Castrovalva

The new Doctor (Peter Davison) echoes
the old (his second self)

Four episodes (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four)
First broadcast Jan 4 to 12 1982
Average audience for serial: 9.93m

REGULAR CAST

Peter Davison (The Doctor) Born Apr 13 1951 Click here for Peter Davison's entry on Logopolis

Matthew Waterhouse (Adric) Born Dec 19 1961 Click here for Matthew Waterhouse's entry on Full Circle

Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) Born Dec 12 1961 Click here for Sarah Sutton's entry on The Keeper of Traken

Janet Fielding (Tegan) Born Sep 9 1953 Click here for Janet Fielding's entry on Logopolis

GUEST CAST

Anthony Ainley (The Master) Aug 20 1932 to May 3 2004 (cancer) Click here for Anthony Ainley's entry on The Keeper of Traken

Dallas Cavell (Head of security) Sep 19 1925 to Feb 15 1993
Doctor Who credits
Played: Roadworks overseer in The Reign of Terror (1964)
Played: Bors in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Captain Jebb Trask in The Highlanders (1966)
Played: Quinlan in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Head of security in Castrovalva (1982)
Career highlights
Dallas (real first name Norman) debuted in The Voodoo Factor (1960), then Maigret (1961), The Avengers (1963), Crossroads (1964), The Caesars (1968), Brett (1971), The New Avengers (1976) and The Pickwick Papers (1985).
Facts
Dallas also worked as a bingo caller in London for a time.

Souska John (Child) Born May 25 1973
This was Souska's sole acting credit. She is the niece of actress Caroline John, known to Doctor Who fans as companion Liz Shaw in Season 7 (1970). She is now known as Suska Timney and lives in Australia.

Michael Sheard (Mergrave) Jun 18 1938 to Aug 31 2005 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Rhos in The Ark (1966)
Played: Dr Summers in The Mind of Evil (1971)
Played: Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars (1975)
Played: Lowe in The Invisible Enemy (1977)
Played: Mergrave in Castrovalva (1982)
Played: Headmaster in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Career highlights
Michael was a prolific character actor, appearing in over 120 productions, starting in a 1962 episode of Suspense. Further roles included The Likely Lads (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), The Borderers (1969), Albert! (1969), Paul Temple (1971), The Onedin Line (1972), On the Buses (1973), The Sweeney (1975), Space: 1999 (1975), The Tomorrow People (1978), Blake's 7 (1980), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Outsider (1983), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983-84), The Invisible Man (1984), Hannay (1988), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), 'Allo 'Allo (1992), Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), Another Life (2001), The Green Door (2005) and Shadows in the Woods (2006). Michael had a regular role as Mr Bronson in children's school series Grange Hill (1985-89).
Facts
During his career, he played Adolf Hitler five times, and Heinrich Himmler three times. He acted alongside five Doctors in the TV series, and a sixth (Paul McGann) in audio story The Stones of Venice (2001). Michael was the one to formally identify actor Declan Mulholland at the police mortuary after he was found dead on a train (as well as being the original actor to play Jabba the Hutt in a scene deleted from Star Wars, Declan also appeared in The Sea Devils and The Androids of Tara).

Derek Waring (Shardovan) Apr 26 1927 to Feb 20 2007 (cancer)
Career highlights
Derek's first screen role was in The Gordon Honour (1955), followed by appearances in Bill Radford: Reporter (1956), The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1957), All At Sea (1957), Time is the Enemy (1958), The Duke Wore Jeans (1958), The Escape of RD7 (1961), Ghost Squad (1963), Blandings Castle (1967), The Informer (1967), And Mother Makes Three (1973), Crown Court (1973), An Unofficial Rose (1974-75), Killers (1976), The New Avengers (1976), Hi! Summer (1977), George and Mildred (1977), Thundercloud (1979), The Sun Trap (1980), Partners (1981), The Professionals (1982), The Happy Apple (1983), Heart of the Country (1987), After Henry (1989), Never the Twain (1990) and Keeping Up Appearances (1995). His most famous roles were as Detective Inspector Neil Goss in over 200 episodes of Z Cars (1969-73) and Roland Moody in Moody and Pegg (1974-75).
Facts
In 1963 Derek married legendary actress Dorothy Tutin. Their children are both actors - Nick Waring and Amanda Waring. Derek's father was Wing Commander H J Barton-Chapple, who had worked alongside John Logie Baird in pioneering television. Derek's brother was Richard Waring, known as a writer on sitcoms such as The Marriage Lines, My Wife Next Door, And Mother Makes Three/ Five and Robin's Nest.

Frank Wylie (Ruther) Sep 27 1935 to Apr 16 1994
Career highlights
Frank's earliest credit was in Green Cars Go East (1957), followed by roles in Spindrift (1959), Rob Roy (1961), A Flea in Her Ear (1967), Three Sisters (1970), Macbeth (1971), The View from Daniel Pike (1973), The Fortunes of Nigel (1974), Thriller (1974), Rooms (1975), The Camerons (1979), Tales of the Unexpected (1982), Inside Story (1986), The Campbells (1990) and Taggart (1992). Frank also played Fergus Jamieson in over 80 episodes of Scottish soap Take the High Road (1987-93).

CREW

Christopher H Bidmead (writer) Born Jan 18 1941 Click here for Christopher H Bidmead's entry on The Leisure Hive

Fiona Cumming (director) Oct 9 1937 to Jan 1 2015
Doctor Who credits
Assistant floor manager: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966, uncredited)
Production assistant: The Highlanders (1966-67), The Seeds of Death (1969, uncredited), The Mutants (1972, uncredited)
Directed: Castrovalva (1982), Snakedance (1983), Enlightenment (1983), Planet of Fire (1984)
Played: Tourist in Silver Nemesis (1988, uncredited)
Career highlights
Fiona started as an actress and continuity announcer in Scotland, then became an assistant floor manager or production assistant, later graduating to directing. She directed The Master of Ballantrae (1975), Z Cars (1974-77), Angels (1978), The Omega Factor (1979), God's Wonderful Railway (1980), Blake's 7 (1980), The Walls of Jericho (1981), Emmerdale Farm (1984), Take the High Road (1987-90, which she also produced over 40 episodes of), Eldorado (1992) and Machair (1993).
Facts
Fiona's husband was Doctor Who production manager Ian Fraser, who worked on five stories between 1986-89.
In 2013 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Fiona here.

John Nathan-Turner (producer) Aug 12 1947 to May 1 2002 (liver failure) Click here for John Nathan-Turner's entry on The Leisure Hive

Eric Saward (script editor) Born Dec 9 1944
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: K9 and Company, Castrovalva, Kinda, Black Orchid, Time-Flight, Arc of Infinity, Snakedance, Mawdryn Undead, Terminus, Enlightenment, The King's Demons, The Five Doctors, Warriors of the Deep, The Awakening, Frontios, Resurrection of the Daleks, Planet of Fire, The Caves of Androzani, The Twin Dilemma, Attack of the Cybermen, Vengeance on Varos, The Mark of the Rani, The Two Doctors, Timelash, Revelation of the Daleks, The Trial of a Time Lord (1981-86)
Wrote: The Visitation (1982), Earthshock (1982), Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Attack of the Cybermen (1985, uncredited), Revelation of the Daleks (1985). He also wrote the BBC Radio story Slipback (1985), and the Jim'll Fix It sketch A Fix with Sontarans (1985).
Career highlights
In the 1960s Eric worked as an estate agent before training to become an English teacher, but around 1975 decided to go into writing, and wrote a number of radio plays before being approached to get involved with Doctor Who. Since leaving the series (acrimoniously) in 1986, Eric has continued to write mainly radio scripts, often for German radio.