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| The miniaturised TARDIS crew discover the body of Farrow (Frank Crawshaw) |
1. Planet of Giants (8.4m)
2. Dangerous Journey (8.4m)
3. Crisis (8.9m)
Average audience for serial: 8.57m
William Hartnell (The Doctor) January 8th 1908 to April 23rd 1975 (heart failure after a series of strokes) For a full career biography for William Hartnell, click here.
William Russell (Ian Chesterton) November 19th 1924 to June 3rd 2024 For a full career biography for William Russell (aka Russell Enoch), click here.
Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright) December 17th 1929 to February 18th 1993 (bone cancer) For a full career biography for Jacqueline Hill, click here.
Carole Ann Ford (Susan) Born June 16th 1940 For a full career biography for Carole Ann Ford, click here.
CREDITED GUEST CAST
Reginald Barratt (Smithers) January 25th 1920 to June 10th 1977
Career highlights
Reginald's career began playing a labourer in three episodes of The Railway Children (1951), and he also made appearances in Rex Milligan (1956), The Scarf (1959), The Splendid Spur (1960), Detective (1964), Public Eye (1966), The Avengers (1969), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Emmerdale Farm (1972), Angels (1975), Open All Hours (1976) and Romance (1977). He also had a regular role as Planchet in The Three Musketeers (1954).
Facts
In her memoir Adventures of a Jelly Baby, actress Judy Cornwell (who appeared in Paradise Towers) recalled working with Reginald when she was an assistant stage manager, and described him as having "a face like a wicked pixie and quite brilliant"!
Frank Crawshaw (Farrow) September 4th 1899 to April 2nd 1984
Career highlights
Debuted uncredited in Whom the Gods Love (1936), followed by Wings of the Morning (1937), The Three Weird Sisters (1948), The Adventures of Ben Gunn (1958), On Trial (1960), Wuthering Heights (1962), Love Story (1964), Mrs Thursday (1967), Half a Sixpence (1967), Arthur! Arthur! (1969) and Hadleigh (1973). He also had a regular role as Arnold Tanner, Elsie's first husband, in Coronation Street (1961/66), and was a contributor to the 1944 drama-documentary Men of Rochdale, which celebrated the centenary of Cooperative shops.
Fred Ferris (PC Bert Rowse) July 13th 1905 to January 25th 1978
Career highlights
Fred debuted in The Grove Family (1954/57), then took roles in My Sister and I (1956), Shadow Squad (1957), The Lenny the Lion Show (1959), The Days of Vengeance (1960), The Small House at Allington (1960), The World of Tim Frazer (1960), Here's Harry (1961), A Kind of Loving (1962), Some People (1962), The Big Pull (1962), Coronation Street (1962), The Plane Makers (1963/64), Compact (1964), Cluff (1965), The Power Game (1966) and Sergeant Cork (1966). Fred was also a radio and TV comedian in the 1950s, including BBC Radio's The Clitheroe Kid and Club Night, in which he played The Wacker.
Rosemary Johnson (Hilda Rowse) January 18th 1913 to November 10th 1972
Career highlights
Rosemary's other work includes Starr and Company (1958) and Champion House (1967)..
- A pictorial guide to the guest cast can be found at the bottom of this entry. Read an episode-by-episode review of this story at Time Space Visualiser here!
William Hartnell (The Doctor) January 8th 1908 to April 23rd 1975 (heart failure after a series of strokes) For a full career biography for William Hartnell, click here.
William Russell (Ian Chesterton) November 19th 1924 to June 3rd 2024 For a full career biography for William Russell (aka Russell Enoch), click here.
Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright) December 17th 1929 to February 18th 1993 (bone cancer) For a full career biography for Jacqueline Hill, click here.
Carole Ann Ford (Susan) Born June 16th 1940 For a full career biography for Carole Ann Ford, click here.
CREDITED GUEST CAST
Reginald Barratt (Smithers) January 25th 1920 to June 10th 1977
Career highlights
Reginald's career began playing a labourer in three episodes of The Railway Children (1951), and he also made appearances in Rex Milligan (1956), The Scarf (1959), The Splendid Spur (1960), Detective (1964), Public Eye (1966), The Avengers (1969), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Emmerdale Farm (1972), Angels (1975), Open All Hours (1976) and Romance (1977). He also had a regular role as Planchet in The Three Musketeers (1954).
Facts
In her memoir Adventures of a Jelly Baby, actress Judy Cornwell (who appeared in Paradise Towers) recalled working with Reginald when she was an assistant stage manager, and described him as having "a face like a wicked pixie and quite brilliant"!
Frank Crawshaw (Farrow) September 4th 1899 to April 2nd 1984
Career highlights
Debuted uncredited in Whom the Gods Love (1936), followed by Wings of the Morning (1937), The Three Weird Sisters (1948), The Adventures of Ben Gunn (1958), On Trial (1960), Wuthering Heights (1962), Love Story (1964), Mrs Thursday (1967), Half a Sixpence (1967), Arthur! Arthur! (1969) and Hadleigh (1973). He also had a regular role as Arnold Tanner, Elsie's first husband, in Coronation Street (1961/66), and was a contributor to the 1944 drama-documentary Men of Rochdale, which celebrated the centenary of Cooperative shops.
Fred Ferris (PC Bert Rowse) July 13th 1905 to January 25th 1978
Career highlights
Fred debuted in The Grove Family (1954/57), then took roles in My Sister and I (1956), Shadow Squad (1957), The Lenny the Lion Show (1959), The Days of Vengeance (1960), The Small House at Allington (1960), The World of Tim Frazer (1960), Here's Harry (1961), A Kind of Loving (1962), Some People (1962), The Big Pull (1962), Coronation Street (1962), The Plane Makers (1963/64), Compact (1964), Cluff (1965), The Power Game (1966) and Sergeant Cork (1966). Fred was also a radio and TV comedian in the 1950s, including BBC Radio's The Clitheroe Kid and Club Night, in which he played The Wacker.
Rosemary Johnson (Hilda Rowse) January 18th 1913 to November 10th 1972
Career highlights
Rosemary's other work includes Starr and Company (1958) and Champion House (1967)..
Facts
Rosemary was married to Irish actor William Sherwood.
Alan Tilvern (Forester) November 5th 1918 to December 17th 2003
Career highlights
Alan enjoyed a long acting career, starting in Jean's Plan (1946) and including The Small Voice (1948), Cairo Road (1950), The Face of Love (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1958), Invisible Man (1959), Sands of the Desert (1960), Crane (1963), The Plane Makers (1963-64), Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966), Khartoum (1966), Dad's Army (1969/73), UFO (1971), The Sweeney (1976), Poldark (1977), Superman (1978), Citizen Smith (1980), Firefox (1982), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) and Porgy and Bess (1993). Alan also directed for the soap Compact in 1963, and for a time was the radio voice of Dick Barton: Special Agent.
Facts
Alan was the founder member, along with Warren Mitchell, of a group which studied method acting, and was a major player in securing actors' rights with North American Equity. Alan's motto, in Yiddish, was: "The telephone rings and life changes". Before acting he was a barrow-boy in London's East End, and on another occasion set up a mail order business selling cuckoo clocks for Christmas! Alan married Australian actress Diane Elliott, and their daughter is Australian broadcaster Karalee Katsambanis, wife of Aussie Liberal politician Peter Katsambanis.
CREW
Louis Marks (writer) March 23th 1928 to September 17th 2010
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Planet of Giants (1964), Day of the Daleks (1972), Planet of Evil (1975), The Masque of Mandragora (1976)
Career highlights
Louis's writing career began with Skyport (1959-60), followed by duties on The Four Just Men (1960), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1958-60), Ghost Squad (1963), Danger Man (1964), No Hiding Place (1966), Doomwatch (1971-72), Bedtime Stories (1974) and Silas Marner (1985). He was also a prolific script editor - working on The Four Just Men (1959), No Hiding Place (1965-66), No Exit (1972), The Stone Tape (1972), Orde Wingate (1976), Brensham People (1976) and Premiere (1977) - and producer on programmes such as Centre Play (1974-77), The Lost Boys (1978), Baal (1982), Time and the Conways (1985), Thunder Rock (1985), Precious Bane (1989), The Trial (1993), Middlemarch (1994), Plotlands (1997) and Daniel Deronda (2002).
Facts
In 1955, Louis founded the magazine Books and Bookmen, aimed at authors, illustrators and avid readers, which was published until 1980. Oxford University graduate Louis started out as a history teacher at a boarding school before moving into TV production, and after retiring in 2002 ran a B&B with his wife Sonia.
Douglas Camfield (director, episode 4 - edited into episode 3) May 8th 1931 to January 27th 1984 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Production assistant: An Unearthly Child (uncredited, 1963), Marco Polo (uncredited, 1964)
Directed: An Unearthly Child (film inserts, uncredited, 1963), Planet of Giants (episode 4, material from which was edited into episode 3, 1964), The Crusade (1965), The Time Meddler (1965), The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66), The Web of Fear (1968), The Invasion (1968), Inferno (1970), Terror of the Zygons (1975), The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Career highlights
Douglas's Doctor Who career began as production assistant on the very first story, and could have included a stint as its producer had he accepted the post when offered it in 1969. It may be just as well he didn't, as during production of Inferno the following year he was taken ill with a heart ailment, which he suffered with for the rest of his life. Formerly a lieutenant in the Army, Douglas also directed for Swizzlewick (1964), The Troubleshooters (1965), Out of the Unknown (1969), Z Cars (1969), Paul Temple (1969-71), Van der Valk (1972-73), Public Eye (1971-75), The Sweeney (1975-78), Blake's 7 (1978), The Professionals (1977/80), Shoestring (1979-80), The Nightmare Man (1981), Beau Geste (1982) and Missing from Home (1984). He also dabbled in writing, and had written Adventure to Order in 1961, Playbox: The Six Clue Challenge (1962-62) and Garry Halliday (1962), before he pitched a script to Doctor Who in 1975 involving aliens, the French Foreign Legion and the death of companion Sarah Jane Smith, but this was never developed.
Facts
In 1965, Douglas (middle name Gaston) married actress Sheila Dunn, who he cast in three of his Doctor Who stories. He made a cameo as one of the faces seen during the mind battle between the Doctor and Morbius in The Brain of Morbius (1976). On the night Douglas died in his sleep, he had been playing Monopoly with his good friend and actor Walter Randall.
Mervyn Pinfield (director, episode 1-3 & associate producer) February 28th 1912 to May 20th 1966 Click here for Mervyn Pinfield's entry on An Unearthly Child
Verity Lambert (producer) November 27th 1935 to November 22nd 2007 (cancer) Click here for Verity Lambert's entry on An Unearthly Child
David Whitaker (story editor) April 18th 1928 to February 4th 1980 (lymphoma) Click here for David Whitaker's entry on An Unearthly Child
Alan Tilvern (Forester) November 5th 1918 to December 17th 2003
Career highlights
Alan enjoyed a long acting career, starting in Jean's Plan (1946) and including The Small Voice (1948), Cairo Road (1950), The Face of Love (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1958), Invisible Man (1959), Sands of the Desert (1960), Crane (1963), The Plane Makers (1963-64), Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966), Khartoum (1966), Dad's Army (1969/73), UFO (1971), The Sweeney (1976), Poldark (1977), Superman (1978), Citizen Smith (1980), Firefox (1982), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) and Porgy and Bess (1993). Alan also directed for the soap Compact in 1963, and for a time was the radio voice of Dick Barton: Special Agent.
Facts
Alan was the founder member, along with Warren Mitchell, of a group which studied method acting, and was a major player in securing actors' rights with North American Equity. Alan's motto, in Yiddish, was: "The telephone rings and life changes". Before acting he was a barrow-boy in London's East End, and on another occasion set up a mail order business selling cuckoo clocks for Christmas! Alan married Australian actress Diane Elliott, and their daughter is Australian broadcaster Karalee Katsambanis, wife of Aussie Liberal politician Peter Katsambanis.
CREW
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Planet of Giants (1964), Day of the Daleks (1972), Planet of Evil (1975), The Masque of Mandragora (1976)
Career highlights
Louis's writing career began with Skyport (1959-60), followed by duties on The Four Just Men (1960), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1958-60), Ghost Squad (1963), Danger Man (1964), No Hiding Place (1966), Doomwatch (1971-72), Bedtime Stories (1974) and Silas Marner (1985). He was also a prolific script editor - working on The Four Just Men (1959), No Hiding Place (1965-66), No Exit (1972), The Stone Tape (1972), Orde Wingate (1976), Brensham People (1976) and Premiere (1977) - and producer on programmes such as Centre Play (1974-77), The Lost Boys (1978), Baal (1982), Time and the Conways (1985), Thunder Rock (1985), Precious Bane (1989), The Trial (1993), Middlemarch (1994), Plotlands (1997) and Daniel Deronda (2002).
Facts
In 1955, Louis founded the magazine Books and Bookmen, aimed at authors, illustrators and avid readers, which was published until 1980. Oxford University graduate Louis started out as a history teacher at a boarding school before moving into TV production, and after retiring in 2002 ran a B&B with his wife Sonia.
Douglas Camfield (director, episode 4 - edited into episode 3) May 8th 1931 to January 27th 1984 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Production assistant: An Unearthly Child (uncredited, 1963), Marco Polo (uncredited, 1964)
Directed: An Unearthly Child (film inserts, uncredited, 1963), Planet of Giants (episode 4, material from which was edited into episode 3, 1964), The Crusade (1965), The Time Meddler (1965), The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66), The Web of Fear (1968), The Invasion (1968), Inferno (1970), Terror of the Zygons (1975), The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Career highlights
Douglas's Doctor Who career began as production assistant on the very first story, and could have included a stint as its producer had he accepted the post when offered it in 1969. It may be just as well he didn't, as during production of Inferno the following year he was taken ill with a heart ailment, which he suffered with for the rest of his life. Formerly a lieutenant in the Army, Douglas also directed for Swizzlewick (1964), The Troubleshooters (1965), Out of the Unknown (1969), Z Cars (1969), Paul Temple (1969-71), Van der Valk (1972-73), Public Eye (1971-75), The Sweeney (1975-78), Blake's 7 (1978), The Professionals (1977/80), Shoestring (1979-80), The Nightmare Man (1981), Beau Geste (1982) and Missing from Home (1984). He also dabbled in writing, and had written Adventure to Order in 1961, Playbox: The Six Clue Challenge (1962-62) and Garry Halliday (1962), before he pitched a script to Doctor Who in 1975 involving aliens, the French Foreign Legion and the death of companion Sarah Jane Smith, but this was never developed.
Facts
In 1965, Douglas (middle name Gaston) married actress Sheila Dunn, who he cast in three of his Doctor Who stories. He made a cameo as one of the faces seen during the mind battle between the Doctor and Morbius in The Brain of Morbius (1976). On the night Douglas died in his sleep, he had been playing Monopoly with his good friend and actor Walter Randall.
Mervyn Pinfield (director, episode 1-3 & associate producer) February 28th 1912 to May 20th 1966 Click here for Mervyn Pinfield's entry on An Unearthly Child
Verity Lambert (producer) November 27th 1935 to November 22nd 2007 (cancer) Click here for Verity Lambert's entry on An Unearthly Child
David Whitaker (story editor) April 18th 1928 to February 4th 1980 (lymphoma) Click here for David Whitaker's entry on An Unearthly Child
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