BBC Archive | 1983: Could THE DOCTOR be a WOMAN? | South East at 6 | Science Fiction | BBC Archive @BBCArchive | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 20 hours ago.
Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor, has announced that he is to hand up his Panama hat at the end of the current series of Doctor Who. Who will he regenerate into? A crotchety old man, or perhaps even a woman?

Fran Morrison chats to Davison about his stint as the Doctor, and whether he feels he may have been too youthful for the role. Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner is on hand to discuss Davidson's successor. Is there any truth to the rumours circling in the press that he is planning to cast a woman as the Doctor?

Clip taken from South East at 6, originally broadcast on BBC One, 29 July 1983.





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