Five is 75 today…

Happy birthday to Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor.

Here he is being profiled in Buddy comic back in 1982.

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21st March 1981. In the shadow of the towering radio telescope, a body lies crumpled and broken. The curly-haired man, dressed in a burgundy coat and a ridiculously long scarf, is the Doctor, and he is dying.

“It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for…”

You can keep your CGI firework displays. Forty-five years on, this is still the best regeneration.

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Peter Davison Explains Why He Left Doctor Who After Three Years

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Out Now: Doctor Who Chronicles — 1984

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Out Now: Doctor Who Magazine Goes Behind-the-Scenes on Doctor Who The Collection — Season 21

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Radio Free Skaro #1050 – Harsh Language

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It’s another exciting week of the Doctor Who interregnum of 2026 and we have exciting Gallifrey One guest updates, another great Rachel Talalay video involving Mondasian Cybermen, Bill Potts, and mirrors, some cryptic BBC App news we don’t fully understand, the usual Big Finish artwork overexamination, and the second part of our Nick Hurran Miniscope, featuring “Asylum of the Daleks” and “The Angels Take Manhattan”! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ian McNeice, Kai Owen, Ricco Ross added to Gallifrey one guest list
• Go behind the scenes as Fourth Doctor Tom Baker receives his MBE
• Doctor Who Magazine 625
• BFI Warriors of the Deep screening Feb 28, tickets on sale Jan 15
• The War Between overall viewing figures
• BBC Studios expands pay model to the BBC App in the US
• Rachel Talalay: What to do when the plans don’t work? Bill Potts-Cyberman reveal
• Big Finish Audio Novellas The Time-Splitters and Dimension 13 released
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard: Series One coming January 22
• Gregory de Polney (D84 in Robots of Death) died Jan 1

Miniscope:

• Nick Hurran, Part 2
• Asylum of the Daleks
• The Angels Take Manhattan

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