Incredibly 'renewed' by the TARDIS after his previous body-exhausting affair with the Cybermen on Earth, the Second 'Doctor Who' examines his past adventures courtesy of a recently found 500 Year Diary, in this great publicity shoot taken on Saturday 22nd October, 1966, during the Riverside Studios filming of the first episode of Patrick Troughton's classic opening story, The Power of the Daleks.
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| The Doctor with the diary within the human colony of planet Vulcan, as seen in The Power of the Daleks. |
The diary, used often in Power, would make further reference appearances during Troughton's first classic season, including The Underwater Menace (as seen in a telesnap, looking for details on Troglodytes), a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment during episode two of The Moonbase, (the Gerry Davis Target adaptation also has the diary used early on, too), and The Tomb of the Cybermen, the latter story of which, though launching Season Five, was actually recorded during the end of Four's filming block. By the proper start of Season Five, the diary, unlike Troughton's other prop in his trusty recorder, would disappear from our screens (does anyone know whatever happened to the actual prop?). Later in the series colour era, a diary of some sort would be used by Tom Baker's Doctor in The Sontaran Experiment, whilst Peter Davison's incarnation would verbally refer to his diary during the start of his finale story, The Caves of Androzani.
Enjoy this selection of posed images from the late photographer Don Smith's shoot with a zany Troughton that would be used many times by BBC Enterprises and the Radio Times over the next fifty-nine years...
Radio Times staff photographer Don Smith dies, aged 89 - a tribute | Radio Times
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| Image: BBC via Radio Times website. |
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