Zhord
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DR Who - Peter CushingThis is a question to Der Martin or anyone else who can answer it.
Peter Cusing always said that he was "Doctor Who" and not just "The Doctor." Also, his granddaughter was called Susan Who in the films.
How/Why did they change Dr.Who from an old human scientist whom claims he built the TARDIS to a Time Lord who had stolen the TARDIS?
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Deako
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Because the original idea smelled worse than an onion that’s been left out in the sun...
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Der Martin
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Ok first of all the original Dr. was absolutely non-human. William hartnell says so in the very first episode. Err the "grandfather" says, "we are not of this earth we are travellers from the fourth dimensions of space and time" (from memory) This was of course in B/W some years before the Cushing films, which were made in color (always a good clue as to where the cronology lies).
In the original series only Susan adopts a human guise (at least in the beginning) so that she will fit in better at her school on earth where she poses as a pupil in order to study human behaviour.
Good. In the Cushing films the Doctor IS presumed to be human and he definately plays along as being human acting surprised at being on another planet, etc. It could of course all be a show put on so as not to cause suspicion and mistrust amongs earth's inhabitants. The cuestion of his alienness is never brought up.
My own theory is that the film-makers were weary of having the central character portrayed as an alien, in those days it was just a lot harder to get away with and appeal to a large audience, which the film incidentally didn't in the end. One should remember that the Peter cushing Films were meant to be Spin offs without any particular continuity with the series. Both of them were essentially remakes of first doctor stories filmed in Color for the first time and meant to take on a different format and with that appeal to an adult audience, whose imagination could probably only cope with the concept of time/space travel if it was perpetrated by a human.
Our favourite time traveller has but one name i.e. "the Doctor" or simply "Doctor" to his friends. In the series he has never introduced himself as "Doctor who" although i have heard that in one of the first Drs (maybe the 2nd) episodes a sideline character in a fuddle introduces him to a third party as "Dr. who" the Doctor doesn't flinch to correct him any more than he did grace as she introduced him as Dr Bowman in the 1996 TV movie.
So when did the doctor change from human grandfather inventor to alien? Well in the TV series he didn't really.
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Berethor
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wow.. thats interesting. i probably would have answered the same as deako!
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Deako
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Sylvester McCoy starred as The Doctor in the 50th anniversary episode in the 1980's (Which featured Cybermen). In this episode he is referred to once (and only once) as Dr. Who...
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Der Martin
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thanks for that Deako 
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