

To
date Colin is only one of two
actors to have played The Doctor
who has previously played a role
in the TV series (the other being
current Doctor Peter Capaldi)..
Colin's association
with Doctor Who began in
1983 when he played Commander
Maxil, a Gallifreyan guard who
shoots the fifth Doctor, playing
opposite Peter Davison in
"Arc Of Infinity".
Colin made a big
impression on his fellow cast and
the producer of the programme,
and little did Colin himself know
that circumstance would put him
in the drivers seat in a few
short months.
Colin was cast as
the sixth BBC Doctor Who by
producer John Nathan-Turner in
late 1983. It was to be a role
that would make Colin's face
recognisable all over the world.
During the
three years that he was The
Doctor, Colin battled Cybermen,
Daleks, Sontarans, Sil and even
Kate O'Mara. His interpretation
of the Time Lord was brash, loud,
opinionated and didn't suffer
fools gladly. (Wonder why JNT
thought of Colin ?)
Colin's tenure
turned out to be the most
turbulent period in the
programmes long history, with an
18 month hiatus followed by
Michael Grade instructing that
Colin be replaced as the Doctor
after only two seasons on screen.
However, during his
short stay on television the
sixth Doctor gathered many
admirers, and fans around the
world were upset at Colin's
treatment by the BBC, feeling
that he had been made a scapegoat
for the show's troubles.
Much to his credit
Colin never turned his back on Doctor
Who and reprised the role on
stage in 1989 during the tour of
"Doctor Who: The Ultimate
Adventure" and on television
during the 1993 Children In Need
sketch "Dimensions In
Time".
Colin has been a
regular, and much in demand,
guest at Doctor Who conventions
around the world. Indeed in 2002
Colin returned as the Doctor in a
special BBCi broadcast entitled
"Real Time" by Gary
Russell which saw the sixth
Doctor and Evelyn battling the
Cybermen.
We would need a
TARDIS to know if Colin will ever
play the role again on television
in a guest appearance, but we
certainly hope we have not seen
the last of the amazing
multi-coloured techno timecoat.
Colin continues to
play The Sixth Doctor in the
growing range of Doctor Who audio
plays by Big Finish Productions.
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the Official Big Finish
website.

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