Paul Gadzikowski

This year's Doctor Who Christmas special features guest star Richard E. Grant, who has been associated with Doctor Who before. For the show's 40th anniversary in 2003, just before Doctor Who returned to tv after sixteen years, the BBC website debuted a six-part animated adventure Scream of the Shalka by Paul Cornell (later Hugo nominee for the 2005 Doctor Who episode Father's Day and the 2007 two-parter Human Nature/The Family of Blood), with Grant voicing the "official" [that is, until the revival began airing in 2005] ninth incarnation of the Doctor. As I had done with the [definitely unofficial] Rowan Atkinson ninth incarnation from the 1999 Red Nose Day telethon sketch authored by Doctor Who's current head writer Steven Moffat (Hugo winner 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011 for Doctor Who scripts), I incorporated the Grant ninth Doctor into my cartoons. ( Here, in salute to Grant, is a selection of cartoons featuring the Doctor in that incarnation. )

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