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DOCTOR WHO INDULGED
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MY PASSION FOR
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CLOWNING
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by Patrick
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Troughton
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It now seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor that
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there is really very little I can add to what has already been written.
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And, of course, I've played so many different parts in the last
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forty years.
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How did I feel about taking on the role? To begin with, I thought it
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would last about six weeks after Billy Hartnell had finished. My children
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and I had been fans of the programme and I loved the way he had played
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the Doctor. But I knew I couldn't possibly do it like that.
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At one point in my discussions with the producer, he was going to
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become an old-fashioned wind-jammer captain - imagine the problems
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that would have caused in space! I even suggested he might be blacked up
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and turned into something out of Arabian Nights!
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However, my contribution lasted three years as it turned out - and
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that was a show every Saturday each year, except for August. They only
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do a few each year now. So it was very hard work.
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Nevertheless, it was the happiest time of my professional life- except
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perhaps for one play which I've just done with Gwen Watford on BBS TV.
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Doctor Who gave me a chance to indulge my passion for dressing up
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and being able to have some sly fun as well as a bit of clowning.
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It also gave me great pleasure coming into contact with children, for if
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I had not been an actor I would quite like to have been a teacher.
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Children keep one young.
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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never
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thought of it as fantasy. Far from it - it's all happening. I think space
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will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space
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travel.
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I have been asked what impact the part of the Doctor had on my career
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and I can honestly say none. For, luckily, I got out in time before I was too
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type-cast. And when I'm asked if I have any anecdotes of those years, I'm
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afraid to say that there are none that could be printed!
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Why has the programme proved such a continuing success? I think
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the simple answer to that is because new children keep on being born!
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Patrick Trougton
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October 1982
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