18/11/2013 Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide

I think I have everything!

We're still going, yeah? We're still going to have our proper holiday?

OK, you're worrying me now. Stop worrying me.

-Doctor?

-Who am I? Where am I? And who are you?

You've actually done it, haven't you?

Last thing you said to me before I went out, "I've got to

"remember to repair the interface or I'll completely wipe my memory."

I don't remember saying that! I don't remember saying anything!

In fact, here's a theory - don't laugh. Promise me you won't laugh.

(I think, whoever I am, I've lost my memory.)

All 1,200 years?

That sounds like a lot. Is that a lot? That sounds like a lot.

-First things first, what's my name?

-I don't know, nobody knows.

-Well, that's a good start!

-You call yourself the Doctor.

-Oh, I like it.

Doctor Who. Ha! Yes! Nobody knows! That's the thing!

-Wait a second.

-OK. Be cool...

-You showed me this once.

-Right.

-It might help.

All your life, everything you've ever done, all written in here.

The Doctor, is he a good person? Who are his friends? Who are his enemies?

Open it, find out.

Oh... OK...

So, Doctor...who are you?

Doctor Who, the British science fiction phenomenon,

is about to celebrate 50 years on our screens.

After nearly 800 episodes,

11 incarnations and thousands of adventures,

it's the longest-running sci-fi show of all time.

Guess who! Ha!

Tonight, we're going to take you on a journey across the Whoniverse...

You want moves, I'll give you moves.

..charting the history of the time-travelling Doctor

and his many faces.

-I have to face my fear.

-From companions...

-Don't steal that one, steal this one.

-..to chameleon circuits.

Bad girl!

-From the Master to the monsters...

-You are the destroyer of the world!

..we'll be covering it all, in Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide.

Come with me.

So...

all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will.

Where do you want to start?

How about we start at the very beginning?

Doctor Who has been going for 50 years. What makes it so special?

The special thing about Doctor Who is almost indefinable.

It's just a great idea.

This is the story of a man with a box that's bigger

on the inside than the out, that can go anywhere in time and space.

I'm definitely a madman with a box.

It's called the TARDIS, this thing.

It's simply about his adventures.

But adventures in time.

It's a series where anything is possible.

Very hard to describe, because it sounds mental.

That's not fair.

-The fears are primal.

-Doctor!

But the victories are...total.

Redemption is possible.

Take it! Take it all, baby!

It's got a special place in the heart of Britain, I think.

It's a cultural phenomenon. It's a tradition.

And it is going to be...

..fantastic.

I grew up with Doctor Who being kind of passed down...

From generations and generations.

-Is it always this dangerous?

-Yeah.

And I think that everyone kind of connects to that aspect

of the show where you get invited to go on all these adventures.

-Come with me.

-Where?

Wherever you like.

To the eyes of a four-year-old child, it was magical.

There is a wish fulfilment.

You could fall through those magic doors into that adventure.

Who are you? Where am I?

I used to sit in the bath fantasising I'd be Doctor Who,

and then a girl from my school would be my companion.

You're utterly mad!

There's gadgets...

..there's baddies...

assistants...and there's, like, a dog that's electric.

I'm into that.

K-9!

There's a lot more sci-fi geeks in the world than people think.

-Good.

-I can't imagine UK television without Doctor Who.

I mean, it would just be weird. It would be like a big void.

We still want to be scared, we still want to be inspired,

but in the same way that we were as kids.

When you talk of the Earth...then make sure that you tell them this.

It...is...defended!

We want a hero.

That's what we want.

Yes, and we've already witnessed the reign of 11 of these

time-travelling heroes.

Let's give ourselves a quick reminder of who they are.

Hartnell, Troughton,

Pertwee, Baker,

Davison, Baker,

McCoy, McGann.

Eccleston, Tennant,

Smith.

Nailed it!

So, that's our first 11, but what is the Doctor actually like, then?

-They call me the Doctor.

-Doctor what?

-There is no name.

Doctor...John Smith, isn't it?

He looks quite like me.

I'm the Doctor! I'm a Time Lord.

Yes, about 450 years old.

I'd say he's 900 years old.

-You're 900 years old?

-I've no idea what age he is now.

I'm 1,200 years old now.

Wow, he ages quickly.

My mum was right, that is one hell of an age gap.

The Doctor is from the planet Gallifrey.

-Are you from another planet?

-Yeah.

He's a Time Lord.

-He was president of the Time Lords at one point.

-He's a time-traveller.

He stole the TARDIS.

He looks human, but he has two hearts.

-I say, I don't think that can be right.

-The more hearts, the better.

He can give twice the loving. Know what I mean?

-No.

-He's an explorer. He is a man in love with the universe.

-MECHANICAL:

-The Doctor will destroy the universe.

-No, no.

No, you've got it wrong.

-Stubborn.

-Courageous.

-You need to leave this planet.

Creative.

Yes, OK, OK. OK.

-He's a scientist.

-Of course! You fool!

It's antimatter!

-He's a vegetarian.

-The steak looks nice.

-He's not a vegetarian.

-Steak and chips.

He's a lapsed vegetarian.

Fascinating.

In the nicest possible way, he's a weirdo.

Has anyone ever told you that you're a bit weird?

They never really stop.

And I like weirdos.

The Doctor isn't a self-conscious hero.

He doesn't go around looking for problems to solve,

but he is massively compassionate and massively empathetic

and has a tremendous sense of justice and goodness.

But how much do we really know about the Doctor?

Are there darker sides to the Time Lord than we ever thought?

Get out of my head!

He knows what evil is. He wouldn't be the hero he is if he didn't.

I think the audience always knows the Doctor is a hero

but they also know that there are consequences sometimes

to someone taking such a big role in the universe.

That there can be downsides.

Really tragic events happen.

Look after our baby.

Why doesn't he stop her?

He may not be the hero that we believe he is.

We learn more about the character

and maybe learn more about the dark side.

It was kind of the natural progression

or a natural thing to bring that sort of dark complexity.

Sometimes we allude to,

or there is a suggestion of some upset in his past.

Because he rarely, if ever, talks about it.

I'm not sure exactly where he's come from.

And with the climax of the latest series of Doctor Who

we find our beloved Time Lord in uncharted territory.

Trenzalore is where I'm buried.

Welcome

..to the tomb of the Doctor.

Having landed on Trenzalore,

the Doctor comes face-to-face with a mysterious figure.

-Who's that?

-It's me.

He's the one who broke the promise.

What I did, I did without choice.

And it seems as the reign of the 11th Doctor approaches its end,

his world is becoming increasingly complicated.

What that man is and why the Doctor chose to reject him

and to delete him from his own past is going to be the story told

in the 50th anniversary special, The Day Of The Doctor.

But for now, on Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide,

we're going to take a look at the genesis

of this unconventional hero of sci-fi and his many faces.

# Nothing stays the same. #

But before we start travelling across time and space,

we're going to need a vehicle of some sort.

Anyone got any ideas?

It's blue.

THEY MIMIC "METALLIC THRUMMING"

It's got "Police" written on it.

SHE MIMICS "METALLIC THRUMMING"

It's a wooden box.

HE MIMICS "METALLIC THRUMMING"

With a genius inside it.

HE MIMICS "METALLIC THRUMMING"

-I think it's just, like, immense.

-It's a metaphor for the human soul.

HARSH BREATHING

It's probably the most iconic spacecraft ever created.

You know, it feels like it's alive.

That's right, we're going to begin our journey

across the Whoniverse with a look at the love of the Doctor's life.

The TARDIS.

I should like to see this TARDIS.

-The what?!

-The TARDIS.

That's not even a proper word!

But what does TARDIS actually mean?

T-A-R-D-I-S.

-Time.

-And.

-Relative.

Dimension.

Time And Relative Dimension In Space.

The TARDIS was developed in the Doctor's home world of Gallifrey,

in order to allow Time Lords to travel through space and time.

The Doctor, being the impatient maverick he is,

decided he had to steal one for himself.

-Doctor?

-Yes, what is it?

With a little help from Clara.

Don't steal that one, steal this one.

The navigation system's knackered, but you'll have much more fun.

During its travels, the Doctor's TARDIS

became known for its iconic exterior.

-What's a police public call box?

-It's a telephone box, from the 1950s.

It's a disguise.

Yes, it's got a complex system called a chameleon circuit,

which allows the TARDIS to blend in seamlessly with its surroundings.

But unfortunately, it doesn't actually work.

How do we get in?

The mechanism for its disguise is just knackered.

It's like watching a man with his car.

It's his pride and joy and it's wonderful to watch.

Although the Doctor is constantly trying to fix it, it seems

that we're stuck with the good old blue police box

but, for newcomers to the TARDIS, there's one feature

that never ceases to amaze and confuse.

-Bigger on the inside.

-It's bigger on the inside.

The TARDIS is a sort of Narnia wardrobe.

-The inside is bigger than the outside?

-Yes.

It is bigger on the inside than on the out. That's amazing.

That's poetry.

It is very small outside, it's just in here it's big.

Oh, come off it!

Goodbye.

Thinking about how it works could drive you bonkers.

It's a lot to take in, isn't it?

Tiny box, huge room inside. Let me explain.

-It's another dimension?

-Is basically another dimension. What?

But impossible as it sounds,

the mystery was actually explained years ago by fourth Doctor

Tom Baker.

-Which box is larger?

-That one.

There's a scene where the Doctor tries to explain to Leela

how the TARDIS works, and he says,

"Basically, part of it is further away,

"which means it's in the distance."

-Now which is larger?

-That one!

-But it looks smaller.

-That's because it's further away.

-Exactly.

It's to do with perspective.

If you could keep that exactly that distance away and have it here,

the large one would fit inside the small one.

That's basically it, they've found a way

of compressing the perspective.

-Which

-I

-always found convincing!

-That's silly.

But I was about eight, so leave me alone.

It doesn't make any sense.

That's transdimensional engineering.

Recently, the Doctor's relationship with the TARDIS

has developed into something a little more intimate.

I've just had a new idea about kissing. Come here!

The TARDIS is this kind of quite eccentric, flaky woman.

I just really love that idea.

In the episode The Doctor's Wife, the Doctor comes face-to-face

with Idris, a human embodiment of the TARDIS.

It's me!

-I'm the TARDIS.

-No, you're not! You're a bitey mad lady.

The TARDIS is up and downy stuff in a big blue box.

Yes, that's me.

I really liked it because you kind of got to see the Doctor's

-relationship with the TARDIS in more of a romantic way.

-In human terms.

Yeah, more human and, like, because Matt Smith is quite flirty.

The first time you touched my console...

I said you were the most beautiful thing I'd ever known.

And then you stole me.

And I stole you.

From then on, it's already in your mind that he has this

kind of affection for the TARDIS.

It's not just his vehicle,

but it's a companion and a partner for him.

-Sorry, do you have a name?

-700 years, finally, he asks!

What do I call you? I think you call me...sexy.

-Only when we're alone.

-We are alone.

Right...

Come on, sexy.

The TARDIS - Doctor Who, that's the first thing people think.

Doctor Who would be walking along a street and the blue box

would be there and he'd beckon

and you'd go running off to space and time.

It is sheer magic.

WOMAN SCREAMS

CRASH

I think the TARDIS is not just a vehicle,

it's another character.

It's the spaceship! Everybody loves the spaceship in anything sci-fi.

And the TARDIS is so cool because it feels like a character of its own.

OK, so that's the TARDIS.

Now it's time to have a look at the first lucky man to land it on Earth.

We are at...

the very beginning!

Meet the first Doctor, William Hartnell.

In 1963 he landed on our screens and changed British television for ever.

But why do you have to destroy?

Hm... Well, we are in a pickle, aren't we?

-OLD MAN'S VOICE:

-Don't mess with me, young man!

A new birth...of a sun...

and its planets!

I watched the very first episode of Doctor Who.

I'd come in that Saturday from somewhere.

I leaned on the door when I came in because it was just starting,

and I was still leaning there 25 minutes later when it finished.

It was new, it was different,

it appealed to the young men that we were.

The character at that stage, we didn't know where he'd come from,

we didn't know what his back story was.

So there's a lot of mystery about him.

-Your arrogance is nearly as great as your ignorance.

-Open the door!

We are the masters of the Earth!

Not for long.

The show was unlike anything seen on our screens before

and the character of the Doctor immediately became a TV icon.

Yes, indeed.

'The look of him, the sound of him,'

the aura, was naturally authoritative.

The Doctor started out as a kind of cool, trendy grandfather

that was really clever and could

teach you a thing or two about science.

I should say originally it was some pliable metal

held together by a magnetic field.

So the curiosity was enormous. Hm!

Well, yes, quite fascinating. Hm...

In the modern era, we are used to seeing the Doctor

being very off-the-cuff...

Bada-boom!

..spontaneous...

You only live once.

..you know, thinking on his feet.

Run!

With Hartnell, everything he seemed to do and everything that went

right for him seemed to be because of his experience.

That city down there is a magnificent subject for study

and I don't intend to leave here

until I've thoroughly investigated it.

And as we got to know this elderly alien with his unconventional

time machine, it became clear that the Doctor

was far from your typical small-screen hero.

He was kind of grumpy, he was mysterious.

Oh, child, if only you'd think as an adult sometimes.

He also seemed...

difficult.

Geniuses can be a bit rude and a bit blunt.

William Hartnell definitely had a bit of that in him.

Please stop bothering me.

-Yes, the first Doctor was rude...

-Mind your own business.

-..patronising...

-I can see by your face that you don't understand.

I knew you wouldn't. Never mind.

..and despite looking like a pensioner,

he could certainly handle himself.

-OLD MAN'S VOICE:

-Oh, you want to fight, do you? Come on, then!

I'll just unravel my cravat.

Yes, the first Doc was no day at the beach.

Don't call me Doc. Now, do I make myself clear?

But over time, he began to mellow and went on to time-travel

with a host of new friends, or companions, over the years.

-Are you going to come with us?

-If you'll have me.

HE CHUCKLES

He began to develop a softer side,

and when granddaughter Susan grew up and fell in love...

Oh, David, I do love you! I do! I do!

..he sent her off with a memorable and emotional farewell speech.

There must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties.

Just go forward in all your beliefs

and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.

And soon the first Doctor was saying his own goodbyes,

leaving as a changed character.

He enters almost as the villain, and leaves as the eccentric,

compassionate hero.

You know, became this hugely popular figure in popular culture,

and if he has a legacy, it's that the show is still running today

and that's got to be down to him.

By the end of his spell in the TARDIS, the Doctor had laid

the foundations for the next 50 years of time-travelling adventures.

And far from being the end,

the demise of the first Doctor was only the beginning.

WILLIAM HARTNELL IN DALEK VOICE: I fooled them all! I am the master!

HE CHUCKLES

Whether the regeneration from the off, in 1963, was part of the plan...

I've love to think it was in some... because it's a masterstroke.

Yes, over 50 glorious years, the Doctor's light has never faded,

thanks to the ingenious concept of regeneration.

It's far from being all over.

It means I'm going to change.

The Doctor doesn't die.

It's the body that dies and he then switches his body

and he turns into somebody totally new.

It's the end!

Regeneration is, to me, the most genius plot device ever.

Don't die!

The thing that has made Doctor Who endure is the fact that

the Doctor regenerates.

It's time to say goodbye.

-Doctor!

-Stay away!

I don't want to go.

It's a very neat trick, I suppose,

and it's proved to be unbelievable successful.

I'm sorry.

If you can have a different person playing the same character,

it's just going to go on and on.

Regeneration is what has enabled us to have this conversation.

It's enabled the 50th anniversary to happen.

It's absolutely brilliant,

and the constant in Doctor Who is change, and that's the clever part.

Every new regeneration is a new aspect of his personality.

Am I...ginger?

No, you're just sort of brown.

I want to be ginger! I've never been ginger.

You're always curious to find out what is new about him.

What is new about this regeneration? What is new about this character?

What side of the Doctor are we going to see now?

Older regenerations could involve anything

from a Bohemian Rhapsody-style video effect to a cosmic facemask.

Nowadays, regeneration is a more hi-tech affair.

All of the modern regenerations have been incredibly memorable.

And they've sort of settled down now to this thing where

the orange energy comes out of them and all that stuff.

-Eccleston, when he changes to David, was like...

-MAKES WHOOSHING SOUND

All this stuff comes out and there's light and things going on.

That was, like, whoa!

Hello. I... HE GULPS

New teeth, that's weird.

I've still got legs! Good!

He's got all of these different guises and, with each successive

Doctor, they bring something new to the role that keeps you interested.

They are one and the same.

They may look different,

but they are really just incarnations of the same thing.

-That's important.

-And that's just how it should be.

That is the perpetual Doctor Who cycle.

No-one is bigger than the character, because Doctor Who is Doctor Who.

HE LAUGHS

So, after the first Doctor's demise,

the second arrived with a whole new take on the Time Lord.

Patrick Troughton had the hard job.

Patrick Troughton was the actor

who established that the Doctor can change.

It wasn't somebody pretending to do what William Hartnell did,

he completely reinvented the character.

And he took hold of that part,

flipped it on its side, wiggled its legs in the air and he became

this wonderful, loving cosmic hobo, who was disarming and charming.

EXPLOSIONS AND SHOUTING

I loved Patrick Troughton's Doctor.

Just so subtle and clever and quick-changing.

Interesting.

Funny and so characterful.

Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Yes, we are in trouble, aren't we?

Why? What's all this about?

I don't know, but we've got to be careful.

We've got to be very, very careful.

Patrick was a proper character actor.

How can I be a traitor when I don't even know where I am?

Where am I?

He was a bit clown-like.

SHE SCREAMS

I'm sure we can talk this over.

He invents how the Doctor is going to be from then on,

so he's not just the hero, he's the comedy hero.

Sausages!

Patrick Troughton's Doctor is sort of more recognisable

to modern audiences, I think. He's more the centre of the action.

If not for Patrick Troughton, there wouldn't be a Matt Smith today.

Oh, you've redecorated!

I don't like it.

You've had this place redecorated, haven't you? Don't like it.

But Troughton wasn't just a clown, he was musical.

TOOTING

-Sort of. And he was the first to use...

-This is a sonic screwdriver.

Now, where can I demonstrate it?

His three-year reign came to an abrupt end

when he was captured by his fellow Time Lords.

And it was only then that we found out more about who this mysterious

time-traveller actually was.

You have repeatedly broken our most important law

of non-interference in the affairs of other planets.

What have you to say? Do you admit these actions?

I not only admit them, I am proud of them.

We start to learn more about the fact that the Doctor

is a Time Lord, and we learn more about their code.

All these evils I have fought while you have done nothing but observe.

You can observe the affairs of the universe,

but you can't intervene, you can't join in.

But the Doctor naturally feels that you should,

and we learn a lot more about his moral code.

True, I AM guilty of interference, just as you are guilty of failing

to use your great powers to help those in need!

By way of punishment, his TARDIS was grounded.

And we also saw the beginnings of the Doctor's love affair

with our fair planet.

We have noted your particular interest in the planet Earth.

Earth seems more vulnerable than others, yes.

For that reason, you will be sent back to that planet, in exile.

No! No!

And so ended the story of the second Doctor.

He's the one who sort of nails exactly how it's going to be,

so his legacy to the part is huge.

If he hadn't been so brilliant,

the show could have just gone by the wayside.

The audience stuck

and that very act of re-creation has allowed the series to live on.

Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing.

There's nobody in the universe can do what we're doing.

He is the actor to whom all the subsequent Doctors

look for inspiration. In particular Matt Smith.

And so the nation's love affair with the eccentric Time Lord grew.

But where there's a good guy, there's got to be a baddie.

They are my oldest and deadliest enemy. You cannot trust them.

I wonder who that could be.

Exterminate!

You will obey!

No power in this universe can stop the Daleks!

There's still that fearful excitement.

Completely resourceful, a ruthless enemy, that looked ridiculous.

The Daleks are the ultimate enemy of the Doctor.

-Kill him!

-He is an enemy of the Daleks! Exterminate!

It's a robot with anger problems. It's a tank that rants at you.

They are both vocally and physically simply quite unique.

So, apart from their hatred of the Doctor,

what are the elements that make up a Dalek?

They're evil...

The Earth will die screaming!

..they have no mercy...

If you have any compassion in your hearts...

HE SCREAMS

..and they have slimy little things in them.

The true Dalek form.

They'll turn on their own...

What it is to want to mess up.

..and they can even make a mean cuppa.

Would you care for some tea?

That would be very nice, thank you.

No matter how hard he tries,

the Doctor just can't seem to get rid of the Daleks.

It doesn't matter how you get rid of the Dalek,

whether it's in a vortex or whether it's in a black hole,

or whether you disintegrate them...

Impossible.

Exterminate!

..they always come back. There's always a new generation.

If I were the Doctor now, I'd be wondering what the point is.

He got rid of the Daleks and they've reappeared. It's like he can't win.

They keep evolving and the more series that go on,

you keep seeing a new version and an upgrade.

But the biggest war the Daleks have fought has been their battle

with...the staircase.

The stairs!

Time was when Daleks didn't go upstairs.

And people always used to joke,

"How are the Daleks ever going to conquer the universe?

"They can't even get up the stairs."

Well, Remembrance Of The Daleks sought to put that right.

# I believe I can fly

# I believe I can touch the sky. #

That was a very important moment.

It was great fun and I'm so pleased to have been part of it.

Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

Exterminate!

Of course they've got to hover. They've conquered time and space!

Elevate!

Like all enduring enemies of the Doctor,

the Daleks have had to move with the times.

Even Daleks have regenerated themselves

and given themselves a bit of a makeover.

A bit of an upgrade.

Maximum efficiency!

And in recent years, they've even developed emotions.

I am in pain.

Rose, no! SIZZLING

Just for those fleeting moments, a vulnerable Dalek.

We almost have sympathy for it.

An emotional Dalek.

I hate it.

Getting in touch with your feelings, whether you're

a Dalek or a grown man, it's good these days to moisturise and cry.

But despite developing their emotional capabilities,

the Daleks remain the number one enemy of the Doctor.

I thought you'd run out of ways to make me sick,

but hello again.

Corny as it is, corny as it sounds, you can't beat the Daleks.

They're the other villain in the Time War.

It's like Superman and Lex Luthor.

We have grown stronger in fear of you.

I know.

They are the Doctor's longest enemy, so they have to be around.

Now, if there was one man who knew how to take out a Dalek in style,

it's Doctor number three, all-round man of action, Jon Pertwee.

Probably the most flamboyant Doctor of the lot,

number three became known as a bit of a dandy.

Do you mean me?

-Enormously flamboyant.

-It's an excellent vintage.

It's really a completely different phase.

There was a bit of espionage about him.

Nobody sends me anywhere, I'm a free agent.

Very...majestic and powerful.

I am a Time Lord.

When Pertwee takes over the Doctor, he establishes the eccentric,

amusing scientist.

What Jon Pertwee brings to it, for the first time,

is the action hero.

With his frilly shirts, bravado and showmanship,

this bombastic Time Lord was Liberace meets Bruce Lee.

Yes, being a master of Venusian aikido,

the third Doctor was not a man to mess with.

He basically said, "Aaiieee!"

And took everybody out.

Aaaiieee!

He's a very square-jawed, straight-down-the-line, heroic type.

He's like your grandad, but he can do karate. That's cool.

Ha!

A 4th Dan black belt grandpa.

This was a straight-talking, no-nonsense Time Lord,

who didn't suffer fools gladly, even when they were on his side.

-I'm your new assistant.

-Oh, no.

Ham-fisted bun vendor!

Hamfisted bun vendor.

Bun vendor?

He may have had a harsh manner,

but this Doctor certainly had a keen eye for detail.

Good grief! It's a stegosaurus!

When the threats appeared, Jon Pertwee's Doctor knew exactly

what to do and he did this great look, like that.

His reactions when the monsters appeared were superb.

Doctor!

Sonic screwdriver, like that.

BEEPING

WARBLING SCREAM

Imprisoned on Earth

and with his TARDIS grounded by his fellow Time Lords,

the Doctor's adventures were now very much based in the modern world.

That's interesting.

He even had a proper job, working for UNIT,

where his new companions included Liz Shaw...

That's impossible.

..Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith...

We need somebody to make the coffee.

..and favourite sparring partner, the Brigadier...

-The Brigadier is an idiot.

-..with whom he rarely saw eye to eye.

-I wouldn't like to have to order you.

-I wouldn't advise you to try.

It's this great voice, with this fiery energy behind it.

If you cannot reverse the energy drain,

the fabric of the entire universe could be torn apart.

Though he never managed to fix this knackered TARDIS,

the Doctor more than made up for it with his fleet of vehicles.

The third Doctor was every inch the action man.

He was a real adventurer in real life.

And so any time there was a motorbike or anything,

we were there, we were playing. It was fun.

A bit more of a James Bond than we'd seen before.

Yes, from motorbikes to Jet Skis.

I remember he had a hover car.

He had it all,

including his trademark bright yellow Edwardian roadster, Bessie.

Soon, even Bessie was left in the garage

and he upgraded to his own specially created pimp wagon, the Whomobile.

This new car of mine is exactly what I need.

Pertwee spent five years as the Doctor,

featuring in over 100 episodes.

But the all-action third Doctor eventually succumbed

to his inevitable demise at the hands of a huge

and not entirely convincing spider.

HIDEOUS SCREECHING

Doctor!

The Planet Of The Spiders. It was very sad.

I didn't want him to go.

Please...don't die.

A tear, Sarah Jane?

A tear...

Sarah Jane?

Don't cry, don't cry.

And then...

this regeneration happened.

Well...here we go again.

And so third generated to fourth

and the role of the Doctor was never the same again.

Once Jon Pertwee lays down those tracks, the other Doctors run on it.

They're always a little bit action-y after that.

-..Need a car.

-Don't worry, I commandeered a vehicle.

SIREN WAILS

Have this wonderful comfort, that no matter how dreadful

the aliens were, Jon Pertwee's Doctor would protect you

and you were OK, and you just sort of travelled in his wake.

He didn't pretend to be anything

other than the cleverest man in the room.

So far, on Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide,

we've taken in a tour of the transdimensional TARDIS...

-Tiny box, huge room inside.

-..met the first three Doctors...

I am a Time Lord.

I don't like it.

I knew you wouldn't. Never mind.

..and seen the rigours of regeneration.

He's having a change.

Still to come, there's eight more Doctors...

-You only live once.

-..sexy companions old and new...

I'm a kissagram!

..and more dastardly villains

than you can shake a perigosto stick at.

ROARING

Travelling through time and different universes

can make the TARDIS a lonely place for the Doctor.

His race has been wiped out, he's out there on his own.

I think that's why he likes companions. He likes some company.

# I belong to you, you belong to me

# My sweetheart. #

The story is the companions' story.

As each new person steps on the TARDIS

they begin the most important journey in their lives.

It's a travelling companion, a sounding board.

Just as people have their favourite Doctor,

people have their favourite companion.

The companion, I suppose, is the audience's access point.

Kind of reacting to situations in the way that you would.

I mean, she's asking questions and everything

but she also brings something to it as well.

The companion today plays an integral role

in the story of the Doctor.

Whether by falling in love...

saving the universe by power of their memory...

OK, kid, this is where it gets complicated.

..jumping into the Doctor's timeline...

Doctor!

..or even becoming half Time Lord themselves.

Half Doctor, half girl!

The emotional life of the companion has been developed.

I feel like the companion role is getting very complex.

Apart from being more involved in the stories,

the modern companion is feisty...

Oi, watch it, spaceman!

..forward...

You're getting married in the morning!

..and can be ferocious.

You can put that stuff down or run for your lives.

ZAPPING

Do you like my plan?

Initially, the companion's role was a little more straightforward -

they were there to ask questions...

-What is an SD?

-Ask Captain Yates.

-..scream...

-SHE SCREAMS

Stop! We're friends!

..and occasionally need saving.

Then one lady came along who changed it all.

I thought all this might give me a good story. I'm a journalist.

Sarah Jane Smith.

Sarah Jane Smith was almost like a blueprint for a lot

of the later companions.

In a way, she was really the first companion,

certainly who I remember, who had a career and who had a really,

really strong, defined character of her own.

And so rather than just screaming and running away from monsters,

which she also did pretty brilliantly...

SHE SCREAMS

..she also would come up with stuff of her own volition.

She was so popular that in 2006, she made a return to our screens.

-Hello, Sarah Jane.

-It's you!

Everyone was so excited she was back.

-Who's she?

-Rose, Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane, Rose.

Hi.

Well, almost everyone.

I don't mean to be rude or anything, but who exactly are you?

-Sarah Jane Smith. I used to travel with the Doctor.

-Oh!

-He's never mentioned ya.

-Oh, I must have done.

-Sarah Jane, I mention her all the time.

-Hold on. Sorry... Never.

What, not even once?

He didn't mention me once?

Oh, mate, the missus and the ex,

welcome to every man's worst nightmare.

Even though she came back, Sarah Jane will mainly

be remembered for the time she spent as Tom Baker's assistant.

No, hang on, who was...? Hang on...

No, he had Leela as well, didn't he?

How could we forget?

The next companion was more likely to get into a scrap than the Doctor.

Meet the all action companion, Leela.

Hello, did I startle you?

"Shall I kill him now, Doctor?"

# I got the eye of the tiger. #

Do I really look like that?

K-9: Affirmative.

Leela is a sort of... you know, from a tribe,

what you'd call a primitive person

from some planet where they're all daggers and they wear skins.

I am a warrior of the Sevateem. I know the different sounds of death.

Leela is feisty, intelligent...

# Going to hear me roar Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh... #

..fearsome.

It was cool that Leela was almost like the Doctor's bodyguard,

a bit of role reversal.

The alpha female instead of the alpha male.

-That was a prodigious throw.

-Prodigious?!

-Well, it was an amazing throw.

Our next companion, Peri Brown, was also fond of a skimpy outfit.

-# They say, "Hey, sexy"

-Hey, sexy

-# When I'm dancing in the club They say, "Hey sexy"

-Hey sexy... #

I suppose that people would say that particularly Peri

was a sex symbol.

# They're loving me so much... #

It was the '80s when we were doing the series.

And Nicola Bryant suffered sometimes with being costumed as older men

thought dolly birds ought to be costumed.

He sounds confident. I don't want to know.

It wasn't something I thought about while I was playing the part,

other than the fact that it was probably quite hard to forget

that you are wearing a leotard and a pair of shorts

and getting frostbite when you were filming.

Things warmed up with the seventh Doctor

and his fully-clothed sidekick, Dorothy, better known as Ace.

# It's my party

# I'll do, do what I want

# Do, do what I want... #

Ace was a kind of street kid.

Quite the little expert with explosives, I hear.

-Yeah, so what if I am?

-Excellent.

She was feisty, she was cheeky.

Ace was an odd kind of hybrid, really,

because she felt quite contemporary,

but then spoke the Queen's English.

Oh, go on, Professor, let me come too.

-Well... I don't see why not.

-Ace!

I mean, I have never met anyone like that.

When people find out that I was in Doctor Who, they always say,

"Oh, which one were you?"

And I always say, very proudly as I puff out my chest,

"I was the one who beat up a Dalek with a baseball bat!"

Well, I'm 45 years old. So my favourite Doctor is Tom Baker.

HE WHISTLES

Would you like a jelly baby? I've no choice about that.

Spending seven years in the TARDIS,

Tom Baker's Doctor was the longest serving and the most unpredictable.

You simply don't know what's going to come out of that man's mouth

or what is going on behind those remarkable eyes.

All change at Venus for the Brighton line.

SHE SIGHS HEAVILY, BANG

-Was that bang big enough for you, Brigadier?

-Nicely done, Doctor.

-Tom Baker was eccentric, flamboyant.

-You mustn't believe all they say.

-His eyes!

-Keep looking into my eyes!

And sort of walking around like that. Casting a very big shadow.

He was quite sort of imposing, quite sort of grand.

-AS TOM BAKER:

-Oh, my God, it's, like, all kicking off and that.

-This is, like, so well bad, I'm going to have to totally, like, sort this out and that.

-You stay here.

With his playful nature and trademark flowing scarf,

it didn't take long for the fourth Doctor to capture the public's imagination.

Enormous zest.

Bigger than the screen in which he was appearing, and yet it worked.

He embodies, in all its weirdness, what the Doctor is,

what the Doctor means.

-AS TOM BAKER:

-Home sapiens - puny, defenceless bipeds.

They are indomitable!

He bases a lot of his scenes on being four years old.

-Do you think I might attract attention?

-It is just possible.

And probably offer you a jelly baby.

Would you like a jelly baby? Do you care for a jelly baby?

-Would you like a jelly baby?

-Shut up!

It was kind of acceptable back in the day.

You'd be like, "Would you like a sweet?"

Someone would be like, "That's a really lovely gesture."

If you give someone a sweet now, they'd be like,

"No, get away from me, you weirdo.

"That's clearly got something in it."

A simple "no, thank you" would have been sufficient.

After the third Doctor's exile on Earth, this Doctor brought with him

a new sense of adventure.

I can't waste any more time.

Things to do, places to go.

He took us on a journey of dark tales in otherworldly universes

which gave his era a Hammer horror feel.

Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

By the end of Tom Baker's era, he'd defeated more villains

and travelled to more places in time than any other Doctor before him.

And if that wasn't enough,

he was even crowned President of the Time Lords.

I invest you...

Lord President of the Supreme Council.

In the end, the fourth Doctor succumbed to his regeneration

in a suitably heroic fashion -

saving the Earth from his evil nemesis, the Master.

Leaving behind the legacy of creating arguably the most

iconic Doctor of all time.

I think whenever the Doctor's a bit quirky and eccentric,

it makes them more human and more warm and lovable,

and I think Tom Baker definitely had a lot of that about him.

He was completely mesmerising. Full stop, Tom Baker.

It's the end.

We've already taken a look at the Daleks,

but there's another group of bad guys that have been battling

the Doctor since his first incarnation.

What was that?

I don't know. A robot.

Nope. It's not a robot.

Cyberman! Get down!

That's right, it's the Cybermen, the part steel, part human bad guys.

I've seen them before.

They're relentless, they're ruthless,

and they know how to make an entrance.

Most of all, Cybermen are just plain scary.

I was always scared of Cybermen when I was a kid.

The emotionless, facial expression.

I guess it was the face that I was scared of.

Terrified of that weird,

blank expression that they have in their face.

You are never quite sure what's going on behind that mask.

What happens in there?

The Cybermen were originally human beings,

but gradually they replaced their weak mortal flesh with metal and plastic.

They decided the way to go - stainless steel, you know?

It is nonporous, it cleans easily. OK, it scratches.

But you just get a Brillo Pad. Give it a rub, it's as good as new.

-Excellent!

-In the process, they lost their compassion.

Don't give me those blank looks.

-Along with all other emotions.

-We feel nothing.

Nevertheless, they managed to maintain a pretty strong yearning for world domination.

Destroy them.

Destroy them at once.

Close enough to us for their differences to be utterly chilling.

OK.

Despite their relentlessness,

the Cybermen were by no means invincible

if you knew what you were doing.

The Cybermen had this fatal flaw, they were severely allergic to gold.

-Bullets are a waste of time with this lot.

-Bullets won't stop them.

What you need is a well-aimed ray gun, a spear-chucking alien,

-or even a good old-fashioned bow and arrow.

-A hit.

And if all else fails, just knock his block off.

I don't think I can take much more of this.

But as we all know, every Doctor Who baddie needs a catchphrase.

-And the Cybermen's is certainly easy to remember.

-We are the Cybermen.

-No, not that one.

-You will be deleted.

-Ah, that's better.

Clearly they had "exterminate" for the Daleks.

And then they were like, "What's another word for exterminate?"

-You will be deleted.

-"Erase?"

-Delete.

-Delete.

-Very easy to remember.

-I'm glad they went for "delete" over "back space".

Time now for a bit of a sporting departure.

Peter Davison was a part-time cricketer.

# I say, I don't like cricket... #

-Did he actually like cricket?

-I love cricket.

# I love it... #

There seems to be something distinctly wrong.

OK, sorry, apart from loving cricket, he was also the fifth Doctor.

It was a real pleasant surprise

when the floppy-haired Peter Davison emerged.

Peter Davison, I feel like he's my Doctor.

My earliest memories of Doctor Who are Peter Davison.

He's so soft and warm.

He'd saved all the animals in another life as a vet.

And he's reckless and innocent,

and he has qualities of youth about him,

which we'd never, ever seen in the Doctor before.

These things are irrelevant.

For some people, small, beautiful events is what life is all about!

Peter Davison's Doctor, very energetic, slightly breathy,

hands in pockets, running away.

Part of the reason I was cast, I think,

was because the producer wanted someone who could move a bit quicker.

And I was very proud of the fact that I ran down corridors faster

than my predecessors.

I'm Lord President, am I not?

You will obey my commands. And off he runs.

-Great energy with Peter's Doctor.

-Hold tight.

He was a breath of fresh air. It rejuvenated the TARDIS.

It felt like a very good, pure Doctor.

Yeah, I think it is fair.

Yeah, I was a very nice chap.

Still am. Well, kind of.

Your mum would like him if you brought him home.

They'd be like, "Ah, he's so sweet."

This nice-guy fifth Doctor was certainly a departure from the fourth.

I enjoyed the contrast of his Doctor

to the sort of confidence of Tom Baker's doctor.

Are you all right?

Just a twinge of cosmic angst.

I think I wanted to introduce a bit of self-doubt into the character.

He'd been a bit too assured,

too absolutely self-confident he could just...

everything was going to be sorted out.

And I just felt, partly because it was a nice thing to play as an actor,

that I wanted to make my character a little fallible.

There can't be much time left. What can we do?

Abandon methodical procedure for blind instinct.

At times it felt like almost a lack of confidence in himself

as the Doctor, and that made him very interesting and quite,

you know, human.

I give you my word.

Just as you keep your word to Tegan?

That's not fair.

The fifth Doctor's reign came to an heroic end

when he saved companion Peri's life.

Open your mouth. You must drink this.

# Never fall away... #

From my experience, particularly as Peri,

he's a heroic Doctor,

because for Peri's sake,

he is prepared to go through regeneration,

so he quite literally dies for the sake of his companion,

whom he hasn't known very long.

-Where is it?

-What?

-The bat's milk!

Finished. Only enough for you.

It was certainly a moving end to the reign of the fifth Doctor,

but it will always be remembered for a couple of reasons.

Peter Davison, no doubt if you're speaking to him,

he will say that he has an overriding

memory of the scene that he was upstaged by part of my anatomy.

You kind of...

You try to be in a moment,

but in the end, you're basically just looking at Peri's chest.

Nicola Bryant's cleavage.

Which I thought somewhat took away from the great performance

I was giving about a foot and a half below the cleavage.

# She's got me spinning... #

HE LAUGHS

And you would sort of...I guess feel a bit sorry for Peter Davison

who is giving, arguably, the performance of his career.

And the majority of the audience, I think,

are just sort of going, "Oh, Peri."

I'm going soon.

It's time to say goodbye.

Don't give up.

You can't leave me now.

I might regenerate.

So apart from a memorable farewell,

what was the legacy of the fifth Doctor?

I'd like people to think of the fifth Doctor as introducing

an element of humanness to the Doctor.

He brings the idea of the Doctor as a young, reckless genius.

And, really, it lays down a new path for the show

when he takes it over.

So I'd like to think that I started that trend that others followed later.

Look at you! The hat, the coat, the crickety cricket stuff, the...

stick of celery. Brave choice, celery.

But fair play to you, not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable.

Shut up!

Yeah!

So the fifth Doctor wasn't always such a nice guy, but he couldn't

hold a candle to our next villain, one of the baddest of the bad guys.

The Master.

There's been a few Masters.

Menacing, evil.

Pretty naughty, really.

The Master - the Doctor's nemesis.

-He's crazy.

-Crazy.

He's brilliant.

-And he's ruthless.

-Kill him!

But, in fact, he's a little bit like the Doctor.

Well, the Master, in lots of ways,

-is who the Doctor could be if he choose to be.

-Sweet.

If Doctor Who is a Yin

then the Master...

is a Yang.

And like all good Doctor Who villains,

the Master is still intent on causing disaster.

Oh, all right, then, it's me. Ta-da!

John Simm was very lucky, cos he was obviously told to chew the furniture

and go for it with his portrayal of the Master.

And did.

Here come the drums!

In typical Master fashion, he had his eye on world domination.

-But a row with the missus soon put an end to that.

-Always the women.

As we all know, you can't keep a good Master down,

and he was soon back for another try.

But this time, he wasn't alone.

You're crafting your thoughts inside them, is that it?

Oh, that's way too easy.

No, no, no. They're not going to think like me.

They're going to BECOME me!

What does John Simm do?

He turns the entire world into John Simm.

Which is great.

For John Simm.

What have you done, you monster?

Oh, I'm sorry, are you talking to me?

Or to me?

Or to me? I am everyone.

And everyone in the world is me!

I love John Simm, but...

you know, I don't want to be waking up next to him.

There is no human race, there is only...

the Master race!

You know, I want to spoon, but I don't want to be spooning John.

Sorry, John.

I like you.

Despite the Master's evil mind, the Doctor never gave up on him.

You could be so much more.

You could be beautiful.

It allows us to see the Doctor in a different light.

And also gives him an equal to fight against.

With a mind like that, we could travel the stars.

It would be my honour.

But it wasn't enough to halt his lust for power.

And before we knew it, there was a tear-up of biblical proportions,

with the Doctor on one side

and the Time Lords and the Master on the other.

Get out of the way.

Finally, there was a crack in the Master's armour

and he showed that even the baddest of the bad guys can mend their ways

as he helped the Doctor to defeat the Time Lords.

You made me!

And then, like the enigma that he is, he vanished.

It's the moral ambiguity of a guy that's supposed to be a villain,

but then does something that was good at the end.

He's the toss of the coin -

what a Time Lord could decide to do.

That's what makes Time Lords interesting.

The Doctor, in lots of ways, is the Master.

He's just... He's just the other way round.

The Doctor is interested in justice and in equality and in liberty.

And the Master is interested in ruling the universe.

-Doctor?

-You're expecting someone else?

When the sixth incarnation of the Doctor burst onto our screens,

almost straightaway we knew what we were going to get.

-What's happened?

-Change, my dear.

Change, my dear.

And it seems not a moment too soon.

The changeover from fifth to sixth hadn't been an easy one

for our beloved Doctor.

Instead of having a normal, quite comfortable regeneration,

he was going to go through this sort of trauma.

-You still seem a little stable.

-Unstable?

Unstable?!

UNSTABLE?!

He was going to be psychologically damaged for a while by his regeneration.

-You're bonkers.

-That's debatable.

For the first time, we began to see a side of the Doctor that wasn't so easy to like.

Colin Baker allows the Doctor to finally express his own ego.

I'm a Time Lord! A man of science, temperament.

I've never seen this side of you before.

People did not like the sixth Doctor.

Wait a minute.

The shock of Colin Baker after Peter Davison was quite marked, actually.

It feels like if that was happening today, to me,

I would have been moaning about it on Twitter.

I'm pretty sure.

Yes, the era of the nice-guy fifth Doctor was now truly over,

and in a now famous scene,

our new Time Lord asks for a bit of patience from the haters.

And I would suggest, Peri,

that you wait a little before you start criticising my new persona.

You may well find it isn't quite as disagreeable as you think.

Well, I hope so.

Whatever else happens, I AM the Doctor.

Whether you like it or not.

You tell 'em, Doc.

OK, the sixth Doctor had his faults, but at least he looked cool, right?

Multicoloured monstrosity of a coat.

I've been moaning about my outfit for 30 years.

-I suddenly feel conspicuous.

-I'm not surprised in that coat(!)

They asked me what I'd like to wear as the Doctor.

And what I described

was pretty much what Chris Eccleston got.

I'm not convinced he could have pulled off cool.

-Joseph and his Technicolor explosion.

-It was spectacular.

-I mean, dreadful.

-You can't go out dressed like that.

-Why ever not?

-You look dreadful!

The perfect marriage of awful and really good.

Yes, the sixth Doctor was certainly a departure from the previous five,

as he blazed a darker trail that later Doctors went on to follow.

The Doctor's ego becomes rampant in the form of the sixth Doctor.

Let's exercise the grey cells for once, shall we?

Rather than the muscles.

It did strike me that a man who is 900 years old

and has two hearts,

comes from a planet of Time Lords called Gallifrey,

might behave a little differently from a bloke who

lives in Surbiton and commutes to the City every day,

and that some of his actions might be hard for us to understand.

HE YELLS

Forgive me if I don't join you.

My last appearance was getting into the TARDIS,

saying "carrot juice" and disappearing into oblivion.

'Carrot juice, carrot juice, carrot juice...'

I understand that some impostor called Sylvester McCoy

swaddled himself in my clothes, with a blonde wig on pretending to be me.

And there you have it, the sixth Doctor, defiant to the last.

I AM the Doctor.

Whether you like it or not.

So far on Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide,

we've met six very different incarnations of the Doctor.

-Do you care for a jelly baby?

-Shut up!

We've seen the Cybermen, the Daleks and the Master.

It's me. Ta-da!

And we've looked into the world of the companion.

Do you like my gun?

Still to come - we countdown more Doctors...

Look at the women in the Doctor's life...

And the men.

Sit still. Shut up.

The seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy

was, on the face of it, a bit of a clown.

I know that woman from somewhere.

I guess my favourite doctor is Sylvester McCoy.

Look at me. I can see.

My doctor was much lighter, Buster Keaton-esque, Chaplin-esque.

-Sylvester started off in a borrowed coat from Colin Baker.

-Where am I?

Who am I? And who are you?

He may have started in a borrowed coat,

but he soon developed his own unique identity.

His wardrobe was off the scale.

Thank goodness in this regeneration I have

we gained my impeccable sense of haute couture.

Like, I loved his hat and his swagger.

HE SIGHS

I think that's quite a good sentence.

He worked with props so well, so like his hat.

And his umbrella.

He plays the spoons, which he always does in everything.

Oh!

McCoy is a brilliant comedic actor.

His Doctor was a kind of trickstery, magician.

-Things don't just vanish.

-No.

But it soon became apparent that under this playful exterior

lay a more complex character.

He had a specific...

transformation within his character.

The more I know me, the less I like me.

I realised when I was playing the role that there was so much

more to this character.

On the surface he's a comical little man,

but underneath that, he's actually one of the coldest

and most manipulative of the Doctors.

If you wait until the second series, and I think my Doctor became,

started to become more mysterious.

Look me in the eye, pull the trigger.

End my life.

Yes, the seventh Doctor was certainly manipulative.

And in the story The Curse Of Fenric,

he even used his sidekick Ace as a pawn

in the psychological game of chess.

Time for the one final game.

Suddenly, you realise, hang on a minute,

-he's actually using her for his own ends.

-She's an emotional cripple.

I wouldn't waste my time on her, unless I had to use her somehow.

No!

MAN LAUGHS My Doctor did play chess a lot.

There's reasons, but he did stitch her up.

He would be making moves, sometimes hoping, or driving

the opposition into making the moves that would destroy them.

His betrayal of her helps him defeat his foe

and eventually Ace forgives and learns to trust him again.

Where to now, Ace?

-Home.

-Home?

-The TARDIS.

-Yes, the TARDIS.

The mystery had gone as far as I was concerned,

I wanted to bring that back.

That was very important.

I wanted the "Who" to be, you know, the question mark again,

"who is this person?"

The sad clown, McCoy embodied that.

You know, and it works.

It will always work.

Sylvester McCoy.

A wonderful, magical, wizard-like clowning Doctor.

Yeah, terrific.

So the Doctors had a dog...

Goodbye, Master.

-..aliens...

-Goodness me, I'm tired.

And, of course, women for his companions.

It almost feels like there's someone left out.

Of course, it's the boys.