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Harrop Buckley Designs The Fifth Doctor

Available to order while stocks last from www.robertharrop.com

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We at Harrop Buckley Designs Ltd have been creating collectable hand painted figurines for over 30 years and have gained a well earned reputation of high quality and accuracy of detail. Our extensive portfolio includes Thunderbirds, Camberwick Green, Beano Dandy and 2000AD to name but a few. A portfolio that is extremely nostalgic and very British, so it was no surprise that Doctor Who would be the next project that we wanted to embrace into our studios!

In partnership with the BBC, we have meticulously hand sculpted a range of 1:12 scale, hand cast and hand painted Doctor Who figurines, each made to strict Worldwide Limited Editions.
As a mark of provenance, each Limited Edition figurine will be numbered with a unique Edition Number and will come packaged in a presentation box with an Information Card and Certificate of Authenticity!

DATA…

THE FIFTH DOCTOR

1982 – 1984

“That’s the trouble with regeneration. You never quite know what you’re going to get.”

The Fifth Doctor made his first appearance in ‘Logopolis’, a 1981 story, where the Fourth Doctor is mortally wounded in a fall and regenerates. The newly regenerated Doctor, played by Peter Davison, made his full debut in the next story ‘Castrovalva’, which was first aired in January 1982.
In this story, the Fifth Doctor is still weak from his regeneration. The Doctor’s arch-enemy, the Master, ensnares Adric and tries to destroy the TARDIS by sending it back to ‘Event One’, where it will be torn apart in the creation of the galaxy. However, the Doctor manages to jettison a quarter of the TARDIS’ mass just in time, which propels them back to conventional time. With the Doctor still in recovery, Nyssa and Tegan take him to the tranquil town of Castrovalva to recuperate. What they have yet to realise is that this idyllic town is fictitious and is in fact another trap laid down by the Master.

The Fifth Doctor would appear in 69 episodes, spanning over three series, until his regeneration into the Sixth Doctor in ‘The Caves of Androzani’, aired in March 1984. The Fifth Doctor’s companions over this time included Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Vislor Turlough and Peri.

• Designed, Sculpted and Made in Shropshire, England by Harrop Buckley Designs Ltd.
• Traditionally Hand Sculpted by Mike Rogers.
• Official BBC License. The figurine has been approved by the Doctor Who television production team at the BBC.
• Approximately 7.4 inches (188mm) tall.
• A Limited Edition of Only 225 Figurines Worldwide.
• Individually hand numbered with a unique number on the base.
• Comes complete in a presentation box with information card and a Certificate of Authenticity!

Harrop Buckley Designs Ltd
Doctor Who Collection

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