Dr. Who and the Daleks
Characters appearing in the movies Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.. Please note these two movies are part of the Doctor Who Expanded Universe, not the Whoniverse.
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Dr. Who
Doctor Who
- Played by: Peter Cushing
- Absent-Minded Professor: He is the Doctor, after all. Albeit an alternate version.
- Actor Allusion: The Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture short story has Susan threaten a yeti with a hammer and Wooden Stake from on of her grandfather's last acting jobs. A reference to Cushing playing Van Helsing in various Hammer Horror Dracula films.
- Adaptation Name Change: The TV version isn't actually named Doctor Who. Maybe.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Despite being based off the First Doctor, he has much more in common with the Second Doctor personality-wise. He's certainly not the sinister, untrustworthy and occasionally arrogant Doctor William Hartnell played in Season 1.
- Adaptation Species Change: This Doctor is definitely human. Which isn't as strange as you might think, because in 1965 the Doctor hadn't definitively been established as an alien in the TV show, and even some of the writers (including Terry Nation) were still working from the earlier concept that he was a human from the far distant future.
- Issue 42
◊ of the Doctor Who? parody comic in Doctor Who Magazine implies he is a Time Lord after all.
- Issue 42
- Amnesiac Hero: Attempts to make Dr Who the same character as the Doctor from the TV series will usually say that one lost their memory and became the other.
- Human Nature has John Smith going through the Seventh Doctor's repressed memories, finding one where he was a human inventor who built the first TARDIS, then educated a race of primitive Human Aliens who became Gallifreyans, as one of a few implied origins for the Other who helped found Time Lord society and is implied to reincarnate into the Doctor in Lungbarrow.
- Steven Moffat proposed in issue #490 of Doctor Who Magazine that Dr. Who recklessly altering Time to change the outcome of the bank robbery at the end of Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. caused him to accidentally restart the universe, rewriting himself into a Time Lord and losing his family name.
- Cool Old Guy: It's Peter Cushing playing Doctor Who. How could he not end up as this?
- Ditzy Genius: At the very beginning he comes off as this, as he's first seen reading a comic book (while his granddaughters are reading heady tomes on science), misplaces critical components to TARDIS where they can be sat upon, and later concocts a blatant lie about the ship being damaged to prompt a curiosity-satisfying expedition to the Dalek city — and actually takes the perfectly functioning component in question with him to be stolen by the Daleks... not to mention the component apparently contains or at least is a conduit for mercury, and he handles it in his pocket and with his bare hands. Yes, this Doctor thinks on a different wavelength, and he doesn't have the excuse of being a Gallifreyan Time Lord to fall back on.
- Establishing Character Moment: While his granddaughters are reading books on science, the camera pans to him reading Dan Dare.
- Hidden Depths: Doctor Who's genial and Genius Ditz tendencies do camouflage a strength of character and a desire to see right triumph. As the movie progresses, we see him take a more active part in the planning of thwarting the Daleks' plans, and even gives the Thals one hell of a Dare to Be Badass speech to break them out of their absolute pacifism and give them the resolve to fight for their lives.
- Scatterbrained Senior: By Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture he's gone senile to the point he wanders the streets in a daze and doesn't recognize his granddaughters.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: This Doctor Who's sense of style seems to anticipate somewhat that of the Fourth and Eleventh Doctors, with the professorial corduroy jacket, natty waistcoat and blue cravat. In the second film, he even wears a fairly long scarf!
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Susan Who
Susan Who
- Played by: Roberta Tovey
- Adaptation Name Change: No mention of Foreman here. And since the Doctor was actually given a surname...
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Issue 42◊ of the Doctor Who? parody comic in Doctor Who Magazine implies she's Doctor Who's great grandmother regenerated into a child.
- Affectionate Nickname: The Doctor regularly affectionately calls her Susie.
- Age Lift: Younger than the TV version.
- Child Prodigy: Her very first appearance has her reading a theoretical physics textbook.
- Fourth-Wall Observer: The Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture short story starts with her working out how much money she's owed for starring in the previous two movies.
- Merlin Sickness: The Doctor Who? parody comic mentioned above says she's actually Doctor Who's great grandmother who got younger with each regeneration.
- Plucky Girl: Much more likely to get stuck in to the adventure. Also seems to be more emotionally resilient with what's thrown at her in the movie as compared to her TV counterpart (who, remember, is a good 6 to 10 or so [or possibly much, much more...] years her senior). In the original serial, Susan's encounter with the Thal leaves her nearly useless for a few scenes as she goes through a Heroic BSoD moment. The movie Susan? She seems more annoyed that a) nobody will believe that someone touched her shoulder and b) that Ian crushed her flower.
- Rage Against the Author: Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture ends with Susan turning her hammer and stake towards the scriptwriter with large blots of blood staining the rest of the page are the only evidence of what happened next.
- Raised by Grandparents: There's no sign of her parents.
- Wooden Stake: In Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture she chases off a yeti and then kills the author with a hammer and stake from one of her grandfather's acting jobs.
Barbara Who
Barbara Who
- Played by: Jennie Linden
- Adaptation Name Change: The result of being rewritten as a second granddaughter of the Doctor.
- Adaptational Wimp: Much more of a Neutral Female than the series' smart, tough Barbara who once rammed a Dalek with a truck.
- Age Lift: A teenager, like TV Susan, instead of a 20something teacher.
- Official Couple: With Ian.
- Raised by Grandparents: Like Susan, there's no mention of her parents.
- Related in the Adaptation: In the show, Barbara was Susan's unrelated teacher, here's she's Doctor Who's granddaughter and Susan's sister or cousin.
- Teen Genius: Like Susan, her first appearance onscreen features her reading a physics textbook.
Ian Chesterton
Ian Chesterton
- Played by: Roy Castle
- Adaptational Wimp: This Ian is The Load instead of the smart, determined teacher of the series.
- Age Lift: Younger than the TV version, just like Susan and Barbara.
- Cute Clumsy Boy: His Establishing Character Moment involves him falling in the door. His clumsiness remains a recurring element.
- Official Couple: With Barbara.
Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
Louise
Louise
- Played by: Jill Curzon
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Barbara, as Jennie Linden didn't reprise her role.
Tom Campbell
Tom Campbell
- Played by: Bernard Cribbins
- Earn Your Happy Ending: At the start of the movie, he failed to catch some crooks that stole at a jewellery shop. After helping out with the Whos on the future Dalek invasion, Campbell asked them to send him a few mins before he met them so he can catch the thieves
- Expy: Despite sharing a surname with David Campbell, he is one for movie-Ian, being more of a comic-relief klutz.
- Unfazed Everyman: After he gets over his initial confusion he treats every strange thing with a resigned determination.
Wyler
Wyler
- Played by: Andrew Keir
- Composite Character: He combines much of David Campbell’s story role with much of Barbara’s actions and badass moments.
