8 Doctor Who Actors Who Were Fired Or Quit

8. Nicholas Pegg

The most recent termination to come from the production of Doctor Who came as a result of a poor choice of words being posted in a column in Doctor Who Magazine. Under the pseudonym of The Watcher, Nicholas Pegg wrote the column "A History of Dr. Who in 100 Objects."

He included an encoded message, wherein the first letter of each sentence spelled out: "Panini and BBC Worldwide are c***s." Panini is the distributor of Doctor Who Magazine, so probably best not to have written that, and of course, BBC Worldwide is the marketing arm of the network's longest-running series.

Nicholas Pegg was summarily sacked from the series, and if you don't know who he is, you'd definitely recognize what he's smiling beside in the picture above. Pegg was the actor who bred life into the Daleks for a dozen years, beginning with "Bad Wolf" and ending with "The Witch's Familiar."

He performed alongside every Doctor to take the role since the reboot began in 2005, but his hidden comment didn't sit well with anyone. He was removed from the series before he had a chance to pilot a Dalek in the direction of Whittaker's Doctor to ironically blurt out "EXTERMINATE!"