The Fifth Doctor is the name used when referring to the fifth incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. The Fifth Doctor was played by Peter Davison.
The Fifth Doctor is the name used when referring to the fifth incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. The Fifth Doctor was played by Peter Davison.
Fivey took over from Four in Legopolis, his first real story being Castrovulva. Except he doesn't count as a canon doctor because he's really fucking boring. It's actually a Baker to Baker regeneration. Fifth Doctor is no longer canon. Mostly remembered for the nineteenth season episode All Monsters Great And Small where he sticks his hand up a cow's anus.
Like his first two incarnations, the Fifth Doctor often travelled with multiple companions. However, his TARDIS was rarely as harmonious as those of his predecessors. Instead, he frequently found himself stuck between Tegan Jovanka's pessimism and Adric's arrogance or Turlough's antagonism. Stuck in the middle with him was usually Nyssa. Even after he seemingly was settled on just having one companion, he and Peri Brown found another companion, a pharaoh from Egypt called Erimem, and the Doctor once again slid into the role of the oft-maligned chaperone.