The Box of Delights (TV series)
Patrick Troughton was a familiar face on BBC TV from playing the Second Doctor in "Doctor Who"; a contemporary "Blue Peter" feature on the drama makes the connection that in the role of Cole Hawlings, the kindly Punch and Judy Man, Troughton was playing another mysterious, scruffy time traveller. Renny Rye noted that Troughton "who was my favourite Doctor Who...had a quality that is unsurpassed, I think, as someone to pull you into a tale."
Second Doctor comic stories
When the War Games aired on the BBC and there was an absence in Doctor Who episodes broadcast, TV Comic continued to print comics featuring the second doctor and tied this into the series with the story line of when the second doctor was captured by the Time Lords in the end of the War Games and was put on trial for meddling in the affairs of other races and was forced to regenerate, he escaped with the help of the CIA (Celestial Intervention Agency) and worked with them for a while, until he was forced to return to Earth, where furthermore he hid from the Time Lords, fighting monsters until they sent what appeared to be scarecrows working for the Time Lords to force the second doctor to regenerate into the third. This story line became known as the Doctor Who Season 6B.