The Peter Cushing Dr. (Doctor Who Explained) 

One fan theory suggests that Dr. Who is the David Tennant human clone Doctor that grew out of the severed hand and married Rose Tyler in the parallel universe. He picked the last name "Who" for some reason. So Barbara and Susan in the movies would be the granddaughters of "Handy" and Rose.

The Peter Cushing films were my first exposure to Doctor Who as a teenager in the 1960's. They were shown on daytime TV on WNBC in New York City. Didn't see regular Doctor Who until the Tom Baker episodes started broadcasting in the 1970's.

The Peter Cushing Dr is awesome

A bit of semi-canon via Steven Moffatt's novelization of The Day of the Doctor: the Cushing movies exist in-universe as UNIT-approved adaptations of the Doctor's actual adventures.

I like to connect Cushing's human scientist to 2008's The Next Doctor, where a human, without spoiling it for those who have not seen it, gets into close contact with specific Time Lord knowledge. Maybe the human Dr. Who's situation was similar, with the addition of finding a Gallifreyan Tardis, possibly partially broken, and fixing it? Unless of course there's a fob watch scenario, which would also make it possible to bring Cushing into the main continuity!

I saw the first film at the cinema. Imagine, Daleks on the big screen, seeing everything in colour for the first time. As a child of the 60s, it was amazing. My mum didn’t want me to see it, she wanted me to see Mary Poppins. My big brother didn’t want to see some Disney film either so we just said we went to see Mary Poppins. My mum got wise of the deception and I was forbidden to see the second film. But, I still say there’s nothing like sitting in a crowded cinema with other fans, just sharing the love. ❤️😊👍🏻

When there were no repeats of the earlier (first) episodes and some were thought lost, these movies were our only introduction to the first two Dalek stories in the 70's. I actually saw quite a good mock up of a third movie on RU-vid years ago, it was short but well done. There actually WAS a short story in an eighties/nineties DWM where the 7th Doctor visits the ailing, ancient Dr Who at home and gives him a revitalising potion saying, "After all, you haven't even dealt with The Cybermen yet!"

Yes! Bring back someone who resembles Peter Cushing to Dr Who, it would bring back a lot of fans!

Good overview of the two Cushing Dr. Who films...while I'm a longtime Doctor Who fan, I also appreciated these films for what they were...agree it's a shame that they never did the proposed third film.

Dr Who and the Daleks was an American Comic Book Story, which is probably why you can't find it. As for merchandise, there was a lot of merchandise and marketing at the time, which is why the movie was so successful.

i met roy castle on a brownie outing to one of his shows shortly before he died of lung cancer apparently from playing cornet in smoky venues. he was lovelly and spoke to each of us, it was a specail experiance for a small child

The TV show has had its day. I would love to see a movie reboot with the Peter Cushing character; no time Lords just a nutter professor type on space time adventures

They were meant to reference him in the 50th anniversary by having a poster of the film in the Black Archive

The guy who did the motion capture for Tarkin in Rogue One actually looks a fair bit like Peter Cushing.

I remember watching this growing up love your content btw it’s nice to see people still talk about classic who

I would have loved to see this Doctor go up against Christopher Lee as a version of the Master

the peter cushing interpretation is wild

Yeah I think it would be interesting having the Peter Cushing Doctor in the normal doctor who universe. It could be done like some sort of multiverse episode, kind of like what they do in the Marvel movies.

I bought the poster for this movie when I was a kid from the museum of the moving image. I grew up with it on my bedroom wall and forgot about the poster, until watching this video. Loved the film. Thank you. 🙏

I really like Peter Cushing the actor. When I first saw this I was shocked, as he's so not the Doctor. On later viewing, I found they were far more enjoyable once the shock wore off.

These were my first Doctor Who experience.

In a very VERY close alternate timeline, we saw this guys face in rogue instead of shalka 🧐🧐🧐

Dr.who is the best 😊

So…I had heard of Doctor Who, but it was not on any television in Norway, so when our school visited the BBC studios in London and I ask the store manager what to start with, he recommended these movies to start with 😂😂

Apparently this movie actually does exist as an alternate universe in the Doctor Who lore with it being referenced in the Dalek Survival Guide

Dr who with a stash = gold🏆

I own Dr. Who and the Daleks restored to 4k on dvd

It would be cool if The Tenth Planet could have been the third movie. Taking place in the same time as the series, but this time it's assumed the approaching planet is the mythical planet 'Nibiru'. The Cybermen are assumed to be at first NASA personnel testing out New space suits, but the personnel at the base were failed to be alerted for some reason. (Plotline follows a similar route, minus the Regeneration) The Doctor and his granddaughter again are the Main TARDIS crew, but the two extras up in the air. Another could be the Thrid Doctor's 'The Silurians'. But in this case, it takes place in the Old West. They could have had a joint venture with James West and Artimous Gordon of 'Wild Wild West fame. It's Presumed that Dr. Lovelace was Attempting to scare people with Lizard people and Dinosaurs to gain mining rights to a Gold or Silver mine. Turns out miners had Accidently awoken the ancient race of Silurians, whereupon the plotline follows a similar route. It's figured since Susan had to do a report for school on the American Old West, why not just Travel there to get First-hand knowledge. Once again the Secondary companions, uncertain about)

This Dr Who character is actually canon to the Whoniverse, in the multiverse anyway…

I think the Peter Capaldi Doctor was a riff on the Peter Cushing Doctor. Also with an illustrated DOCTOR WHO AND THE DALEKS out, I'd like to see an animated remake with the Glass Dalek and this time with the creatures in the swamp and showing the Dalek mutant.

Love Doctor who

Sugarpuffs was a major financier in the film!

I like to think that these movies prove that Doctor Who not only spans time and space, but the multiverse as well. Why not? The multiverse stuff is hot now, so why can't Doctor Who also play in it?

I’m a huge Peter Cushing fan and a huge dr who fan ,, yes you guessed it , l bloody hate him as dr who , he rarely completely misjudged his performance, he’s not the dr anyway , awful films , terrible so called comedy sidekicks ( although cribbins would later be a great companion) only good thing if the brilliantly colourful daleks , but not enough to make me watch again 😮

The TV Dr. Who! completely lost its appeal for me after Tom Baker left. The actors that were selected afterwards to play Dr. Who! were ridiculous and completely ruined the show.

I love Peter Cushing but these movies are sooo meant for kids. And I like kids movies but ugh