Nicola appeared in the Doctor Who serial " The Two Doctors ," ( 1985 ), and she enjoyed working with Patrick Troughton, who played the Second Doctor.

It also featured a one-off return of Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines to their respective roles of the Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon.

Troughton's decision would eventually become something of an unwritten law ( the " Troughton Rule ") among actors, in order to prevent one from becoming typecast in a particular role in a potentially long-running television programme.

Troughton returned to Doctor Who three times after he originally left the programme, becoming the only former " Doctor " to reprise the role that many times on television after his original run.

Patrick Troughton ( who had played the Second Doctor and whom Davison had watched on the programme as a teenager ) had recommended to Davison that he leave the role after three years, and Davison followed his advice.

Dicks went on to become the main script editor on the programme the following year, and earned his first writing credit on the show when he and Hulke co-wrote the epic ten-part story The War Games which closed the sixth season and the era of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton.

However, although the new format of the Doctor being stuck on Earth had proved popular enough to save the programme from cancellation, neither Letts nor his script editor Terrance Dicks were particularly keen on the idea, and from the eighth season onwards sought reasons for the Doctor to be able to travel in time and space again, eventually having the Time Lords grant him full freedom at the conclusion of the 1973 tenth anniversary story, The Three Doctors, a serial which also featured guest appearances from Troughton and Hartnell, the latter in a restricted role due to his poor health.

He had been advised by Patrick Troughton to stay no longer than three years, and was also disenchanted with the quality of the scripts on the programme during the twentieth season.

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Her connection with Doctor Who after she left the programme ( at the same time as Hines and Troughton ) was not quite over.

For the 10th anniversary of the programme in 1973, Hartnell appeared in The Three Doctors, which also saw Patrick Troughton reprise his role as the Second Doctor.

His final assignment on the programme was to solve problems with the characterization of the new Doctor, Patrick Troughton in the story The Power of the Daleks.

marched close to the lone body of Charles Troughton who in his last desperate moments was not disfigured, and still carried the kindly expression so familiar to all those who knew him.

Troughton played the role generally in a more lightweight, comical manner, albeit still with much of the original character's passionate hatred of evil and desire to help the oppressed.

Ten years later, Troughton overcame some reluctance to reprise his role and agreed to appear in the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors at the request of series producer John Nathan-Turner.

Troughton was the first Doctor to have his face appear in the opening titles of the show, and one of six Doctor Who actors to play two roles in the same story when he appeared as Salamander in The Enemy Of The World ( the others being William Hartnell in The Chase and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, Tom Baker in Meglos, Peter Davison in Arc of Infinity, David Tennant in Journey's End, and Matt Smith in " The Rebel Flesh "/" The Almost People ").

* Patrick Troughton does not appear in Episode 4 as he was on holiday when it was being recorded.

In 1948, Troughton made his cinema debut with small roles in Olivier's Hamlet, the TCF production " Escape " ( one of the stars of which was William Hartnell ), and a minor role as a pirate in Treasure Island appearing only during the attack on the heroes ' hut.

( His grandson Sam Troughton played one of Robin's colleagues in the 2006 BBC TV Series of the same name, and Patrick himself would make an appearance on the Adventures of Robin Hood starring Richard Greene.

Lloyd later stated that Hartnell had approved of the choice, saying, " There's only one man in England who can take over, and that's Patrick Troughton ".

In the fourth season ( 1966 – 67 ) Doctor Who story " The Power of the Daleks ", second incarnation of the Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton, awakens from his first regeneration and eventually faces one of his old nemeses, the Daleks, a race of armed robotic tank shells with organic operators.

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.

Troughton asked him to stay a few more months, to the end of the sixth series, as this was when Troughton planned to relinquish his role as well.

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.

After his time at the Embassy School of Acting, Troughton won a scholarship to the Leighton Rallius Studios at the John Drew Memorial Theatre on Long Island in New York, U. S ..

During his time on the series, Troughton tended to shun publicity and rarely gave interviews.

Troughton found Doctor Whos schedule ( at the time, 40 to 44 episodes per year ) gruelling, and decided to leave the series in 1969, after three years in the role.

The Third Doctor Companion Chronicles story The Prisoner of Peladon is told by King Peladon, with David Troughton reprising his role for the first time.

Finally, it is worth noting that at the time of the movie's announcement in Summer 1983, the British Press carried reports that diminutive actors such as David Jason, Patrick Troughton and Norman Wisdom would be cast alongside Dudley as fellow Elves.

* June 21 – Patrick Troughton makes his last regular appearance as the Second Doctor in the concluding moments of Episode 10 of the Doctor Who serial The War Games.

Actor Patrick Troughton briefly appears as the Second Doctor at the conclusion of the serial.

* November 5 – Actor Patrick Troughton appears in his first full Doctor Who serial The Power of the Daleks as the Second Doctor.

David Dickinson, John Prescott, Robin Cook, Gandalf, David Cameron, Magneto and Ian McKellen, Professor Robert Winston, Dr Rowan Williams, David Blunkett, Tom Paulin, Saddam Hussein, Peter Mandelson, Graham Norton, Martin Jarvis, Trevor McDonald ( on radio ), Bob Geldof, Ken Livingstone, Brian Blessed, Luciano Pavarotti, Monty Don, Richard Briers, Patrick Stewart, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Toby Ziegler, Donald Rumsfeld, Adam Hart-Davis, Hannibal Lecter ( on radio ), Lord Voldemort ( on radio ), Hercule Poirot, Second Doctor & Patrick Troughton, Bernard Matthews, Rocky Balboa, Al Gore, George Lamb

Many soon-to-be-famous faces pop up, including: Lionel Jeffries (" Murder Ahoy " and " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ", Leslie Philips, Jane Asher, Anne Reid ( Coronation Street and Dinnerladies ), Edward Mulhare ( The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and Knight Rider ), Patrick Troughton ( the Second Doctor ), Irene Handl, Desmond Llewelyn ( Q in the Bond films ), Sam Kydd, Sid James, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw ( Carry On films ), Leo McKern ( Rumpole of the Bailey ), Alfie Bass ( The Army Game ), Sylvia Kay ( Just Good Friends ), Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell ( Steptoe and Son ), Barbara Mullen ( Dr Finlay's Casebook ), Richard O ' Sullivan ( Man About the House ), Geoffrey Bayldon ( Catweazle ), Billie Whitelaw, Ronald Allen, Gordon Jackson.

It was the last regular appearance of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, and of Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines as companions Zoe Heriot and Jamie McCrimmon.

* Patrick Troughton later reprised the role of the Second Doctor in The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors and The Two Doctors.

The Tomb of the Cybermen is the first serial of fifth season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that originally aired in four weekly parts from 2 September to 23 September 1967 and is the earliest serial starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor to exist in its entirety.

Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor

Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor in Doctor Who.

He also reprised the role in the 1985 serial The Two Doctors alongside Patrick Troughton and Colin Baker as the Second and Sixth Doctors respectively.

As we do not directly see Patrick Troughton regenerate into Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor, fans hypothesise that, just prior to his third incarnation, the Time Lords recruited the Second Doctor as a covert operative.

Patrick Troughton also makes his first, uncredited appearance as the Second Doctor.

Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, from the Doctor Who serial The Two Doctors ( 1985 )

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# The image is being used for informational purposes about the character the Second Doctor, as portrayed by Patrick Troughton, to illustrate his older appearance in the story The Two Doctors, which is the basis for the theory described in the Season 6B article ;

Hines ' Doctor Who debut came in 1966, after he was cast to play the part of Jamie McCrimmon, a companion of the Second Doctor ( played by Patrick Troughton ).

Richard Hurndall, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and Peter Davison as the First, Third, Second and Fifth Doctors respectively, in The Five Doctors, the 1983 anniversary special of Doctor Who.

He had previously appeared in the show itself as a Time Lord in the 1969 serial The War Games opposite Second Doctor Patrick Troughton and later guested in the 1993 Doctor Who radio play The Paradise of Death alongside Third Doctor Jon Pertwee and the 2003 Doctor Who audio drama Flip-Flop alongside Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy.