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JON PERTWEE, known to generations of television viewers as Dr Who and
later Worzel Gummidge, died yesterday, aged 76.

The actor had a heart attack while on holiday in Connecticut with his
second wife, Ingeborg. He was due to return to Britain to take his
one-man show on tour around the country on Thursday. News of his death
shocked colleagues who paid tribute to an actor who was a mainstay of
BBC television and radio for more than 40 years.

Una Stubbs, who starred with him in the Worzel Gummidge series, said:
"I am absolutely shocked and saddened and my thoughts are now with his
wife and children."

Sylvester McCoy, the seventh actor to portray Dr
Who, said: "When I was a child Jon Pertwee on radio entertained and
delighted me, and made me laugh.

"As a young man he amazed and excited
me with his performance as the doctor. When I became the doctor I met
him for the first time and he became my great mate.

"One of the joys of
going to the Dr Who conventions was knowing he would be there."

Steve Wickham, former co-ordinator of the Doctor Who Appreciation
Society, said: "This is terribly sad news. For many fans in their 30s
who grew up with him, Jon was the Doctor. As the third doctor, he was
more of a father figure than the first two.

"He was one of the most
popular guests at our conventions, and it didn't take much to set him
off on one of his stories."

He once disclosed that the Daleks were put together with a sink
plunger, an egg whisk and 24 tennis balls

Pertwee starred as television's most famous time traveller between
1970 and 1974 and although other actors played the role for longer,
few were more popular.

He had little time for his character's most
deadly foes, the Daleks. Describing them as ridiculous, he once
disclosed that they were put together with a sink plunger, an egg
whisk and 24 tennis balls.

Having brought a flamboyant air to Dr Who, Pertwee went on to
entrance younger viewers as Worzel Gummidge, a turnip-headed
scarecrow.

By the time he arrived on television, the actor was already
a household name, known to a massive radio audience as Chief Petty
Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark.

He also appeared in a number of
British films, including One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing and Carry on
Cleo.

Richard Briers, the actor, said Pertwee had recently been planning a
new comedy radio series, in which they were both to star. "He rang me
about six months ago, trying to get a new radio comedy off the ground.
It was to have been set in a magistrates' court.

We have lost a great
personality - he was a total one-off," he said.

In a recent interview, Pertwee admitted that he would love to play Dr
Who again.

"Of course, I'd love to reprise my role, but only as a
guest character - I might find kicking somebody under the chin
difficult nowadays," he told Radio Times.

[[Jon Pertwee obituary (Daily Telegraph)|Obituary: Page 23]]

Caption: Timelord: Jon Pertwee as the flamboyant third Doctor Who

Caption: Salt of the earth: as Worzel

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