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
Doctor Who in Canada and the United States CBC did not renew the program and it would not reappear on the network for 40 years. The BBC series was originally sold to television stations in the United States in 1972, with Time-Life Television syndicating selected episodes of Jon Pertwee's time as the Doctor. The series did not do well, despite an interesting write-up some years earlier in "TV Guide". Apparently, program directors of the commercial television stations that picked up the Jon Pertwee series did not know that the program was an episodic serial, and so it was constantly being shuffled about in the programming schedules. In 1978,