Doctor Who Cast & Crew Guide: February 2014

Friday, February 28, 2014

The Wheel in Space

Jamie (Frazer Hines) in a space
suit familiar to viewers of The
Tenth Planet...

Six episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6)
First broadcast Apr 27 to Jun 1 1968
Average audience for serial: 7.25m

An episode by episode review of this story can be read at Time Space Visualiser here.

REGULAR CAST

Eric Flynn (Leo Ryan) Dec 13 1939 to Mar 4 2002 (cancer)
Career highlights
China-born Eric's debut came with Skyport (1959), then The Voodoo Factor (1959), The Silent Invasion (1962), As You Like It (1963), Dr Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963), Miss Adventure (1964), Weavers Green (1966), Glamour (1966), A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967), The Avengers (1967), The Caesars (1968), Ivanhoe (1970), Freewheelers (1971), The Black Arrow (1972-73), Maggie and Her (1978), Deadly Passion (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), An Actor's Life for Me (1991), The All New Alexei Sayle Show (1995) and Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1999).
Facts
His children are actors Jerome and Daniel Flynn, and singer songwriter Johnny Flynn (of Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit - he sang the theme song for the BBC4 comedy Detectorists (2014)), while his daughter-in-law is actress Serena Evans (best remembered as Sergeant Dawkins in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line). Born in China as his father was a customs officer for the Hong Kong government, Eric and his family spent some of World War Two in a Japanese concentration camp following the invasion of China by Japan.

Freddie Foote (Servo robot) Aug 7 1952 to Feb 18 2022
Career highlights
Freddie made his debut in King of the River (1966), after which he found roles in Blandings Castle (1967), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1967), Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Orlando (1968), The Dick Emery Show (1970), Catweazle (1970), Mr Digby Darling (1970), Jamie (1971), Whack-O! (1972), Crossroads (1972-73) and My Old Man (1975).
Facts
As an adult he quit acting to work for Royal Mail.

Derrick Gilbert (Armand Vallance) Born May 26 1937
Career highlights
Derrick's CV also includes work on Parade's End (1964), Turn Out the Lights (1967), Haunted (1967), The Borderers (1970), The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971), A Traveller in Time (1978), A Horse Called Jester (1979), Grandad (1979) and In Suspicious Circumstances (1991).
Facts
Derrick's third wife was actress Xanthi Gardner, who also presented children's show You and Me for a time in the 1970s.

Michael Goldie (Elton Laleham) Feb 26 1932 to Jun 17 2013
Doctor Who credits
Played: Craddock in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)
Played: Elton Laleham in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Career highlights
Having previously appeared in The Avengers (1963), Michael later appeared in The Children of the New Forest (1964), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969), Smith (1970), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1973), Secret Army (1978), Matilda's England (1979), Get Lost! (1981), Fighting Back (1986), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Wycliffe (1996). Michael also played Bob Statham, owner of the Weatherfield Recorder, in soap Coronation Street (1983 & 1987-88).
Facts
Coincidentally, Michael's character in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) was played by his Wheel in Space co-star Kenneth Watson in the movie version, Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966).

Peter Hawkins (Cyberman voice) Apr 3 1924 to Jul 8 2006 Click here for Peter Hawkins's entry on The Daleks

Jerry Holmes (Cyberman)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Parisian man in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966, uncredited)
Played: Cyberman in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Career highlights
Other work includes Hancock (1967) and Mooney and His Caravans (1968).

Clare Jenkins (Tanya Lernov)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Nanina in The Savages (1966)
Played: Tanya Lernov in The Wheel in Space (1968), The War Games (1969)
Career highlights
Clare's other credits include Crossroads (1964), Weavers Green (1966), The Revenue Men (1967), Z Cars (1968), Ivanhoe (1970) and The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973).

Peter Laird (Chang) Born 1936
Career highlights
Debuting in Crane (1964), Peter's further work includes Vanity Fair (1969), George and the Dragon (1968), Take Three Girls (1969), Sense and Sensibility (1971), The Edwardians (1972), The Cedar Tree (1978), The Sandbaggers (1980), Sapphire and Steel (1981), Stay With Me Til Morning (1981), The Glory Boys (1984), The Man Who Cried (1993), Doctors (2000) and Dream Team (2002).

Kevork Malikyan (Kemel Rudkin) Born Jun 2 1943
Career highlights
Prolific Turkish-born Kevork made his debut in The Portrait of a Lady (1968), then took roles in Virgin of the Secret Service (1968), The Avengers (1969), The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970), Jason King (1972), Little Big Time (1973), Midnight Express (1978), Sphinx (1981), Duty Free (1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Press Gang (1992), The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993), Birds of a Feather (1994), The Final Cut (1995), The Commissioner (1998), Spooks (2002), Judge John Deed (2002), Saddam's Tribe (2007), Taken 2 (2012), Strike Back (2013), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), The Promise (2016) and Silent Witness (2008/2017). He also had a long-running role as Maximillian Papandrious in the sitcom Mind Your Language (1977-79).

James Mellor (Sean Flannigan) Feb 4 1933 to Jan 28 1976
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sean Flannigan in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Played: Varan in The Mutants (1972)
Career highlights
James' debut was in Eugene O'Neill: Three Plays of the Sea (1960), followed by The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963), The Man in Room 17 (1965), Marat/ Sade (1967), The Oblong Box (1969), The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), Doomwatch (1972), The Edwardians (1972), The Regiment (1973), Last of the Summer Wine (1973), On the Game (1974), Churchill's People (1975) and Moll Flanders (1975).
Facts
James died at the age of just 42. His friend Peter O'Toole organised his funeral and wake, as well as a memorial event at the Old Vic in aid of his young family.

Anne Ridler (Dr Gemma Corwyn) Feb 8 1930 to Feb 2 2011 (throat cancer)
Career highlights
Chinese-born Anne debuted in Portrait of Alison (1955), then made appearances in My Friend Charles (1956), A Time of Day (1957), The Camp on Blood Island (1958), Suspense (1962), The Scarlet and the Black (1965), Thursday's Child (1973), Moonbase 3 (1973), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Whodunnit? (1974), The Tomorrow People (1975), Kizzy (1976), Tenko (1981), Tucker's Luck (1984), Strike It Rich! (1986), Wyatt's Watchdogs (1988), The Bill (1998) and Up at the Villa (2000). She also had a long-running role as Sergeant Chris Freeman in Dixon of Dock Green (1962-64) and will forever be immortalised as the voice of Kate Kestrel and Cy-Star in the children's puppet series Terrahawks (1983-86).
Facts
She was for a time married to actor Emrys Jones, who appeared in the Doctor Who story The Mind Robber (1968).

Roy Skelton (Cyberman voice) Jul 20 1931 to Jun 8 2011 (pneumonia following a stroke) Click here for Roy Skelton's entry on The Ark

Gordon Stothard (Cyberman) Born Jan 31 1933
Doctor Who credits
Played: Yeti in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Cyberman in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Played: Man carrying caskets in The Invasion (1968, uncredited)
Played: Prison officer in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: Grun in The Curse of Peladon (1972, as Gordon St Clair)
Career highlights
Gordon's only other credited role was in Paul Temple (1970).

Donald Sumpter (Enrico Casali) Born Feb 13 1943
Doctor Who credits
Played: Enrico Casali in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Played: Commander Ridgeway in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Erasmus Darkening in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap (2009)
Played: Rassilon in Hell Bent (2015)
Career highlights
Prolific Donald debuted in Softly Softly (1967), then found work in Gazette (1968), Groupie Girl (1970), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Hadleigh (1973), Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), The Black Panther (1977), Antony and Cleopatra (1981), The Brack Report (1982), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), Bleak House (1985), Boon (1986), Big Deal (1985-86), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990), Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1990), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Between the Lines (1994), Our Friends in the North (1996), Cold Lazarus (1996), Bombay Blue (1997), Great Expectations (1999), The Queen's Nose (1995-2000), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), The Last Detective (2004), Dracula (2006), New Tricks (2008), Einstein and Eddington (2008), Being Human (2009-2010), Spooks (2010), Merlin (2010), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Game of Thrones (2011-12), Wallander (2012), The Mill (2013), Atlantis (2013), Quirke (2014), New Worlds (2014), Jekyll and Hyde (2015), The Knackerman (2016), Peaky Blinders (2017), 12 Monkeys (2018), Les Miserables (2018-19), Chernobyl (2019) and The Cleaner (2021).
Facts
In 1978, Donald turned down the role of Blake in sci-fi show Blake's 7. The gap of 43 years between his second and third appearances in Doctor Who makes him the record holder for biggest period of time between appearances in the programme.

Michael Turner (Jarvis Bennett) Jul 19 1921 to Jul 14 2012
Career highlights
South African born Michael made his debut in The Black Arrow (1951), after which he popped up in many productions, such as Sherlock Holmes (1955), The Moonstone (1959), Crosstrap (1962), Othello (1965), Emergency Ward 10 (1967), The Gamblers (1967), The Avengers (1968), Big Breadwinner Hog (1969), Strange Report (1969), Cranford (1972), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1973), The Brothers (1974), Public Eye (1975), The New Avengers (1977), A Question of Guilt (1980), To Serve Them All My Days (1980), Mr Pye (1986), Cry Freedom (1987), Lady Chatterley (1993), Pie in the Sky (1996) and The Bill (1998).

Kenneth Watson (Bill Duggan) Nov 16 1931 to Jul 21 1998 (pancreatic cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Craddock in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966)
Played: Bill Duggan in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Career highlights
Debuted in Kidnapped (1956), then Formula for Danger (1960), Mill of Secrets (1960), Man of the World (1962), Taxi! (1963), The Liars (1966), The Revenue Men (1968), Public Eye (1969), Dad's Army (1969), Timeslip (1970), Budgie (1972), Holly (1972), The Brothers (1973), Funny Ha-Ha (1974), Crown Court (1974-76), Horse in the House (1977), The New Avengers (1977), Murder at the Wedding (1979), Coronation Street (1975/79/80), Grandad (1980), Wycliffe (1994) and The Bill (1996). He had a long-running role as Brian Blair in Scottish soap High Road (1987-90).
Facts
Coincidentally, Kenneth's character in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966) was played by his Wheel in Space co-star Michael Goldie in the TV version, The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964).

CREW

David Whitaker (writer) Apr 18 1928 to Feb 4 1980 (lymphoma) Click here for David Whitaker's entry on An Unearthly Child

Kit Pedler (story idea) Jun 11 1927 to May 27 1981 (heart attack) Click here for Kit Pedler's entry on The War Machines

Tristan de Vere Cole (director) Born Mar 16 1935

Doctor Who credits
Production assistant: The Gunfighters (1966, uncredited)
Directed: The Wheel in Space (1968)
Career highlights
Tristan's directing work includes United! (1966-67), Kenilworth (1967), Take Three Girls (1969-70), The Doctors (1971), Spy Trap (1972), Emmerdale Farm (1972-73, including its first episode), seven episodes of Thirty Minute Theatre (1968-73), Owen, MD (1971-73), Marked Personal (1974), Trinity Tales (1975), Warship (1974/76), Survivors (1977), Angels (1976-78), Z Cars (1967-78), Secret Army (1979), Buccaneer (1980), The Spoils of War (1981), Kessler (1981), Squadron (1982), The Odd Job Man (1984), Howards' Way (1985-88), Bergerac (1988-91) and Trainer (1991-92). He also directed and produced the series Sally Ann in 1979.
Facts
Tristan believes himself to be the last surviving illegitimate child of infamously amorous bohemian Welsh painter Augustus John, who is said to have fathered more than 100 children in his 83-year lifetime.

Peter Bryant (producer) Oct 27 1923 to May 19 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones

Derrick Sherwin (script editor) Apr 16 1936 to Oct 17 2018 Click here for Derrick Sherwin's entry on The Web of Fear

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Fury from the Deep

The terrifying Mr Quill (Bill Burridge)

Six episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6)
First broadcast Mar 16 to Apr 20 1968
Average audience for serial: 7.20m

An episode by episode review of this story can be read at Time Space Visualiser here.

REGULAR CAST

Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) Mar 25 1920 to Mar 28 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks

Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born Sep 22 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders

Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield) Jan 2 1948 to Jul 21 2017 (lung cancer) Click here for Deborah Watling's entry on The Evil of the Daleks

GUEST CAST

John Abineri (Van Lutyens) May 18 1928 to Jun 29 2000 (motor-neurone disease)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Van Lutyens in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: General Carrington in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Richard Railton in Death to the Daleks (1974)
Played: Ranquin in The Power of Kroll (1978-79)
Career highlights
John's first credit was in The Children of the New Forest (1955), and later appeared in The Third Man (1959), Formula for Danger (1960), The Odd Man (1962), Redcap (1965), Funeral in Berlin (1966), The Witch's Daughter (1971), The Last of the Mohicans (1971), General Hospital (1972), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), The Moon Stallion (1978), Blake's 7 (1979), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), Jamaica Inn (1983), Maelstrom (1985), Red Dwarf (1988, as Rimmer's father), The Godfather Part III (1990), Seaforth (1994), Wycliffe (1995) and The Window Bed (1999). John also had regular roles as Hubert Goss in Survivors (1976-77) and Herne the Hunter in Robin of Sherwood (1984-86); he was also the butler in the original series of Ferrero Rocher advertisements.
Facts
John's son Daniel is an actor and voiceover artist who claims to have discovered Russell Crowe (Daniel is married to TV producer Claudia Rosencrantz). John's other son Sebastian is also an actor. When actor Duncan Lamont died during the film of the 1979 Blake's 7 episode Hostage, John took over the role (both had co-starred in the Doctor Who story Death to the Daleks (1974)). In 1973 John was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for playing Chingachgook in Last of the Mohicans and Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (he lost to Anthony Murphy).

Bill Burridge (Quill) Died 1975*
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in The Savages (1966, uncredited)
Played: Priest in The Underwater Menace (1967, uncredited)
Played: Quill in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Villager/ coven member in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Draconian in Frontier in Space (1973, uncredited)
Career highlights
Bill's earliest credit was in Flower of Evil (1961) and he also appeared in Frontier Drums (1961), The King's Breakfast (1963), Taxi! (1964), The Man in the Iron Mask (1968), The Worker (1970) and Upstairs, Downstairs (1972).
Facts
* The BBC has reportedly stated that Bill has passed away; a William Burridge died in 1975, which could have been him, but it's not confirmed. In 1976 Equity began to put out an annual appeal for his contact details so that royalties could be paid to him, but nobody ever contacted them. Equity renewed the appeal in 2005, to no avail. However, according to actor Terence Denville in the 2014 book Memories of Who, Bill suffered a near-fatal brain seizure on the set of Frontier in Space following an allergic reaction to the metallic greasepaint, and had to move into a nursing home. It is presumed he died soon after.

Brian Cullingford (Perkins) Born Apr 14 1937
Career highlights
Further credits include The Old Campaigner (1967), Z Cars (1968) and Out of the Unknown (1969).
Facts
Brian was a presenter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the pirate radio station Radio 390 and worked on TV in series such as What the Papers Say, Songs of Praise and Nationwide. More recently he has been involved in a company supplying speakers, actors and musicians for world events. He met his future wife - June Murphy - on the set of Fury from the Deep.

Peter Ducrow (Guard) Oct 19 1917 to Dec 19 1976 (heart attack)
Career highlights
Peter's earliest role was in Children of Chance (1949) and he went on to appear in A for Andromeda (1961), A Man Called Harry Brent (1965), Where the Bullets Fly (1966), The Expert (1969) and The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1973). Peter's most memorable role was as villain The Face in Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67).
Facts
In the early 1960s Peter worked as a DJ on pirate radio station Radio Caroline, but although he left in 1964 to pursue his acting career, he continued to perform in over 4,000 radio schools programmes over a 15-year period. Peter was born with the surname Bailey, but took his stage name from an ancestor of his, Andrew Ducrow, a prominent British circus and equestrian performer from the early 19th century.

John Garvin (Carney)
Career highlights
Debuting in For the Children (1948), John's other credits include Arrow to the Heart (1952), Out of this World (1962), Emergency Ward 10 (1963), It's a Woman's World (1964), Undermind (1965), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969), Public Eye (1972), Thriller (1974), The Nearly Man (1975) and The Citadel (1983).

John Gill (Oak) Oct 24 1912 to Mar 29 2007
Career highlights
John's first credit was At Your Service Ltd (1951), and later Rich Girl (1956), Barnaby Rudge (1960), The Avengers (1962), This Sporting Life (1963), Swizzlewick (1964, as Fidgett), Orlando (1966), Privilege (1967), Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Middlemarch (1968), Paul Temple (1970), Father, Dear Father (1973), David Copperfield (1974), Two's Company (1979), To Serve Them All My Days (1980), Juliet Bravo (1984), After Pilkington (1987), All Creatures Great and Small (1989-90), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994), Crime Traveller (1997) and The Land Girls (1998).

Margaret John (Megan Jones) Dec 14 1926 to Feb 2 2011 (liver cancer)

Doctor Who credits

Played: Megan Jones in Fury from the Deep (1968)

Played: Grandma Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern TARDISode and The Idiot's Lantern (2006)

Career highlights

Margaret's first credit was The Prodigal Tenor (1957), and later How Green Was My Valley (1960), Badger's Bend (1963), Coronation Street (1965), Z Cars (1967), The First Lady (1968-69), The Challengers (1972), Emmerdale Farm (1972), New Scotland Yard (1974), Crown Court (1975), Last of the Summer Wine (1977), Blake's 7 (1978), International Velvet (1978), The Boy Merlin (1979), Breakaway (1980), Crossroads (1979-80, as Marian Owen), The District Nurse (1984, as Gwen Harris), Dear John (1987), B&B (1992), Mortimer's Law (1998), Fun at the Funeral Parlour (2001), Eyes Down (2003-04, as Kay), According to Bex (2005), Tea and Biscuits with Maggie Pritchard (2004-05), The Mighty Boosh (2005), Little Britain (2005), Run Fatboy Run (2007), Being Human (2010), Skins (2010) and Game of Thrones (2011). She also played Elsie Hepplewhite in High Hopes (2002-08) and Doris in Gavin and Stacey (2007-09).
Awards
2009: BAFTA Cymru Lifetime Achievement Award

Facts

Her husband Ben Thomas - who died aged 39 just three years after they married - was viola player with the London Symphony Orchestra and once performed with Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Sammy Davis Jr and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Graham Leaman (Price) Aug 9 1920 to Jun 14 1985 (multiple sclerosis)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Controller in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Price in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Grand Marshall in The Seeds of Death (1969)
Played: Time Lord in Colony in Space (1971), The Three Doctors (1972-73)
Career highlights
His earliest credit was in Where's Charley? (1952), then Before Your Very Eyes (1956), Hancock's Half Hour (1956-59), The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960), Deadline Midnight (1961), Kenilworth (1967), The First Churchills (1969), Dead of Night (1972) and Father Brown (1974).
Facts
In 1943 Graham was on the selection panel for the formation of an entertainment troupe for 2 AGRA (Army Group Royal Artillery) in North Africa. Among those selected was comedian Spike Milligan. When the Battery Band held a reunion in 1983, Milligan noticed Graham's absence (due to him suffering from multiple sclerosis) and went to his home to transport him to the reunion. His brother John (Jack) was also an amateur actor.

Victor Maddern (Robson) Mar 16 1928 to Jun 22 1993 (brain tumour)
Career highlights
Victor appeared in well over 100 productions, starting with Morning Departure (1950) and including The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954), The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), Private's Progress (1956), Blood of the Vampire (1958), Dunkirk (1958), Mess Mates (1960), HMS Defiant (1962), Fair Exchange (1962), Bonanza (1963), The Avengers (1966), Circus of Fear (1966), Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966), The Prisoner (1967), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Shadows of Fear (1971), The Frighteners (1972), Steptoe and Son (1973), 1990 (1977), The Dick Emery Show (1968-80, as Lampwick's son-in-law), It's a Knockout (1979), Together (1980), That's My Boy (1983), The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987), CAB (1988), The Darling Buds of May (1992) and Freddie as FRO7 (1992). Victor, who'd turn down scripts that included profanities, also appeared in five Carry On films (1960-78) and the series Carry On Laughing (1975).
Facts
He was also a tireless fundraiser for religious charities. In 1991 Victor opened a public speaking school called The Talking Point frequented by politicians, and at another time ran a mushroom farm, as well as a printing company for film and TV scripts.

Richard Mayes (Chief Baxter) Dec 26 1922 to Oct 22 2006
Career highlights
Debuting in A for Andromeda (1961), experienced stage actor Richard went on to appear in Oliver Twist (1962), Out of the Past (1970), The Crezz (1976), A Bunch of Fives (1977), Wings (1978), Tycoon (1978), Gandhi (1982), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985), How We Used to Live (1990), Van der Valk (1992), Heartbeat (1997), Emmerdale (2002, as Jed Dingle), Waking the Dead (2004) and Casualty (2005).
Facts
Richard spent most of World War Two as an RAF pilot, and flew 29 sorties to Germany, for which he was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. In 2004 he suffered a stroke, and against doctors' expectations made a startling recovery, regaining the use of his arms and legs and getting back into acting.

June Murphy (Maggie Harris) Born 1940
Doctor Who credits
Played: Maggie Harris in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Jane Blythe in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
June's other roles include Who Killed Menna Lorraine? (1960), then Z Cars (1962), Compact (1962), The Avengers (1962), Ricochet (1963), Londoners (1965) and Cock, Hen and Courting Pit (1966).
Facts
BBC Enterprises was for many years unable to locate June to pay her fees resulting from the VHS release of The Sea Devils in 1995, but it was discovered in 2007 that she changed her name to Laura Langley. She met her future husband - Brian Cullingford - on the set of Fury from the Deep.

Hubert Rees (Chief engineer) Apr 27 1928 to Oct 20 2009
Doctor Who credits
Played: Chief engineer in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Captain Ransom in The War Games (1969)
Played: John Stevenson in The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Career highlights
Hubert's career began with 1958's Uncle Harry, followed by roles in 1962's Richard the Lionheart, Ring Out an Alibi (1964), Menace (1970), Fish (1973), Public Eye (1971-75, as George), The Government Inspector (1976), Sweeney 2 (1978), The Sandbaggers (1978), Buccaneer (1980), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982, as Inspector Lestrade to Tom Baker's Sherlock Holmes), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982), The Baker Street Boys (1983, as Dr Watson), Howards' Way (1985), Chance in a Million (1986), Jeeves and Wooster (1991), Dandelion Dead (1994), Class Act (1995), Darklands (1996), Daylight Robbery (2000) and Sunburn (2000).

Roy Spencer (Harris)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Manyak in The Ark (1966)
Played: Harris in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Career highlights
Roy's career began uncredited in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), then an ITV Play of the Week (1961), R3 (1965), The Expert (1969), War and Peace (1972-73), Dracula (1973), Barry Lyndon (1975), Grange Hill (1978), Julius Caesar (1979), The Gentle Touch (1983), Howards' Way (1986), Bomber Harris (1989) and Campion (1990).
Facts
Roy is an authority on the life and works of D H Lawrence, having written books and a one-man stage show about him

CREW

Victor Pemberton (writer) Oct 10 1931 to Aug 13 2017 Click here for Victor Pemberton's entry on The Moonbase

Hugh David (director) Jul 17 1925 to Sep 11 1987 Click here for Hugh David's entry on The Highlanders

Peter Bryant (producer) Oct 27 1923 to May 19 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones

Derrick Sherwin (script editor) Apr 16 1936 to Oct 17 2018 Click here for Derrick Sherwin's entry on The Web of Fear

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The Web of Fear

"C'mon, we're gonna be late for work!"

Six episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6)
First broadcast Feb 3 to Mar 9 1968
Average audience for serial: 7.62m

An episode by episode review of this story can be read at Time Space Visualiser here.

REGULAR CAST

Roger Jacombs (Yeti) Apr 7 1940 to Dec 26 1999
Career highlights
Roger's other work includes Adam Adamant Lives! (1966) and Up Pompeii (1970), as well as the Morecambe and Wise vehicle Two of a Kind (1967-68).

Jeremy King (Yeti)
This is Jeremy's only known credit.

John Levene (Yeti) Born Dec 24 1941
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Moonbase (1967, uncredited)
Played: Yeti in The Web of Fear (1968), The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Sergeant/ RSM Benton in The Invasion (1968), The Ambassadors of Death (1970), Inferno (1970), Terror of the Autons (1971), The Mind of Evil (1971), The Claws of Axos (1971), The Daemons (1971), Day of the Daleks (1972), The Time Monster (1972), The Three Doctors (1972-73), The Green Death (1973), Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974), Planet of the Spiders (1974), Robot (1974-75), Terror of the Zygons (1975), The Android Invasion (1975)
Played: Platoon Under Leader Benton in Inferno (1970)
Career highlights
John's other appearances include Undermind (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), Z Cars (1967), A Handful of Thieves (1969), Germinal (1970), UFO (1970), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), Callan (1972), Double Take (1972), Psychomania (1973), The Jensen Code (1973), The Adventurer (1974), Carry On Laughing! (1975), The Growing Pains of PC Penrose (1975), The Executioner (1975), BeetleBorgs (1997), CanniBallistic! (2002), Automatons (2006) and Satan Hates You (2010).
Facts
John was inspired to become an actor after meeting Telly Savalas (filming The Dirty Dozen at the time) while working in a men's clothing shop. He quit acting in 1977 and set up his own audio-visual production company, before moving to America, where he started acting once more after working for some years as an entertainer on cruise liners. In 1987 he reprised the role of Benton for the fan video spin-off Wartime. If you have a desire to hear John sing, then why not try out his 2012 album The Ballads of Sergeant Benton?

John Lord (Yeti)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Yeti in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Masters in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Career highlights
His other credits include Doomwatch (1970), No, That's Me Over Here! (1970) and The Man Outside (1972).

Richardson Morgan (Corporal Blake) 1939 to Sep 22 2024
Doctor Who credits
Played: Corporal Blake in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Rogin in The Ark in Space (1975)
Career highlights
Debuting in Vendetta (1967), Detective (1968), Richardson's career took in Tales of Unease (1970), New Scotland Yard (1972), Van der Valk (1973), The Adventurer (1973), Holding On (1977), Rebecca (1979), Two People (1979), Shine on Harvey Moon (1984), Inspector Morse (1987), EastEnders (1994) and A Respectable Trade (1998). He also wrote an episode of the anthology series Tales of Unease in 1970.
Facts
From the 1980s he went by the professional name of Ric Morgan.

Joseph O'Connell (Soldier)
Career highlights
Joseph's other work include Z Cars (1967), Thingumybob (1968), Callan (1969), Public Eye (1969) and Special Branch (1970).

Tina Packer (Ann Travers) Born Sep 28 1938
Career highlights
Tina's earliest acting role was in No Hiding Place (1964), after which she appeared in The Avengers (1965), David Copperfield (1966), Two a Penny (1967), Boy Meets Girl (1968), Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970) and Crime of Passion (1972). She also appeared as herself in It's Saturday Night (1959), Charlie Rose (2013) and the 2017 documentary Nothing is Truer Than the Truth (about Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford).
Facts
Tina was a drama teacher in London before leaving the UK for the US in 1972, where in 1978 she founded and became artistic director of the Shakespeare and Company Theatre in Lenox, Massachusetts until her retirement in 2009. Although not proven, it is thought Tina may have directed more productions of Shakespeare's plays than any other woman in the world. She is the subject of Helen Epstein's biography, The Companies She Keeps, and the WGBH film Sex, Violence & Poetry: a Portrait of Tina Packer. She continues to spearhead an international effort to reconstruct an historically accurate reproduction of the 1587 Rose Playhouse, where Shakespeare's plays were first performed. Her first husband was actor Laurie Asprey, with whom she had son Jason, now an actor.

Derek Pollitt (Driver Evans) Dec 16 1926 to Jul 11 2010
Doctor Who credits
Played: Driver Evans in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Private Wright in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Professor Caldera in Shada (1980, untransmitted)
Career highlights
Further work included Such is Life (1950), Strife (1960), Coronation Street (1966), The Body Stealers (1969), Bread (1971) and The Onedin Line (1978).
Facts
Derek sadly went blind in 1997 and moved into an RNIB hostel, but this didn't stop him raising money for a hospice in Llandudno, North Wales, by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End for a penny a mile (raising £1,301). His brother was fellow actor Clyde Pollitt, who appeared in two Doctor Who stories - The War Games (1969) and The Three Doctors (1972-73). His mother was Betty (Lloyd-) Davies, who was also a noted Welsh bard called Branwen Ellis. In 1955, Derek and his wife formed the Galleon touring theatre company, and ran two others with his brothers Brian and Clyde.

Jon Rollason (Harold Chorley) Apr 9 1931 to Feb 20 2016
Career highlights
Jon's screen acting debut came in The Children of the New Forest (1955), after which he appeared in First Night (1963), Swizzlewick (1964), Danger Man (1966), The Troubleshooters (1967), The Borderers (1970), Barlow (1973) and Robin's Nest (1979). He also played semi-regular Dave Robbins in soap Coronation Street (1963-64/69/71) but will be best remembered as short-lived regular Dr Martin King in The Avengers (1962). Jon also wrote many radio serials, as well as The Double Dealers (1974) and episodes of soap Crossroads (1976, for which he invented the popular character of Benny) for TV, before moving to North Wales to get involved in local politics, becoming mayor of the town of Llanrwst for a time.

Frederick Schrecker (Julius Silverstein) Jan 10 1892 to Jul 13 1976
Career highlights
Austrian Fritz/ Frederick's earliest known credit was in Der Feldherrnhugel (1926), followed by roles in Die Koffer des Herrn O.F (1931), Counterspy (1953), Breakaway (1955), The Trollenberg Terror (1956-57), Dixon of Dock Green (1957), Women in Love (1958), The Cheaters (1961), Billion Dollar Brain (1968), The Liver Birds (1971), The Man Outside (1972), The Glittering Prizes (1976) and Killers (1976).

Gordon Stothard (Yeti) Born Jan 31 1933
Doctor Who credits
Played: Yeti in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Cyberman in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Played: Man carrying caskets in The Invasion (1968, uncredited)
Played: Prison officer in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: Grun in The Curse of Peladon (1972, as Gordon St Clair)
Career highlights
Gordon's only other credited role was in Paul Temple (1970).

Colin Warman (Yeti)
Colin's only other credit is Z Cars (1968).

Jack Watling (Travers) Jan 13 1923 to May 22 2001 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Professor Travers in The Abominable Snowmen (1967), The Web of Fear (1968) + fan spin-off Downtime (1995)
Career highlights
Jack was a veteran film actor by the time he appeared in Doctor Who, alongside his daughter Debbie. His first CV credit was in 1943's We Dive at Dawn (although he'd been acting uncredited since before the war), and subsequent credits included The Way Ahead (1944), The Winslow Boy (1948), Under Capricorn (1949), Stryker of the Yard (1953), A Time to Kill (1955), The Admirable Crichton (1957), A Night to Remember (1958), Invisible Man (1959), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Hancock (1961), The Newcomers (1965), The Nanny (1965), Nearest and Dearest (1969), Paul Temple (1970), The Pathfinders (1972-73), Jason King (1972), Father, Dear Father (1972), Lord Tramp (1977), The Cedar Tree (1977-78), Doctor's Daughters (1981), Family Fortunes (1981), Andy Robson (1982-83), Hot Metal (1986), Fortunes of War (1987), Bergerac (1989-91) and Heartbeat (1994). His last role was reprising Prof Travers in Downtime (1995), which reunited him with his daughter, as well as the Great Intelligence, the Yeti and the Brigadier. Travers was also supposed to appear in the Doctor Who story The Invasion (1968), but Jack was unavailable. One of Jack's other longer-running roles was as Don Henderson in The Plane Makers (1963-65) and The Power Game (1965-69).
Facts
Jack's other children are actors Giles and Dilys and sculptor Nicky Matthews. In the 1940s Jack was pestered by love letters sent to him from Viennese psychiatrist and vocal coach Keith Newman, who Jack was eventually forced to commit to a mental institution. Jack also suffered from acute anxiety neurosis. Jack's widow Patricia Hicks died just three days after the tenth anniversary of his passing.

Ralph Watson (Captain Knight) Jan 20 1936 to Jun 20 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Technician in The Underwater Menace (1967)
Played: Captain Knight in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Ettis in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
Played: Ben in Horror of Fang Rock (1977)
Career highlights
His first credit was Front Page Story (1965), then The Three Musketeers (1966), The Anniversary (1968), Barlow at Large (1973), Edward the Seventh (1975), Battle of the Sexes (1976), When the Boat Comes In (1976), Dave Allen At Large (1976-78), Hazell (1979), One By One (1985), Prospects (1986), Boon (1989), Spender (1992), The Glass Virgin (1995), Shooting Fish (1997), A Soldier's Tunic (2004) and Casualty (2007).
Facts
In the early 1980s Ralph worked as a teacher in London.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Ralph here.

Stephen Whittaker (Craftsman Weams) Jun 28 1947 to Feb 7 2003
Career highlights
Other credits include The Edwardians (1964), The Gun (1967), Sat'day While Sunday (1967), Chastity (1969), Strange Report (1969), Callan (1972), Crown Court (1973), I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Target (1977), Spearhead (1979), Yanks (1979), Only a Game (1981), The Keep (1983) and Blott on the Landscape (1985). After giving up acting Stephen moved behind the scenes to go into directing, working on What If It's Raining (1986), Eurocops (1988), Portrait of a Marriage (1988), Inspector Morse (1993), Grafters (1999), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000), Sons and Lovers (2003) and The Rocket Post (2004).

Jack Woolgar (Staff Sergeant Arnold) Sep 15 1913 to Jul 14 1978
Career highlights
After debuting in The Artful Dodger (1959), Jack's CV included roles in Skyport (1960), Biggles (1960), It's Dark Outside (1964), Orlando (1966), The Avengers (1967), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1967), Hammerhead (1968), The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (1969, as the titular character), Kate (1970), Paul Temple (1970), The Liver Birds (1971), Ace of Wands (1971), Follyfoot (1972), Review (1972), Our Kid (1973), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1974), Crown Court (1973/74), The Sweeney (1975) and Last of the Summer Wine (1975). In his last years he became best known for playing Sam Carne in soap Crossroads (1975-78).
Facts
A tribute site to Jack created by his son Tim can be found here.

CREW

Mervyn Haisman (writer) Mar 15 1928 to Oct 29 2010 (heart failure) Click here for Mervyn Haisman's entry on The Abominable Snowmen

Henry Lincoln (writer) Feb 12 1930 to Feb 23 2022 Click here for Henry Lincoln's entry on The Abominable Snowmen

Douglas Camfield (director) May 8 1931 to Jan 27 1984 (heart attack) Click here for Douglas Camfield's entry on Planet of Giants

Peter Bryant (producer) Oct 27 1923 to May 19 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones

Derrick Sherwin (script editor) Apr 16 1936 to Oct 17 2018
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Web of Fear, Fury from the Deep, The Wheel in Space, The Dominators, The Mind Robber (all 1968), The Space Pirates (1969)
Produced: The War Games (1969), Spearhead from Space (1970)
Wrote: The Mind Robber (episode 1, 1968, uncredited), The Invasion (1968)
Played: UNIT commissionaire in Spearhead from Space (1970, uncredited)
Career highlights
Derrick started out as an actor, debuting in 1958's Duty Bound, and later appearing in Starr and Company (1958), William Tell (1959), The Men from Room 13 (1959), Here Lies Miss Sabry (1960), Danger Man (1960), Clue of the Silver Key (1961), The Spanish Sword (1962), Saki (1962), Accidental Death (1963), The Bed-Sit Girl (1965), The Baron (1967) and Vengeance of She (1968). He also had a regular role as Bryn Morriston in the football soap United! (1965-66).
Behind the cameras, he worked as producer on Paul Temple (1970-71), The Man Outside (1972), Ski-Boy (1973) and Perils of Pendragon (1974), and wrote scripts for Emergency Ward 10 (1966), United! (1966-67), Z Cars (1967), Boy Meets Girl (1967-68), Paul Temple, Nobody's House (1976), Kim & Co (1976) and Magic Circle (1977).
Facts
Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale, a big influence on the direction Derrick took Doctor Who in Seasons 6 and 7, was Sherwin's next-door neighbour in 1969, while his wife until 1982 was actress Jane Sherwin, who appeared in The War Games.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

The Enemy of the World

The lost companion: Astrid,
played by Mary Peach

Six episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6)
First broadcast Dec 23 1967 to Jan 27 1968
Average audience for serial: 7.42m

An episode by episode review of this story can be read at Time Space Visualiser here.

REGULAR CAST

Patrick Troughton (The Doctor & Salamander) Mar 25 1920 to Mar 28 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks

Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born Sep 22 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders

Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield) Jan 2 1948 to Jul 21 2017 (lung cancer) Click here for Deborah Watling's entry on The Evil of the Daleks

GUEST CAST

Bob Anderson (Fighting guard) Sep 15 1922 to Jan 1 2012
Career highlights
Bob was one of the UK's most experienced swordmasters and stuntmen, having worked on films such as The Moonraker (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Kidnapped (1971), One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975), Star Wars Episodes IV-VI (1977-83), Superman II (1980), First Knight (1985), Highlander (1986), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03), Die Another Day (2002), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and The Legend of Zorro (2005).
Facts
Starting as an Olympic fencer for Great Britain, competing at the 1952 Helsinki Games, Bob got into the film business when asked to train Errol Flynn in using swords for The Master of Ballantrae (1953), and doubled for Darth Vader actor David Prowse during light saber fight scenes in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. At the time of his death Bob was working on Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit (2012-14).

Christopher Burgess (Swann) Dec 15 1926 to Aug 25 2013
Doctor Who credits
Played: Swann in The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Played: Professor Philips in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Played: Barnes in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
Christopher's first credited role was in In a Backward Country (1958), followed by Who Killed Menna Lorraine? (1960), Suspense (1963), This Man Craig (1966), Sherlock Holmes (1968), Menace (1970), Crown Court (1973), The Growing Pains of PC Penrose (1975, as Inspector Fox), Treasure Island (1977), Danger UXB (1979), Together (1980), Jane Eyre (1983), Jossy's Giants (1986-87, as Albert Hanson), Shadow of the Noose (1989) and Can You Hear Me Thinking? (1990).
Facts
Christopher spent his final years as one of 40 male pensioners (or "Brothers") living at the London Charterhouse almshouse.

Simon Cain (Curly) May 19 1938 to May 1 2019
Doctor Who credits
Played: Curly in The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Played: Silurian in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Career highlights
Simon was also in six Carry On films (1966-71), as well as No Hiding Place (1966), The Blood Beast Terror (1968), Vendetta (1967-68), School for Sex (1969), Manhunt (1970), Ryan International (1970) and Doomwatch (1970).

Facts

Simon gave up acting in the 1970s and later opened an Aboriginal art gallery in Longview, Texas, but by the time he passed away he was living back in Australia.

Elliott Cairnes (Guard captain) Born Jan 17 1943
Other work includes Homicide (1966) and Lady Windermere's Fan (1967).

Colin Douglas (Donald Bruce) Jul 28 1912 to Dec 21 1991 (heart failure)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Donald Bruce in The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Played: Reuben in Horror of Fang Rock (1977)
Career highlights
Colin's earliest credit was Dick Barton: Special Agent (1948) and later appeared in The Six Proud Walkers (1954), The Children of the New Forest (1955 and 1964), The Count of Monte Cristo (1956), Treasure Island (1957), The Black Arrow (1958), Invisible Man (1959), Emergency Ward 10 (1959), The Splendid Spur (1960), Benny Hill (1962), Bonehead (1960-62), Danger Man (1965), Softly Softly (1966), Quick Before They Catch Us (1966), The Railway Children (1968), Follyfoot (1972), Rooms (1975), The Sweeney (1975), Bill Brand (1976), The Flockton Flyer (1978), Telford's Change (1979), The Good Companions (1980-81), Nanny (1981-83, as Donald Gray), Highway (1983), The Pickwick Papers (1985), Ex (1991) and GBH (1991). He played Edwin Ashton in over 40 episodes of A Family at War (1970-72).
Facts
In the late 1920s Colin worked as a sheep farmer and a lumberjack while in New Zealand. During World War Two he took part in the Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky) in 1943, and spent two days waiting to be rescued from the sea after his glider released too early. He also took part in 1944's Operation Market Garden, the unsuccessful Allied attempt to enter Germany via the Netherlands over the Rhine. Colin had five children with actress wife Gina Cachia, but their daughter Amanda was tragically killed in a traffic accident at the age of 20 at the University of Kent's Canterbury campus.

Gordon Faith (Guard captain) Mar 14 1931 to Jan 25 2025
Career highlights
Other credits include The Mask of Janus (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), Champion House (1967), Strange Report (1970), War and Peace (1972), Churchill's People (1975), Funny Man (1981), Last of the Summer Wine (1981), Oedipus the King (1986) and Screen Two: Border (1988).
Facts
He was latterly a vocal and stage confidence coach, professional counsellor and hypnotherapist.

Margaret Hickey (Mary) Aug 31 1944 to Jun 1 2010 (cancer)
This is Margaret's only screen credit, although she is credited as appearing in two plays in Australia - Duchess on Thursday at the Brisbane Arts Theatre in 1969, and Children's Day at the Twelfth Night Theatre, Bowen Hills, in 1976.

Milton Johns (Benik) Born May 13 1938
Doctor Who credits
Played: Benik in The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Played: Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion (1975)
Played: Castellan Kelner in The Invasion of Time (1978)
Career highlights
Milton's career began in The Shop at Sly Corner (1960), then Orlando (1965), The Three Musketeers (1966), The Devil in the Fog (1968), The Flaxton Boys (1969), Sense and Sensibility (1971), Budgie (1972), The Jensen Code (1973), South Riding (1974), Poldark (1975), The Good Life (1977), King of the Castle (1977), Midnight is a Place (1977-78), Going Straight (1978), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1978), A Horseman Riding By (1978), Spearhead (1978-81), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Gaffer (1982), Pink Floyd's The Wall (1982), Tucker's Luck (1983), Butterflies (1979-83), Foxy Lady (1982-84), The Pickwick Papers (1985), Ever Decreasing Circles (1986), Supergran (1987), Campion (1989), Happy Families (1989-90), Haggard (1992), Harry's Mad (1995-96), Glam Metal Detectives (1995), Chalk (1997), The X-Files (1998), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999-2000), Micawber (2001), Born and Bred (2002), The Basil Brush Show (2003-07, as Mr Rossiter) and Kidz Time TV (2015). He also had a long-running role as shop owner Brendan Scott in soap Coronation Street (1991-93).
Facts
For a number of years he served as treasurer of actors' union Equity, and also as course announcer and MC at Lingfield racecourse.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Milton here.

Bill Kerr (Giles Kent) Jun 10 1922 to Aug 28 2014
Career highlights
South Africa born Bill's first notable role was as a child star in Harmony Row (1933), as well as one of Australia's first talking films, The Silence of Dean Maitland (1934). Further credits included Penny Points to Paradise (1951), Appointment in London (1952), The Dam Busters (1954), Secombe Here! (1955), Citizen James (1960), Ghost Squad (1961), Garry Halliday (1962), Benny Hill (1963), Compact (1964-65), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), Tiffany Jones (1973), House of Mortal Sin (1976), Father, Dear Father in Australia (1978), The Young Doctors (1980), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Return to Eden (1983/86), The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), Anzacs (1985), Platypus Cove (1986), Over the Hill (1992), Minty (1998), Changi (2001), Peter Pan (2003) and Southern Cross (2004). He also regularly played Harry Carter in Glenview High (1977-79), Samuel Burton in The New Adventures of Black Beauty (1990-91) and Stuart MacLachlan in Snowy (1993).
Facts
Bill was one of Tony Hancock's regular sidekicks in his radio series Hancock's Half Hour in the 1950s, but had also been a regular on BBC Radio's Variety Bandbox in the 1940s, his catchphrase being: "I'm only here for four minutes!" He was twice nominated for Australian Film Institute Awards - Best Actor for Dusty (1983 - ironically, he missed out to Ray Barrett, who appeared in The Rescue (1965)) and Best Supporting Actor for Gallipoli (1981). Bill passed away while watching an episode of Seinfeld at home in Perth, Australia.

Reg Lye (Griffin) Oct 13 1912 to Mar 23 1987
Career highlights
Australian Reg's long career began with King of the Coral Sea (1954), and included Smiley (1956), The Stowaway (1958), The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963), The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963), Emergency Ward 10 (1963-64), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965), The Wrong Box (1966), King of the River (1966), The Jazz Age (1968), Paul Temple (1970), Smith (1970), Ace of Wands (1970), 10 Rillington Place (1971), The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972), The Morecambe and Wise Show (1973), The Kids from 47A (1973), Dracula (1974), The Tomorrow People (1975), The Dick Emery Show (1971-76), The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976-78), Wombling Free (1977), Wings (1977-78), George and Mildred (1978), Tarka the Otter (1979), Freedom (1982) and Joe Wilson (1988).
Facts
Reg received an Honourable Mention at the 1975 Australian Academy of Cinema, Television and the Arts Awards for his supporting role of Old Garth in the film Sunday Too Far Away.

Bill Lyons (Guard on Denes) Born Feb 25 1945
Career highlights
Bill's career is prolific and prestigious, and now takes place mostly behind camera. His earliest acting job was in Softly Softly (1967), and he also appeared in Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), A Family at War (1970), The Worker (1970), seven episodes of Z Cars (1964-72) and The Liver Birds (1972/74). He began writing scripts for TV as early as Z Cars (1972-76), and also Crossroads (1973), Marked Personal (1974), Rooms (1977), Angels (1979-83), Blake's 7 (1981), EastEnders (1985-89, which he also script edited between 1988-89), Gems (1985), Eldorado (1992-93), Heartbeat (1997) and over 200 episodes of Emmerdale (1994-2016). He also directs and produces, such as In Search of the Trojan War (1985, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy), Savage Skies/ Seas (1996/99) and Secrets of the Dead (2003-04). Bill was one of the judges for the ITV1 series Soapstars, which chose a new family to appear in Emmerdale in 2001.
Awards
2010: British Soap Special Achievement Award for his writing contribution to Emmerdale

Dibbs Mather (Guard in caravan) Oct 4 1932 to Jun 21 2010
Career highlights
Australian Dibbs' other credits include The Hidden Truth (1964), The Australian Londoners (1965), Echoes of Paradise (1989) and The Leaving of Liverpool (1992).
Facts
Dibbs (born Donald Allan Mather-Brown) suffered a severe stroke in 2003, the same year his son, ITN director William Mather-Brown, drowned in the Var River near Nice in France, while rescuing his 11-year-old son Nicholas. In 1989, Dibbs had already lost his only other child, 19-year-old Ben, in a motorcycle accident. Dibbs, who in the 1960s worked for the BBC World Service and also produced a newsletter called Australarts to keep Aussie actors living in the UK up to date with news from back home, once interviewed the Beatles for radio in December 1963, one of the Fab Four's earliest interviews. Dibbs also captured a rare interview with ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev soon after his defection from the Soviet Union in 1961, and ailing poet and critic Edith Sitwell in 1964. Between 1962-74, Dibbs was married to Meg Bailey-Tart, granddaughter of Australian politician Earle Page, who served as the country's caretaker Prime Minister for three weeks in April 1939. Dibbs's brother was Bill Mather-Brown, an Australian sportsman who won four Golds, four Silvers and a Bronze in various sports at the Paralympics between 1960-68.

Rhys McConnochie (Rod) Born Dec 28 1936
Career highlights
New Zealander Rhys's debut was as a young Scrooge in a 1962 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, followed by roles in The Wars of the Roses (1965), Churchill's People (1975), The Amorous Dentist (1983), The Wild Duck (1983), Bodyline (1984), Anzacs (1985), Bullseye (1987), Return to Snowy River (1988), Brides of Christ (1991), Mother and Son (1992), Stingers (2003), MDA (2002-03), Missing the Boat (2008), The Trial (2009), Paper Giants: Magazine Wars (2013) and The Secret River (2014).
Facts
Rhys also works as a theatre director and acting tutor now in Australia, including at the Victoria College of the Arts.

William McGuirk (Guard in corridor) Dec 27 1930 to Jan 27 2001
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in corridor in The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Played: Policeman in Terror of the Autons (1971 - credited, but scenes deleted)
Career highlights
Further credits include The Gamblers (1968), Never a Cross Word (1969), Z Cars (1975), The Professionals (1980), The Bill (1986) and Persuasion (1995).

Carmen Munroe (Fariah) Born Nov 12 1932
Career highlights
Guyana-born Carmen first appeared in sketch show How Do You View? in the early 1950s before going on to appear in First Night: The Strain (1963), No Hiding Place (1965), Naked Evil (1966), All Neat in Black Stockings (1968), Ace of Wands (1971), You're Only Young Twice (1971), The Fenn Street Gang (1971), The Fosters (1976-77), The Sweepstakes Game (1976), Black Christmas (1977), Mixed Blessings (1978), Rumpole of the Bailey (1983), The Final Passage (1996) and The Dumping Ground (2013). She regularly played Sister Frances Washington in General Hospital (1975-80), but is best known for playing Shirley Ambrose, wife of the eponymous barber in 71 episodes of the sitcom Desmond's (1989-94), and presented Play School for a time in the 1960s.
Awards
2007: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama

2025: Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama
Facts
In 1985, Carmen founded the black theatre company Talawa along with Inigo Espegel, Yvonne Brewster and (fellow Doctor Who actress) Mona Hammond, and has for many years been at the forefront of developing black theatre in the UK. Her son was actor Gregory Munro (who also played her son in Mixed Blessings - he sadly died in 1998 of a heart condition).

David Nettheim (Fedorin) Jul 10 1925 to Mar 11 2008
Career highlights
Australian David debuted at the age of just two in Kid Stakes (1927), followed by various roles in Yes, It's the Cathode Ray Tube Show! (1957, which he co-created), The Budds of Paragon Row (1959), The Army Game (1959/60), The Avengers (1963), The Baron (1967), The Prisoner (1967), Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1970), Elizabeth R (1971), Dial M for Murder (1974), Glenview High (1978), Ripkin (1978), Sons and Daughters (1982-84, as Scott Thompson), Prisoner: Cell Block H (1980-82), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1986), A Country Practice (1992), GP (1991-94, as Murray Phipps), Paws (1997) and Love is a Four-Letter Word (2001).
Facts
His nephew is director Daniel Nettheim, who has directed episodes of both Doctor Who and spin-off K-9 in the 21st century. Another nephew is on-set feature films stills photographer Matt Nettheim, while his niece Jennifer White is a dialect coach and nephew Rodric White is a successful jazz pianist. David was a child actor since the 1920s (he played "Baby in pram" in 1927's Kid Stakes at the age of two, which was incidentally filmed in Woolloomooloo, where Griffin the chef says he's from in The Enemy of the World!) and worked as a radio drama writer and director in the 1940s. He lived and worked in the UK between 1956-77. He was an old school friend of the Australian conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, for whom he prepared classical music programmes for radio.

Mary Peach (Astrid) Oct 20 1934 to Jan 26 2025
Career highlights
South Africa born Mary's debut was in Esme Divided (1957), then Room at the Top (1959), The Lady is a Square (1959), Juke Box Jury (1961), A Gathering of Eagles (1963), The Saint (1967), Scrooge (1970), Menace (1973), Rooms (1975), Couples (1976), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976), Disraeli (1978), Fox (1980), The Gentle Touch (1982), The Far Pavilions (1984), Mothers and Daughters (1992) and Cutthroat Island (1995). She had regular roles as Kathy Webb in Inside Story (1960) and Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers (1966-67), and appeared various times on the panel show Call My Bluff between 1968-74.
Facts
Her husband was writer/ director Jimmy Sangster, most closely associated with his work for Hammer. She was considered for a starring role in The Avengers when Diana Rigg left, but lost out to Linda Thorson. In 1959, she was BAFTA-nominated for Most Promising Film Newcomer for Room at the Top (she lost to Paul Massie).

George Pravda (Denes) Jun 19 1916 to May 1 1985
Doctor Who credits
Played: Denes in The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Played: Jaeger in The Mutants (1972)
Played: Castellan Spandrell in The Deadly Assassin (1976)
Career highlights
Prague-born George's extensive career began with Muzi bez kridel (1946), followed by The Antlers (1947), Sailor of Fortune (1956), The Battle of the V-1 (1958), Jo's Boys (1959), The Avengers (1961), The Monsters (1962), Ring of Spies (1964), Thunderball (1965), The Prisoner (1967), Inspector Clouseau (1968), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), Department S (1970), Hadleigh (1971), Dracula (1973), Spy Trap (1973), QB VII (1974), The Duchess of Duke Street (1976), I, Claudius (1976), Sexton Blake and the Demon God (1978), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979), Strangers (1981-82), Chessgame (1983), Gulag (1985) and Cold War Killers (1986).
Facts
His wife was actress Hana Maria Pravda, best known as Emma Cohen in Survivors (1975). He was fluent in six languages, and sometimes acted on stage under the name Jiri Pravda (his birth name). His son is Dr Alex Pravda, an Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University.

Andrew Staines (Sergeant to Benik) Feb 11 1937 to Sep 16 2016
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sergeant to Benik in The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Played: Goodge in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Played: Captain in Carnival of Monsters (1973)
Played: Keaver in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
Andrew's only other screen credits are on Justice (1971) and The Woman in White (1982), although he worked extensively in theatre.
Facts
Andrew was Doctor Who producer Barry Letts' nephew. In 2008 Andrew was interviewed for the British Library's Theatre Archive Project, and had this to say about his time on Doctor Who: "I was in one - Pertwee had been the Doctor for several episodes then - but he had a change of personnel and had Katy Manning as his female sidekick and Roger Delgado as the Master, and then I was in two or three others after that, and then there I was in Jon's final one. They got Tom Baker in on the last day of rehearsal so that he could be transformed from Jon Pertwee - I was very interested, standing on the sidelines and watching them do it. I rather regret that I never went on to do an episode with Tom Baker." A transcript of the full interview can be found here.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Andrew here.

Henry Stamper (Anton) Mar 2 1937 to Jan 18 2009
Career highlights
Henry's further credits include Detective (1964), Redcap (1965), A Man of Our Times (1968), The Avengers (1969), Clayhanger (1976), Elizabeth Alone (1981), Bulman (1985) and Oliver Twist (1985).
Facts
Henry was an expert at regional dialects and on one occasion he performed 56 separate voices in a single radio play, They Came to Britain, an achievement that earned him a place in the Guinness Book of Records. An inability to break through to larger acting success sometimes led Henry to turn to drink, and a darker side (according to The Scotsman).

Adam Verney (Colin) Born Aug 26 1944
Career highlights
Adam's other credits include Crossroads (1964), Redcap (1966), Great Big Blonde (1966), The Inside Man (1969), The Mind of J G Reeder (1969), Doctor in the House (1969/70), The Fenn Street Gang (1972) and Suez 1956 (1979).

CREW

David Whitaker (writer) Apr 18 1928 to Feb 4 1980 (lymphoma) Click here for David Whitaker's entry on An Unearthly Child

Barry Letts (director) Mar 26 1925 to Oct 9 2009 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Enemy of the World (1967-68), Inferno (1970, episodes 3-7 (studio), uncredited), Terror of the Autons (1971, uncredited), Carnival of Monsters (1973), Planet of the Spiders (1974), The Android Invasion (1975)
Played: Man in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Police radio voice in Planet of the Spiders (1974, uncredited)
Wrote: The Daemons (1971, as Guy Leopold), The Time Monster (1972, uncredited), The Green Death (1973, uncredited), Planet of the Spiders (1974, uncredited), The Paradise of Death (radio, 1993), The Ghosts of N-Space (radio, 1996)
Produced: Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Ambassadors of Death, Inferno, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Colony in Space, The Daemons, Day of the Daleks, The Curse of Peladon, The Sea Devils, The Mutants, The Time Monster, The Three Doctors, Carnival of Monsters, Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks, The Green Death, The Time Warrior, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Death to the Daleks, The Monster of Peladon, Planet of the Spiders (uncredited), Robot (1970-75)
Executive producer: The Leisure Hive, Meglos, Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate, The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis (1980-81)
Career highlights
Barry started out as an actor in San Demetrio London (1943), and also popped up in Scott of the Antarctic (1948), A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949), The Cruel Sea (1953), The Mulberry Accelerator (1955), The Gordon Honour (1955-56), Sara Crewe (1957), The Silver Sword (1957-58), The Black Arrow (1958), The Moonstone (1959), The Long Way Home (1960), Coronation Street (1961), City Beneath the Sea (1962), The Last Man Out (1962), The Avengers (1964), The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), Z Cars (1963-64/65), Softly Softly (1966), The Man Who Never Was (1966) and This Man Craig (1966).
Barry moved behind the cameras as a director on the police series Z Cars, working on six episodes between 1967-68, followed by stints on Adventure Weekly (1968-69), The Newcomers (1967-69), The Doctors (1969), The Prince and the Pauper (1976), Gulliver in Lilliput (1982), Alice in Wonderland (1986), David Copperfield (1986) and EastEnders (1990-92).
As a producer, he helmed Moonbase 3 (1973), Lorna Doone (1976), Katy (1976), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1976), Nicholas Nickleby (1977), The Children of the New Forest (1977), Sexton Blake and the Demon God (1978), The Mill on the Floss (1978-79), The Old Curiosity Shop (1979-80), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), The Talisman (1980-81), Sense and Sensibility (1981), Great Expectations (1981), Stalky & Co (1982), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982), Beau Geste (1982), Dombey and Son (1983), Jane Eyre (1983), The Invisible Man (1984), The Prisoner of Zenda (1984) and The Pickwick Papers (1985).
And if all that wasn't quite enough, he also wrote scripts for Skyport (1960), Emergency Ward 10 (1966), The Newcomers (1966-67), Moonbase 3, Gulliver in Lilliput and Alice in Wonderland.
Awards
1981: Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Children's Entertainment Series (Once Upon a Classic: A Tale of Two Cities) - shared with Jay Rayvid, James A DeVinney and Christine Ochtun
Facts
His sister was actress Pauline Letts, while his sons are actors Dominic and Crispin Letts. The 2009 Doctor Who story The Waters of Mars was dedicated to his memory.

Innes Lloyd (producer) Dec 24 1925 to Aug 23 1991 Click here for Innes Lloyd's entry on The Celestial Toymaker

Peter Bryant (script editor) Oct 27 1923 to May 19 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones

Monday, February 10, 2014

The Ice Warriors

"Of course I meant to
land this way up!"

Six episodes (ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX)
First broadcast Nov 11 to Dec 16 1967
Average audience for serial: 7.33m

An episode by episode review of this story can be read at Time Space Visualiser here.

REGULAR CAST

Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) Mar 25 1920 to Mar 28 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks

Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born Sep 22 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders

Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield) Jan 2 1948 to Jul 21 2017 (lung cancer) Click here for Deborah Watling's entry on The Evil of the Daleks

GUEST CAST

Michael Attwell (Ice Warrior Isbur) Jan 16 1943 to Mar 18 2006
Doctor Who credits
Played: Isbur in The Ice Warriors (1967)
Played: Bates in Attack of the Cybermen (1985)
Career highlights
Doctor Who was Michael's first credit, after which he appeared in The First Churchills (1969), Turtle's Progress (1979-80), Bergerac (1983), Oliver Twist (1985), Are You Being Served? (1985), CATS Eyes (1987), Buster (1988), Westbeach (1993), The Scarlet and the Black (1993), Bugs (1995), Wycliffe (1997-98, as Stevens), My Family (2001), Daniel Deronda (2002), Dinotopia (2003), Trial and Retribution (2004), Hotel Babylon (2006) and Agatha Christie's Marple (2006). He may be best remembered as Kenny Beale in the soap EastEnders (1988).
Facts
Michael, 6ft 4in, was also a political cartoonist for the News of the World, The People and The Sun in the 1980s, using the name Zoke, and also drew comic strips for the likes of Bunty, Hotspur, Whizzer and Chips and Buster. His son is TV producer Jake Attwell.

Peter Barkworth (Clent) Jan 14 1929 to Oct 21 2006 (broncho-pneumonia following a stroke)
Career highlights
Prolific Peter's CV begins with a BBC Sunday Night Theatre entitled Adam's Apple (1952), followed by appearances in A Touch of Larceny (1959), Maigret (1960), Tiara Tahiti (1962), Emergency Ward 10 (1963), The Protectors (1964), Undermind (1965), Haunted (1967), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Patton (1970), The Guardians (1971), Anyone for Sex? (1973), Good Girl (1974), Mr Smith (1976), Secret Army (1977), The Morecambe and Wise Show (1980), Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981), The Price (1985), London Embassy (1987), Heartbeat (1993) and Wilde (1997). Peter's best remembered roles were as Kenneth Bligh in The Power Game (1965-66), Vincent in Manhunt (1970) and Mark Telford in Telford's Change (1979).
Awards
1975: BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor
1978: BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor (BBC2 Play of the Week: Professional Foul)
Facts
Peter was also an acting tutor at RADA, and taught Sir Anthony Hopkins and Simon Ward; his book About Acting is an oft-recommended read for drama students. Peter spent his final nine years in retirement, but his last interview was for Doctor Who missing episode reconstructors Loose Cannon, for whom he is pictured here in 2004, aged 75.
This is Your Life: Peter was the subject of Thames TV's This is Your Life on March 14th, 1979, surprised by host Eamonn Andrews in a backstreet in central London, with the help of his Telford's Change co-star and fellow Doctor Who actor Hannah Gordon. His co-star in The Ice Warriors, Peter Sallis, was a guest on the show.

Bernard Bresslaw (Ice Warrior Varga) Feb 25 1934 to Jun 11 1993 (heart attack)
Career highlights
6ft 7in Bernard made his first appearance in The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954), followed by roles in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956), Blood of the Vampire (1958), Too Many Crooks (1959), Meet the Champ (1960), Alice Through the Looking Box (1960), Our House (1961-62), Danger Man (1965), Emergency Ward 10 (1966), Mum's Boys (1968), Tickertape (1968, as presenter), Spring and Port Wine (1970), Up Pompeii (1971), Clochemerle (1972), Ooh La La! (1973), Vampira (1974), One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975), Jabberwocky (1977), Hawk the Slayer (1980), Terry and June (1982), Krull (1983), The Giddy Game Show (1985), Mann's Best Friends (1985), T-Bag Bounces Back (1987), The Book Tower (1987), Asterix and the Big Fight (1989), Virtual Murder (1992), Leon the Pig Farmer (1992) and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993). Bernard is best remembered as one of the regular Carry On film gang, appearing in 14 movies (1966-75) as well as the Carry On Christmas specials (1969-73) and Carry On Laughing series (1975). He also secured earlier fame as Private "Popeye" Popplewell in The Army Game (1957-58, alongside William Hartnell) and its spin-off I Only Arsked! (1958).
Facts
Bernard had two Top 10 hits in 1958 - the solo release Mad Passionate Love, and along with Michael Medwin, Alfie Bass and Leslie Fyson, The Signature Tune of The Army Game. In 1991 he appeared in an advert for British Telecom alongside The Idiot's Lantern's Maureen Lipman. Bernard passed away after collapsing in the dressing room at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, where he was appearing in The Taming of the Shrew as Grumio.

Sonny Caldinez (Ice Warrior Turoc) Jul 1 1932 to Apr 12 2022
Doctor Who credits
Played: Kemel in The Evil of the Daleks (1967)
Played: Turoc in The Ice Warriors (1967)
Played: Ice Warrior in The Seeds of Death (1969)
Played: Ssorg in The Curse of Peladon (1972)
Played: Sskel in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
Career highlights
Trinidadian Sonny's other appearances include Scott On... (1964), Virgin of the Secret Service (1968), The Spy Killer (1969), White Cargo (1973), The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), Mind Your Language (1978), Sexton Blake and the Demon God (1978), Arabian Adventure (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997).
Facts
Sonny, who is 6ft 4in, emigrated to the UK in 1952 and started working on the railways and as a wrestler, before moving into stuntwork and acting. He also worked for a time as bodyguard for music legend Michael Jackson. He moved to Spain in 2005.

Peter Diamond (Davis) Aug 10 1929 to Mar 27 2004 (stroke) Click here for Peter Diamond's entry on The Romans

Wendy Gifford (Miss Garrett) Born Dec 9 1932
Career highlights
Wendy's earliest credit was Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust in 1960, followed by appearances in No Cloak - No Dagger (1963), Detective (1964), The Man in the Mirror (1966), The Troubleshooters (1965-66, as Hilary Dawson), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), The Gold Robbers (1969), Sentimental Education (1970), Spy Trap (1972), Man at the Top (1972), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Shadows (1975), Couples (1976), Nobody's House (1976), Love for Lydia (1977), A Family Affair (1979), Champions (1984), Shine on Harvey Moon (1984), Boon (1989), Casualty (1991), ChuckleVision (1994), Where the Heart Is (1997) and Oktober (1998). She regularly played Laura Challis in The Plane Makers (1964-65).
Facts
Wendy married actor John Cater in 1963 (he appeared in Doctor Who story The War Machines (1966)). In July 1989, Wendy and John wrote a letter to Mark Fisher MP to be read out as part of his speech during a parliamentary debate about the taxation of actors, who invariably find themselves unemployed for erratic periods during a tax year. Wendy is also a qualified English and French teacher.

Tony Harwood (Ice Warrior Rintan) Jun 26 1933 to Dec 9 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
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.

Roger Jones (Ice Warrior Zondal) Jan 24 1938 to Jul 7 1993 (heart attack)

Career highlights
Other work includes Crossroads (1964), Ironhand (1965), The Wars of the Roses (1965-66), The Deadly Affair (1967) and Home Sweet Honeycombe (1968).

Facts

Roger died of cardiac arrest whilst driving, aged 55. He gave up acting in 1967 to run his own antiques business in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Angus Lennie (Storr) Apr 18 1930 to Sep 14 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: Storr in The Ice Warriors (1967)
Played: Angus in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Career highlights
Angus first appeared in The Mortimer Touch (1957) and later Para Handy - Master Mariner (1959-60), Tunes of Glory (1960), Petticoat Pirates (1961), The Great Escape (1963), 633 Squadron (1964), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1967), Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), The Borderers (1970), Paul Temple (1971), The Onedin Line (1973), One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975), Send in the Girls (1978), Doom Castle (1980), Lovejoy (1986), Hannay (1988), All Night Long (1994), The Upper Hand (1995), Dad (1997) and Monarch of the Glen (2002-03). His most famous role was as chef Shughie McFee in the soap Crossroads (1974-80/85), as well as Murdoch in HMS Paradise (1964-65).

Peter Sallis (Penley) Feb 1 1921 to Jun 2 2017
Career highlights
Peter first emerged in 1947's A Midsummer Night's Dream, then The March of the Peasants (1952), Strange Experiences (1956), The Black Arrow (1958), The Widow of Bath (1959), The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), The Mouse on the Moon (1963), Clash By Night (1964), Charlie Bubbles (1967), Scream and Scream Again (1970), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Wuthering Heights (1970), Catweazle (1970), The Moonstone (1972), The Pallisers (1974), The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976-78, as Mr Gudgin), The Haunting of Julia (1977), Leave it to Charlie (1978), Strangers and Brothers (1984), The New Statesman (1987), Rumpole of the Bailey (1992), Holby City (2001), Belonging (2004) and Kingdom (2009). He is best known as Norman Clegg in every single one of the 295 episodes of the world's longest running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine (1973-2010), as well as Clegg's father in spin-off First of the Summer Wine (1988-89). His distinctive voice is that of eccentric inventor Wallace in the Wallace and Gromit animations since 1989, and that of Ratty in The Wind in the Willows (1984-88) and Oh! Mr Toad (1989-90).
Awards
2007: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama
Facts
Peter was cast as Striker in the Doctor Who story Enlightenment (1983) until industrial action forced him to pull out (the role was eventually played by Keith Barron). Peter retired due to the effects of macular degeneration, and died peacefully in the actors' home Denville Hall. His son is production designer Crispian Sallis, who has worked on the sets for the likes of Camelot, The Tudors, Gladiator and 12 Monkeys.

Roy Skelton (Computer voice) Jul 20 1931 to Jun 8 2011 (pneumonia following a stroke) Click here for Roy Skelton's entry on The Ark

Malcolm Taylor (Walters) Nov 8 1937 to Feb 6 2012 (heart attack)
Career highlights
Malcolm has worked both in front of and behind the cameras, having directed The First Lady (1968), Softly Softly (1968-69), The Troubleshooters (1969), Counterstrike (1969), Thriller (1974-75), Beryl's Lot (1975), Crossroads (1977), The Glamour Girls (1980-82), Me and My Girl (1985, which he also produced), EastEnders (1985), Coronation Street (1979-80/ 1984-87), Fair City (1988) and Ros na Run (1996). He has acted in The Plane Makers (1963), The New Forest Rustlers (1966), The Avengers (1962/67), The White Bus (1967), The Duchess of Duke Street (1977) and Blake's 7 (1978).
Facts
His wife was actress Anne Rutter. Film director Lindsay Anderson asked Malcolm to be Richard Harris's dialect coach in the 1963 film This Sporting Life, also starring William Hartnell. In the 1970s he was artistic director of York's Theatre Royal, and also set up a production company with actor David Jason called Topaz Productions. In 1994 he wrote the book The Actor and the Camera.

George Waring (Arden) Feb 20 1925 to Feb 15 2010 (cancer)
Career highlights
George's acting career began with The Big Pull (1962), then The Plane Makers (1964), Mrs Thursday (1966-67), Castle Haven (1969), Doomwatch (1971), Ace of Wands (1971), Tightrope (1972), Sam (1973), Emmerdale Farm (1974), Sam (1973), Marked Personal (1974), Six Days of Justice (1972-75), Dickens of London (1976), Love for Lydia (1977), Mixed Blessings (1978), Tarka the Otter (1979), Telford's Change (1979), Coronation Street (1980-81, as Arnold Swain, the bigamist husband of Emily Bishop), That's My Boy (1983), Terry and June (1985), God's Outlaw (1986), Andy Capp (1988), Forever Green (1992), As Time Goes By (1998), Casualty (1999) and Peak Practice (2000).
Facts
George's son is graphic designer Geoffrey (whose handwriting makes up the logo for Red magazine).

CREW

Brian Hayles (writer) Mar 7 1931 to Oct 30 1978 Click here for Brian Hayles's entry on The Celestial Toymaker

Derek Martinus (director) Apr 4 1931 to Mar 27 2014 (Alzheimer's Disease) Click here for Derek Martinus's entry on Galaxy 4

Innes Lloyd (producer) Dec 24 1925 to Aug 23 1991 Click here for Innes Lloyd's entry on The Celestial Toymaker

Peter Bryant (script editor) Oct 27 1923 to May 19 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones