The Doctor (Doctor Who) Big Finish Productions. Matt Smith made a brief "imagined" cameo seen only by actor William Hartnell (portrayed by David Bradley), in the movie dramatising the early years of Doctor Who "An Adventure in Space and Time". In early production documents, the Doctor was said to be 650 years old, although this was never stated on screen. By the time the Doctor did cite his age ("Let me see, in human terms, 400, yes, 450 years" in the serial "The Tomb of the Cybermen" (1967); he kept a 500-year diary), he had already regenerated to a younger form. The intention at
The Doctor (Doctor Who) the regions" with a Scottish one, and so asked Tennant to affect the same accent he used for the earlier BBC period drama "Casanova". In contrast, Peter Capaldi was explicitly allowed to continue using his native Scottish accent as the Twelfth Doctor. In the Big Finish audio adventure "The Sirens of Time", the captain aboard a German U-boat assumes he is English because of the way he pronounces his words: "So, you speak German ... but you speak it like an English gentleman." The Doctor's clothing has been equally distinctive, from the distinguished Edwardian suits of the First Doctor to