Jon Pertwee

[billy farmer]

Here are some screencaps of Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who, also featuring Katy Manning as Jo Grant (the new Doctor Who Assistant), Roger Delgado as The Master and Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart, these screencaps were taken from the photo gallery which is one of the special features on the Terror Of The Autons DVD (part of the Mannequin Mania Boxset which also includes Spearhead From Space).

[jimw1]

Great pics Billy.....for no Particular reason I really like this one

[Troutbridge]

The two actors I think were most under-used in the Carry On series were Jon Pertwee and Windsor Davies. Both were funny enough to have been part of the core group, but Pertwee was only given a couple small roles and Davies joined the series well past its heyday. Not being much of a TV watcher, my favorite of Pertwee's roles still is that of Chief Petty Officer Pertwee on "The Navy Lark."

[Tonch]

On a more serious note, although Jon became a very good friend of Patrick Troughton, I don't think he had much time for Tom Baker at all. Jon particularly disliked Tom's description of him as a "tall lightbulb that glitters" which, to be fair, is quite a good description of Jon who certainly lit up any room he entered.

I'm intrigued as to why Jon would take umbrage at that description, it sounds rather flattering to me. I agree that he had that head turning quality, a very charismatic fellow indeed. What I can say is that when I met Jon over twenty years ago now, he was rather complimentary about Tom Baker and quite gracious in pointing out that, in his opinion, Tom was the nearest thing to a "definitive" Doctor as far as the fans and the public were concerned. There was no hint of churlishness whatsoever. That's not to say they were friends of course.

About ten years later I met Tom Baker and he in turn was similarly warm about his predecessor, describing him as "stylish" and a very hard act to follow, but amusingly easy to tease. I suppose they could both have been putting on a professional front but in both cases the sentiments did seem genuine.

Having said all of that I suspect there was at least a bit of professional envy in both directions... they were both big, flamboyant personalities and an element of rivalry seems likely to have been inevitable. At the same time they were very different characters - Baker a loud and incorrigible barfly, Pertwee at times overbearing and notoriously abstemious; their circles were never likely to overlap much. I'm not surprised they were never close friends.

[billy farmer]

Jon Pertwee's last TV appearance which was on Cilla Black's Surprise, Surprise! was broadcast on ITV on April 21st 1996.

[billy farmer]

The front cover of the November 1st - 7th 1980 issue of TV Times featuring Jon Pertwee and Una Stubbs as Worzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally.

[billy farmer]

A TV Times listing from November 15th 1980.

[billy farmer]

A screencap of Jon Pertwee as the Soothsayer in Carry On Cleo (1964) also featuring Charles Hawtrey as Seneca.

[billy farmer]

[GRAEME]

Jon turned up in a ridiculous segment in The House That Dripped Blood as a horror actor turned into a vampire by wearing a second-hand cape that had belonged to a genuine vampire.

Although totally daft, the episode contained a meeting between Jon and Geoffrey Bayldon, as the proprietor of the shop he gets the cape from.

Is this the only on-screen encounter for Worzel Gummidge and Catweazel?

[CaptainWaggett]

Is this the only on-screen encounter for Worzel Gummidge and Catweazel?

Wasn't it Geoffrey Bayldon's character who made Worzel and the other scarecrows?

[Mr Sloane]

Wasn't it Geoffrey Bayldon's character who made Worzel and the other scarecrows?

It was, he was Crowman.

[GRAEME]

It was, he was Crowman.

Of course! What a plain eejit I is!

Not got me thinking head on, again...

[billy farmer]

Here are some screencaps of Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who, also featuring John Levene as Sergeant Benton, Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates, Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart and Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, these screencaps were taken from the photo gallery which is one of the special features on the Invasion Of The Dinosaurs DVD (part of the U.N.I.T Files Boxset which also includes The Android Invasion).

[didi-5]

He was so very striking looking, wasn't he? The first four Doctor Whos were a mixture of authority and eccentricity which they haven't really reached since. I think maybe the latest version is a nod back to those days, but in Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and T Baker you had 'the real thing'.

Fantastic caps Billy

[Tonch]

Re Jon meeting Geoffrey Bayldon on screen....

I'm not sure how much substance there is in this, but there was a rumour doing the rounds back in 1983 that Bayldon was being considered as the stand in for Hartnell in "The Five Doctors". Would have been a good shout too, but the gig went to Richard Hurndall in the end.

[Gerald Lovell]

Re Jon meeting Geoffrey Bayldon on screen....

I'm not sure how much substance there is in this, but there was a rumour doing the rounds back in 1983 that Bayldon was being considered as the stand in for Hartnell in "The Five Doctors". Would have been a good shout too, but the gig went to Richard Hurndall in the end.

I think it was certainly a fan wish for Geoffrey Bayldon to be cast in the role, Tonch, and I think he would've been very good. What has come out in recent years is that Bayldon was actually in the running to play the Doctor right at the start in 1963. Big Finish has used him as the first Doctor in alternate universe stories in some of their audio releases.

[billy farmer]

The front cover of the December 30th 1972 - January 5th 1973 issue of Radio Times featuring William Hartnell, Jon Pertwee and Patrick Troughton.

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