Nightmare of Eden

Looks like this Mandrel needs a bib

Four episodes (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four)
First broadcast Nov 24 to Dec 15 1979
Average audience for serial: 9.33m

REGULAR CAST

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

Lalla Ward (Romana) Born Jun 28 1951 Click here for Lalla Ward's entry on The Armageddon Factor

David Brierly (Voice of K-9) 1935 to Jun 10 2008 (cancer) Click here for David Brierly's entry on The Creature from the Pit

GUEST CAST

Barry Andrews (Stott) Born 1944
Career highlights
Barry's debut was in a 1968 ITV Playhouse, after which he appeared in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968), The Saint (1969), The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971), Rentadick (1972), I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1976), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), The XYY Man (1977), Two's Company (1979), Harry's Game (1982) and The Bill (1989/93).
Facts
In 1993, Barry's 17-year-old heroin addict son Eyjolfur was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Amaranath Bandaratilleka during a robbery at a newsagent's in Hammersmith, London (he shot him in the stomach with a sawn-off shotgun when he handed over just 26p). In 2001, Eyjolfur's sentence was reduced so that he became eligible for parole in 2002 due to the progress he'd made in prison.

Richard Barnes (Crewman)
Career highlights
Richard's CV also has entries for Count Dracula (1977), Orion (1979), Tales of the Unexpected (1980/81) and The Winds of War (1983).

Geoffrey Bateman (Dymond) Born 1948
Career highlights
Geoffrey's first role was in She Stoops to Conquer (1971), and then Public Eye (1973), Dead Cert (1974), Coronation Street (1976), The New Avengers (1976), The Legend of King Arthur (1979), Miracles Take Longer (1984), Lovejoy (1986), Pulaski (1987), Eurocops (1988), Making News (1990), House of Cards (1990), Emmerdale (1994), Buffalo Girls (1995), Highlander (1997), Vatel (2000), Manderlay (2005), The Avignon Prophecy (2007), The Whistleblowers (2007) and Happiness Never Comes Alone (2012). Geoffrey might best be remembered as James Hooperman in This Life (1996-97), or Bossuet in 16 episodes of Versailles (2015-18).
Facts
Now living in Paris, Geoffrey has appeared in many French language films, and his distinctive tones are also used in a number of video games, including Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (2006).

Peter Craze (Costa) Aug 27 1946 to Dec 30 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dako in The Space Museum (1965)
Played: Du Pont in The War Games (1969)
Played: Costa in Nightmare of Eden (1979)
Career highlights
Peter, who was the younger brother of actor Michael Craze (who played Doctor Who companion Ben Jackson), debuted in Probation Officer (1962), followed by Martin Chuzzlewit (1964), If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them (1968), The Beast in the Cellar (1970), My Old Man (1975), The Professionals (1978), Blake's 7 (1978/81), Bergerac (1983), The Dreamstone (1990), EastEnders (1998), Dangerous Parking (2007) and Limbo (2012). He also regularly played Kevin Barford in the soap United! (1965).
Facts
Peter went on to become a drama teacher, and was Principal of Drama Studio London between 2003-2012. His wife was actor Illona Linthwaite.

David Daker (Captain Rigg) Born Sep 29 1935
Doctor Who credits
Played: Irongron in The Time Warrior (1973-74)
Played: Rigg in Nightmare of Eden (1979)
Career highlights
David's first credit was in Detective (1964), after which his prolific career took in King of the River (1966), Parkin's Patch (1970), Trial (1971), Villains (1972), Hadleigh (1973), The Black Windmill (1974), Stardust (1974), Daft as a Brush (1975), Aces High (1976), Porridge (1977), Rising Damp (1977), Holocaust (1978), Two People (1979), Time Bandits (1981), Britannia Hospital (1982), Only Fools and Horses (1982), Give Us a Break (1983), Hallelujah! (1983-84), The Woman in Black (1989), I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990), The Vet (1996), Dangerfield (1997), Hearts and Bones (2001), The Last Detective (2004) and Holby City (2004/09). David has also enjoyed a number of running roles, as PC Culshaw in Z Cars (1967-68), Captain Spiker in Dick Turpin (1979-82), Gordon Lewis in Coronation Street (1981-85), Ben Campbell in Crown Prosecutor (1995) and Harry Crawford in Boon (1986-95).

Lewis Fiander (Tryst) Jan 12 1938 to May 24 2016 (stroke)
Career highlights
Australian Lewis debuted in Miss Mabel (1958), then The Password is Courage (1962), Redcap (1966), Pride and Prejudice (1967), I Start Counting (1969), Smith (1970), Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972), The Liver Birds (1974), Notorious Woman (1974), If There Weren't Any Blacks, You'd Have to Invent Them (1976), Island of the Damned (1976), The Sweeney (1976), Target (1978), Ladykillers (1980-81), That Beryl Marston...! (1981), Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982), Poor Little Rich Girls (1984), The Doctor and the Devils (1985), Lytton's Diary (1985-86), Tanamera - Lion of Singapore (1989), Bangkok Hilton (1989), The Feds (1993), The Genie from Down Under (1996), Halifax FP (1997), the Oscar-nominated The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005) and, posthumously, Two Moments in Time (2018).
Facts
Lewis moved from Melbourne to London in the early 1960s and was a prolific performer on both the British and Australian stage in dramatic and musical roles (he returned to Australia in the 1980s).

Geoffrey Hinsliff (Fisk) Nov 23 1937 to Sep 15 2024
Doctor Who credits
Played: Jack Tyler in Image of the Fendahl (1977)
Played: Fisk in Nightmare of Eden (1979)
Career highlights
Geoffrey's earliest role was in Suspense (1963), later taking roles in Cluff (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), A Family at War (1970), The Dragon's Opponent (1973), Couples (1976), Striker (1975-76), I, Claudius (1976), Accident (1978), Angels (1983), First Among Equals (1986), CATS Eyes (1987), Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1998), Doctors (2002), Heartbeat (2003) and Holby City (2010). He will forever be remembered for his regular roles as George Fairchild in the comedy drama Brass (1983-84) and especially as Don Brennan in over 400 episodes of soap Coronation Street (1987-97).
Facts
His daughter is journalist Gaby Hinsliff, who was the youngest political editor (at the age of 33) of a newspaper when she was promoted into the position at the Observer in 2004. Gaby is married to James Clark, former press secretary to Labour MP Des Browne.

Stephen Jenn (Secker) Mar 30 1950 to Feb 26 2012 (brain tumour)
Career highlights
After debuting in Marked Personal in 1974, Stephen moved on to roles in Blake's 7 (1980), To Serve Them All My Days (1980), The Keep (1983), Space (1985), Castaway (1986), The Dog It Was That Died (1989), The Rainbow Thief (1990), 99-1 (1995), Oktober (1998), Ticks (1999), Cleopatra (1999) and Offending Angels (2000).
Facts
You can read many tributes to Stephen here.

Jennifer Lonsdale (Della) Born Jul 17 1953
Career highlights
Jennifer had first appeared (playing Erotica!) in Further Up Pompeii (1975), and her CV also includes roles in Are You Being Served? (1977), The XYY Man (1977), Come Back Mrs Noah (1977-78), Love in a Cold Climate (1980) and Kelly Monteith (1982). She had long-running roles as Anne Bourne in The Cedar Tree (1976), and Angie Price in 37 episodes of the sitcom That's My Boy (1981-86).
Facts
Jennifer was the second wife of Conservative politician Derek Coombs, MP for Birmingham Yardley 1970-74 (incidentally, Coombs' first wife was actor Peter O'Toole's sister). Jennifer and Derek had two children together - Jack and Adam - but in 2010 Adam died of an accidental drug overdose in India while travelling on a gap year. Since then, Jennifer (now Coombs) and Jack have worked to provide for children in India, helping to finance and build a school where Adam taught children during his time there. Derek Coombs was also a noted businessman who, in the 1950s, tried but failed to acquire the rights to make films of four James Bond novels. Coombs also tried to buy the New Statesman magazine, and in 1995 co-founded the intellectual monthly magazine Prospect. The Coombs family still maintains ownership of loan and insurance provider S&U PLC and engineering firm Metalrax. Jennifer has been a member of the Royal Geographical Society since 1975, founded the Dorset branch of Yehudi Menuhin's Live Music Now music outreach charity, has been vice-president of Dorset Opera, and an ambassador for Dorset Community Foundation since 2014. She was also High Sheriff of Dorset in 2015/16, after which she went travelling, sailing from the Falklands to South Georgia, and visiting the indigenous bush people of Africa. She has an appreciation group on Facebook! In 1978 she appeared in this TV advert for Mackintosh's Prize chocolate bar.

Annette Peters (Passenger)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Operation Golden Age extra in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974, uncredited)
Played: Citizen in The Pirate Planet (1978, uncredited)
Played: Passenger in Nightmare of Eden (1979)
Played: Argolin guide and attendant in The Leisure Hive (1980, uncredited)
Played: Lazar in Terminus (1983, uncredited)
Career highlights
Annette also appeared in Within These Walls (1975), Fawlty Towers (1975), The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976), Bless Me Father (1978), Father Charlie (1982), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), 1919 (1985) and Keeping Up Appearances (1991). She also made 20 uncredited appearances as a POW in Tenko (1981-82).

Maggie Petersen (Passenger)
Career highlights
Maggie's other credits include Morning Story (1970), Public Eye (1971), Marquis de Sade's Justine (1977), The Old Curiosity Shop (1979), A Little Silver Trumpet (1980) and People from the Forest (1981).

Eden Phillips (Crewman) Born Jul 11 1949
Career highlights
Eden's other work includes Crown Court (1972), Potter's Picture Palace (1976-78), Shortland Street (1996) and Five Good Reasons (2008). Eden later made over 1,500 appearances as Narrator in the musical Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat before becoming a popular children's lyricist, writing well over 100 different songs, and also writing a number of musical adaptations, such as Alfie: The Musical and Love in a Cold Climate. He also runs his own design business, Edenco Creative.

Peter Roberts (Passenger)
His only other credit was The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1978).

Lionel Sansby (Passenger) Jul 14 1938 to Mar 30 1983
Doctor Who credits
Played: UNIT soldier in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Passenger in Nightmare of Eden (1979)
Played: Krarg in Shada (1980, unbroadcast, uncredited)
Played: Man in market in Snakedance (1983, uncredited)
Career highlights
Lionel's other roles were in The Goodies (1970), Doomwatch (1971), Villains (1972), Blake's 7 (1978), Funny Man (1981) and The Home Front (1983).

Sebastian Stride (Crewman) 1956 to 2021 (lung cancer)
Career highlights
Calcutta-born Sebastian's only other credits were for The Citadel (1983) and The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1988). Here he is, singing I'll Never Be the Same in 2010. When educated in Calcutta, Sebastian was taught for a time by Mother Teresa. In later life Sebastian ran popular open-mic sessions in pubs around Richmond Upon Thames.

CREW

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

Alan Bromly (director) Sep 13 1915 to Sep 1995
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Time Warrior (1973-74), Nightmare of Eden (1979)
Career highlights
Alan started out as an actor in productions such as The Queen's Husband (1946), Little Women (1950-51), The Railway Children (1951), The Six proud Walkers (1954), The Long Chase (1972) and Crown Court (1973), but he soon moved behind the camera as both a director and producer. Alan directed At Your Service Ltd (1951), Panorama (1953-54, including its first ever episode), The Other Man (1956), Little Women (1958), The Scarf (1959), The World of Tim Frazer (1960), Suspense (1962), A Man Called Harry Brent (1965), The Big M (1967), Justice (1973), Great Mysteries (1973), The Swiss Family Robinson (1974-76), Crown Court (1972-77), Crossroads (1977-78) and Coronation Street (1977-80). As producer, he worked on many of the same series he directed, as well as The Powder Monkey (1951), Parent-Craft (1951), BBC Sunday Night Theatre (1955-59), Little Women (1958), Compact (1962), Legend of Death (1965), Watch the Birdies (1966), This Way for Murder (1967), Paul Temple (1969-70) and Out of the Unknown (1969-71). He also wrote the 1952 TV film Postman's Knock and adapted for TV the Sunday Night Theatre production of The Powder Monkey. Alan had also been a radio commentator since World War Two.
Facts
Alan directed Nightmare of Eden when in semi-retirement (at the age of 65), but the technical demands - along with Tom Baker's "demanding" personality - seemed beyond him, and producer Graham Williams replaced him as director for the story's final recording day. Alan's wife was actress June Ellis (best known as Kate Balfour in Paul Temple (1969-70) and Fletcher's wife Isobel in Porridge (1974)).

Graham Williams (producer) May 24 1945 to Aug 17 1990 (shooting incident) Click here for Graham Williams's entry on Horror of Fang Rock

Douglas Adams (script editor) Mar 11 1952 to May 11 2001 (heart attack) Click here for Douglas Adams's entry on The Pirate Planet