The Life and Times of A Doctor Who Dummy: My Part In His Second Regeneration

The Life and Times of a Doctor Who Dummy or Doctor Who: My Part In His Second Regeneration is an autobiography released by Robin Squire detailing more of his time before and after he became a Doctor Who Auton in Jon Pertwee's very first story Spearhead from Space.

The Life and Times of a Doctor Who Dummy or Doctor Who: My Part In His Second Regeneration is Robin Squire's personal time-travel journey sans Tardis, revisiting the densely-packed years 1965-69 which he began by hitch-hiking to the South of France, meeting other freewheeling youth along the way and experiencing, among other things, Beatlemania at first hand in an echoing public hall in Nice, from which, as he puts it, his head is still ringing from the screams. Squire returned to a vibrant "swinging" London of psychedelia, bedsits, mini-skirted "birds" and a house shared with other lads near the Portobello Road, watched on black and white TV with an anguished German girl as England kicked the daylights out of her country's team in the 1966 World Cup, wrote and had his debut novel (about the pop scene) published, was interviewed on radio by a young DJ called Terry Wogan, became a husband and father for the first time and, as a crazy consequence of all of which, found himself, much to his surprise, attached to BBC TV on a show called Doctor Who, which at the time was falling from favour with BBC executives and in urgent need of a re-boot. In its humble and always modest way, Squire's was one of the boots applied.

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