Attack of the Graske

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Interactive episode with narrative branching (Attack of the Graske)
First broadcast December 25 2005
496,000 viewers accessed the game via the BBC's Red Button

REGULAR CAST

David Tennant (The Doctor) Born Apr 18 1971 Click here for David Tennant's entry on The Parting of the Ways

GUEST CAST

Nicholas Beveney (Dad) Born Aug 1973

Career highlights
Debuted in The Bill (1995), then Sharman (1996), Pie in the Sky (1997), Lock, Stock... (2000), Holby City (2003), Sahara (2005), Funland (2005), This Life +10 (2007), Skins (2007), Nowhere Man (2008), Mr Nobody (2009), New Tricks (2011), Family Tree (2013), Hard Time Bus (2015), Doctors (2017) and Black Earth Rising (2018). He also wrote and directed the 2013 TV movie Kingmakers, and its 2015 series.

James Harris (Boy)

This is James's only credit.

Mollie Kabia (Girl) Born c.1997

This is Mollie's only credit. However, she was one of three contestants on Team TARDIS for the Team Totally segment in the second series of Totally Doctor Who in 2007.

Robin Meredith (Grandad) Born 1943

Career highlights

Debuted in Love Story (1973), then Father Brown (1974), Golden Hill (1975-76), Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Golden Dolphin (1986), A Fine Romance (1989), London's Burning (1990), That's Love (1990), Only Fools and Horses (1996) and Love Soup (2005).
Facts

Robin and his wife Christine Way were involved in the non-denominational Christian organisation Arts Centre Group, based in London. Robin is an expert on former slave trader and preacher John Newton, and often performs as him in local productions.

Roger Nott (Older man) Nov 23 1943 to Oct 13 2022
Doctor Who credits
Played: UNIT soldier in The Green Death (1973, uncredited)

Played: Prisoner in The Twin Dilemma (1984)
Played: Older man in Attack of the Graske (2005)
Career highlights
Roger's further credits include The Mock Doctor (1968), Dixon of Dock Green (1969), The Regiment (1972), Fall of Eagles (1974), Hawkmoor (1978), The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981), The Professionals (1982), Minder (1984), Fighting Back (1986), Ballroom (1988), Making News (1990), We Are Seven (1989-91), Civvies (1992), Darklands (1996), Silent Cry (2002), The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1 (2003) and Hair in the Gate (2012, which he also wrote and produced).

Facts

Roger was co-founder of Cardiff Open Air Theatre. He stood as a Labour councillor in the Treherbert ward of Rhondda Cynon Taf Council in Wales in the 2008 local elections: he polled 813 votes, not enough to secure one of the two seats available.

Catherine Olding (Young woman)

Doctor Who credits

Played: Young woman in Attack of the Graske (2005)

Played: Young mum in Torchwood: From Out of the Rain (2008)

Career highlights
Catherine also appeared in Bad Company (2010) and Dead Dad (2015).

Ben Oliver (Urchin)
Career highlights
Ben's only other work is playing Adam Lawton in Welcome to Orty-Fou (2000).

Lisa Palfrey (Mum) Born Feb 9 1967

Career highlights
Debuted in The District Nurse (1987), followed by The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995), House of America (1997), Split Second (1999), Guest House Paradiso (1999), Maybe Baby (2000), Green-Eyed Monster (2002), Casualty (2002), The Bill (2004), 360 (2011), Family Tree (2013), Pride (2014), Under Milk Wood (2015), Line of Duty (2016), Hinterland (2016), Sex Education (2019-20), Cobra (2020) and The Devil's Light (2021).
Facts

Lisa's mum Eiry and daughter Lowri are also actors. Here's Lisa's Twitter feed!

Gwenyth Petty (Grandma) Born 1930
Career highlights
Gwenyth made her debut playing Mary Rhys as a girl in the 1952 documentary short David (this was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Documentary Film). Also working a lot on BBC Radio, Gwenyth's subsequent credits include The Singing Pig (1956), The Peaceful Inn (1957), Under Milk Wood (1964), The Mimosa Boys (1984), Friday on My Mind (1992), A Mind to Kill (1997), Mortimer's Law (1998), Very Annie Mary (2001), The Dark (2005) and Framed (2009).

Facts

Gwenyth's daughter is the BBC Wales broadcaster Sara Edwards. Gwenyth was a well-known broadcaster in Wales for many years, often recording alongside poet Dylan Thomas. She is the last living member of the original cast of the BBC Radio production of Thomas's Under Milk Wood from 1954.

Jimmy Vee (Graske) Born Feb 3 1959
Doctor Who credits
Played: Moxx of Balhoon in The End of the World (2005)
Played: Alien [space pig] in Aliens of London/ World War Three (2005)
Played: Graske in Attack of the Graske (2005), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (2007), Music of the Spheres (2008), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (2008), The End of Time (2009-10, uncredited)
Played: Slitheen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen (2007), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Lost Boy (2007), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift (2009)
Played: Bannakaffalatta in Voyage of the Damned (2007)
Played: Groske in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor (2010)
Played: Skovox Blitzer in The Caretaker (2014)
Career highlights
Jimmy's other work includes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Weirdsister College (2001), Skins: Secret Party (2007), Kilt Man (2009), Pan (2015), Trust Me (2017), Train Set (2018) and Rocketman (2019). He also replaced the late Kenny Baker as operator of R2-D2 in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), and was a creature performer in the Star Wars film Solo (2018).
Facts
In 2014, former electrician Jimmy, who is 3ft 8in tall, landed a co-hosting role on the American version of Release the Hounds, alongside actor Eli Roth. Here he is on Twitter.

CREW

Gareth Roberts (writer) Born Jun 5 1968

Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Attack of the Graske (2005), all 13 TARDISodes (2006), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane (2007, with Russell T Davies), The Shakespeare Code (2007), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen (2007), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (2007), The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Secrets of the Stars (2008), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (2008), From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love (2009, Sarah Jane Adventures Comic Relief special, with Clayton Hickman), Planet of the Dead (2009, with Russell T Davies), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (2009), The Lodger (2010), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Empty Planet (2010), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (2010, with Clayton Hickman), Closing Time (2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Man Who Never Was (2011), The Caretaker (2014, with Steven Moffat)

Career highlights

Gareth has always been involved in Doctor Who, writing books for the Virgin novel range (including The Highest Science (1993), The Romance of Crime (1995), The English Way of Death (1996) and The Well-Mannered War (1997)) and more recently the BBC (including Only Human (2005) and I Am a Dalek (2006)). He has also written for Doctor Who Magazine, Big Finish and the BBC Doctor Who DVD range. Outside of Doctor Who, Gareth has written for soaps such as Emmerdale (1998-99), Brookside (1999-2003), Springhill (1996) and Coronation Street (1997-98), as well as Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (2001), Swiss Toni (2003), Swinging (2005), Wizards vs Aliens (2012-13), Jekyll & Hyde (2015) and The Librarians (2017).

Facts

Gareth wrote the long-awaited novelisation of Shada in 2012, and was initially to pen one for City of Death too, but pulled out in 2014, to be replaced by James Goss. In 2017, Gareth became involved in a social media controversy about his opinions on transgender people (he does not believe in gender identity, and says that it is impossible for a person to change their biological sex). Two years later, Gareth's contribution to a Doctor Who short story collection was dropped following the controversy. Here's Gareth on Twitter.

Ashley Way (director) Born Dec 16 1971
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Attack of the Graske (2005), all 13 TARDISodes (2006), Torchwood: Captain Jack Harkness (2007), Torchwood: End of Days (2007), Torchwood: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2008), Torchwood: Reset (2008), Torchwood: Something Borrowed (2008), Torchwood: Exit Wounds (2008), The Hungry Earth/ Cold Blood (2010), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor (2010), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Empty Planet (2010), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Sky (2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Curse of Clyde Langer (2011)

Awards

2015: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Fiction Director (Y Streic a fi)

2018: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Television Drama (Bang) - shared with Catrin Lewis Defis, Roger Williams and Philip John
Career highlights
Ashley began as an assistant director on The Proposition (1996), followed by The Last Leprechaun (1998), The Meeksville Ghost (2001), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2002), Pets (2002), Berserker: Hell's Warrior (2004) and Homeland (2015). His first directing job was on Filligoggin (2000), then Hoodlum and Son (2003), Calon Gaeth (2006), Belonging (2005-07), Personal Affairs (2009), Crash (2009), Merlin (2010-12), Casualty (2005-14), Frankie (2013), Stella (2014-16), Parch (2015), Ripper Street (2016), Ice (2016-18), Mars (2018) and White Lines (2020).

Sophie Fante (producer)
Doctor Who credits
Produced: Attack of the Graske (2005), all 13 TARDISodes (2006), Torchwood: Random Shoes (2006), Torchwood: Adrift (2008)
Assistant producer: Torchwood: Everything Changes, Torchwood: Day One, Torchwood: Ghost Machine, Torchwood: Cyberwoman, Torchwood: Small Worlds, Torchwood: Countrycide, Torchwood: They Keep Killing Suzie, Torchwood: Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood: End of Days (2006-07)
Career highlights
Sophie's earliest credit was as third assistant director on Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1995, which was written and directed by Peter Capaldi and won an Oscar for Best Short Film). She was then production coordinator on Bent (1997), script editor on The Magician's House (1995) and One of the Hollywood Ten (2000), and was producer on Stick or Twist (2006), Belonging (2002-09), A Very British Cover-Up (2009), Gwaith/ Cartref (2011), 15 Days (2019) and In My Skin (2020). She also acted as script producer on Casualty for 76 episodes between 2005-14. For most of her career Sophie has used the surname Francis rather than Fante.

Jo Pearce (producer)
Doctor Who credits
Produced: Attack of the Graske (2005), all 13 TARDISodes (2006)
Senior interactive producer: 14 episodes of Torchwood Declassified (2006-07)
Props buyer: The Return of Doctor Mysterio, The Pilot, Smile, Thin Ice, Knock Knock, Oxygen, Extremis, The Pyramid at the End of the World, The Lie of the Land, Empress of Mars, The Eaters of Light, The Doctor Falls (2016-17)
Jo has been with the BBC since 2002 developing network brands across new media platforms, including the 2019 Doctor Who virtual reality game The Runaway.

Andrew Whitehouse (producer)
Career highlights
Andrew started out as a publicity assistant at the BBC in 1994, then moved into online promotions, interactive media and multiplatform services between 2000-11, and has since worked in online production and gaming for various firms such as Electronic Arts, Microsoft and BT ever since.

Simon Winstone (script editor) Born 1973
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: Attack of the Graske (2005), eight TARDISodes (2006), Tooth and Claw (2006), The Idiot's Lantern (2006), The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit (2006), Love & Monsters (2006), Fear Her (2006), The Runaway Bride (2006), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane (2007), Smith and Jones (2007), The Shakespeare Code (2007), Gridlock (2007), The Lazarus Experiment (2007), 42 (2007), Utopia/ The Sound of Drums/ Last of the Time Lords (2007)
Career highlights
Simon co-wrote the 1998 Virgin Bernice Summerfield Where Angels Fear with Rebecca Levene, and was an editor of the book range. For TV, he began as a storyliner on the soap Emmerdale in 1999, and also worked in this capacity on EastEnders (2002-04). He became a producer on EastEnders between 2004-05, and latterly moved into production, working on Death in Paradise (2011-13), Hooten and the Lady (2016) and Good Omens (2019). He has also written episodes of Death in Paradise (2014/15) and Dickensian (2016).