Patrick Troughton - the best or, no, the only option is the best.

[neveralarch]

janeturenne did a post yesterday about how Patrick Troughton is secretly hot. Which is totally true, and I was going to write a comment in support of the trueness of this, when I realized it was getting a little long. And full of pictures. So I decided to throw out all of the weird over-sharing meta about seeing Two as an asexual vs a sexual Doctor and just do a picspam post about the hotness of Patrick Troughton.

Obviously I am making good decisions today.

So, I'm not making the case that Troughton wasn't pretty good-looking as the Doctor, because he kind of totally was.


Exhibit A.

But the character he was playing definitely wasn't meant to be a seductive one.


Exhibit B. Also, I love this shot so much.

Troughton himself though, well.


I believe this is from The Enemy of the World, where Troughton plays the Doctor and also a megalomaniacal scientist with a questionable accent.


I am incredibly unhappy that I can't find larger versions of either of these. Especially the eyepatch pirate one.



Robin hood! Also old-fashioned bicycles!


This is apparently from Space 1999, which I've never seen, so I don't know why he has a sequin glued to his head. But I'm sure there's a good reason.


I have nothing to add.

Wait, no, there's also this:


(Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling, AKA Jamie and Victoria).

Okay, now I'm done. But only because I ran out of photos.

Comments

[evilawyer.livejournal.com]

Came by to check for other de-anoned fic and saw this. There is a BBC interview from the late 70's with Patrick Troughton that is on one of the DVDs (and damned if I can't ever remember which one). I know it's the 70's because the interviewer is wearing tragically revoltingly mismatched clothing. Anyway, Troughton, who had to have been in his fifties at the time, is wearing a sportsjacket and a tie, and he has this neatly trimmed, graying beard with his still dark brown hair. And his blue eyes just sparkle. Oh, the man was hot! Yes, indeedy. And sarcastically funny, too --- he shamelessly messed with the interviewer for being an unprepared idiot. (I thought he was still hot in '86 when he appeared in an Inspector Morse episode, even though he was creepy in that role.) Excellent call on the hotness!

[neveralarch]

I've been putting off editing the next fic for some reason - I should get on that. Especially since it's been... a month since the last one. Wow, I hadn't realized.

Anyway! I hadn't realized Troughton was in the Inspector Morse series, but now that I've looked it up, I've totally seen that episode. It was a while ago, though, and I don't remember anything about it. Obviously I should track it down and add it to my growing 'Troughton appearances' watch list. It's always weird to see Troughton in color, though, even with those blue eyes.

[evilawyer.livejournal.com]

I thought you wouldn't want to forget his stint in the original "The Omen", which includes his big moment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dw8JtFzAoo). That movie, incidently, was my very first exposure to Patrick Troughton. I still found him oddly compelling.