Editing Jon Pertwee (section)

===''Doctor Who''===
[[File:Dr_Who,_John_Pertwee_(10842597324).jpg|thumb|Pertwee making a promotional appearance as the [[Third Doctor]]]]
In 1969, shortly before leaving the series, producer [[Peter Bryant]] cast Pertwee as the [[Third Doctor]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/season7.shtml | title= Season 7 | work=BBC Online |access-date=28 July 2019}}</ref> Pertwee had asked his agent to apply for the role for him and was surprised to find he was already on the shortlist. He was the second choice for the role; [[Ron Moody]] was the first but was unavailable.<ref>''An Hour with Jon Pertwee'', BBC Radio 4</ref>

In a departure from the Doctor's first two incarnations, Pertwee's era was influenced by the [[James Bond in film|James Bond film series]].<ref>{{cite book |editor=Michele Brittany |title=James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy|year=2014|page=121|publisher=McFarland & Co|isbn=978-0786477937}}</ref> His interpretation of the Doctor was described as "a man of action, supremely confident, articulate, yet also warmly reassuring".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Castleman |first1=Harry |last2=Podrazik |first2=Walter J. |title=Harry and Wally's Favorite TV Shows |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ccJkAAAAMAAJ&q=henry+ainley+jon+pertwee |date=1989 |publisher=Prentice Hall Press |isbn=978-0-13-933250-0 |pages=135}}</ref> This incarnation was credited with being more scientifically minded than early versions of the Doctor.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fordy |first=Tom |date=2020-01-02 |title=The most delightfully English Doctor of all: how Jon Pertwee brought panache to Who |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/delightfully-english-doctor-jon-pertwee-brought-panache/ |access-date=2022-08-14 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> He played the character as an active crusader with a penchant for fancy clothes, while exiled to Earth by the [[Time Lord]]s for much of his tenure and serving as the scientific adviser to [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] and [[UNIT]]. He played the Doctor for five seasons from early 1970 to mid-1974, a longer stint than either of his predecessors in the role,<ref name=":3" /> although he ultimately appeared in fewer episodes than William Hartnell as the BBC had reduced the production schedule.<ref name="screenonline.org.uk" />

Pertwee credited his performance as the Doctor with helping him work out exactly who he really was when he was not resorting to comedic disguises or voices.<ref name=":3" /> This was because the BBC's Head of Drama, [[Shaun Sutton]], had advised him to act the Doctor as himself: in effect, to "play Jon Pertwee".<ref name="screenonline.org.uk" /> In ''The Making of Doctor Who'', Pertwee himself said "Doctor Who is me – or I am Doctor Who. I play him straight from me."<ref name=":0" />

On 14 April 1971, Pertwee was the subject of [[Thames Television]]'s ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]''.

[[File:The House that Dripped Blood (1971) - Jon Pertwee 2.png|thumb|left|Pertwee in ''[[The House That Dripped Blood]]'' (1971)]]During his tenure as the Doctor, Pertwee appeared in the [[Amicus Productions|Amicus]] horror [[Anthology film|anthology]] ''[[The House That Dripped Blood]]'' (1971), which was filmed in the summer of 1970 between his first and second ''Doctor Who'' seasons. Pertwee played the lead in the last segment of the film as Paul Henderson, an arrogant horror film star who meets his doom thanks to a genuine vampire cloak. In 1973, Pertwee endorsed the [[The Co-operative Group|Co-op]]'s ''Baking Your Cake and Eating It'', a recipe book written by Sarah Charles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://braisedhearts.weebly.com/|title=Celebrating the Jon Pertwee Recipe Book|publisher=Braised Hearts }}</ref> It has been given the unofficial title of ''The Jon Pertwee Recipe Book''.

In early 1974, Pertwee announced he would step down as the Doctor to resume his stage career in ''The Bedwinner'', also citing potential typecasting in the role as the reason for leaving, though he later said that the catalyst for his departure was the death of his good friend and co-star [[Roger Delgado]] ([[The Master (Doctor Who)|the Master]]) and the departures of co-star [[Katy Manning]], producer [[Barry Letts]] and script editor [[Terrance Dicks]].<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.cbr.com/doctor-who-why-jon-pertwee-left/ | title= Doctor Who: Why Third Doctor Jon Pertwee Left the Series | work=[[Comic Book Resources]] | first=E.L. | last=Meszaros | date=26 January 2021 | access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref> According to [[Elisabeth Sladen]] in an interview on the DVD release of ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]],'' Pertwee asked for a substantially increased fee for another year on the series. The request was rejected, and he subsequently resigned from the role. Pertwee was also dealing with chronic back pain at the time, and was becoming less interested in the character of the Doctor.{{citation needed|date=March 2025}} His last full-time appearance in the series was in the story ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'' in June 1974, which finished with [[Tom Baker]] replacing him in the role.

Pertwee later reprised the role in the 20th anniversary story "[[The Five Doctors]]" and the ''[[Children in Need]]'' story ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'', in two radio adventures and on stage in ''[[Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure]]''.