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Jon Pertwee is a British comedy character actor credited with an extensive list of stage, screen, radio, and cabaret appearances. The one-time spouse of Upstairs, Downstairs star, Jean Marsh, Pertwee is best known for his turn from 1970 to 1974 as the Doctor in the long-running British Broadcasting Corporation program, Doctor Who. A master of accents, voices, sounds, and comical walks, Pertwee perfected his multiple comedic personae on the radio series The Navy Lark and supporting roles in various films beginning with his appearance in 1937's Dinner at the Ritz.
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Jon Pertwee was the third actor to play the titular good-natured Time Lord on the long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who, and this video pays tribute to his four-year run in the role. Doctor Who: The Pertwee Years features three classic episodes from the show in which Pertwee starred -- "Frontier in Space," "The Daemons," and "Inferno" -- as well as an interview with Pertwee, a look at the BBC's special effects department, outtakes, rarely seen moments from the series, and a visit to a Doctor Who fan convention. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Jon Pertwee's final season was to introduce Sarah Jane Smith as the Doctor's latest companion. In another departure for the show Sarah would be a no-nonsense feminist whose career as an investigative journalist made her no stranger to poking her nose into things. Along with yet more comebacks from the Daleks and the Ice Warriors, the season was ... to introduce a new race of alien who would go on to feature in a number of future stories - the cloned race of the Sontarans. Rounding off the Pertwee era was the story, Planet of the Spiders, which effectively brought down the curtain on the 'UNIT family' era of the show. Filled with the UNIT regulars and as many chase scenes in as many different types of vehicle as possible (including the futuristic Whomobile), it saw the end of the action and gadget era of the show as Tom Baker took on the role.
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Jon Pertwee returned to the role of the Third Doctor several times in the eighties and nineties. In 1983, he appeared in the twentieth anniversary television special The Five Doctors, and in 1989 again played the Doctor, this time on stage in Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure. In 1993 he appeared on screen once more as the Third Doctor in the two part charity skit Dimensions in Time, and ... played the Doctor on radio for the five-part audio Doctor Who story The Paradise of Death. The success of that production led to a sequel, the six part The Ghosts of N-Space, made in November 1994 but not transmitted until early 1996. Jon made appearances at numerous Doctor Who conventions, invariably appearing in a version of the Third Doctor's costume which he'd had made especially for such occasions.
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Though he regularly worked on screen, stage, and television, veteran British actor Jon Pertwee may best be remembered for playing the third Dr. Who in the long-running British sci-fi television series of the same name from 1970 to 1974. The son of actor Roland Pertwee, he started out on-stage and then made his feature film debut in A Yank at Oxford (1937).
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Jon Pertwee was born on the 7th July 1919 into a strong theatrical background. His father, Roland Pertwee, was a writer who contributed to many television shows including the soap opera The Grove Family, along with his brother Michael who became a playwright and his cousin Bill is now a well known actor best remembered for his role of Hodges in Dad's Army .
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