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David Troughton guest-stars - Radio Times, June 2008 |
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David Troughton talks to Nick Griffiths about stepping in to a Doctor Who guest role on short notice for the episode Midnight.
David Troughton wasn't meant to be in this Doctor Who story. His character Professor Hobbes was to have been played by Sam Kelly (Porridge, 'Allo 'Allo! and many others), "but unfortunately he was run over and broke his leg," says Troughton. "So I was rung up with two days' notice to go to [the Who studios in] Cardiff. I wrote to Sam: 'Promise it wasn't me!' It's not very nice getting a job in that way, but the show must go on."
Indeed. This is Troughton's fourth Who story. He was an extra in The Enemy of the World (1967-68), when his father Patrick was playing the Second Doctor. He was also in 1969's The War Games and The Curse of Peladon (1972).
His character in Midnight is, says Troughton, "an eccentric, eager professor who's too wrapped up in studying the planets to connect with real life."
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