Caroline John passed away earlier this month. She played Dr Elizabeth Shaw for four stories in the early 1970s opposite Jon Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney. These were also Jon Pertwee’s first four stories.
Nicholas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen (who played the Brigadier and Sarah Jane Smith) passed away last year.
I read a comment somewhere that said ‘I like to think that Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney and Caroline John are somewhere doing a Season 7b’.
It made me smile that comment, just before my cynicism about the afterlife kicked in.
Imagination and the continuation of stories is a lovely thing.
I think if we continue to read and write stories about these people, about the characters they played then they’ll continue to live on in our imaginations.
Stories continue to be written about the First, Second and Third Doctor’s adventures, evoking the characters played by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee. Stories continue to feature Barbra Wright, Ben Jackson, Liz Shaw, Nicholas Courntey, Sarah Jane Smith, bringing to mind the actors who played them.
Doctor Who began in 1963, but the story that started then is still going, and the characters that started there, and the characters who were created, built upon throughout its history continue to be written about. Continue to be recreated in audio, in comic, in prose and in our imaginations.
That’s a brilliant, wonderful thing, that these characters and the people who portrayed them, brought them to life for us will continue to live on. Recreated and remembered, brought to excited life in our imaginations as we read, listen and interact with them.
Nicholas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen (who played the Brigadier and Sarah Jane Smith) passed away last year.
I read a comment somewhere that said ‘I like to think that Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney and Caroline John are somewhere doing a Season 7b’.
It made me smile that comment, just before my cynicism about the afterlife kicked in.
Imagination and the continuation of stories is a lovely thing.
I think if we continue to read and write stories about these people, about the characters they played then they’ll continue to live on in our imaginations.
Stories continue to be written about the First, Second and Third Doctor’s adventures, evoking the characters played by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee. Stories continue to feature Barbra Wright, Ben Jackson, Liz Shaw, Nicholas Courntey, Sarah Jane Smith, bringing to mind the actors who played them.
Doctor Who began in 1963, but the story that started then is still going, and the characters that started there, and the characters who were created, built upon throughout its history continue to be written about. Continue to be recreated in audio, in comic, in prose and in our imaginations.
That’s a brilliant, wonderful thing, that these characters and the people who portrayed them, brought them to life for us will continue to live on. Recreated and remembered, brought to excited life in our imaginations as we read, listen and interact with them.