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* 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> It is ''not'' known whether Cushing portrays the film version of Dr. Who in this production, or a version of the character more in keeping with the television series. | * 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> It is ''not'' known whether Cushing portrays the film version of Dr. Who in this production, or a version of the character more in keeping with the television series. | ||
* In an interview, Peter Cushing stated that he believed that his human incarnation of the Doctor was canon, and that his film version of the Doctor and the television Doctor were bridged together by the Celestial Toymaker. His theory was that his Doctor is a future incarnation kidnapped by the Toymaker, who "wiped his memory and made him relive some of his earlier adventures." | * In an interview, Peter Cushing stated that he believed that his human incarnation of the Doctor was canon, and that his film version of the Doctor and the television Doctor were bridged together by the Celestial Toymaker. His theory was that his Doctor is a future incarnation kidnapped by the Toymaker, who "wiped his memory and made him relive some of his earlier adventures." | ||
* According to a non-narrative information Dr. Who in the Land of Fiction is the same character | |||
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