"When I was a child, being a huge Doctor Who fan, I wrote numerous letters to the Doctor Who office largely inquiring about how the show was made.
"When it arrived the surprise package also [in addition to two full Jon Pertwee scripts] contained set designs and studio floor plans for these episodes and a delightful letter from producer Barry Letts giving me an idea what all this stuff was.
"It was a fantastic insight into both Doctor Who and TV production generally. I had never seen a script in any form whatsoever before then and was immediately fascinated by the documents."
The actor, who won a short film Oscar in 1993, was inspired to pursue a career on stage and screen by the BBC package.
He said: “That was a trigger to my ambition to work somehow – I didn’t know how - in TV. The scripts are still sitting on my bookshelf.”
-Peter Capaldi, quoted in an old Scottish Express article, written back in 2008 when he was announced to play Caecilius (est in horto) in Fires of Pompeii
