The Caretaker

The Skovox Blitzer on the rampage
at Coal Hill School

One episode (The Caretaker)
First broadcast Sep 27 2014
Average audience for story: 6.82m + 0.97m iPlayer = 7.79m

REGULAR CAST

Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) Born Apr 14 1958 Click here for Peter Capaldi's entry on The Fires of Pompeii

Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) Born Apr 27 1986 Click here for Jenna Coleman's entry on Asylum of the Daleks

GUEST CAST

Chris Addison (Seb) Born Nov 5 1971
Doctor Who credits
Played: Seb in The Caretaker, Dark Water/ Death in Heaven (all 2014)
Career highlights
Chris, who is principally a stand-up comedian, got his acting debut in Lab Rats (2008), followed by Apocalypse 2012 (2012), The Look of Love (2013), Trying Again (2014, which he also created), Patriot (2018) and Horrible Histories: The Movie (2019). He will be best known for playing David Blood in Skins (2010-12) and Oliver Reeder alongside Peter Capaldi in The Thick of It (2005-12). As a writer he has worked on Harry Hill's TV Burp (2002), Lab Rats and My Funniest Year (2011) and Breeders (2020-22, which he also created), while he has also directed The Thick of It (2012), Veep (2013-16), Playing House (2017) and Breeders. Chris was also an executive producer on Trying Again and Veep. Chris appears on many TV comedy and panel shows, including 8 Out of 10 Cats, What the Dickens?, Argumental, Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week and QI.

Awards

2015: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series (Veep) - shared with production team

2016: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series (Veep) - shared with production team
Facts
In 2011-12, Chris took part in a series of TV adverts for Direct Line car insurance alongside fellow Doctor Who alumnus Alexander Armstrong. He has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival several times, and in 2011 released his own live stand-up DVD. He has also written books: Cautionary Tales for Grown-Ups (2006) and It Wasn't Me: Why Everybody is to Blame and You're Not (2008). Here he is on Twitter.

Samuel Anderson (Danny Pink) Born Apr 27 1982 Click here for Samuel Anderson's entry on Into the Dalek

Oliver Barry-Brook (Kelvin) Born 2000
Career highlights
Other work includes The Boy with Chocolate Fingers (2011), Big School (2013), The Boy in the Dress (2014) and Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2015).
Facts
Oliver's first acting role was at the age of 12 months, in a TV commercial for nappies! You can also see Oliver in the music video for Javeon's Intoxicated (2014). Here he is on Twitter.

Nigel Betts (Mr Armitage) Born Oct 5 1963
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mr Armitage in Into the Dalek, The Caretaker, Dark Water (voice only) (all 2014), Class: For Tonight We Might Die (2016), Class: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (2016)
Career highlights
Debuted in Jekyll & Hyde (1990), then The Whipping Boy (1994), Sharpe's Mission (1996), Coupling (2000), Barbara (2002), Thunderpants (2002), Paradise Heights (2002), Keen Eddie (2003), The Eustace Bros. (2003), Cheeky (2003), Grease Monkeys (2004), EastEnders (2006), Grange Hill (2007), Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007), The Catherine Tate Show (2006-07), Moving Wallpaper (2009), Lipstikka (2011), Downton Abbey (2013), The Christmas Candle (2013), Our Zoo (2014), The Wrong Mans (2014), Boy Meets Girl (2015-16), The Coroner (2016), Vera (2017), Bounty Hunters (2017), Outlander (2017), Trollied (2018), Pennyworth (2019), Father Brown (2020), The A Word (2020), All Those Small Things (2021), Ridley Road (2021), All Creatures Great and Small (2020-21) and Ralph and Katie (2022). Regular roles include Eddie Hope in Emmerdale (2003/07) and Alan Walker in You, Me & Them (2013-15).
Facts
Here's Nigel on Twitter.

Nanya Campbell (Noah) Born 1999
This is Nanya's only credit. He now works in financial services.

Winston Ellis (Mr Woods) Born 1965
Career highlights
Debuted in The Cyprus Tigers (1990), then Angel on Fire (1995), The Quest (1996), Chinese Box (1997), Shiner (2000), Big Bad World (2001), ChuckleVision (2003), Dream Team (2005), Hustle (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), Breaking Down (2014), 100 Streets (2016), This is Not About You (2019) and No Time to Die (2021). He also played Palifico in the Pirates of the Caribbean films Dead Man's Chest and At World's End (2006-07). In 2014-15 he performed stunts on Penny Dreadful, and on Vikings in 2017.
Facts
Winston is a regular judge of the Miss Great Britain contest, and also claims to be a three-times Thai Boxing World Champion.

Ellis George (Courtney Woods) Born Aug 30 1998
Doctor Who credits
Played: Courtney Woods in Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, The Caretaker, Kill the Moon (all 2014)
Career highlights

Further work includes Small Axe (2020), Blood Rites (2022) and Grace (2022).

Andy Gillies (CSO Matthew)
Career highlights
Debuted in Breakfast at Barbie's (2005), then Love Soup (2005), Ultimate Force (2006), Dirty Money (2012), The Tunnel (2013), Jamaica Inn (2014), Man Down (2015), The Last Post (2015), Houdini and Doyle (2016), Taboo (2017), King of Thieves (2018), Living the Dream (2019) and Back (2021).
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Gracy Goldman (Mrs Woods) Born 1980
Career highlights
Debuted in Between the Lines (1993), then Casualty (1993), Crown Prosecutor (1995), Soldier Soldier (1995), The Detectives (1997), Doctors (2001), The Bill (2007), Victoria (2015), Sense8 (2016), Years and Years (2019), Breeders (2021) and Wednesday (2022).
Facts
Until 1997, Gracy was credited as Grace Mattaka. She is also a Dutch language tutor. She lived in the UK until the age of nine, when she moved to Holland because her father was released from jail in Tazmania following a ten-year sentence (he had been accused of speaking out against Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and Tanzanian activist Julius Nyerere for crimes against humanity). Here she is on Twitter.

Edward Harrison (Adrian) Born 1982
Career highlights
Edward's other screen credits include Wreckers (2009), Brando-ing (2013), Genius (2017), EastEnders (2019) and Last Train to Christmas (2021). He has also worked extensively in theatre since 2003, working for directors such as Sir Peter Hall, Michael Grandage and Kenneth Branagh.
Facts
Here's Edward on Twitter.

Diana Katis (Mrs Christopholou) Born 1957
Career highlights
Diana's earliest screen credit was A Family Affair (1979), followed by work in Samuel Beckett's Film (1979), The Borgias (1981), Privileged (1982), The Fourth Arm (1983), Worlds Beyond (1987), Only Fools and Horses (1989), The Bill (1989), The Biz (1995) and Snowflakes (2017).

Ramone Morgan (Tobias) Born 1998
Career highlights
Other work includes Law and Order UK (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013).
Facts
When Ramone isn't acting he works in engineering.

Jimmy Vee (Skovox Blitzer) 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.

Joshua Warner-Campbell (Yashe) Born Sep 9 1998
Career highlights
Joshua's other work includes Rev (2010), Broken (2012) and Doctors (2016). He also played Smallie in 12 episodes of Beaver Falls in 2011-12.
Facts
Joshua is also a rapper, going by the name of J-Movez.

CREW

Gareth Roberts (writer) Born Jun 5 1968 Click here for Gareth Roberts' entry on Attack of the Graske

Steven Moffat (writer) Born Nov 18 1961 Click here for Steven Moffat's entry on The Empty Child

Paul Murphy (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Robot of Sherwood (2014), The Caretaker (2014)
Career highlights
Paul has also directed episodes of Brookside (2002), Grange Hill (2003-05), Trexx and Flipside (2008), The Case (2011), Waterloo Road (2012), Trollied (2012-18), Wizards vs Aliens (2013), Hollyoaks (2014), Casualty (2006-14, which he has also produced), Death in Paradise (2015), Galavant (2016), Hospital People (2017), Home from Home (2018), Cuckoo (2016-18), American Housewife (2018-20), Red Election (2021) and North Sea Connection (2022). Paul has also produced for series including Red Election and North Sea Connection.

Nikki Wilson (producer) Click here for Nikki's entry on The Sontaran Stratagem

David P Davis (script editor)
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: Robot of Sherwood, Listen, Time Heist, The Caretaker, Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline, In the Forest of the Night, Dark Water/ Death in Heaven, Last Christmas, The Zygon Inversion, The Husbands of River Song (2014-15)
Career highlights
David has also edited scripts for Merlin (2010), Casualty (2011-14) and Electric Dreams (2017), as well as being a researcher on Holby City (2009-10). He wrote an episode of Casualty in 2012, and was an executive producer on Industry (2020-22).
Facts
Here's David on Twitter.

Derek Ritchie (script editor) Born 1978
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Time of the Doctor (2013), Deep Breath (2014), Into the Dalek (2014), The Caretaker (2014). Derek also script edited the 50th anniversary sketch The Five(ish) Doctors (Reboot) (2013)
Produced: The Doctor's Meditation, Under the Lake/ Before the Flood, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived (all 2015), Class (2016). He also produced Strax's cinema introduction for Deep Breath (2014)
Career highlights
Derek first worked as a locations assistant on The Book Group (2003), and has also edited scripts for Wizards vs Aliens (2012-13). He also produced that series in 2014. As an assistant director he has worked on The Planman (2003), AfterLife (2003), Shoebox Zoo (2004), The Last King of Scotland (2006), Still Game (2002-07), Identity (2010), Frankenstein's Wedding... Live in Leeds (2011), Becoming Human (2011) and Being Human (2008-12). Production work includes Luther (2019), The Capture (2019) and Then You Run (2022).