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.

Braben subsequently wrote and starred in The Show with Ten Legs, broadcast in January 1978, performing jokes and sketches alongside Bill Pertwee, Alison Steadman, and Eli Woods.

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.

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 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.

Pertwee later reprised the role in the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors, in two radio adventures and on stage in The Ultimate Adventure.

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.

Pertwee continued on the convention circuit and with his voice and television acting until his death from a heart attack in Connecticut on 20 May 1996, two months before his 77th birthday.

Pertwee appeared in two Carry On films – Carry On Loving ( 1970 ) and Carry On Girls ( 1973 ).

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.

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.

Major stars from the classic series were guests at these two conventions, including Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Richard Franklin, John Levene, Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.

The insane Time Lord Omega parades before the two Doctors ( Jon Pertwee and Patrick Troughton ) and Sergeant Benton ( from Doctor Who-The Three Doctors ).

Levine selected one clip from all of previous Doctors, save for Jon Pertwee who never had a Cyberman story ( though they had been briefly glimpsed in two serials from his era ).

In 1989, he played the part of Karl the Mercenary in the stage play Doctor Who-The Ultimate Adventure, except for two performances when he appeared as The Doctor, replacing Jon Pertwee who had fallen ill.

) No further radio productions would be mounted until the mid-1990s when Jon Pertwee provided the voice of the Doctor in two serials.

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.

In 2000, Jon Pertwee: The Biography by Bernard Bale ( ISBN 0-233-99831-4 ) was published by André Deutsch, and included a few chapters by Pertwee's widow Ingeborg.

* Stars in Battledress by Bill Pertwee published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd: First edition ( 1992 )

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.

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.

His most notable roles included The Hooded Claw in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop ( though he was uncredited ), Mildew Wolf from It's the Wolf ( a segment of Cattanooga Cats ), and Pertwee from Where's Huddles ?.

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.

Pertwee has a son, Jonathan James Pertwee ( b. 1966 ), who has been in various programmes.

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.

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* Roland Pertwee ( 1885-1963 ), English writer and actor, father of Jon and Michael and uncle of Bill

* Michael Pertwee ( 1916-1991 ), English playwright

* 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

* Sean Pertwee ( born 1964 ), English actor

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.

Pertwee was educated at Frensham Heights School, an independent school in Rowledge, near Farnham in Surrey, at Sherborne School in Sherborne in Dorset, and at some other schools from which he was expelled.

During his time in the Navy Pertwee woke up one morning after a drunken night out while in port to find a tattoo on his right arm, which was occasionally seen during his time in Doctor Who.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

* 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 ).

He was visited by Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor in 1993 in the introduction of the 30 year Doctor Who anniversary Children in Need special Dimensions in Time, during which The Doctor ( correctly ) mentioned that Noel would still be on television in the year 2010.

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.

* 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.