Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966)
Doctor Who question: Which Doctor is Peter Cushing regarded as?
I read on the net, these are the list of Doctors:
First Doctor – William Hartnell
Second Doctor – Patrick Troughton
Third Doctor – Jon Pertwee
Fourth Doctor – Tom Baker
Fifth Doctor – Peter Davison
Sixth Doctor – Colin Baker
Seventh Doctor – Sylvester McCoy
Eighth Doctor – Paul McGann
Ninth Doctor – Christopher Eccleston
Tenth Doctor – David Tennant
now, considering that Peter Cushing played the Doctor in Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966), Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
shouldn’t Peter Cushing then be regarded as the second Doctor? and another question is, why didnt William Hartnell star in these two Doctor Who films considering they were made during his Doctor Who years?
It was through his association with Milton Subotsky that Cushing entered the world of Doctor Who, starring in the 1965 film Dr Who and the Daleks and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 AD a year later. Cushing jumped at the chance to play the Doctor and despite suffering from illness when making the second film, he never lost enthusiasm for the project.
Sadly, the two films were considered failures in the all-important American market so plans for a third Dr Who movie, presumably with Cushing in the lead, were dropped. However, this did not end Cushing’s association with the popular TV series. In 1967 Stanmark Productions Ltd promoted a planned series of serialised radio dramas based on popular fictional characters, with ‘Doctor Who starring Peter Cushing’ being one of the major selling points of the series. Sadly, the project never came to fruition, Cushing’s ill-health at the time apparently being a contributing factor.
While Cushing was never to play Dr Who again, he did play another popular cult hero, this time on TV. Following his stand-out portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 1959 Hammer film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, he went on to star in a 16-episode Holmes series for BBC TV, his only regular TV role. One of his last film roles before he retired was again as Holmes, in the TV movie The Abbott’s Cry (1986), a sequel to his appearance in The Masks of Death (1984), with Sir John Mills as Watson.
Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 AD (Fan Trailer)
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Doctor Who - Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
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The Doctor Who Collection (Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Doctor Who and the Daleks, Dalekmania )
$39.97 In the mid-1960s, with Dalekmania sweeping Britain, BBC TV's Doctor Who materialized on the silver screen. Doctor Who and the Daleks replaced William Hartnell with Peter Cushing and remade the Daleks' TV debut with a much bigger budget in Technicolor and Techniscope. With his two granddaughters, Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden (and Roy Castle along for comic relief), the Doctor becomes an intermed... |