The 3rd Doctor

Time Zone: January 3rd, 1970 – June 8th 1974
Played By: Jon Pertwee

The Third Doctor was a suave, authoritative man of action, who not only practiced Venusian aikido, but who enjoyed working on gadgets and riding all manner of vehicles, such as the Whomobile and his pride and joy, the canary-yellow vintage roadster nicknamed "Bessie" whose engine he augmented. Occasionally camp but always charismatic, this Doctor had a personal manner of dress which is the most ornate of his various incarnations, favouring a frilled shirt, smoking jacket and opera cape for his regular outfit.

If this Doctor had a somewhat patrician and authoritarian air he was as quick to criticise authority as well, having little patience with self-inflated bureaucrats, knee-jerk militarists or red tape in general. Despite this, the Third Doctor genuinely cared for his companions in a paternal fashion, and even held a thinly-veiled but grudging admiration for his nemesis, the Master, and for UNIT's leader, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, a stalwart and courageous, but painfully by the book military man who often frustrated the Doctor with his propensity to resort to overwhelming force to deal with almost any problem.