In the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinians ; his memorial is celebrated 28 August, the day of his death.

Ring modulation, also known as amplitude modulation, is an effect made famous by Doctor Who's Daleks and commonly used throughout sci-fi.

In the Roman Catholic Church he is deemed a Doctor of the Church.

St Gregory Nazianzen, fellow Doctor of the Church, 330-390, said in Or. 21: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

* Doctor ( played by David Cann ): " The Doctor " is a seemingly " normal " physician working in a standard British medical practice.

Although aided by Doctor Strange and the appearance of Cassandra Nova, Xavier is unsuccessful.

This schooling is followed by four years of dental school to qualify as a " Doctor of Dental Surgery " ( DDS ) or " Doctor of Dental Medicine " ( DMD ).

In Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Finland, Sweden, the United States, and Canada, a dentist is a healthcare professional qualified to practice dentistry after graduating with a degree of either Doctor of Dental Surgery ( DDS ) or Doctor of Dental Medicine ( DMD ).

The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike.

Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.

This is essentially a reworking of Further Adventures of Doctor Syn with a different conclusion and some conflation and renaming of the supporting characters.

In the Arliss movie Doctor Syn, Syn escapes to sea with Mipps and the rest of the Dymchurch smugglers, whereas Captain Clegg ends more faithfully to the novel, with Parson Blyss being killed by the mulatto ( who is then killed by Mipps ) and then being carried to and buried in Captain Clegg's empty grave by Mipps.

Doctor Syn is also the name given to one of the locomotives on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.

In the US, the Doctor of Science, Sc. D., is an academic research degree that was first conferred in North America by Harvard University in 1872.

Though lawyers in the United States do not customarily use such a title, the law degree in that country is the Juris Doctor, a professional doctorate degree, and some J. D.

When a medical doctor passes the examinations which enable them to become a member of one or more of the Royal Surgical Colleges and become " MRCS ", it is customary for them to drop the " Doctor " prefix and take up " Miss ", " Mister ", or and so on.

In the United Kingdom the status and rank of consultant surgeons with the FRCS, titled " Mister ", etc., and consultant physicians with the MRCP, titled " Doctor ", is identical.

Rose is horrified as the Doctor appears to die and regenerates into a new man ( David Tennant ), who proceeds to take the TARDIS and a terrified Rose to Earth, abandoning Jack on Satellite 5.

The Doctor encounters his one living exhibit: a creature called " the Metaltron ", which the Doctor is horrified to discover is a surviving Dalek.

The Doctor is first shocked and then horrified to find the Metaltron is actually a Dalek, all of whom he thought destroyed in the Time War, but then laughs and ridicules the Dalek when he discovers it is weakened and chained down, unable to fight back.

Sarah is horrified, but the real Doctor shows up — he had programmed his duplicate to distract Styggron.

The Doctor watches through the skylight, horrified as Chase orders Sarah forced down to a chair, grabbing her arm and pinning it next to the pod.

Doctor Lowther, who had gone out to get a takeaway meal, was horrified to discover his wife dead and Hilda seriously injured.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

In 1838 he took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, then became master at a school near Leipzig.

The Fifth incarnation of Doctor Who, Peter Davison, was noted for wearing a stalk of celery on his lapel, claiming it at one point to be an excellent restorative, though the human olfactory sense was comparatively weak.

On Monday, starting at the Bowery Hall, scenes were reenacted from Doctor Syn, and again during the day along the Dymchurch shoreline and in the Ocean pub.

In 2008, Julian Bleach appeared live as Davros at the Doctor Who Prom, announcing that the Royal Albert Hall would become his new palace, and the audience his " obedient slaves ".

* Honorary Doctor of Laws, and Commencement Speaker at Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland in May 2005

* Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, and Commencement Speaker at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles on May 5, 2007

From 1506 to 1509, he was in Italy: in 1506 he graduated as Doctor of Divinity at the Turin University, and he spent part of the time at the publishing house of Aldus Manutius in Venice.

After reading a pamphlet by Doctor James Wilson, who operated a hydropathic establishment with James Manby Gully at Malvern, he stayed there for " some nine or ten weeks ", after which he " continued the system some seven weeks longer under Doctor Weiss, at Petersham ", then again at " Doctor Schmidt's magnificent hydropathic establishment at Boppart " ( at the former Marienberg Convent at Boppard ), after developing a cold and fever upon his return home.

Pertwee would continue to act in films and television as well as make appearances worldwide in support of Doctor Who.

With America's superheroes divided over the act, the Skull manipulates events to his own ends, with the aid of Doctor Faustus, Doctor Doom, and Arnim Zola.

Todd continued to act on television, including roles in Virtual Murder, Silent Witness, and in the Doctor Who story Kinda in 1982.

On arriving at Earth Spacedock, Doctor Leonard McCoy begins to act strangely and is detained.

* " Oh, Doctor Jesus ", act 2, scene 3

The Silurian leader Eldane ( Stephen Moore ) recognises that humans and Silurians have the potential to reach some common ground in the future, and allows the Doctor and some of his allies to depart, leaving two humans behind with the Silurians to act as ambassadors to the human race when the Silurians re-awaken in a thousand years.

As a comic act and busker he appeared regularly on stage and on BBC Children's television in the 1970s and 80s, but is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989 – the final Doctor of the original programme – and a brief return in a television film in 1996.

::" Canon and prebendary of the collegiate church of St. Stephen in Westminster Palace ( until 1539 );"; 1526 Collated: Warden of the church of Stratford-Upon-Avon, Preceptor of the hospital of St. Wulstans, Magister, Bachelor of Civil law, acta capitularia ( Chapter act book ) Coventry & Lichfield diocese 1528 Collated: Doctor of Canon law, Lincoln Cathedral, Doctor of Civil law, St. Pauls, Rector of Gloucestershire, Weston-sub-Edge, Lichfield, Southwell and St. Paul ’ s, Cathedrals 1529 Collated: Magister, Doctor of Civil law Gloucester, 1539 Collated: Archdeacon of Gloucester.

They also appear in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel War of the Daleks by John Peel, which depicts them having become a warlike society willing to destroy an inhabited planet simply as part of a trap to defeat a Dalek attack fleet-although the Doctor's disgust at their actions lends some hope that they will begin to reconsider their stance -, and the Big Finish Productions audio plays The Mutant Phase, where their attempt to use a biological weapon against the Daleks nearly creates a monstrous insectoid race, and Brotherhood of the Daleks, where the Sixth Doctor discovers a Thal project to brainwash Daleks to act as ' sleeper agents ', only for the plan to fail when the Daleks ' true natures assert themselves.

He was also the first CITV presenter and continued to act occasionally, notably in the Channel 4 comedy Relative Strangers, and in the theatre production of The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari.

The Doctor attempts to act inept to extract information from Prime, who sees through the act and calls him out on it.

Rassilon taunted him about his hesitation, but after seeing a mysterious woman among Rassilon's entourage, the Doctor shot the diamond Rassilon sent to the Master to act as an anchor for the link, severing it.

The series ' budget was also increasingly strained by the cost of exotic sets, costumes and props every time the Doctor visited a new setting, and so Bryant and Sherwin ( now effectively acting as co-producer, though the BBC refused to credit him as such ) came up with the idea of reducing the cost of the series by setting all of the adventures on Earth, with the Doctor to act as the Scientific Advisor to an organisation called UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, charged with defending the Earth from alien invasion.

Other characters that come to the aid of the girls, willingly or not, are Meister Haifisch, the Count's lawyer ; Doctor Cadaverezzi, a fraudulent magician employing Max as an assistant, who takes Lucy in as a part of his act ; Eliza, Miss Davenport's helper and Max's lover ; Hildi's mother, a tavern owner ; and Hildi's brother, Peter, a huntsman hiding from the law.

Her relationship with Glinda ( called " Galinda " until she renames herself in the latter part of the first act claiming it to be in honor of Doctor Dillamond, in actual fact it is an attempt to get Fiyero to notice her again ) is a central feature of the musical.

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