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1) Matt Smith, the most recent doctor, was a soccer (football) player but due to a knee injury was forced to quit his career and take up acting! Thank goodness because he’s a GREAT doctor!! And also, he is the youngest person to play the Doctor, ahead of Peter Davison who was 29 when he played the role!
2) When the first series was being made, television pirates were desperate to acquire the preview tapes. One of the people in the office had the idea of labeling the tapes with the anagram “Torchwood” rather than “Doctor Who”, as a security measure to disguise the tapes when they were delivered from Cardiff to London. Writer Russell T. Davies liked this idea so much that it later inspired him to use it as a title when creating the spin-off series, Torchwood.
3) Rowan Atkinson has played in Doctor Who? Who is that unknown guy I just mentioned? The MOST well-known Mr. Bean!!! Yup! Mr. Bean has played in “Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death” (commonly shortened to ‘The Curse of Fatal Death’) which is a 4 episode special broadcast in 1999.
4) Although Ò£5 tickets were available for the Doctor Who Prom, tickets were touted on eBay for Ò£250?
5) Georgia Moffett, daughter of Peter Davison, who starred as the Doctor from 1982-1984, auditioned for the part of Rose. She later got the part of Jenny in the fourth series. 6
6) At first the estate of Terry Nation refused permission for them to use Daleks in the show ( Terry Nation held copyright over the Daleks). One of the reasons they refused permission was because of the BBC granting permission for the Daleks to be used in Looney Tunes: Back in Action Huge fan of Doctor Who Steve Martin , who was the one who insisted Daleks be used in the movie, heard about the news and wrote a letter of apology to the Terry Nation estate and upon receiving it, the Terry Nation estate granted permission.
7) Christopher Eccleston (the 1st doctor of the new series), largely unfamiliar with Doctor Who because he was never a fan of the Doctor Who, prepared for the role of the Doctor by watching the DVD of “The Talons of Weng-Chiang”, a Tom Baker adventure originally broadcast in 1977.
8) On Saturday 5 March 2005 (some three weeks before its TV debut), a rough-cut version of episode one, “Rose” was leaked onto the Internet by an unnamed employee of a third-party contractor to CBC in Canada. The person responsible had their employment immediately terminated. The version is mostly similar to the broadcast version – the most notable difference is that instead of using Murray Gold’s new version of the theme song, a remixed version of the original was used instead
9) Producer Russell T. Davies had Christopher Eccleston’s name on a shortlist for the role of the Doctor but didn’t really think that he would accept the role. Coincidentally, Davies soon received an email from Eccleston asking if he could audition for the part.
10) The TARDIS used for the first series with Christopher Eccleston was put up for auction by Bonhams of London in 2010 and sold for Ò£10,800.
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