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 The Avengers Forever: Richard Hurndall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
All Doctor Who fans are aware of Richard Hurndall as a footnote in the programme's history, as in the 1983 reunion special The Five Doctors, Hurndall took over the late William Hartnell's role of the First Doctor.
Between 1943 and 1952, Richard was in the BBC radio drama repertory company, and subsequently, in 1959, he played Sherlock Holmes in a BBC radio adaptation of The Sign of Four.
Hurndall made his first television appearance in 1946 and, at the time of Legacy of Death, was appearing as a gangland boss in Spindoe (1968), a Cockney villain series with Ray McAnally in the title role.
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 Richard Hurndall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Gibbon Hurndall (November 3, 1910 – April 13, 1984) was an English stage, radio, film, and television actor.
In 1983, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, producer John Nathan-Turner planned a special event, The Five Doctors, a 90-minute episode to feature all of the actors to play the role of the Doctor up through and including the fifth and current occupant, Peter Davison.
Richard Hurndall died at the age of 73 in London.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Doctor Who - The Five Doctors [1983]: DVD: Peter Davison,Patrick Troughton,Jon Pertwee,Tom Baker,Richard ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Except, of course, that William Hartnell had sadly passed on by the time this series was made in 1983 (although his replacement Richard Hurndall does an excellent job) and Tom Baker was only featured as a patched-in cameo, apparently prevented from joining in by a temporal thingummy.
Lookalike Richard Hurndall does a decent job of filling the role left absent by the late William Hartnell as the irascible First Doctor.
Richard Hurndall was chosen to play the First Doctor, and he rose to the challange with breathtaking skill, capturing the original's testiness perfectly (we do get a clip of William Hartnell's Doctor at the start).
www.amazon.co.uk /Doctor-Who-Doctors-Peter-Davison/dp/B00004CZSB   (2198 words)

  
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Richard Hurndall gave an excellent performance of the first Doctor in the stead of the late William Hartnell.
Richard Hurndall, however, is simply awful as the First Doctor: not only does he not look like William Hartnell, but he makes no apparent effort to recreate his mannerisms either.
Shada was used), while Richard Hurndall played the First Doctor replacing William Hartnell, who had passed away in 1975.
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 Review of the BBC Dr Who DVD - The Five Doctors
The first Doctor was played by Richard Hurndall who physically matched William Hartnell and pulled off an excellent impersonation.
It was a shame that Tom Baker could not be persuaded to participate but the story is still a great party and celebration of the life (lives?) of the Doctor.
The stars are Richard Hurndall, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Peter Davison.
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 Action TV Online - The Regiment episode guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
But when both Richard and his father express their separate doubts about the British Army, there are storms ahead.
Synopsis : In the Cotswolds Regiment Richard Gaunt's closest ally is James Willoughby the Adjutant.
The series itself would concern itself with the lives and fortunes of two families, the Gaunts and the Brights, and the impact upon them of having two of their sons, Richard (Christopher Cazenove) and William (Michael Brennan), as serving members of the Cotswolds Regiment from 1895 (during the Boer War) to 1904 India.
www.action-tv.org.uk /guides/regiment.htm   (3599 words)

  
 Outpost Gallifrey: Episode Guide
In a garden somewhere on Earth, the first Doctor (Richard Hurndall) attempts to flee from a peculiar energy form which scoops him up and takes him away.
Richard Hurndall was cast as the First Doctor after fan consultant Ian Levine suggested the similarity between him and William Hartnell, after seeing Hurndall on "Blake's 7"; however, a clip of Hartnell was used prior to the opening credits, from his farewell speech to Susan in episode 6 of "The Dalek Invasion of Earth".
A new TARDIS console was created for this story, as was a new closing title mix, a blend of Delia Derbyshire's arrangement from the 1960's with Peter Howell's 1980's version (the mix created by Howell himself).
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 Earthbound Timelords: Matrix Databank Solutions: Question #2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The sequence was a clip taken from "Flashpoint," the sixth episode of the serial "The Dalek Invasion of Earth." For the narrative of the story, the first Doctor was played by Richard Hurndall.
"Consideration was apparently given around July, 1982 to casting Geoffrey Bayldon, who had appeared in the season seventeen story 'The Creature from the Pit,' but the part was eventually offered to Richard Hurndall, whom Nathan-Turner has seen in an episode of _Blake's 7_ and considered to resemble Hartnell.
Hurndall accepted the offer on 6 October 1982." Howe, David J; Mark Stammers, and Stephens James Walker.
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 Amazon.ca: Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (Original Edition): Video: John Nathan-Turner,Peter Moffatt,Peter Davison,Jon ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Except, of course, William Hartnell had passed on by the time this series was made in 1983 (although his replacement Richard Hurndall does an excellent job), and Tom Baker was only featured as a patched-in cameo, apparently prevented from joining in by a temporal thingummy.
This happens to the Second and Third Doctor, as well as other companions, but a glitch occurs with the Fourth Doctor and Romana II, who are trapped in a time vortex.
Richard Hurnell(I think that's how you spell it) was pretty good, though nothing like William Hartnel.
www.amazon.ca /Doctor-Who-Five-Doctors-Original/dp/6301801288   (1826 words)

  
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Pg 15 "He was here only by the good grace of a powerful man, a legend among his own people; a small boon granted after the Death Zone affair." This is the Richard Hurndall Doctor, from the Five Doctors and the powerful man is Rassilon.
Pg 18 "The Doctor signed it with the name Benjamin Jackson" This dates the Richard Hurndall Doctor to the very end of the first Doctor's life.
The shenanigans with the Richard Hurndall Doctor are amusing and the use of the fast-return switch is extremely clever.
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C20591 - Richard Hurndall and Bryan Coleman - The Sign of Four (1959)
A BBC full dramatisation - starring Richard Hurndall as Sherlock Holmes and Bryan Coleman as Dr John H Watson.
First Broadcast 17th May 1959 in 5 weekly episodes.
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 shillPages - Doctor Who Image Archive - Richard Hurndall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Born 3 November 1910 - Died 13 April 1984
Richard Hurndall portrayed the first incarnation of the Doctor (originally portrayed by William Hartnell) for the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors (1983).
Age during show: The Five Doctors 73 years
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 Richard Hurndall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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