Murder at the Windmill ( 1949 ), ( known in the U. S. A. as " Mystery at the Burlesque ") directed by Val Guest is set at the Windmill Theatre, London and features Diana Decker, Jon Pertwee and Jimmy Edwards.

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.

William Desmond Anthony Pertwee MBE ( born 21 July 1926 ) is a British comedy actor.

He is a distant cousin of former Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee, being the second cousin of Jon Pertwee's father, screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee.

Pertwee is president of the Dad's Army Appreciation Society and the author of the book Dad's Army – The Making of a Television Legend.

Libria is governed by the Tetragrammaton Council, which is led by a reclusive figurehead known as " Father " ( Sean Pertwee ).

Pertwee is a surname.

* In the novelisation, adapted by Malcolm Hulke from his own scripts, no reference is made to the " Whomobile " ( which was a prop contributed to the production at a late stage by actor Jon 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 ;

* PC Wilson ( Bill Pertwee )-PC Wilson is the local Bobby, although rarely appeared to be doing his duty.

Dog Soldiers is a 2002 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall, and starring Kevin McKidd, Sean Pertwee and Liam Cunningham.

A long established tradition is the interviewing of a special guest during the Saturday lunch break, on one occasion this led to Brian Johnston chatting with actor Bill Pertwee for 90 minutes as rain delayed the start of the afternoon session.

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.

" Pertwee remembered asking himself, when so advised, " Now who in the hell is that?

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.

He is voiced by Jon Pertwee

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.

* Jon Pertwee ( 1919-1996 ), English actor best known as Doctor Who, father of Sean and Dariel

* Bill Pertwee ( born 1926 ), English actor best known as the ARP Warden in Dad's Army

Both plans were thwarted by the Third Doctor ( Jon Pertwee ), an alien from the race known as the Time Lords, who was at that time stranded on Earth.

The programme made household names of Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Richard Caldicot, but Ronnie Barker's versatile contributions were only recognised after he had become better known through television comedy.

The same DVD notes that Pertwee himself had spotted Manning in the lobby of the BBC TV Centre, but had not known who she was.

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 ).

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 ).

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.

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 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.

Keen to continue beyond this, Pertwee campaigned for the series and it was picked up by a New Zealand network in 1987.

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

Ultimately, Pertwee was successful in seeing the Third Doctor return to the airwaves with two audio productions for BBC Radio, The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space.

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 '.

Bill Pertwee left school during the Second World War and worked for a company that made parts for Spitfire cannons.

* In several 1963 episodes of The Navy Lark, the robbery was referred to via expressions of surprise – by various characters – of seeing Chief Petty Officer Pertwee free, and not in police custody for committing the robbery.

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.

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.

The books were adapted for radio and television a number of times, most successfully with former Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee taking the lead role from 1979 to 1981 on ITV ; originally produced in the UK, but later in New Zealand

Southern Television's production for ITV was written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, and starred Jon Pertwee as Worzel, with Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally, a life-size fairground doll and Worzel's femme fatale.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.