Re: First Doctor of Color

On 2025-01-24 12:34:26 +0000, Daniel70 said:

On 7/01/2025 4:39 am, Blueshirt wrote:

Daniel70 wrote:

Blueshirt wrote on 5/1/25 4:41 am:

Agent Jakanov wrote:
 

(Technically, Peter Cushing was the first Colored Doctor,
but nobody counts him as canon.)

 I do.
 If people can say that Doctor Who finished in 2017 and ignore
all of the Doctor's that we've seen since, then I count Peter
Cushing as a Doctor. We just need a big ball of wibbly-wobbly
timey-wimey stuff to fit him in...

 Was he one of the intervening The Timeless Child 'Doctor Who'
iterations??

 Not quite...

 Bugger!! I forgot to put a Smilee at the end of my former post! ;-)

The first Doctor of colour was Peter Cushing in the movie "Dr. Who and the Daleks" filmed in colour in 1965, but that is technically not considered to be truly "Doctor Who". (Cushing played a human scientist rather than a Timelord from Gallifrey and the movies have been retro-fitted to say Cushing plays a character *inspired* by the real Doctor.)
So, the real first Doctor of colour was Jon Pertwee in "Spearhead from Space" filmed and broadcast in colour in 1970.
But, by some definitions, the actual first Doctor in colour has to be William Hartnell in "The Daleks" episodes, originally broadcast in black-and-white in 1963, and re-released as a colourised version in 2023.  :-)
If you pedantically go by the technical definition of "first Doctor" (i.e. not necessarily Doctor Who character), then there are various earlier ones, such as Doctor Watson in the Sherlock Holmes movie "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959) - the first Sherlock Holmes to be filmed in colour, which coincidentally starred Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes. Although again, the earlier "The Hound of the Baskervilles" movie from 1939 starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes was re-released in a colourised version.
There are of course even earlier colour (and colourised) movies with a doctor character in them too.  :-)