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1. The Web Planet (13.5m)
2. The Zarbi (12.5m)
3. Escape to Danger (12.5m)
4. Crater of Needles (13.0m)
5. Invasion (12.0m)
6. The Centre (11.5m)
Average audience for serial: 12.50m
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.
Maureen O'Brien (Vicki) Born June 29th 1943 For a full career biography of Maureen O'Brien, click here.
CREDITED GUEST CAST
Jocelyn Birdsall (Hlynia) December 8th 1933 to November 10th 1993
Career highlights
Other credits include The Little Round House (1955), Sword of Freedom (1957), Sapphire (1959), Emergency Ward 10 (1959), You Can't Win (1961), Richard the Lionheart (1963), Thirteen Against Fate (1966), The Power Game (1966) and The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens (1970).
Facts
Jocelyn changed her professional name from her maiden name of Britton to her married name of Birdsall in 1963 in memory of her late husband, Timothy Birdsall, who died of leukaemia aged just 27. Timothy was a satirical cartoonist for the TV programme That Was the Week That Was, on which he produced a cartoon live on air each week, as well as publications such as the Sunday Times, Punch and Private Eye.
Arthur Blake (Hrhoonda) November 7th 1929 to November 27th 2001
Career highlights
Debuted in Quatermass 2 (1957), then No Hiding Place (1959/61), Crane (1965), Frontier (1968), Hine (1971), War & Peace (1972), Heil Caesar! (1973), The Cherry Picker (1974), Striker (1976), The Professionals (1978), Born and Bred (1980), When the Boat Comes In (1981), Holding the Fort (1982), Mr Palfrey of Westminster (1984), Murder of a Moderate Man (1985), Sorry! (1986), Little Dorrit (1988), Star Trap (1989), Campion (1990) and No Bananas (1996).
Jolyon Booth (Prapillus) August 1st 1932 to February 25th 2025
Career highlights
Jolyon debuted in No Hiding Place (1964), then Crane (1965), The Baron (1966) and Georgy Girl (1966), but then gave up acting to become a maths and science teacher at Mount Kelly in Devon where he also introduced pupils to their first computer. After retirement he ran a walking and cycling holiday firm in Norfolk, and was also involved with the Reepham Society and parish council in the county.
Roslyn De Winter (Vrestin) Born October 5th 1938
Doctor Who credits
Played: Vrestin in The Web Planet (1965)
Insect movement: The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Grey lady in The Chase (1965)
Career highlights
Australian mime artiste Roslyn's other work includes The Big Day (1959), Anthony and Cleopatra (1959), Day of the Drongo (1964), Interlude (1968), Champion House (1968), Homicide (1970), The Long Arm (1970), Dimboola: the Stage Play (1973), Cash and Company (1975), Mouth to Mouth (1978), Against the Wind (1978), Special Squad (1984) and All the Rivers Run II (1990).
Catherine Fleming (Animus voice) February 17th 1932 to October 4th 1978 (broncho-pneumonia)
Career highlights
In an interview with the Radio Times in 1950, Catherine - also known as Kate Fleming - said she initially wanted to pursue a career as a doctor. Prior to completing her studies in 1953, she won the John Masefield Prize for verse speaking and the inaugural BBC Drama Students' Prize, which brought her a contract to work for the BBC. In the mid-1950s she worked on various BBC radio productions, and then became a drama teacher, and a voice coach for RADA, the Royal Ballet and the National Theatre throughout the 1960s and 70s, working with actors like Ian McKellen, Laurence Olivier (teaching him how to lower his voice to play Othello) and Diana Rigg. The last project Catherine worked on as voice coach before she died was Roman Polanski's 1979 film Tess.
Facts
Between 1972-76, Catherine gave voice lessons to politician Margaret Thatcher to "reduce her annoying shrieking". Thatcher became British Prime Minister in May 1979, seven months after Catherine died. In the 2011 film The Iron Lady, about Thatcher's life and career, the role of the voice coach is played by a man, Christopher Luscombe. In 1979, a group of actors founded The Kate Fleming Memorial Trust, which provided financial aid to students of the Rose Bruford Training College for Speech and Drama. The Trust was wound up in 2005. The Catherine Fleming Collection held by the Royal National Theatre Archive contains a call sheet for episode one of The Web Planet, and a front sheet of the script for episode two. With special thanks to Tom Lingwood.
Arne Gordon (Hrostar) December 26th 1915 to June 2004
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hrostar in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Guide in The Chase (1965)
Career highlights
After debuting in Doctor Who as a humanoid butterfly, Arne went on to appear in No Hiding Place (1966), Virgin of the Secret Service (1968), Judge Dee (1969), Van der Valk (1973), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985) and Around the World in 80 Days (1989).
Facts
In his 2013 memoir Before Mandela's Rainbow, South African director and writer Edward Joffe recalls that Arne was a close friend of stuntman Jack Sholomir and used to hang out at the Yeoville swimming baths in Johannesburg in the 1950s.
Martin Jarvis (Hilio) Born August 4th 1941
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hilio in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Played: Governor in Vengeance on Varos (1985)
Career highlights
Martin has enjoyed a long and prolific career, starting with The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), then Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Little Women (1970), The Moonstone (1972), The Pallisers (1974), Enemy at the Door (1980), The Black Tower (1985), Buster (1988), the narrator of children's series Huxley Pig (1989), Inspector Morse (1991), Murder Most Horrid (1991), The Scarlet and the Black (1993), Space: Above and Beyond (1996), Titanic (1997), Lorna Doone (2000), The Queen's Nose (2003), Numb3rs (2007), Stargate: Atlantis (2007), Taking the Flak (2008), Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (2010), EastEnders (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Wreck-It Ralph (2012, voice), Endeavour (2013), Law and Order UK (2014), United Passions (2014), Casualty (1992/2017), Election Spy (2017) and Father Brown (2025). He had regular roles as Jolyon in The Forsyte Saga (1967), Sam Harvey in Breakaway (1980) and Oliver Pryde in Rings on Their Fingers (1978-80). Between 2011-24 Martin voiced Alfred Pennyworth in a series of Batman video games.
Awards
2000: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama
Facts
Since 1974 he has been married to actress Rosalind Ayres. His son Toby is a leading TV and radio composer, working on series such as Love Island and Survival of the Fittest. Martin's voice is familiar to many radio drama listeners, as well as those who listen to talking books.
This is Your Life: Martin was the subject of BBC TV's This is Your Life on November 29th, 1999, surprised by host Michael Aspel while appearing on Gyles Brandreth's LBC radio show.
Robert Jewell (Zarbi operator) January 20th 1920 to May 10th 1998 Click here for Robert Jewell's entry on The Daleks
Barbara Joss (Nemini) Born March 12th 1937
Average audience for serial: 12.50m
- None of the guest cast is facially recognisable from The Web Planet, but you can see some of the actors' real faces at the bottom of this entry. Read an episode-by-episode review of this story at Time Space Visualiser!
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.
Maureen O'Brien (Vicki) Born June 29th 1943 For a full career biography of Maureen O'Brien, click here.
CREDITED GUEST CAST
Jocelyn Birdsall (Hlynia) December 8th 1933 to November 10th 1993
Career highlights
Other credits include The Little Round House (1955), Sword of Freedom (1957), Sapphire (1959), Emergency Ward 10 (1959), You Can't Win (1961), Richard the Lionheart (1963), Thirteen Against Fate (1966), The Power Game (1966) and The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens (1970).
Facts
Jocelyn changed her professional name from her maiden name of Britton to her married name of Birdsall in 1963 in memory of her late husband, Timothy Birdsall, who died of leukaemia aged just 27. Timothy was a satirical cartoonist for the TV programme That Was the Week That Was, on which he produced a cartoon live on air each week, as well as publications such as the Sunday Times, Punch and Private Eye.
Arthur Blake (Hrhoonda) November 7th 1929 to November 27th 2001
Career highlights
Debuted in Quatermass 2 (1957), then No Hiding Place (1959/61), Crane (1965), Frontier (1968), Hine (1971), War & Peace (1972), Heil Caesar! (1973), The Cherry Picker (1974), Striker (1976), The Professionals (1978), Born and Bred (1980), When the Boat Comes In (1981), Holding the Fort (1982), Mr Palfrey of Westminster (1984), Murder of a Moderate Man (1985), Sorry! (1986), Little Dorrit (1988), Star Trap (1989), Campion (1990) and No Bananas (1996).
Jolyon Booth (Prapillus) August 1st 1932 to February 25th 2025
Career highlights
Jolyon debuted in No Hiding Place (1964), then Crane (1965), The Baron (1966) and Georgy Girl (1966), but then gave up acting to become a maths and science teacher at Mount Kelly in Devon where he also introduced pupils to their first computer. After retirement he ran a walking and cycling holiday firm in Norfolk, and was also involved with the Reepham Society and parish council in the county.
Roslyn De Winter (Vrestin) Born October 5th 1938
Doctor Who credits
Played: Vrestin in The Web Planet (1965)
Insect movement: The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Grey lady in The Chase (1965)
Career highlights
Australian mime artiste Roslyn's other work includes The Big Day (1959), Anthony and Cleopatra (1959), Day of the Drongo (1964), Interlude (1968), Champion House (1968), Homicide (1970), The Long Arm (1970), Dimboola: the Stage Play (1973), Cash and Company (1975), Mouth to Mouth (1978), Against the Wind (1978), Special Squad (1984) and All the Rivers Run II (1990).
Catherine Fleming (Animus voice) February 17th 1932 to October 4th 1978 (broncho-pneumonia)
Career highlights
In an interview with the Radio Times in 1950, Catherine - also known as Kate Fleming - said she initially wanted to pursue a career as a doctor. Prior to completing her studies in 1953, she won the John Masefield Prize for verse speaking and the inaugural BBC Drama Students' Prize, which brought her a contract to work for the BBC. In the mid-1950s she worked on various BBC radio productions, and then became a drama teacher, and a voice coach for RADA, the Royal Ballet and the National Theatre throughout the 1960s and 70s, working with actors like Ian McKellen, Laurence Olivier (teaching him how to lower his voice to play Othello) and Diana Rigg. The last project Catherine worked on as voice coach before she died was Roman Polanski's 1979 film Tess.
Facts
Between 1972-76, Catherine gave voice lessons to politician Margaret Thatcher to "reduce her annoying shrieking". Thatcher became British Prime Minister in May 1979, seven months after Catherine died. In the 2011 film The Iron Lady, about Thatcher's life and career, the role of the voice coach is played by a man, Christopher Luscombe. In 1979, a group of actors founded The Kate Fleming Memorial Trust, which provided financial aid to students of the Rose Bruford Training College for Speech and Drama. The Trust was wound up in 2005. The Catherine Fleming Collection held by the Royal National Theatre Archive contains a call sheet for episode one of The Web Planet, and a front sheet of the script for episode two. With special thanks to Tom Lingwood.
Arne Gordon (Hrostar) December 26th 1915 to June 2004
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hrostar in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Guide in The Chase (1965)
Career highlights
After debuting in Doctor Who as a humanoid butterfly, Arne went on to appear in No Hiding Place (1966), Virgin of the Secret Service (1968), Judge Dee (1969), Van der Valk (1973), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985) and Around the World in 80 Days (1989).
Facts
In his 2013 memoir Before Mandela's Rainbow, South African director and writer Edward Joffe recalls that Arne was a close friend of stuntman Jack Sholomir and used to hang out at the Yeoville swimming baths in Johannesburg in the 1950s.
Martin Jarvis (Hilio) Born August 4th 1941
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hilio in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Played: Governor in Vengeance on Varos (1985)
Career highlights
Martin has enjoyed a long and prolific career, starting with The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), then Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Little Women (1970), The Moonstone (1972), The Pallisers (1974), Enemy at the Door (1980), The Black Tower (1985), Buster (1988), the narrator of children's series Huxley Pig (1989), Inspector Morse (1991), Murder Most Horrid (1991), The Scarlet and the Black (1993), Space: Above and Beyond (1996), Titanic (1997), Lorna Doone (2000), The Queen's Nose (2003), Numb3rs (2007), Stargate: Atlantis (2007), Taking the Flak (2008), Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (2010), EastEnders (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Wreck-It Ralph (2012, voice), Endeavour (2013), Law and Order UK (2014), United Passions (2014), Casualty (1992/2017), Election Spy (2017) and Father Brown (2025). He had regular roles as Jolyon in The Forsyte Saga (1967), Sam Harvey in Breakaway (1980) and Oliver Pryde in Rings on Their Fingers (1978-80). Between 2011-24 Martin voiced Alfred Pennyworth in a series of Batman video games.
Awards
2000: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama
Facts
Since 1974 he has been married to actress Rosalind Ayres. His son Toby is a leading TV and radio composer, working on series such as Love Island and Survival of the Fittest. Martin's voice is familiar to many radio drama listeners, as well as those who listen to talking books.
This is Your Life: Martin was the subject of BBC TV's This is Your Life on November 29th, 1999, surprised by host Michael Aspel while appearing on Gyles Brandreth's LBC radio show.
Robert Jewell (Zarbi operator) January 20th 1920 to May 10th 1998 Click here for Robert Jewell's entry on The Daleks
Barbara Joss (Nemini) Born March 12th 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Nemini in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Double for Vicki in The Chase (1965, uncredited)
Career highlights
Barbara's other work includes A Girl Called Jo (1956), Harpers West One (1961), Homicide (1966), Adventures of the Seaspray (1967), Contrabandits (1968), Skippy: The Bush Kangaroo (1968), Riptide (1969), Sons and Daughters (1987) and Rafferty's Rules (1989).
Facts
In 1999, she wrote (with Libby Harkness) the autobiographical My Left Breast - How Breast Cancer Transformed My Life, a combination of her life story (including her showbiz career and three clinical depressions) and the experience of having a mastectomy (in 1998 she made a TV advertisement addressing mastectomies).
Hugh Lund (Zarbi operator/ Larvae gun) c.1925 to December 29th 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zarbi/ larvae gun in The Web Planet (1965). Note: Despite being credited as operating a Zarbi, Hugh revealed in a 2008 interview that he actually operated the larvae gun, and never a Zarbi at all.
Played: Matthews in The Android Invasion (1975)
Career highlights
Hugh's other work included A for Andromeda (1961), Moonstrike (1963), Suspense (1963), The Spanish Farm (1968), Spy! (1980) and The Borgias (1981).
Kevin Manser (Zarbi operator) February 16th 1929 to December 21st 2001 (bowel cancer) Click here for Kevin Manser's entry on The Daleks
John Scott Martin (Zarbi operator) April 1st 1926 to January 6th 2009 (Parkinson's Disease)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zarbi in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Daleks in The Chase (1965), Mission to the Unknown (1965), The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66), The Power of the Daleks (1966), The Evil of the Daleks (1967), Day of the Daleks (1972), Frontier in Space (1973), Planet of the Daleks (1973), Death to the Daleks (1974), Genesis of the Daleks (1975), The Five Doctors (1983), Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Revelation of the Daleks (1985), Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Played: Mechanoid in The Chase (1965)
Played: IMC robot in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Charlie in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Mutt in The Mutants (1972)
Played: Gell Guard in The Three Doctors (1972-73, uncredited)
Played: Hughes in The Green Death (1973)
Played: Guard in Robot (1974-75, uncredited)
Played: Kriz in The Brain of Morbius (1975)
Played: Nucleus of the Swarm in The Invisible Enemy (1977)
Career highlights
John's long career began in 1958's The Frog, and he went on to play usually bit-part roles in TV and films, such as Quatermass and the Pit (1959), A for Andromeda (1961), Ghost Squad (1963), Our Man at St Mark's (1965), The Likely Lads (1965-66, as the barman), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), The Blood Beast Terror (1968), Out of the Unknown (1969), Take Three Girls (1971), The Morecambe and Wise Show (1971), Upstairs, Downstairs (1972), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973), No Sex Please: We're British (1973), Beryl's Lot (1975), The Good Life (1975), I, Claudius (1976), The Duchess of Duke Street (1977), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), The Tripods (1984), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Erik the Viking (1989), Bullseye! (1990), London's Burning (1991), Ali G Indahouse (2002) and Mine All Mine (2004).
Facts
John also appeared in Catatonia's video for Dead from the Waist Down (1999). In later years he was a church warden and school governor in Essex.
Jack Pitt (Zarbi operator) July 15th 1940 to May 26th 2003 (bronchial pneumonia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zarbi in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Mire beast in The Chase (1965)
Played: Cabin steward in The Chase (1965)
Career highlights
Barbara's other work includes A Girl Called Jo (1956), Harpers West One (1961), Homicide (1966), Adventures of the Seaspray (1967), Contrabandits (1968), Skippy: The Bush Kangaroo (1968), Riptide (1969), Sons and Daughters (1987) and Rafferty's Rules (1989).
Facts
In 1999, she wrote (with Libby Harkness) the autobiographical My Left Breast - How Breast Cancer Transformed My Life, a combination of her life story (including her showbiz career and three clinical depressions) and the experience of having a mastectomy (in 1998 she made a TV advertisement addressing mastectomies).
Hugh Lund (Zarbi operator/ Larvae gun) c.1925 to December 29th 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zarbi/ larvae gun in The Web Planet (1965). Note: Despite being credited as operating a Zarbi, Hugh revealed in a 2008 interview that he actually operated the larvae gun, and never a Zarbi at all.
Played: Matthews in The Android Invasion (1975)
Career highlights
Hugh's other work included A for Andromeda (1961), Moonstrike (1963), Suspense (1963), The Spanish Farm (1968), Spy! (1980) and The Borgias (1981).
Kevin Manser (Zarbi operator) February 16th 1929 to December 21st 2001 (bowel cancer) Click here for Kevin Manser's entry on The Daleks
John Scott Martin (Zarbi operator) April 1st 1926 to January 6th 2009 (Parkinson's Disease)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zarbi in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Daleks in The Chase (1965), Mission to the Unknown (1965), The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66), The Power of the Daleks (1966), The Evil of the Daleks (1967), Day of the Daleks (1972), Frontier in Space (1973), Planet of the Daleks (1973), Death to the Daleks (1974), Genesis of the Daleks (1975), The Five Doctors (1983), Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Revelation of the Daleks (1985), Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Played: Mechanoid in The Chase (1965)
Played: IMC robot in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Charlie in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Mutt in The Mutants (1972)
Played: Gell Guard in The Three Doctors (1972-73, uncredited)
Played: Hughes in The Green Death (1973)
Played: Guard in Robot (1974-75, uncredited)
Played: Kriz in The Brain of Morbius (1975)
Played: Nucleus of the Swarm in The Invisible Enemy (1977)
Career highlights
John's long career began in 1958's The Frog, and he went on to play usually bit-part roles in TV and films, such as Quatermass and the Pit (1959), A for Andromeda (1961), Ghost Squad (1963), Our Man at St Mark's (1965), The Likely Lads (1965-66, as the barman), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), The Blood Beast Terror (1968), Out of the Unknown (1969), Take Three Girls (1971), The Morecambe and Wise Show (1971), Upstairs, Downstairs (1972), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973), No Sex Please: We're British (1973), Beryl's Lot (1975), The Good Life (1975), I, Claudius (1976), The Duchess of Duke Street (1977), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), The Tripods (1984), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Erik the Viking (1989), Bullseye! (1990), London's Burning (1991), Ali G Indahouse (2002) and Mine All Mine (2004).
Facts
John also appeared in Catatonia's video for Dead from the Waist Down (1999). In later years he was a church warden and school governor in Essex.
Jack Pitt (Zarbi operator) July 15th 1940 to May 26th 2003 (bronchial pneumonia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zarbi in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Mire beast in The Chase (1965)
Played: Cabin steward in The Chase (1965)
Played: Fungoid in The Chase (1965)
Played: Mechanoid in The Chase (1965)
Played: Dalek in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Gearon in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66, uncredited)
Career highlights
Jack's only other credited work was playing Horatio in Nelson: A Study in Miniature (1966).
Gerald Taylor (Zarbi operator) October 11th 1940 to December 4th 1994 Click here for Gerald Taylor's entry on The Daleks
Ian Thompson (Hetra) August 11th 1939 to July 16th 2022
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hetra in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Malsan in The Chase (1965)
Career highlights
Ian's prolific career began with 1956's David Copperfield, followed by roles in The Old Curiosity Shop (1962), Albert! (1970), The Persuaders (1972), Crown Court (1974), Sam (1975), Couples (1975), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1976), Blake's 7 (1978), Thomas and Sarah (1979), County Hall (1982), Freud (1984), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985), Inside Story (1986), Bergerac (1987), Andy Capp (1988), Moon and Son (1992), Our Friends in the North (1996), Midsomer Murders (1999), Poirot (2001), Down to Earth (2004), Wire in the Blood (2005) and The All Together (2007). He had the regular role of John Porter in A Family at War (1970-72), and toward the end of his career provided the voice of Big Hat Logan in the Dark Souls videogames (2011-12).
CREW
Bill Strutton (writer) February 23rd 1918 to November 23rd 2003
Career highlights
Australian Bill wrote for television and film, including Ivanhoe (1958), The Avengers (1961), Rendezvous (1960-61), The Saint (1963), The Protectors (1964), Undermind (1965), Emergency Ward 10 (1966-67), No Hiding Place (1959-67), The Pathfinders (1973) and Crown Court (1973). He also wrote for and script edited Adventures of the Seaspray (1965-67) and Strange Report (1969).
Facts
During World War Two Bill was captured by the Germans and sent to Stalag VII. After the war he took up writing and journalism (writing several books, including A Jury of Angels (1957) and The Island of Terrible Friends (1961)), but retired in 1978 following a heart attack. He died on Doctor Who's 40th anniversary.
Richard Martin (director) Born January 3rd 1935 Click here for Richard Martin's entry on The Daleks
Verity Lambert (producer) November 27th 1935 to November 22nd 2007 (cancer) Click here for Verity Lambert's entry on An Unearthly Child
Dennis Spooner (story editor) December 1st 1932 to September 20th 1986 (heart attack) Click here for Dennis Spooner's entry on The Reign of Terror
Played: Mechanoid in The Chase (1965)
Played: Dalek in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Gearon in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66, uncredited)
Career highlights
Jack's only other credited work was playing Horatio in Nelson: A Study in Miniature (1966).
Gerald Taylor (Zarbi operator) October 11th 1940 to December 4th 1994 Click here for Gerald Taylor's entry on The Daleks
Ian Thompson (Hetra) August 11th 1939 to July 16th 2022
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hetra in The Web Planet (1965)
Played: Malsan in The Chase (1965)
Career highlights
Ian's prolific career began with 1956's David Copperfield, followed by roles in The Old Curiosity Shop (1962), Albert! (1970), The Persuaders (1972), Crown Court (1974), Sam (1975), Couples (1975), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1976), Blake's 7 (1978), Thomas and Sarah (1979), County Hall (1982), Freud (1984), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985), Inside Story (1986), Bergerac (1987), Andy Capp (1988), Moon and Son (1992), Our Friends in the North (1996), Midsomer Murders (1999), Poirot (2001), Down to Earth (2004), Wire in the Blood (2005) and The All Together (2007). He had the regular role of John Porter in A Family at War (1970-72), and toward the end of his career provided the voice of Big Hat Logan in the Dark Souls videogames (2011-12).
CREW
Career highlights
Australian Bill wrote for television and film, including Ivanhoe (1958), The Avengers (1961), Rendezvous (1960-61), The Saint (1963), The Protectors (1964), Undermind (1965), Emergency Ward 10 (1966-67), No Hiding Place (1959-67), The Pathfinders (1973) and Crown Court (1973). He also wrote for and script edited Adventures of the Seaspray (1965-67) and Strange Report (1969).
Facts
During World War Two Bill was captured by the Germans and sent to Stalag VII. After the war he took up writing and journalism (writing several books, including A Jury of Angels (1957) and The Island of Terrible Friends (1961)), but retired in 1978 following a heart attack. He died on Doctor Who's 40th anniversary.
Richard Martin (director) Born January 3rd 1935 Click here for Richard Martin's entry on The Daleks
Verity Lambert (producer) November 27th 1935 to November 22nd 2007 (cancer) Click here for Verity Lambert's entry on An Unearthly Child
Dennis Spooner (story editor) December 1st 1932 to September 20th 1986 (heart attack) Click here for Dennis Spooner's entry on The Reign of Terror
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JACK PITT was uncredited as a Dalek in The Daleks' Master Plan.
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