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Michael Troughton steps into the vocal shoes of his father for a new set of adventures for the Second Doctor – and he chatted to SFB and Radio Times about it

I certainly did look at a lot of episodes, the ones that are available and I did see an awful lot of improvisation (laughs) because when it went into Television Centre it was shot as if it was live. They only had a certain amount of time because it’s very expensive with tape and he had to do an awful lot of improvisation when things went wrong or an actor forgot their lines. It’s an incredibly energetic thing to keep up – no wonder by the end of the first year he just thought ‘I don’t know if I can carry on like this.’ He was the engine behind every scene, essentially, and he would drive it forward.

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