Doctor Who: 10 Superfans Who Landed Starring Roles
Want to know who was born to be the proud owner the The TARDIS keys? Read on.
From tattoos to themed weddings, Doctor Who has definitely got its superfans. Some of these mega geeks have even ended up starring in and creating new and exciting stories for The Doctor and her companions to go on.
Since it's been on our screens for close to sixty years now, it's only natural that now and again Doctor Who superfans are going to land starring roles in the BBC's flagship sci-fi program. We all know those handfuls of actors who don't look back at their time on the show fondly or even grew up watching the program but for some, having the chance to star in even a single episode of Doctor Who was a dream come true.
Some superfans were luckier than others, with some having recurring character roles across multiple seasons of the show and others actually landing the leading role itself. To find out who wrote endlessly to the BBC, ran the Doctor Who fan club, waited in line for the chance to meet Tom Baker and even had family members create replica items from the show, keep reading.
10. Mark Gatiss
When you think of Mark Gatiss you might first think of the massively successful, Benedict Cumberbatch starring, Steven Moffat co-wrote, BBC Drama that is Sherlock.
But long before Sherlock in 2005 Mark Gatiss was approached by then show-runner of Doctor Who, Russell T Davies, to pen the third episode of the revival of the show starring Christopher Eccleston as the ninth Doctor alongside Billie Piper as Rose Tyler.
With a number of Doctor Who stories under his belt, Mark Gatiss was able to tell the rest of us Doctor Who fans that he was a fan just like us. But then, Gatiss went the extra step. Instead of standing behind the camera, Gatiss ended up in front of it starring alongside David Tennant's Tenth incarnation of The Doctor in The Lazarus Experiment.
He also guest starred with Peter Capaldi's Twelfth incarnation of the famous Time Lord in Twice Upon A Time which also starred David Bradley, recast as the First Doctor originally played by William Hartnell when the program first began in 1963.
More recently Gatiss has been appearing in Doctor Who audio stories as an alternative incarnation of The Master and an upcoming appearance in a new David Tennant series Dalek Universe.