Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Father's Day

Oh look! The outside's bigger than
the inside!
One episode (Father's Day)
First broadcast May 14 2005
Average audience for story: 8.06m

REGULAR CAST

Christopher Eccleston (The Doctor) Born Feb 16 1964 Click here for Christopher Eccleston's entry on Rose

Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) Born Sep 22 1982 Click here for Billie Piper's entry on Rose

GUEST CAST

Robert Barton (Registrar) Born Jan 1 1970
Doctor Who credits
Played: Registrar in Father's Day (2005)
Played: Martin in Torchwood: Countrycide (2006)
Career highlights
Other work includes The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island (1999) and Casualty (2004).

Eirlys Bellin (Bev) Born 1978
Career highlights
Eirlys debuted in Doctor Who, and then took roles in High Hopes (2008), Skellig: The Owl Man (2009), The Boy with a Camera for a Face (2013), Edge of Heaven (2014) and Stella (2014). She also provided the voice of the Girl in the animation The Magic Paintbrush (2000), and is credited as having written an episode of the 2008 series Tonightly. She also occasionally appears on S4C's Welsh language show Jonathan as her rugby fan character Rhian Madamrygbi (she also writes for the show).
Facts
Eirlys is also a voiceover artist and character comedian, working on the London comedy circuit in shows such as Spank! and Something for the Weekend at Soho's Revue Bar, and also at the Edinburgh Fringe. Here she is on Twitter.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Eirlys here.

Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler) Born Apr 18 1965 Click here for Camille Coduri's entry on Rose

Shaun Dingwall (Pete Tyler) Born Mar 24 1972
Doctor Who credits
Played: Pete Tyler in Father's Day (2005), Rise of the Cybermen/ The Age of Steel (2006), Doomsday (2006)
Career highlights
Debuted in Genghis Cohn (1993), then Between the Lines (1993), The Chief (1994), A Breed of Heroes (1994), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1996), In a Land of Plenty (2001), Lloyd and Hill (2003), The Last King (2003), The Long Firm (2004), Color Me Kubrick (2005), Hannibal (2006), Spooks (2006), Outlanders (2007), Survivors (2008), Moses Jones (2009), The Young Victoria (2009), Rock and Chips (2010-11), Camelot (2011), Summer in February (2013), Vera (2013), Breathless (2013), The Driver (2014), Silent Witness (2015), Legends (2015), Maigret (2016-17), DCI Banks (2016), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), Top Boy (2019) and Noughts + Crosses (2020). Shaun also regularly played Steve Evans in Soldier Soldier (1995-96), Mark Rivers in Touching Evil (1997-99), and Detective Inspector Mike Lewis in Above Suspicion (2009-12).
Facts
Shaun appears in the video for Faith No More's I Started a Joke (1998), looking remarkably like Pete Tyler!

Casey Dyer (Young Mickey)
This is Casey's only credit.

Rhian James (Suzie)
This is Rhian's only credit.

Natalie Jones (Sarah Clarke)
Career highlights
Other work includes Casualty (1998), Cadfael (1998) and Cleanskin (2012).
Facts
Natalie is now a voiceover artist and has worked on a number of voice message services in the United States, as well as voice recognition systems.

Julia Joyce (Young Rose) Born Jun 14 1998
Doctor Who credits
Played: Young Rose in Father's Day (2005)
Played: Holly Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth (Days 1-5) (2009)
Career highlights
Julia debuted at the age of five in Prime Suspect 6 (2003), and then made appearances in Life isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (2005), January 2nd (2006), Waking the Dead (2007), Lewis (2007), Speed Racer (2008), Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), Doctors (2009) and The Day of the Triffids (2009). And Doctor Who isn't the only time Julia has played a younger version of Billie Piper - she did the same as a young Sally Lockhart in The Ruby in the Smoke (2006) and a young Fanny Price in Mansfield Park (2007).
Facts
Julia is the daughter of French actress and model Laurence Joyce, best known as the voice in the Petit Filous TV commercials, which Julia also appeared in once. Julia's sister Lucy is also an actress. Julia has appeared in many modelling promotions as a child, including for Woolworth's, Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Debenhams and French Connection, and a number of TV commercials, including France's Cedric magazine, Warburtons bread, British Airways, Nesquik and Persil. She's now a singer songwriter (here's her Instagram).

Christopher Llewellyn (Stuart Hoskins)
Career highlights
Further credits include The Black Dog (1999), Where Were We... (2002) and The Bill (1997/2007).

Frank Rozelaar-Green (Sonny Hoskins)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sonny Hoskins in Father's Day (2005)
Played: Dance double for the Doctor in The Doctor Dances (2005, uncredited)
Career highlights
Debuted in Urban Jungle in 1985, after which he took roles in Lucifer (1987), We Are Seven (1989), 1996 (1989), Minder (1991), Restoration (1995), The Brittas Empire (1997), 2point4 Children (1998), The Scarlet Pimpernel (2000), Shades (2001), Micawber (2002), Fat Slags (2004), Young Dracula (2006) and Trollied (2013).

CREW

Paul Cornell (writer) Born Jul 18 1967
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Scream of the Shalka (2003), Father's Day (2005), Human Nature/ The Family of Blood (2007)
Career highlights
Paul's TV writing career began with a slot on Debut on Two in 1990, Kingdom Come, followed by Children's Ward (1996-99), Springhill (1996), Coronation Street (1997), Wavelength (1997), Love in the 21st Century (1999), Doctors (2000), Born and Bred (2003), Casualty (2001-03), Holby City (2004), Robin Hood (2006), Primeval (2008) and Pulse (2010). He also appeared as a panellist on the quiz show Only Connect in 2010, on the Fantasy Writers team.
Paul's writing career goes back further in the Doctor Who universe, when he made his fiction debut with the Virgin New Adventure Timewyrm: Revelation (1991), after which he wrote several more books, such as Love and War (1992, in which he created the Doctor's new companion Bernice Summerfield), No Future (1994), Goth Opera (1994), Human Nature (1995, on which he based his TV story of the same name), Happy Endings (1996) and The Shadows of Avalon (2000). He has also written several Bernice Summerfield books, and original novels of his own, including Something More (2001) and British Summertime (2002). In recent years, Paul has been a writer for various comic books, with Marvel, Action and DC Comics, working on titles such as Doctor Who Magazine (199-95), Judge Dredd Magazine (1995-96), Young Avengers (2008), Fantastic Four (2008), Dark X-Men (2009), Black Widow (2010), Batman and Robin (2010-11) and Wolverine (2013-14).
Facts
Paul's wife is fellow Doctor Who writer (and vicar!) Caroline Symcox, who has written both with her husband and alone, including for Big Finish. This is him on Twitter!

Joe Ahearne (director) Born Nov 23 1963 (a perfect birthday!)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Dalek, Father's Day, Boom Town, Bad Wolf/ The Parting of the Ways (2005)
Career highlights
Irishman Joe is a writer and director for television, having worked in both capacities on This Life (1997), Ultraviolet (1998), Apparitions (2008, which he also created and executive produced), The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012), The Replacement (2013) and B&B (2017). He has also had writing duties on Da Vinci's Demons (2013), and directed for Dark Realm (2001), Strange (2003) and This Life +10 (2007).
Awards
2017: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Television (Scripted) (The Replacement) - shared with Nicole Cauverien, Andy Harries and Suzanne Mackie
Facts
Joe wrote the four-issue Fantastic Force Marvel mini-series in 2009 (a spin-off from Fantastic Four) and Fantastic Four Annual 32 in 2010.

Phil Collinson (producer) Born Aug 26 1970 Click here for Phil Collinson's entry on Rose

Helen Vallis (associate producer) Click here for Helen Vallis's entry on Rose

Elwen Rowlands (script editor) Click here for Elwen Rowlands' entry on Rose

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