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| A Sea Devil (Pat Gorman) and the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) at the weigh-in before their boxing match |
First broadcast Feb 26 to Apr 1 1972
Average audience for serial: 8.17m
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
GUEST CAST
Norman Atkyns (Rear Admiral) Dec 13 1905 to Aug 7 1980
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guardian in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Rear Admiral in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Australian Norman debuted (uncredited) in Emil and the Detectives (1935), followed by roles in Anthony and Anna (1947), Playbox (1959), Idol on Parade (1959), followed by roles in Dr Finlay's Casebook (1965), Resurrection (1968), For the Love of Ada (1972), Follyfoot (1973), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973), The Good Life (1975), Doctor on the Go (1977) and A Tale of Two Cities (1980).
Facts
He was a close friend of Doctor Who director Michael Briant.
Colin Bell (CPO Summers)
Doctor Who credits
Played: CPO Summers in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Private Bryson in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Career highlights
Colin's further work includes Quick Before They Catch Us (1966), The Misfit (1970), Michael Regan (1971), The Liver Birds (1972), Follyfoot (1973), Beasts (1976) and Come the Revolution (1977).
Facts
After leaving the acting profession, Colin became a painter and decorator. In April 1995, Doctor Who Magazine reported that Colin had passed away, when in actual fact he was not (it was another Colin Bell!).
Martin Boddey (Walker) Apr 16 1907 to Oct 24 1975
Career highlights
Martin's prolific career kicked off with A Song for Tomorrow (1948), followed by Cairo Road (1950), Seven Days to Noon (1950), Laughter in Paradise (1951), Appointment with Venus (1951), Doctor in the House (1954), Svengali (1954), Fabian of the Yard (1955), Escape in the Sun (1956), You Can't Escape (1956), Cat Girl (1957), Carry On sergeant (1958), Carry On Nurse (1959), Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959), The Army Game (1959), Sands of the Desert (1960), Danger Man (1961), Girl in the Headlines (1963), Fire Crackers (1965), The Champions (1968), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1968-70, as Mr Dougal), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Psychomania (1973) and The Naked Civil Servant (1975).
Facts
Martin was a founder of the Lord's Taverners cricket charity in 1950, and served as its President twice - in 1953 and 1971.
John Caesar (CPO Myers) Jan 23 1926 to Jun 11 2000
Doctor Who credits
Played: Second man in market in The Romans (1965)
Played: Egyptian warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66, uncredited)
Played: Monoid Four in The Ark (1966)
Played: Cowboy in The Gunfighters (1966, uncredited)
Played: Guard in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Pirate guard in The Space Pirates (1969, uncredited)
Played: CPO Myers in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: R/T soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Career highlights
John's first credit was in The Escape of RD7 (1961), then Maigret (1963), Bat Out of Hell (1966), No Hiding Place (1967), War and Peace (1972), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Janet and Company (1982) and The Bill (1989).
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
Peter Forbes-Robertson (Chief Sea Devil) Jan 16 1927 to Dec 7 1995
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: Time Lord in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Chief Sea Devil in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Peter's first credit is in The Case of Charles Peace (1949) and over the years he appeared in Let's Have a Murder (1950), Those People Next Door (1953), Girl in the Headlines (1963), Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966), Island of Terror (1966), The Persuaders! (1971), Scream... and Die! (1974), Sex Play (1974), Enemy at the Door (1980), The Tripods (1985), The Love Boat (1986) and Foreign Body (1986).
Facts
Little-known fact: Peter provided the spoken word parts on the 1974 ELO album Eldorado.
Hugh Futcher (Hickman) Born Oct 29 1937
Career highlights
Debuting in Death of a Ghost (1960), Hugh has popped up in The Arthur Askey Show (1961), The Saint (1962), The Protectors (1964), Rattle of a Simple Man (1964), Repulsion (1965), The Pleasure Girls (1965), Orlando (1966-68, as Hedgehog), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968), Special Branch (1970), Jason King (1972), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), The Sweeney (1975), Just Liz (1980), Nanny (1983), Minder (1984), Selling Hitler (1991), The Pig's Family (1997), 102 Dalmatians (2000), The Robinsons (2005), Casualty (2007), M.I High (2011) and The Crown (2017), as well as having minor roles in seven Carry On films (1964-75).
Facts
Hugh was considered for the role of the Seventh Doctor in 1987. In 2009 he appeared in an advertisement for Specsavers where he mistakenly goes on a rollercoaster ("What sort of cheese was that?").
Pat Gorman (Sea Devil) May 10 1933 to Oct 9 2018 Click here for Pat Gorman's entry on The Invasion
David Griffin (Lt Commander Mitchell) Born Jul 19 1943
Career highlights
David debuted in A French Mistress (1960), and subsequently took roles in The Fifth Form at St Dominic's (1961), Outbreak of Murder (1962), Quick Before They Catch Us (1966), The Blood Beast Terror (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), Trog (1970), Out of the Unknown (1971), Freewheelers (1973), Nicholas Nickleby (1977), Ripping Yarns (1977/79), Shoestring (1979), Maybury (1981), Privates on Parade (1983), 'Allo 'Allo (1989), Till We Meet Again (1989), Killing Me Softly (1995) and Julian Fellowes Investigates (2005). David will be best recognised as holiday camp manager Clive Dempster in the sitcom Hi-De-Hi! (1984-88) and latterly as Hyacinth Bucket's neighbour Emmet Hawksworth in sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1991-95).
Brian Justice (Castle guard Wilson)
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).
Eric Mason (CPO Smedley) Died Jun 7 2010
Doctor Who credits
Played: Senior prison officer Green in The Mind of Evil (1971)
Played: CPO Smedley in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Eric's first credit was in They Met in the Dark (1943), and other work includes Dual Alibi (1948), Suspense (1963), The Baron (1967), The Limbo Line (1968), Arthur of the Britons (1973), The Hanged Man (1975), Accident (1978), Dick Turpin (1979), Fox (1980), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), Perfect Scoundrels (1990), London's Burning (1992), Pie in the Sky (1997), Grafters (1998), Shiner (2000), Sea of Souls (2004), The Calcium Kid (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007).
Stanley McGeagh (Castle guard Drew) Born Aug 30 1936
Doctor Who credits
Played: Allen in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Castle guard Drew in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Stanley's other credits include Haunted (1967), Dad's Army (1969), Burke and Hare (1972), The Land That Time Forgot (1975), Law and Order (1978), Carry On Emmannuelle (1978), Blood Money (1981), Gandhi (1982), Big Deal (1986), Neighbours (1993), Worst Best Friends (2002) and You and Your Stupid Mate (2005).
Facts
In 1970, Stanley married fellow actor Deborah Brayshaw, who appeared in Day of the Daleks (1972). They later divorced. Stanley now lives in Victoria, Australia.
Clive Morton (Trenchard) Mar 16 1904 to Sep 24 1975 (cancer)
Career highlights
Clive's earliest work was The Last Coupon (1932), followed by The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936), Dead Men Tell No Tales (1939), Jassy (1947), Scott of the Antarctic (1948), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Blue Lamp (1950), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Richard III (1955), Lucky Jim (1957), The Navy Lark (1959), The Last Chronicle of Barset (1959), Shake Hands with the Devil (1959), The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960), A Matter of WHO (1961), The Monsters (1962), The Alphabet Murders (1965), The Corridor People (1966), Our Man at St Mark's (1965-66, as the Bishop), Stranger in the House (1967), A Man of Our Times (1968), Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969), Goodbye, Mr Chips (1969), Wives and Daughters (1971), Zeppelin (1971), Woodstock (1973), Whodunnit? (1973), 11 Harrowhouse (1974), Sykes (1974), 11 Harrowhouse (1974), Rogue's Rock (1974) and Edward the Seventh (1975).
Facts
Clive was married twice: first to actress Joan Harben, who often appeared on the BBC Radio series It's That Man Again. Joan's brother was Philip Harben, the first British TV chef, and their parents were actors Mary Jerrold (Arsenic and Old Lace) and Hubert Harben (Scroogie). Clive's second wife was actress Fanny Rowe, who played Emily Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga and Nancy Penrose in sitcom Fresh Fields. Clive worked for the East India Dock Company before deciding to tread the boards. After weeks of being pointedly ignored by Sir John Gielgud during a stage tour, Clive plucked up the courage to knock on his dressing room door. Gielgud opened it, saying: "Thank God it's you! For one dreadful moment I thought it was going to be that ghastly bore Clive Morton."
Declan Mulholland (Clark) Dec 6 1932 to Jun 29 1999 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Clark in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Till in The Androids of Tara (1978)
Career highlights
Belfast-born Declan started acting in HMS Defiant (1962), and later had credits in As You Like It (1963), The Three Musketeers (1966), The Avengers (1967), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Great Catherine (1968), Guns in the Heather (1969), Naughty! (1971), The Ruling Class (1972), Theatre of Blood (1973), The Land That Time Forgot (1975), A Roof Over My Head (1977), The Losers (1978), Quatermass (1979), Hawk the Slayer (1980), Time Bandits (1981), Up the Elephant and Round the Castle (1985), Rockcliffe's Babies (1987), The Brittas Empire (1991), Lovejoy (1993), Father Ted (1996) and The Pig's Family (1997).
Facts
Declan's greatest claim to fame was a role that nobody actually saw, playing the original humanoid Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars (1977). The scene was cut from the original film, and when it was reinstated in the 1997 Special Edition, a CGI Jabba (in his Return of the Jedi form) was laid on top of the footage Declan had filmed with Harrison Ford. The scene as shot in 1977 can be seen in the special features of the DVD, but here's a comparison. After Declan died, as a legacy to encourage a new generation of actors, he left the residuals that come in from his work to help students financially while they train. The money goes to the Declan Mulholland Trust, which makes scholarships available to deserving trainees. Declan was found dead on a train, and his body was identified by actor Michael Sheard (another Doctor Who luminary).
June Murphy (Third Officer Jane Blythe) Born 1940
Doctor Who credits
Played: Maggie Harris in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Jane Blythe in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
June's other roles include Who Killed Menna Lorraine? (1960), then Z Cars (1962), Compact (1962), The Avengers (1962), Ricochet (1963), Londoners (1965) and Cock, Hen and Courting Pit (1966).
Facts
BBC Enterprises was for many years unable to locate/ contact June to pay her fees resulting from the VHS release of The Sea Devils in 1995, but it was discovered in 2007 that she changed her name to Laura Langley. She met her future husband - actor Brian Cullingford - on the set of Fury from the Deep.
Edwin Richfield (Captain Hart) Sep 11 1921 to Aug 2 1990 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Captain Hart in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Mestor in The Twin Dilemma (1984)
Career highlights
Prolific Edwin debuted in 1949's The Jack of Diamonds and had roles in The Bosun's Mate (1953), The Blue Parrot (1953), Radio Cab Murder (1954), The Brain Machine (1955), The Blue Peter (1955), The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956), X: The Unknown (1956), Quatermass II (1957), Invisible Man (1959), International Detective (1960), The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960), The Protectors (1964), R3 (1964-65), The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), six episodes of The Avengers (1961-68), Christ Recrucified (1969), The Owl Service (1969), Trial (1971), For the Love of Ada (1971), Crossroads (1975), Crown Court (1974/76), Rooms (1977), Bergerac (1984), Tripper's Day (1984), All Creatures Great and Small (1988) and Tumbledown (1988). Edwin also had regular roles in several series, including Armando in The Buccaneers (1956-57), Inspector Mornay in Interpol Calling (1959-60), Steve Gardiner in The Odd Man (1962-63) and Frank Chapman in Harriet's Back in Town (1972-73). He also wrote the heist thriller Calculated Risk in 1963 and various episodes of Interpol Calling (1959/60), Harriet's Back in Town (1973) and Marked Personal (1973).
Facts
As well as acting, Edwin and his wife, the actress Jan Holden, also ran a business manufacturing portable cabins. Edwin was the only actor (other than Patrick Macnee) to appear in all six series of The Avengers (albeit as different characters).
Rex Rowland (A/B Girton) 1920 to 2004
Career highlights
Other work includes The Men from Room 13 (1959), No Hiding Place (1963), The Troubleshooters (1967) and Les Miserables (1967).
Royston Tickner (Robbins) Sep 8 1922 to Jul 7 1997
Doctor Who credits
Played: Steinberger P Green in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Robbins in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Royston's long career began in an Armchair Mystery Theatre (1960) and included roles in The Avengers (1963), Mrs Thursday (1967), ITV Playhouse (1968), Goodbye, Mr Chips (1969), Timeslip (1970), 10 episodes of Z Cars (1962-70), Emmerdale Farm (1973), Porridge (1974), Treasure Island (1977), Danger UXB (1979), Nanny (1981), Just Good Friends (1983-84) and One by One (1985).
Facts
Royston became an actor in the early 1940s on the stage, also working as a stage manager. Between 1947-58, he left acting to work as a lighthouse keeper, fireman, publican and miner.
Brian Vaughan (Lt Commander Watts) Nov 19 1930 to Apr 8 1990
Career highlights
Brian debuted in Endless Adventures (1959), followed by roles in Scotland Yard (1960), Z Cars (1962), The Avengers (1963), Smuggler's Bay (1964), Les Miserables (1967), The Charlie Drake Show (1968), Brett (1971), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1974), Dial M for Murder (1974), World's End (1981) and Death is Part of the Process (1986).
Terry Walsh (Castle guard Barclay) May 5 1939 to Apr 21 2002 (cancer) Click here for Terry Walsh's entry on Terror of the Autons
Malcolm Hulke (writer) Nov 21 1924 to Jul 6 1979 Click here for Malcolm Hulke's entry on The Faceless Ones
Michael Briant (director) Born Feb 14 1942 Click here for Michael Briant's entry on Colony in Space
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
Martin Boddey (Walker) Apr 16 1907 to Oct 24 1975
Career highlights
Martin's prolific career kicked off with A Song for Tomorrow (1948), followed by Cairo Road (1950), Seven Days to Noon (1950), Laughter in Paradise (1951), Appointment with Venus (1951), Doctor in the House (1954), Svengali (1954), Fabian of the Yard (1955), Escape in the Sun (1956), You Can't Escape (1956), Cat Girl (1957), Carry On sergeant (1958), Carry On Nurse (1959), Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959), The Army Game (1959), Sands of the Desert (1960), Danger Man (1961), Girl in the Headlines (1963), Fire Crackers (1965), The Champions (1968), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1968-70, as Mr Dougal), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Psychomania (1973) and The Naked Civil Servant (1975).
Facts
Martin was a founder of the Lord's Taverners cricket charity in 1950, and served as its President twice - in 1953 and 1971.
John Caesar (CPO Myers) Jan 23 1926 to Jun 11 2000
Doctor Who credits
Played: Second man in market in The Romans (1965)
Played: Egyptian warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66, uncredited)
Played: Monoid Four in The Ark (1966)
Played: Cowboy in The Gunfighters (1966, uncredited)
Played: Guard in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Pirate guard in The Space Pirates (1969, uncredited)
Played: CPO Myers in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: R/T soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Career highlights
John's first credit was in The Escape of RD7 (1961), then Maigret (1963), Bat Out of Hell (1966), No Hiding Place (1967), War and Peace (1972), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Janet and Company (1982) and The Bill (1989).
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
Peter Forbes-Robertson (Chief Sea Devil) Jan 16 1927 to Dec 7 1995
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: Time Lord in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Chief Sea Devil in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Peter's first credit is in The Case of Charles Peace (1949) and over the years he appeared in Let's Have a Murder (1950), Those People Next Door (1953), Girl in the Headlines (1963), Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966), Island of Terror (1966), The Persuaders! (1971), Scream... and Die! (1974), Sex Play (1974), Enemy at the Door (1980), The Tripods (1985), The Love Boat (1986) and Foreign Body (1986).
Facts
Little-known fact: Peter provided the spoken word parts on the 1974 ELO album Eldorado.
Hugh Futcher (Hickman) Born Oct 29 1937
Career highlights
Debuting in Death of a Ghost (1960), Hugh has popped up in The Arthur Askey Show (1961), The Saint (1962), The Protectors (1964), Rattle of a Simple Man (1964), Repulsion (1965), The Pleasure Girls (1965), Orlando (1966-68, as Hedgehog), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968), Special Branch (1970), Jason King (1972), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), The Sweeney (1975), Just Liz (1980), Nanny (1983), Minder (1984), Selling Hitler (1991), The Pig's Family (1997), 102 Dalmatians (2000), The Robinsons (2005), Casualty (2007), M.I High (2011) and The Crown (2017), as well as having minor roles in seven Carry On films (1964-75).
Facts
Hugh was considered for the role of the Seventh Doctor in 1987. In 2009 he appeared in an advertisement for Specsavers where he mistakenly goes on a rollercoaster ("What sort of cheese was that?").
Pat Gorman (Sea Devil) May 10 1933 to Oct 9 2018 Click here for Pat Gorman's entry on The Invasion
David Griffin (Lt Commander Mitchell) Born Jul 19 1943
Career highlights
David debuted in A French Mistress (1960), and subsequently took roles in The Fifth Form at St Dominic's (1961), Outbreak of Murder (1962), Quick Before They Catch Us (1966), The Blood Beast Terror (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), Trog (1970), Out of the Unknown (1971), Freewheelers (1973), Nicholas Nickleby (1977), Ripping Yarns (1977/79), Shoestring (1979), Maybury (1981), Privates on Parade (1983), 'Allo 'Allo (1989), Till We Meet Again (1989), Killing Me Softly (1995) and Julian Fellowes Investigates (2005). David will be best recognised as holiday camp manager Clive Dempster in the sitcom Hi-De-Hi! (1984-88) and latterly as Hyacinth Bucket's neighbour Emmet Hawksworth in sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1991-95).
Brian Justice (Castle guard Wilson)
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).
Eric Mason (CPO Smedley) Died Jun 7 2010
Doctor Who credits
Played: Senior prison officer Green in The Mind of Evil (1971)
Played: CPO Smedley in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Eric's first credit was in They Met in the Dark (1943), and other work includes Dual Alibi (1948), Suspense (1963), The Baron (1967), The Limbo Line (1968), Arthur of the Britons (1973), The Hanged Man (1975), Accident (1978), Dick Turpin (1979), Fox (1980), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), Perfect Scoundrels (1990), London's Burning (1992), Pie in the Sky (1997), Grafters (1998), Shiner (2000), Sea of Souls (2004), The Calcium Kid (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007).
Stanley McGeagh (Castle guard Drew) Born Aug 30 1936
Doctor Who credits
Played: Allen in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Castle guard Drew in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Stanley's other credits include Haunted (1967), Dad's Army (1969), Burke and Hare (1972), The Land That Time Forgot (1975), Law and Order (1978), Carry On Emmannuelle (1978), Blood Money (1981), Gandhi (1982), Big Deal (1986), Neighbours (1993), Worst Best Friends (2002) and You and Your Stupid Mate (2005).
Facts
In 1970, Stanley married fellow actor Deborah Brayshaw, who appeared in Day of the Daleks (1972). They later divorced. Stanley now lives in Victoria, Australia.
Clive Morton (Trenchard) Mar 16 1904 to Sep 24 1975 (cancer)
Career highlights
Clive's earliest work was The Last Coupon (1932), followed by The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936), Dead Men Tell No Tales (1939), Jassy (1947), Scott of the Antarctic (1948), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Blue Lamp (1950), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Richard III (1955), Lucky Jim (1957), The Navy Lark (1959), The Last Chronicle of Barset (1959), Shake Hands with the Devil (1959), The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960), A Matter of WHO (1961), The Monsters (1962), The Alphabet Murders (1965), The Corridor People (1966), Our Man at St Mark's (1965-66, as the Bishop), Stranger in the House (1967), A Man of Our Times (1968), Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969), Goodbye, Mr Chips (1969), Wives and Daughters (1971), Zeppelin (1971), Woodstock (1973), Whodunnit? (1973), 11 Harrowhouse (1974), Sykes (1974), 11 Harrowhouse (1974), Rogue's Rock (1974) and Edward the Seventh (1975).
Facts
Clive was married twice: first to actress Joan Harben, who often appeared on the BBC Radio series It's That Man Again. Joan's brother was Philip Harben, the first British TV chef, and their parents were actors Mary Jerrold (Arsenic and Old Lace) and Hubert Harben (Scroogie). Clive's second wife was actress Fanny Rowe, who played Emily Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga and Nancy Penrose in sitcom Fresh Fields. Clive worked for the East India Dock Company before deciding to tread the boards. After weeks of being pointedly ignored by Sir John Gielgud during a stage tour, Clive plucked up the courage to knock on his dressing room door. Gielgud opened it, saying: "Thank God it's you! For one dreadful moment I thought it was going to be that ghastly bore Clive Morton."
Declan Mulholland (Clark) Dec 6 1932 to Jun 29 1999 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Clark in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Till in The Androids of Tara (1978)
Career highlights
Belfast-born Declan started acting in HMS Defiant (1962), and later had credits in As You Like It (1963), The Three Musketeers (1966), The Avengers (1967), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Great Catherine (1968), Guns in the Heather (1969), Naughty! (1971), The Ruling Class (1972), Theatre of Blood (1973), The Land That Time Forgot (1975), A Roof Over My Head (1977), The Losers (1978), Quatermass (1979), Hawk the Slayer (1980), Time Bandits (1981), Up the Elephant and Round the Castle (1985), Rockcliffe's Babies (1987), The Brittas Empire (1991), Lovejoy (1993), Father Ted (1996) and The Pig's Family (1997).
Facts
Declan's greatest claim to fame was a role that nobody actually saw, playing the original humanoid Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars (1977). The scene was cut from the original film, and when it was reinstated in the 1997 Special Edition, a CGI Jabba (in his Return of the Jedi form) was laid on top of the footage Declan had filmed with Harrison Ford. The scene as shot in 1977 can be seen in the special features of the DVD, but here's a comparison. After Declan died, as a legacy to encourage a new generation of actors, he left the residuals that come in from his work to help students financially while they train. The money goes to the Declan Mulholland Trust, which makes scholarships available to deserving trainees. Declan was found dead on a train, and his body was identified by actor Michael Sheard (another Doctor Who luminary).
June Murphy (Third Officer Jane Blythe) Born 1940
Doctor Who credits
Played: Maggie Harris in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Jane Blythe in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
June's other roles include Who Killed Menna Lorraine? (1960), then Z Cars (1962), Compact (1962), The Avengers (1962), Ricochet (1963), Londoners (1965) and Cock, Hen and Courting Pit (1966).
Facts
BBC Enterprises was for many years unable to locate/ contact June to pay her fees resulting from the VHS release of The Sea Devils in 1995, but it was discovered in 2007 that she changed her name to Laura Langley. She met her future husband - actor Brian Cullingford - on the set of Fury from the Deep.
Edwin Richfield (Captain Hart) Sep 11 1921 to Aug 2 1990 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Captain Hart in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Mestor in The Twin Dilemma (1984)
Career highlights
Prolific Edwin debuted in 1949's The Jack of Diamonds and had roles in The Bosun's Mate (1953), The Blue Parrot (1953), Radio Cab Murder (1954), The Brain Machine (1955), The Blue Peter (1955), The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956), X: The Unknown (1956), Quatermass II (1957), Invisible Man (1959), International Detective (1960), The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960), The Protectors (1964), R3 (1964-65), The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), six episodes of The Avengers (1961-68), Christ Recrucified (1969), The Owl Service (1969), Trial (1971), For the Love of Ada (1971), Crossroads (1975), Crown Court (1974/76), Rooms (1977), Bergerac (1984), Tripper's Day (1984), All Creatures Great and Small (1988) and Tumbledown (1988). Edwin also had regular roles in several series, including Armando in The Buccaneers (1956-57), Inspector Mornay in Interpol Calling (1959-60), Steve Gardiner in The Odd Man (1962-63) and Frank Chapman in Harriet's Back in Town (1972-73). He also wrote the heist thriller Calculated Risk in 1963 and various episodes of Interpol Calling (1959/60), Harriet's Back in Town (1973) and Marked Personal (1973).
Facts
As well as acting, Edwin and his wife, the actress Jan Holden, also ran a business manufacturing portable cabins. Edwin was the only actor (other than Patrick Macnee) to appear in all six series of The Avengers (albeit as different characters).
Rex Rowland (A/B Girton) 1920 to 2004
Career highlights
Other work includes The Men from Room 13 (1959), No Hiding Place (1963), The Troubleshooters (1967) and Les Miserables (1967).
Neil Seiler (Radio operator) Sep 2 1925 to Feb 14 2003
Doctor Who credits
Played: Radio operator in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Commander Stewart in Death to the Daleks (1974)
Career highlights
After taking up acting in 1948, Neil made appearances in The Villains (1964), Crown Court (1972), Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974), Marked Personal (1974) and Days of Hope (1975).
Facts
Neil was for a time married to actress Irene Inescort, most famous as Aunt Edie in Aussie soap Neighbours. Neil had to retire from acting early because of ill-health.
Donald Sumpter (Commander Ridgeway) Born Feb 13 1943
Doctor Who credits
Played: Enrico Casali in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Played: Commander Ridgeway in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Erasmus Darkening in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap (2009)
Played: Rassilon in Hell Bent (2015)
Career highlights
Prolific Donald debuted in Softly Softly (1967), then found work in Gazette (1968), Groupie Girl (1970), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Hadleigh (1973), Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), The Black Panther (1977), Antony and Cleopatra (1981), The Brack Report (1982), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), Bleak House (1985), Boon (1986), Big Deal (1985-86), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990), Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1990), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Between the Lines (1994), Our Friends in the North (1996), Cold Lazarus (1996), Bombay Blue (1997), Great Expectations (1999), The Queen's Nose (1995-2000), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), The Last Detective (2004), Dracula (2006), New Tricks (2008), Einstein and Eddington (2008), Being Human (2009-2010), Spooks (2010), Merlin (2010), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Game of Thrones (2011-12), Wallander (2012), The Mill (2013), Atlantis (2013), Quirke (2014), New Worlds (2014), Jekyll and Hyde (2015), The Knackerman (2016), Peaky Blinders (2017), 12 Monkeys (2018), Les Miserables (2018-19), Chernobyl (2019) and The Cleaner (2021).
Facts
In 1978, Donald turned down the role of Blake in sci-fi show Blake's 7. The gap of 43 years between his second and third appearances in Doctor Who makes him the record holder for biggest period of time between appearances in the programme.
Doctor Who credits
Played: Radio operator in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Commander Stewart in Death to the Daleks (1974)
Career highlights
After taking up acting in 1948, Neil made appearances in The Villains (1964), Crown Court (1972), Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974), Marked Personal (1974) and Days of Hope (1975).
Facts
Neil was for a time married to actress Irene Inescort, most famous as Aunt Edie in Aussie soap Neighbours. Neil had to retire from acting early because of ill-health.
Donald Sumpter (Commander Ridgeway) Born Feb 13 1943
Doctor Who credits
Played: Enrico Casali in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Played: Commander Ridgeway in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Erasmus Darkening in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap (2009)
Played: Rassilon in Hell Bent (2015)
Career highlights
Prolific Donald debuted in Softly Softly (1967), then found work in Gazette (1968), Groupie Girl (1970), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Hadleigh (1973), Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), The Black Panther (1977), Antony and Cleopatra (1981), The Brack Report (1982), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), Bleak House (1985), Boon (1986), Big Deal (1985-86), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990), Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1990), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Between the Lines (1994), Our Friends in the North (1996), Cold Lazarus (1996), Bombay Blue (1997), Great Expectations (1999), The Queen's Nose (1995-2000), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), The Last Detective (2004), Dracula (2006), New Tricks (2008), Einstein and Eddington (2008), Being Human (2009-2010), Spooks (2010), Merlin (2010), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Game of Thrones (2011-12), Wallander (2012), The Mill (2013), Atlantis (2013), Quirke (2014), New Worlds (2014), Jekyll and Hyde (2015), The Knackerman (2016), Peaky Blinders (2017), 12 Monkeys (2018), Les Miserables (2018-19), Chernobyl (2019) and The Cleaner (2021).
Facts
In 1978, Donald turned down the role of Blake in sci-fi show Blake's 7. The gap of 43 years between his second and third appearances in Doctor Who makes him the record holder for biggest period of time between appearances in the programme.
Royston Tickner (Robbins) Sep 8 1922 to Jul 7 1997
Doctor Who credits
Played: Steinberger P Green in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Robbins in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Royston's long career began in an Armchair Mystery Theatre (1960) and included roles in The Avengers (1963), Mrs Thursday (1967), ITV Playhouse (1968), Goodbye, Mr Chips (1969), Timeslip (1970), 10 episodes of Z Cars (1962-70), Emmerdale Farm (1973), Porridge (1974), Treasure Island (1977), Danger UXB (1979), Nanny (1981), Just Good Friends (1983-84) and One by One (1985).
Facts
Royston became an actor in the early 1940s on the stage, also working as a stage manager. Between 1947-58, he left acting to work as a lighthouse keeper, fireman, publican and miner.
Brian Vaughan (Lt Commander Watts) Nov 19 1930 to Apr 8 1990
Career highlights
Brian debuted in Endless Adventures (1959), followed by roles in Scotland Yard (1960), Z Cars (1962), The Avengers (1963), Smuggler's Bay (1964), Les Miserables (1967), The Charlie Drake Show (1968), Brett (1971), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1974), Dial M for Murder (1974), World's End (1981) and Death is Part of the Process (1986).
Alec Wallis (Ldg Telegraphist Bowman) Dec 2 1920 to Aug 12 2004
Doctor Who credits
Played: Ldg Telegraphist Bowman in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Warner in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Career highlights
Debuting in Escape (1957), Alec's other work includes The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), R3 (1965), Happy Ever After (1969), Colditz (1972), Within These Walls (1975), Dickens of London (1976), Treasure Island (1977), Cowboys (1980), Bognor (1981), RHINO: Really Here In Name Only (1983), The Bill (1985/89), First of the Summer Wine (1988), Grange Hill (1983/89), 2Point4 Children (1992) and London's Burning (1994).
Doctor Who credits
Played: Ldg Telegraphist Bowman in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Warner in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Career highlights
Debuting in Escape (1957), Alec's other work includes The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), R3 (1965), Happy Ever After (1969), Colditz (1972), Within These Walls (1975), Dickens of London (1976), Treasure Island (1977), Cowboys (1980), Bognor (1981), RHINO: Really Here In Name Only (1983), The Bill (1985/89), First of the Summer Wine (1988), Grange Hill (1983/89), 2Point4 Children (1992) and London's Burning (1994).
Christopher Wray (Ldg Seaman Lovell) Mar 8 1940 to Sep 12 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: PC Groom in The Daemons (1971)
Played: Ldg Seaman Lovell in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Other work included playing PC Anderson in Z Cars (1962-64), Ernest MacDonald in The Plane Makers (1963) and PC Ball in soap Emmerdale Farm (1972-73), as well as roles in No Hiding Place (1965), A Game of Murder (1966), The Big M (1967) and Upstairs, Downstairs (1972). Christopher - who had high hopes of becoming a magician when he left school at 17 - opened a stall on Chelsea Antiques Market in 1964 frequented by the likes of Twiggy and Dusty Springfield, and from there developed his hugely successful interior design and lighting business, based on London's King's Road.
Doctor Who credits
Played: PC Groom in The Daemons (1971)
Played: Ldg Seaman Lovell in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Other work included playing PC Anderson in Z Cars (1962-64), Ernest MacDonald in The Plane Makers (1963) and PC Ball in soap Emmerdale Farm (1972-73), as well as roles in No Hiding Place (1965), A Game of Murder (1966), The Big M (1967) and Upstairs, Downstairs (1972). Christopher - who had high hopes of becoming a magician when he left school at 17 - opened a stall on Chelsea Antiques Market in 1964 frequented by the likes of Twiggy and Dusty Springfield, and from there developed his hugely successful interior design and lighting business, based on London's King's Road.
CREW
Malcolm Hulke (writer) Nov 21 1924 to Jul 6 1979 Click here for Malcolm Hulke's entry on The Faceless Ones
Michael Briant (director) Born Feb 14 1942 Click here for Michael Briant's entry on Colony in Space
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
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