The Second Doctor

And now my children, let me take you back in time to October and November 1966. Many of you won't have been born then but these were important months for us Whovians, it was the crossroads and the stories in those months could have been the end of Doctor Who. William Hartnell had decided to leave the show and the producers were posed with a problem about what to do.
Then!
Someone had a brilliant idea about making the Doctor have the ability to change his appearance, therefore allowing actors to leave the role when they needed. And so Regeneration was born, although not mentioned in that name until the 3rd Doctor's era. The important thing was choosing a actor to take over from the Great Hartnell, someone who would carry on Doctor Who and make it bigger and better then before. They couldn't have chosen a better actor; Patrick Troughten . He was everything Bill was not and yet he was still the Doctor, still carried that sense of justice that was needed in every Doctor. The producers struck gold with Pat, may he rest in piece, any other actor and Doctor Who could of floundered and failed, disappearing into the history books but it didn't! It has risen and risen, it has never risen higher then it has before and I think we owe a large part of that to the two first Doctors, especially Pat.

The Second Doctor

The cosmic hobo

From grandfather to favourite uncle

Whimsical, buffoonish and witty

Hid a streak of ruthlessness behind a childlike recklessness

Captured by the Lords of Time and put on trial

Met his end at their hands; exiled and forced to change.