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*[[Category:Engineers]] | |image = Perkins-in-the-TARDIS.jpg | ||
|name = Perkins | |||
|alias = | |||
|species = Humanoid | |||
|origin = | |||
|job = Engineer | |||
|only = Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story) | |||
|actor = Frank Skinner | |||
}} | |||
'''Perkins''' was the [[engineer|Chief Engineer]] on the space-faring [[Orient Express (spacecraft)|Orient Express]]. He assisted the [[Twelfth Doctor]] in combating the [[Foretold]], starting a timer whenever the Foretold attacked. He handed the Doctor a passenger manifest, a plan of the train and a list of stops for the previous six months. Later, he examined the history of the passengers to see if there was a pattern to the Foretold's attacks. While solving why it took the Foretold exactly sixty-six seconds to kill its victims, Perkins revealed that moving energy out of phase took "about a minute", and the Doctor realised that the Foretold had been using technology to take its victims out of phase. After the threat was over, the Doctor subtly offered him a chance to travel with him, but Perkins politely declined, saying that the job of maintaining [[the TARDIS]] could change a man. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | |||
*Perkins' character was based on a real person of the same name, a friend of writer [[Jamie Mathieson]], from whom he extracted information about the real-life [[Orient Express]]. ([[DWM 478]]) | |||
*On 14 December 2014, Frank Skinner appeared in character as Perkins in a video wishing ''Doctor Who'' fans a Merry Christmas. | |||
*Skinner, a long-time ''Doctor Who'' fan, has readily admitted he has long wanted to appear in the series - he was in fact watching an episode of [[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'' when he was offered the part of Perkins. He also wished that the scene where Perkins declines the Doctor's offer to join him could be refilmed with him saying "Yes!".([[DWM 478]]) | |||
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