Actors Who Played Characters Thought To Be The Doctor
| Actor | Medium | Title | Dates | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edmund Warwick | Television | The Chase, episodes 4 & 5 | 12–19 June 1965 | Robot Dr. Who, an android replica of the First Doctor created by the Daleks to infiltrate and kill the Doctor and his companions. William Hartnell provided the voice and filmed close-up sequence for this character. |
| Nicholas Briggs | Audio | Minuet in Hell | April 2001 | Gideon Crane – While making an emergency materialisation in an alleyway in Malebolgia, the Eighth Doctor's mind is merged with that of Gideon Crane, a British journalist from the London Torch. The Doctor and Gideon briefly swap identities. |
| Christopher Biggins | Audio | The One Doctor | 17 December 2001 | Banto Zame, a con-man claiming to be the Doctor, operating in the Generios System in the “vulgar end of time”, with companion Sally-Ann and his Stardis (a teleport device in the shape of a portaloo), until the Sixth Doctor and Mel intervened |
| Derek Jacobi | Audio | Deadline | September 2003 | Martin Bannister, a possibly delusional television script writer who believes he is the Doctor |
| Catherine Tate | Television | "Journey's End" | 5 July 2008 | Donna Noble a.k.a. Doctor-Donna, gains the Doctor's memories and intelligence when she initiates a two-way biological metacrisis regeneration, and fulfilling Dalek Caan's prophecy of the Doctor being the "Three-fold Man". The 10th Doctor is forced to suppress these memories in order to avoid her death, as Donna's human brain was not designed to hold Time Lord knowledge. |
| David Morrissey | Television | "The Next Doctor" | 25 December 2008 | Jackson Lake, a human recently moved to London in 1851, who believes he is the Doctor, when the Cybermen's infostamp containing information about the Doctor is transferred into his mind. The 10th Doctor briefly believes Jackson is a future incarnation of himself, until he discovers the truth and helps restore Lake's memories and personality |
| Toby Jones | Television | "Amy's Choice" | 15 May 2010 | The Doctor, Amy and Rory must decide which is the real reality and die in the phony one, to wake up in reality and escape the trap. At the episode's conclusion, the Dream Lord is ultimately revealed to be a manifestation of the Doctor's dark side and self-loathing. |
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