While speaking exclusively with Radio Times, Troughton acknowledged that his father "saved" Doctor Who by being part of its first regeneration, and said the reason this worked was "good casting".
"I think film actors transferred very well, but you look at his credits, and it’s a history of BBC and ITV television. It's extraordinary, and the number of parts he played, extraordinary. When I was writing his biography, I hadn't realised the number of of jobs he did.
"It's really irritating because he'd phone my brother up and myself, and say, 'Oh my goodness, I've been out of work for a week,' and we'd say 'A week? That's absolutely nothing. 'We've been out of work for six months. He hated being out of work. I think he was addicted to it, really, he absolutely loved it."
"That connection was very, very strong, and I'm sure it was word of mouth. 'Do you want to come in and play this? Do you want to do that?' And [producer] Innes Lloyd very cleverly saw that Dad had that strength of character, that way of creating characters so well, because he'd done so much before, to succeed [First Doctor star William Hartnell]."
He also reflected on the characterisation of the Second Doctor, saying: "'Cosmic hobo'. I don't know where that came from. He was a ragamuffin. He was a wonderful, cheeky ragamuffin that put on this persona of being a bit of a clown. But actually, underneath, he was so in control. People didn't realise until the end, of course, when everything was resolved."
View oEmbed on the source website"He had this thing about if you saw the person that was really underneath, then it would ruin the illusion, it would stop the reality, you couldn't suspend your disbelief with what that performance was. He was a great believer in that. He hated appearing as himself. Even at the conventions in America, he wouldn't appear as himself.
"He was a magician, a magician of his craft - I think that's a good description of him because I don't know where he got some of the performances he got. They were genius, absolutely genius."
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