David Bradley (English actor) 2014 British Academy Television Awards), and the films "Hot Fuzz", "The World's End" and "". In 2012, he played Solomon in the episode of "Doctor Who" called "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". In 2013, Bradley portrayed William Hartnell in the "Doctor Who" docudrama "An Adventure in Space and Time". He returned to "Doctor Who" portraying the First Doctor in "The Doctor Falls" and the 2017 Christmas Special "Twice Upon a Time". He also portrayed William Hartnell's First Doctor in a series of audio stories released by Big Finish entitled "" starting in January 2018. Bradley was born in York, where he
Space and Time (Doctor Who) canonical. The canonicity of the two mini-episodes was affirmed by Moffat in "Doctor Who Magazine". Moffat stated that, unlike "The Curse of Fatal Death", "Space" and "Time" is not a spoof or a sketch, but rather "a little miniature story" in the style of the "Children in Need" mini-episodes. He described it as "A moment of life aboard the TARDIS. But obviously life about the TARDIS instantly gets you into terrible jeopardy, and all of causality is threatened. As I'm sure it is every day when they get up and have their coffee..." The concept of a TARDIS inside the