Genesis of the Daleks

Did he have the right...?

Six episodes (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six)
First broadcast Mar 8 to Apr 12 1975
Average audience for serial: 9.57m

REGULAR CAST

Tom Baker (The Doctor) Born Jan 20 1934 Click here for Tom Baker's entry on Robot

Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) Feb 1 1946 to Apr 19 2011 (pancreatic cancer) Click here for Elisabeth Sladen's entry on The Time Warrior

Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan) Oct 28 1944 to Oct 28 1986 (diabetes-related heart attack) Click here for Ian Marter's entry on Carnival of Monsters

GUEST CAST

Keith Ashley (Dalek operator) Died 2007
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in The Savages (1966, uncredited), Planet of the Spiders (1974, uncredited)
Played: Firing squad member in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Villager in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Dalek operator in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Zygon in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Played: Sir Colin's aide in The Seeds of Doom (1976, uncredited)
Played: Brother in The Masque of Mandragora (1976, uncredited)
Career highlights
Keith's earliest credit was in The Love of Mike (1960), followed by roles in The Cheaters (1962), Frankie Howerd (1966), Hugh and I (1967), Doctor in the House (1970), No, That's Me Over Here! (1970), The Adventurer (1972), Upstairs Downstairs (1972/73), six episodes of Z Cars (1967-73), Marked Personal (1973), Colditz (1974), The Onedin Line (1976), Get Some In! (1977) and Three Piece Suite (1977).

Jeremy Chandler (Gerrill)
Career highlights
Jeremy also appeared in The Revenue Men (1967) and Dr Faustus (1967).

Dennis Chinnery (Gharman) May 14 1927 to Feb 29 2012
Doctor Who credits
Played: Albert C Richardson in The Chase (1965)
Played: Gharman in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Professor Sylvest in The Twin Dilemma (1984)
Career highlights
Dennis's career began with White Fire (1953), then Great Scott, It's Maynard (1956), Mostly Maynard (1957), Hancock's Half Hour (1957-59), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Avengers (1967), Orlando (1966-68), Hadleigh (1969), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Survivors (1975), Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), The Bill (1989) and The Right Impression (2005).
Facts
The character of the accident-prone vet in black comedy The League of Gentlemen was named Mr Chinnery after Dennis.

Max Faulkner (Thal guard) 1931 to Feb 13 2010 Click here for Max Faulkner's entry on The Ambassadors of Death

John Franklyn-Robbins (Time Lord) Dec 14 1924 to Mar 21 2009
Career highlights
John debuted in The Haven (1955), followed by roles in The Victorians (1963), It's Dark Outside (1965), The Baron (1967), Christ Recrucified (1969), Ivanhoe (1970), Seeing and Believing (1961-70), Jude the Obscure (1971), Cider with Rosie (1971), Running Scared (1972), Asylum (1972), The Edwardians (1972), Napoleon and Love (1974), Whodunnit! (1975), I, Claudius (1976), This Year Next Year (1977), Atom Spies (1979), In Loving Memory (1979), Get Lost! (1981), The Black Tower (1985), The Storyteller (1988), Campion (1989), The Woman in Black (1989), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1994), Emma (1996), Mrs Dalloway (1997), A Christmas Carol (1999), Bright Young Things (2003), Vanity Fair (2004), Sergeant Pepper (2004), Hogfather (2006) and The Golden Compass (2007). John, who was also a classical theatre director, had a regular role as Detective Superintendent Adler in Softly Softly (1972-73).

James Garbutt (Ronson) Sep 12 1925 to Apr 6 2020
Career highlights
Debuting in Codename: Portcullis in 1969, James's other credits include The Borderers (1970), The Witch's Daughter (1971), Woodstock (1973), Warship (1973), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1974), The Stars Look Down (1975), Bill Brand (1976), Superman (1978), One By One (1985), Ladies in Charge (1986), Brookside (1988), Gems (1988), The Manageress (1989-90), Spender (1992), Between the Lines (1993), Middlemarch (1994), Coronation Street (1997), Badger (1999) and Night Flight (2002). James had a regular role in The Onedin Line as Robert Onedin (1973-74) and Bill Seaton in When the Boat Comes In (1976-77).
Facts
Before becoming an actor, James was an art teacher in Newcastle.

Tom Georgeson (Kavell) Born Aug 8 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Kavell in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Detective inspector in Logopolis (1981)
Career highlights
Prolific Tom's earliest credit was in All's Well That Ends Well (1968), followed by roles in The Assistant (1969), Shabby Tiger (1973), Lizzie Dripping (1975), Rooms (1975), Headmaster (1977), When the Boat Comes In (1981), Maybury (1981), Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), Juliet Bravo (1983), The Last Place on Earth (1985), Strike It Rich! (1986), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Les Girls (1988), The Manageress (1989-90), Stay Lucky (1990), GBH (1991), Bramwell (1996), Fierce Creatures (1997), Cadfael (1997), Liverpool 1 (1998), City Central (2000), Ultimate Force (2002), Bleak House (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Angel (2007), Ashes to Ashes (2009), Justice (2011), The Crimson Petal and the White (2011), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011), The Hollow Crown (2012) and Electricity (2014). He also had a long-standing role as Harry Naylor in Between the Lines (1992-94).
Facts
Tom's daughter Rosalind is married to actor Tom Bell's son Aran, and the two of them have a daughter, actor Florence Bell.

John Gleeson (Thal soldier)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Thal soldier in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Charles Winlett in The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Career highlights
John's other credits include Public Eye (1975), The Sweeney (1978), Accident (1978), Butterflies (1978), To the Manor Born (1979-80), Terry and June (1985), Lovejoy (1986), The Les Dennis Laughter Show (1991) and Lexx (2001).
Facts
John's father was early cinema and Broadway actor Leon Quatermaine, and his uncle was fellow actor Charles Quatermaine.

Pat Gorman (Thal soldier) May 10 1933 to Oct 9 2018 Click here for Pat Gorman's entry on The Invasion

Andrew Johns (Kravos) Born Jun 10 1949
Career highlights
Debuting in Julius Caesar (1969), Andrew's other roles include The Merchant of Venice (1973), Rooms (1975), Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975), Pride and Prejudice (1980), Lady Killers (1980-81), Shakedown (1988), London's Burning (1992), Strange But True (1994) and Gentlemen's Relish (2001).

Michael Lynch (Thal politician) Jul 13 1927 to Jan 29 2012
Doctor Who credits
Played: Spencer in The War Games (1969)
Played: Thal politician in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Career highlights
Debuted in The Morning After (1962), then The Saint (1964), The Woman in White (1966), The Avengers (1967), The Last of the Mohicans (1971) and Woodstock (1973).

Facts

Born in Barbados, Michael worked for a time as a radio announcer in the West Indies.

Peter Mantle (Kaled guard) Born Apr 17 1950
Career highlights
Doctor Who was Peter's acting debut, after which he appeared in Rooms (1977), Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978), The Boy Merlin (1979), Fox (1980), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) and The Shadow of the Noose (1989).
Facts
Peter now runs his own actors' agency called The Elliott Agency.

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

Peter Miles (Nyder) Aug 29 1928 to Feb 26 2018
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dr Lawrence in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Professor Whitaker in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Played: Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Tragan in The Paradise of Death (1993, radio)
Career highlights
Peter made his first appearance in The Ballad of the Artificial Mash (1968), followed by Softly Softly (1968), The Borderers (1970), Colditz (1972), The Sweeney (1975), Survivors (1975), The Hill of the Red Fox (1975), The Eagle Has Landed (1976, uncredited as Hitler), Disraeli (1978), Blake's 7 (1978-79, as Rontane), The Whistle Blower (1986), Little Dorrit (1987), Bergerac (1990), The Punk (1993) and Monarch (2000).
Facts
Peter started out as a teacher, and one of his pupils was The Thick Of It actor Chris Langham. He was also an accomplished jazz singer, and enjoyed a primetime set with his band at the 2006 Ealing Jazz Festival. He was a childhood friend of legendary singer Dusty Springfield - in fact the first recording Dusty ever made (Can't We Be Friends) was with Peter. He appeared in a South Bank Show special about Dusty in 2006.
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Peter here.

Hilary Minster (Thal Soldier) 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.

Harriet Philpin (Bettan)
Career highlights
Harriet debuted in Doctor in Charge (1973), then The Sweeney (1975), Blake's 7 (1979) and Number on End (1980).
Facts
Harriet famously appeared in the 1970s and 80s as the wife of the Secret Lemonade Drinker in the popular TV commercials for R Whites lemonade. In 2012 there was a nationwide search to track Harriet down (as well as her R Whites co-star Julian Chagrin, son of Francis Chagrin, who composed the music for The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and brother of Vengeance on Varos actor Nicolas Chagrin) to stage a remake of the advert for its 40th anniversary. She was traced to her new home in Ireland.

Richard Reeves (Kaled leader)
Career highlights
Richard's short acting career includes Dixon of Dock Green (1973), Upstairs Downstairs (1974), Katy (1976) and Secret Army (1977).
Facts
Richard retired from acting in 1980 to enter the pharmaceutical industry.

Ivor Roberts (Mogran) Jul 19 1925 to Sep 5 1999
Career highlights
Ivor's earliest role was in the soap Coronation Street in 1972 playing Tommy Silcock, followed by Ace of Wands (1972), Marked Personal (1973), Sam (1974), Edward the King (1975), Secret Army (1977), Alternative 3 (1977), Crossroads (1978), The Legend of King Arthur (1979), Agony (1980), The Talisman (1980-81), Shackleton (1982), Death of an Expert Witness (1983), The New Statesman (1984), Sorry! (1985), Personal Services (1987), Inspector Morse (1989), The Nineteenth Hole (1989), The Piglet Files (1990), You Rang, M'Lord? (1990-93, as Mr Barnes) and Peak Practice (1999). He also had a regular role as Arnold Thomas in sitcom Oh Doctor Beeching! (1995-97).
Facts
Before becoming an actor Ivor had been an in-vision announcer for the Welsh ITV companies between 1962-68. Ivor also appears as a lascivious businessman in the video for Barbra Streisand's Emotion (1984). He also appeared as Grandad in a series of TV adverts for Dulux paint.

Guy Siner (Ravon) Born Oct 16 1947
Career highlights
New York born Guy made his earliest appearance in Z Cars (1972), followed by I, Claudius (1976), Secret Army (1979), You Rang, M'Lord? (1990), The Brittas Empire (1994), Seinfeld (1995), Leprachaun 4 (1997), Lost Highway (1997), Babylon 5 (1997), Diagnosis Murder (1999), Return to the Secret Garden (2000), That's My Bush! (2001), Star Trek: Enterprise (2002), The Agency (2002), Spongebob Squarepants (2001-02), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Doctors (2005), ChuckleVision (2008), Ironclad (2011) and Mr Sloane (2014). His most recognisable role was as Lieutenant Hubert Gruber in over 80 episodes of sitcom 'Allo 'Allo (1982-92), and he has also provided the voice for various Imperial officers on Star Wars computer games since 1994.
Facts
His cousins are fellow actors Selina and Simon Cadell, the latter best known from the sitcom Hi-De-Hi!. Guy also worked as editor on two Doctor Who stories written by David Roden - The Weeping, part of the BBC Book The Story of Martha (2008), and The Nemonite Invasion (2009), a BBC Audiobook (incidentally, Roden was also the co-writer of the 1993 30th anniversary story Dimensions in Time).

Roy Skelton (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

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

Drew Wood (Tane)
Career highlights
Drew debuted in Dr Finlay's Casebook (1967), followed by roles in Codename (1970), And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973), Assassin (1973), Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (1973), I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1976) and Television Club (1977).

Stephen Yardley (Sevrin) Born Mar 24 1942
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sevrin in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Arak in Vengeance on Varos (1985)
Career highlights
Stephen's earliest appearance was in The Bender (1964), followed by The Flying Swan (1965), Danger Man (1965), The Champions (1968), Villains (1972), Harriet's Back in Town (1972), Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall (1972), Oranges & Lemons (1973), The Brothers (1974), Coronation Street (1974), Thriller (1976), The Gentle Touch (1980), Blake's 7 (1981), The Day of the Triffids (1981), Funny Money (1983), Morgan's Boy (1984), Widows 2 (1985), The Doctor and the Devils (1985), Remington Steele (1987), Virtual Murder (1992), Heartbeat (1996), Bugs (1998), Holby City (2000) and Hex (2004). He has enjoyed a number of regular roles in ongoing dramas, including PC May in Z Cars (1967-68), William "Spider" Scott in The XYY Man (1976-77), Max Brocard in Secret Army (1978) and Vince Farmer in 93 episodes of the soap Family Affairs (1999-2003), but will be best remembered as Ken Masters in Howards' Way (1985-90).
Facts
Stephen is married to his Howards' Way co-star Jan Harvey.

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

Philip Hinchcliffe (producer) Born Oct 1 1944 Click here for Philip Hinchcliffe's entry on The Ark in Space

Robert Holmes (script editor) Apr 2 1926 to May 24 1986 (chronic liver ailment) Click here to see Robert Holmes's entry on The Krotons