Re: Fans ARE FURIOUS At Billie Piper As Doctor Who Revelation From BBC

On 2025-06-06 12:32:25 +0000, Blueshirt said:

Ubiquitous wrote:
 

jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid wrote:

 Peter Capaldi was in both DW and TW before assuming the role
of the Doctor - they even hung a lampshade on his appearance
in Fires of Pompeii.
 And David Tennant took a minor role in an animated DW
because he thought that was the only way he could be a part
of the show, since the live action restart wasn't then on
the cards.

 There was a Doctor Who cartoon?

 He had a minor part in "Scream of the Shalka".
 

Why haven't I heard about this before now?

 You've probably heard of the webcast, you just probably didn't
realise that David Tennant was in it... he was uncredited at
the time.

Tennant also played the Doctor in the animated shows / mini-series:
  - "The Infinite Quest", along with Freema Agyeman's Martha Jones.
  - "Dreamland", with his now-wife Georgia Moffett playing the
    companion Cassie Rice.
A proper animated Doctor Who TV series has been proposed a few times, but never reached the point of actually being made:
   - "The 'New' Doctor Who" (Nelvana Limited in 1971)
   - "Doctor Who: The Animated Series" (Karen McCoy in 1997)
   - "Doctor Who - The Animated Series" (I.N.J. Culbard in 2002)
   - "Dcotor Who the Animated Series" (Dan Norton in 2010 - 2013)
<https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Who:_The_Animated_Series_(disambiguation)> Probably others as well. Plus of course the animated versions of "lost" episodes and various computer games.