Re: First Doctor of Color

On 25/01/2025 10:43 am, Your Name wrote:

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

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I do.
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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...

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

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Not quite...

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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.

Ah!! So you are meaning "Doctor broadcast in Colour" not the actor portraying The Doctor being of colour, what the yanks might, now, call 'African American' or the Brits might call ...... I don't know!!
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Daniel70