The Green Death

Pertwee the Milk

Six episodes (Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four, Episode Five, Episode Six)
First broadcast May 19 to Jun 23 1973
Average audience for serial: 7.72m

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 Click here for Katy Manning's entry on Terror of the Autons

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 Click here for Richard Franklin's entry on Terror of the Autons

John Levene (Benton) Born Dec 24 1941 Click here for John Levene's entry on The Web of Fear

GUEST CAST

Tony Adams (Elgin) Dec 11 1940 to Oct 25 2025 (heart condition)
Career highlights
Debuting aged 11 in The Magic Box (1951), Tony's CV includes roles in Reluctant Bride (1955), Kiss Me Kate (1964), The Two Ronnies (1972), Crown Court (1972), Hardly Working (1980), Bergerac (1989), The Upper Hand (1992), The Grimleys (2001), Doctors (2006) and Rosamund Pilcher (2010). After a regular role as Dr Neville Bywaters in General Hospital (1973-80), Tony won his most memorable role in soap Crossroads as Adam Chance between 1978-88, returning for the show's revival between 2001-02.
Facts
While filming The Green Death, Tony became ill with peritonitis, and his character's lines were taken by Roy Skelton's James.

Richard Beale (Minister of Ecology) May 13 1920 to Mar 27 2017
Doctor Who credits
Played: Refusian voice in The Ark (1966)
Played: Bat Masterson in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Broadcaster in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Minister of ecology in The Green Death (1973)
Career highlights
Richard's career began in The Battle of the River Plate (1956), followed by roles in Private Investigator (1958), Madame Bovary (1964), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965), The Mating Machine (1970), Jude the Obscure (1971), Emmerdale Farm (1972), Special Branch (1974), Treasure Island (1977), Blake's 7 (1978), Secret Army (1979), Camille (1984), CATS Eyes (1985), The Tripods (1985), Return to Treasure Island (1986), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1990), EastEnders (1990-91), Lovejoy (1994), Family Money (1996), Down to Earth (2001) and Afterlife (2005). He also regularly played Edward Derwent in A Horseman Riding By (1978).
Facts
After leaving the Royal Navy, Richard worked for his father's print firm for a decade until becoming an actor. He retired from the profession in 2005, aged 85, but continued this love of sailing and racing single-handedly until he turned 90. In 2015 he released a memoir entitled One Man's War.

Stewart Bevan (Clifford Jones) Mar 10 1948 to Feb 20 2022
Career highlights
Stewart first appeared in The Troubleshooters (1966), and later in To Sir, With Love (1967), The Flesh and Blood Show (1972), Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973), The Ghoul (1975), Brannigan (1975), Shoestring (1979), Blake's 7 (1980), The Gentle Touch (1983), Casualty (1988), The House of Eliott (1994), Silent Witness (1997), Murder in Mind (2002), Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004), Chromophobia (2005) and The Scouting Book for Boys (2009).
Facts
Stewart was engaged to Katy Manning at the time of filming The Green Death, but their romantic relationship ended in 1976. However, they remained firm friends.

Jean Burgess (Cleaner) Jul 24 1925 to May 10 2002 (natural causes)
Career highlights
Other credits were Sailor Beware! (1955), The Signal (1959), Small Time (1960), The Arthur Askey Show (1961), Hancock (1963), Last of the Summer Wine (1975) and Q.E.D (1982).

John Dearth (Voice of BOSS) Oct 16 1920 to Mar 17 1984
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of BOSS in The Green Death (1973)
Played: Lupton in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
John's career began with The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956), then Onion Boys (1957), Look Back in Anger (1958), The Voodoo Factor (1959), The World of Tim Frazer (1960), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), Strongroom (1962), The Runaway (1963), Esther Waters (1964), Mr Rose (1968), Vienna 1900 (1973), Angels (1976), Treasure Island (1977) and Kessler (1981).
Facts
His daughter was the late actor Lynn Dearth (Sons and Lovers, 1981), who was married to fellow actor David Gwillim.

Mostyn Evans (Dai Evans) Jul 7 1923 to Nov 23 1990
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Dai Evans in The Green Death (1973)
Played: High Priest in Death to the Daleks (1974)
Career highlights
Mostyn's small CV began with Espionage (1964) and took in Brett (1971), Man About the House (1975), Killers (1976), Grange Hill (1983) and The District Nurse (1984).

Roy Evans (Bert) Born 1930
Doctor Who credits
Played: Trantis in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Bert in The Green Death (1973)
Played: Miner in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
Career highlights
After debuting in Touch of Death (1961), Roy went on to appear in Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), Oliver! (1968), Budgie (1971), Poldark (1975), Jabberwocky (1977), Dick Turpin (1979), The Elephant Man (1980), The Black Adder (1983), Porterhouse Blue (1987), Only Fools and Horses (1989), Forever Green (1992), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997), Children of the New Forest (1998), Fortysomething (2003) and Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher (2003); he also appeared in Global Conspiracy (2004), an extra on the DVD for The Green Death in which he played the brother of the character he originally played.
Facts
Roy started out as a professional ballet dancer.

Ray Handy (Milkman) Jun 1 1929 to Oct 19 1987
Career highlights
Other work includes Suspense (1963), Merry-Go-Round (1965), Conqueror's Road (1967), Seeing and Believing (1968, as presenter), A Class By Himself (1972), The Liver Birds (1974), Poems and Pints (1975/78) and The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981).
Facts
In 1985 Welshman Ray toured the United States with a one-man play about poet Ezra Pound, after a similar project on Dylan Thomas.

Ben Howard (Hinks) Born 1940
Career highlights
Ben's first credit was in Londoners (1965), and his CV subsequently included Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Zeppelin (1971), Villain (1971), Running Scared (1972), The Sex Victims (1973), From Beyond the Grave (1973), The Land That Time Forgot (1975), Kizzy (1976), A Bridge Too Far (1977), That Summer! (1979), Blake's 7 (1980), Who Dares Wins (1982), Terry and June (1983), Eh Brian! It's a Whopper (1984), Jenny's War (1985), Prospects (1986), Dempsey and Makepeace (1986) and El CID (1991). He also had regular roles as Curly Parker in 136 episodes of soap United! (1965-67), and Detective Constable Len Clayton in Dixon of Dock Green (1976).

Brian Justice (Yates's guard)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in Spearhead from Space (1970, uncredited)
Played: UNIT soldier in The Ambassadors of Death (1970, uncredited), The Claws of Axos (1971, uncredited)
Played: IMC guard in Colony in Space (1971, uncredited)
Played: Guerilla in Day of the Daleks (1972, uncredited)
Played: Castle guard Wilson in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Yates's guard in The Green Death (1973)
Career highlights
Brian debuted in The Fossett Saga (1969), then The First Churchills (1969), Z Cars (1971) and War and Peace (1972).

John Scott Martin (Hughes) Apr 1 1926 to Jan 6 2009 (Parkinson's Disease) Click here for John Scott Martin's entry on The Web Planet

Mitzi McKenzie (Nancy) Born Nov 18 1934
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mrs Martin in Colony in Space (1971, as Mitzi Webster)
Played: Nancy in The Green Death (1973, as Mitzi McKenzie)
Career highlights
Mitzi had earlier appeared in The Wanderer (1959), Scotland Yard (1960), Resurrection (1968), Boys Meets Girl (1969) and Anne of Green Gables (1972), and later appeared with her new surname in The Hole in the Wall (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) and The Darling Buds of May (1991).
Facts
She later became a schoolteacher.

John Rolfe (Fell) Mar 25 1935 to Aug 12 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Captain in The War Machines (1966)
Played: Sam Becket in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Fell in The Green Death (1973)
Career highlights
John's long career began in Agib and Agab (1953), then The River Flows East (1962), Cluff (1964, as Det Con Barker), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), Out of the Unknown (1971), The Brothers (1974), The Chinese Puzzle (1974), Hadleigh (1976), Blake's 7 (1978), Thomas and Sarah (1979), To Serve Them All My Days (1980), One By One (1985), Howard's Way (1985-86, as James Sinclair), Mr Bean (1992) and Joking Apart (1995).
Facts
John was apparently named after the English colonist who married Pocahontas in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1614.

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

Talfryn Thomas (Dave) Oct 31 1922 to Nov 4 1982 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mullins in Spearhead from Space (1970)
Played: Dave in The Green Death (1973)
Career highlights
Talfryn's other work included The Squeeze (1960), Suspense (1963), Ring Out an Alibi (1964), Sky West and Crooked (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), St Ives (1967), The Avengers (1965/68), Tales of Unease (1970), Tottering Towers (1971-72), Coronation Street (1971-72), The Kids from 47A (1973), Get Some In! (1975), King of the Castle (1977), Poems and Pints (1978), The Ken Dodd Laughter Show (1979), Worzel Gummidge (1980), Hi-De-Hi! (1982) and The Citadel (1983). He also regularly played Private Cheeseman in sitcom Dad's Army (1973-74) and Tom Price in Survivors (1975).
Facts
In 1944 Talfryn was a rear gunner on a Lancaster bomber and took part in many bombing expeditions into Germany. On one training expedition his aircraft crashed and he was the lone survivor; the crash was so traumatising (Talfryn witnessed the cockpit go through the navigator) that he suffered a mental breakdown and spent several months in a sanatorium. Coincidentally, the very first production Talfryn appeared in on TV was an adaptation of A J Cronin's novel The Citadel in November 1960, while the very last production he appeared in was another adaptation of The Citadel in February 1983!

Terry Walsh (Guard) May 5 1939 to Apr 21 2002 (cancer) Click here for Terry Walsh's entry on Terror of the Autons

Jerome Willis (Stevens) Oct 23 1928 to Jan 11 2014
Career highlights
Jerome's prolific career began with a role in 1956's Abigail and Roger, followed by The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1957), Bleak House (1959), An Age of Kings (1960), The Spread of the Eagle (1963), Redcap (1965), The Portsmouth Defence (1966), The Caesars (1968), Freewheelers (1971), War and Peace (1972), Winstanley (1975), Return of the Saint (1979), Kessler (1981), The Pickwick Papers (1985), Yes, Prime Minister (1988), The New Statesman (1989-90), Wish Me Luck (1988-90), Orlando (1992), Goodnight Sweetheart (1993), McCallum (1997), Care (2000), The Last Detective (2004), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) and Doctors (2004/07). He also had regular roles as Charles Radley in Within These Walls (1974-78), Matthew Peele in The Sandbaggers (1978-80) and Captain Rexton Podley in Space Precinct (1994-95).
Facts
Quaker Jerome's early career also included newsreading and radio presenting while stationed in Ceylon in the 1940s. His sister is opera singer Nuala Willis, whose husband is singer and actor John Rawnsley.

CREW

Robert Sloman (writer) Jul 18 1926 to Oct 24 2005
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Daemons (1971, under the pseudonym Guy Leopold), The Time Monster (1972), The Green Death (1973), Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
Starting out as an actor, Robert subsequently worked for the Sunday Times's circulation department, eventually becoming distribution manager. Robert also co-wrote the play The Tinker, on which the 1962 film The Wild and the Willing, starring (War Doctor) John Hurt and Ian McShane, was based.
Facts
He was a close friend of Doctor Who producer Barry Letts. One Sloman script which never saw the light of day was called The Daleks in London, intended to close Season 9 in 1972, but which was dropped for being too similar to The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964).

Barry Letts (writer (uncredited and producer) Mar 26 1925 to Oct 9 2009 (cancer) Click here for Barry Letts's entry on The Enemy of the World

Michael Briant (director) Born Feb 14 1942 Click here for Michael Briant's entry on Colony in Space

Terrance Dicks (script editor) Apr 14 1935 to Aug 29 2019 Click here for Terrance Dicks's entry on The Invasion

Planet of the Daleks

The Doctor (Jon Pertwee)
takes a Dalek for a dip

Six episodes (Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four, Episode Five, Episode Six)
First broadcast Apr 7 to May 12 1973
Average audience for serial: 9.72m

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 Click here for Katy Manning's entry on Terror of the Autons

GUEST CAST

Murphy Grumbar (Dalek operator) Aug 16 1928 to May 5 1991 Click here for Murphy Grumbar's entry on The Daleks (as Peter Murphy)

Prentis Hancock (Vaber) May 14 1942 to May 30 2025
Doctor Who credits
Played: Second reporter in Spearhead from Space (1970)
Played: Vaber in Planet of the Daleks (1973)
Played: Salamar in Planet of Evil (1975)
Played: Captain in The Ribos Operation (1978)
Career highlights
Prentis debuted in Dr Finlay's Casebook (1969), then became prolific in the 1970s in series such as The Last of the Mohicans (1971), Z Cars (1971), The Shadow of the Tower (1972), Colditz (1973), The Protectors (1973), Life and Death of Penelope (1976), The New Avengers (1976), Survivors (1977), Return of the Saint (1979) and Secret Army (1979), followed by roles in Fox (1980), The House on the Hill (1981), Kim (1984), Defence of the Realm (1986), Bergerac (1989), Bodyguards (1997), CI5: The New Professionals (1999), Outlander (2014) and Autopsy: The Last Hours of Patrick Swayze (2017). He may also be recognised as Lieutenant Saunders in Spy Trap (1972-73), Paul Morrow in Space: 1999 (1975-76) and Arnold Meyer in Chocky's Children (1985) and Chocky's Challenge (1986).
Facts
In 2010 Prentis wrote a children's book called Hotshot - A Chilling Tale.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Prentis here.

Bernard Horsfall (Taron) Nov 20 1930 to Jan 28 2013
Doctor Who credits
Played: Gulliver in The Mind Robber (1968)
Played: Time Lord in The War Games (1969)
Played: Taron in Planet of the Daleks (1973)
Played: Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin (1976)
Career highlights
Prolific character actor Bernard debuted in The Steel Bayonet (1957) and went on to appear in Dancers in Mourning (1959), The Angry Silence (1960), Captain Moonlight: Man of Mystery (1960), Pathfinders to Space (1960), Family Solicitor (1961), Harpers West One (1962), Guns at Batasi (1964), The Avengers (1965/67/68), Department S (1969), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Ivanhoe (1970), Elizabeth R (1971), Freewheelers (1973), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), South Riding (1974), Within These Walls (1976), Big Boy Now! (1977), Enemy at the Door (1978-80, as Dr Philip Martel), Minder (1982), Gandhi (1982), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988), The Bill (1989), Thatcher: The Final Days (1991), Virtual Murder (1992), Braveheart (1995), Murder Rooms (2000), Doctors (2005) and Stone of Destiny (2008).
Facts
Bernard claimed he was a descendant of William the Conqueror. In the 1980s Bernard moved with his actress wife Jane Jordan Rogers to the Isle of Skye in Scotland, where he became a crofter, producing fruit and vegetables. His son Christian predeceased him in 2012.

Jane How (Rebec) Born Dec 21 1950
Career highlights
Jane's earliest role was in Kate (1972), followed by A Little Princess (1973), General Hospital (1973-74, as Nurse Jean Preston), Killers (1976), The Foundation (1977), Cribb (1980), The Citadel (1983), A.D. (1985), Matlock (1987), Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992), Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992), Class Act (1994), Porkpie (1995-96), Heartbeat (1996), Coronation Street (2000), Bad Girls (2001), Daniel Deronda (2002), The Royal (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Bones (2008), M.I High (2011), Love and Marriage (2013), Starlings (2013), Obsession: Dark Desires (2015), The Sound of Music Live (2015) and X Company (2016). Jane's most famous role was as Dirty Den Watts's mistress Jan Hammond in soap EastEnders (1986-87, 2002-03), while other regular roles include Rosalynde Warrington in The Spoils of War (1980-81) and Helen Latimer in Don't Wait Up (1983-87).
Facts
Jane's first husband was the late actor Mark Burns, while her second is actor Richard Durden.

John Scott Martin (Dalek operator) Apr 1 1926 to Jan 6 2009 (Parkinson's Disease) Click here for John Scott Martin's entry on The Web Planet

Hilary Minster (Marat) Mar 21 1944* to Nov 24 1999 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Marat in Planet of the Daleks (1973)
Played: Thal soldier in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Career highlights
Debuting in Z Cars (1967), Hilary's other credits include Timeslip (1970), The Long Chase (1972), Man About the House (1975), Poldark (1977), The Tomorrow People (1978), Crossroads (1979), Secret Army (1979), Strike It Rich! (1986), The Girl in a Swing (1988) and Bugs (1998). His most memorable role was as General Erich von Klinkerhoffen in 59 episodes of sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (1984-92).
Facts
He occasionally wrote scripts for the variety programme International Cabaret with host Kenneth Williams, and in the 1980s was producer and presenter of Central Television's Here and Now documentary strand. *Hilary's birth is sometimes given as 1939 or 1945, but records state 1944.

Tim Preece (Codal) Born Aug 5 1938
Career highlights
Making his debut in Mr Pastry's Pet Shop (1962), Tim's CV also includes 24-Hour Call (1963), Redcap (1965), Lord Raingo (1966), The Possessed (1969), Ivanhoe (1970), Making Faces (1975), The Glittering Prizes (1976), Kilvert's Diary (1977), The Deep Concern (1979), The Bagthorpe Saga (1981), Brimstone and Treacle (1982), Pull the Other One (1984), Shadowlands (1985), Porterhouse Blue (1987), Brookside (1989), EastEnders (1990), Forever Green (1991), A Year in Provence (1993), Class Act (1994), Just William (1995), Chalk (1997), Kiss Me Kate (1999), The Wyvern Mystery (2000), Attachments (2002), Roger Roger (2003), Peep Show (2003), Vanity Fair (2004), Coronation Street (2005), The Queen's Sister (2005), Prime Suspect 7 (2006), Bathory (2008), The Ghost (2010), Silent Witness (2013), A Prominent Patient (2016), 1066: A Year to Conquer England (2017) and Holby City (2006/ 2017). Tim is most recognisable as Tom Patterson in the sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976-77) and The Legacy of Reginald Perrin (1996), and he also regularly played Reverend Dennis Sparrow in sitcom Waiting for God (1992-94). He also wrote Father's Day (1979) and The Combination (1982).
Facts
Tim is married to actress Gillian Wray, best known as Susan Jackson in the series Gazette and Hadleigh (1968-69).

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

Cy Town (Dalek operator) Feb 17 1931 to Mar 26 2024 Click here for Cy Town's entry on Frontier in Space

Alan Tucker (Latep) Mar 22 1937 to Apr 1 2016
Career highlights
Debuting in Boyd QC (1961), Alan's further roles were in The Wars of the Roses (1965), Softly Softly (1966-67/70), Sherlock Holmes (1968), Detective (1969), Hadleigh (1969), Ace of Wands (1970), The Onedin Line (1972), Ooh La La! (1973), I, Claudius (1976), 1990 (1977) and Measure for Measure (1979).

Michael Wisher (Dalek voice) May 19 1935 to Jul 21 1995 (heart attack) Click here for Michael Wisher's entry on The Ambassadors of Death

CREW

Terry Nation (writer) Aug 6 1930 to Mar 9 1997 (emphysema) Click here for Terry Nation's entry on The Daleks

David Maloney (director) Dec 14 1933 to Jul 18 2006 (cancer) Click here for David Maloney's entry on The Mind Robber

Barry Letts (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

Frontier in Space

A deleted scene, showing how the President
 of Earth (Vera Fusek) unwound after the
 constant interference of General Williams

Six episodes (Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four, Episode Five, Episode Six)
First broadcast Feb 24 to Mar 31 1973
Average audience for serial: 8.02m

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 Click here for Katy Manning's entry on Terror of the Autons

Roger Delgado (The Master) Mar 1 1918 to Jun 18 1973 (car accident) Click here for Roger Delgado's entry on Terror of the Autons

GUEST CAST

Barry Ashton (Kemp) 1935 to May 1978
Doctor Who credits
Played: Scientist Franz Schultz in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Proctor in The Time Monster (1972)
Played: Kemp in Frontier in Space (1973)
Career highlights
Other credits include Out of the Unknown (1965), Menace (1970), Trial (1971) and Thriller (1973).

Peter Birrel (Draconian prince) Jul 19 1935 to Jun 23 2004 (cancer)
Career highlights
Debuting in a 1962 episode of Studio Four, Peter went on to act in Crane (1964), You Can't Win (1966), The Saint (1967), Market in Honey Lane (1967-68), Budgie (1971), Holly (1972), Warship (1973), Steptoe and Son (1974), Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975), The XYY Man (1976), George and Mildred (1979), The Gentle Touch (1980), Angels (1982), Minder (1984), One By One (1987), War and Remembrance (1989), Lovejoy (1992), Sharpe's Company (1994), London's Burning (1996-97) and The Jump (1998).
Facts
Peter married actress Stephanie Cole in 1998.

Dennis Bowen (Prison governor) Dec 7 1916 to Oct 5 1999

Career highlights
Other credits include The Dinner Was Deadly (1946), 1066 and All That (1947), Jolly Roger (1948), Big Ben (1949), Old Songs for New (1949), Don't Look Now (1950), Wall of Death (1951), The Tony Hancock Show (1957), Out of the Unknown (1969) and Paul Temple (1970).
Facts
Dennis was married to cabaret singer Billie Baker.

James Culliford (Stewart) Sep 8 1927 to Mar 23 2002
Career highlights
Making his debut in 1958's Three Seasons, James went on to appear in 1959's The History of Mr Polly, The Men from Room 13 (1959), Deadline Midnight (1960), Corrigan Blake (1962), The Flying Swan (1965), Gideon's Way (1965), The Trygon Factor (1966), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Honey Lane (1969), Elizabeth R (1971), The Protectors (1972) and Death Line (1973). James also appeared in Shakespeare plays on Broadway in 1958-59.
Facts
James was badly burned on the right side of his face in a motoring accident, leaving him partially disfigured. Doctor Who was one of his last roles before suffering a stroke in 1972 at the age of 45, after which he was cared for until his death by his partner, actor Alfred Lynch (who was in The Curse of Fenric in 1989).

Clifford Elkin (Earth cruiser captain) Dec 30 1934 to Dec 18 2012
Career highlights
Doctor Who was Clifford's final credit, after appearing in Time is the Enemy (1958), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960), The Scarlet Blade (1963), Orlando (1966) and Dixon of Dock Green (1971).

Ian Frost (Draconian messenger) Mar 1 1933 to Jul 7 2024 (pneumonia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Baccu in The Ark (1966)
Played: Draconian messenger in Frontier in Space (1973)
Career highlights
Ian's further credits include Silent Evidence (1962), Lorna Doone (1963), Z Cars (1968), Out of the Unknown (1969), Ivanhoe (1970), Something in Disguise (1982) and Girls on Top (1986).
Facts
Ian, who latterly lived in Florida, became heavily involved in stage plays and monologues centred on Lord Byron, Shelley and Keats, touring in North America, Europe and the UK, accompanied by playwright Bill Studdiford. He was a founder member of Actors' Touring Company London.

Vera Fusek (President of Earth) May 20 1932 to Aug 8 2021
Career highlights
Czech Vera's first appearances were in a number of BBC Sunday Night Theatres in 1956 and 1957, followed by The Adventures of Aggie (1957), The Schirmer Inheritance (1957), The Third Man (1959), The Four Just Men (1960), The Troubleshooters (1968/71), The Adventurer (1972) and Treasures of the Snow (1980).
Facts
Vera's son is children's poet and author Andrew Fusek-Peters. At the time of filming, Vera was a widow with two young children to bring up (her husband sadly having committed suicide), and took the role on as she knew the director. In 2015, Vera's granddaughter Rosalind Jana wrote of her grandmother's involvement with Doctor Who, quoting her as saying: "I think nothing of it. It was really just a time filler, a kids' TV show." The President of Earth's blue dress is still in the Fusek family - see stunning pictures of Rosalind modelling it here: http://www.rosalindjana.com/2015/05/my-grandma-president-of-earth.html. Vera, who was diagnosed with dementia in her latter years, was once photographed by Patrick Lichfield, and propositioned by artist Salvadore Dali! Vera's son Marc tragically died of AIDS in 1993.

Harold Goldblatt (Professor Dale) Jul 5 1899 to Mar 22 1982
Career highlights
Debuting in Jacqueline (1956), Harold also appeared in A Night to Remember (1958), Pathfinders in Space (1960), Coronation Street (1961), The Running Man (1963), The Mind Benders (1963), Children of the Damned (1964), The Reptile (1966), Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971), The Abdication (1974), Our Mutual Friend (1976), The Devil's Crown (1978), The Day Christ Died (1980), The Winter's Tale (1981) and Horace (1982).
Facts
Harold was a leading figure in Northern Irish theatre, and was related to Talmudic scholars on his Baltic mother's side. In the 1920s he was founder, producer and principal actor of the Jewish Institute Dramatic Society, and in 1963 founded the Ulster Theatre Company. Harold was honorary secretary to the Belfast Hebrew Society, and in 1976 was awarded an honorary degree from Queen's University, Belfast for his services to theatre. His family created the Goldblatt Archive of theatre-related material in the Linen Hall library, Belfast. He died while filming the Barbara Streisand movie Yentl (released 1983).

Murphy Grumbar (Dalek operator) Aug 16 1928 to May 5 1991 Click here for Murphy Grumbar's entry on The Daleks (as Peter Murphy)

Karol Hagar (Secretary) Born 1943
Career highlights
Karol's other credits include No Hiding Place (1963), Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964), Steptoe and Son (1965) and The Lion in Winter (1968).

Laurence Harrington (Lunar guard) Born Sep 30 1938
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: Lunar guard in Frontier in Space (1973)
Career highlights
His earliest role was playing Frank Nugent in Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1956-57), and he later popped up in Julius Caesar (1970), Wipers Three (1973), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974), Van der Valk (1977), Pennies from Heaven (1978), Grange Hill (1978), Agony (1979), Worzel Gummidge (1980/81), Car Trouble (1985), Prospects (1986), Boon (1988), Lazarus & Dingwall (1991), Poirot (1992), Eskimo Day (1996), Dalziel and Pascoe (1997) and Julie and the Cadillacs (1999).
Facts
Laurence can also be seen in the video for Naked Eyes' (What) In the Name of Love (1984).

Michael Hawkins (General Williams) Nov 26 1928 to Oct 26 2014
Career highlights
Michael debuted in 1957's Ordeal by Fire, and then appeared in Dentist in the Chair (1960), Z Cars (1962), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1964), R3 (1965), The Baron (1967), They Came from Beyond Space (1967), Champion House (1967-68), Decline and Fall of a Birdwatcher (1968), Coronation Street (1969), Brett (1971), The Brothers (1972), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Nightingale's Boys (1975), I, Claudius (1976), The Duchess of Duke Street (1976-77), The Devil's Crown (1978) and A Family Affair (1979). He also took on presenting duties on Played Upon a Stage and The Terrible Choice in 1960.

Caroline Hunt (Technician) Born October 20th 1942
Doctor Who credits
Played: Danielle in The Reign of Terror (1964)
Played: Technician in Frontier in Space (1973)
Career highlights
Other appearances include 199 Park Lane (1965), Sergeant Cork (1966), Detective (1968), Crime of Passion (1972), Accident (1978), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Bill (1995) and Casualty (1992/99). Caroline became a theatre director and acting workshop trainer.

Michael Kilgarriff (Ogron) Born Jun 16 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyber Controller in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), Attack of the Cybermen (1985)
Played: Ogron in Frontier in Space (1972)
Played: Robot K1 in Robot (1974-75)
Career highlights
6ft 6in Michael's other appearances include Whack-O! (1959), The Golden Spur (1959), We Joined the Navy (1962), Taxi! (1963), UFO (1970), Aquarius (1972), Men of Affairs (1974), The Upchat Line (1977), The Moon Stallion (1978), 3-2-1 (1979), The Borgias (1981), Artists and Models (1986) and Tipping the Velvet (2002). Michael has also done a lot of voice work, including Obelix in the English version of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976), the General in The Dark Crystal (1982), various voices in The Storyteller (1987-88), Watt's uncle in Watt on Earth (1991), Mr Crotchit in Oscar's Orchestra (1995), the Ogre in the English version of Snow White: The Sequel (2007), God in Albert's Speech (2008) and Lenigrast in the video game Dark Souls II (2014).
Facts
Michael, who is 6ft 6in tall, is a music hall enthusiast, and wrote what is considered the definitive guide to music hall songs, Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song from 1860-1920 (1998), as well as Grace, Beauty and Banjos (1999) and various children's joke books in the 1970s and 80s. For 36 years Michael was Mr Chairman at the Players' Theatre Victorian music hall. Michael also once established a theatre company specialising in corporate work as well as music hall, with fellow music hall enthusiast Johnny Dennis (who himself appeared in Delta and the Bannermen (1987) - indeed, Johnny was best man at Michael's wedding to his wife Sarah in 1968).
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Michael here.

Rick Lester (Ogron)
Doctor Who credits
Fight arranger: Day of the Daleks (1972)
Played: Ogron in Day of the Daleks (1972), Carnival of Monsters (1973, uncredited), Frontier in Space (1973)
Career highlights
Rick's stuntman CV stems back to Danger Man in 1960, followed by Dr No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Italian Job (1969), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Diamonds are Forever (1971), Dracula AD 1972 (1972), Live and Let Die (1973), Stardust (1974), Space: 1999 (1975-76), Star Wars (1977), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Superman (1978), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), The Living Daylights (1987), Batman (1989) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).
Facts
After performing stunts on so many 007 films since 1962, the film franchise producers auditioned Rick to replace Sean Connery as Bond, but Roger Moore got the job. Rick was an original member of the British Jousting Society. Nowadays he is a voiceover artist and precision driving tutor.

Ray Lonnen (Gardiner) May 18 1940 to Jul 11 2014 (cancer)
Career highlights
After making his debut in 1963's 24-Hour Call, Ray's CV went on to include The Fellows (1967), Honey Lane (1967-69), The Troubleshooters (1970), Zeppelin (1971), The Pathfinders (1972), Holly (1972), Whodunnit? (1973), Melissa (1974), Coronation Street (1975), General Hospital (1977), Rooms (1977), Send in the Girls (1978), Harry's Game (1982), The Brief (1984), Lovejoy (1986), Rich Tea and Sympathy (1991), Cluedo (1993), Harry (1993), Crime Traveller (1997), Starhunter (2001), Crossroads (2002), Treasure of Albion (2006), Midsomer Murders (2007) and For Love's Sake (2013). He also had regular roles as Detective Sergeant Moffat in Z Cars (1972-77), Willie Caine in The Sandbaggers (1978-80) and Alex Vale in Yellowthread Street (1990). He also provided the voice for children's cartoon series Budgie the Little Helicopter (1994-96).
Facts
Ray's second wife was actress Lynn Dalby (aka Hazel in Budgie (1971-72) and Ruth Merrick in Emmerdale Farm (1972/74)), while his third wife was actress Tara Ward, who appeared in Warriors of the Deep (1984).
In 2013 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Ray and his wife Tara Ward here.

Louis Mahoney (Newscaster) Sep 8 1938 to Jun 28 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Newscaster in Frontier in Space (1973)
Played: Ponti in Planet of Evil (1975)
Played: Old Billy in Blink (2007)
Career highlights
Making his debut in The Sword in the Web (1962), Gambian Louis's CV includes Danger Man (1965), Voodoo Blood Death (1965), Slave Girls (1967), Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970), The Troubleshooters (1970), Adam Smith (1972), Quiller (1975), Fawlty Towers (1975, as Sybil's doctor), Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981), Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981), Cry Freedom (1987), White Mischief (1987), The Lenny Henry Show (1987, as Jake), The Real Eddy English (1989), Saracen (1989), Love Hurts (1992), Runaway Bay (1992-93), One Foot in the Grave (1993), Turning World (1997), Harbour Lights (1999), Urban Gothic (2000), Oscar Charlie (2001-02), Sea of Souls (2004), Casualty@Holby City (2005), 10 Days to War (2008), Being Human (2012-13), Captain Phillips (2013), The Trials of Jimmy Rose (2015), You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), River (2015), Holby City (2005/2016), The Dumping Ground (2018), Counterpart (2018-19) and The Split (2020). In 2009 he also wrote and narrated a documentary about Victoria Falls in the Nature series.
Facts
Louis, who initially came to the UK to become a doctor, was a key campaigner within the acting industry in the anti-Apartheid movement, and co-created the Black Theatre Workshop.

John Scott Martin (Dalek operator) Apr 1 1926 to Jan 6 2009 (Parkinson's Disease) Click here for John Scott Martin's entry on The Web Planet

Bill Mitchell (Newscaster) Dec 26 1934 to Aug 20 1997 (cancer)
Career highlights
Canadian Bill's earliest credit was in Folio (1958), then Night of the Eagle (1962), Finders Keepers (1966), You Only Live Twice (1967), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), The Hanged Man (1975), Ubu (1978), The Bitch (1979), Riding High (1981) and SuperGran (1985-87, playing the reporter as Bill McAllister).
Facts
Bill was also known as "Deep Voice" for his distinctive tones used extensively in commercials and on radio, and most famously on cinema movie trailers across the world. Amongst the products Bill vocalised for were Pan Am Airways, Seiko watches, Cadbury's Flake, Denim aftershave ("for men who don't have to try too hard") and famously Carlsberg's "Probably the best lager... in the world" promotion. He attributed his husky voice to contracting mumps at the age of 12 and was silent for three weeks. He carefully maintained his distinctive voice with a lifetime of heavy smoking and drinking.

Roy Pattison (Draconian space pilot) Dec 4 1926 to Sep 20 1997
Doctor Who credits
Played: Draconian space pilot in Frontier in Space (1973)
Played: Zazzka in The Hand of Fear (1976)
Career highlights
Roy's first role was in Romance in Candlelight (1955), then Clive of India (1956), Gallows Glorious (1959), Street Scene (1959), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1962), Battle Beneath the Earth (1967), The Borderers (1970), Colditz (1972), Oh, Father! (1973), The Stars Look Down (1975), Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978), The Mallens (1979), Andy Robson (1983), Return to Treasure Island (1986) and The Bill (1995). He regularly played Walter Fines in Crocodile Shoes (1994-96).

Luan Peters (Sheila) Jun 11 1946 to Dec 24 2017
Doctor Who credits
Played: Chicki in The Macra Terror (episode 4, 1967 - as Karol Keyes)
Played: Sheila in Frontier in Space (1973)
Career highlights
Karol (born Carol Hirsch) also appeared in Dixon of Dock Green (1967), The Caesars (1968) and Strange Report (1969), and after changing her name in 1970 (to Luan Peters, derived from a town in Russia, and the Hollywood actress Jean Peters), made further appearances in Lust for a Vampire (1971), On the Buses (1971), Man of Violence (1971), Coronation Street (1971), Albert! (1971), Twins of Evil (1971), The Flesh and Blood Show (1972), Vampira (1974), The Boys and Mrs B (1977), The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980) and The Bill (1989/90). She also appeared as a Maid of the Month in several episodes of The Golden Shot (1971), and that same year took the lead role as an adventuring go-go girl in the 13-part series Go Girl aka Give Me a Ring Sometime or Passport to Murder, which was never shown on TV but episode one was later released on video. She also appeared as herself in episodes of Thank Your Lucky Stars (1964), The Beat Room (1964), Musikladen (1977) and Cannon and Ball (1980). She started out leading the band Carol Keyes and the Big Sound (aka The Fat Sound, but Karol made them change it to Big!) in 1964 with the single No One Can Take Your Place, and later appeared on Top of the Pops in 1975 singing I'm on Fire by fronting the band 5,000 Volts (miming to the vocals of Tina Charles!). She recorded various tracks throughout the 1960s and 70s, the last being the song Trouble from the soundtrack to the 1981 Australian sex comedy Pacific Banana (in which she appeared as Candy Bubbles). Luan's appearance in The Psychiatrist episode of Fawlty Towers (1979) has immortalised her as the busty lady Basil mistakes for a light-switch! A comprehensive summary of her career can be found here.

Stanley Price (Pilot of spaceship) Aug 12 1931 to Feb 28 2019
Career highlights
Stanley's earliest role was in Detective (1964), followed by Z Cars (1967), Colditz (1972), Law and Order (1978), Dick Turpin (1979) and Mackenzie (1980).

John Rees (Hardy) Mar 6 1927 to Oct 6 1994 (possible heart attack while horse riding in Spain)
Career highlights
Prolific John's first role was in Pancakes (1958), then A Farthing Damages (1959), The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961), The Plane Makers (1963), Moulded in Earth (1965), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1967), The Prisoner (1968), Strange Report (1969), The Go Between (1970), A Family At War (1971), Under Milk Wood (1972), Black Arrow (1972-74), All Creatures Great and Small (1975), Holocaust (1978), The Shout (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Citadel (1983), Sky Bandits (1986), White Mischief (1987) and Saracen (1989).

Madhav Sharma (Patel) Born Nov 12 1939
Career highlights
Madhav debuted in The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), and then took roles in Escape (1967), The First Lady (1968), Public Eye (1971), The Moonstone (1972), The Regiment (1973), Moonbase 3 (1973), Angels (1976), The Awakening (1980), Maybury (1981), Cold Warrior (1984), Boon (1987), Medics (1992), East is East (1999), Bugs (1999), Dalziel and Pascoe (2001), The Gathering (2002), Grease Monkeys (2004), Chopratown (2005), Ashes to Ashes (2008), The Blue Tower (2008), Going Postal (2010), Monroe (2011), The Moonstone (2016) and Holby City (2001/2018). He also played regular characters Jas Sandhu in Casualty (2005-06), Prem Mandal in Coronation Street (2008) and Arshad Ahmed in EastEnders (2018).
Facts
In 2004, Madhav was to play the lead in controversial play Behzti by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti at the Birmingham Rep, a role which would have seen him play a corrupt Sikh councillor who rapes the daughter of his former gay lover. The play caused so much outrage in the Sikh community during rehearsals that it was eventually cancelled, and the playwright had police protection. In the 1980s Madhav was married to actress Jenny Seagrove, but this was not a happy marriage. According to Seagrove, Sharma became very possessive, following her everywhere she went. In his ruling granting divorce, High Court Judge Clive Callman said: "I find as a fact, to fulfill his own needs [Sharma] literally sapped his wife's self-confidence and self-esteem. He, with an extraordinary, almost hypnotic power, was a Svengali to Jenny Seagrove. Unable to star in his own right, his wife became his crutch." Seagrove went on to marry film director Michael Winner, but the two actors remain on good terms (Seagrove nominated Madhav for 2014's inaugural Dadabhai Naoroji Award for Culture issued by the UK Government for services to India/ UK relations). Madhav's nephew is travel writer Pico Iyer, a regular essayist for Time magazine, Harper's and the New York Times.

Richard Shaw (Cross) Nov 19 1920 to Apr 11 2010
Doctor Who credits
Played: Lobos in The Space Museum (1965)
Played: Cross in Frontier in Space (1973)
Played: Lakh in Underworld (1978)
Career highlights
Richard's career began uncredited in Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946) and included roles in Black Orchid (1953), Man from Tangier (1957), Quatermass and the Pit (1958), Sir Francis Drake (1962), 633 Squadron (1964), Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1966), Market in Honey Lane (1968-69), The Onedin Line (1976), The Sandbaggers (1978), Coronation Street (1980), Matlock (1987) and Young Toscanini (1988). He regularly played Ryan in Freewheelers (1971).
Facts
In an interview, Richard said: "Bill Hartnell was a long standing friend and we had worked together many times. When I played Lobos I sustained a severe blow to my left eye which caused some problems for the first episodes but we had to carry on." Two years after Richard's death, someone called Sven posted this credulity-stretching comment on Toby Hadoke's obituary for him (did Richard really believe in alien lizards and UFOs?).

Stephen Thorne (Ogron) Mar 2 1935 to May 26 2019
Doctor Who credits
Played: Azal in The Daemons (1971)
Played: Omega in The Three Doctors (1972-73)
Played: Ogron in Frontier in Space (1973)
Played: Eldrad (Kastrian version) in The Hand of Fear (1976)
Career highlights
Stephen's earliest role was in Jezebel ex UK (1963), followed by Z Cars (1971), Sexton Blake and the Demon God (1978), Crossroads (1978-79), Death of an Expert Witness (1983), David Copperfield (1986), EastEnders (1991), Madison (1993), Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992/94) and Last of the Summer Wine (2006). Stephen's voice was also heard narrating numerous Fred Dibnah documentary series (1987-96), and playing Aslan in the 1979 animation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He was a prolific radio actor and audiobook narrator.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Stephen here.

Cy Town (Dalek operator) Feb 17 1931 to Mar 26 2024
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in Spearhead from Space (1970, uncredited), The Invisible Enemy (1977, uncredited), Castrovalva (1982, uncredited), Enlightenment (1983, uncredited), Attack of the Cybermen (1985, uncredited)
Played: Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited), Inferno (1970, uncredited)
Played: Medical orderly in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: Gell Guard in The Three Doctors (1972-73, uncredited)
Played: Dalek operator in Frontier in Space (1973), Planet of the Daleks (1973), Death to the Daleks (1974), Genesis of the Daleks (1975), Destiny of the Daleks (1979), Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Revelation of the Daleks (1985), Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Played: Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Played: Vogan in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975, uncredited)
Played: Brother in The Masque of Mandragora (1976, uncredited)
Played: Guard in The Sun Makers (1977, uncredited)
Played: Harold V's brother in The Happiness Patrol (1988, uncredited)
Played: Haemovore in The Curse of Fenric (1989, uncredited)
Career highlights
Other acting work includes Two in Clover (1969), All Gas and Gaiters (1970), There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), Steptoe and Son (1972), Whodunnit? (1972), Moonbase 3 (1973), Carry On Girls (1973), Dad's Army (1973), Colditz (1972-74), The Sweeney (1975), The Brothers (1976), Adventures of a Private Eye (1977), Star Wars (1977), The Big Sleep (1978), Quadrophenia (1979), Blake's 7 (1981), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), Ever Decreasing Circles (1984), One Foot in the Grave (1990), Jeeves and Wooster (1991) and Crown Prosecutor (1995). He also operated the Dalek seen when Jon Pertwee appeared on ITV's Surprise Surprise in 1996.

Bill Wilde (Draconian captain) Born Jul 16 1940
Career highlights
Debuting in Jungle Street (1960), Bill's CV also includes Sherlock Holmes (1965), Emergency Ward 10 (1967), The Blood Beast Terror (1968), Department S (1969), Notorious Woman (1974), Oil Strike North (1975), The Canal Children (1976), The Mackinnons (1977), Accident (1978-79), The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979), The Omega Factor (1979), Buccaneer (1980), Smiley's People (1982), Lytton's Diary (1986), Parting Shots (1998) and Jack of Diamonds (2001).
Facts
Bill aka William Hornet Wilde now runs three vintage clothes shops in Kensington, London (established 1982) and has supplied garments for the likes of designers Tom Ford and Ralph Lauren. He deals in style, not fashion.

Ramsay Williams (Congressman Brook) 1917 to May 29 1981
Career highlights
Ramsay's other credits include The Big Story (1949), Treasury Men in Action (1950), Dragnet (1954-55), Spy Trap (1973), Katy (1976), Brideshead Revisited (1981) and The Professionals (1983).

Michael Wisher (Dalek voice) May 19 1935 to Jul 21 1995 (heart attack) Click here for Michael Wisher's entry on The Ambassadors of Death

John Woodnutt (Draconian emperor) Mar 3 1924 to Jan 2 2006
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hibbert in Spearhead from Space (1970)
Played: Draconian Emperor in Frontier in Space (1973)
Played: Duke of Forgill/ Broton in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Played: Seron in The Keeper of Traken (1981)
Career highlights
John became a prolific character actor after he first appeared in The Black Brigand (1956), then The Cabin in the Clearing (1959), Gamble for a Throne (1961), Swizzlewick (1964), The Avengers (1966), Rogues' Gallery (1969), The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970, as Henry VII), Look and Read: The Boy from Space (1971, as the spooky Thin Man), The Tomorrow People (1973), The Secret Garden (1975), Children of the Stones (1977), Shoestring (1979), Stalky and Co. (1982), Lifeforce (1985), Porterhouse Blue (1987), Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93, as Sir Watkyn), Wycliffe (1995) and Harry Enfield and Chums (1997). He also played Mr Quelch in Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1959), Judge Weightman in Crown Court (1977-84) and Merlin/ Mogdred in children's virtual reality show Knightmare (1987-90).
Facts
John ended his years in the actors' retirement home Denville Hall.

CREW

Malcolm Hulke (writer) Nov 21 1924 to Jul 6 1979 Click here for Malcolm Hulke's entry on The Faceless Ones

Paul Bernard (director) Jun 20 1929 to Sep 25 1997
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Day of the Daleks (1972), The Time Monster (1972), Frontier in Space (1973)
Career highlights
Paul's other direction work includes Emergency Ward 10 (1957), Z Cars (1964-65), Cluff (1964), Virgin of the Secret Service (1968, on which he was also supervising producer), Honey Lane (1969), Happy Ever After (1970), This Is Tom Jones (1970), The Tomorrow People (1973), Under the Same Sun (1979-80) and Coronation Street (22 episodes between 1971-87), although he had other talents too, including production design on ITV Television Playhouse (1958-59), Our House (1960), Ghost Squad (1961), Hugh and I (1962), The Avengers (1961-63), ITV Play of the Week (1960-65) and Virgin Witch (1972).
Facts
In later life, Paul became a successful artist. In a 1989 interview, Paul said: "Pertwee was a bit of a prima donna. He'd had a very successful career in music hall and, quite rightly, had a very high opinion of himself."

David Maloney (director (uncredited)) Dec 14 1933 to Jul 18 2006 (cancer) Click here for David Maloney's entry on The Mind Robber

Barry Letts (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

Carnival of Monsters

Shirna (Cheryl Hall) and Vorg (Leslie Dwyer)
as an alternative Third Doctor and Jo?

Four episodes (Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four)
First broadcast Jan 27 to Feb 17 1973
Average audience for serial: 9.18m

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 Click here for Katy Manning's entry on Terror of the Autons

GUEST CAST

Leslie Dwyer (Vorg) Aug 28 1906 to Dec 26 1986 (pulmonary embolism and congestive heart failure)
Career highlights
Leslie had a number of uncredited roles in films during World War Two before securing his first on-screen credit for In Which We Serve (1942), after which he appeared in The Way Ahead (1944), Night Boat to Dublin (1946), The Calendar (1948), The Bad Lord Byron (1949), Lilli Marlene (1951), Hindle Wakes (1952), The Good Die Young (1954), Where There's a Will (1955), Face in the Night (1957), The 39 Steps (1959), Jacks and Knaves (1961), Citizen James (1962), Steptoe and Son (1963), Diary of a Young Man (1964), Monster of Terror (1965), The Charlie Drake Show (1967), Crooks and Coronets (1969), You're Only Young Twice (1971), Follyfoot (1972), Beryl's Lot (1973), Oranges and Lemons (1973), Late Call (1975), The Squirrels (1976), Lord Tramp (1977), Coronation Street (1968/78), The Famous Five (1978), Terry and June (1979) and Time of My Life (1980). His most famous role was as grumpy Punch and Judy man Mr Partridge in 36 episodes of holiday camp sitcom Hi-De-Hi! (1980-84).
Facts
Leslie's father was comedian and variety act Johnny Dwyer (aka Gracewell Sutterby).

Tenniel Evans (Major Daly) May 17 1926 to Jun 10 2009 (emphysema)
Career highlights
Kenyan born Tenniel's prolific career began in a 1960 adaptation of Somerset Maugham's The Kite, after which he appeared in Harpers West One (1961), The Plane Makers (1963), The Sullavan Brothers (1964-65, as John Sullavan), Mrs Thursday (1966), Merry-Go-Round (1967, as presenter), The Forsyte Saga (1967), Sanctuary (1967-68), four episodes of The Avengers (1961-63/68), Big Breadwinner Hog (1969), Roads to Freedom (1970), War and Peace (1972), Rooms (1975), My Brother's Keeper (1975-76, as Sergeant Bluett), The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1977), Raven (1977), Yes, Minister (1980), Sink or Swim (1982), Hallelujah! (1984), Shine On Harvey Moon (1985), One By One (1987), Knights of God (1987), Inspector Morse (1989), Rides (1993), Anna Lee (1994), September Song (1994), Pat and Margaret (1994), Giving Tongue (1996), Bugs (1997), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000) and William and Mary (2004). He will be best recognised as the second actor to play Perce in sitcom The Two of Us (1987-90), taking over from original actor Patrick Troughton after he died.
Facts
Tenniel, who qualified as a Church of England non-stipendiary minister in 1985, was legendary screen actor and producer Leslie Banks's son-in-law, his son was TV director Matthew Evans and his daughter actress Serena Evans (better known as Sgt Patricia Dawkins in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line). Tenniel's family is related on one side to author George Eliot and on the other to John Tenniel, the man who originally illustrated Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books. Tenniel was a member of the team behind BBC Radio's The Navy Lark in the 1950s alongside Jon Pertwee, who he urged to audition for the role of the Doctor in 1969.

Cheryl Hall (Shirna) Born Jul 23 1950
Career highlights
Cheryl made her debut in the 1968 series You and the World, after which she appeared in Special Branch (1969), Smith (1970), Deep End (1970), On the Buses (1971), Albert! (1972), Sykes (1972), Rentadick (1972), No Sex Please, We're British! (1973), Anyone for Sex? (1973), Oranges and Lemons (1973), Bless This House (1974), Angels (1975), Whodunnit? (1975), Rainbow (1974/76), Lucky Feller (1975-76), Rooms (1975/77), Survivors (1977), Danger UXB (1979), In Loving Memory (1981), Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest (1985, as well as its 1984 Dramarama "pilot"), EastEnders (1988), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989), The Men's Room (1991), So Haunt Me (1992), Magic Grandad (1993), Woof! (1994), Bramwell (1998), Silent Witness (1999-2000), Waking the Dead (2002), Rehab (2003) and 18 episodes of The Bill between 1984-2007.
Facts
Cheryl made the final six shortlist to play Jo Grant after auditioning for the part in 1970. Between 1974-80 Cheryl was married to actor Robert Lindsay (he left her for actor Diana Weston), and played his character Wolfie's girlfriend Shirley in the sitcom Citizen Smith (1977-79). Cheryl stood as Liberal candidate for Aston Under Lyne in the 1992 UK General Election, coming fourth with 907 votes and 2.1% of the ballot; she later stood as Labour candidate for Canterbury in the 1997 UK General Election, securing almost 17,000 votes and 31% of the ballot, but lost out to Conservative candidate Julian Brazier. She later went on to become a Labour county councillor (and local party leader) in Kent, and later a teacher in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Peter Halliday (Pletrac) Jun 2 1924 to Feb 18 2012
Doctor Who credits
Played: Packer in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Silurian voices in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Alien voices in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Pletrac in Carnival of Monsters (1973)
Played: Soldier in City of Death (1979)
Played: Vicar in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Career highlights
Peter's career began with 1954's Fatal Journey and he then took roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1956), Dunkirk (1958), The Citadel (1960), Garry Halliday (1962), Sierra Nine (1963), Danger Man (1965), Write a Play (1965), The Avengers (1968), UFO (1970-71), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), The Befrienders (1972), Bowler (1973), The Boy with Two Heads (1974), The Sweeney (1975), Keep It Up Downstairs (1976), Beasts (1976), Angels (1982), The Tripods (1984), Hannay (1989), The Remains of the Day (1993), Our Friends in the North (1996), Goodnight Sweetheart (1997), Esther (1999), Micawber (2001) and Lassie (2005). He also played Dr John Fleming in A for Andromeda (1961) and The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962).
Facts
Peter was for a time married to the actress Simone Lovell, daughter of the actors Raymond Lovell and Margot Collis (who had an affair with the poet W B Yeats during her marriage to Lovell).

Terence Lodge (Orum) Nov 10 1936 to Jan 21 2022
Doctor Who credits
Played: Medok in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Orum in Carnival of Monsters (1973)
Played: Moss in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
His CV also includes An Age of Kings (1960), The Avengers (1963/64), The Baron (1966), Germinal (1970), Jason King (1972), Barlow at Large (1975), Angels (1983), David Copperfield (1986), Hands of a Murderer (1990), The Bill (1995) and London's Burning (1995).
Facts
His birthname was Terry Ronald John Michael Stockting (incidentally, a Terence Stockting wrote a few episodes of TV soap Compact in 1964 - could that have been the same man?). Terence, who in 1959 wrote a stage play called Who's Who performed at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, briefly left the acting industry in the mid-1970s, but returned in the early 1980s. He finally retired in the late 1990s, reportedly after a negative experience on the soap Family Affairs.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Terence here.

Ian Marter (John Andrews) Oct 28 1944 to Oct 28 1986 (diabetes-related heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: John Andrews in Carnival of Monsters (1973)
Played: Harry Sullivan in Robot, The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks, Revenge of the Cybermen, Terror of the Zygons, The Android Invasion (1974-75)
Career highlights
Ian's first acting credit was in Doctor Faustus (1967), followed by roles in The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971), Holly (1972), The Venturers (1975), Softly Softly (1975), The Brothers (1976), The Medusa Touch (1978, in which he was wrongly credited as Ian Master), ten episodes of Crown Court (1972/74/78), Hazell (1979), The Specialist (1980), Close to Home (1982), Shine On Harvey Moon (1984), Bergerac (1985) and The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986).
Facts
He left Oxford University in 1969 to become a stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic circa 1970. He auditioned for the role of Captain Mike Yates in Doctor Who in 1970, and in later years took to writing, including nine novelisations of Doctor Who TV stories (courting controversy by using the word "bastard" in The Enemy of the World), as well as the original novel Harry Sullivan's War (1986), set a decade after Harry stopped travelling with the Doctor (Marter originally planned to kill Harry off at the end, but the publisher banned the idea). Ian died before completing his adaptation of The Rescue, which had to be completed by Nigel Robinson, and before he could adapt his promised sequel to Harry Sullivan's War. With the pen-name Ian Don, he also wrote the novelisation of the Hollywood films Splash (1984), Baby (1985), Tough Guys (1986) and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), and several unpublished books based on the cartoon series The Gummi Bears. Another writing project that never saw the light of day was the script for an unmade film called Doctor Who Meets Scratchman, which he co-wrote with Tom Baker and James Hill in the mid-1970s.

Jenny McCracken (Claire Daly) Born Apr 9 1946
Career highlights
Jenny's earliest credit was in Z Cars (1968), then Detective (1969), Rookery Nook (1970), A Cuckoo in the Nest (1970), Ace of Wands (1972), The Dick Emery Show (1976), Rings on Their Fingers (1978), Only When I Laugh (1980), Dombey and Son (1983), The Mistress (1985), Jossy's Giants (1986), David Copperfield (1986), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1995), Peak Practice (1997), Heartbeat (2000), Judge John Deed (2001) and From Time to Time (2009).
Facts
Jenny made the final six shortlist to play Jo Grant after auditioning for the part in 1970.

Andrew Staines (Captain) 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.

Michael Wisher (Kalik) May 19 1935 to Jul 21 1995 (heart attack) Click here for Michael Wisher's entry on The Ambassadors of Death

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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

The Three Doctors

If only this actually happened in 1972!
Picture from Whopix blog

Four episodes (Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four)
First broadcast Dec 30 1972 to Jan 20 1973
Average audience for serial: 10.28m

An episode by episode review of this story can be read 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 Click here for Katy Manning's entry on Terror of the Autons

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

John Levene (Benton) Born Dec 24 1941 Click here for John Levene's entry on The Web of Fear

GUEST CAST

William Hartnell (The Doctor) Jan 8 1908 to Apr 23 1975 (heart failure after a series of strokes) For a full career biography for William Hartnell, click here

Graham Leaman (Time Lord) 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.

Denys Palmer (Corporal Palmer) Oct 8 1928 to Sep 2 1991
Career highlights
Denys's other acting credits include The Gypsy Thief (1956) and The World of Beachcomber (1968), but he has plenty of credits working as a choreographer, including on The 1959 Show (1959), Life is a Circus (1960), The Ghost Goes Gear (1966), The Witches (1966), Slave Girls (1967), The Corbett Follies (1969), Doctor in the House (1970), Sez Les (1971), The Two Ronnies (1972), Mantovani and His Concert Orchestra (1973-74) and Napoleon and Love (1974). He also appeared as himself in shows such as This is Show Business (1954), The Eamonn Andrews Show (1965), The Good Old Days (1966) and The Leslie Crowther Show (1971).

Clyde Pollitt (Time Lord Chancellor) Apr 17 1924 to Nov 10 1989
Doctor Who credits
Played: Time Lord in The War Games (1969), The Three Doctors (1972-73)
Career highlights
Clyde's work began with How Green Was My Valley (1960), after which he popped up in Scotland Yard (1960), Sherlock Holmes (1968), Ivanhoe (1970), Soap Opera in Stockwell (1973), Moll Flanders (1975), Clayhanger (1976), Lady Jane (1986) and The War of the Roses (1990).
Facts
His brother was actor Derek Pollitt, who appeared in Doctor Who three times himself. With Derek and second brother Brian, the siblings ran theatre companies in Clacton-on-Sea and North Wales in the 1950s and 60s, after which Clyde worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company and English Shakespeare Company.

Patricia Prior (Mrs Ollis) Feb 9 1929 to Jun 12 2023
Career highlights
Patricia's other work includes Mickey Dunne (1967), The Troubleshooters (1969), Warship (1973), The Brothers (1975), Strong Medicine (1986), One By One (1987), You Must Be the Husband (1988) and Shadow of the Noose (1989). She also regularly played Mrs Gibson in The Onedin Line (1977-80).
Facts
Patricia was married to her The Three Doctors co-star Rex Robinson.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Patricia, and her husband Rex Robinson, here.

Roy Purcell (President of the Council) Jan 26 1919 to Jul 31 2000 (complications from an operation)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Chief prison officer Powers in The Mind of Evil (1971)
Played: President of the Council in The Three Doctors (1972-73)
Career highlights
Roy made his first appearance in The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1952), then The Secret of the Forest (1956), Beyond Mombasa (1956), William Tell (1958), House of Mystery (1961), Emergency Ward 10 (1961), The Avengers (1963), R3 (1965), The Three Musketeers (1966), That's Your Funeral (1971), Doomwatch (1971), The Dragon's Opponent (1973), I, Claudius (1976), The New Avengers (1977), Angels (1979), The Cleopatras (1983), The Collectors (1986) and Casualty (1987). He also had various roles in 23 episodes of The Buccaneers (1956-57).

Rex Robinson (Dr Tyler) Jun 26 1926 to Apr 13 2015
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dr Tyler in The Three Doctors (1972-73)
Played: Gebek in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
Played: Dr Carter in The Hand of Fear (1976)
Career highlights
Debuting in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1955), Rex's other work includes Champion Road (1958), The Big Pull (1962), The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne (1965), Mrs Thursday (1967), Brett (1971), Warship (1973), Six Days of Justice (1973-75), Within These Walls (1978), Terry and June (1980), Just Good Friends (1984), Superman IV (1987), Bread (1987) and Shadow of the Noose (1989).
Facts
Rex was married to his The Three Doctors co-star Patricia Prior.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Rex, and his wife Patricia Prior, here.

Stephen Thorne (Omega) Mar 2 1935 to May 26 2019
Doctor Who credits
Played: Azal in The Daemons (1971)
Played: Omega in The Three Doctors (1972-73)
Played: Ogron in Frontier in Space (1973)
Played: Eldrad (Kastrian version) in The Hand of Fear (1976)
Career highlights
Stephen's earliest role was in Jezebel ex UK (1963), followed by Z Cars (1971), Sexton Blake and the Demon God (1978), Crossroads (1978-79), Death of an Expert Witness (1983), David Copperfield (1986), EastEnders (1991), Madison (1993), Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992/94) and Last of the Summer Wine (2006). Stephen's voice was also heard narrating numerous Fred Dibnah documentary series (1987-96), and playing Aslan in the 1979 animation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He was a prolific radio actor and audiobook narrator.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Stephen here.

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

Laurie Webb (Mr Ollis) Born May 6 1924 DOCTOR WHO CENTENARIAN!
Career highlights
Laurie debuted in Sid Caesar Invites You (1958), then popped up in The Eustace Diamonds (1959), Hancock's Half Hour (1958-60), Paul Temple (1971), Brett (1971), Warship (1973), Softly Softly (1975) and The Clairvoyant (1986).
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Laurie here.

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Bob Baker (writer) Jul 26 1939 to Nov 3 2021 Click here for Bob Baker's entry on The Claws of Axos

Dave Martin (writer) Jan 1 1935 to Mar 30 2007 (lung cancer) Click here for Dave Martin's entry on The Claws of Axos

Lennie Mayne (director) Nov 8 1927 to May 20 1977 (drowned)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Curse of Peladon (1972), The Three Doctors (1972-73), The Monster of Peladon (1974), The Hand of Fear (1976)
Career highlights
Lennie also directed series such as Mickey Dunne (1967), Vendetta (1968), The First Lady (1969), The Borderers (1970), The Troubleshooters (1969-70), Brett (1971), Doomwatch (1971-72), Warship (1973), The Brothers (1974-75) and The Onedin Line (1976-77). He also choreographed for shows such as Rush Hour (1958), Cribbins (1965) and Call It What You Like (1965), and was credited as a dancer performing on 1960's Dial for Music.
Facts
Australian Lennie, who was married to actress Frances Pidgeon (who appeared in The Hand of Fear), was tragically drowned in a boating accident soon after finishing The Hand of Fear, when a dinghy he was using on the English Channel with two other yachtsmen (one of whom was actor Ian McCulloch, who was in Warriors of the Deep (1984)) was capsized by a freak wave, and the search-and-rescue team were unable to find him. It is his whistling you can hear in Sarah Jane actress Elisabeth Sladen's final scene in The Hand of Fear, as Sladen couldn't whistle.

Barry Letts (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

The Time Monster

Galleia, played by the
beautiful Ingrid Pitt

Six episodes (Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four, Episode Five, Episode Six)
First broadcast May 5 to Jun 24 1972
Average audience for serial: 7.38m

An episode by episode review of this story can be read 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 Click here for Katy Manning's entry on Terror of the Autons

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 Click here for Richard Franklin's entry on Terror of the Autons

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) Click here for Roger Delgado's entry on Terror of the Autons

GUEST CAST

Barry Ashton (Proctor) 1935 to May 1978
Doctor Who credits
Played: Scientist Franz Schultz in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Proctor in The Time Monster (1972)
Played: Kemp in Frontier in Space (1973)
Career highlights
Other credits include Out of the Unknown (1965), Menace (1970), Trial (1971) and Thriller (1973).

Neville Barber (Dr Cook) Mar 1 1931 to Mar 21 2002
Career highlights
Neville made his debut in Queen's Champion (1958), followed by The Long Way Home (1960), Coronation Street (1961/64), The Flying Swan (1965), The New Forest Rustlers (1966), Danger Island (1967), Mystery Hall (1967), The Yes Girls (1971), Scoop (1972), The Onedin Line (1972), The Edwardians (1972), The Tomorrow People (1973), The Sex Thief (1974), Happy Ever After (1976), Anna Karenina (1977), Secret Army (1977), Adventures of a Plumber's Mate (1978), K9 & Company (1981), Grange Hill (1980-81), Nanny (1981), Number 10 (1983), Paradise Postponed (1986) and Cardiac Arrest (1994).

Ingrid Bower (Face of Kronos)
Career highlights
Ingrid's other work includes The Shuttered Room (1967), Going Dutch (1973), Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977), King of Kensington (1978), The Pink Chiquitas (1987), Concrete Angel (1987) and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993).

Marc Boyle (Kronos) Sep 5 1945 to Jul 21 1999 (brain aneurysm)
Doctor Who credits
Stunts/ fight arranger: Terror of the Autons (1971, uncredited), The Time Warrior (1973-74)
Played: Prisoner in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: UNIT motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: Kronos in The Time Monster (1972)
Played: Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (1974, uncredited)
Career highlights
Prolific stuntman Marc worked on countless productions, including You Only Live Twice (1967), The Gold Robbers (1969), The Insomniac (1971), Pardon My Genie (1973), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973/75), Steptoe and Son (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), The New Avengers (1976-77), Superman (1978), Warlords of Atlantis (1978), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Long Good Friday (1980), Outland (1981), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Return of the Jedi (1983), Octopussy (1983), Superman III (1983), Never Say Never Again (1983), The Company of Wolves (1984), Death Wish 3 (1985), Dempsey and Makepeace (1986), CATS Eyes (1986-87), The Living Daylights (1987), Batman (1989), Licence to Kill (1989), The Krays (1990), Chimera (1991), Alien 3 (1992), Heartbeat (1993), Judge Dredd (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Dangerfield (1995/98), The Avengers (1998) and The Beach (2000).

Dave Carter (Roundhead officer) Click here for Dave Carter's entry on Doctor Who and the Silurians

Ian Collier (Stuart Hyde) Jan 25 1943 to Oct 1 2008
Doctor Who credits
Played: Stuart Hyde in The Time Monster (1974)
Played: Omega in Arc of Infinity (1983)
Career highlights
Debuting in Hamlet (1969), Ian's further work includes The Pathfinders (1973), Rentaghost (1976), The Sweeney (1978), Cribb (1980), Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981), Hi-De-Hi! (1982), A Fine Romance (1983), Are You Being Served? (1985), EastEnders (1985), Howards' Way (1986), CATS Eyes (1987), Colin's Sandwich (1988), Heritage Africa (1989), House of Cards (1990), Keeping Up Appearances (1992) and Jeeves and Wooster (1993).
Facts
Ian also did a lot of voice work, and was involved in a number of audio products related to The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03).

George Cormack (Dalios) Aug 8 1907 to May 27 1983
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dalios in The Time Monster (1972)
Played: K'anpo in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
Scotsman George's earliest credit was in Count Albany (1938), followed by The Smallest Show on Earth (1957), Robbery Under Arms (1957), A Matter of WHO (1961), The Massingham Affair (1964), The Walrus and the Carpenter (1965), The Borderers (1970), Paul Temple (1971), Adam Smith (1972), Demons of the Mind (1972), Victorian Scandals (1976), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978), The Feathered Serpent (1976-78) and Penmarric (1979).

Keith Dalton (Neophite) Born Aug 20 1955
Keith's only other known work was on The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1973). He later became the managing director of an events management company.

Donald Eccles (Krasis) Apr 26 1908 to Feb 2 1986 (road accident)
Career highlights
Debuted in Geneva (1939), then Jenny Villiers (1948), Buoyant Billions (1949), Back to Methuselah (1952), Boyd QC (1960), A Taste of Honey (1960), The Arthur Askey Show (1961), Oliver Twist (1962), A Play in the Making (1962), The Avengers (1963), Silas Marner (1964), Knock on Any Door (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), The Caesars (1968), Doomwatch (1970), The Adventurer (1972), Emma (1972), The Wicker Man (1973), The Nine Tailors (1974), Killers (1976), I, Claudius (1976), Supernatural (1977), Rumpole of the Bailey (1979), Quatermass IV (1979), Brideshead Revisited (1981), The Dresser (1983), Minder (1984), A Private Function (1984), Oliver Twist (1985), Silas Marner (1985), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), The Return of the Antelope (1986), Paradise Postponed (1986) and Blood Royal: William the Conqueror (1990). He also occasionally played Wilkins the butler in Never the Twain (1983/86).
Facts
Donald first appeared on stage in New York in 1930 and became well known at the Malvern Festival of the Arts and for working for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Melville Jones (Guard)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in The Time Monster (1972)
Played: Cyberman in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Career highlights
Melville's other work includes Warship (1977), Fathers and Families (1977) and Phoelix (1980).
Facts
Melville gave up acting to become a writer, including plays for BBC Radio, and the first ever dramatisation of an Inspector Morse novel (in 1985), years before the ITV series (it starred Andrew Burt (from Doctor Who story Terminus) as Morse). In the late 1990s Melville began lecturing in creative writing at Cornwall College.

George Lee (Farm worker)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Corporal Forbes in Spearhead from Space (1970)
Played: Farm worker in The Time Monster (1972)
Career highlights
Debuted in Detective (1964), then Night Train to Surbiton (1965), Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966), Special Branch (1969), Scum (1977), Fawlty Towers (1975/79), Blake's 7 (1981), Chiefs (1983) and The Fear (1988).

Simon Legree (UNIT sergeant)
Simon's only other credit was The Love Box (1972).

Wanda Moore (Dr Ruth Ingram) Born Oct 20 1942
Career highlights
Wanda's earliest credit is a 1965 edition of R3, followed by roles in The Jazz Age (1968), Kate (1970-71), Freewheelers (1972), Van der Valk (1973), Lillie (1978), Emmerdale Farm (1981), Triangle (1981), Howards' Way (1985) and The Father Dowling Mysteries (1990).

Facts

Wanda (latterly Wanda Grenville Hill) founded the Alderney Stud and is now a qualified dressage judge and trainer.

Derek Murcott (Crito) Apr 9 1925 to Jun 10 2008
Career highlights
Derek's career began with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1958), followed by Sin You Sinners (1963), Cluff (1965), Please Sir! (1970), The Upper Crusts (1973), The Tomorrow People (1974), McCloud (1977), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), Sextette (1978), Charlie's Angels (1978), BJ and the Bear (1979), Simon & Simon (1984) and Eat and Run (1987).
Facts
In 1978 Derek married Hollywood model and bit-part player Edna Ryan.

Aidan Murphy (Hippias)
Career highlights
His only other credits are The Sinners (1970), Stephen D (1972), According to the Rules (1974) and Inside Story (1986).

Susan Penhaligon (Lakis) Born Jul 3 1949
Career highlights
Born in the Philippines, Susan made her screen debut in Say Hello to Yesterday (1971), then Private Road (1971), Upstairs, Downstairs (1971), The Visitors (1972), No Sex Please, We're British (1973), The Land That Time Forgot (1975), House of Mortal Sin (1976), Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976), The Uncanny (1977), Return of the Saint (1978), A Kind of Loving (1982), A Fine Romance (1981-84, as Helen Barker), Remington Steele (1984), Bergerac (1989), Teenage Health Freak (1993), A Touch of Frost (2002), Emmerdale (2006), Top Dog (2014), Doctors (2001/10/12/16) and An Unkind Word (2017).
Facts
Susan's first husband was actor Nicholas Loukes; her second was actor and writer David Munro (brother of Tim Munro, who appeared in Doctor Who in 1979 and 1983); her third was actor Duncan Preston (they divorced in 1992 but have since reunited). Her brother is TV producer Sean Miller, while her cousin was David Penhaligon, MP for Truro between 1974-86. In 1968 Susan was a roommate of Peter Hammill, lead singer of prog-rock band Van der Graaf Generator, and she is referenced in their 1970 song Refugees (as Susie). Susan auditioned for the role of the Doctor's companion Sarah Jane Smith in 1973, as well as Octopussy in 1983. In 2008 she wrote her first novel, The Love of an Angel, and has also spoken in the past of her bad experience with Botox, which she says left her looking like she was "from the Planet of the Apes". Here she is on Twitter.

Ingrid Pitt (Galleia) Nov 21 1937 to Nov 23 2010 (heart failure)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Galleia in The Time Monster (1974)
Played: Solow in Warriors of the Deep (1984)
Career highlights
Polish born Ingrid first appeared in The Saint (1963), then Doctor Zhivago (1965), Sound of Horror (1966), Ironside (1967), Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Vampire Lovers (1970), Countess Dracula (1971), The House That Dripped Blood (1971), Jason King (1972), The Wicker Man (1973), Thriller (1975), Artemis 81 (1981), Who Dares Wins (1982), Smiley's People (1982), Underworld (1985), Bulman (1987), Hanna's War (1988), The Asylum (2000), Urban Gothic (2000), Minotaur (2006) and Sea of Dust (2008). Ingrid also wrote several books, including The Ingrid Pitt Bedside Companion for Vampire Lovers (1998), and also wrote regularly for genre magazines and her own website.
Facts
Before getting into acting Ingrid was a well known figure on the East Berlin stage as part of the Berliner Ensemble in the early 1960s, after living in a Nazi concentration camp for three years. She became well known for her seductive roles in various Hammer horror films in the 1970s. Ingrid also narrated on the 1998 Cradle of Filth album Cruelty and the Beast, though her narration was done in character as Elizabeth Bathory, the countess allegedly involved in witchcraft and murder. Ingrid's writing penchant even stretched to co-writing (with her husband Tony Rudlin) a script for Doctor Who's 22nd season entitled The Macro Men, which was never developed but which would have seen the Doctor and Peri involved in events surrounding the mysterious Philadelphia Experiment. Ingrid collapsed while on her way to a birthday dinner organised by her fan club, and died days later. An American newspaper once asked Ingrid to write her own obituary, in which she said: "Two days before her 100th birthday, she played five sets of tennis with world champion Randy Semola and was narrowly beaten in the fifth after nine set points. That night, after attending her great granddaughter's hen party, she died in her sleep. She did not live to see the impact on humanity that her last invention, the anti-gravity Zimmer-frame, had. Her last words were: 'Where did I put my teeth?'."

Gregory Powell (Knight) Born May 13 1954
Career highlights
Prolific stuntman and horsemaster Gregory has worked on productions such as You Can't Win 'Em All (1970), Follyfoot (1971), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), Who Dares Wins (1982), Superman III (1983), Krull (1983), Sahara (1983), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Supergirl (1984), Brazil (1985), Super Gran (1985), Robin of Sherwood (1986), Willow (1988), Nightbreed (1990), Far and Away (1992), Soldier Soldier (1994), Mission Impossible (1996), The Borrowers (1997), Lost in Space (1998), The Mummy (1999), The World is Not Enough (1999), Band of Brothers (2001), Spudmonkey (2001), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), The Da Vinci Code (2006), Children of Men (2006), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bank Job (2008), Valkyrie (2008), Tormented (2009), Skyfall (2012), World War Z (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Lost in London (2017) and The Foreigner (2017). 6ft 4in Gregory has also worked heavily on the Lord of the Rings (2001-03) and Harry Potter (2001-12) franchises (he broke his shoulder while filming a motorcycle stunt for The Deathly Hallows in 2010).
Facts
His father was renowned stuntman Nosher Powell, while his uncle Dinny and brother Gary were also stuntmen. In 2002 Gregory was nominated for an Emmy for his stunt coordination on Band of Brothers. He also co-won the 2014 World Stunt Awards Taurus Award for his work on Furious 6.

Dave Prowse (Minotaur) Jul 1 1935 to Nov 28 2020
Career highlights
David is, of course, synonymous with playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars film trilogy (1977-83), although his distinctly Cornish vocal tones were dubbed with the far richer voice of American actor James Earl Jones (the two actors have never met). Dave was also the original Green Cross Code Man who helped promote road safety in TV adverts in 1975-76, although ironically his voice was dubbed for those too! His earliest appearance was in Casino Royale (1967) and later Boy Meets Girl (1967), Hammerhead (1968), The Beverly Hillbillies (1968), Ace of Wands (1970), The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Carry On Henry (1971), Up the Chastity Belt (1971), Vampire Circus (1972), The Tomorrow People (1973), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974), Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975), The Morecambe and Wise Show (1976/80), The Kenneth Williams Show (1976), Jabberwocky (1977), The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), Crossbow (1988), William Tell (1989), Ravedactyl: Project Evolution (2003), Open Mic'rs (2006), The Kindness of Strangers (2010), Southern Troopers (2015) and Mission Backup Earth (2016).
Awards
2000: Member of the order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to charity and road safety
Facts
Dave, who was 6ft 6in tall, won the British Heavyweight Weightlifting Championships in 1962, 1963 and 1964 and represented England in the weightlifting category at the 1962 Commonwealth Games. He helped train Christopher Reeve for his role as Superman in 1978. In 2008, David revealed he had been in dispute with Star Wars creator George Lucas for years after he allegedly leaked the fact that Darth Vader dies in Return of the Jedi (sorry if that's a spoiler, readers!) and as a result Vader's true appearance was played by Sebastian Shaw in that film, not Prowse. In 2010, Lucas banned Prowse from appearing at all official Star Wars conventions, saying the actor had burnt too many bridges. David had suffered from arthritis since 1948, and was diagnosed with, but beat, prostate cancer in 2009. In 2001, both of his arms became paralysed as a result of an allergy to anti-inflammatory drugs, and extensive surgery in his later years reduced both his mobility and his impressive height.

Michael Walker (Miseus)
Doctor Who credits
Played: First radar operator in The Claws of Axos (1971)
Played: Miseus in The Time Monster (1972)
Career highlights
Starting out as a child actor, Michael's other credits include Bob's Your Uncle (1949), Chu Chin Chow On Ice (1953), Family Portrait  (1955), Dead Giveaway (1957), Crossroads (1973), Target (1977), The Onedin Line (1979), Terry and June (1981), Cold Warrior (1984), Howards' Way (1988), Coronation Street (1997) and Jericho (2000).

Terry Walsh (Window cleaner) May 5 1939 to Apr 21 2002 (cancer) Click here for Terry Walsh's entry on Terror of the Autons

John Wyse (Dr Percival) Nov 24 1904 to Mar 11 1989
Career highlights
Other credits include Twelfth Night (1937), The Importance of Being Earnest (1938), Cyrano de Bergerac (1938), Puck of Pook's Hill (1951), Danger Man (1961), Blackmail (1966), The Informer (1967), Justice (1972) and Clouds of Witness (1972).
Facts
John's wife Jonquil Anthony was a scriptwriter for, among other things, BBC Radio's Mrs Dale's Diary (1948-69) and TV's Sixpenny Corner (1955-56), while John also directed for the stage during the 1940s and 50s.

* For the tragic fate of Darren Plant (1971-72), the uncredited child who played baby Benton, see the comments below.

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Robert Sloman (writer) Jul 18 1926 to Oct 24 2005
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Daemons (1971, under the pseudonym Guy Leopold), The Time Monster (1972), The Green Death (1973), Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
Starting out as an actor, Robert subsequently worked for the Sunday Times's circulation department, eventually becoming distribution manager. Robert also co-wrote the play The Tinker, on which the 1962 film The Wild and the Willing, starring (War Doctor) John Hurt and Ian McShane, was based.
Facts
He was a close friend of Doctor Who producer Barry Letts. One Sloman script which never saw the light of day was called The Daleks in London, intended to close Season 9 in 1972, but which was dropped for being too similar to The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964).

Barry Letts (writer (uncredited) and producer) Mar 26 1925 to Oct 9 2009 (cancer) Click here for Barry Letts's entry on The Enemy of the World

Paul Bernard (director) Jun 20 1929 to Sep 25 1997
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Day of the Daleks (1972), The Time Monster (1972), Frontier in Space (1973)
Career highlights
Paul's other direction work includes Emergency Ward 10 (1957), Z Cars (1964-65), Cluff (1964), Virgin of the Secret Service (1968, on which he was also supervising producer), Honey Lane (1969), Happy Ever After (1970), This Is Tom Jones (1970), The Tomorrow People (1973), Under the Same Sun (1979-80) and Coronation Street (22 episodes between 1971-87), although he had other talents too, including production design on ITV Television Playhouse (1958-59), Our House (1960), Ghost Squad (1961), Hugh and I (1962), The Avengers (1961-63), ITV Play of the Week (1960-65) and Virgin Witch (1972).
Facts
In later life, Paul became a successful artist. In a 1989 interview, Paul said: "Pertwee was a bit of a prima donna. He'd had a very successful career in music hall and, quite rightly, had a very high opinion of himself."

Terrance Dicks (script editor) Apr 14 1935 to Aug 29 2019 Click here for Terrance Dicks's entry on The Invasion