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General TV Series News
October 12, 2008 • Posted By R. Alan Siler
News services are reporting that this year's Children in Need will
feature a special to include all seven living Doctor Who lead actors.
The below report is from the Telegraph. The story also appears in the
News of the World and the Sunday Mirror.
[Remember: treat all such news as rumour until confirmed officially by
the BBC]
The actors are getting together for the BBC charity Children in Need in
a programme to be broadcast on November 14.
An insider at the BBC said: "It's a pretty ambitious idea and it's
still being finalised. Everything is being kept under wraps but Doctor
Who fans are in for a big treat."
The first of the 10 actors to take the role was William Hartnell in
1963, followed three years later by Patrick Troughton and then by Jon
Pertwee but all three have since died.
The seven survivors include Tom Baker, now best known as the voice of
the comedy series Little Britain, who played the role for seven years
from 1974.
He was followed by Peter Davidson [sic] from 1981 to 1984, whose
daughter Georgia Moffett has also featured in the programme and who is
now dating the current doctor, David Tennant.
The others are Colin Baker, from 1984 to 1986, Sylvester McCoy who had
two stints from 1987 to 1989 and re-appeared in the role in 1996, Paul
McGann, who took over the role in 1996 and Christopher Eccleston who
reprised the series in 2005.