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|name        = Dr. Who
|image      = DrWhoDalekMovies.jpg
|alias      = Doctor
|species    = Human
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|grandchild  = Susan (Dr. Who and the Daleks)
|grandchild2 = Barbara (Dr. Who and the Daleks)
|first        = Dr. Who and the Daleks
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|actor      = Peter Cushing
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'''Dr. Who''' was the name by which [[Ian Chesterton (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Ian Chesterton]] knew '''[[the Doctor]]''' in an account where he was depicted as an eccentric [[human]] scientist who lived in a cottage in [[20th century]] [[England]] with his granddaughters [[Susan (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Susan]] and [[Barbara (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Barbara]] until he invented the time-and-space machine [[TARDIS (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (comic story)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr Who and the House on Oldark Moor (short story)|Dr Who and the House on Oldark Moor]]'') He, his granddaughter Susan and his niece [[Louise (Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)|Louise]] were depicted in another account as travelling in time and space together,  leery of [[Earth]]'s authorities. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'')
 
In other accounts, the time-travelling [[the Doctor|Doctor]] who visited [[Skaro]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') and a [[Dalek]]-ravaged [[Earth]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') with his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') was instead the [[First Doctor]], whose [[the Doctor's early life|exact origins]] and [[the Doctor's species|species]] were themselves a matter of much contention ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') but who was generally understood to have been the first [[incarnation]] of a [[Time Lord]] known as [[the Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')
 
== Biography ==
=== Creation ===
One account claimed that Dr. Who and his eight-year-old granddaughter Suzy were both fictional creations made by the real Doctor to distract the [[Five O'Clock Shadow]] until he could escape. Compared to the real Doctor, Dr. Who was cheerful and angst-free meaning that the Shadow had no hold over him and Suzy. The pair then departed for more childlike and wondrous adventures, leaving the real Doctor to face the Shadow on his own in the future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Five O'Clock Shadow (short story)|The Five O'Clock Shadow]]'')
 
=== Inventing TARDIS ===
Dr. Who, living in a house in [[England]] with his granddaughters [[Susan (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Susan]] and [[Barbara (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Barbara]], was known to Barbara's boyfriend [[Ian Chesterton (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Ian Chesterton]] as an [[inventor]]. Together with his equally-gifted granddaughter Susan, he worked for "many years" on a [[space-time vessel|time-and-space machine]] in the shape of a [[police box]], which he dubbed ''[[TARDIS (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|TARDIS]]'', for "Time And Relative Dimension In Space". It was capable of traveling to "any [[time]], any place, any [[universe]]".
[[File:Dr. Who comic.jpg|left|thumb|Dr. Who explaining how his TARDIS works. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (comic story)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'').]]
As he was about to add the final component to the [[Dimensional transcendentalism|dimensionally-transcendental]] [[TARDIS control room|controls room]] of the Ship, Dr. Who was interrupted by Ian Chesterton, come to call on Barbara with a box of perfumes. Dr. Who invited Ian into TARDIS, which stood in the Doctor backyard, to witness the completion of the device. Within moments of the controls being set, however, Ian accidentally pushed a lever and TARDIS took off without the Doctor's having set the controls, thus transporting him, Ian, Susan and Barbara, aboard TARDIS, to a random location in time and space ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') as the TARDIS flew through the [[Time Vortex]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (comic story)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'')
 
=== First adventures ===
[[File:Dr Who and the Daleks Pic2.jpg|thumb|Dr. Who and his granddaughters face off agains ththe [[Dalek]]s for the first time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'')]]The Doctor and friends' first destination turned out to be the planet [[Skaro]], the homeworld of the peaceful [[Thal]]s and of a belligerent and bloodthirsty civilisation of mutants surviving inside metal [[casing|protective machines]], the [[Dalek]]s. With Susan's complicity, Dr. Who intentionally removed a [[fluid link]] from the time machine, determined to explore the planet to satisfy his scientific curiosity — whereas Ian wanted him to return everyone home immediately.
 
Wandering into the city, the newly-minted time-travellers were made prisoners by the Daleks and gradually realised the threat they presented. Dr. Who eventually gave strategic help to the Thals in their attack of the [[Dalek City]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') According to other accounts, a very similar adventure was undergone by the [[First Doctor]] and his own companions [[Susan Foreman]], [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'')
 
After they bade farewell to the Daleks, the Doctor's attempt to steer TARDIS home was once again undercut by Ian's clumsiness and, Dr. Who opened the doors to find a [[Rome|Roman]] legion marching towards the ship, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') as they had landed in [[64]]. While in [[Rome]] itself, Ian soon ended up becoming a gladiator. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr Who and the House on Oldark Moor (short story)|Dr Who and the House on Oldark Moor]]'')
 
=== Further adventures ===
TARDIS subsequently materialised on Oldark Moor, where Dr. Who and his companions encountered [[Tarkin (Dr Who and the House on Oldark Moor)|Count Tarkin]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr Who and the House on Oldark Moor (short story)|Dr Who and the House on Oldark Moor]]'')
[[File:Daleks_Versus_the_Martians_1.jpg|thumb|left|Dr. Who and Louise survive on one of the Dalek hoverbouts. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Daleks Versus the Martians (comic story)|Daleks Versus the Martians]]'')]]
 
Dr. Who became curious over one of the most ancient mysteries of the universe, a face-like settlement on [[Mars]] known as the [[Martian Sphinx (Daleks Versus the Martians)|Martian Sphinx]]. Dr. Who and Susan travelled to the red planet with his niece [[Louise (Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)|Louise]]. While Dr. Who was preparing to study the apparent formation, the group were surrounded by [[Dalek]]s floating on [[Hoverbout]]s. The Daleks kidnapped Louise and attempted to do the same to Dr. Who and Susan, but they were saved at the last moment by a group of telepathic [[Martian (Daleks Versus the Martians)|natives]], who lead them to an underground base.
 
Dr. Who and Susan noticed a series of hieroglyphics on the wall of the base, but were unsure of what they meant. Upon asking one of the Martians about why the Daleks had invaded, it was explained to them that they planned to use Mars as a base to concur [[Earth]]. Shortly after this, Dr. Who announced that he had solved the mystery of the Sphinx, revealing that the hieroglyphics on the wall were actually a long-lost activation sequence for a massive Martian robot. Using this knowledge, the group were able to raise the robot out of the air to attack the Dalek forces as Dr. Who attempted to save Louise by breaking into a [[Dalek flying saucer]]. However, he discovered that this was a trap, as the Daleks wanted to take him to [[Skaro]] to drain the secrets of [[time travel]] from his mind. As the ship took off, it was attacked by the robot, although Louise and the Doctor were able to escape on one of the Dalek hoverboats.
 
The Daleks foothold on Mars lost, Dr. Who and his companions departed in ''Tardis'', although Who wondered if the preceding event was the eve of a war. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks Versus the Martians (comic story)|Daleks Versus the Martians]]'')
 
=== Foiling the Daleks on Earth ===
[[File:The Doctor helps the anti-Dalek resistence in Bedfordshire.jpg|thumb|Dr. Who helping with the anti-Dalek resistance in [[Bedfordshire]] alongside [[Louise (Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)|Louise]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'')]]They would encounter this war soon enough after materialising in a street in [[London]] at night. A concussed police constable named [[Tom Campbell]] managed to step into what he believed to be a normal [[police box]] after failing to stop a robbery; when they realised that the police was getting involved via the [[TARDIS scanner]], Dr. Who, still traveling with Susan and Louise, decided they must leave at once, albeit while taking the unconscious Tom Campbell along.
 
The TARDIS rematerialised in [[London]] in [[22nd century|2150]] and found that it had been devastated by a Dalek invasion. After the collapse of a building cut off their route back to the TARDIS, the four time travellers assisted in defeating the Daleks, with Dr. Who being the first man to figure out the Daleks' real plan to hollow out the [[Earth]]'s core, and the flaw in that plan that was the Daleks' casings' vulnerability to the planet's magnetic forces.
 
Once they were at liberty to leave, the Doctor, his niece and his granddaughter took Tom Campbell back home; at his request, they put him back in time a few minutes ''before'' his original departure, allowing him to rewrite history and successfully foil the robbery. The three wanderers in the fourth dimension bade farewell to Tom from the doors of the TARDIS as Tom Campbell returned to his normal life with the promise of a promotion to inspector. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'')
 
=== Legacy ===
 
According to several sources, the character of Dr. Who existed as a piece of fiction inspired by the adventures of [[the Doctor]], a [[Time Lord]] from the [[planet]] [[Gallifrey]] whose [[The Doctor in popular culture and mythology|place in popular human culture]] could hardly be understated.
 
When in the [[Black Archive]], [[Kate Stewart]] noted two [[VHS cassette]]s, one of them being ''[[Daleks: Invasion Earth]]''. She noted that [[the Doctor]] and [[Peter Cushing]] had been friends and that the Doctor had loaned him a waistcoat "for the second one". The [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]] and [[Eleventh Doctor]]s particularly loved the movies, joking around calling each other Dr Who, and phoned Cushing to persuade him to make a third movie. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') Indeed, another account noted the [[Third Doctor]] visiting the cinema to see a double-bill of Peter Cushing films, which closely resembled the adventures of Dr. Who. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Visit to the Cinema (short story)|A Visit to the Cinema]]'') While biking, [[Lawrence Burton (We Are the Enemy)|Lawrence Burton]] thought to himself that [[the enemy]] of the [[Great Houses]] might be those [[Dalek|"outer space robot people"]] that appeared in "at least two films with [[Peter Cushing]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[We Are the Enemy (short story)|We Are the Enemy]]'')
 
[[File:Four_Doctors_Cushing.jpg|thumb|An imagined parallel counterpar to the [[Tenth Doctor]] resembles Dr. Who. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'')]]Another account stated that Cushing had the lead role in the [[1980]] [[science fiction]] film ''[[Prey for a Miracle]]'' as "the mysterious government adviser, Doctor Who". The character was loosely based on the [[First Doctor]] and was inspired by the [[UFO]]/[[god]]s scare caused by the [[Latter-Day Pantheon]] in [[New York City]] in [[March]] and [[April]] [[1965]]. A film critic for the magazine ''[[Film in Focus]]'' claimed the "endearingly eccentric professor" was as fictional as the rest of the film. What little information there was about his real counterpart suggested he was a shadowy, manipulative figure. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salvation (novel)|Salvation]]'')
[[Gabby Gonzalez]]'s "magic" notebook wrote about how Gabby thought the Doctor's [[Regeneration|other selves]] would be from parallel universes. In the book was an incarnation resembling Dr. Who, albeit without a moustache and drawn to more closely resemble "her" Doctor, the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
=== Creation and status ===
This Doctor came to be when, in the process of adapting ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'' into the theatrical film ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', it was decided that the part of [[the Doctor]] should be recast with [[Peter Cushing]] replacing [[William Hartnell]]. Cushing's performance was markedly different from Hartnell's [[First Doctor]], complete with a different costume; likewise, [[Susan (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|his granddaughter Susan]], a precocious child prodigy sharing an impish sense of complicity with her Grandfather, was a marked departure from TV's [[Susan Foreman]], a girl of (in human terms) about sixteen who was never depicted as the Doctor's scientific equal.
 
These departures, except for the Doctor's explicitly different physical appearance, were not too far removed from the similar changes performed to the Doctor, his companion, and the circumstances of their first encounter with the Daleks in ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'', the [[novelisation]] of the TV story released some time earlier by [[David Whitaker]], also one of the scriptwriters of ''Dr. Who and the Daleks''.
 
This Doctor is commonly perceived as "non-[[canon]]ical" in the ''Doctor Who'' fandom, with ''[[The Fan Show]]'' treating the sheer mention of Peter Cushing as evidence that one isn't a "true" fan in their parody of common fan tendencies, ''[[Fanwatch (webcast)|Fanwatch]]'', in the mid-2010's. However, it is worth noting that most of the "Cushing Doctor"'s idiosyncrasies were also attributed to the [[First Doctor]] in licenced ''Doctor Who'' productions in the 1960s, which material in the [[Doctor Who annual]]s depicting the First Doctor as TARDIS's inventor and introducing himself as "Dr. Who", and the [[TV Comic]] run adding to these points the idea of an inventor Doctor who travelled with a preteen granddaughter, [[Gillian Who|Gillian]] (as well as her brother [[John Who|John]]). Even the Doctor's ownership of a normal house in [[20th century]] [[England]] would eventually become a recurring feature of the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s era in the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comics, with the introduction of [[Smithwood Manor|the House on Allen Road]].
=== Further appearances and treatment ===
This was not to be the only context in which [[Peter Cushing]] might have played a version of the Doctor: following the films, Cushing was offered the role of the [[Second Doctor]] in the TV series, but turned it down. He later regretted this.<ref>https://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/category/peter-cushing/</ref>
Stanmark Productions Limited obtained a license to make a series of fifty-two half-hour radio dramas based upon ''Doctor Who''. After [[Boris Karloff]] proved unavailable, Peter Cushing was hired to play the role. Advertisements were published, but only a pilot episode (now lost) was ever completed.<ref>[[David J Howe|Howe, David J.]], "The Lost Radio Plays". ''The Frame'' #10. May, 1989. p. 17.</ref><ref>http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/tsv41/petercushing.html "Peter Cushing Obituary". ''Time Space Visualiser'' #41.</ref> The audio drama, from what is known, was not directly in continuity with the movies, again presenting a soft-reboot of the ''Doctor Who'' premise where the Doctor and his companion were [[human]]s from [[Earth]]'s distant future who had become stranded in the 1960's after their time machine was damaged.
 
Meanwhile, Dr. Who's place in the unfolding ''Doctor Who'' "[[canon]]" became a more and more contentious point as more details were revealed about the Doctor on television which contradicted the expanded-universe notions earlier presented by prose, comics ''and'' theatrical films, chiefly that the Doctor was a [[Time Lord]] from [[Gallifrey]] who had ''not'' invented his timeship, but rather stolen it — with the common way to refer to said ship crystallising as "''the'' TARDIS", not "TARDIS". The introduction of the plot device of [[regeneration]] also proved a double-edged sword: while it set a precedent for different versions of the Doctor, played by different actors, still being the same individual, it also put into sharp relief the fact that Cushing's "[[incarnation]]" of the Doctor didn't seem to have a place in this new chronology of the Doctor's lives.
 
This led to various stories and reference materials positing various ways in which Dr. Who, reckoned as "other" to the TV Doctor, could be connected back to the mainstream [[Doctor Who universe]]. The inclusion of the character in the short story ''[[Dr Who and the House on Oldark Moor (short story)|Dr Who and the House on Oldark Moor]]'' from the anthology ''[[Short Trips and Side Steps]]'' implied that the world of Dr. Who was a [[parallel universe]] to the regular [[Doctor Who universe|DWU]], an idea also suggested by the [[Titan Publishing Group|Titan]] comic story ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'', where a face resembling Dr. Who (albeit without a moustache, and clearly designed to resemble [[David Tennant]]) appears when [[Gabby Gonzalez]]'s "magic" notebook is writing about how Gabby thought the Doctor's "[[Regeneration|other selves]]" would be from parallel universes.
 
In [[DWM 469]], [[Steven Moffat]] stated that he wrote a scene for [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' in which [[Kate Stewart]] would walk past posters for the Peter Cushing films while noting the "need to screen the Doctor's known associates". Moffat explained that he believed the films existed in the DWU as "distorted accounts" of the Doctor's adventures. However, the production team could not afford the rights to the posters. This scene does appear in the [[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|novelisation]] of the book, and perhaps-coincidentally echoed [[The Doctor in popular culture and mythology#Peter Cushing films|other accounts which depicted a fictional in-universe Doctor played by Cushing]]. In a similar yet distinct register, ''[[The Five O'Clock Shadow (short story)|The Five O'Clock Shadow]]'' depicted Dr. Who and his granddaughter Susan as fictional creations of the Doctor (designed to be versions of himself and his granddaughter free of all angst and strife) who came to life and ended up departing on their own adventures.
 
The novel ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'' also showed [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]] remembering the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s repressed memories from "before his birth", wherein he was a human scientist who built the very first [[TARDIS]] before setting out to explore the universe. The novel further stated that the scientist subsequently found a wild jungle planet and educated its people into a [[Time Lord|mighty civilisation]], strongly hinting at the scientist becoming [[the Other]]. As the Other is reckoned to have later "reincarnated" himself into the Doctor, this provided yet another potential bridge between Cushing's Doctor (and any other early, "aberrant" accounts of a human Doctor who'd built the TARDIS) and the mainstream Doctor played by [[William Hartnell]] and his many successors.
 
Parallel to all these attempts to construe Dr. Who as an individual distinct from [[the Doctor]], Dalek co-creator [[Terry Nation]] chose to have the [[Fourth Doctor]] reference the events of ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'' (rather than the version of events present in ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') in the TV story ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') when the Doctor tells [[Davros]] about the Daleks' future defeats which he, being a time-traveller, has already witnessed. Similarly, the ''[[The Dalek Chronicles (comic series)|Dalek Chronicles]]'' comic series depicted [[Dalek]] [[casing]]s identical to the movie versions ''and'' to the television versions in different stories, despite all the ''Chronicles'' ostensibly occurring in a single continuity — though they never featured or referenced either version of the Doctor.
=== Invalid sources ===
[[File:Evil Foes.jpg|thumb|The [[Fourth Doctor]], the [[Fifth Doctor]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|the Movie Doctor]] in [[Doctor Who? (DWM 95 comic story)|the DWM 95 ''Doctor Who?'' strip]].]]Like most other Doctors, Cushing's Dr. Who also had his fair share of licenced appearances in stories which, due to their parodic nature, the Tardis Data Core Wiki does not deem to be [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid sources]] for the writing of in-universe articles. These included one ''[[Doctor Who? (comic series)|Doctor Who?]]'' strip and the short story ''[[Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture (short story)|Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture]]''.
 
In the first, Dr. Who attended the [[Annual Gallifreyan Doctor Who Con]] in the company of [[the Doctor]]'s first six traditional incarnations, the [[First Doctor]], the [[Second Doctor]], the [[Third Doctor]], the [[Fourth Doctor]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] and the [[Sixth Doctor]]. The seven Doctors were asked by a [[fan (Doctor Who?)|fan]] about their worst enemy; the First Doctor angrily named "the Movie Doctor" as his, while a distraught Dr. Who replied that it was [[Roberta Tovey (Doctor Who?)|Roberta Tovey]], ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Doctor Who? (DWM 95 comic story)|Doctor Who?]]'') an evil later defeated by the Sixth Doctor. ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[The Final Script (comic story)|The Final Script]]'')
 
According to ''Doctor Who 3 - The Motion Picture'', meanwhile, Susan and Dr. Who eventually realised that they were only fictional characters within the works of [[the Scriptwriter]]. Partway through the script of what would have been a third movie with the characters, in which Dr. Who had greatly aged and was now nearly senile (though still inventive and self-reliant, notably creating himself a [[turbo-charged walking frame]]), Susan decided that she had had enough of the Scriptwriter putting them through one ridiculous situation after another — especially as, being a child actor, Susan would only get the pay on her 21st birthday. Pulling out a hammer and a wooden stake, props saved from [[Peter Cushing|her Grandfather]]'s [[Van Helsing|last acting job]], Susan somehow reached beyond her fictionality and staked the Scriptwriter through the heart, putting an end to the Dr. Who movies once and for all. Upon reading through the unfinished script, [[Peter Cushing]] tried to "burn, drown and throttle it" but was unable to destroy it, merely losing it; it was later found and the truth discovered. ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture (short story)|Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture]]'')
 
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