Five Rounds Rapid!
After a relatively unhappy childhood and education, and a fascinating apprenticeship in repertory theatre, Nicholas Courtney moved into television in the sixties. Anearly audition for a part in the BBC’s Doctor Who – which he didn’t get – led to an association with the show in 1965 that is still going strong.
Five Rounds Rapid! recounts the ups and downs, the setbacks, religion, remorse, triumph, divorce, recognition, unhappiness, new-found joy, loss and professional accolades throughout the world as Nick treads the boards of life with tremendous optimism.
Despite being typecast as a military type by many, his extensive career includes Shakespeare with Sir Donald Wolfit, farce with Eric Sykes, pantomime with Wilfrid Brambell, hugely successful nationwide tours, musicals and some of the best-loved sitcoms and lauded dramas on television.
Despite his busy schedule, Nick has still found time to hold a position of great authority on the Equity council for many years, and to appear on stage in PVC, fishnets and high heels.
But Doctor Who is clearly the favourite part of his career and here he charts his feelings about every story in which he appeared in the longest-running sci-fi series in the world – with great fondness, honesty and humour. After all, no other actor has appeared in the programme with
Five Rounds Rapid! is lavishly illustrated with over a hundred photographs – many from Nick’s own collection and published here for the first time – and reveals that Nick is truly ‘a soldier in Time’.
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