In early 1974, Pertwee announced he would step down as the Doctor in order to resume his stage career in The Bedwinner, also citing typecasting in the role as the reason for leaving, though later he would say that the catalyst for his departure was the death of his good friend and co-star Roger Delgado and the departures of co-star Katy Manning and producer Barry Letts.

Pertwee also voiced the character of " Spotty " in the 1980s cartoon series SuperTed and in 1985 he starred in Do You Know The Milkyway ?, a television adaptation of Karl Wittlinger's stage play in which he played Dr. Neuross and another nine characters.

In 1995 Pertwee also had the key voice of Death and other voice characterisations in the PC and PlayStation renditions of " Discworld ".

He also presented the Doctor Who video releases The Troughton Years ( showcasing selected surviving episodes of missing stories ) and The Pertwee Years ( a lookback at his time on the show, with his three selected episodes ) in the early 1990s.

Historical raids and alien contacts also feature in several stories, such as the Jon Pertwee episode The Time Warrior, in which a lone alien makes a forced landing in mediaeval England, the Tom Baker episode Pyramids of Mars ( in which the culture of ancient Egypt is shown to have been the result of the infuence of visiting aliens ), and the Peter Davison episode The Visitation in which crashed alien criminals are revealed to be indirectly responsible for the Great Fire of London.

Successor Sylvester McCoy and predecessors Peter Davison and Jon Pertwee also appeared as members of a small group joined against a sinister conspiracy.

He was also a strong character actor in series such as Z-Cars, was misguided scientist Doctor Quinn in the 1970 Doctor Who story Doctor Who and the Silurians, was later in the running to play the Doctor himself when Jon Pertwee gave up the role.

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.

She also kills Ravenhurst's competitors Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee according to her own agenda.

Previous Carry On actors Jon Pertwee and Amanda Barrie also appeared in Dinosaurs.

In 1995 the novel was also issued by BBC Audio as an audio book, read by Jon Pertwee.

The 51st State ( also known as Formula 51 ) is a 2001 Canadian-British action comedy film The film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Ricky Tomlinson, Sean Pertwee, Rhys Ifans and Meat Loaf.

Sean Pertwee's Father, Jon Pertwee, also starred next to a character called Liz Shaw in one of the television shows he is best known for-Dr. Elizabeth Shaw ( played by Caroline John ) was his first companion when he played the Third Doctor in Doctor Who.

With actress Katy Manning also having departed from her role as companion Jo Grant after three seasons, and Letts and Dicks both planning to move on, Pertwee felt that his " family " on the show was breaking up, and he decided to leave at the conclusion of the eleventh season in 1974.

He also had other advertising roles, including one with Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee for the " Green Cross Code ".

In 1965 he appeared in the film I've Gotta Horse, which also featured The Bachelors, Michael Medwin and Jon Pertwee.

Other characters included Ed's wife Marge Huddles ( voiced by Jean Vander Pyl, also the voice of Wilma Flintstone ), their rather jovial if acerbic neighbor Claude Pertwee ( voiced by Paul Lynde ) who tended to refer to Ed and Bubba as " savages "

He created the series Lord Tramp ( 1977 ), written by Michael Pertwee, in which he also starred.

She also appeared alongside Baker, Davison, Sylvester McCoy and Jon Pertwee in another BBV production, The Airzone Solution which is notable as it includes a love scene between Baker and Bryant.

* The final episode of this story was also issued on The Pertwee Years VHS release, along with the final episodes of both Inferno and The Dæmons

He recreated Captain Mike Yates for the Twentieth Anniversary special The Five Doctors ( 1983 ) and also the Thirtieth Anniversary 3-D Special for Children In Need Dimensions In Time ( 1993 ), both in scenes with Jon Pertwee.

Bill Pertwee ( ARP Warden William Hodges ) from Dad's Army also live here

McGregor and Pertwee had also met Law through this film-Pertwee also appeared in it and McGregor read for the part that went to Law.

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.

Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots ( the name was an Anglicisation of " Perthuis "; his full surname being " de Perthuis de Laillevault "), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army ( coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers ' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army ).

Filmed in the summer of 1970, between his first and second Doctor Who seasons, Pertwee played the lead in the last segment of the film as Paul Henderson, a deliciously arrogant horror film star who meets his quasi-comedic doom thanks to a genuine vampire cloak.

In a departure from the Doctor's first two incarnations, Pertwee played the character as an active crusader with a penchant for action and fancy clothes, even while the character was exiled on Earth and serving with UNIT.

In 1995, Pertwee played the role one last time in a one-off special for ITV, which celebrated 40 years of the channel.

Also in 1995, Jon Pertwee played General Von Kramer in the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode " Attack of the Hawkmen ".

There were parodies of popular British TV entertainers such as Eamonn Andrews (" Seamus Android ", played by Pertwee ), Simon Dee, Wilfred Pickles ( both played by Williams ), and " Daphne Whitethigh ", presumably based on journalist Katharine Whitehorn and played by Marsden, a development of Fanny Haddock, her Fanny Cradock take-off from Beyond Our Ken.

During 1982 Sykes played the Chief Constable in the slapstick police comedy film The Boys in Blue, which starred the comedy duo Cannon and Ball, with Jon Pertwee.

It was later revived with Lowe's role replaced by two other Dad's Army cast members: Pike, played by Ian Lavender and Hodges, played by Bill Pertwee.

Actor Peter Davison, for example, who formerly played The Doctor on Doctor Who, was asked which other Doctor Who actor ( from Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee and Sylvester McCoy ) he would most like to have sex with.

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 image is being used for informational purposes about the character of the Third Doctor, as played by Jon Pertwee in the television programme Doctor Who ;

Scenes frequently featured a string of eccentric characters, often played by Ronnie Barker or Jon Pertwee.

Kingston auditioned and performed in the Surrey County Youth Theatre production of Tom Jones, as Mrs Fitzpatrick alongside Sean Pertwee, Captain Fitzpatrick and Thwackum played by Tom Davison.

Before his death, Pertwee played the role on screen one last time in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time.

At the date of his death, Pertwee was regularly being seen at the tail end of an enigmatic UK TV commercial for mobile phone operator Vodafone: dressed somewhat in his flamboyant ' Doctor ' manner, his character walked wordlessly across an alleyway in sight of a Liverpool landmark, and entered a garage evidently containing some kind of ' time machine '.

It was presented by Jonathan James-Moore and included interviews with Ron Moody, Bill Pertwee, Eric Merriman's son Andy, Brian Cooke, Barry Took's ex-wife Lyn, and extracts from Kenneth Williams's diary read " in character " by David Benson.

' This was parodied by the character Seamus Android in the BBC radio programme Round the Horne in the 1960s, performed by Bill Pertwee.

" Other sources, including Barry Letts, have said there was an initial idea to make the character more ' exotic ' with a tougher, sexier edge, but not academically brilliant, so as to give the Doctor the much-wanted ( by Pertwee ) chance to play the father figure.