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| The Autons get jobs at Maplins' holiday camp |
First broadcast Jan 2 to 23 1971
Average audience for serial: 7.95m
An episode by episode review of this story can be found at Time Space Visualiser.
REGULAR CAST
Jon Pertwee (The Doctor) Jul 7 1919 to May 20 1996 (heart attack) Click here to see Jon Pertwee's entry on Spearhead from Space
Katy Manning (Jo Grant) Born Oct 14 1946
Doctor Who credits
Played: Jo Grant in 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 (1971-73). Return appearances in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor (2010), The Power of the Doctor (2022) and Tales of the TARDIS (2023), as well as three special dramatic trailers for the Collection bluray series (2019/21/23). Archive footage in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984) and Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (2014).
Career highlights
Katy made her debut in two episodes of the series Man At the Top (1971), followed by roles in The Golden Road (1973), Serendipity (1973, as presenter), Whodunnit? (1975), Target (1977), All Saints (2002), Oakie's Outback Adventures (2011), Evil Never Dies (2014) and Casualty (2015). Katy has voiced numerous cartoons and won several awards including Best Supporting Actress at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival and several European awards as the voice of the ten-year-old Gloria in the animated cartoon Gloria’s House. On Australian TV, Katy even had her own chat show, interviewing the likes of Lenny Henry, Robson Green and Basil Brush! Since 2002, Katy has also played scatty Time Lady Iris Wildthyme in Big Finish audio plays.
Facts
Since the age of 12, Katy (who was offered, but turned down, a five-year contract with MGM in the early 1960s) has been a lifelong friend of actress and singer Liza Minnelli, who is one of 12 godparents to her two children - along with the actor Derek Fowlds, director Douglas Camfield, actor Derek Nimmo, entertainer Lionel Blair and actor Jimmy Edwards. Her partner is the actor/ singer Barry Crocker (the man who wrote the theme tune to Australian soap Neighbours) and in 1977 Katy appeared in the Australian magazine Girl Illustrated, posing nude with a Dalek (Katy says: "The Dalek pics in the Australian mag were never approved and in those days there was no comeback, so I live with and accept my responsibility (or lack of) but always hope that my career has been a little more than that!"). In 1962 Katy was involved in a car accident ("We went over a roundabout and into a garage. There were no seatbelts in those days. I was thrown through the windscreen and a plate-glass window") which left her with broken ribs and legs, an injured back and facial injuries which required reconstructive surgery. Katy's father was journalist James L Manning OBE, whose most notable journalistic achievement may be his expose of the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the 1967 Tour de France, specifically by British cyclist Tom Simpson, who died during the race. He also fought to have a doctor at the side of the ring in professional boxing matches, fought against apartheid in schools in Africa, for pensions for journalists' families and for the rights of female journalists, and was carried through the streets of Wales after fighting for miners' rights.
Note: This biog has been put together with the kind personal involvement of Katy herself, who was determined to make sure the facts were present - even down to her birth year! Any professional work listed on other websites which does not appear here may well be inaccurate, or indeed the work of another person (ie, Kate Manning). Thanks Katy!
Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart) Dec 16 1929 to Feb 22 2011 (cancer) Click here for Nicholas Courtney's entry on The Daleks' Master Plan
Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates) Jan 15 1936 to Dec 25 2023
Doctor Who credits
Played: Captain Mike Yates in Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, The Daemons, Day of the Daleks, The Time Monster, The Green Death, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Planet of the Spiders (1971-74). Return appearances in The Five Doctors (1983) and Dimensions in Time (1993).
Career highlights
Richard debuted in Dixon of Dock Green (1966), then appeared in The Saint (1968), Crossroads (1969), Little Women (1970), From a Bird's Eye View (1971), The Pathfinders (1973), Blake's 7 (1980), Waving to a Train (1984), Harry (1993), Heartbeat (1997), Feedback (2004), Chemical Wedding (2008), Twilight of the Gods (2013) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), although he was in advertising before he went into acting. He also had a recurring role as Denis Rigg in soap Emmerdale (1988-89). Richard also wrote, directed and performed in a stage play called Recall UNIT - The Great T-Bag Mystery at the 1984 Edinburgh Festival.
Facts
Richard (middle name Kimber) was a fiercely political man and stood as a candidate in four UK General Elections - in 1992 he stood for the Liberal Democrats in Sheffield Brightside, receiving 12.5% of the vote (placing third); in 1997 he stood for the Referendum Party in Hackney South and Shoreditch, garnering 1.8% of the vote (placing fifth); in 2001 he stood for the UK Independence Party in Hove, attracting 0.9% (placing sixth); and in 2005 he represented the Silent Majority Party in Hove, securing 0.2% (placing eighth). In 1993 he gave a speech at the Liberal Democrat conference. In 2009 he appeared in music videos by band Noah and the Whale. In October 2021, Richard underwent major surgery, and suffered with his health until he passed. Towards the end of his life, Richard was resident at the Charterhouse almshouse, a former monastery in central London, now a housing charity that provides a home and care for single people over 60 who are in financial and social need, and unable to live independently. He was visited regularly by his Doctor Who co-star and friend Katy Manning, right up until the Friday before he died.
John Levene (Benton) Born Dec 24 1941 Click here for John Levene's entry on The Web of Fear
Roger Delgado (The Master) Mar 1 1918 to Jun 18 1973 (car accident)
Doctor Who credits
Played: The Master in Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Colony in Space, The Daemons, The Sea Devils, The Time Monster, Frontier in Space (1971-73). Archive footage in Utopia (2007) and The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor (2010).
Career highlights
Born Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto in London to a Spanish father and Belgian mother, Roger made his first appearance in Distinguished Gathering (1948), then Operation Diplomat (1952), Murder at Scotland Yard (1952), The Broken Horseshoe (1953), The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), The Three Musketeers (1954), Quatermass II (1955), The Alien Sky (1956), Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956), Stowaway Girl (1957), O.S.S (1957), The Silver Sword (1957), Sea Fury (1958), First Man Into Space (1959), The Splendid Spur (1960), Sands of the Desert (1960), Biggles (1960), The Singer Not the Song (1961), Danger Man (1961), The Terror of the Tongs (1961), Sir Francis Drake (1961-62), The Road to Hong Kong (1962), The Running Man (1963), Sergeant Cork (1964), Sherlock Holmes (1965), The Sandwich Man (1966), The Mummy's Shroud (1967), The Man in the Iron Mask (1968), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969), The Avengers (1961/69), Seeing and Believing (1964-70), Underground (1970), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), Antony and Cleopatra (1972), Aquarius (1972), Jason King (1972), The Adventures of Don Quixote (1973), The Zoo Gang (1974) and La cloche tibetaine (1974).
Facts
Roger was fluent in English, Spanish and French. He had been a Major in the Royal Signals in India during World War Two. Roger, whose wife Kismet provided the voice of the Queen Spider in Planet of the Spiders, also appeared in the 1966 radio play The Slide, upon which writer Victor Pemberton based his Doctor Who story Fury from the Deep (1968). For years it was reported that Roger died when the car he was travelling in on the way to film the never-completed comedy movie Bell of Tibet in Turkey plunged into a ravine outside Nevsehir. However, in 2015 it came to light that Roger in fact did do Bell of Tibet. In actual fact, it was a French TV series called La cloche tibétaine. Roger appears in episode 4 (transmitted December 23rd, 1974). The story goes that his plane had to be diverted to another airport due to bad weather, and so he was running late. Roger called for a taxi to take him to the shoot. However, to save time, the driver took a mountain path. There, the car collided with another and plunged down a ravine, killing Delgado and a technician. It was Delgado's death which contributed to Jon Pertwee's decision to leave Doctor Who in 1974. Roger's body was cremated at Mortlake, London. Roger's widow Kismet received no compensation from the film production company for his death, and found herself deprived of financial security. Pertwee and his wife Ingeborg looked after her until she got herself together.
Note: Very special thanks to Tom Lingwood for the information regarding La cloche tibétaine.
GUEST CAST
John Baskcomb (Rossini) Feb 7 1916 to Mar 29 2000
Career highlights
John debuted in 1957's The Railway Children, then took roles in Sergeant Cork (1964), Fire Crackers (1965), The Devil in the Fog (1968), Oliver! (1968), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), Dad's Army (1971), I Want What I Want (1972), Quiller (1975), Victorian Scandals (1976), The Final Conflict (1981), The Lady and the Highwayman (1989) and Memento Mori (1992). He might be best remembered as Petty Officer Woodward in Tell It to the Marines (1959-60), Timothy Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga (1967) or Nat Pearce in Poldark (1975-77).
Christopher Burgess (Professor Philips) 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.
Dave Carter (Museum attendant) Click here for Dave Carter's entry on Doctor Who and the Silurians
David Garth (Time Lord) Apr 15 1921 to May 3 1988
Doctor Who credits
Played: Solicitor Grey in The Highlanders (1966-67)
Played: Time Lord in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Career highlights
Indian born David first appeared in George and Margaret (1946), then Busman's Honeymoon (1947) The Strange World of Planet X (1956), Emergency Ward 10 (1964, as Leon Dorsey), Detective (1964), The Baron (1967), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67), Special Branch (1969-70), The Avengers (1962/66/68), Nearest and Dearest (1971), General Hospital (1972-76, as Dr Matthew Armstrong), The Flaxton Boys (1973), Return of the Saint (1979), To the Manor Born (1980), Shine on Harvey Moon (1984-85) and A Month in the Country (1987).
Facts
David was married to actress Geraldine Newman, better known as Hilda in sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles. He was also a writer, having penned a handful of screenplays in the 1930s and 40s; his novel Fury at Furnace Creek was made into a film starring Victor Mature in 1948, and ten years earlier his story Four Men and a Prayer was made into a film by director John Ford and starring David Niven.
Pat Gorman (Auton leader) May 10 1933 to Oct 9 2018 Click here for Pat Gorman's entry on The Invasion
Stephen Jack (Farrel Senior) Jan 20 1902 to Sep 17 1987 (natural causes)
Career highlights
Stephen's other work includes R.U.R (1938), Gallows Glorious (1938), Treasure Island (1950), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1963), Danger Man (1965), Hine (1971), The Tomorrow People (1974), Poldark (1975) and Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic (1978).
Facts
Stephen's son was dialect coach Andrew Jack, who advised on countless blockbuster films, including the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings films (he even coached Amy Pond actress Karen Gillan on Guardians of the Galaxy!). Andrew, who also played an uncredited Aztec warrior in The Aztecs, died of coronavirus in 2020. Stephen, who was himself a skilled expert on British regional accents, was highly prolific as a broadcaster for BBC Radio's Children's Hour and was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society for his services to language, accent and dialect.
Haydn Jones (Auton voice) Aug 15 1924 to Nov 6 1984
Doctor Who credits
Played: Auton voice in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Played: Vosper in The Mind of Evil (1971)
Career highlights
Hadyn's debut came in Touch Wood (1958), then Dancers in Mourning (1959), Out of This World (1962), The Avengers (1963), The Villains (1964), United! (1965), Counterstrike (1969), Elizabeth R (1971), War and Peace (1972), The Pallisers (1974) and Bergerac (1983). He also enjoyed regular roles as Professor Westfield in City Beneath the Sea (1962) and Ernest Carter in Swizzlewick (1964).
Facts
Haydn was the voice of Joe Grundy in BBC radio soap The Archers until his death. Ironically, when Haydn met his acting friend Edward Kelsey (also a Doctor Who alumni) in 1984, he suggested Kelsey would be ideal for a role in The Archers. When Jones passed away soon after, Kelsey auditioned to replace him, and made his debut as Joe Grundy in February 1985.
Barbara Leake (Mrs Farrel) May 14 1903 to Aug 18 1991
Career highlights
Barbara debuted in the horror portmanteau film Dead of Night (1945), then appeared in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Vanity Fair (1957), Murder She Said (1961), The Eyes of Annie Jones (1964), Danger Man (1965), A Study in Terror (1965), Vanity Fair (1967), Budgie (1972) and The Pearcross Girls (1973).
Facts
Barbara began her acting career at the Old Vic in the 1920s and went on to work with the company of R. Meadow White, and with the David Garrick Players. After the Second World War she appeared regularly in the West End. She married the actor, dramatist and director Stafford Byrne in 1949 (she is described in one biography of Byrne's as "a woman of charm and distinction"!).
Frank Mills (Radio telescope operator) Apr 11 1927 to Feb 11 2021
Career highlights
Frank's earliest screen appearance came in The Avengers (1964), after which he popped up in Undermind (1965), A Handful of Thieves (1969), Hardy Heating Company Ltd (1970), Away from It All (1973), Bedtime Stories (1974), The treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974), North and South (1975), Rentaghost (1976), The Crezz (1976), Jubilee (1977), Sally Ann (1979), Strangers (1981), Bergerac (1984), Hannay (1988), Campion (1990), Love Hurts (1992), Harry (1993), The Tribe (1998), Mrs Caldicott's Cabbage War (2002), The Brief (2004), The Palace (2008), Minder (2009) and Heartbeat (1997/2009). Frank has also enjoyed several running roles in series over the years, including Toby Wilson in Sam (1973-74), Fowler in Flambards (1979), Jimmy Nunn in The Good Companions (1980-81), Frank Rudd in Nanny (1981-82), Matthew Saltmarsh in By the Sword Divided (1983), Gil Roach in Big Deal (1984-86), Fig Newton in Rumpole of the Bailey (1983-91) and Frank Wainthropp in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1998). His most successful role was playing Billy Williams, who married Betty Turpin in soap Coronation Street (1995-97).
Facts
Before breaking into acting in his 30s, Frank had been employed variously as a golf caddy, a page boy at the Savoy Hotel, for London Civil Defence, at a holiday camp, as an under-butler at a large country house, and as a commis waiter at the House of Commons.
Andrew Staines (Goodge) 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.
Norman Stanley (Telephone mechanic) Aug 19 1916 to Sep 12 1973
Career highlights
Norman's other roles included Girl Gang (1954), The Plane Makers (1964), Carry on Cowboy (1966) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1967).
Facts
Norman played the Master while he was disguised as a telephone mechanic, which means that, technically, he counts as the second actor to play the renegade Time Lord!
Roy Stewart (Strongman) May 15 1925 to Oct 27 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 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), 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 stuntwork. 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 the 1960s he opened the Globe, a Caribbean restaurant and bar in Notting Hill, frequented by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. 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.
Harry Towb (McDermott) Jul 27 1925 to Jul 24 2009 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Osgood in The Seeds of Death (1969)
Played: McDermott in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Career highlights
Irishman Harry first appeared in Is Life Worth Living? (1949), followed by The Gentle Gunman (1950), Strictly Personal (1953), Above Us the Waves (1955), Joan and Leslie (1956), The Army Game (1959, as Private Dooley), Jacks and Knaves (1961), The Scarlet Blade (1963), Front Page Story (1965), Orlando (1967), The Avengers (1968), Carry On At Your Convenience (1971), Tottering Towers (1971-72, as Hairy O'Hara), Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World (1973), Marked Personal (1974), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Good Old Days (1976), The Professionals (1980), Pictures (1983), The Comic Strip Presents... (1983), Home, James! (1987-90, as Henry Compton), So You Think You've Got Troubles (1991), Brighton Belles (1993), Moll Flanders (1996), Doctors (2002), Heartbeat (2005), Casualty (1992/2006), EastEnders (2008) and Gardens with Red Roses (2009). Harry also wrote short radio plays for the BBC and RTE, and between 1985-91 presented the children's series You and Me.
Facts
He was married to actress Diana Hoddinott, best known as Annie Hacker in sitcom Yes, Minister/ Prime Minister.
Dermot Tuohy (Brownrose) Aug 12 1921 to Dec 14 1986
Career highlights
Dermot's debut came in Freedom to Die (1961), followed by Young Cassidy (1965), Undermind (1965), The Violent Enemy (1967), Middlemarch (1968), Ours is a Nice House (1970), Ace of Wands (1971), The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981) and The End of the World Man (1986).
Terry Walsh (Auton policeman) May 5 1939 to Apr 21 2002 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Militiaman in The Smugglers (1966, uncredited)
Played: Soldier in The Web of Fear (1968, uncredited), The Invasion (1968, uncredited), The Ambassadors of Death (1970, uncredited), Inferno (1970, uncredited)
Fight arranger/ stunts: Terror of the Autons (1971, uncredited), Day of the Daleks (1972, uncredited), The Curse of Peladon (1972, uncredited), The Green Death (1973), The Time Warrior (1973-74), Death to the Daleks (1974), The Monster of Peladon (1974), Planet of the Spiders (1974), The Sontaran Experiment (1975), The Android Invasion (1975), The Seeds of Doom (1976), The Masque of Mandragora (1976, uncredited), The Deadly Assassin (1976), The Face of Evil (1977), The Androids of Tara (1978), The Creature from the Pit (1979), Dimensions in Time (1993)
Played: Auton policeman in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Played: Stangmoor man in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: UNIT motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: IMC Guard Rogers in Colony in Space (1971, uncredited)
Played: Castle Guard Barclay in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Guard in The Mutants (1972, uncredited), The Green Death (1973), Genesis of the Daleks (1975, uncredited), The Face of Evil (1977, uncredited)
Played: Window cleaner in The Time Monster (1972)
Played: Warehouse looter in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Played: Jack in Death to the Daleks (1974, uncredited)
Played: Burning Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (1974, uncredited)
Played: Zombie in Death to the Daleks (1974, uncredited)
Played: Guard Captain in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
Played: Man with boat in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Played: SRS meeting security in Robot (1974-75, uncredited)
Played: Wirrn operator in The Ark in Space (1975, uncredited)
Played: Zake in The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
Played: Muto in Genesis of the Daleks (1975, uncredited)
Played: Kaled scientist in Genesis of the Daleks (1975, uncredited)
Played: Crewmember in Planet of Evil (1975, uncredited)
Played: Executioner in The Masque of Mandragora (1976, uncredited)
Played: Mensch in The Power of Kroll (1978-79)
Played: Doran in The Creature from the Pit (1979)
Career highlights
Prolific stuntman Terry first appeared in The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) and went on to both act and perform stunts in Alfie (1966), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67), The Saint (1968), The Italian Job (1969), Ace of Wands (1970), Paul Temple (1970-71), The Persuaders! (1971), The Hole in the Wall (1972), Diversions (1976), Space: 1999 (1976-77), Star Wars (1977), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), Superman (1978), Dracula (1979), Tales of the Unexpected (1980), To Serve Them All My Days (1980), Superman II (1980), The Nightmare Man (1981), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Dragonslayer (1981), Never Say Never Again (1983), Superman III (1983), Krull (1983), Robin of Sherwood (1984-86), Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986), Tucker's Luck (1985), Superman IV (1987), Willow (1988), Bergerac (1988), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Bullseye! (1990), Jekyll and Hyde (1990), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), First Knight (1995), Pie in the Sky (1997), Spice World: The Movie (1997), Merlin (1998), Alice in Wonderland (1999), The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) and The Abduction Club (2002).
Facts
Terry saved actress Elisabeth Sladen from drowning during filming for Revenge of the Cybermen in 1975 when an action scene went wrong, after which Terry fell ill. He also came up with some of the Third Doctor's more ambitious Venusian aikido moves. When Terry wasn't stunting, he drove a black cab from Edgware station taxi rank in London.
Michael Wisher (Rex Farrel) May 19 1935 to Jul 21 1995 (heart attack) Click here for Michael Wisher's entry on The Ambassadors of Death
Note: Actor Bill McGuirk (who had previously appeared in The Enemy of the World) was credited on episode 3 as playing a policeman, but did not appear due to his scenes being cut.
CREW
Robert Holmes (writer) Apr 2 1926 to May 24 1986 (chronic liver ailment) Click here to see Robert Holmes's entry on The Krotons
Barry Letts (director (uncredited) and producer) Mar 26 1925 to Oct 9 2009 (cancer) Click here for Barry Letts's entry on The Enemy of the World
Terrance Dicks (script editor) Apr 14 1935 to Aug 29 2019 Click here for Terrance Dicks's entry on The Invasion
GUEST CAST
John Baskcomb (Rossini) Feb 7 1916 to Mar 29 2000
Career highlights
John debuted in 1957's The Railway Children, then took roles in Sergeant Cork (1964), Fire Crackers (1965), The Devil in the Fog (1968), Oliver! (1968), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), Dad's Army (1971), I Want What I Want (1972), Quiller (1975), Victorian Scandals (1976), The Final Conflict (1981), The Lady and the Highwayman (1989) and Memento Mori (1992). He might be best remembered as Petty Officer Woodward in Tell It to the Marines (1959-60), Timothy Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga (1967) or Nat Pearce in Poldark (1975-77).
Christopher Burgess (Professor Philips) 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.
Dave Carter (Museum attendant) Click here for Dave Carter's entry on Doctor Who and the Silurians
David Garth (Time Lord) Apr 15 1921 to May 3 1988
Doctor Who credits
Played: Solicitor Grey in The Highlanders (1966-67)
Played: Time Lord in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Career highlights
Indian born David first appeared in George and Margaret (1946), then Busman's Honeymoon (1947) The Strange World of Planet X (1956), Emergency Ward 10 (1964, as Leon Dorsey), Detective (1964), The Baron (1967), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67), Special Branch (1969-70), The Avengers (1962/66/68), Nearest and Dearest (1971), General Hospital (1972-76, as Dr Matthew Armstrong), The Flaxton Boys (1973), Return of the Saint (1979), To the Manor Born (1980), Shine on Harvey Moon (1984-85) and A Month in the Country (1987).
Facts
David was married to actress Geraldine Newman, better known as Hilda in sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles. He was also a writer, having penned a handful of screenplays in the 1930s and 40s; his novel Fury at Furnace Creek was made into a film starring Victor Mature in 1948, and ten years earlier his story Four Men and a Prayer was made into a film by director John Ford and starring David Niven.
Pat Gorman (Auton leader) May 10 1933 to Oct 9 2018 Click here for Pat Gorman's entry on The Invasion
Stephen Jack (Farrel Senior) Jan 20 1902 to Sep 17 1987 (natural causes)
Career highlights
Stephen's other work includes R.U.R (1938), Gallows Glorious (1938), Treasure Island (1950), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1963), Danger Man (1965), Hine (1971), The Tomorrow People (1974), Poldark (1975) and Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic (1978).
Facts
Stephen's son was dialect coach Andrew Jack, who advised on countless blockbuster films, including the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings films (he even coached Amy Pond actress Karen Gillan on Guardians of the Galaxy!). Andrew, who also played an uncredited Aztec warrior in The Aztecs, died of coronavirus in 2020. Stephen, who was himself a skilled expert on British regional accents, was highly prolific as a broadcaster for BBC Radio's Children's Hour and was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society for his services to language, accent and dialect.
Haydn Jones (Auton voice) Aug 15 1924 to Nov 6 1984
Doctor Who credits
Played: Auton voice in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Played: Vosper in The Mind of Evil (1971)
Career highlights
Hadyn's debut came in Touch Wood (1958), then Dancers in Mourning (1959), Out of This World (1962), The Avengers (1963), The Villains (1964), United! (1965), Counterstrike (1969), Elizabeth R (1971), War and Peace (1972), The Pallisers (1974) and Bergerac (1983). He also enjoyed regular roles as Professor Westfield in City Beneath the Sea (1962) and Ernest Carter in Swizzlewick (1964).
Facts
Haydn was the voice of Joe Grundy in BBC radio soap The Archers until his death. Ironically, when Haydn met his acting friend Edward Kelsey (also a Doctor Who alumni) in 1984, he suggested Kelsey would be ideal for a role in The Archers. When Jones passed away soon after, Kelsey auditioned to replace him, and made his debut as Joe Grundy in February 1985.
Barbara Leake (Mrs Farrel) May 14 1903 to Aug 18 1991
Career highlights
Barbara debuted in the horror portmanteau film Dead of Night (1945), then appeared in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Vanity Fair (1957), Murder She Said (1961), The Eyes of Annie Jones (1964), Danger Man (1965), A Study in Terror (1965), Vanity Fair (1967), Budgie (1972) and The Pearcross Girls (1973).
Facts
Barbara began her acting career at the Old Vic in the 1920s and went on to work with the company of R. Meadow White, and with the David Garrick Players. After the Second World War she appeared regularly in the West End. She married the actor, dramatist and director Stafford Byrne in 1949 (she is described in one biography of Byrne's as "a woman of charm and distinction"!).
Frank Mills (Radio telescope operator) Apr 11 1927 to Feb 11 2021
Career highlights
Frank's earliest screen appearance came in The Avengers (1964), after which he popped up in Undermind (1965), A Handful of Thieves (1969), Hardy Heating Company Ltd (1970), Away from It All (1973), Bedtime Stories (1974), The treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974), North and South (1975), Rentaghost (1976), The Crezz (1976), Jubilee (1977), Sally Ann (1979), Strangers (1981), Bergerac (1984), Hannay (1988), Campion (1990), Love Hurts (1992), Harry (1993), The Tribe (1998), Mrs Caldicott's Cabbage War (2002), The Brief (2004), The Palace (2008), Minder (2009) and Heartbeat (1997/2009). Frank has also enjoyed several running roles in series over the years, including Toby Wilson in Sam (1973-74), Fowler in Flambards (1979), Jimmy Nunn in The Good Companions (1980-81), Frank Rudd in Nanny (1981-82), Matthew Saltmarsh in By the Sword Divided (1983), Gil Roach in Big Deal (1984-86), Fig Newton in Rumpole of the Bailey (1983-91) and Frank Wainthropp in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1998). His most successful role was playing Billy Williams, who married Betty Turpin in soap Coronation Street (1995-97).
Facts
Before breaking into acting in his 30s, Frank had been employed variously as a golf caddy, a page boy at the Savoy Hotel, for London Civil Defence, at a holiday camp, as an under-butler at a large country house, and as a commis waiter at the House of Commons.
Andrew Staines (Goodge) 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.
Norman Stanley (Telephone mechanic) Aug 19 1916 to Sep 12 1973
Career highlights
Norman's other roles included Girl Gang (1954), The Plane Makers (1964), Carry on Cowboy (1966) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1967).
Facts
Norman played the Master while he was disguised as a telephone mechanic, which means that, technically, he counts as the second actor to play the renegade Time Lord!
Roy Stewart (Strongman) May 15 1925 to Oct 27 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 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), 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 stuntwork. 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 the 1960s he opened the Globe, a Caribbean restaurant and bar in Notting Hill, frequented by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. 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.
Harry Towb (McDermott) Jul 27 1925 to Jul 24 2009 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Osgood in The Seeds of Death (1969)
Played: McDermott in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Career highlights
Irishman Harry first appeared in Is Life Worth Living? (1949), followed by The Gentle Gunman (1950), Strictly Personal (1953), Above Us the Waves (1955), Joan and Leslie (1956), The Army Game (1959, as Private Dooley), Jacks and Knaves (1961), The Scarlet Blade (1963), Front Page Story (1965), Orlando (1967), The Avengers (1968), Carry On At Your Convenience (1971), Tottering Towers (1971-72, as Hairy O'Hara), Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World (1973), Marked Personal (1974), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Good Old Days (1976), The Professionals (1980), Pictures (1983), The Comic Strip Presents... (1983), Home, James! (1987-90, as Henry Compton), So You Think You've Got Troubles (1991), Brighton Belles (1993), Moll Flanders (1996), Doctors (2002), Heartbeat (2005), Casualty (1992/2006), EastEnders (2008) and Gardens with Red Roses (2009). Harry also wrote short radio plays for the BBC and RTE, and between 1985-91 presented the children's series You and Me.
Facts
He was married to actress Diana Hoddinott, best known as Annie Hacker in sitcom Yes, Minister/ Prime Minister.
Dermot Tuohy (Brownrose) Aug 12 1921 to Dec 14 1986
Career highlights
Dermot's debut came in Freedom to Die (1961), followed by Young Cassidy (1965), Undermind (1965), The Violent Enemy (1967), Middlemarch (1968), Ours is a Nice House (1970), Ace of Wands (1971), The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981) and The End of the World Man (1986).
Terry Walsh (Auton policeman) May 5 1939 to Apr 21 2002 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Militiaman in The Smugglers (1966, uncredited)
Played: Soldier in The Web of Fear (1968, uncredited), The Invasion (1968, uncredited), The Ambassadors of Death (1970, uncredited), Inferno (1970, uncredited)
Fight arranger/ stunts: Terror of the Autons (1971, uncredited), Day of the Daleks (1972, uncredited), The Curse of Peladon (1972, uncredited), The Green Death (1973), The Time Warrior (1973-74), Death to the Daleks (1974), The Monster of Peladon (1974), Planet of the Spiders (1974), The Sontaran Experiment (1975), The Android Invasion (1975), The Seeds of Doom (1976), The Masque of Mandragora (1976, uncredited), The Deadly Assassin (1976), The Face of Evil (1977), The Androids of Tara (1978), The Creature from the Pit (1979), Dimensions in Time (1993)
Played: Auton policeman in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Played: Stangmoor man in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: UNIT motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: IMC Guard Rogers in Colony in Space (1971, uncredited)
Played: Castle Guard Barclay in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Guard in The Mutants (1972, uncredited), The Green Death (1973), Genesis of the Daleks (1975, uncredited), The Face of Evil (1977, uncredited)
Played: Window cleaner in The Time Monster (1972)
Played: Warehouse looter in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Played: Jack in Death to the Daleks (1974, uncredited)
Played: Burning Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (1974, uncredited)
Played: Zombie in Death to the Daleks (1974, uncredited)
Played: Guard Captain in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
Played: Man with boat in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Played: SRS meeting security in Robot (1974-75, uncredited)
Played: Wirrn operator in The Ark in Space (1975, uncredited)
Played: Zake in The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
Played: Muto in Genesis of the Daleks (1975, uncredited)
Played: Kaled scientist in Genesis of the Daleks (1975, uncredited)
Played: Crewmember in Planet of Evil (1975, uncredited)
Played: Executioner in The Masque of Mandragora (1976, uncredited)
Played: Mensch in The Power of Kroll (1978-79)
Played: Doran in The Creature from the Pit (1979)
Career highlights
Prolific stuntman Terry first appeared in The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) and went on to both act and perform stunts in Alfie (1966), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67), The Saint (1968), The Italian Job (1969), Ace of Wands (1970), Paul Temple (1970-71), The Persuaders! (1971), The Hole in the Wall (1972), Diversions (1976), Space: 1999 (1976-77), Star Wars (1977), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), Superman (1978), Dracula (1979), Tales of the Unexpected (1980), To Serve Them All My Days (1980), Superman II (1980), The Nightmare Man (1981), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Dragonslayer (1981), Never Say Never Again (1983), Superman III (1983), Krull (1983), Robin of Sherwood (1984-86), Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986), Tucker's Luck (1985), Superman IV (1987), Willow (1988), Bergerac (1988), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Bullseye! (1990), Jekyll and Hyde (1990), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), First Knight (1995), Pie in the Sky (1997), Spice World: The Movie (1997), Merlin (1998), Alice in Wonderland (1999), The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) and The Abduction Club (2002).
Facts
Terry saved actress Elisabeth Sladen from drowning during filming for Revenge of the Cybermen in 1975 when an action scene went wrong, after which Terry fell ill. He also came up with some of the Third Doctor's more ambitious Venusian aikido moves. When Terry wasn't stunting, he drove a black cab from Edgware station taxi rank in London.
Michael Wisher (Rex Farrel) May 19 1935 to Jul 21 1995 (heart attack) Click here for Michael Wisher's entry on The Ambassadors of Death
Note: Actor Bill McGuirk (who had previously appeared in The Enemy of the World) was credited on episode 3 as playing a policeman, but did not appear due to his scenes being cut.
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Robert Holmes (writer) Apr 2 1926 to May 24 1986 (chronic liver ailment) Click here to see Robert Holmes's entry on The Krotons
Barry Letts (director (uncredited) and producer) Mar 26 1925 to Oct 9 2009 (cancer) Click here for Barry Letts's entry on The Enemy of the World
Terrance Dicks (script editor) Apr 14 1935 to Aug 29 2019 Click here for Terrance Dicks's entry on The Invasion
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