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."
List of actors considered for the part of the Doctor
Actors who auditioned for the role in the 1996 film included Rowan Atkinson (who played a spoof version of the Doctor in "Curse of Fatal Death"), Liam Cunningham (who appeared in the 2013 "Doctor Who" episode "Cold War"), Mark McGann (whose brother Paul McGann eventually got the role), Robert Lindsay, Eric Idle, Tim McInnerny (who appeared in the 2008 "Doctor Who" episode "Planet of the Ood"), Nathaniel Parker, Peter Woodward, John Sessions (who later played Tannis in the audio drama "Death Comes to Time", and voiced Gus in the 2014 "Doctor Who" episode "Mummy on the Orient Express"), Anthony Head (who appeared in the 2006 "Doctor Who" episode "School Reunion", narrated episodes of the "Doctor Who Confidential" behind-the-scenes series, and provided voice-acting work for both the televised "The Infinite Quest" and the "Excelis" story arc from Big Finish Productions), Rik Mayall and Tony Slattery. Billy Connolly has stated that he was also considered for the part. Peter Capaldi was invited to audition, but declined, as he "didn't think [he] would get it, and... didn't want to just be part of a big cull of actors." Capaldi was eventually cast as the Twelfth Doctor.