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| The aliens with the funny tongues |
First broadcast May 15 2010
Average audience for story: 7.55m + 1.37m iPlayer = 8.92m
REGULAR CAST
Matt Smith (The Doctor) Born Oct 28 1982 Click here for Matt Smith's entry on The End of Time
Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) Born Nov 28 1987 Click here for Karen Gillan's entry on The Fires of Pompeii
Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams) Born Jun 17 1982 Click here for Arthur Darvill's entry on The Eleventh Hour
GUEST CAST
Audrey Ardington (Mrs Poggit) Jun 25 1937 to Jun 13 2019
Doctor Who credits
Played: The Abbess in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon (2007)
Played: Mrs Poggit in Amy's Choice (2010)
Career highlights
Audrey's other work includes The Girl with Brains in Her Feet (1997), Doctors (2001), Finding Richard (2014) and Small Town Hero (2017).
Doctor Who credits
Played: The Abbess in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon (2007)
Played: Mrs Poggit in Amy's Choice (2010)
Career highlights
Audrey's other work includes The Girl with Brains in Her Feet (1997), Doctors (2001), Finding Richard (2014) and Small Town Hero (2017).
Nick Hobbs (Mr Nainby) Click here for Nick Hobbs's entry on The Curse of Peladon
Career highlights
Tony made his credited debut in Orlando (1992), then Naked (1993), Cadfael (1994), Les Miserables (1998), Cousin Bette (1998), Aristocrats (1999), Midsomer Murders (1999-2000), Victoria and Albert (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002, as the voice of Dobby the House Elf), Finding Neverland (2004), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005), Infamous (2006), The Mist (2007), St Trinian's (2007), Frost/ Nixon (2008), St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009), The Rite (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), The Hunger Games (2012), Titanic (2012), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Berberian Sound Studio (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Detectorists (2014-17), Agent Carter (2015), Wayward Pines (2015-16), Dad's Army (2016), Anthropoid (2016), The Secret Agent (2016), Sherlock (2017), Journey's End (2017), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), Don't Forget the Driver (2019), First Cow (2019), Infinite (2021), Worzel Gummidge (2021) and A Boy Called Christmas (2021). He also voiced Dobby the House Elf in two Harry Potter films (2002 & 2010).
Awards
2002: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (The Play What I Wrote)
2012: British Independent Film Award for Best Actor (Berberian Sound Studio)
2013: Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor (Berberian Sound Studio)
2015: Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actor (Marvellous & Detectorists)
2018: BAFTA TV Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme (Detectorists)
2021: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama
Facts
Toby - who is the son of veteran actor Freddie Jones - can be seen in the music video for Gomez's Whippin' Piccadilly (1998). His brother is director Rupert Jones. Toby went to school with all four members of the band Radiohead, as well as fellow actor Tom Hollander.
Joan Linder (Mrs Hamill) Born Oct 1933
Career highlights
Joan's earliest screen credit is The Makepeace Story (1955), followed by roles in The Bill (1986), Happy Feet (1991), Nelson's Column (1995), My Hero (2000), Lee Evans: So What Now? (2001), According to Bex (2005), Little Britain (2004-05), Psychoville (2011), Derek (2012), Pompidou (2015), Vicious (2015), Tracey Ullman's Show (2016-17) and The Moment Trap (2021).
CREW
Simon Nye (writer) Born Jul 29 1958
Career highlights
Simon is one of the UK's foremost television writers who came to prominence for creating the popular sitcom Men Behaving Badly (1992-98), which spawned its own American version 1996-97. Other writing work includes Frank Stubbs (1993), My Wonderful Life (1996, which he also produced), Is It Legal? (1995-98), The Last Salute (1998-99), How Do You Want Me? (1998-99), Beast (2000-01), The Savages (2001, which he also produced), Pollyanna (2003), Hardware (2003-04), Carrie and Barry (2004-05), My Family and Other Animals (2005), Reggie Perrin (2009-10), Just William (2010), In with the Flynns (2012), Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014), Down Dog (2014), The Durrells (2016-19), Urban Myths (2018-19), Finding Alice (2021) and The Larkins (2021). He also wrote a number of pantomimes written for television between 1998-2002.
Facts
Toby - who is the son of veteran actor Freddie Jones - can be seen in the music video for Gomez's Whippin' Piccadilly (1998). His brother is director Rupert Jones. Toby went to school with all four members of the band Radiohead, as well as fellow actor Tom Hollander.
Joan Linder (Mrs Hamill) Born Oct 1933
Career highlights
Joan's earliest screen credit is The Makepeace Story (1955), followed by roles in The Bill (1986), Happy Feet (1991), Nelson's Column (1995), My Hero (2000), Lee Evans: So What Now? (2001), According to Bex (2005), Little Britain (2004-05), Psychoville (2011), Derek (2012), Pompidou (2015), Vicious (2015), Tracey Ullman's Show (2016-17) and The Moment Trap (2021).
CREW
Simon Nye (writer) Born Jul 29 1958
Career highlights
Simon is one of the UK's foremost television writers who came to prominence for creating the popular sitcom Men Behaving Badly (1992-98), which spawned its own American version 1996-97. Other writing work includes Frank Stubbs (1993), My Wonderful Life (1996, which he also produced), Is It Legal? (1995-98), The Last Salute (1998-99), How Do You Want Me? (1998-99), Beast (2000-01), The Savages (2001, which he also produced), Pollyanna (2003), Hardware (2003-04), Carrie and Barry (2004-05), My Family and Other Animals (2005), Reggie Perrin (2009-10), Just William (2010), In with the Flynns (2012), Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014), Down Dog (2014), The Durrells (2016-19), Urban Myths (2018-19), Finding Alice (2021) and The Larkins (2021). He also wrote a number of pantomimes written for television between 1998-2002.
Awards
1995: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for TV - Situation Comedy (Men Behaving Badly)
2017: British Screenwriters' Award for Best Comedy Writing on Television (The Durrells)
Facts
Simon started his career as a translator, publishing translations of books on Richard Wagner, Henri Matisse and Georges Braque. He continues to adapt translations, including Moliere's Don Juan and Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
Catherine Morshead (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Amy's Choice (2010), The Lodger (2010)
Career highlights
Catherine's earliest directing credit was on Science Fiction (1990), followed by Emmerdale Farm (1990), Haggard (1992), Heartbeat (1993-94), Dangerfield (1995), Playing the Field (1998), A Christmas Carol (2000), Cutting It (2002-04), Shameless (2006), Viva Blackpool (2006), Mutual Friends (2008), Ashes to Ashes (2008-09), Silk (2011), The Hour (2012), Downton Abbey (2013-14), Fungus the Bogeyman (2015), No Offence (2015-18), Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019), The One (2021), Pennyworth (2021) and Becoming Elizabeth (2022).
Facts
Simon started his career as a translator, publishing translations of books on Richard Wagner, Henri Matisse and Georges Braque. He continues to adapt translations, including Moliere's Don Juan and Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
Catherine Morshead (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Amy's Choice (2010), The Lodger (2010)
Career highlights
Catherine's earliest directing credit was on Science Fiction (1990), followed by Emmerdale Farm (1990), Haggard (1992), Heartbeat (1993-94), Dangerfield (1995), Playing the Field (1998), A Christmas Carol (2000), Cutting It (2002-04), Shameless (2006), Viva Blackpool (2006), Mutual Friends (2008), Ashes to Ashes (2008-09), Silk (2011), The Hour (2012), Downton Abbey (2013-14), Fungus the Bogeyman (2015), No Offence (2015-18), Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019), The One (2021), Pennyworth (2021) and Becoming Elizabeth (2022).
Awards
2016: Royal Television Society Award for Drama Series (No Offence) - shared with Paul Abbott, Martin Carr and Anna Ferguson
Tracie Simpson (producer) Click here for Tracie Simpson's entry on Planet of the Dead
Brian Minchin (script editor) Born Aug 5 1978 Click here for Brian Minchin's entry on Voyage of the Damned
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