THE DOCTORS WHO WEREN’T
“I’ve had many faces, many lives,” the Doctor once declared. And in another reality, those faces might have looked quite different…
THE 1960s
FEATURE BY PAUL KIRKLEY
Hugh David, seen here as Stephen Drummond in Knight Errant, was possibly the first person to be considered for the role of the Doctor.
Valentine Dyall was most famous providing the sinister voice of ‘The Man in Black’ on BBC radio.
Of course, you can’t rewrite history, not one line. But we know enough about the roads not travelled to imagine how the Doctor might have appeared to us over the decades, if the stars had aligned in different ways. Or, more prosaically, if various actors and their agents hadn’t given successive Doctor Who producers the brush-off.