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Why Don't YouTube?

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson meet a champers toting Wogan to explain how Dickinson still has that tonal range and why their new daughter Georgia won't be following in the family acting way. Yet.

Doctor Who Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson on Wogan

A nice short interview...

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December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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archivetvmusings

@archivetvmusings.bsky.social

The first episode of Sink or Swim was originally broadcast on this day in 1980. Written by Alex Shearer, it starred Peter Davison, Robert Glenister and Sara Corper.

December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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Richard Paris

@rwparis2.bsky.social

OMG!!

Peter Davison is my Doctor!
This mini adventure is awesome!

Doctor Who: the collection – season 21 trailer.

The Fifth Doctor vs. the Daleks | The Collection: Season 21 Announcement Trailer | Doctor Who

YouTube video by Doctor Who

youtu.be

December 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM

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Kew Gardens

@rbgkew.bsky.social

Plant taxonomy is disappearing - and so is our ability to protect species 🍂

Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast.

Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇
https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa

Illustration showing a person examining a plant with text about the scarcity of plant taxonomists worldwide.

December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Dr Tatiana Porto

@drtatianaporto5.bsky.social

I've been working hard on my 2026 plans over here. It's not an easy task, but I'm very happy about them.

November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Richard Binns

@moralavenger.bsky.social

This short Confidential episode covers David Tennant and Peter Davison both discuss working with each other, while costume designer Louise Page reveals the challenges faced when sourcing of all the elements of the Fifth Doctor's outfit for the production.

youtu.be/P9falZ9KyQQ?...

Doctor Who Confidential Series 3: Time Crash (Children in Need)

YouTube video by DWConfidential

youtu.be

November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM

Dr Tatiana Porto

@drtatianaporto5.bsky.social

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot lot!!!!

Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · Nov 11

Just for fun - the Fifth, Seventh, and Sixth Doctors appalled by what they read in The Companions of Doctor Who with my art on the cover.

#DoctorWho

Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, and Colin Baker.

November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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Simon Barton

@simonbarton.bsky.social

The wonderful Peter Davison at Midlands Arts Centre today 👏
#DoctorWho

November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Dr Tatiana Porto

@drtatianaporto5.bsky.social

Being in Brazil is tricky sometimes because I miss seeing Peter Davison again...

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · Nov 9

“HOW MANY PICTURES DO YOU NEED OF PETER DAVISON???”

November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM

Dr Tatiana Porto

@drtatianaporto5.bsky.social

I'm in Brazil and promoting online this great event with Peter Davison is a pleasure!

Dr Tatiana Porto @drtatianaporto5.bsky.social · Nov 3

An event not to be missed. The amazing and fantastic Peter Davison this Sunday in Birmingham!

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · Oct 11

DOCTOR WHO FANS OF THE WEST MIDLANDS & BIRMINGHAM, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE

November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM

Dr Tatiana Porto

@drtatianaporto5.bsky.social

I have a thing for Time Crash.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · Nov 7

Peter Davison, 2007 5/13

Peter Davison as the Doctor in 2007, during production of Time Crash.

November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM

Dr Tatiana Porto

@drtatianaporto5.bsky.social

An event not to be missed. The amazing and fantastic Peter Davison this Sunday in Birmingham!

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · Oct 11

DOCTOR WHO FANS OF THE WEST MIDLANDS & BIRMINGHAM, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE

Sun 9 Nov
An Audience With Peter Davison
PRICE
£19.95

When listing the different TV series that Peter Davison has been a part of since he first appeared on screen in 1975, it's probably easier to list the series he hasn't been a part of. Over the years, Davison has been part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Doctor Who, Miss Marple, All Creatures Great & Small, Law & Order UK, Toast Of London, Good Omens, Gentleman Jack... the list goes on.

Square Eyes is delighted to welcome Peter to this year's festival to talk about his stellar TV career. Before the Q&A, we'll be screening the Doctor Who adventure Black Orchid from Davison's first series as the Fifth Doctor, plus we'll also be showing clips from the Andrew Davies drama A Very Peculiar Practice, which was partly filmed at a number of University of Birmingham locations in the late 80s, including the Arts Building tower and the Vale.

SQUARE EYES
TV FESTIVAL

November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM

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The 70s Guy

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Born 29 Oct 1925, actor Robert Hardy. Hardy starred in 'All Creatures Great & Small' (1978), set in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. Christopher Timothy played Herriot, Hardy played Siegfried Farnon, proprietor of the surgery & Peter Davison was Siegfried's little brother. #RobertHardy

October 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM

Dr Tatiana Porto

@drtatianaporto5.bsky.social

This interview with Peter Davison at Whooverville 6...awww, great memories of it. It was a life-changing moment on my journey as a Peter Davison admirer.

finneyzair.bsky.social @finneyzair.bsky.social · Oct 23

Quad Derby September 2014. On stage about to interview Peter Davison at Whooverville. Looks like we are preparing to make a run for it!
Photo by Kara Fox.

October 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM

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Tim Worthington

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Fox Tales - Peter Davison-narrated post-Doctor Who gig collection of puppets on a black background-rendered deeply European animal-skewed folk tales from the fading out end of 'Hauntology', with haunting ITV continuity announcer interjections to match.

timworthington.org/2024/09/07/l...

October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM

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Save Redland Library

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7pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2012, the pilot episode of #Comedy 📻 “Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully” written by Eddie Robson.

🌟 Katherine Parkinson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jan Francis, Peter Davison, Dave Lamb

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully, Pilot

Sitcom about an alien invasion of a small English village. Starring Katherine Parkinson.

www.bbc.co.uk

October 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM

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Richard Binns

@moralavenger.bsky.social

Will Clara be able to get The Doctor back in time to stop The Boneless?

Taken from Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 9 "Flatline"

#DoctorWho

youtu.be/ll_UhrQMC-I?...

"The Man That Stops The Monsters" | Flatline | Doctor Who

YouTube video by Doctor Who

youtu.be

October 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM

Dr Tatiana Porto

@drtatianaporto5.bsky.social

É engraçado que o meu amor pela Inglaterra começou pela música e depois a TV. As duas me moldaram como pessoa de uma maneira incrível: hoje falar inglês é algo tão natural quanto o português, minhas duas empresas de educação têm 50% do seu DNA vindo das minhas vivências em terras inglesas.

October 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM

Dr Tatiana Porto

@drtatianaporto5.bsky.social

Steven Wilson never disappoints...just returned from his solo gig here, another proof that English progressive rock is top notch.

October 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM

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Knowledge Network

@knowledge.ca

Join John Sergeant, Peter Davison and Paul "Piglet" Middleton on a steam-powered journey from London to Scotland. Adventure as they travel by paddleboats, barges, steamrollers, tractors, and even the occasional coal-fired car.

Britain by Steam

Watch free on knowledge.ca/program/britain-steam

October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM

Dr Tatiana Porto

@drtatianaporto5.bsky.social

Every time I read this passage from Peter Davison's autobiography, they give me shivers down my spine.

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · Oct 10

Great thread. I can add Peter Davison writing about his father:

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

I more like him than I cared to admit while he was alive. I stand like he did, sit like he did, I look at my hands and see his, I look in the mirror and see his features, even though our colouring was so completely different. While I longed to look more like him, I realise I turned out as perfectly as he could have wished.
Here was a man from the Caribbean who wanted nothing more than to be accepted as British, who had a son who had made a name for himself playing the typical Eng-lishman.

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

But of course it did matter. What to us was a taste of the exotic was, to my father a bothersome distraction in his quest to be accepted as an exemplary British citizen.
The fact that his only son was born with blond hair and blue eyes, courtesy of inheriting my mother's dominant Caucasian genes, unlike my sisters, made the transition complete. Over the years however, his West Indian heritage became more than a distraction, and while we never knew of it until later, there's no doubt he suffered discrimination and rejection at the hands of Mother England that he loved. When Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and my father had to stand in line and register as an alien, having been eventually accepted by my mother's extended family and friends, probably did nothing to soften his feelings.

October 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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George S

@harmonygritz.bsky.social

Like the TARDIS, the fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) seems to be bigger on the inside, containing multitudes. Fun to consider not only his episodes, but also his other roles over the years.

Very interesting thread!

#DoctorWho #ancestry

Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · Oct 10

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

October 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM

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Anderson Oliveira

@mundodeandy.bsky.social

O Rush vai fazer uma turnê de reunião.

Não tava preparado pra isso, mas nunca estive preparado pra nada dessa banda e uma das maiores emoções da vida foi ter visto um show deles da grade.

variety.com/2025/music/n...