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| {{Speedy rename|new = When the real world Peter Russell becomes Peter Russell (actor), this should loose the dab.}}{{Infobox Individual | | {{Speedy rename|new = Peter Russell (actor), info switched.}} |
| |name = Peter Russell
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| |image = Peter_Russell.jpg
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| |alias = The Doctor
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| |species = Human
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| |job = Doctor{{!}}Doctor of Philosophy
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| |father = Jeremiah O'Kane
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| |origin = [[Earth]]
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| |only = The Zero Imperative
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| |actor = Colin Baker
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| [[Dr]] '''Peter Russell''' was a doctor of [[philosophy]] as opposed to [[medicine]]. He was the adopted son of [[Jeremiah O'Kane]], the director of the Hawthorne psychiatric clinic. Jeremiah's father, mother and two sisters had been [[murder]]ed by Jeremiah's brother forty years earlier — the clinic was built in a place prone to evil, murderous possession of victims at certain times in history. The brother had been sent to another asylum following the murders, while Jeremiah took over the running of the clinic. He also raised his deranged brother's son — Peter Russell — telling him only that he was adopted. Russell declined to enter the family medical profession, which caused a bitter division between the two, but instead became a very wealthy businessman.
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| In his later years, O'Kane handed over the directorship to [[Colin Dove|Dr Colin Dove]], and continued to live in the clinic's grounds in his [[retirement]]. However, O'Kane and Dove knew another cycle of evil was imminent and set up a bizarre experiment. They organised the return of O'Kane's brother as an inmate of the clinic, and when government cut-backs forced the closure of psychiatric hospitals, Russell stepped in to finance the clinic and keep it open. Apparently part of their plan, or certainly Dove's plan, was to bring the father and son together at the appointed time and create "perihelion" — somehow allowing chaos to erupt into the world. Dove discussed this with O'Kane, but his involvement was questionable. Russell wanted to find out what dark secrets Dove was keeping from him, and worked with [[William Bruffin]] and the [[Preternatural Research Bureau]] to try to get to the truth. O'Kane tried to mend fences with his returning adopted son, but it was only after Russell was possessed by the same evil spirit and his self-sacrificing father saved [[Liz Shaw]] from him, that 'perihelion' was avoided and life returned to normal at the clinic. O'Kane and Russell tried to rebuild their relationship. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[The Zero Imperative]]'')
| | '''Peter Russell''' played [[Eldred]] in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Time Meddler]]''. |
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| | == External links == |
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