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Episode 1 (6.0m)
Episode 2 (6.4m)
Episode 3 (7.2m)
Episode 4 (7.4m)
Average audience for serial: 6.75m
An episode by episode review of this story can be read at Time Space Visualiser here.
REGULAR CAST
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) March 25th 1920 to March 28th 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born September 22nd 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders
CREDITED GUEST CAST
Shirley Cooklin (Kaftan) Born March 3rd 1930
Career highlights
Shirley debuted in Stage By Stage (1954), then The Children of the New Forest (1955), Dixon of Dock Green (1956), Leave It to Todhunter (1958), The Newcomers (1966), This Man Craig (1966), The Tyrant King (1968), Macbeth (1970) and Public Eye (1973). She was also a scriptwriter on the likes of Crossroads (1986), EastEnders (1987), The Bill (1989) and Emmerdale (1990-91).
Facts
Shirley married Doctor Who story editor/ producer Peter Bryant in 1958, but they later divorced. She is the first cousin, once removed, of Doctor Who 'super-fan' Ian Levine. She is also credited as having written the 1989 book From Arrest to Release: The Inside/ Outside Survival Guide. In 2025, she wrote another book, Blame Not the Wind. The book tells the story of how, in 1984, her 18-year-old son Ben was drowned at sea when the tall ship Marques he was crewing sank during a storm. Although told by the ship's owners it was a tragic accident, Shirley wasn't convinced, and investigated the incident until it led to a high profile trial and the discovery of corruption at the highest level of society.
Hans de Vries (Cyberman) June 1941 to 2018
Career highlights
Dutchman Hans debuted in The Saint (1966), then appeared in You Only Live Twice (1967), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Man in a Suitcase (1968), Shalako (1968), UFO (1970), The Pathfinders (1972), The Onedin Line (1973), Dixon of Dock Green (1967/74), Secret Army (1977), Hazell (1978), Park Ranger (1979), The Quatermass Conclusion (1979), Big Deal (1986), Star Cops (1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Eurocops (1989), Bergerac (1990), Between the Lines (1992) and Heartbeat (1995).
Facts
Born Hans Weerdmeester, he also went by the name Luke Hanson. Life magazine featured him as one of five actors who screen-tested for the part of James Bond in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Here's a photo of him posing with the other four actors (he's at the back on the left). More on this and the other actors to be shortlisted here.
Ray Grover (Crewman)
Career highlights
Ray's other work includes Hancock's Half Hour (1957/60), Probation Officer (1959), The Pen of My Aunt (1960), Maigret (1963), The Sound of Seeing (1963), Crossroads (1965), Let's Go Out (1965), The Expert (1969) and Ryan International (1970).
Tony Harwood (Cyberman) June 26th 1933 to December 9th 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), The Wheel in Space (1968, uncredited)
Played: Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
Played: Ice Warrior in The Ice Warriors (1967), The Seeds of Death (1969), The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Flynn in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Career highlights
Further credits include Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Maigret at Bay (1969) and The Regiment (1972).
Morris Barry (director) February 9th 1918 to November 20th 2000 Click here for Morris Barry's entry on The Moonbase
Average audience for serial: 6.75m
An episode by episode review of this story can be read at Time Space Visualiser here.
REGULAR CAST
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) March 25th 1920 to March 28th 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born September 22nd 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield) January 2nd 1948 to July 21st 2017 (lung cancer) Click here for Deborah Watling's entry on The Evil of the Daleks
CREDITED GUEST CAST
Shirley Cooklin (Kaftan) Born March 3rd 1930
Career highlights
Shirley debuted in Stage By Stage (1954), then The Children of the New Forest (1955), Dixon of Dock Green (1956), Leave It to Todhunter (1958), The Newcomers (1966), This Man Craig (1966), The Tyrant King (1968), Macbeth (1970) and Public Eye (1973). She was also a scriptwriter on the likes of Crossroads (1986), EastEnders (1987), The Bill (1989) and Emmerdale (1990-91).
Facts
Shirley married Doctor Who story editor/ producer Peter Bryant in 1958, but they later divorced. She is the first cousin, once removed, of Doctor Who 'super-fan' Ian Levine. She is also credited as having written the 1989 book From Arrest to Release: The Inside/ Outside Survival Guide. In 2025, she wrote another book, Blame Not the Wind. The book tells the story of how, in 1984, her 18-year-old son Ben was drowned at sea when the tall ship Marques he was crewing sank during a storm. Although told by the ship's owners it was a tragic accident, Shirley wasn't convinced, and investigated the incident until it led to a high profile trial and the discovery of corruption at the highest level of society.
Hans de Vries (Cyberman) June 1941 to 2018
Career highlights
Dutchman Hans debuted in The Saint (1966), then appeared in You Only Live Twice (1967), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Man in a Suitcase (1968), Shalako (1968), UFO (1970), The Pathfinders (1972), The Onedin Line (1973), Dixon of Dock Green (1967/74), Secret Army (1977), Hazell (1978), Park Ranger (1979), The Quatermass Conclusion (1979), Big Deal (1986), Star Cops (1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Eurocops (1989), Bergerac (1990), Between the Lines (1992) and Heartbeat (1995).
Facts
Born Hans Weerdmeester, he also went by the name Luke Hanson. Life magazine featured him as one of five actors who screen-tested for the part of James Bond in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Here's a photo of him posing with the other four actors (he's at the back on the left). More on this and the other actors to be shortlisted here.
Ray Grover (Crewman)
Career highlights
Ray's other work includes Hancock's Half Hour (1957/60), Probation Officer (1959), The Pen of My Aunt (1960), Maigret (1963), The Sound of Seeing (1963), Crossroads (1965), Let's Go Out (1965), The Expert (1969) and Ryan International (1970).
Tony Harwood (Cyberman) June 26th 1933 to December 9th 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), The Wheel in Space (1968, uncredited)
Played: Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
Played: Ice Warrior in The Ice Warriors (1967), The Seeds of Death (1969), The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Flynn in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Career highlights
Further credits include Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Maigret at Bay (1969) and The Regiment (1972).
Facts
In 1981, Tony (real name Anthony Hargreaves) opened the Horseshoes Riding School in Kent with his wife.
Peter Hawkins (Cyberman voice) April 3rd 1924 to July 8th 2006 (pneumonia) Click here for Peter Hawkins's entry on The Daleks
John Hogan (Cyberman) Died January 2022
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
Career highlights
John's other work included The Stone Tape (1972), Blake's 7 (1978) and Law and Order (1978).
Bernard Holley (Peter Haydon) August 9th 1940 to November 22nd 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Peter Haydon in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Axon man in The Claws of Axos (1971)
Career highlights
His CV included The Newcomers (1966), Elizabeth R (1971), Please Sir! (1971-2), General Hospital (1974), Carry on Laughing (1975), Rocky O'Rourke (1976), Clayhanger (1976), A Question of Guilt (1980), Mackenzie (1980), The Deceivers (1981), Now and Then (1983-84), The Tripods (1985), Eureka (1982-86), After Henry (1988-89), Surgical Spirit (1990), Taggart (1990), Thatcher: The Final Days (1991), The Knock (1994), Birds of a Feather (1998), Hollyoaks (2001), Sweet Medicine (2003), The Courtroom (2004), Tanner (2007), That's English (2011), A Voice to Die For (2013), Extended Rest (2014), By Lethe Betrayed (2016) and Acting Anecdotes with Jeremy Olivier (2019). Bernard is best known as PC Bill Newcombe in over 270 episodes of Z Cars (1967-71) and A Lot of Fuss About Light (2010), and Mike Turnbull in The Gentle Touch (1982-84) and CATS Eyes (1985).
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Bernard here.
Alan Johns (Ted Rogers) August 30th 1944 to December 19th 2002
Alan's only other work was As You Like It (1953), Z Cars (1967) and The Persuaders! (1971).
Richard Kerley (Cyberman) July 3rd 1942 to September 11th 1994
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
Career highlights
Richard's CV also includes appearances in The Caesars (1968), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1970, as the semi-regular Sergeant Hinds), The Rainbirds (1971), Colditz (1972) and Don't Tell Father (1992).
Michael Kilgarriff (Cyber Controller) Born June 16th 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyber Controller in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), Attack of the Cybermen (1985)
Played: Ogron in Frontier in Space (1972)
Played: Robot K1 in Robot (1974-75)
Career highlights
6ft 5in Michael's other appearances include Whack-O! (1959), The Golden Spur (1959), We Joined the Navy (1962), Taxi! (1963), Camelot (1967), UFO (1970), Aquarius (1972), Men of Affairs (1974), The Upchat Line (1977), The Moon Stallion (1978), 3-2-1 (1979), The Borgias (1981), Artists and Models (1986), Tipping the Velvet (2002) and Dracula's Bram Stoker (2003). Michael has also done a lot of voice work, including Obelix in the English version of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976), the General in The Dark Crystal (1982), various voices in The Storyteller (1987-88), Watt's uncle in Watt on Earth (1991), Mr Crotchit in Oscar's Orchestra (1995), the Ogre in the English version of Snow White: The Sequel (2007), God in Albert's Speech (2008) and Lenigrast in the Dark Souls II videogame franchise (2014). He also wrote the 1968 BBC Radio adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
Facts
Michael is a music hall enthusiast, and wrote what is considered the definitive guide to music hall songs, Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song from 1860-1920 (1998), as well as Grace, Beauty and Banjos (1999) and various children's joke books in the 1970s and 80s. For 36 years Michael was Mr Chairman at the Players' Theatre Victorian music hall. Michael also once established a theatre company specialising in corporate work as well as music hall, with fellow music hall enthusiast Johnny Dennis (who appeared in Delta and the Bannermen - indeed, Johnny was best man at Michael's wedding to his wife Sarah in 1968). Michael's recollections of his various appearances in Doctor Who can be read here (he liked Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker, really did not like Jon Pertwee, and found Colin Baker "bland"...!).
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Michael here.
Ronald Lee (Cyberman)
Peter Hawkins (Cyberman voice) April 3rd 1924 to July 8th 2006 (pneumonia) Click here for Peter Hawkins's entry on The Daleks
John Hogan (Cyberman) Died January 2022
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
Career highlights
John's other work included The Stone Tape (1972), Blake's 7 (1978) and Law and Order (1978).
Bernard Holley (Peter Haydon) August 9th 1940 to November 22nd 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Peter Haydon in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Axon man in The Claws of Axos (1971)
Career highlights
His CV included The Newcomers (1966), Elizabeth R (1971), Please Sir! (1971-2), General Hospital (1974), Carry on Laughing (1975), Rocky O'Rourke (1976), Clayhanger (1976), A Question of Guilt (1980), Mackenzie (1980), The Deceivers (1981), Now and Then (1983-84), The Tripods (1985), Eureka (1982-86), After Henry (1988-89), Surgical Spirit (1990), Taggart (1990), Thatcher: The Final Days (1991), The Knock (1994), Birds of a Feather (1998), Hollyoaks (2001), Sweet Medicine (2003), The Courtroom (2004), Tanner (2007), That's English (2011), A Voice to Die For (2013), Extended Rest (2014), By Lethe Betrayed (2016) and Acting Anecdotes with Jeremy Olivier (2019). Bernard is best known as PC Bill Newcombe in over 270 episodes of Z Cars (1967-71) and A Lot of Fuss About Light (2010), and Mike Turnbull in The Gentle Touch (1982-84) and CATS Eyes (1985).
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Bernard here.
Alan Johns (Ted Rogers) August 30th 1944 to December 19th 2002
Alan's only other work was As You Like It (1953), Z Cars (1967) and The Persuaders! (1971).
Richard Kerley (Cyberman) July 3rd 1942 to September 11th 1994
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
Career highlights
Richard's CV also includes appearances in The Caesars (1968), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1970, as the semi-regular Sergeant Hinds), The Rainbirds (1971), Colditz (1972) and Don't Tell Father (1992).
Michael Kilgarriff (Cyber Controller) Born June 16th 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyber Controller in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), Attack of the Cybermen (1985)
Played: Ogron in Frontier in Space (1972)
Played: Robot K1 in Robot (1974-75)
Career highlights
6ft 5in Michael's other appearances include Whack-O! (1959), The Golden Spur (1959), We Joined the Navy (1962), Taxi! (1963), Camelot (1967), UFO (1970), Aquarius (1972), Men of Affairs (1974), The Upchat Line (1977), The Moon Stallion (1978), 3-2-1 (1979), The Borgias (1981), Artists and Models (1986), Tipping the Velvet (2002) and Dracula's Bram Stoker (2003). Michael has also done a lot of voice work, including Obelix in the English version of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976), the General in The Dark Crystal (1982), various voices in The Storyteller (1987-88), Watt's uncle in Watt on Earth (1991), Mr Crotchit in Oscar's Orchestra (1995), the Ogre in the English version of Snow White: The Sequel (2007), God in Albert's Speech (2008) and Lenigrast in the Dark Souls II videogame franchise (2014). He also wrote the 1968 BBC Radio adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
Facts
Michael is a music hall enthusiast, and wrote what is considered the definitive guide to music hall songs, Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song from 1860-1920 (1998), as well as Grace, Beauty and Banjos (1999) and various children's joke books in the 1970s and 80s. For 36 years Michael was Mr Chairman at the Players' Theatre Victorian music hall. Michael also once established a theatre company specialising in corporate work as well as music hall, with fellow music hall enthusiast Johnny Dennis (who appeared in Delta and the Bannermen - indeed, Johnny was best man at Michael's wedding to his wife Sarah in 1968). Michael's recollections of his various appearances in Doctor Who can be read here (he liked Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker, really did not like Jon Pertwee, and found Colin Baker "bland"...!).
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Michael here.
Ronald Lee (Cyberman)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Moonbase (1967, uncredited), The Tomb of the Cybermen (1968)
Career highlights
Ronald's other acting work includes The Racket (1951), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) and The Alamo (1960), sadly all uncredited.
Clive Merrison (Jim Callum) Born September 15th 1945
Doctor Who credits
Played: Jim Callum in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Deputy Chief Caretaker in Paradise Towers (1987)
Career highlights
Doctor Who was Clive's first TV credit, after which he appeared in Frontier (1968), Counterstrike (1969), Come Dancing (1971), Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), The Glittering Prizes (1976), A Christmas Carol (1977), Prince Regent (1979), The Borgias (1981), Maybury (1981), The District Nurse (1987), Chancer (1990), Time Riders (1991), Archer's Goon (1992), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Space Precinct (1995), The Tomorrow People (1995), An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), The English Patient (1996), Photographing Fairies (1997), Noak's Ark (1998), Care (2000), Lexx (2001), The Brief (2004/05), The History Boys (2006), Monday Monday (2009), Peep Show (2010), Bert & Dickie (2012), Lewis (2014), The Lady in the Van (2015), Midsomer Murders (2003/2016), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) and No Man is an Island (2019). He also had the role of Damien Appleby in The Kit Curran Radio Show (1984) and Kit Curran (1986), and regularly played Dick Elliott in Shine On Harvey Moon (1984-85) and Clive Bannister in The Labours of Erica (1989-90).
Facts
Clive played the role of Sherlock Holmes on BBC Radio against Michael Williams and Andrew Sachs as Watson 80 times between 1989-1998 and 2002-2010, and is the only actor ever to play the detective in all of Conan Doyle's stories. Until she died in 2003, Clive was married to the actor Gillian Barge.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Clive here.
George Pastell (Eric Klieg) March 13th 1923 to April 4th 1976 (heart attack)
Career highlights
Cypriot George (born Georgiou Pastellides) made his debut in Adam and Evalyn (1949), and then took roles in Give Us This Day (1949), The Gambler and the Lady (1952), South of Algiers (1953), Destination Downing Street (1957), Battle of the V-1 (1958), The Mummy (1959), The Stranglers of Bombay (1959), Interpol Calling (1959-60), Bottoms Up (1960), Konga (1961), Masters of Venus (1962), Maniac (1963), From Russia With Love (1963), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), The High Bright Sun (1965), The Avengers (1966), Deadlier Than the Male (1967), The Long Duel (1967), The Magus (1968) and Department S (1969).
Facts
In 1958, George married Gloria George, who became a member of Top of the Pops dancing group Pan's People in the 1960s, as well as Benny Hill's female troupe the Ladybirds. In the late 1960s he gave up acting to work in the American music industry, working as a studio manager with Rupert Neve, a pioneering designer of audio equipment who worked for the Beatles, Aerosmith and Nirvana.
Charles Pemberton (Cyberman) September 19th 1939 to May 13th 2007 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Alien technician in The War Games (1969)
Career highlights
Charles' debut came in Crossroads (1964), followed by roles in The Man in Room 17 (1965), Softly Softly (1967), Callan (1970), My Wife Next Door (1972), Coronation Street (1973), Doctor in Charge (1973), The Naked Civil Servant (1975), Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976), Sapphire and Steel (1979), Minder (1980), Sink or Swim (1981), A Fine Romance (1983), The Box of Delights (1984), Bread (1987), Simon and the Witch (1987-88), The Upper Hand (1990), Virtual Murder (1992), Pat and Margaret (1994), All Quiet on the Preston Front (1995), The Vicar of Dibley (1999) and Foyle's War (2004).
Facts
Charles' partner of 39 years was fellow actor David Cleeve (who also appeared in Doctor Who several times, as an uncredited extra between 1973-80, and credited as David Woolliscroft in The Space Museum). Charles, who was an accomplished magician and held the Inner Magic Circle Silver Star, had his own one-man show which he toured the world with, entitled W.S. Gilbert: A Disagreeable Man?. Charles also played Yorkshireman Alf in a series of TV commercials for John Smith's Bitter.
Aubrey Richards (Professor Parry) June 6th 1920 to May 29th 2000
Career highlights
Debuting in Women of Dolwyn (1949), Aubrey's long career went on to take in Time Without Pity (1957), The Davy Jones Saga (1959), Barbara in Black (1962), Emergency Ward 10 (1962), Sergeant Cork (1964), Davy Jones (1964), Undermind (1965), The Ipcress File (1965), It! (1967), The Avengers (1965/68), The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970), Doomwatch (1970), Under Milk Wood (1972), Villains (1972), Sporting Scenes (1974), Carrie's War (1974), Piano Smashers of the Golden Sun (1975), How Green Was My Valley (1975-76), The Onedin Line (1979), Thomas and Sarah (1979), Buccaneer (1980), Travelling Man (1984), EastEnders (1988), Cadfael (1994) and A Mind to Kill (1994).
Facts
Aubrey was married to successful stage manager Diana Boddington, a close colleague of Sir Laurence Olivier.
George Roubicek (Captain Hopper) Born May 25th 1935
Career highlights
Austrian born George made his screen debut in The One That Got Away (1957), followed by roles in Blind Date (1959), Maigret (1961), Badger's Bend (1963), The Baron (1966), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), You Only Live Twice (1967), Department S (1969), Dad's Army (1971), Tightrope (1972), Father Brown (1974), Dickens of London (1976), Star Wars (1977), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Lillie (1978), Bergerac (1981), Mr Palfrey of Westminster (1985), Soldier Soldier (1993) and The Infiltrator (1995). He has also worked as an English translator for various foreign language productions, such as Lupin the Third: The Secret of Mamo (1978), Asterix and the Big Fight (1989) and X (1996), and in 2004 directed the dubbing of 13 episodes of the English language version of the Japanese TV series Monkey which hadn't been adapted in the 1970s (George had also been involved in a minor role in the dubbing of 39 of the original episodes in 1979).
Kenneth Seeger (Cyberman) February 21st 1931 to September 20th 2009
Career highlights
Debuted in Before Your Very Eyes (1956), then Quatermass and the Pit (1958-59), The Haunted House (1960), The Men from Room 13 (1961), Zero One (1962), Knock on Any Door (1966), Dixon of Dock Green (1967) and Z Cars (1969).
Cyril Shaps (John Viner) October 13th 1923 to January 1st 2003
Doctor Who credits
Played: John Viner in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Lennox in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Professor Clegg in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Played: Archimandrite in The Androids of Tara (1978)
Career highlights
Prolific character actor Cyril's first credit was in 1955's The Vale of Shadows, followed by Quatermass II (1955), Miracle in Soho (1957), Follow That Horse! (1960), The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), The Third Man (1965), Man in a Suitcase (1967), Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1967-70, as Rabbi Levy), Please Sir! (1971), The Liver Birds (1971-72), The Onedin Line (1971/73), Freewheelers (1973), Porridge (1975), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Holocaust (1978), Private Schulz (1981), The Young Ones (1982), The Invisible Man (1984), Running Scared (1986), Erik the Viking (1989), Blackeyes (1989), Beadle's About (1989), Dark Season (1991), The Madness of King George (1994), Our Mutual Friend (1998), The Lost Son (1999), Doctors (2000), Murder Rooms (2001), Shades (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) and The Pianist (2002). Cyril also provided voicework, performing the voices of PC Plod and Big Ears in The Adventures of Noddy (1955-56), and Professor Popkiss and Masterspy in Supercar (1962). Between 1987-90 he was the presenter of Five to Eleven.
Facts
Starting out as a child radio broadcaster at the age of 12, Cyril was also one of the voices of Mr Kipling in those "exceedingly good" cake commercials. One of Cyril's children was Simon Shaps, a sometime director of programmes for London Weekend Television and Granada.
Roy Stewart (Toberman) May 15th 1925 to October 27th 2008 (heart disease)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Saracen warrior in The Crusade (1965, uncredited)
Played: Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Strongman in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Career highlights
Jamaican Roy made his screen debut in The Mummy (1959), then Sands of the Desert (1960), On the Fiddle (1961), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), She (1965), Slave Girls (1967), The Avengers (1968), Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Up Pompeii (1970), Twins of Evil (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), Quiller (1975), I, Claudius (1976), Rentaghost (1978), Arabian Adventure (1979) and Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (1981).
Facts
Roy - 6ft 4in - arrived in the UK in the 1940s intent on becoming a doctor, but had his head turned by acting when he got into stunt work. In 1954 he opened his own gym in North Kensington, London, one of the first to allow mixed race training and which boasted among its customers Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse (the gym also doubled as a late night drinking club, and by 1964 Roy had been convicted four times of operating without a liquor licence!). In 1960, he opened the Globe, a Caribbean restaurant and club in Notting Hill, frequented by the likes of Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix (apparently the latter was at the Globe the night before he died). The 1991 album The Globe by Big Audio Dynamite II is named after the club. It was Roy who gave vital tips and encouragement to bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger to enter the Mr Universe title in London in 1969. There's a nice pictorial tribute to Roy here.
Reg Whitehead (Cyberman) December 11th 1932 to March 11th 2016 Click here for Reg Whitehead's entry on The Tenth Planet
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Kit Pedler (writer) June 11th 1927 to May 27th 1981 (heart attack) Click here for Kit Pedler's entry on The War Machines
Gerry Davis (writer) February 23rd 1930 to August 31st 1991 (stomach cancer) Click here for Gerry Davis's entry on The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
Career highlights
Ronald's other acting work includes The Racket (1951), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) and The Alamo (1960), sadly all uncredited.
Clive Merrison (Jim Callum) Born September 15th 1945
Doctor Who credits
Played: Jim Callum in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Deputy Chief Caretaker in Paradise Towers (1987)
Career highlights
Doctor Who was Clive's first TV credit, after which he appeared in Frontier (1968), Counterstrike (1969), Come Dancing (1971), Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), The Glittering Prizes (1976), A Christmas Carol (1977), Prince Regent (1979), The Borgias (1981), Maybury (1981), The District Nurse (1987), Chancer (1990), Time Riders (1991), Archer's Goon (1992), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Space Precinct (1995), The Tomorrow People (1995), An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), The English Patient (1996), Photographing Fairies (1997), Noak's Ark (1998), Care (2000), Lexx (2001), The Brief (2004/05), The History Boys (2006), Monday Monday (2009), Peep Show (2010), Bert & Dickie (2012), Lewis (2014), The Lady in the Van (2015), Midsomer Murders (2003/2016), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) and No Man is an Island (2019). He also had the role of Damien Appleby in The Kit Curran Radio Show (1984) and Kit Curran (1986), and regularly played Dick Elliott in Shine On Harvey Moon (1984-85) and Clive Bannister in The Labours of Erica (1989-90).
Facts
Clive played the role of Sherlock Holmes on BBC Radio against Michael Williams and Andrew Sachs as Watson 80 times between 1989-1998 and 2002-2010, and is the only actor ever to play the detective in all of Conan Doyle's stories. Until she died in 2003, Clive was married to the actor Gillian Barge.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Clive here.
George Pastell (Eric Klieg) March 13th 1923 to April 4th 1976 (heart attack)
Career highlights
Cypriot George (born Georgiou Pastellides) made his debut in Adam and Evalyn (1949), and then took roles in Give Us This Day (1949), The Gambler and the Lady (1952), South of Algiers (1953), Destination Downing Street (1957), Battle of the V-1 (1958), The Mummy (1959), The Stranglers of Bombay (1959), Interpol Calling (1959-60), Bottoms Up (1960), Konga (1961), Masters of Venus (1962), Maniac (1963), From Russia With Love (1963), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), The High Bright Sun (1965), The Avengers (1966), Deadlier Than the Male (1967), The Long Duel (1967), The Magus (1968) and Department S (1969).
Facts
In 1958, George married Gloria George, who became a member of Top of the Pops dancing group Pan's People in the 1960s, as well as Benny Hill's female troupe the Ladybirds. In the late 1960s he gave up acting to work in the American music industry, working as a studio manager with Rupert Neve, a pioneering designer of audio equipment who worked for the Beatles, Aerosmith and Nirvana.
Charles Pemberton (Cyberman) September 19th 1939 to May 13th 2007 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Alien technician in The War Games (1969)
Career highlights
Charles' debut came in Crossroads (1964), followed by roles in The Man in Room 17 (1965), Softly Softly (1967), Callan (1970), My Wife Next Door (1972), Coronation Street (1973), Doctor in Charge (1973), The Naked Civil Servant (1975), Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976), Sapphire and Steel (1979), Minder (1980), Sink or Swim (1981), A Fine Romance (1983), The Box of Delights (1984), Bread (1987), Simon and the Witch (1987-88), The Upper Hand (1990), Virtual Murder (1992), Pat and Margaret (1994), All Quiet on the Preston Front (1995), The Vicar of Dibley (1999) and Foyle's War (2004).
Facts
Charles' partner of 39 years was fellow actor David Cleeve (who also appeared in Doctor Who several times, as an uncredited extra between 1973-80, and credited as David Woolliscroft in The Space Museum). Charles, who was an accomplished magician and held the Inner Magic Circle Silver Star, had his own one-man show which he toured the world with, entitled W.S. Gilbert: A Disagreeable Man?. Charles also played Yorkshireman Alf in a series of TV commercials for John Smith's Bitter.
Aubrey Richards (Professor Parry) June 6th 1920 to May 29th 2000
Career highlights
Debuting in Women of Dolwyn (1949), Aubrey's long career went on to take in Time Without Pity (1957), The Davy Jones Saga (1959), Barbara in Black (1962), Emergency Ward 10 (1962), Sergeant Cork (1964), Davy Jones (1964), Undermind (1965), The Ipcress File (1965), It! (1967), The Avengers (1965/68), The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970), Doomwatch (1970), Under Milk Wood (1972), Villains (1972), Sporting Scenes (1974), Carrie's War (1974), Piano Smashers of the Golden Sun (1975), How Green Was My Valley (1975-76), The Onedin Line (1979), Thomas and Sarah (1979), Buccaneer (1980), Travelling Man (1984), EastEnders (1988), Cadfael (1994) and A Mind to Kill (1994).
Facts
Aubrey was married to successful stage manager Diana Boddington, a close colleague of Sir Laurence Olivier.
George Roubicek (Captain Hopper) Born May 25th 1935
Career highlights
Austrian born George made his screen debut in The One That Got Away (1957), followed by roles in Blind Date (1959), Maigret (1961), Badger's Bend (1963), The Baron (1966), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), You Only Live Twice (1967), Department S (1969), Dad's Army (1971), Tightrope (1972), Father Brown (1974), Dickens of London (1976), Star Wars (1977), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Lillie (1978), Bergerac (1981), Mr Palfrey of Westminster (1985), Soldier Soldier (1993) and The Infiltrator (1995). He has also worked as an English translator for various foreign language productions, such as Lupin the Third: The Secret of Mamo (1978), Asterix and the Big Fight (1989) and X (1996), and in 2004 directed the dubbing of 13 episodes of the English language version of the Japanese TV series Monkey which hadn't been adapted in the 1970s (George had also been involved in a minor role in the dubbing of 39 of the original episodes in 1979).
Kenneth Seeger (Cyberman) February 21st 1931 to September 20th 2009
Career highlights
Debuted in Before Your Very Eyes (1956), then Quatermass and the Pit (1958-59), The Haunted House (1960), The Men from Room 13 (1961), Zero One (1962), Knock on Any Door (1966), Dixon of Dock Green (1967) and Z Cars (1969).
Cyril Shaps (John Viner) October 13th 1923 to January 1st 2003
Doctor Who credits
Played: John Viner in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Lennox in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Professor Clegg in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Played: Archimandrite in The Androids of Tara (1978)
Career highlights
Prolific character actor Cyril's first credit was in 1955's The Vale of Shadows, followed by Quatermass II (1955), Miracle in Soho (1957), Follow That Horse! (1960), The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), The Third Man (1965), Man in a Suitcase (1967), Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1967-70, as Rabbi Levy), Please Sir! (1971), The Liver Birds (1971-72), The Onedin Line (1971/73), Freewheelers (1973), Porridge (1975), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Holocaust (1978), Private Schulz (1981), The Young Ones (1982), The Invisible Man (1984), Running Scared (1986), Erik the Viking (1989), Blackeyes (1989), Beadle's About (1989), Dark Season (1991), The Madness of King George (1994), Our Mutual Friend (1998), The Lost Son (1999), Doctors (2000), Murder Rooms (2001), Shades (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) and The Pianist (2002). Cyril also provided voicework, performing the voices of PC Plod and Big Ears in The Adventures of Noddy (1955-56), and Professor Popkiss and Masterspy in Supercar (1962). Between 1987-90 he was the presenter of Five to Eleven.
Facts
Starting out as a child radio broadcaster at the age of 12, Cyril was also one of the voices of Mr Kipling in those "exceedingly good" cake commercials. One of Cyril's children was Simon Shaps, a sometime director of programmes for London Weekend Television and Granada.
Roy Stewart (Toberman) May 15th 1925 to October 27th 2008 (heart disease)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Saracen warrior in The Crusade (1965, uncredited)
Played: Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Strongman in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Career highlights
Jamaican Roy made his screen debut in The Mummy (1959), then Sands of the Desert (1960), On the Fiddle (1961), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), She (1965), Slave Girls (1967), The Avengers (1968), Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Up Pompeii (1970), Twins of Evil (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), Quiller (1975), I, Claudius (1976), Rentaghost (1978), Arabian Adventure (1979) and Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (1981).
Facts
Roy - 6ft 4in - arrived in the UK in the 1940s intent on becoming a doctor, but had his head turned by acting when he got into stunt work. In 1954 he opened his own gym in North Kensington, London, one of the first to allow mixed race training and which boasted among its customers Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse (the gym also doubled as a late night drinking club, and by 1964 Roy had been convicted four times of operating without a liquor licence!). In 1960, he opened the Globe, a Caribbean restaurant and club in Notting Hill, frequented by the likes of Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix (apparently the latter was at the Globe the night before he died). The 1991 album The Globe by Big Audio Dynamite II is named after the club. It was Roy who gave vital tips and encouragement to bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger to enter the Mr Universe title in London in 1969. There's a nice pictorial tribute to Roy here.
Reg Whitehead (Cyberman) December 11th 1932 to March 11th 2016 Click here for Reg Whitehead's entry on The Tenth Planet
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Kit Pedler (writer) June 11th 1927 to May 27th 1981 (heart attack) Click here for Kit Pedler's entry on The War Machines
Gerry Davis (writer) February 23rd 1930 to August 31st 1991 (stomach cancer) Click here for Gerry Davis's entry on The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
Morris Barry (director) February 9th 1918 to November 20th 2000 Click here for Morris Barry's entry on The Moonbase
Peter Bryant (producer) October 27th 1923 to May 19th 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones
Victor Pemberton (script editor) October 10th 1931 to August 13th 2017 Click here for Victor Pemberton's entry on The Moonbase
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