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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 played the character on stage and recorded an album, Worzel Gummidge Sings, as well as a Christmas single.
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 and voiced
Pertwee voiced and appeared in the television advertisement which promoted the Green Cross Code by use of the mnemonic " SPLINK ".
He is voiced by Jon Pertwee

Pertwee and character
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.
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.
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.
# 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 ;
" 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.

Pertwee and series
This show was written by Eric Merriman and, for the first two series, Barry Took ; Horne's supporting players were Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Ron Moody ( soon succeeded by Bill Pertwee ).
In 1969, Pertwee was selected by producer Peter Bryant to take over as the Doctor from Patrick Troughton in the television series Doctor Who.
First aired in 1979 on ITV, the series saw Pertwee as a scarecrow, as well as utilising several comedic voices.
Keen to continue beyond this, Pertwee campaigned for the series and it was picked up by a New Zealand network in 1987.
Pertwee wrote two autobiographies: Moon Boots and Dinner Suits ( published in 1984 ), which primarily covers his life and career prior to Doctor Who, and the posthumously published Doctor Who: I Am the Doctor – Jon Pertwee ’ s Final Memoir ( published in 1996 by Virgin Publishing Ltd and co-written with David J. Howe ), which covered his life during and after the series.
The series was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, with others contributing to later series after Feldman returned to performing, and starred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.
Pertwee appeared in the radio comedy series Beyond Our Ken ( 1959 – 64 ) and Round the Horne ( 1965 – 67 ).
Pertwee often remarked ( such as in his interview for the Myth Makers series of video documentaries ) that Delgado's death at the age of 55 was one of the catalysts that led to his own departure from Doctor Who.
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.
He had been a radio scriptwriter and performer since 1975, when he wrote and starred in a BBC radio comedy series called The Worst Show On The Wireless, produced by James Casey, which featured Bill Pertwee, Eli Woods, David Casey ( James Casey's son ), and Alison Steadman.
All these various series were spiritual successors to BBC radio's earlier comedy success, ' Round the Horne ' ( 1964 – 68 ), in which Bill Pertwee had previously appeared, each being a similar style of comedy sketch show.
There were three series produced, which featured guest stars including David Seaman, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Jonny Lee Miller, gangster " Mad Frankie " Fraser, ex Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp, Denise van Outen and Donna Air.
Barry Letts, former producer of the series during the Jon Pertwee era, contributed to the Missing Adventures line.
* Doctor Who at the BBC, a series of Doctor Who releases, which included an audio adventure entitled Glorious Goodwood, set at a Goodwood race, featuring Elisabeth Sladen and Jon Pertwee.

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