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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: First Doctor of Color
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 20:35:16 +1100
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Blueshirt wrote on 5/1/25 4:41 am:
> Agent Jakanov wrote:
> 
>> 55 years ago, on 3 January 1970, the first Doctor portrayed
>> by a person of colour appeared on TV.
> 
> Or more correctly, in colour!
>   
>> (Technically, Peter Cushing was the first Colored Doctor,
>> but nobody counts him as canon.)
> 
> I do.
> 
> If people can say that Doctor Who finished in 2017 and ignore
> all of the Doctor's that we've seen since, then I count Peter
> Cushing as a Doctor. We just need a big ball of wibbly-wobbly
> timey-wimey stuff to fit in him...
> 
Was he one of the intervening The Timeless Child 'Doctor Who' iterations??
-- 
Daniel