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Article: Who's who of Doctors; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Byline: Compiled by Charles Legge
QUESTIONWhy is Peter Cushing not considered a proper Doctor Who, whereas Paul McGann is? TO ANSWER this question, one needs to realise the difference between the characters McGann and Cushing played, and the fictional universes within which their respective characters belong.
In the canon of the BBC TV series Doctor Who, the central character is called 'The Doctor'.
Only once in the history of the TV show is the character referred to as Doctor Who on screen (in the 1966 story The War Machines). This is despite the fact that William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker and Christopher Eccleston ...