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<p>Created page with &quot;{{article | publication = Birmingham Daily News | file = 1988-11-18 Birmingham News.jpg | px = 400 | height = | width = | date = 1988-11-18 | author = Jackie Dietrich | pag...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{article<br /> | publication = Birmingham Daily News<br /> | file = 1988-11-18 Birmingham News.jpg<br /> | px = 400<br /> | height = <br /> | width = <br /> | date = 1988-11-18<br /> | author = Jackie Dietrich <br /> | pages = 19<br /> | language = English <br /> | type = <br /> | description = <br /> | categories = <br /> | moreTitles = <br /> | morePublications = <br /> | moreDates = <br /> | text = <br /> Actor manhandled by ghost<br /> <br /> HE's grappled with monsters, Daleks and Cybermen with all the fearlessness befitting Dr Who. But Time Lord Sylvester McCoy didn't have his Tardis to hide in when he was spooked by a frightening supernatural experience that could have come straight out of a Dr Who script.<br /> <br /> Sylvester, 45, believe he was manhandled b a ghost when he was appearing in She Stoops to Conquer at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.<br /> <br /> &quot;I was talking to another actor in the bar when I felt someone's hand pressing down on my shoulder, said the eccentric actor.<br /> <br /> &quot;For a moment it was very frightening,&quot; he added. &quot;When I realised it wasn't the other actor touching me I went rigid with fear.&quot;<br /> <br /> Sylvester, the seventh Dr Who, believes he came into contact with the Belgrade ghost.<br /> <br /> &quot;I know the founder of the theatre was killed tragically in a car crash so 3t may have been him lurking around the place.&quot; A similar experience sent a shiver up his spine in Stratford East when he starred in So You Want To Be In Pictures. &quot;Supernatural happenings obviously aren't confined to the Dr Who scripts,&quot; he laughed.<br /> ----<br /> Ten facts about Dr Who<br /> <br /> 1 [[broadwcast:An Unearthly Child|The first episode]] of Dr Who went Out the day altar president John F Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas.<br /> <br /> 2. Dr Who is shown in 65 different countries.<br /> <br /> 3 The longest-serving Doctor was Tom Baker who stuck with the series for seven years. <br /> <br /> 4 Terry Nation, who wrote all the Dalek scriptsm want on to become a multi-millionaire.<br /> <br /> 5. One of the most frequently asked questions by Dr Who fans is 'Did Tom Baker really dye his teeth?'<br /> <br /> 6. The Dr Who Magazine, the official fan meg, sells 23,000 copies a month worldwide.<br /> <br /> 7. British Home Stores produced a range of Dr Who underpants with Tom Baker's face printed on them.<br /> <br /> 8 The third Doctor, Patrick Troughton, hated working with the Daleks because he 'didn't like being upstaged by them'. says John Freeman, editor of the Dr Who Magazine.<br /> <br /> 9. Dalek designer Raymond Cusick once wanted to use dead rats to dress a scene<br /> <br /> 10. Between 1963 and 1988 there base been 26 time traveller companions.<br /> <br /> The first assistant was Carol Ann Ford as Susan and the latest is Sophie Aldred as Ace<br /> <br /> <br /> Caption: Sylvester McCoy: frightening supernatural experience.<br /> <br /> Spelling correction: Carole Ann Ford<br /> <br /> <br /> }}</div>

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