Pertwee had asked his agent to apply for the role for him and was surprised to find he was already on the shortlist for the role.

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.

According to Elisabeth Sladen in an interview on the DVD release of Invasion of the Dinosaurs Pertwee asked for a substantially increased fee for another year on the series, that he was turned down and subsequently resigned from the role.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Barry Letts, former producer of the series during the Jon Pertwee era, contributed to the Missing Adventures line.

Jo was introduced by Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks in the first episode of Doctor Whos eighth season ( 1971 ) as a new companion of series protagonist the Doctor, in his third incarnation ( Jon 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.

Together with then producer Barry Letts, he wrote four stories for the Jon Pertwee era on the programme: The Dæmons ( credited as Guy Leopold ); The Time Monster ; The Green Death ; and Planet of the Spiders, which was Pertwee's swan song.

Although more were planned, only two were ever completed: The Paradise of Death ( 1993 ) and The Ghosts of N-Space ( 1996 ), both written by Barry Letts and featuring Jon Pertwee, ( in two of his final performances as the Third Doctor ), Elisabeth Sladen and Nicholas Courtney.

* Sean Pertwee as Barry Rankin

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.

When Letts cast Manning and introduced her to the show's star, Pertwee was delighted and said " I told you she was the girl for the part ".

He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London — Delgado often remarked to Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee, a close friend, that this made him a true Cockney, as he was born within the sound of the Bow bells — although his mother was Belgian and his father Spanish.

Jon Pertwee credited his performance as the Third Doctor for helping him figure out exactly who he really was when he was not resorting to comedic disguises or voices: a dapper, technologically oriented man of action.

This was because Terrance Dicks had advised him to act out the Third Doctor as himself: in effect, to " play Jon Pertwee.

Terrance Dicks recalls that he had used the line in a script, and Pertwee approached him about the line.

However, due to his death before recording, an agreement was reached with his widow, Ingeborg Pertwee, to represent him in the game using audio clips from the television series.

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.

On 14 April 1971, Pertwee was the subject of Thames Television's This Is Your Life which featured the first television appearance of his son Sean Pertwee, who went on to become an actor.

( The first time Pertwee had been represented on stage.

* January 3 – Jon Pertwee makes his first appearance as the Third Doctor in the Doctor Who serial Spearhead from Space.

Also, whenever Pertwee had some menial job to be done, Able Seaman Johnson was always first in line to do it, inevitably against his will: " You're rotten, you are !".

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.

Sherwin's first choice to replace Troughton was actor Ron Moody, star of the musical Oliver !, but when he turned the part down, comic actor Jon Pertwee, another candidate from Sherwin's shortlist, was cast instead.

Jo first appears in the 1971 serial Terror of the Autons, having been assigned to the Doctor ( Jon Pertwee ) as a replacement for Liz Shaw ( Caroline John ).

He is also one of only three directors ( the others being Douglas Camfield and Lennie Mayne ) who directed all of the first four actors to play the Doctor, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.

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.

In 1970, a 1954 Ford Popular-based kit car, the Siva Edwardian ( MTR 5 ), was used by Jon Pertwee to become " Bessie ", the Doctor's sprightly Edwardian roadster on the long-running science-fiction television show, Doctor Who.

Anxiety ", in which the Jon Pertwee era of the series was — unusually for the time — held up to sustained criticism.

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 "

Pertwee's Doctor was more action-oriented than his predecessors, and the producers allowed Pertwee to indulge his love of riding various vehicles during his tenure, including motorcycles, hovercraft, the so-called " Whomobile " and the Doctor's vintage roadster, " Bessie ".

Dicks had feared that he would have to remove it, but Pertwee stated that he liked it, and wanted to see it more often.

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

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

Pertwee voiced and appeared in the television advertisement which promoted the Green Cross Code by use of the mnemonic " SPLINK ".

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