Engineer on a luxury spacecraft which was modelled on the famous Orient Express. During one of its voyages a number of people died suddenly, apparently seeing something invisible which horrified them in the minute or so before their deaths. Intrigued, Perkins decided to investigate and discovered that one of the passengers had the same idea - the Doctor. Perkins found him in the baggage car examining the latest victim. He went on to help the Doctor identify the perpetrator - a mummified soldier, enhanced with alien technology, which inhabited a pocket of time 66 seconds outside its normal flow.
Everyone had been lured onto the Orient Express in order that a shadowy corporation might retro-engineer and weaponise this technology. After the Doctor had destroyed the mummy, the corporation - which communicated though an AI known as GUS - elected to remove all evidence of what it had done by blowing up the craft. The Doctor saved everyone by getting them into the TARDIS. Perkins was most impressed with this, but declined to stay on and become its engineer.
Played by: Frank Skinner. Appearances: Mummy on the Orient Express (2014)
- Real name Christopher Graham Collins, Skinner is best known in the UK for his comedy, but he has also acted and presented.
- He collaborated with fellow comedian David Baddiel and band The Lightning Seeds to release the song Three Lions for the 1996 Euros (subsequently re-released twice since then, to tie in with other football tournaments).
- Also a huge Doctor Who fan, he presented a documentary on Terrance Dicks on the Season 8 Blu-ray box set and featured on a Big Finish audio adventure.
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