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You may be looking for his real world counterpart.

Peter Davison was an actor who portrayed "Doctor Who" in Doctor Who.

Biography[]

The Doctor once saved Davison from a Krynoid, and the Eleventh Doctor remembered that something seemed familiar about him when Emma mentioned watching Davison play the Doctor on television. (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)

Alternate universes[]

In a parallel universe in which the Doctor's life existed as a television series called Doctor Who, the actor Peter Davison once played the titular character. Emma used to watch the show during this time. (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)

Behind the scenes[]

Information from invalid sources[]

The kidnappers

The kidnapped Peter Davison. (NOTVALID: The Kidnappers)

In the 1999 television story The Kidnappers, Peter Davison played a version of himself who was kidnapped by two obsessed fanboys (David Walliams and Mark Gatiss), who act inappropiately towards Davison.

In NOTVALID: The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, Peter Davison portrays himself again.

Peter Davison photo

A photograph of Peter Davison. (NOTVALID: Peter Capaldi and Simon the Shy Cyberman Invite You to Breakfast with 7 Doctors)

Davison was brought together, along with many other actors who portrayed "Doctor Who", for a special breakfast in "London's glittering West End". The Twelfth Doctor considered making an appearance, to "see what these fictions [were] like." (NOTVALID: Peter Capaldi and Simon the Shy Cyberman Invite You to Breakfast with 7 Doctors)

Other matters[]

Evidently, "Peter Davison" was, in all instances, intended to be an in-universe version of the real Peter Davison, who portrayed the Fifth Doctor. Although he was not given a clear in-universe illustration during the narrative of WC: Peter Capaldi and Simon the Shy Cyberman Invite You to Breakfast with 7 Doctors or COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, the end of the webcast included a screen featuring photographs of each Doctor who would be present at the event, in-costume as "the Doctor".

All Creatures Great and Small and Button Moon exist in the DWU. In the real world, Peter Davison played one of the main characters in the former, and performed, alongside his former-wife Sandra Dickinson, the theme song for the latter.

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