Doctor Who Doctor's nature, somewhere between the twelfth and final incarnation. On rare occasions, other actors have stood in for the lead. In "The Five Doctors", Richard Hurndall played the First Doctor due to William Hartnell's death in 1975; 34 years later David Bradley similarly replaced Hartnell in "Twice Upon a Time". In "Time and the Rani", Sylvester McCoy briefly played the Sixth Doctor during the regeneration sequence, carrying on as the Seventh. For more information, see the list of actors who have played the Doctor. In other media, the Doctor has been played by various other actors, including Peter Cushing in
Peter Brachacki were obviously the same sets as were used for the Doctor's TARDIS, slightly redressed. The TARDIS interior was completely redesigned again for the 1996 "Doctor Who" TV movie, and the new series that began broadcasting in 2005. Even then the central console was retained, and the new television series includes the geometric patterns on the walls. In 2013 the BBC produced a docudrama called "An Adventure in Space and Time", depicting the creation and early days of "Doctor Who", as part of the programme's fiftieth anniversary celebrations. Brachacki appears as a character in the drama, played by actor David Annen.