Message #17450

[Vampyros Adric]

I've just found this thread and I like it very much!

Michael Bentine (ex of The Goons) was offered the part of the Doctor after Jon Pertwee but the offer was withdrawn after Bentine asked for creative control over the part and demanded to write a certain amount of the episodes.

Robert Holmes was to have written The Five Doctors but pulled out. Terrance Dicks was then asked to push through a script in record time. His original script was 10 minutes short so he invented The Raston Warrior Robot Scene after a trip to the ballet

Janet Fielding was the other actor involved in the read through for the auditions for the Seventh Doctor.