Tag Archives: Peter Davison

10 British Acting Families (Who Are Not the Redgraves)

By Rachel Marie Paquin | Posted on May 3rd, 2013

Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling in 'Crimson Horror.' (BBC America)

This week Doctor Who fans will get to see mother-daughter duo Dame Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling in “The Crimson Horror.” The actresses will also be playing a mother-daughter pair in the show with Rigg as Winifred ...

GALLERY: The Royal Mail Issues A Special Set Of ‘Doctor Who’ Stamps

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on December 26th, 2012

Royal Mail stamp of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor

This March, a new collection of Royal Mail stamps will be issued to mark the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. There will be eleven first class stamps, featuring each of the Doctor’s incarnations to date, and four second class ...

‘Doctor Who’: The Fury Of A Time Lord

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on October 24th, 2012

There are two personality quirks that unite all eleven Doctors to date. One is that they all share a whimsical sense of humor (although some are less keen to display it than others), and the other is their respective tempers.

#NewToWho: How I Discovered ‘Doctor Who,’ Time Travel And Sofa Picnics

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on July 27th, 2012

The appearance of Matt Smith on the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly will probably introduce a lot of people to Doctor Who for the first time. And that’s quite a heady thought, imagining someone settling down to a ...

Life Outside The TARDIS: Peter Davison

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on May 16th, 2012

There’s a thing that Peter Davison can do which very few actors manage quite as well, namely to look stressed in an appealingly brittle fashion. He can do other things, of course, as a brief glance down this list of his greatest ...

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Tegan

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on July 15th, 2011

For a while, in the handover from the Fourth to the Fifth Doctors, it was traditional for the companions to be known by their first name only: Leela, Romana, Nyssa, Adric, Turlough and so on. So it’s fitting that talkative Tegan ...

How To Dress Like The Fifth Doctor

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on July 12th, 2011

There’s something very uncluttered about Peter Davison’s outfit as the Fifth Doctor. Where previous Doctors had adopted a kind of mix and match approach, pilfering a smoking jacket from here and a flamboyant kerchief from ...