An Adventure in Space and Time led to him being cast as the First Doctor himself in the 2017 "Doctor Who" episodes "The Doctor Falls" and "Twice Upon a Time" and in a series of audio adventures for Big Finish Productions. In 1966, William Hartnell (David Bradley) is in his dressing room at the BBC. He insults a stagehand who calls him to the set, where the delay caused by his absence is noticed. Hartnell enters in costume, ready to film his last moments as the First Doctor and stands in front of the TARDIS console. Three years earlier, BBC executive Sydney Newman (Brian Cox) is
Doctor Who (film) Peter Capaldi. Eccleston and Capaldi would go on to play the Ninth and Twelfth incarnations of the Doctor, respectively, in the revived series of "Doctor Who" which began in 2005. Eccleston turned down the offer to audition for the TV Movie because at the time he felt he was not yet an established enough actor and did not want to be associated with a "brand name" so early in his career. Capaldi declined because he felt it was unlikely that he would be given the part. Of those actors who originally auditioned for the role of the Doctor, a number