Dr Who - Jon Pertwee

An interview with Jon Pertwee when he visited a science fiction show in Basildon in 1995. Sadly Jon passed away about a year after this interview and Dennis passed away in 2010, both greatly missed.
interview by Dennis Rookard for Eastward Hospital Television.

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[Grubbo]

Wow, only in the year before his death did he start to look any older.

[eastwardtv]

@Grubbo No he was in fine form

[Madgamer540]

Jon Pertwee is the BEST EVER DOCTOR !!!!!!!!!!

[garethac81]

Pure class. Jon's Doctor was vastly superior to David Tennant's relentless gurning and ridiculous flippancy.

[paymydues]

Jon was a great doctor and the one i remember fondly the most.

He was superb too as worzel Gummidge.A very warm and funny gentleman.

Seriously missed but NEVER forgotton.

RIP Jon................

[Drwhofan1971]

@gothamcity29 I had the great pleasure of meeting Jon back in 1988. He was in his Worzel Gummidge make up, for a show for kids at a shopping centre. Appreciated my love for Who although he was there for a different role.

[djx64]

Definitely thee best Dr Who. Was lucky enough to meet him at the 1974 Car Show, I got him to sign my Car Show program.. Being only 8 I was to star struck to actually say anything.. all I can remember is how tall he looked.. such great days and am so pleased to have been a kid in the best era of television.

[1800FruityTangerine]

I know that Jon loved the role and going round being known as doctor who, and acting of coarse, but it must get annoying only being known for that. Typecast.

[1800FruityTangerine]

@Grubbo

I know what you mean, he didn't look that much older before this.

[Lytton333]

@kingofireland91 Quite.. but the actual part - or character- was already famous before the advent of Tom Baker.. and anyone who played it became 'famous for playing Dr Who'. I should think instant recognizability by millions of householders in Britain constitutes 'fame' in the prosaic televisual sense (not the 'olympian' sense of course ), whether in 1972, 1977 or 2011.  My point was that his choice of words denotes his lack of ego. He was famous for playing the role in his own day after all..

[digitalbroadcaster]

I met him when I was a small boy and remember that he wouldn't stop chatting to me. My mum had to drag me away to look at the Sea Devils and Daleks on show at the fete we were in, in Portsmouth. Such a kind man, I remember.

[gothamcity29]

I wish Jon Pertwee was still alive today because if I ever met him I would shake his hand and tell him, "Mr. Pertwee you are and have always been my favorite Doctor."

[kingofireland91]

@Lytton333 Back then it was recognisable. It was Baker that made the character famous, and immortalised it, because before the new series, you ask of Doctor Who and the reply is usually Tom Baker or the 4th Doctor. But for me, Pertwee is my favourite after Smith and Tennant.

[Lytton333]

Notice how he says about the Doctor.. 'I became recognisable'' rather than 'I became famous'. That tells you that he has character, rather than merely being a character..