David Bradley (English actor) had been cast as actor William Hartnell in "An Adventure in Space and Time", a BBC docudrama about the creation of "Doctor Who" in 1963. The special aired in November 2013, adding to the buildup to the 50th anniversary episode of "Doctor Who" later that month. From 2014, Bradley plays Professor Abraham Setrakian, a Holocaust survivor turned vampire hunter in Guillermo del Toro's TV series "The Strain". He will voice the Lord High Admiral Suvarov in the PC RPG "The Mandate". In 2015, Bradley was announced a public supporter of Chapel Lane Theatre Company based in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK. In 2017,
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,