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| The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Bill (Pearl Mackie) at the 1814 frost fair |
First broadcast; Apr 29 2017
Average audience for story: 5.61m
REGULAR CAST
Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) Born Apr 14 1958 Click here for Peter Capaldi's entry on The Fires of Pompeii
Matt Lucas (Nardole) Born Mar 5 1974 Click here for Matt Lucas's entry on The Husbands of River Song
Pearl Mackie (Bill Potts) Born May 29 1987 Click here for Pearl Mackie's entry on The Pilot
GUEST CAST
Nicholas Burns (Lord Sutcliffe) Born 1977
Career highlights
Debuted in Surrealisimo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali (2002), followed by roles in The Bill (2002), The House That Jack Built (2002), Cambridge Spies (2003), A Touch of Frost (2004), Swiss Toni (2004), The Mighty Boosh (2005), Fear of Fanny (2006), Born Equal (2006), Man Stroke Woman (2005-07), Roman's Empire (2007), The IT Crowd (2007), No Heroics (2008-09), Misfits (2009), The Sinking of the Laconia (2011), Psychoville (2011), The World's End (2013), The Tractate Middoth (2013), The Crimson Field (2014), The Lady in the Van (2015), Houdini and Doyle (2016), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016), Ghost stories (2017), The Crown (2017), Wannabe (2018), Manhunt (2019), Harlots (2019), Small Axe (2020), Censor (2021) and The Serpent Queen (2022). Nicholas may also be familiar from several longer-running roles, including Nick Mayer in Absolute Power (2003-05), the title character in Nathan Barley (2005), Martin Weedon in Benidorm (2007-14), Michael in Marley's Ghosts (2015-16) and Ben in Uncle (2014-17).
Facts
In 2014, Nicholas's wife Louise publicly shamed hotel Claridge's after she was asked to cover herself with a napkin as she breast-fed her 12-week-old baby daughter. Here's Nicholas on Twitter.
Career highlights
Debuted in Surrealisimo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali (2002), followed by roles in The Bill (2002), The House That Jack Built (2002), Cambridge Spies (2003), A Touch of Frost (2004), Swiss Toni (2004), The Mighty Boosh (2005), Fear of Fanny (2006), Born Equal (2006), Man Stroke Woman (2005-07), Roman's Empire (2007), The IT Crowd (2007), No Heroics (2008-09), Misfits (2009), The Sinking of the Laconia (2011), Psychoville (2011), The World's End (2013), The Tractate Middoth (2013), The Crimson Field (2014), The Lady in the Van (2015), Houdini and Doyle (2016), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016), Ghost stories (2017), The Crown (2017), Wannabe (2018), Manhunt (2019), Harlots (2019), Small Axe (2020), Censor (2021) and The Serpent Queen (2022). Nicholas may also be familiar from several longer-running roles, including Nick Mayer in Absolute Power (2003-05), the title character in Nathan Barley (2005), Martin Weedon in Benidorm (2007-14), Michael in Marley's Ghosts (2015-16) and Ben in Uncle (2014-17).
Facts
In 2014, Nicholas's wife Louise publicly shamed hotel Claridge's after she was asked to cover herself with a napkin as she breast-fed her 12-week-old baby daughter. Here's Nicholas on Twitter.
Asiatu Koroma (Kitty) Born c.2002
Career highlights
Asiatu's only other screen work to date is Hollyoaks (2015) and Krypton (2018).
Simon Ludders (Overseer) Born 1968
Doctor Who credits
Played: Patient in New Earth (2006)
Played: Overseer in Thin Ice (2017)
Career highlights
Simon made his screen debut doing the voice of Roderigo in Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Othello (1994), followed by roles in Every Cloud (1996), Harpur and Iles (1997), Care (2000), The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002), The Basil Brush Show (2002), I'm Alan Partridge (2002), Calendar Girls (2003), Green Wing (2006), Wire in the Blood (2008), The Green Green Grass (2009), Baker Boys (2011), Becoming Human (2011), Broadchurch (2013), Doctors (2014), Stella (2016), The Dumping Ground (2017), Red Joan (2018), Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (2019), Silver Darlings (2019), Miss Scarlett and the Duke (2020), Bridgerton (2020) and The Irregulars (2021). Simon also played Sid the Source in 13 episodes of Scoop (2009), had various roles in Gigglebiz (2009-11) and played Renfield in 66 episodes of Young Dracula (2006-14). He's also a prolific scriptwriter, having worked on Lucky Bag (1999), TV to Go (2001), The Armstrong and Miller Show (2009-10), Gigglebiz (2011), Tati's Hotel (2011) and Stella (2013-16).
Facts
Here's Simon on Twitter.
Doctor Who credits
Played: Patient in New Earth (2006)
Played: Overseer in Thin Ice (2017)
Career highlights
Simon made his screen debut doing the voice of Roderigo in Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Othello (1994), followed by roles in Every Cloud (1996), Harpur and Iles (1997), Care (2000), The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002), The Basil Brush Show (2002), I'm Alan Partridge (2002), Calendar Girls (2003), Green Wing (2006), Wire in the Blood (2008), The Green Green Grass (2009), Baker Boys (2011), Becoming Human (2011), Broadchurch (2013), Doctors (2014), Stella (2016), The Dumping Ground (2017), Red Joan (2018), Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (2019), Silver Darlings (2019), Miss Scarlett and the Duke (2020), Bridgerton (2020) and The Irregulars (2021). Simon also played Sid the Source in 13 episodes of Scoop (2009), had various roles in Gigglebiz (2009-11) and played Renfield in 66 episodes of Young Dracula (2006-14). He's also a prolific scriptwriter, having worked on Lucky Bag (1999), TV to Go (2001), The Armstrong and Miller Show (2009-10), Gigglebiz (2011), Tati's Hotel (2011) and Stella (2013-16).
Facts
Here's Simon on Twitter.
Tomi May (Dowell) Born 1971
Career highlights
Debuted in Red Letter (2009), followed by Doctors (2011), White Heat (2012), Jo (2013), The Job Lot (2013), Toast of London (2013), Sherlock (2014), Hollyoaks (2014), The Interceptor (2015), The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (2016), Coronation Street (2016), Moving On (2016), EastEnders (2017), Justice League (2017), Jamestown (2018), Emmerdale (2018), The Bromley Boys (2018), Vikings (2018), Line of Duty (2012-19), Killing Eve (2019), The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021), The Lazarus Project (2022) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022).
Facts
He's of Serbian-English parentage. He began acting in 2007 after 20 years of working as a dance DJ. You can also spot him in a 2011 TV advert for Newcastle Brown Ale. Here's Tomi on Twitter.
Career highlights
Debuted in Red Letter (2009), followed by Doctors (2011), White Heat (2012), Jo (2013), The Job Lot (2013), Toast of London (2013), Sherlock (2014), Hollyoaks (2014), The Interceptor (2015), The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (2016), Coronation Street (2016), Moving On (2016), EastEnders (2017), Justice League (2017), Jamestown (2018), Emmerdale (2018), The Bromley Boys (2018), Vikings (2018), Line of Duty (2012-19), Killing Eve (2019), The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021), The Lazarus Project (2022) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022).
Facts
He's of Serbian-English parentage. He began acting in 2007 after 20 years of working as a dance DJ. You can also spot him in a 2011 TV advert for Newcastle Brown Ale. Here's Tomi on Twitter.
Ellie Shenker (Dot)
Career highlights
Ellie's other work includes Brimstone (2016), Doctors (2018) and A Discovery of Witches (2018).
Ellie's other work includes Brimstone (2016), Doctors (2018) and A Discovery of Witches (2018).
Peter Singh (The Pie-Man) Born Sep 15 1988
Career highlights
Peter made his debut in The Syndicate in 2012, followed by parts in Count Arthur Strong (2013), Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013), Hollyoaks Later (2013), Hamlet (2015), Capital (2015), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2016), Catastrophe (2017), Coconut (2017), Motherland (2017), Johnny English Strikes Again (2018), The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), The Capture (2019), Cruella (2021) and Hard Cell (2022). He also played Dr Inman in In the Club (2014-16), Matthew Singh in Coronation Street (2015-17) and was a regular in Gigglebiz (2013-19).
Facts
Peter was cleared of sexual assault in 2016 after being accused by a female police officer of groping her bottom. As well as being an actor, Peter is also a landlord of HMO properties in Ealing, London.
Badger Skelton (Perry)
Career highlights
Badger debuted in the short Leading the Blind (2012), followed by Home Sweet Home (2013), The Secret Agent (2016), This Country (2017), Two for Joy (2018), Original Gangster (2020), EastEnders (2021), The Larkins (2021) and The Last Bus (2022).
Career highlights
Badger debuted in the short Leading the Blind (2012), followed by Home Sweet Home (2013), The Secret Agent (2016), This Country (2017), Two for Joy (2018), Original Gangster (2020), EastEnders (2021), The Larkins (2021) and The Last Bus (2022).
Facts
Badger has two acting brothers: Sonnyboy and Buddy.
Austin Taylor (Spider)
Career highlights
Austin's other work includes Doc Martin (2015), My Cousin Rachel (2017), Quacks (2017) and Hetty Feather (2018).
Kishaina Thiruselvan (Harriet) Born 2006
This is Kishaina's screen debut.
This is Kishaina's screen debut.
CREW
Sarah Dollard (writer) Born Jan 21 1980
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Face the Raven (2015), Thin Ice (2017)
Career highlights
Australian Sarah started her TV career as a script editor on Australian soap Neighbours (2005-08), and fulfilled similar script doctoring duties on The Saddle Club (2008), Merlin (2009), Primeval (2011) and Stella (2012). Her script writing work began by writing episodes of Neighbours (2007-13), as well as writing a series of Primeval webisodes in 2010, Being Human (2013), The Game (2014), Love Me (2014, which she also created and produced), You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), The Halcyon (2017), The White Princess (2017), Bridgerton (2020) and A Discovery of Witches (2018/21). Sarah was also a producer on Bridgerton (2020) and Cuckoo Song (2023).
Facts
Here's Sarah on Twitter.
Bill Anderson (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Thin Ice (2017), Knock Knock (2017)
Career highlights
Bill's directing work began with The King of Jazz (1991), then Creatures of Light (1992), Guardians (1996), Melissa (1997), The Lakes (1999), Fields of Gold (2002), Spooks (2004), Lewis (2006-10), Taggart (2010), DCI Banks (2011), The Mill (2014), Mr Selfridge (2016) and Silent Witness (2018/22).
Facts
Bill joint-won the Edinburgh International Film Festival's Chaplin Award in 1992 for Best First Feature for Creatures of Light.
Nikki Wilson (producer) Click here for Nikki's entry on The Sontaran Stratagem
Nick Lambon (script editor) Click here for Nick Lambon's entry on Under the Lake
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