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'''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 declined. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'')
'''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 ==
== 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 [[Orient Express]]. ([[DWM 478]])
*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.
*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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