last the 1948 Show and Monty Python's Flying Circus.

It thus helped prepare the television audience for At Last the 1948 Show, Spike Milligan's Q series, Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Goodies.

Copies of several compilations from the British 1960s comedy At Last The 1948 Show, held by many to be a forerunner of Monty Python's Flying Circus, were discovered in the archives of the Swedish broadcaster SVT, to whom the producers Rediffusion London had sold them upon the companies ' loss of its broadcasting licence ( the master tapes, along with much of Rediffusion's programming, having been wiped or disposed of by their successor Thames Television ).

At the end of the year Lindsay-Hogg again collaborated with the Stones on their most ambitious project to date, the feature-length performance film The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, which also featured John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton and rising UK band Jethro Tull, but unfortunately the film was not released until 1996 because the group at the time felt that their own performances had been below par.

At that time Vladimir Lenin resided on Percy Circus, less than half a mile north of Clerkenwell Green.

At the end of the version in Flying Circus, a letter written by an enraged viewer ( voiced by John Cleese ) is shown to complain about the portrayal of lumberjacks in the sketch.

In the Marx Brothers ' movie At the Circus ( 1939 ), however, Harpo " speaks " in a movie with the brothers in the scene in which he visits the room of Little Professor Atom ( Jerry Maren ) and sneezes, clearly saying " At-choo !".

* Chico plays piano in At The Circus

Determined that her Marx Brothers references be respected, she ends the sequences of references by offering to pay Toby $ 500 if he'll sing " Lydia the Tattooed Lady " ( a song sung by J. Cheever Loophole ( Groucho ) in " At the Circus ").

At some time it broke and was buried under the Circus.

At Temple Bar to the west, as Fleet Street crosses the boundary out of the City of London, it becomes the Strand ; to the east, past Ludgate Circus, the route rises as Ludgate Hill.

At Sutro Blum led a partnership that acquired Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for $ 8m, selling it to Mattel four years later for $ 40m.

At the age of 73, the eminent architect Norman Shaw was brought in to resolve the design, and drew up proposals for the Circus and the Quadrant which were approved in principle, but still subject to indecision and dispute, both on property acquisition matters, and the retailers ' demand for bigger display windows.

File: Piccadilly Circus Station Ent. jpg | At the bottom of an entrance staircase

At Piccadilly Circus, one of the busiest stations on the system, Holden designed ( 1925 – 28 ) a spacious travertine-lined circulating concourse and ticket hall below the roadway of the junction from which banks of escalators gave access to the platforms below.

At the Sacramento Music Circus, she played " Maria " in The Sound of Music in 1996 and " Molly Brown " in The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 2002.

* At the Circus ( 1902 )

At Hardwicke Circus Roundabout, a large junction in the centre of Carlisle, the A7 meets the A595 to the west and southern Cumbria and then continues to form part of Carlisle's one way system through the city centre, meeting the A69 and finally becoming the A6 near Carlisle railway station.