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THE actor who was the BBC's first "Dr. Who," William Hartnell, returns tonight to television for the first time since he quit the role four years ago.<br />
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"I was ill for eighteen months," he said at his 300-year-old cottage at Mayfield, Sussex. "It was a double affair—pleurisy and a nervous breakdown."<br />
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Now Hartnell is back in the acting business—playing a concierge who gives evidence in a murder case in Crime of Passion (ITV, 8.30), writes JACK BELL.<br />
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"But," he said. don't say 'Yes' to everything. I turn things down if I don't think they're right.<br />
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"I would like to get back to more TV," he added. "but it is difficult because you don't always get the parts you want.<br />
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"And, of course, they fight fishy about engaging expensive actors."<br />
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He thinks his illness might have been partly a reaction after appearing in a long running weekly series (he was Dr. Who for more than three years).<br />
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"I was upset at coming out of Dr. Who. But I didn't agree with what was happening to him. There was too much violence creeping into the series," said Hartnell<br />
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Adult<br />
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'It's too adult. It's meant for children not grown-tips.<br />
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There are lots of things von could learn from it how to start a major war."<br />
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He watched the two "transformations" that brought in his successors as Dr Who—Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee.<br />
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"I've stopped watching. So have a lot of children—that's what I hear. They keep saying to me 'When are You coming back ?'<br />
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"But it's all so different now." <br />
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