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WHEN Peter Davison used to watch Doctor Who, he recalls Gaveling Isis face with a pillow while his iv ter bid behind the sofa.

That was in the days when William Hartnell and later Patrick Troughton portrayed the intrepid time traveller.

Now, after Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, Davison himself is lined up to step into the Doctor's shoes when the next series goes into production in 1981.

"I was very young then, but what I most remember brae being scared by the Programmes'. Peter told me this week.

"And that's something I would like to sea brought hack In the new series I think it could be a lot more frightening than it is at the moment."

Peter, who's 29, was scarcely a teenager when William Hartnell resplendent in monocle, white wig and check trousers, took his first inter-galactic trip.

Since then, over 500O episodes later, a lot of gimmicks, both of dress and manner, have come and gone.

Just how the new Who will look and act is a matter of concern to the whole country and Peter Davison has had no lack of suggestions about how he should tackle the role.

Only this week he's been judging some of the ideas that youngsters submitted to Pebble Mill at One ... ideas that ranged from presenting him as a college boy in striped blazer, to the other extreme of a kind of intergalactic Kojak baldie.

"I had to think very hard about taking the role, because Dr. Who is such national institution," says Peter. "But he is too good a challenge to pass over.

"At the moment I'm still recognised everywhere I go as Tristan out of All Creatures Great and Small, and that series occupied me for three years altogether.

"If It doesn't do	 anything else, Dr. Who will certainly kill off that Tristan image for good.

"I certainly don't feel there's any rush to think out how I'll play the Doctor. After all, we don't go into rehearsals for the next series until the end of March."

Meanwhile Peter Davison has his work cut out with two situation comedies.

Launched last Thursday was Sink or Swim, a brand new comedy about two brothers who end up sharing a bedsitter in the big city.

And he's already completed one series of Holding the Fort, the series in which he's left holding the baby while his wife goes out to work—as an army officer.

Peter knows all about working wives. What few people realise is that he's married to that dizzy blonde actress Sandra Dickinson, best known for the Saint Bruno ads and her appearances in the quick-fire variety show What's Be Next?

Sandra herself will soon be busy again with a kind of spy send-up series lined up for ITV, as well as a part in the BBC's television version of the radio hit, A hitchhiker's Guide to the Celery.

Oddly enough, it was in television series that Peter and Sandra first met.

"It was called Tomorrow's People and we had to play brother and sister," recalls Peter with a laugh.


Caption: Peter and wife Sandra—they played brother and sister in their first TV series

Spelling correction: The Tomorrow People

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