Second Doctor
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Though outwardly warm, bumbling and clownish, the Second Doctor also had a darker, more cunning aspect to his personality — one which he usually kept hidden in order to carry out his plans. Regenerating when his first incarnation gave in to old age and fatigue following his fight with the Cybermen, this new incarnation was the product of the Doctor's first regeneration.
He travelled with a number of companions, starting with his previous incarnation's last companions, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright, before adding Highland Scot Jamie McCrimmon to the TARDIS. After a while, Ben and Polly left, to be replaced by Victoria Waterfield, a woman orphaned by the Daleks. In time, she too left, and the Doctor made a new friend in the mentally gifted Zoe Heriot. At some point, he also travelled with his grandchildren, John and Gillian.
His adventures came to an end when he called on his people for help with the evil machinations of the War Lords. Though the Time Lords did indeed render assistance, they also condemned him to exile on Earth and a new body for breaking their non-interference policy many times over. The Celestial Intervention Agency was able to stay the execution of this sentence for a while in exchange for the Doctor providing his services to them. During these later years of his life, the Second Doctor variously carried out covert operations for the CIA and lived in luxury and fame in the heart of 1960s London. Eventually, though, Time Lord justice reasserted itself, and the Doctor was indeed forced to regenerate into his third body.
Biography
- Main article: Second Doctor's biography
Alternate timelines
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In an alternate timeline created by the Discordia, the Doctor had a passionate romantic relationship with River Song that began in his first incarnation, having married her by his fourth incarnation. In one of their outings, River convinced the Doctor to dress as Ramón Salamander for "fun". (AUDIO: Someone I Once Knew)
When the Cybermen allied with Rassilon to take over history, they manipulated the encounter at the Moonbase leading to the Second Doctor being partially cyber-converted. (COMIC: Prologue: The Second Doctor)
While aiding an archaeological team on Telos, (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen) a Cyberman time squad attacked the Doctor. This would have killed him if their Controller didn't order them to stop at the risk of erasing their future invasion of Krelos due to the unwitting role of the Fourth Doctor in that plan. The Second Doctor then witnessed a Krelos robot drone decontaminate Jamie before time was reset and this interlude didn't happen. (AUDIO: Return to Telos)
In an alternate version of the London Event, the Doctor was killed by Colonel Spencer Pemberton in the London Underground. (PROSE: Legacies)
Psychological profile
- Main article: Second Doctor's psychological profile
Appearance
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The Second Doctor resembled a short man in his early forties. (TV: The Tenth Planet, The Power of the Daleks) He was physically identical to the dictator Ramón Salamander. (TV: The Enemy of the World)
He had blue eyes, (TV: The Three Doctors) though one account described his eyes as being "soft chestnut brown", (PROSE: Pluto) while another depicted them as bright green. (COMIC: Bazaar Adventures) A fourth account claimed his eyes appeared to change colour several times, alternating between blue, grey, and green. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People) According to his war incarnation, the Second Doctor was colour-blind. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)
By the time of his exile on Earth, the Doctor had the mark of Blenhim on his chest due to an encounter with the alien race. (COMIC: The Mark of Terror)
Liz Shaw told her mother that the Doctor resembled a "geography teacher" when he first encountered UNIT. (AUDIO: The Last Post) Polly Wright described him as looking like "an unmade bed" to Jamie, (PROSE: The Nameless City) and "a bit sartorially challenged" to the Brigadier. (AUDIO: The Three Companions) Madame Razetskia described the Second Doctor as a "funny little clown", (PROSE: Endgame) while William Blake saw him as "a middle aged man with a mop of black hair" when Legion took on the appearance of the Second Doctor. (PROSE: The Pit)
Samantha Briggs described the Second Doctor as "a short man, with a mournful face and dishevelled clothing." She also noted that he had a "blurred" English accent, which defied description, and seemed to be extremely knowledgeable on a wide variety of subjects. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
The First Doctor called his second incarnation "a clown" due to his scruffy appearance, (TV: The Three Doctors) whilst the Third Doctor labelled him a "scarecrow", (TV: The Five Doctors) and the Fifth Doctor described him as a "hobo". (PROSE: Five Card Draw) Being a body that was was "not what [he] would have wished for," (AUDIO: The Power of the Daleks) the Fourth Doctor described him as having "a moptop and chequed trousers". (AUDIO: The Fate of Krelos) The Eighth Doctor recalled his second incarnation as being "a comic little man with a flute". (PROSE: Escape Velocity)
When Affinity took on the Second Doctor's appearance, the Twelfth Doctor noted that his second incarnation was "a rather scruffy gentleman, [with] dark, unruly hair" and was "clad in a jacket that seemed several sizes too big and to have been slept in." (PROSE: Silhouette) He also described him as "[an] annoying bumbler" with "big trousers". (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time)
Hair and grooming
The Second Doctor had longish, rumpled black hair, (TV: The Tenth Planet) though, after going on a stressful mission for the Time Lords, (PROSE: World Game) his hair briefly turned grey. (TV: The Two Doctors)
Polly compared his hairstyle to those worn by the Beatles, (AUDIO: The Three Companions) as did John Benton, (AUDIO: The Hexford Invasion) Isobel Watkins, (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Ace, (AUDIO: The Light at the End) and Jo Grant. (AUDIO: The Defectors)
Clothing
Main attire
The Second Doctor dressed similarly to his previous incarnation, though in far more clustered fashion; His trousers were clownishly large and his bow tie was often crooked and used to secure his shirt collar. (TV: The Power of the Daleks)
He wore a battered old frock coat many sizes too large, which added to his clownish demeanour, (TV: The Power of the Daleks) but demonstrated its usefulness as a secret arsenal of tools, gadgets, food, and seemingly frivolous objects; he carried the TARDIS' Time Vector Generator inside a pocket in his inner lining without difficulty, (TV: The Wheel in Space) and had a magnet hidden in a pocket sewn behind his outer breast pocket. (TV: The Invasion) The Doctor often kept a plain handkerchief in the coat's breast pocket, (TV: The Highlanders) though occasionally switched it for a stylised one. (TV: The Three Doctors, The Two Doctors)
Under his frock coat, he wore a plain shirt, (TV: The Power of the Daleks) kept up with red braces, (COMIC: The Coming of the Cybermen) with a polka-dotted bow tie coloured in blue (TV: The Power of the Daleks) or red. (COMIC: The Faithful Rocket Pack) His shirt colours varied from a dull or bright blue. (TV: The Power of the Daleks, The Three Doctors) He wore one dark blue sock and another with a purple cartoon dinosaur on it. (PROSE: The Colony of Lies) He also wore black ankle boots with either brown-themed baggy plaid trousers, (TV: The Power of the Daleks) large plain grey pants, (TV: The Three Doctors) or grey-themed tartan trousers (TV: The Two Doctors) Occasionally, he would wear a waistcoat. (PROSE: Daleks Invade Zaos, Golem)
When in colder environments, the Doctor would wear a cloak, (TV: The Highlanders, The Underwater Menace, The Tomb of the Cybermen) or an oversized fur coat. (TV: The Abominable Snowmen, The Ice Warriors, The Five Doctors, The Name of the Doctor)
The Fourth Doctor though that his second incarnation's attire was "unacceptable" for a Time Lord. (AUDIO: The Power of the Daleks)
The Second Doctor expressed a liking for hats, stating that he "would like a hat like that" when he spotted new headgear, (TV: The Power of the Daleks, The Highlanders; PROSE: A Comedy of Terrors) however, he was not afraid to part with them if the situation called for it. (COMIC: Time & Time Again) His most prominent hat was a stovepipe hat, (TV: The Power of the Daleks, The Underwater Menace) but he also wore a hat and a British Army tricorn while in Scotland. (TV: The Highlanders)
Other costumes
While in Paris on a mission for the Celestial Intervention Agency, the Doctor wore white breeches, a neatly-tailored long-tailed black coat with a frilled shirt and cravat, gleaming black boots and a short travelling cloak, and wore a Bregeut watch. Before visiting the palace, he changed into a black coat, black breeches, and a frilly white shirt with an elaborate black cravat.
For the Battle of Waterloo, the Doctor donned black breeches, a black evening coat, a frilled white shirt, and a white waistcoat. (PROSE: World Game)
When his first incarnation was placed on trial in 1963 London as a result of killing a werewolf with a silver bullet, the Second Doctor dressed in an ill-fitting suit. (PROSE: The Juror's Story)
Behind the scenes
- Rupert Davies, Valentine Dyall, Michael Hordern and Brian Blessed were all approached for the role of the Second Doctor. All declined, as they didn't want to commit to a long-running series.
- Matt Smith, in preparation for his role as the Eleventh Doctor, watched the Troughton serial The Tomb of the Cybermen, and fell in love with it. He describes Troughton as "rather wonderful" and as being his favourite Doctor. Smith's costume and mannerisms are reminiscent of Troughton's.
- Almost half of the episodes from the Second Doctor's era have been lost, leaving only seven of Patrick Troughton's 21 TV stories still fully intact (excluding his appearances in multi-Doctor specials). Five further incomplete stories have been released commercially, with specially-created material to bridge the missing episodes. Surviving "orphan" episodes and footage have been released on the Lost in Time DVD collection.
- The Second Doctor was the first incarnation to directly work with four of his other selves on television, though that turned out to be a number also attained by the Fifth Doctor by virtue of Time Crash. If one includes a story this wiki generally doesn't — Dimensions in Time — then it could be said that the Third and Sixth Doctors were on the "four-timer" list, as well. However, there was no actual "interaction" between Doctors in Dimensions.
- Until Time Crash, the Second Doctor was the only incarnation to appear in all televised multi-Doctor stories. As of 2013, Troughton holds the record for working with the highest number of other incarnations, having directly interacted with four other Doctors: the First, Third, Fifth, and Sixth Doctors. Taking into account all performed media, however, the record-holder is Peter Davison. His appearances on audio with the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Doctors add to his totals from The Five Doctors and Time Crash, to give a grand total of eight other Doctors.
- The Second Doctor was the first incarnation to have his face integrated into the Doctor Who title sequence, beginning with The Macra Terror.
- The Second Doctor is the only incarnation who was forced to regenerate, though the regeneration isn't seen in The War Games, and was confirmed he didn't regenerate until The Night Walkers, the only story to actually show the Second Doctor's regeneration properly.
- Uniquely the Second Doctor is the only incarnation who didn't regenerate at the end of his last regular appearance, instead his regeneration was shown in the comic story The Night Walkers, also making the Second Doctor the only incarnation to regenerate outside of the television series.
- The Second Doctor was the only incarnation to emerge from his regeneration with a different set of clothes, as opposed to future incarnations who would have to find a new pair of clothes after changing out of the clothes worn by their previous incarnation.
- The role of the Second Doctor in the Big Finish plays has been portrayed by close friend and fellow Who actor Frazer Hines, as Patrick Troughton had died 12 years prior to the company's first Who audio.
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