Meet the stars of Doctor Who before they were famous
From a teenage Tennant to Peter Capaldi’s stint in The Beatles, here are some of our favourite clips of Doctor Who stars before they stepped aboard the TARDIS…
Freema Agyeman
Freema Agyeman got her TV break with a regular role in ITV’s early noughties revival of the famously shambolic soap Crossroads. Her character, Lola Wise, booked into the King’s Oak Hotel pretending to be a pop star, and ended up having to pay off her debts by working in the kitchen. Skip to 11:04 for the moment she and her sister are rumbled by the manager (and Freema gets in some early companion practice with the line “go and fetch a doctor”).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7p_BB47Q2o
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