mae@aplvax.UUCP (09/28/83)
Robert Perlberg quotes from a Marvel article that sounds mostly correct but somewhat dated (I don't know the specific article). Time-Life began marketing Doctor Who in the U.S. in 1978 with the first four Tom Baker seasons, so its been here about 5 years. I heard somewhere that some areas showed Pertwee episodes around 1973. Most stations that show it now have all seven seasons with Tom Baker but some have Pertwee episodes and the two most recent seasons with Peter Davison. Time Lords do live for a long time but regeneration is not unlimited. Barring criminal methods used by the Master, a Time Lord can only regenerate naturally 12 times. Toward the end of the upcoming 21st season the Doctor will regenerate for the 5th time and it sounds like the Daleks will have something to do with it. Well, they let the Master win a round in Logopolis and the Cybermen killed a companion in Earthshock, so I suppose it's only fair. To answer Andrew Garrett's question on "who" has played the Doctor, here are the past, present, and future names (dates are when the episodes were/will be shown in England): 1. William Hartnell (11/63 - 10/66) 2. Patrick Troughton (11/66 - 6/69) 3. Jon Pertwee (1/70 - 6/74) 4. Tom Baker (12/74 - 81) 5. Peter Davison (82 - 3/84) 6. Colin Baker (3/84 - ? ) The 6th Doctor will have an American companion, Peri Brown, played by actress Nicola Bryant. Can anyone out there tell us anything about Colin Baker? Apparently he played a villain in a Doctor Who episode at some time but I don't know which one. This information comes from a front page story in the British Daily Express on Aug. 20, reprinted in Morbius, the Mensa Doctor Who newsletter. Mary Anne Espenshade ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!mae