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."
Amicus Productions
In the mid-1960s Amicus also produced two films based on the television series "Doctor Who" which had debuted on television in 1963. The films, "Dr. Who and the Daleks" (1965) and "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." (1966), are the only theatrical film adaptations of the series. In these films Peter Cushing played "Dr. Who", a human scientist rather than an alien, with "Who" as his actual surname, ignoring the backstory of the TV series.