Dr Who spaced out over extra D
- Publication: The Daily Mirror (Australia)
- Date: 1983-04-20
- Author: Joanne Sawicki and David Brown
- Page: 49
- Language: English
PETER Davison, the latest Dr Who, is particularly fussy how people spell his surname and with very good reason. "Remember there's no D in it," David said.
He is in Australia to promote two science-fiction books he has edited and to present an award at the Logies.
"There used to be an actor called Peter Davidson (note the D) and he used to be sent my mail and offered jobs meant for me, because people thought we were the one and the same person," he said.
But the name was where the similarity between the two actors ended.
Our Peter Davison is tall, slender and blond. The imposter, so to speak, was a big Scotsman.
The identity crisis was sorted out shortly after Peter Davison (our one) won recognition for his popular role in All Creatures Great And Small. The other one diplomatically bowed to pressure and changed his name.
WHEN it comes to naming problems Peter Davison is in good company. David Ogden Stiers (Winchester in M*A*S*H), yet another overseas luminary here here for the Logies, has set the record straight
BUT Mike Farrell, Stier's David M*A*S*H colleague who's also in Australia for the Logies (good grief, another one!) is making sure knows everyone who he is and how to spell his name.
He sat in on David Stier's press conference at The Regent this week wearing a blue and white T- shirt emblazoned with his name all over it
He does not have a double-barrel name as people think.
Somewhere along the line someone must have added the hyphen and the name stuck. Ogden is the actor's middle name.
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- APA 6th ed.: Brown, Joanne Sawicki and David (1983-04-20). Dr Who spaced out over extra D. The Daily Mirror (Australia) p. 49.
- MLA 7th ed.: Brown, Joanne Sawicki and David. "Dr Who spaced out over extra D." The Daily Mirror (Australia) [add city] 1983-04-20, 49. Print.
- Chicago 15th ed.: Brown, Joanne Sawicki and David. "Dr Who spaced out over extra D." The Daily Mirror (Australia), edition, sec., 1983-04-20
- Turabian: Brown, Joanne Sawicki and David. "Dr Who spaced out over extra D." The Daily Mirror (Australia), 1983-04-20, section, 49 edition.
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