Doctor Two? Patrick Matt Troughton Smith

[the_gneech]

So a few more "lost" Doctor Who segments have turned up, one from the first Doc, and one from the second. I haven't seen much of the second Doc, partially because so much of it has been lost, and partially because I just haven't hunted it down. I saw him in The Five Doctors, of course, and various random clips (and of course Patrick Troughton was a great one for appearing in oddball stuff like Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger), but my primary impression of the second Doc was always one of crankiness.

So I was intrigued by this "new" clip...

...and the whole time I watched it, I kept thinking of Doctor eleven, i.e, Matt Smith, the current incarnation. Bow tie, propensity towards hats ... all we need to do now is get Matt a clarinet and the Doc is practically reliving a previous incarnation! :)

It also occurs to me that kinda fits. The second Doc was forced to regenerate by the Time Lords, he didn't actually want to do it. So maybe he felt like he "wasn't done" with this version of himself and wanted to revisit it?

-The Gneech

Comments

[mouser.livejournal.com]

I'm loving the fact that they're still trying to piece these back together. They may have to just some CGI to rebuild lost scenes, but we will have the original episodes someday.

Oh, yes my precious. Yes we will....

[the-mcp.livejournal.com]

I always thought the first Doctor was the cranky one.

Then again, whenever the Doctor ends up meeting himself in the multi-Doctor episodes, they all seem to get a bit crankier than usual. :)

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

I always thought there was some similarity between Matt Smith's Doctor and the Sixth Doctor as well. They seem to share some character traits (to my eyes at least).

[frustratedpilot]

Patrick also appeared in a memorable episode of the Britcom ONLY WHEN I LAUGH as a crazy elderly patient at the hospital who turns out to be rich and tries to leave his fortune to Figgis.

His son David was a guest on one of the Pertwee stories of DOCTOR WHO, then worked with Peter Davisson on A MOST PECULIAR PRACTICE and was the Duke of Wellington on SHARPE with Sean Bean.

I haven't seen all that much of the Second Doctor...but THE WAR LORDS is the best of those, mostly because it ties into the subsequent lives of the Doctor and his motivation for his rebellion against the Time Lords.

[wyatt1048.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how similar they are. Smith could step into that clip with no dialogue changes at all, I can just see him playing it the same way. My father, whose favourite Doctor was Two, was saying the were pretty much the same all the way through series five. I can wait to see more from these recovered episodes!

[meddler-inc.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I never knew the 2nd Doctor was like this. But then, I never seen this incarnation before... :\

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I've heard that Smith gave himself a crash-course on the Doctors before taking the role, and, while his Doctor is an amalgamation of many of his predecessors, his primary inspiration was, indeed, Troughton.