Doctor Who Cast & Crew Guide: December 2013

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

The Macra Terror

The Controller (Graham Leaman) struggles
with his lobster thermidor

Four episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4)
First broadcast Mar 11 to Apr 1 1967
Average audience for serial: 8.20m

An episode by episode review of this story can be read on Time Space Visualiser here.

REGULAR CAST

Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) Mar 25 1920 to Mar 28 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks

Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born Sep 22 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders

Graham Armitage (Barney) Apr 24 1936 to Mar 6 1999
Career highlights
Graham's other appearances include Without the Prince (1952), The Haunted House (1960), A Wedding (1961), Crossroads (1964), Mr Rose (1967-68), The Saint (1968), Six Dates with Barker (1971), The Devils (1971), The Boy Friend (1971), The Dick Emery Show (1969-74), The Naked Civil Servant (1975), Open All Hours (1976), Flashpoint Africa (1984), Shaka Zulu (1987), Oddball Hall (1990), Fleshtone (1994), Kickboxer 5 (1995), Cry, the Beloved Country (1995), Hard to Forget (1998) and Alec to the Rescue (1999).
Facts
Graham moved to South Africa in 1973 and became closely associated with the Natal Performing Arts Council (now the Playhouse Company) in Durban.

Richard Beale (Broadcaster voice) May 13 1920 to Mar 27 2017
Doctor Who credits
Played: Refusian voice in The Ark (1966)
Played: Bat Masterson in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Broadcaster in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Minister of ecology in The Green Death (1973)
Career highlights
Richard's career began in The Battle of the River Plate (1956), followed by roles in Private Investigator (1958), Madame Bovary (1964), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965), The Mating Machine (1970), Jude the Obscure (1971), Emmerdale Farm (1972), Special Branch (1974), Treasure Island (1977), Blake's 7 (1978), Secret Army (1979), Camille (1984), CATS Eyes (1985), The Tripods (1985), Return to Treasure Island (1986), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1990), EastEnders (1990-91), Lovejoy (1994), Family Money (1996), Down to Earth (2001) and Afterlife (2005). He also regularly played Edward Derwent in A Horseman Riding By (1978).
Facts
After leaving the Royal Navy, Richard worked for his father's print firm for a decade until becoming an actor. He retired from the profession in 2005, aged 85, but continued this love of sailing and racing single-handedly until he turned 90. In 2015 he released a memoir entitled One Man's War.

Sandra Bryant (Chicki) Born Sep 30 1945
Doctor Who credits
Played: Kitty in The War Machines (1966)
Played: Chicki in The Macra Terror (episode 1, 1967)
Career highlights
After starting out with an uncredited role as a schoolgirl in Carry On Teacher (1959), Sandra's other credits include Suspense (1963), Emergency Ward 10 (1967), Sat'day While Sunday (1967), Coronation Street (1969), Rogues' Gallery (1969), Special Branch (1969-70), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973), On the Buses (1973), Billy Liar (1974), Not on Your Nellie (1975) and Breakaway (1980).
Facts
She played Chicki in episode 1 of The Macra Terror, but was released from her contract before the character's reappearance in episode 4, and replaced by Karol Keyes. In 1970 she married TV production designer and later film art director Terry Gough. This Sandra Bryant is not the same Sandra Bryant who released two pop records in 1967.

John Caesar (Guard) Jan 23 1926 to Jun 11 2000
Doctor Who credits
Played: Second man in market in The Romans (1965)
Played: Egyptian warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66, uncredited)
Played: Monoid Four in The Ark (1966)
Played: Cowboy in The Gunfighters (1966, uncredited)
Played: Guard in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Pirate guard in The Space Pirates (1969, uncredited)
Played: CPO Myers in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: R/T soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Career highlights
John's first credit was in The Escape of RD7 (1961), then Maigret (1963), Bat Out of Hell (1966), No Hiding Place (1967), War and Peace (1972), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Janet and Company (1982) and The Bill (1989).

Ralph Carrigan (Cheerleader) Nov 1 1933 to Apr 4 2007
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in The Myth Makers (1965, uncredited)
Played: Monoid in The Ark (1966)
Played: Cheerleader in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: White Robot in The Mind Robber (1968)
Played: Cyberman in The Invasion (1968)
Career highlights
Ralph's only other credit is a Wednesday Play (1965) and The Body Stealers (1969).

Steve Emerson (Guard) Born Oct 31 1934
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in The Macra Terror (1967), Revelation of the Daleks (1985, uncredited)
Played: Resistance man in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: UNIT soldier in The Claws of Axos (1971, uncredited)
Played: Retrograde in Frontios (1984, uncredited)
Career highlights
Steve debuted in Taxi! (1964), then Softly Softly (1966), Ransom for a Pretty Girl (1966), Germinal (1970), Man of Violence (1971), The Brothers (1972), Poldark (1975), Follow Me (1977), Robin's Nest (1981), The Nation's Health (1983), The Two Ronnies (1985), The Bill (1986), The Kenny Everett Television Show (1988), Dramarama (1989), Queen of Swords (2001), Shaun of the Dead (2004) and New Tricks (2005).

Jane Enshawe (Sunnaa) Born Oct 23 1941 (?)
Career highlights

Also has credits in Crossroads (1964), Going to Work (1968) and Jamie, on a Flying Visit (1968).

Facts

Records show a woman called Jane E Enshaw marrying American William L Scholz, the latter of whom died in 1989. Records then show a Jane Elizabeth Scholz (maiden name Enshaw) marrying Thomas Eugene Waldrop in 1997, and they currently reside in Virginia, USA.

Ian Fairbairn (Questa) Sep 17 1931 to Dec 2 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: Questa in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Gregory in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Bromley in Inferno (1970)
Played: Dr Chester in The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Career highlights
Ian's career began with a 1960 episode of Scotland Yard, and then appeared in Emergency Ward 10 (1961-62), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), The Troubleshooters (1969), The Lotus Eaters (1973), The Professionals (1977/80), Dramarama (1986) and Last of the Summer Wine (1991). Self-confessed hoarder Ian, who played Dr Frazer in Timeslip between 1970-71, retained the only original Timeslip scripts known to exist!

Anthony Gardner (Alvis) 1938 to Jun 3 2023
Career highlights
Anthony's earliest appearance was in Hamlet (1961), then Suspense (1962), Mysteries and Miracles (1965), Mister Ten Per Cent (1967), Codename (1970), Orde Wingate (1976), Warship (1977), Secret Army (1979), Blake's 7 (1980) and Twenty-One (1991).

Denis Goacher (Control voice) Jun 9 1925 to Apr 23 1998
Career highlights
Denis's other roles include Daughter of Darkness (1948), Arrow to the Heart (1952), St Ives (1960), playing Kurt Swendler in both City Beath the Sea (1962) and Secret Beneath the Sea (1963), Haunted (1967), Sexton Blake (1968), Special Branch (1970) and Dixon of Dock Green (1975). Denis was credited as Denis Gordon until 1951, and had a regular role as Tony in the sitcom Family Affairs (1949-50).
Facts
Denis was also a writer and poet and worked as secretary to fascist American poet Ezra Pound in the 1950s. In the 1980s Denis was living alone and in chronic health in Pimlico, where his spiritual home was Gordon's Wine Bar off Charing Cross Road. A plaque in his memory can be found in Gordon's on Villiers Street, London. He was married for a time to Margaret Vines, a leading actress in the West End in the 1920s and 30s who left her first husband to run away with Denis.

John Harvey (Officia) Sep 27 1911 to Jul 19 1982
Doctor Who credits
Played: Professor Brett in The War Machines (1966)
Played: Officia in The Macra Terror (1967)
Career highlights
With a career starting in Moscow Nights (1935), John was prolific, and had roles in Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949), Stage Fright (1950), X: The Unknown (1956), Ivanhoe (1958), Invisible Man (1959), The Old Dark House (1963), The Plane Makers (1964-65), They Came from Beyond Space (1967), A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967), The Deadly Bees (1967), The Borderers (1970), Sykes (1972), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973), Man About the House (1976), George and Mildred (1976), Rentaghost (1976), Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1978) and The Racing Game (1979).

Peter Jeffrey (Pilot) Apr 18 1929 to Dec 25 1999 (prostate cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Pilot in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Count Grendel in The Androids of Tara (1978)
Career highlights
Prolific Peter was a familiar face on British TV, having started out aged just 15 in the short Sports Day (1944). He then went on to appear in The Castiglioni Brothers (1958), The Spread of the Eagle (1963), Becket (1964), The Plane Makers (1964-65), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), The Avengers (1966/67/68), If... (1968), Goodbye Gemini (1970), Countess Dracula (1971), The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971), Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972), Napoleon and Love (1974), Survivors (1975), Porridge (1975), The New Avengers (1976), Midnight Express (1978), Bognor (1981), One By One (1984-85), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Chelworth (1989), The Detectives (1993), Lipstick on Your Collar (1993), Middlemarch (1994), Our Friends in the North (1996), The Moonstone (1997) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999).
Facts
Peter was one of the actors offered the role of the Doctor when William Hartnell vacated the role. His speech from the film If... ("Britain today is a powerhouse...") was sampled by pop group Dreadzone on their single Little Britain in 1995. His first wife was the actress Yvonne Bonnamy, with whom he had five children, including actor Victoria Jeffrey.

Roger Jerome (Cheerleader) Born Jul 3 1936
Career highlights
Roger's only other screen work was two episodes of Z Cars in 1968. Roger, who was a founder member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, was a college lecturer for 22 years, before moving to Ohio, USA in 1988 to become a theatre director, performer (principally as Charles Dickens) and workshop leader.

In 2019 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Roger here.

Robert Jewell (Macra operator) Jan 20 1920 to May 10 1998 Click here for Robert Jewell's entry on The Daleks

Karol Keyes (Chicki) Jun 11 1946 to Dec 24 2017
Doctor Who credits
Played: Chicki in The Macra Terror (episode 4, 1967)
Played: Sheila in Frontier in Space (1973 - as Luan Peters)
Career highlights
Karol (born Carol Hirsch) also appeared in Dixon of Dock Green (1967), The Caesars (1968) and Strange Report (1969), and after changing her name in 1970 (to Luan Peters, derived from a town in Russia, and the Hollywood actress Jean Peters), made further appearances in Lust for a Vampire (1971), On the Buses (1971), Man of Violence (1971), Coronation Street (1971), Albert! (1971), Twins of Evil (1971), The Flesh and Blood Show (1972), Vampira (1974), The Boys and Mrs B (1977), The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980) and The Bill (1989/90). She also appeared as a Maid of the Month in several episodes of The Golden Shot (1971), and that same year took the lead role as an adventuring go-go girl in the 13-part series Go Girl aka Give Me a Ring Sometime or Passport to Murder, which was never shown on TV but episode one was later released on video. She also appeared as herself in episodes of Thank Your Lucky Stars (1964), The Beat Room (1964), Musikladen (1977) and Cannon and Ball (1980). She started out leading the band Carol Keyes and the Big Sound (aka The Fat Sound, but Karol made them change it to Big!) in 1964 with the single No One Can Take Your Place, and later appeared on Top of the Pops in 1975 singing I'm on Fire by fronting the band 5,000 Volts (miming to the vocals of Tina Charles!). She recorded various tracks throughout the 1960s and 70s, the last being the song Trouble from the soundtrack to the 1981 Australian sex comedy Pacific Banana (in which she appeared as Candy Bubbles). Luan's appearance in The Psychiatrist episode of Fawlty Towers (1979) has immortalised her as the busty lady Basil mistakes for a light-switch! A comprehensive summary of her career can be found here.

Gertan Klauber (Ola) Mar 5 1932 to Aug 1 2008
Doctor Who credits
Played: Galley master in The Romans (1965)
Played: Ola in The Macra Terror (1967)
Career highlights
Gertan's lengthy career began in Assignment Foreign Legion (1957), then The Adventures of Ben Gunn (1958), The Big Pull (1962), Carry On Cleo (1964), Danger Man (1966), The Avengers (1969), The Goodies (1970), Carry On Henry (1971), Upstairs Downstairs (1974), Poldark (1977), Octopussy (1983), Blackadder the Third (1987), House of Cards (1990), The Famous Five (1997) and Red Cap (2003).
Facts
Czechoslavakian born Gertan was married to actress Gwendolyn Watts (sister of fellow actor Sally Watts), who appeared in three medical-themed Carry On films. They had two children, one of whom - Daniel - died before Gertan.

Maureen Lane (Drum majorette)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Brassy bar girl in The Gunfighters (1966, uncredited)
Played: Drum majorette in The Macra Terror (1967)
Career highlights
Further roles include Here I Come, Whoever I Am (1965), The Worker (1965), The World of Wooster (1966), A Farewell to Arms (1966), Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970), The Statue (1971) and Are You Being Served? (1975).

Graham Leaman (Controller) Aug 9 1920 to Jun 14 1985 (multiple sclerosis)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Controller in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Price in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Grand Marshall in The Seeds of Death (1969)
Played: Time Lord in Colony in Space (1971), The Three Doctors (1972-73)
Career highlights
His earliest credit was in Where's Charley? (1952), then Before Your Very Eyes (1956), Great Scott, It's Maynard (1956), Hancock's Half Hour (1956-59), The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960), Deadline Midnight (1961), Kenilworth (1967), The First Churchills (1969), Dead of Night (1972) and Father Brown (1974).
Facts
In 1943 Graham was on the selection panel for the formation of an entertainment troupe for 2 AGRA (Army Group Royal Artillery) in North Africa. Among those selected was comedian Spike Milligan. When the Battery Band held a reunion in 1983, Milligan noticed Graham's absence (due to him suffering from multiple sclerosis) and went to his home to transport him to the reunion. His brother John (Jack) was also an amateur actor.

Terence Lodge (Medok) Born Nov 10 1936
Doctor Who credits
Played: Medok in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Orum in Carnival of Monsters (1973)
Played: Moss in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
His CV also includes An Age of Kings (1960), The Avengers (1963/64), The Baron (1966), Germinal (1970), Jason King (1972), Barlow at Large (1975), Angels (1983), David Copperfield (1986), Hands of a Murderer (1990), The Bill (1995) and London's Burning (1995).
Facts
His birthname was Terence Ronald John Michael Stockting (incidentally, a Terence Stockting wrote a few episodes of TV soap Compact in 1964 - could that have been the same man?). Terence, who in 1959 wrote a stage play called Who's Who performed at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, briefly left the acting industry in the mid-1970s, but returned in the early 1980s. He finally retired in the late 1990s, reportedly after a negative experience on the soap Family Affairs.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Terence here.

Danny Rae (Guard)
Career highlights
Further credits include A Tale of Two Cities (1965), David Copperfield (1966), Pianorama (1974), Sweeney 2 (1978) and The Perfect House (1981).

Terry Wright (Cheerleader)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cheerleader in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: White Robot in The Mind Robber (1968)
Career highlights
Further credits include An Enemy of the State (1965), Crossroads (1966), Callan (1972), You're On Your Own (1975) and Fox (1980).

CREW

Ian Stuart Black (writer) Mar 21 1915 to Oct 13 1997 Click here for Ian Stuart Black's entry on The Savages

John Davies (director) Born Aug 20 1934
Career highlights
John's earliest directing job was the soap United! (1965-66), while other productions he worked on include The Newcomers (1966-67), Z Cars (1967-68), Germinal (1970), Bel Ami (1971), War & Peace (1972-73), The Brothers (1976), Just William (1977-78), Tales of the Unexpected (1979), The Gentle Touch (1983), Mr Palfrey of Westminster (1985), A Taste for Death (1988), Devices and Desires (1991), Unnatural Causes (1993), CI5: The New Professionals (1999) and The Bill (2000-2002). He also produced Just William, the Saturday and Sunday Night Thriller slots (1981-82), Mitch (1984), The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987, which he also developed for television) and The Chief (1995).
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with John here.

Innes Lloyd (producer) Dec 24 1925 to Aug 23 1991 Click here for Innes Lloyd's entry on The Celestial Toymaker

Gerry Davis (script editor) Feb 23 1930 to Aug 31 1991 Click here for Gerry Davis's entry on The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

Friday, December 20, 2013

The Moonbase

A Cyberman. On the moon.

Four episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4)
First broadcast Feb 11 to Mar 4 1967
Average audience for serial: 8.33m

A guide to the guest cast is at the bottom of this entry. An episode by episode review of this story can be read on Time Space Visualiser here.

REGULAR CAST

Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) Mar 25 1920 to Mar 28 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks

Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born Sep 22 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders

GUEST CAST

Barry Ashton (Scientist Franz Schultz) 1935 to May 1978
Doctor Who credits
Played: Scientist Franz Schultz in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Proctor in The Time Monster (1972)
Played: Kemp in Frontier in Space (1973)
Career highlights
Other credits include Out of the Unknown (1965), Menace (1970), Trial (1971) and Thriller (1973).

Patrick Barr (Hobson) Feb 13 1908 to Aug 29 1985
Career highlights
India born Patrick debuted in The Merry Men of Sherwood (1932) and went on to perform in Midnight at Madame Tussauds (1936), Charley's Aunt (1938), The Frightened Lady (1940), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Black Orchid (1953), The Dam Busters (1955), Saint Joan (1957), Billy Liar (1963), I Spy (1967), The Avengers (1969), Paul Temple (1971), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973), The Molly Wopsies (1976), Telford's Change (1979), Octopussy (1983) and Theban Plays: Antigone (1984). He also played Inspector John Morley in three murder mystery films in 1952, and produced a Wednesday Play in 1968 called A Beast with Two Backs.
Facts
Oxford University (Trinity) graduate Patrick was in the bowseat on Oxford's team in the 1929 University Boat race (records show he weighed 11st 5lb at the time. Cambridge won that year). During the Second World War Patrick was a conscientious objector serving with a Free French ambulance unit in North Africa. For his bravery he was awarded the Croix de Guerre.

Derek Calder (Scientist Pete Baker)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Scientist Pete Baker in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Alien technician in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: British soldier in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Time Lord technician in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Career highlights
Derek's other work includes Festival (1964), Let's Go Out (1965) and Seven Deadly Sins (1966).

Arnold Chazen (Scientist John Stacey) Jul 26 1931 to May 19 2002
Doctor Who credits
Played: Scientist John Stacey in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Auton VIP in Spearhead from Space (1970, uncredited)
Career highlights
Arnold's only other work was Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), but he later became an acclaimed chorister, singing for the Wembley United Synagogue and other Jewish collectives.
Facts
His daughter Debbie appeared in Doctor Who in Voyage of the Damned (2007). Somebody showed Debbie a clip of her father's performance while she was filming Voyage of the Damned, and she said: "It's the worst acting I've ever seen!"

Keith Goodman (Cyberman)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in The Savages (1966, uncredited)
Played: Cyberman in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Career highlights
Keith had previously appeared in Danger Man (1960), Best of Friends (1963) and Softly Softly (1966).

Peter Greene (Cyberman) Oct 28 1945 to Mar 19 2009 (stroke)
Career highlights
After his Cyber-debut, Peter went on to appear in Doctor in the House (1969), Sykes (1972), Doctor in Charge (1972-73), Are You Being Served? (1976), Doctor on the Go (1977), Metal Mickey (1981), The Young Ones (1982/84) and The Waiter (1993).
Facts
In later years, Peter (real surname Birch) worked for a research company, but kept in touch with local amateur dramatics.

Peter Hawkins (Cyberman voice) Apr 3 1924 to Jul 8 2006 Click here for Peter Hawkins's entry on The Daleks

Mark Heath (Ralph) Jun 6 1926 to Aug 15 2015
Career highlights
Jamaican born Mark first appeared in Counsellor at Law (1957) and subsequently Call Me Bwana (1963), The Avengers (1964), Paul Temple (1971), Spyder's Web (1972), Doctor on the Go (1977), Mivtsa Yonatan (1977), The Bill (1984), The Finding (1987) and Predator: The Quietus (1988).

Andre Maranne (Benoit) May 14 1926 to Apr 12 2021
Career highlights
Frenchman Andre's first credit was as Monsieur Leblanc in the 1955-56 series Bobby in France, followed by parts in 1956's The Case of the River Morgue, Private Investigator (1959), HMS Defiant (1962), The Saint (1963), Night Train to Paris (1964), Beryl Reid Says Good Evening (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), Jason King (1971), Bequest to the Nation (1973), Wings (1978), The Borgias (1981), Yes Minister (1984), A Very Peculiar Practice (1988), KYTV (1990) and Bergerac (1991). He also played Sgt Francois Chevalier in the Inspector Clouseau films (1964-83) and chef Andre in the Fawlty Towers episode Gourmet Night (1975). Andre (real name Andre Gaston Maillol) was also a co-presenter of the French teaching programme Bonjour Françoise on the BBC in the 1960s and acted in all 24 episodes of Ensemble: French for Beginners in the 1970s, also for the BBC.

Leon Maybank (Scientist Ted Braun) Oct 20 1920 to Sep 29 1983
Doctor Who credits
Played: Scientist Ted Braun in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: UNIT male operator in Day of the Daleks (1972, uncredited)
Career highlights
Leon's other work includes Don't Look Now (1950, as Laon Maybanke), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), Villains (1972), Night Watch (1973, as Laon Maybanke), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974) and Jackanory Playhouse (1977, as Laon Maybanke). He was also responsible for the idea behind the series Hit Parade (1952).
Facts
He later became a photographer, and ran a gay nightclub popular with film stars called the Calabash in Fulham, London, in the 1960s.

Denis McCarthy (Voice of Controller Rinberg) Sep 27 1916 to Apr 11 1977
Career highlights
His CV also includes The Silence of the Sea (1946), Don't Say Die (1950), Quatermass II (1955), The Hypnotist (1957), Top Secret (1961), No Hiding Place (1965), Hadleigh (1969), Upstairs, Downstairs (1972) and Churchill's People (1975).

Victor Pemberton (Scientist Jules Faure) Oct 10 1931 to Aug 13 2017
Doctor Who credits
Played: Scientist Jules Faure in The Moonbase (1967)
Script edited: The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Wrote: Fury from the Deep (1968), Doctor Who and the Pescatons (audio, 1976)
Career highlights
Victor was first and foremost a behind-camera man, writing radio serials in the early 1960s and, on TV, Send Foster (1967), Timeslip (1971), Ace of Wands (1972), Tightrope (1972), The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972-73), Within These Walls (1975) and The Case of the Frightened Lady (1983). He also acted as script editor on A Handful of Thieves (1969), was script consultant on Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock (1983-87), and producer of Benny Hill: The World's Favourite Clown (1991).
Facts
Victor is one of only a handful of people to have both written and appeared in Doctor Who credited (along with Glyn Jones, Mark Gatiss and Toby Whithouse). Victor's script for Fury from the Deep was based on his radio serial The Slide (1966), which starred Roger Delgado. From 1990, Victor wrote romantic novels based on his biographical radio series Our Family. During the 1950s and 60s Victor had a correspondence with comedy legend Stan Laurel. In 2016 Victor undertook a solo Arctic Adventure, driving 10,000km alone by car across seven countries of Europe and Scandinavia, from Murla in Spain to Bodo in Norway, all in aid of Help for Heroes (watch his video diaries here). His partner was actor David Spenser (who appeared in The Abominable Snowmen in 1967).

Edward Phillips (Scientist Bob Anders) 1927 to 2014-16 (exact date unknown)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Parisian man in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966, uncredited)
Played: Scientist Bob Anders in The Moonbase (1967)
Career highlights
Edward's first credit was in Harpers West One (1961), then Z Cars (1963), Gazette (1968), Miss Julie (1972), The Jensen Code (1973), Crossroads (1973), Robert's Robots (1973), The Dick Emery Hour (1980), Bergerac (1983), Terry and June (1985), All Creatures Great and Small (1989), May to December (1994) and Casualty (2002).
Facts
Edward Phillips went on to become an authority on jokes, and wrote many joke books.

Ron Pinnell (Scientist Jim Elliot) Mar 20 1928 to Oct 29 2021
Career highlights
Ron's further credits include Emergency (1959), Consider Your Verdict (1962), The Magic Boomerang (1965), The Long Arm (1970), Rush (1974), The Sullivans (1976), Bluey (1977), Neighbours (1985), Death of a Soldier (1986), Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1988) and The Flying Doctors (1990).
Facts
When Ron was 14, both his parents were killed in a road accident, and as both his older brothers were serving in World War 2, he had to move in with his neighbours. Aussie Ron played Dame Edna Everage's husband Norm, and her son Kenny, when Barry Humphries first began touring as the superstar housewife in 1959. In 1975, Ron and his wife Shirley got involved in a campaign to prevent the "social extinction by rapacious redevelopment" of the South Burnley suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Read all about it here, if you're so inclined.

John Rolfe (Sam) Mar 25 1935 to Aug 12 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Captain in The War Machines (1966)
Played: Sam Becket in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Fell in The Green Death (1973)
Career highlights
John's long career began in Agib and Agab (1953), then The River Flows East (1962), Cluff (1964, as Det Con Barker), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), Out of the Unknown (1971), The Brothers (1974), The Chinese Puzzle (1974), Hadleigh (1976), Blake's 7 (1978), Thomas and Sarah (1979), To Serve Them All My Days (1980), One By One (1985), Howard's Way (1985-86, as James Sinclair), Mr Bean (1992) and Joking Apart (1995).
Facts
John was apparently named after the English colonist who married Pocahontas in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1614.

Alan Rowe (Voice from Space Control, Dr Evans) Dec 14 1926 to Oct 21 2000
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice from Space Control in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Dr Evans in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Edward of Wessex in The Time Warrior (1973-74)
Played: Skinsale in Horror of Fang Rock (1977)
Played: Garif in Full Circle (1980)
Career highlights
New Zealander Alan's career began with You Never Can Tell (1955), then Sword of Freedom (1957) An Age of Kings (1960), Maigret (1963), The Forsyte Saga (1967), The First Churchills (1969), Heil Caesar! (1973), The XYY Man (1976), Crown Court (1975-79, as Justice Quinlan), Number 10 (1983), Morgan's Boy (1984), Lovejoy (1986), The Manageress (1989-90), Forever Green (1989-92) and Wycliffe (1997).
Facts
He was the long-term partner of actor Geoffrey Bayldon, who appeared in The Creature from the Pit (1979).

Robin Scott (Scientist Charlie Wise)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Scientist Charlie Wise in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: Resistance man in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Career highlights
Other work includes Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), The Power Game (1969), Upstairs, Downstairs (1972) and Sorry! (1982).

Alan Wells (Scientist Joe Benson) Died Apr 18 1993
This was his only credit.

Reg Whitehead (Cyberman) Dec 11 1932 to Mar 11 2016 Click here for Reg Whitehead's entry on The Tenth Planet

John Wills (Cyberman) Jul 20 1925 to Jan 20 1990 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Frankenstein* [sic] in The Chase (1965 - as John Maxim)
Played: Cyberman in The Moonbase (1967)
Career highlights
Australian John's acting career began with Ivanhoe (1958), followed by roles in William Tell (1959), Consider Your Verdict (1963), The Big Spender (1965), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) and The Prisoner (1967).
Note
*The character John portrays is actually Frankenstein's monster, not the scientist who created it.

Sonnie Willis (Cyberman) Aug 12 1912 to May 7 1977
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Moonbase (1967)
Played: BBC3 TV crewmember in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Career highlights
Other work includes The Voices in the Park (1967), Z Cars (1970/71) and Doomwatch (1970/72).

Michael Wolf (Nils) Jun 14 1934 to Mar 26 2002
Career highlights
German born Michael first appeared in Espionage (1964) and over the following years popped up in The Baron (1966), The Possessed (1969), The Pathfinders (1972-73), A Bridge Too Far (1977), The Enigma Files (1980), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983), War and Remembrance (1988-89) and The Countess Alice (1992).

CREW

Kit Pedler (writer) Jun 11 1927 to May 27 1981 (heart attack) Click here for Kit Pedler's entry on The War Machines

Morris Barry (director) Feb 9 1918 to Nov 20 2000
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Moonbase (1967), The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), The Dominators (1968)
Played: Tollund in The Creature from the Pit (1979)
Career highlights
Morris started out behind the cameras, directing Escape (1957), Starr and Company (1958), Barnaby Rudge (1960), Compact (1963-65), 199 Park Lane (1965), The Doctors (1970), Spy Trap (1972), Z Cars (1962-72) and Angels (1978), as well as producing The Common Room (1959), Swizzlewick (1964), Compact, The Newcomers (1965-66), The Donati Conspiracy (1973), Spy Trap (1972-75), State of Emergency (1975), Poldark (1975-76), Rough Justice (1977) and Count Dracula (1977). He latterly went into acting, debuting in Blake's 7 (1979) and including Are You Being Served? (1979), All Creatures Great and Small (1980), Tales of the Unexpected (1980), The Day of the Triffids (1981), Nanny (1983), Hi-de-Hi! (1984) and Mapp and Lucia (1986).
Facts
His wife was actress Sally Lahee, best known as Eunice Huntley in soap The Newcomers.

Innes Lloyd (producer) Dec 24 1925 to Aug 23 1991 Click here for Innes Lloyd's entry on The Celestial Toymaker

Gerry Davis (script editor) Feb 23 1930 to Aug 31 1991 Click here for Gerry Davis's entry on The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

The Underwater Menace

Lords of the dance: the Fish People

Four episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4)
First broadcast Dec 17 1966 to Jan 7 1967
Average audience for serial: 7.48m

A guide to the guest cast is at the bottom of this entry. An episode by episode review of this story can be read at Time Space Visualiser here.

REGULAR CAST

Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) Mar 25 1920 to Mar 28 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks

Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born Sep 22 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders

GUEST CAST

Paul Anil (Jacko) 1936 to Dec 29 2014
Career highlights
Paul's other work includes It Happened Like This (1963), The Avengers (1963), The Troubleshooters (1968), Juliet Bravo (1981), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), A Passage to India (1984) and The Bill (1988).

Graham Ashley (Overseer) Apr 26 1927 to Oct 30 1979
Career highlights
Graham debuted in The Pickwick Papers (1952), followed by roles in Stryker of the Yard (1957), The Tell-Tale Heart (1960), The Young Detectives (1963), Danger Man (1966), Steptoe and Son (1970), Billy Liar (1974), Churchill's People (1975), Porridge (1974-75), Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976), Holding On (1977), Adventures of a Private Eye (1977), Scorpion Tales (1978), Adventures of a Plumber's Mate (1978) and Licensed to Love and Kill (1978). The roles he will be most remembered for, however, are Tommy Hughes in Z Cars (1958-62), Mr Garfield in Grange Hill (1979) and the small but remembered part of Gold Five (aka Pops and Davish Krail) in Star Wars (1977).

Joseph Furst (Professor Zaroff) Feb 13 1916 to Nov 29 2005
Career highlights
Prolific Viennese-born actor who debuted on screen in Encounter (1953), followed by Counter-Attack! (1960), Ghost Squad (1961), 55 Days at Peking (1963), The High Bright Sun (1964), Theatre of Death (1967), Hammerhead (1968), Goodbye Gemini (1970), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Luke's Kingdom (1976), A Country Practice (1982), Special Squad (1984) and Tusitala (1986).
Facts
Joseph originally studied in law before becoming an actor.

Tony Handy (Zaroff's guard) Born Jul 2 1934
Career highlights
Tony also had roles in United! (1966), The Three Musketeers (1966-67), The White Rabbit (1967), The Informer (1967) and All Gas and Gaiters (1969).
Facts
Tony later moved into public relations.

Catherine Howe (Ara) Born May 17 1950
Career highlights
Catherine's other work includes Undermind (1965), Z Cars (1971), Private Road (1971) and Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1975).
Facts
What Cathy did next... In 1971 Catherine recorded an album called What a Beautiful Place, but just before its release, the record company went bust, and the music remained largely unheard until its belated release in 2007. However, Catherine's singing career did not fade, and she went on to become a successful folk singer-songwriter, albeit one often regarded as overlooked ("Catherine Howe was a Kate Bush before her time" - Observer, 2007). In 1975 she released her second album Harry, the title song from which won an Ivor Novello Award, and was also seen singing during the opening credits of the film Can You Keep It Up for a Week?. Her 1976 album Silent Mother Nature won the Sunday Times' Folk Album of the Year. In 1977 Catherine produced and sang the songs for the BBC series That's Life! She also worked with Ennio Morricone and Piero Piccioni. In the 1980s Catherine's singing career came to an end, but was revived again in 2002 with her fifth album, Princelet Street. In 2012, having secured a first class degree in history and religion through the Open University, Catherine wrote a book on the life of the 19th century secularist George Holyoake. A second book followed, Halifax 1842: A Year of Crisis (2014), about the history of her hometown of Halifax.

Colin Jeavons (Damon) Born Oct 20 1929
Doctor Who credits
Played: Damon in The Underwater Menace (1967)
Played: George Tracey in K9 & Company (1981)
Career highlights
Colin debuted in Nom-de-Plume (1956), then appeared in The Black Arrow (1958), The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff (1959), Great Expectations (1959), Bleak House (1959), David Copperfield (1966), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), The Oblong Box (1969), Doomwatch (1971), Billy Liar (1973-74, as Shadrack), Schizo (1976), The Fuzz (1977), The Old Curiosity Shop (1979-80), The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), Kinvig (1981), Great Expectations (1981), Jane Eyre (1983), Bleak House (1985), Absolute Beginners (1986), Blackeyes (1989), The Blackheath Poisonings (1992) and The Man Who Cried (1993). He may be best remembered as the wily Tim Stamper in the political thriller House of Cards (1990) and its sequel To Play the King (1993). Colin also presented the children's series Play School for a time in the late 1960s.
Facts
Colin's son Barney was manager of the heavy metal band Reuben, and in 2007 Colin came out of retirement to appear (with full bushy beard) in the video for the band's single Blood, Bunny, Larkhall.

Noel Johnson (Thous) Dec 28 1916 to Oct 1 1999
Doctor Who credits
Played: Thous in The Underwater Menace (1967)
Played: Charles Grover MP in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Career highlights
Debuted in Highly Dangerous (1950), then Appointment with Venus (1951), Ivanhoe (1958), An Age of Kings (1960), The Spread of the Eagle (1963), It's a Woman's World (1964), David Copperfield (1966), The Golden Age (1967),Husbands and Lovers (1970), Fraud Squad (1970), Colditz (1972), Warship (1974), Frightmare (1974), Oil Strike North (1975), Shadows (1978), Buccaneer (1980), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Harry's Game (1982), Withnail & I (1987), Inspector Morse (1990) and A Touch of Frost (1997). Noel was the first actor to play sleuth Dick Barton in the BBC radio series (1946-49), a role he reprised for the BBC's jubilee celebrations in 1972. He also voiced Dan Dare for Radio Luxembourg between 1951-56, and on TV played J M Osborne in A for Andromeda (1961) and The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962).

Peter Stephens (Lolem) Jan 3 1920 to Sep 17 1972
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyril in The Celestial Toymaker (1966)
Played: Knave of Hearts in The Celestial Toymaker (1966)
Played: Kitchen boy in The Celestial Toymaker (1966)
Played: Lolem in The Underwater Menace (1967)
Career highlights
Further appearances were in No Other Verdict (1955), The Count of Monte Cristo (1956), Fair Game (1958), Oliver Twist (1962), Martin Chuzzlewit (1964), Danger Man (1966), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), Herostratus (1967), The Avengers (1969), Z Cars (1971), Doctor in Charge (1972) and Arthur of the Britons (1973).

P G Stephens (Sean) 1923 to May 13 2014
Career highlights
Debuted in Pat's Private Angels (1957), followed by The Exiles (1959), The Secret Kingdom (1960), Our Man at St Mark's (1964), A Farewell to Arms (1966), The Newcomers (1967), The Liver Birds (1971), Once Upon a Time (1973), I Didn't Know You Cared (1978), The Kenny Everett Television Show (1983), The Doctor and the Devils (1985), Only Fools and Horses (1986), Ticket to Ride (1989) and The Bill (1995).
Facts
The "P G" stood for Patrick Gerard.

Gerald Taylor (Damon's assistant) Oct 11 1940 to Dec 4 1994 Click here for Gerald Taylor's entry on The Daleks

Ralph Watson (Technician) Jan 20 1936 to Jun 20 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Technician in The Underwater Menace (1967)
Played: Captain Knight in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Ettis in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
Played: Ben in Horror of Fang Rock (1977)
Career highlights
His first credit was Front Page Story (1965), then The Three Musketeers (1966), The Anniversary (1968), Barlow at Large (1973), Edward the Seventh (1975), Battle of the Sexes (1976), When the Boat Comes In (1976), Dave Allen At Large (1976-78), Hazell (1979), One By One (1985), Prospects (1986), Boon (1989), Spender (1992), The Glass Virgin (1995), Shooting Fish (1997), A Soldier's Tunic (2004) and Casualty (2007).
Facts
In the early 1980s Ralph worked as a teacher in London.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Ralph here.

Tom Watson (Ramo) Mar 21 1932 to Aug 18 2001 (cancer)
Career highlights
Debuting in The Chertsey Apprentice (1956), then Kenilworth (1957), Kidnapped (1963), Martin Chuzzlewit (1964), The Flying Swan (1965), Spindoe (1968), Take Three Girls (1969), Brett (1971), The New Road (1973), The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1977), The Standard (1978), The Nightmare Man (1981), Taggart (1983/85), Prime Suspect 2 (1992), Highlander (1994), Cardiac Arrest (1994-95), Hamish Macbeth (1997), All Along the Watchtower (1999), Brotherly Love (2000) and Two Thousand Acres of Sky (2001).
Facts
Tom had been a heavy drinker in the 1970s, but gave up alcohol in 1979 and his career found renewed life. In 1997 he produced an anthology of poetry entitled Dark Whistle. Here's a 1989 interview with Tom from Scottish Television.

Roma Woodnutt (Nola) Aug 15 1925 to Nov 17 1997
This is Roma's only known acting credit, although it is known that prior to her death she worked for the Society of Authors, in particular alongside the estate of George Bernard Shaw.

CREW

Geoffrey Orme (writer) Jun 10 1904 to Jan 21 1978
Career highlights
Geoffrey's screenwriting career began with 1936's Sunshine Ahead, followed by Talking Feet (1937), Let the People Sing (1942), Here Comes the Sun (1946), The Last Load (1948), Delayed Action (1954), Ivanhoe (1958), Interpol Calling (1959), The Avengers (1963), No Hiding Place (1965) and The Long Duel (1967). However, he might be best remembered for writing several Old Mother Riley films between 1941-43.

Julia Smith (director) May 26 1927 to Jun 19 1997 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Smugglers (1966), The Underwater Menace (1967)
Career highlights
Julia's directing career began with Suspense in 1963, followed by Swizzlewick (1964), the soap Compact (1965), The Railway Children (1968), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1963-69), The Newcomers (1966-69), Z Cars (1971-74), Angels (1975-76), Katy (1976), EastEnders (1985-89) and Civvy Street (1988). While becoming a respected director she also worked as producer on many of the same shows, as well as The District Nurse (1984/87) and Medics (1990). Along with Tony Holland, she also helped create the BBC soaps EastEnders in 1985 (which she also produced 1985-89) and Eldorado (1992-93).

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Highlanders

A very wet and cold Ben (Michael Craze)

Four episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4
First broadcast Dec 17 1966 to Jan 7 1967
Average audience for serial: 7.05m

A pictorial guide to the guest cast is at the bottom of this entry. An episode by episode review of this story can be read at Time Space Visualiser here

REGULAR CAST

Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) Mar 25 1920 to Mar 28 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks

Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born Sep 22 1944
Doctor Who credits
Played: Jamie McCrimmon in The Highlanders, The Underwater Menace, The Moonbase, The Macra Terror, The Faceless Ones, The Evil of the Daleks, The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Abominable Snowmen, The Ice Warriors, The Enemy of the World, The Web of Fear, Fury from the Deep, The Wheel in Space, The Dominators, The Mind Robber, The Invasion, The Krotons, The Seeds of Death, The Space Pirates, The War Games (1966-69). Return appearances in The Five Doctors (1983), The Two Doctors (1985) and Tales of the TARDIS (2023). An archive clip of Frazer as Jamie also appears in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984).
Career highlights
Frazer started as a child actor in One Good Turn (1955), followed by roles in Fighting Chance (1955), Peril for the Guy (1956), X: The Unknown (1956), Huntingtower (1957), in Charlie Chaplin's A King in New York (1957), The Silver Sword (1957-58), The Salvage Gang (1958), The Young Jacobites (1960), The Cheaters (1961), Z Cars (1962), Smugglers' Cove (1963), Smuggler's Bay (1964), Coronation Street (1965), King of the River (1966), The Last Valley (1971), Duty Free (1984), Expert Witness (1996), Out of Sight (1997-98), Dalziel and Pascoe (2006), The Smoke (2014), Impurity (2014), Outlander (2015) and Corral (2018). He also had a running role as Tim Birch in Emergency Ward 10 (1963-64), but it is as the long-running character Joe Sugden in 732 episodes of the soap Emmerdale Farm that Frazer is best known (1972-94).
Facts
Frazer is a noted amateur jockey and Lords Taverners cricketer. During his time on Doctor Who, Frazer enjoyed modest pop success with the songs Who's Dr Who?, Punch and Judy Man, Jamie's Awae in His Time Machine and Time Traveller. His brother was actor Roy Hines, while another brother, Ian, played a toy soldier in The Mind Robber. Frazer's first wife was actress Gemma Craven (1981-84), and his second wife was Liz Hobbs (1994-2003), Water Ski Racing World Champion in 1981 and 1983. In 1999 Frazer was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and doctors gave him only a 25% chance of survival, but he fought against it. He was given the all-clear in 2010. Here's Frazer on Twitter.
This is Your Life: Frazer was the subject of Thames TV's This is Your Life on October 14th, 1992, surprised by host Michael Aspel during a photoshoot on the set of soap Emmerdale. He was the second Doctor Who companion to be honoured by TiYL.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Frazer here.

GUEST CAST

Sydney Arnold (Perkins) Feb 21 1900 to Aug 20 1993
Career highlights
Sydney's first credit was in Give Me the Stars (1945), and he went on to appear in Bardell Against Pickwick (1946), Emergency Ward 10 (1957), Maupassant (1963), Crossroads (1964), No Hiding Place (1966), The Beverly Hillbillies (1968), Canterbury Tales (1969), For the Love of Ada (1971), Love Thy Neighbour (1975), The Dick Emery Show (1979), Angels (1981), Never the Twain (1983/86), EastEnders (1986) and The Benny Hill Show (1986).
Facts
Sydney was apparently only 4ft 11in tall, which meant he worked an awful lot in comedy on stage and screen. He was also one of the founding fathers of British acting union Equity.

Donald Bisset (Laird) Aug 30 1910 to Aug 10 1995
Career highlights
Donald's career began in Movie-Go-Round in 1949 and he subsequently appeared in The Brain Machine (1955), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1960), Thorndyke (1964), Rocket to the Moon (1967), The Beverly Hillbillies (1968), Doctor in the House (1970), Freewheelers (1973), The Pallisers (1974), Are You Being Served? (1977), Beryl's Lot (1977), Warlords of Atlantis (1978), Smuggler (1981), Scarf Jack (1981), Only Fools and Horses (1982), Paradise Postponed (1986), Little Dorrit (1988), One Foot in the Grave (1990), Campion (1990) and The Black Velvet Gown (1991).
Facts
Donald also wrote and illustrated fairytales for children (translated into 16 languages), and wrote hundreds of stories for the publication Robin (often featuring Tubby the Odd-Job Engine) and Honeytown Tales in the 1950 and 60s. Stephanie Nettell, in Twentieth Century Children's Writers, said of Donald's literary work: "Innocence is the essential quality of Bisset's work, a pure, shining, quite unselfconscious innocence that finds a delighted response in a small child's mind and has an extraordinary cleansing effect in an adult's. Of all the writers who protest that they write for only themselves, or the child within them, Bisset is one of the few I would believe." His best known creation was Yak, which was made into a cartoon series written and narrated by Donald in 1971.

Tom Bowman (Sentry) Nov 14 1920 to Jan 8 1997
Career highlights
Tom's CV stems back to The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) and includes The Steel Bayonet (1957), Village of the Damned (1960), I've Gotta Horse (1965), Circus of Fear (1966), Dixon of Dock Green (1967), The Troubleshooters (1971), C.O.D (1981) and As the World Turns (1985).
Facts
Tom, who moved to the US in 1975, also dubbed films, recorded books and made radio commentaries.

Barbara Bruce (Mollie) July 26 1898 to Apr 20 1973
Doctor Who credits
Played: Woman tourist in The Chase (1965, uncredited)
Played: Mollie in The Highlanders (1966-67)
Career highlights
Other credits include The Face of the Smiling Widow (1957), The Citadel (1960), Two-a-Penny (1970) and For the Love of Ada (1970).

Dallas Cavell (Captain Jebb Trask) Sep 19 1925 to Feb 15 1993
Doctor Who credits
Played: Roadworks overseer in The Reign of Terror (1964)
Played: Bors in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Captain Jebb Trask in The Highlanders (1966)
Played: Quinlan in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Head of security in Castrovalva (1982)
Career highlights
Dallas (real first name Norman) debuted in The Voodoo Factor (1960), then Maigret (1961), The Avengers (1963), Crossroads (1964), The Caesars (1968), Brett (1971), The New Avengers (1976) and The Pickwick Papers (1985).
Facts
Dallas also worked as a bingo caller in London for a time.

Peter Diamond (Sailor) Aug 10 1929 to Mar 27 2004 (stroke) Click here for Peter Diamond's entry on The Romans

Andrew Downie (Willie Mackay) May 26 1922 to Apr 15 2009
Career highlights
Andrew debuted in The Maggie (1954), then Tunes of Glory (1960), Coronation Street (1965), Miss Mactaggart Won't Lie Down (1966), The Borderers (1970), Upstairs, Downstairs (1972), Spy Story (1976), The Professionals (1978), Crown Court (1984), Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1993) and Monarch of the Glen (2005).
Facts
Andrew was also involved in laboratory field trials for penicillin in the 1940s in Edinburgh, and in the 1950s played rugby union for Wasps and London Scottish. Between 1967-86 he was director of opera at Morley College, London, and in the 1970s acted as singing advisor for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

William Dysart (Alexander) Nov 26 1929 to Oct 2002
Doctor Who credits
Played: Alexander in The Highlanders (1966-67)
Played: Reegan in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Career highlights
William's other credits include Emergency Ward 10 (1962), The Verdict (1964), Crossroads (1964), Submarine X-1 (1968), Strange Report (1970), The Massacre of Glencoe (1971), Edward the Seventh (1975), Survivors (1977) and New York Nights (1984).
Facts
William's grandson Steven Macfadyen said in 2013: "I only ever met him once as a boy, he was a wonderfully warm and captivating man from what I remember. He was very much into poetry and if I remember right he was working as an orthopaedic surgeon or something along those lines when I met him for the first time. We spoke only in phone calls after that meeting, but I remember him encouraging me to pursue my artistic side because at the time I was very much interested in writing stories and poems as well as drawing. I've never known much about my granddad's life other than very vague things like TV and movie parts. I was also was told his cousin was Richard Dysart who was an actor in the US series LA Law." Additionally, William's nephew named his daughter Reegan (the name of the character Dysart played in The Ambassadors of Death!).

Michael Elwyn (Algernon ffinch) Born Aug 23 1942
Career highlights
Other work includes The Flying Swan (1965), Public Inquiry (1967), The Avengers (1968), Doomwatch (1970-72, as Richard Duncan), The Regiment (1973), One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975), The Mallens (1980), Rumpole of the Bailey (1983), The Winning Streak (1985), CATS Eyes (1987), War and Remembrance (1988-89), Selling Hitler (1991), Sam Saturday (1992), No Bananas (1996), This Life (1996-97), The Knock (2000), Bad Girls (2002-03, as Rev Henry Mills), Dirty Filthy Love (2004), Sharpe's Challenge (2006), Surveillance (2007), 10 Days to War (2008), Foyle's War (2010), The Tudors (2010), The Iron Lady (2011), Stella (2012), Da Vinci's Demons (2013) and Will (2017). He regularly played Edward in Robin Hood (2006-07).
Facts
Michael's partner is actress Alison Steadman. He was previously married to Rhodesian actor Naomi Buch, who died of a brain haemorrhage in 1996.

David Garth (Solicitor Grey) Apr 15 1921 to May 3 1988
Doctor Who credits
Played: Solicitor Grey in The Highlanders (1966-67)
Played: Time Lord in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Career highlights
Indian born David first appeared in George and Margaret (1946), then Busman's Honeymoon (1947) The Strange World of Planet X (1956), Emergency Ward 10 (1964, as Leon Dorsey), Detective (1964), The Baron (1967), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67), Special Branch (1969-70), The Avengers (1962/66/68), Nearest and Dearest (1971), General Hospital (1972-76, as Dr Matthew Armstrong), The Flaxton Boys (1973), Return of the Saint (1979), To the Manor Born (1980), Shine on Harvey Moon (1984-85) and A Month in the Country (1987).
Facts
David was married to actress Geraldine Newman, better known as Hilda in sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles. He was also a writer, having penned a handful of screenplays in the 1930s and 40s; his novel Fury at Furnace Creek was made into a film starring Victor Mature in 1948, and ten years earlier his story Four Men and a Prayer was made into a film by director John Ford and starring David Niven.

Hannah Gordon (Kirsty) Born Apr 9 1941
Doctor Who credits
Played: Kirsty in The Highlanders (1966-67)
Played: Voice of the Ship in Shada (2003, animation)
Career highlights
Hannah's career kicked off with Johnson Over Jordan (1965) and she has been a prolific performer since, appearing in David Copperfield (1966), Great Expectations (1967), Spring and Port Wine (1970), Hadleigh (1971), My Wife Next Door (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974-75), Watership Down (1978), Telford's Change (1979), The Elephant Man (1980), Goodbye, Mr Kent (1982), My Family and Other Animals (1987), Joint Account (1989-90), Taggart (1993), Jonathan Creek (1998), Monarch of the Glen (2002), Heartbeat (2004), Made of Honor (2008), Moving On (2010), Hustle (2011) and Unforgotten (2015). Hannah's more recent claims to fame include being the one to kill Victor Meldrew in the last episode of sitcom One Foot in the Grave (2000) and the regular presenter of laid-back art series Watercolour Challenge (1998-2001).
Facts
Her first husband was cinematographer Norman Warwick, who worked on various horror films in the 1960s and 70s. In 1983 a shrub rose was bred and named after her. Here she is in a 1989 TV advert for Safeway.

Guy Middleton (Colonel Attwood) Dec 14 1907 to Jul 30 1973 (effects of a heart attack)
Career highlights
Guy's extensive career began with Two Hearts in Harmony (1935) and included The Gay Adventure (1936), Keep Fit (1937), French Without Tears (1940), Dangerous Moonlight (1941), Night Boat to Dublin (1946), The Third Visitor (1951), The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), A Yank in Ermine (1955), Hancock's Half Hour (1957), Educating Archie (1959), What Every Woman Wants (1962), Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) and The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970).
Facts
Guy originally worked on London's Stock Exchange before going into acting, and cornered the market in bounders and cads in the 1940s and 50s. His wife was burlesque actress Anita Arden, who appeared in musical revues in the US and Europe during World War Two, and with Gypsy Rose Lee. Guy retired from acting after suffering a heart attack, aged 63, in late 1970.

Peter Welch (Sergeant) Mar 30 1922 to Nov 20 1984
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sergeant in The Highlanders (1966-67)
Played: Morgan in The Android Invasion (1975)
Career highlights
His career began in Dial 999 (1955) and included The Admirable Crichton (1957), The House of the Seven Hawks (1959), Danger Man (1961), The Secret of Blood Island (1964), Callan (1969), Doomwatch (1970), Spy Trap (1972-75, as Clark), Law and Order (1978), Juliet Bravo (1982) and Enemies of the State (1983).

CREW

Elwyn Jones (writer - although commissioned to write this story, he in fact carried out no work on it, and it was written instead by Gerry Davis) May 4 1923 to May 19 1982
Career highlights
Elwyn's other writing credits include Nom-de-Plume (1956), Treason (1959), The Spies (1966), The Revenue Men (1967), Gazette (1968), Parkin's Patch (1969), Softly Softly (1966-69), Doomwatch (1970), Brett (1971), Jack the Ripper (1973), Barlow (1971-75), Second Verdict (1976), Murder by Decree (1979) and The Deep Concern (1979). He also produced the series Corrigan Blake in 1963. Elwyn, who helped create the long-running police series Z Cars and its spin-offs Softly Softly: Task Force (1970) and Barlow (1971), as well as Parkin's Patch (1969), was Head of Drama Series at the BBC (1963-66) and submitted The Highlanders to Doctor Who when he returned to freelance writing in 1966. In 1978 he appeared in the BBC's Crime Writers series focusing on police procedurals.
Facts
In the 1950s he was a journalist on the Radio Times, and he returned to journalism in later life, working for the Western Mail in his native South Wales, and the Sunday Telegraph. Elwyn won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his book The Last Two to Hang (1966) in which he chronicled the story of Peter Anthony Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans, the last men to be hanged in Britain. Aberdare Boys' School has a lovely tribute page to Elwyn here.

Gerry Davis (script editor and writer) Feb 23 1930 to Aug 31 1991 Click here for Gerry Davis's entry on The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

Hugh David (director) Jul 17 1925 to Sep 11 1987
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Highlanders (1966-67), Fury from the Deep (1968)
Career highlights
Hugh originally started as an actor in the TV film Arrow to the Heart (1952), followed by roles in Caesar's Friend (1954), The Buccaneers (1956), Dixon of Dock Green (1957), The Invisible Armies (1958), The Supreme Secret (1958), The Young Lady from London (1959), Tarnished Heroes (1961), Richard the Lionheart (1962) and Zero One (1965). He found his greatest role as Stephen Drummond in 36 episodes of Knight Errant Limited (1960-61). He then moved behind the cameras to become a director on productions such as Swizzlewick (1964), Compact (1965), The Newcomers (1965-66), The Man in the Iron Mask (1968), Christ Recrucified (1969), Z Cars (1967-70), Doomwatch (1970), Jude the Obscure (1971), Cranford (1972), The Pallisers (1974), Beryl's Lot (1975), Rooms (1977), The Clifton House Mystery (1978), Grange Hill (1981) and Sophia and Constance (1988). He also produced and directed the series Dominic (1976).
Facts
Hugh was offered the lead role of the Doctor in 1963 by unofficial producer Rex Tucker, but turned it down as he didn't want to get involved with another long-running series so soon after leaving Knight Errant (see the face of the alternative First Doctor here!). He was originally offered The Underwater Menace to direct, but turned it down, saying the serial could not be produced on the allocated budget! His wife was the actress Wendy Williams, who played Vira in The Ark in Space (1975).

Innes Lloyd (producer) Dec 24 1925 to Aug 23 1991 Click here for Innes Lloyd's entry on The Celestial Toymaker

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Monday, December 16, 2013

The Power of the Daleks

The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his
companions waste no time in meeting
the most evil creatures in the universe

Six episodes (Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four, Episode Five, Episode Six)
First broadcast Nov 5 to Dec 10 1966
Average audience for serial: 7.80m

A pictorial guide to the guest cast is at the bottom of this entry. Read an episode-by-episode review of this story on Time Space Visualiser here.

REGULAR CAST

Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) Mar 25 1920 to Mar 28 1987 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: The Doctor in The Power of the Daleks, The Highlanders, The Underwater Menace, The Moonbase, The Macra Terror, The Faceless Ones, The Evil of the Daleks, The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Abominable Snowmen, The Ice Warriors, The Enemy of the World, The Web of Fear, Fury from the Deep, The Wheel in Space, The Dominators, The Mind Robber, The Invasion, The Krotons, The Seeds of Death, The Space Pirates, The War Games (1966-69). Return appearances in The Three Doctors (1972-73), The Five Doctors (1983), The Two Doctors (1985). Patrick's Doctor also appears in archive footage or images in The Next Doctor (2008), The Eleventh Hour (2010), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor (2010), The Lodger (2010), The Name of the Doctor (2013), The Day of the Doctor (2013), Twice Upon a Time (2017)
Played: Salamander in The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Career highlights
Patrick appeared in over 130 productions, starting in 1947's Hamlet and Edward II, and including Badger's Green (1949), The Whole World Over (1950), Treasure Island (1950), Kidnapped (1952 & 1956), the title role in Robin Hood (1953), Clementina (1954), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1956), The Moonraker (1958), Ivanhoe (1958), William Tell (1958), The Moonstone (1959), The Splendid Spur (1960), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956-60), Sir Francis Drake (1962), Compact (1962), The Old Curiosity Shop (1962-63), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Midnight Men (1964), The Gorgon (1964), A Tale of Two Cities (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), The Viking Queen (1967), The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), Scars of Dracula (1970), Doomwatch (1971), Out of the Unknown (1971), A Family at War (1970-72, as Harry Porter), Colditz (1972),Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974), Coronation Street (1974), The Sweeney (1975), The Omen (1976), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), Treasure Island (1977), The Feathered Serpent (1976-78, as Nasca), The Devil's Crown (1978), Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978), Bognor (1981), Nanny (1981-82, as Mr Jessop), Foxy Lady (1982-84, as J.P Schofield), The Box of Delights (1984), The Two Ronnies (1984), The Two of Us (1986, as Perce), Inspector Morse (1987), Super Gran (1987) and Knights of God (1987).
Facts
When he was announced as William Hartnell's successor in the role of the Doctor, Hartnell said: "He's the only man in Britain who could do it!". When the Second World War broke out, Patrick was on a Belgian ship sailing from the US, but just in sight of the British coast it hit a mine and sank. He was fortunate enough to escape in a lifeboat. Patrick is the father of acting brothers Michael and David Troughton - Michael appeared in Last Christmas (2014), while David has appeared in Doctor Who four times, in 1966, 1969, 1972 and 2008. Patrick is grandfather to actor Harry Melling, better known as Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films, and actor Sam Troughton, whose most high profile role was as Much in Robin Hood (2006-07). Another grandchild, Jim Troughton, was a Warwickshire and England cricketer. Patrick died in Georgia, US, while attending a Doctor Who convention.

Anneke Wills (Polly) Born Oct 20 1941 For a full career biography for Anneke Wills, click here.

Michael Craze (Ben Jackson) Nov 29 1942 to Dec 7 1998 (heart attack) For a full career biography for Michael Craze, click here.

GUEST CAST

Bernard Archard (Bragen) Aug 20 1916 to May 1 2008
Doctor Who credits
Played: Bragen in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars (1975)
Career highlights
Bernard's career stems back as far as The Immortal Lady (1948) and includes For the Children (1948), The Adventures of Annabel (1955), Kenilworth (1957) and takes in Mary Britten, MD (1958), Corridors of Blood (1958), Village of the Damned (1960), Sir Francis Drake (1962), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Sergeant Cork (1964), Out of the Unknown (1966), The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), The Avengers (1965/68), Callan (1969), Manhunt (1970), The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), Dad's Army (1971), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Get Some In! (1975), Sky (1975), Dick Turpin (1979), The Sea Wolves (1980), Krull (1983), Bergerac (1985/87) and Keeping Up Appearances (1991). He also had regular roles as Oreste Pinto in Spy-Catcher (1959-61), General Plaski in The Midnight Men (1964), Ian the editor in Lytton's Diary (1985-86) and Leonard Kempinski in soap Emmerdale (1992-94).
Facts
Bernard, who was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, celebrated a civil partnership with his partner of 60 years, fellow actor Jim Belchamber, in 2006.

Peter Bathurst (Hensell) May 4 1912 to Jun 1989
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hensell in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: Chinn in The Claws of Axos (1971)
Career highlights
First appearing in The Passing Show (1951) after working in Australia in the 1940s, Peter's work includes The Bell Family (1951, as narrator), Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952), Gift Horse (1952), The Quatermass Experiment (1953), John and Julie (1955), Kenilworth (1957), The Army Game (1960), Bootsie and Snudge (1963), R3 (1964), The Murder Game (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), as Dr Upton in Doctor in the House (1969) and Doctor at Large (1971), War and Peace (1972) and Moonbase 3 (1973).
Facts
In the 1960s Peter (born Apsley Dundas Bathurst) ran a popular coffee bar on London's King's Road, but this business seemed to fall through, as his actress daughter Linda Marlowe said in an interview in 2001: "[It should] have been a gold mine but he was too trusting and was bamboozled by people." Peter's daughter was once married to actor William Marlowe (who appeared in the Doctor Who stories The Mind of Evil and Revenge of the Cybermen).

Pamela Ann Davy (Janley) Sep 7 1933 to Jun 3 2018
Career highlights
Australian Pamela made her acting debut in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956), followed by roles in Summer's Here (1957), It Happened Like This (1962), Second City Reports (1964), It's Dark Outside (1965), The Avengers (1962/67), The First Churchills (1969) and Department S (1970). Her last credited role was as Colonel Aristides in 12 episodes of Freewheelers (1970).
Facts
Pamela spent her final years living in Tasmania, Australia.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Pamela here.

Peter Forbes-Robertson (Guard) Jan 16 1927 to Dec 7 1995
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: Time Lord in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Chief Sea Devil in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Peter's first credit is in The Case of Charles Peace (1949) and over the years he appeared in Let's Have a Murder (1950), Those People Next Door (1953), Girl in the Headlines (1963), Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966), Island of Terror (1966), The Persuaders! (1971), Scream... and Die! (1974), Sex Play (1974), Enemy at the Door (1980), The Tripods (1985), The Love Boat (1986) and Foreign Body (1986).
Facts
Little-known fact: Peter provided the spoken word parts on the 1974 ELO album Eldorado.

Peter Hawkins (Dalek voice) Apr 3 1924 to Jul 8 2006 Click here for Peter Hawkins's entry on The Daleks

Nicholas Hawtrey (Quinn) Aug 19 1933 to Feb 15 2018
Career highlights
Debuted uncredited in an adaptation of The Winslow Boy in 1948, followed by roles in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957), Hamlet (1961), Sword of Honour (1967), The Big Switch (1968), The Regiment (1972), Madame Bovary (1975), Mistral's Daughter (1984), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Navarro (1989), French Kiss (1995), Brief Crossing (2001) and Grace of Monaco (2014).
Facts
His father was actor Anthony Hawtrey and his grandfather was stage actor (but not the Carry On star) Charles Hawtrey. Nicholas, who was married to the late classical pianist Julia Cload, lived in France towards the end of his life.

Robert James (Lesterson) Mar 28 1924 to Jul 31 2004 (Alzheimer's disease)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Lesterson in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: High priest in The Masque of Mandragora (1976)
Career highlights
Trained lawyer Robert's extensive career began in Robert's Wife (1955), then Around the World in 80 Days (1956), All Aboard (1959), Two Way Stretch (1960), Silent Evidence (1962), five episodes of The Avengers (1961-68), Smuggler's Bay (1964), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965), The Love Bug (1968), Sinister Street (1969), The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), The Borderers (1970), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974), Sutherland's Law (1973-74, as Hamish McNab), Steptoe and Son (1974), Nicholas Nickleby (1977), The Mackinnons (1977), Blake's 7 (1978), Doom Castle (1980), Nanny (1982), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), The Return of the Antelope (1986), Century Falls (1993), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), The Crow Road (1996), Looking After JoJo (1998) and Existo (1999). He also had a regular role as James Gibson in Dr Finlay's Casebook (1962-69).
Facts
Robert's wife was fellow actor Mona Bruce.

Robert Jewell (Dalek operator) Jan 20 1920 to May 10 1998 Click here for Robert Jewell's entry on The Daleks

Richard Kane (Valmar) Sep 17 1938 to Feb 15 2023
Career highlights
Debuted in No Hiding Place (1965), then The Borderers (1970), Crown Court (1975), Devenish (1977), My Son, My Son (1979), A.D. (1985), Widows 2 (1985), Wyatt's Watchdogs (1988), Victoria Wood (1989), Bramwell (1996) and Casualty (2004). He also enjoyed the regular role of Greg Kettle in Hot Metal (1986-88).

Facts

Richard was married to actor, dancer and foley artist Jenny Lee-Wright.

Edward Kelsey (Resno) Jun 4 1930 to Apr 23 2019
Doctor Who credits
Played: Slave buyer in The Romans (1965)
Played: Resno in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: Edu in The Creature from the Pit (1979)
Career highlights
Debuted in Mary Britten MD (1958), then The Men from Room 13 (1961), The Avengers (1962), St Ives (1967), The Saint (1968), Doomwatch (1970), Cranford (1972), Shoestring (1979), Minder (1982), Anna of the Five Towns (1985), Casualty (1987), The Vicar of Dibley (1994), Brush with Fate (2003) and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). Edward also memorably provided the voice of Baron Silas Greenback and Colonel K in the cartoon series Danger Mouse (1981-92). Since 1985 he also played Joe Grundy on BBC Radio 4's long-running soap The Archers.

Martin King (The Examiner) Mar 10 1933 to Apr 15 2019
Career highlights
New Zealander Martin's acting career began with Dixon of Dock Green (1961), followed by roles in Crossroads (1964), The Likely Lads (1965), Detective (1968) and The Troubleshooters (1969). He also provided various voices for Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-68) and Joe 90 (1968).
Facts
Martin also worked as a continuity announcer for both Southern Television in 1973 and the BBC between 1973-89 (introducing episodes of Doctor Who in the 1980s), as well as the BBC World Service.

Robert Luckham (Guard) 1942 to Nov 30 2012
Career highlights
Robert, the son of actor Cyril Luckham (who appeared in Doctor Who as the White Guardian in the 1970s and 80s), had a short CV, which also included The Jazz Age (1968).

Kevin Manser (Dalek operator) Feb 16 1929 to Dec 21 2001 (bowel cancer) Click here for Kevin Manser's entry on The Daleks

John Scott Martin (Dalek operator) Apr 1 1926 to Jan 6 2009 (Parkinson's Disease) Click here for John Scott Martin's entry on The Web Planet

Robert Russell (Guard) May 24 1936 to May 12 2008 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: The Caber in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Career highlights
In 1947, Kent-born Robert's family moved to South Africa, where he began to work in a gold mine, but he soon moved into acting, debuting in Police Surgeon (1960), The Saint (1966), Inspector Clouseau (1968), Witchfinder General (1968), Orlando (1968), The Guardians (1971), The Protectors (1973), Public Eye (1975), Space: 1999 (1975), Blake's 7 (1978), Sorry! (1981), The Chinese Detective (1982) and Strange Horizons (1993).
Facts
Robert worked in a South African gold mine in the early 1950s.

Steven Scott (Kebble) Jan 23 1920 to Dec 10 1981
Career highlights
Debuted in Escape (1957), then The Vise (1958), The Little Ship (1960), Top Secret (1961), The Human Jungle (1963), Orlando (1965), The Three Musketeers (1966), Haunted (1967), The Jazz Age (1968), Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) and Churchill's People (1975).

Gerald Taylor (Dalek operator) Oct 11 1940 to Dec 4 1994 Click here for Gerald Taylor's entry on The Daleks

CREW

David Whitaker (writer) Apr 18 1928 to Feb 4 1980 (lymphoma) Click here for David Whitaker's entry on An Unearthly Child

Dennis Spooner (writer, final version, uncredited) Dec 1 1932 to Sep 20 1986 (heart attack) Click here for Dennis Spooner's entry on The Reign of Terror

Christopher Barry (director) Sep 20 1925 to Feb 7 2014 (following a fall) Click here for Christopher Barry's entry on The Daleks

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