History Creator / JonPertwee

* LikeASonToMe: John Levene had grown up in an abusive household, but when he began co-starring with Pertwee in ''Series/DoctorWho'' as Sgt. Benton, the older actor became quite fond of Levene and took him under his wing. When Pertwee was on his deathbed, [[TearJerker Levene told him he'd been more of a father to Levene than Levene's own father had ever been.]]

* LikeAFatherToMe: John Levene had grown up in an abusive household, but when he began co-starring with Pertwee in ''Series/DoctorWho'' as Sgt. Benton, the older actor became quite fond of Levene and took him under his wing. When Pertwee was on his deathbed, [[TearJerker Levene told him he'd been more of a father to Levene than Levene's own father had ever been.]]

He was a ''huge'' fanboy of action movies and cool vehicles, hence why his tenure as the Doctor was essentially a serialized action movie. He eventually decided to leave the show during a shakeup in the cast and staff -- the departures of script editor Creator/TerranceDicks, producer Barry Letts, and Creator/KatyManning (Jo Grant), as well as the death of Roger Delgado (The Master) convinced him that his ''Who'' family was breaking up, and though he fulfilled the last year of his contract and developed a good working relationship with Manning's replacement, Creator/ElisabethSladen, he left at the end of ''Who''[='=]s 11th season in 1974 (some stories relate Pertwee getting out of a renewal of his contract by asking for a hefty pay raise, which the producers couldn't meet; it's been said that had either Creator/KatyManning stayed or Delgado not died -- The Master was scheduled to die in a grand finale for the character -- Pertwee might have stayed with the show for a longer period). At 5 Seasons over 4½ years in the role (1970-1974), he is currently the Doctor with the second-longest on-screen tenure after Creator/TomBaker.[[note]] Technically, Creator/SylvesterMcCoy has the longest ''overall'' tenure as the Doctor, when factoring in the period from 1987 ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani Time and the Rani]]") to 1996 ([[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie The TV Movie]]).[[/note]]

He was the only Doctor (so far) who came up with his own sung ThemeSong, titled "Who is the Doctor?". He also commissioned the {{Fan Nickname}}d "Whomobile", which was used in two episodes and kept by Pertwee as his private ImprobablyCoolCar. After the classic series ended, he played the Doctor in the ''Radio/ThirdDoctorRadioDramas'', one of which actually used the word "Whomobile" in-story. He appeared once more in a fan project called ''Devious'' which has inexplicably been in DevelopmentHell ''since 1995''.

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Pertwee once met with a French official for an interview during the War. He thought it was going to be a liaison position with de Gaulle's Free French, whom he actively disliked, so he did everything possible to screw up the process. When it turned out that he didn't get the job, Pertwee confessed to Ian Fleming (his superior) that he'd deliberately bollocksed the interview. Fleming, in Pertwee's words, then called him "a blithering idiot", and told him the interview had actually been about a job in Tahiti.

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Pertwee once met with a French official for an interview during the War. He thought it was going to be a liaison position with de Gaulle's Free French, who he actively disliked, so he did everything possible to screw up the process. When it turned out that he didn't get the job, Pertwee confessed to Ian Fleming (his superior) that he'd deliberately bollocksed the interview. Fleming, in Pertwee's words, then called him "a blithering idiot", and told him the interview had actually been about a job in Tahiti.

He was a ''huge'' fanboy of action movies and cool vehicles, hence why his tenure as the Doctor was essentially a serialized action movie. He eventually decided to leave the show during a shakeup in the cast and staff -- the departures of script editor Creator/TerranceDicks, producer Barry Letts and Creator/KatyManning (Jo Grant), and the death of Roger Delgado (The Master) convinced him that his ''Who'' family was breaking up, and though he fulfilled the last year of his contract and developed a good working relationship with Manning's replacement, Creator/ElisabethSladen, he left at the end of ''Who''[='=]s 11th season in 1974. (Some stories relate Pertwee getting out of a renewal of his contract by asking for a hefty pay raise, which the producers couldn't meet. It's been said that had either Creator/KatyManning stayed or Delgado not died -- The Master was scheduled to die in a grand finale for the character -- Pertwee might have stayed with the show for a longer period.) At five years in the role (1970-1974), he is currently the Doctor with the second-longest on-screen tenure after Creator/TomBaker. [[note]]technically, Creator/SylvesterMcCoy has the longest overall tenure as the Doctor, when factoring in the period from 1987 ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani Time and the Rani]]") to 1996 ([[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie The TV Movie]]) [[/note]]

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Pertwee once met with a French official for an interview. He thought it was going to be a liason position with de Gaulle's Free French, who he actively disliked, and did everything possible to screw up the process. When it turned out that he didn't get the job, Pertwee confessed to Ian Fleming (his superior) that he'd deliberately bollocksed the interview. Fleming, in Pertwee's words, then called him "a blithering idiot", and told him the interview had actually been about a job in Tahiti.

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Pertwee once met with a French official for an interview. He thought it was going to be a liason position with de Gaulle's Free French, who he actively disliked, and did everything possible to screw up the process. When it turned out that he didn't get the job, Pertwee confessed to Ian Fleming(his superior) that he'd deliberately bollocksed the interview. Fleming, in Pertwee's words, then called him "a blithering idiot", and told him the interview had actually been about a job in Tahiti.

'''John Devon Roland "Jon" Pertwee''' (1919-1996) was an English actor best known as the Third Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[TheDanza Pertwee]] from ''Radio/TheNavyLark'' and as the title character in ''Literature/WorzelGummidge''. He was also ''[[http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/379986/Jon-Pertwee-From-secret-agent-in-WWII-to-Dr-Who an actual spy]]'', working undercover for WinstonChurchill and alongside Creator/IanFleming, a fact he managed to keep hidden all his life and which finally came to light in 2013. Like [[Creator/PatrickTroughton his predecessor as the Doctor]], Pertwee died of a heart attack while visiting the United States.

He was the only Doctor (so far) who came up with his own sung ThemeSong, titled "Who is the Doctor?". He also commissioned the {{Fan Nickname}}d "Whomobile", which was used in two episodes and kept by Pertwee as his private ImprobablyCoolCar. After the classic series ended, he played the Doctor in the ''Radio/ThirdDoctorRadioDramas'', which actually used the word "Whomobile" in-story. He appeared once more in a fan project called ''Devious'' which has inexplicably been in DevelopmentHell ''since 1995''.

He was the only Doctor (so far) who came up with his own sung ThemeSong, titled "Who is the Doctor?". He also commissioned the {{Fan Nickname}}d "Whomobile", which was used in two episodes and kept by Pertwee as his private ImprobablyCoolCar. After the classic series ended, he played the Doctor in the ''Radio/ThirdDoctorRadioDramas'', and once more in a fan project called ''Devious'' which has inexplicably been in DevelopmentHell ''since 1995''.

* IAmSong: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLXOO9PnnMQ Who is the Doctor]]", which he performed in-character as the Third Doctor.

* IAmSong: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLXOO9PnnMQ Who's The Doctor]]", which he performed in-character as the Third Doctor.

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Pertwee once met with a French official for an interview. He thought it was going to be a liason position with de Gaulle's Free French, who he actively disliked, and did everything possible to screw up the process. When it turned out that he didn't get the job, Pertwee confessed to Ian Fleming(his superior) that he'd deliberately bollocksed the interview. Fleming, in Pertwee's words, then called him "a blithering idiot", and told him the interview had actually been about a job in Tahiti.

* CoolOldGuy: Look at the title image up yonder. Need we say any more?

* MadeOfIron: In real life, Pertwee was insanely lucky -- During WorldWarII he was injured several times, apparently even once waking up on a morgue slab where he had been left for dead. In addition to that, he was taken off the crew of ''HMS Hood'' and assigned to shore duty just before the battleship left for her fateful encounter with the German battleship ''Bismarck''; out of an original complement of 1,418, just three crew members would survive. In a more funny vein, he also early in his Navy career apparently rammed a pier with a mail boat. [[Radio/TheNavyLark "Ev'rybody down!"]], indeed. During much of the filming of ''Series/DoctorWho'', Pertwee was suffering from back/spinal troubles that sometimes made the stunts or martial arts moves painful for him to perform. He did them anyway.

* TheMentor / TeamDad: Acted this way towards both Katy Manning and Creator/ElisabethSladen, to the point that Manning's departure from ''Doctor Who'' was one of the catalysts for his own leaving the role. Even though technically Sladen was paired up with Creator/TomBaker for more time in ''Doctor Who'', Sladen considered Pertwee's Third Doctor as her Doctor, and she was inconsolable for a week after Pertwee died.
* VitriolicBestBuds: He and Creator/PatrickTroughton were actually close friends, but played up this trope in public appearances because ''Doctor Who'' fans enjoyed the dynamic.

He was the only Doctor (so far) who came up with his own sung ThemeSong, titled "I Am The Doctor". He also commissioned the {{Fan Nickname}}d "Whomobile", which was used in two episodes and kept by Pertwee as his private ImprobablyCoolCar. After the classic series ended, he played the Doctor in the ''Radio/ThirdDoctorRadioDramas'', and once more in a fan project called ''Devious'' which has inexplicably been in DevelopmentHell ''since 1995''.

'''John Devon Roland "Jon" Pertwee''' (1919-1996) was an English actor best known as the Third Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[TheDanza Pertwee]] from ''Radio/TheNavyLark'' and as the title character in ''Literature/WorzelGummidge''. He was also ''an actual spy'', working undercover for WinstonChurchill and alongside Creator/IanFleming, a fact he managed to keep hidden all his life and which finally came to light in 2013. Like [[Creator/PatrickTroughton his predecessor as the Doctor]], Pertwee died of a heart attack while visiting the United States.

He was a ''huge'' fanboy of action movies and cool vehicles, hence why his tenure as the Doctor was essentially a serialized action movie. He eventually decided to leave the show during a shakeup in the cast and staff -- the departures of script editor Creator/TerranceDicks, producer Barry Letts and Creator/KatyManning (Jo Grant), and the death of Roger Delgado (The Master) convinced him that his ''Who'' family was breaking up, and though he fulfilled the last year of his contract and developed a good working relationship with Manning's replacement, Creator/ElisabethSladen, he left at the end of ''Who''[='=]s 11th season in 1974. (Some stories relate Pertwee getting out of a renewal of his contract by asking for a hefty pay raise, which the producers couldn't meet. It's been said that had either Creator/KatyManning stayed or Delgado not died -- The Master was scheduled to die in a grand finale for the character -- Pertwee might have stayed with the show for a longer period.) At five years in the role (1970-1974), he is currently the Doctor with the second-longest on-screen tenure after Creator/TomBaker. [[note]]technically, {{Sylvester McCoy}} has the longest overall tenure as the Doctor, when factoring in the period from 1987 ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani Time and the Rani]]") to 1996 ([[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie The TV Movie]]) [[/note]]

He was a ''huge'' fanboy of action movies and cool vehicles, hence why his tenure as the Doctor was essentially a serialized action movie. He eventually decided to leave the show during a shakeup in the cast and staff -- the departures of script editor Creator/TerranceDicks, producer Barry Letts and Creator/KatyManning (Jo Grant), and the death of Roger Delgado (The Master) convinced him that his ''Who'' family was breaking up, and though he fulfilled the last year of his contract and developed a good working relationship with Manning's replacement, Creator/ElisabethSladen, he left at the end of ''Who''[='=]s 11th season in 1974. (Some stories relate Pertwee getting out of a renewal of his contract by asking for a hefty pay raise, which the producers couldn't meet. It's been said that had either Creator/KatyManning stayed or Delgado not died -- The Master was scheduled to die in a grand finale for the character -- Pertwee might have stayed with the show for a longer period.) At five years in the role (1970-1974), he is currently the Doctor with the second-longest on-screen tenure after TomBaker. [[note]]technically, {{Sylvester McCoy}} has the longest overall tenure as the Doctor, when factoring in the period from 1987 ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani Time and the Rani]]") to 1996 ([[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie The TV Movie]]) [[/note]]

* LargeHam: Not so much as the Doctor or Worzel Gummidge, but his guest role on ''Series/TheGoodies'' shows he could munch scenery with the best of them. Chief Petty Officer Pertwee, on the other hand, was, like everyone else on ''Radio/TheNavyLark'' a gourmet diner of scenery.
* MadeOfIron: In real life, Pertwee was insanely lucky -- During the war he was injured several times, apparently even once waking up on a morgue slab where he had been left for dead. In addition to that, he was taken off the crew of ''HMS Hood'' and assigned to shore duty just before the battleship left for her fateful encounter with the German battleship ''Bismarck''; out of an original complement of 1,418, just three crew members would survive. In a more funny vein, he also early in his Navy career apparently rammed a pier with a mail boat. [[Radio/TheNavyLark "Ev'rybody down!"]], indeed. During much of the filming of ''Series/DoctorWho'', Pertwee was suffering from back/spinal troubles that sometimes made the stunts or martial arts moves painful for him to perform. He did them anyway.

* TheMentor / TeamDad: Acted this way towards both Katy Manning and Creator/ElisabethSladen, to the point that Manning's departure from ''Doctor Who'' was one of the catalysts for his own leaving the role. Even though technically Sladen was paired up with Creator/TomBaker for more time in ''Doctor Who'', Sladen considered Pertwee's Third Doctor as her doctor, and she was inconsolable for a week after Pertwee died.

* WagTheDirector: Positive example. He was a big fan of action movies tropes and cool vehicles, hence why most of his ''Doctor Who'' episodes are colored by his personal tastes. Neither the writers nor the fans had a problem with this, the former especially loving to indulge him. In fact, it can be argued that the almost completely gratuitous car/gyrocopter/Whomobile chase that took up nearly the entirety of the second episode of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders his last serial]] was a "farewell present" to him from the writers, who knew of his love of fast vehicles and action-movie sequences. He was also surprisingly humble about his characterization as the Doctor, merely asking that the writers give him "a moment or two of charm".

He was a ''huge'' fanboy of action movies and cool vehicles, hence why his tenure as the Doctor was essentially a serialized action movie. He eventually decided to leave the show during a shakeup in the cast and staff -- the departures of script editor Creator/TerranceDicks, producer Barry Letts and Creator/KatyManning (Jo Grant), and the death of Roger Delgado (The Master) convinced him that his ''Who'' family was breaking up, and though he fulfilled the last year of his contract and developed a good working relationship with Manning's replacement, Creator/ElisabethSladen, he left at the end of ''Who''[='=]s 11th season in 1974. (Some stories relate Pertwee getting out of a renewal of his contract by asking for a hefty pay raise, which the producers couldn't meet. It's been said that had either KatyManning stayed or Delgado not died -- The Master was scheduled to die in a grand finale for the character -- Pertwee might have stayed with the show for a longer period.) At five years in the role (1970-1974), he is currently the Doctor with the second-longest on-screen tenure after TomBaker. [[note]]technically, {{Sylvester McCoy}} has the longest overall tenure as the Doctor, when factoring in the period from 1987 ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani Time and the Rani]]") to 1996 ([[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie The TV Movie]]) [[/note]]

* MadeOfIron: In real life, Pertwee was insanely lucky -- During the war he was injured several times, apparently even once waking up on a morgue slab where he had been left for dead. In addition to that, he was taken off the crew of ''HMS Hood'' and assigned to shore duty just before the battleship left for her fateful encounter with the German battleship ''Bismarck'', as only three crew members out of the original 1,418 complement survived. In a more funny vein, he also early in his Navy career apparently rammed a pier with a mail boat. [[Radio/TheNavyLark "Ev'rybody down!"]], indeed. During much of the filming of ''Series/DoctorWho'', Pertwee was suffering from back/spinal troubles that sometimes made the stunts or martial arts moves painful for him to perform. He did them anyway.

* MadeOfIron: In real life, Pertwee was insanely lucky -- During the war he was injured several times, apparently even once waking up on a morgue slab where he had been left for dead. In addition to that, he was taken off the crew of ''HMS Hood'' and assigned to shore duty just before the battleship left for her fateful encounter with the German pocket battleship ''Bismarck''. In a more funny vein, he also early in his Navy career apparently rammed a pier with a mail boat. [[Radio/TheNavyLark "Ev'rybody down!"]], indeed. During much of the filming of ''Series/DoctorWho'', Pertwee was suffering from back/spinal troubles that sometimes made the stunts or martial arts moves painful for him to perform. He did them anyway.

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