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This Doctor displayed considerable knowledge and expertise gained through extensive travels, and had even gained some small measure of control over the TARDIS, although not much more than his predecessor. Troughton's Doctor also had a sense of wonder, coupled with a child-like playfulness. But while he often played the fool, capering with a disarming smile and playing his recorder, he hid the mind of a brilliant scientist.
His last regular story was The War Games, broadcast in 1969. It was this ten-part story that revealed the Doctor's origins, which heretofore had only been hinted at: he was one of a race called the Timelords, who had mastery over time and space, but who were content to watch without interfering. The Doctor was taken back to his at the time unnamed home world, and put on trial for the crime of stealing a TARDIS and interfering in the universe outside. His sentence was a forced regeneration, and exile on Earth in the twentieth century, with the knowledge of how to operate the TARDIS blocked from his mind.
The second Doctor returned for the tenth anniversary of the series in The Three Doctors, for the twentieth anniversary in The Five Doctors, and one final time in the twenty-second season story The Two Doctors, where he met the sixth Doctor. Look below for more photos and sound clips of Patrick Troughton
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The
Doctor,magically
transformed, was younger with a new personality which in some
ways set the stage for all later Doctors. 
The second Doctor's first story, which no longer exists in
the BBC archives, was The Power of the Daleks. The six-part
story was broadcast between November and December of 1966.
Of the twenty stories of his era, only six remain in their
complete form. One of these, Tomb of the Cybermen, was
only rediscovered a few years ago in Hong Kong.
