Third Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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18 Facts About Third Doctor
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Third Doctor was a suave, dapper, technologically orientated and authoritative man of action who practised Venusian Aikido.
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Third Doctor's favourite car was a canary-yellow vintage roadster that he nicknamed "Bessie", a machine which featured such modifications as a remote control, dramatically increased speed capabilities and inertial dampers.
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Third Doctor maintained a hovercraft-like vessel that fans nicknamed the Whomobile.
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The First Doctor, upon meeting the Third, described him indignantly as a "dandy", while the Second Doctor, with whom the Third had something of an antagonistic relationship on the occasions they encountered each other, referred to him as "Fancy Pants".
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In general, this incarnation of the Third Doctor was more physically daring than the previous two and was the first to confront an enemy physically if cornered.
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Third Doctor only used his fighting skills if he had no alternative, and even then generally disarmed his opponents rather than knocking them unconscious.
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Third Doctor was a skilled diplomat and linguist, as well as having a penchant for disguises.
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The early ones were set on Earth because he had been exiled there when the Second Third Doctor was banished to Earth by his people, the Time Lords, and forced to regenerate.
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Third Doctor's era introduced adversaries including the Autons, the Master, Omega, the Sontarans, the Silurians and the Sea Devils.
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The Third Doctor was the only one from the classic series not to have a story featuring the Cybermen, but he did eventually encounter them during The Five Doctors.
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Third Doctor only said the full phrase "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" twice on screen – in The Sea Devils and the 20th Anniversary special The Five Doctors.
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Third Doctor goes on to conflate it with his regeneration-spanning love of jelly babies, remarking that they need to "reverse the jelly baby of the neutron flow".
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Original title sequence for the Third Doctor's seasons introduced colour and was an extension of the "howlround" kaleidoscopic patterns used for the previous Doctors.
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Third Doctor appeared again in the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors, broadcast in 1983.
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From 2015, Big Finish had produced a new series of audio drama adventures featuring the Third Doctor titled The Third Doctor Adventures, with Tim Treloar voicing the role.
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Visions of the Third Doctor appear in The Brain of Morbius, Mawdryn Undead, and Resurrection of the Daleks.
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Third Doctor was seen in the episode "The Name of the Doctor" driving Bessie, and archival footage was used for his appearance in "The Day of the Doctor".
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