13 Great Non-Doctor Who Performances By Each Doctor

Sylvester McCoy is a true renaissance man, he's a ferret wrangler, a clown, a wizard, the Seventh Doctor and an actor capable of turning in some absolutely devastating performances in Scottish sitcoms. He first played Rab C Nesbitt's bipolar uncle in the moving episode Father to heartbreaking effect and was then cast in the episode Oot in Still Game's third series.

It's one of the show's first proper star turns, and McCoy brings the sort of mercurial charm he brought to his Doctor to hermit Archie. He is an absolute joy to watch from from his panicked trip down a rubber rapids at the swimming pool to his addiction to Big Macs. As ever with Still Game, there's also a great deal of heart to the story beyond the comedy. A

rchie's distress at being broken into is beautifully played by McCoy, as his conspiratorial whisky with Winston. As a performer and as someone with a family history of mental illness (his own mother was instituionalised), Sylvester McCoy clearly responds to the material and gives it the humanity and humour that it requires. It's a testament to what an underrated actor and Doctor he is.