The Tomb of the Cybermen

You will be like us...

Four episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4)
First broadcast Sep 2 to 23 1967
Average audience for serial: 6.75m

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

Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield) Jan 2 1948 to Jul 21 2017 (lung cancer) Click here for Deborah Watling's entry on The Evil of the Daleks

GUEST CAST

Shirley Cooklin (Kaftan) Born Mar 3 1930
Career highlights
Shirley debuted in Stage By Stage (1954), then The Children of the New Forest (1955), Leave It to Todhunter (1958), This Man Craig (1966), The Tyrant King (1968), Macbeth (1970) and Public Eye (1973). She was also a scriptwriter on the likes of Knockback (1984), The Bill (1989) and Emmerdale (1990).
Facts
Shirley married Doctor Who story editor/ producer Peter Bryant in 1958, but they later divorced. She is also credited as having written the 1989 book From Arrest to Release: The Inside/ Outside Survival Guide.

Hans de Vries (Cyberman) Jun 1941 to 2018
Career highlights
Hans debuted in The Saint (1966), then appeared in You Only Live Twice (1967), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Man in a Suitcase (1968), Shalako (1968), UFO (1970), The Onedin Line (1973) and Dixon of Dock Green (1967/74).
Facts
Life magazine featured him as one of five actors who screen-tested for the part of James Bond in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Here's a photo of him posing with the other four actors (he's at the back on the left). More on this and the other actors to be shortlisted here.

Ray Grover (Crewman)
Career highlights
Ray's other work includes Hancock's Half Hour (1957/60), Maigret (1963), Let's Go Out (1965), The Expert (1969) and Ryan International (1970).

Tony Harwood (Cyberman) Jun 26 1933 to Dec 9 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
Played: Ice Warrior in The Ice Warriors (1967), The Seeds of Death (1969), The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Flynn in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Career highlights
Further credits include Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Maigret at Bay (1969) and The Regiment (1972).

Facts

In 1981, Tony (real name Anthony Hargreaves) opened the Horseshoes Riding School in Kent with his wife.

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

John Hogan (Cyberman) Died January 2022
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
Career highlights
John's other work includes Blake's 7 (1978) and Law and Order (1978).

Bernard Holley (Peter Haydon) Aug 9 1940 to Nov 22 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Peter Haydon in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Axon man in The Claws of Axos (1971)
Career highlights
His CV included The Newcomers (1966), Elizabeth R (1971), Please Sir! (1971-2), General Hospital (1974), Carry on Laughing (1975), Rocky O'Rourke (1976), Clayhanger (1976), A Question of Guilt (1980), Mackenzie (1980), The Deceivers (1981), Now and Then (1983-84), The Tripods (1985), Eureka (1982-86), After Henry (1988-89), Surgical Spirit (1990), Taggart (1990), Thatcher: The Final Days (1991), The Knock (1994), Birds of a Feather (1998), Hollyoaks (2001), Sweet Medicine (2003), The Courtroom (2004), Tanner (2007), That's English (2011), A Voice to Die For (2013), Extended Rest (2014), By Lethe Betrayed (2016) and Acting Anecdotes with Jeremy Olivier (2019). Bernard is best known as PC Bill Newcombe in over 270 episodes of Z Cars (1967-71) and A Lot of Fuss About Light (2010), and Mike Turnbull in The Gentle Touch (1982-84) and CATS Eyes (1985).
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Bernard here.

Alan Johns (Ted Rogers) Aug 30 1944 to Dec 19 2002
Alan's only other work was As You Like It (1953), Z Cars (1967) and The Persuaders! (1971, uncredited).

Richard Kerley (Cyberman) Jul 3 1942 to Sep 11 1994
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
Career highlights
Richard's CV also includes appearances in The Caesars (1968), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1970, as the semi-regular Sergeant Hinds), The Rainbirds (1971) and Colditz (1972).

Michael Kilgarriff (Cyber Controller) Born Jun 16 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyber Controller in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), Attack of the Cybermen (1985)
Played: Ogron in Frontier in Space (1972)
Played: Robot K1 in Robot (1974-75)
Career highlights
6ft 6in Michael's other appearances include Whack-O! (1959), The Golden Spur (1959), We Joined the Navy (1962), Taxi! (1963), UFO (1970), Aquarius (1972), Men of Affairs (1974), The Upchat Line (1977), The Moon Stallion (1978), 3-2-1 (1979), The Borgias (1981), Artists and Models (1986) and Tipping the Velvet (2002). Michael has also done a lot of voice work, including Obelix in the English version of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976), the General in The Dark Crystal (1982), various voices in The Storyteller (1987-88), Watt's uncle in Watt on Earth (1991), Mr Crotchit in Oscar's Orchestra (1995), the Ogre in the English version of Snow White: The Sequel (2007), God in Albert's Speech (2008) and Lenigrast in the video game Dark Souls II (2014).
Facts
Michael, who is 6ft 6in tall, is a music hall enthusiast, and wrote what is considered the definitive guide to music hall songs, Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song from 1860-1920 (1998), as well as Grace, Beauty and Banjos (1999) and various children's joke books in the 1970s and 80s. For 36 years Michael was Mr Chairman at the Players' Theatre Victorian music hall. Michael also once established a theatre company specialising in corporate work as well as music hall, with fellow music hall enthusiast Johnny Dennis (who himself appeared in Delta and the Bannermen (1987) - indeed, Johnny was best man at Michael's wedding to his wife Sarah in 1968).
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Michael here.

Ronald Lee (Cyberman)
Career highlights
Ronald's other acting work includes The Racket (1951), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) and The Alamo (1960), sadly all uncredited.

Clive Merrison (Jim Callum) Born Sep 15 1945
Doctor Who credits
Played: Jim Callum in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Deputy Chief Caretaker in Paradise Towers (1987)
Career highlights
Doctor Who was Clive's first TV credit, after which he appeared in Frontier (1968), Counterstrike (1969), Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), The Glittering Prizes (1976), A Christmas Carol (1977), Prince Regent (1979), The Borgias (1981), Maybury (1981), The Kit Curran Radio Show (1984), Shine on Harvey Moon (1984-85), The District Nurse (1987), The Labours of Erica (1989-90), Chancer (1990), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Space Precinct (1995), The Tomorrow People (1995), An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), The English Patient (1996), Lexx (2001), The Brief (2004-05), The History Boys (2006), Monday Monday (2009), Peep Show (2010), Bert & Dickie (2012), Lewis (2014), The Lady in the Van (2015), Midsomer Murders (2003/2016) and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018). He also had the role of Damien Appleby in The Kit Curran Radio Show (1984) and Kit Curran (1986).
Facts
Clive played the role of Sherlock Holmes on BBC Radio against Michael Williams and Andrew Sachs as Watson more than 75 times between 1989-2010, and is the only actor ever to play the detective in all of Conan Doyle's stories. Until she died in 2003, Clive was married to the actor Gillian Barge. Here he is on Twitter.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Clive here.

George Pastell (Eric Klieg) Mar 13 1923 to Apr 4 1976 (heart attack)
Career highlights
Cypriot George (born Nino Pastellides) made his debut in Adam and Evalyn (1949), and then took roles in The Gambler and the Lady (1952), Destination Downing Street (1957), Battle of the V-1 (1958), The Mummy (1959), Interpol Calling (1959-60), Konga (1961), Maniac (1963), From Russia With Love (1963), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), The Avengers (1966), The Magus (1968) and Department S (1969).
Facts
In the 1970s he gave up acting to work in the American music industry. In 1958 George married Gloria George, who became a member of Top of the Pops dancing group Pan's People in the 1960s, as well as Benny Hill's female troupe the Ladybirds.

Charles Pemberton (Cyberman) Sep 19 1939 to May 13 2007 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Alien technician in The War Games (1969)
Career highlights
Charles' debut came in Crossroads (1964), The Man in Room 17 (1965), Callan (1970), My Wife Next Door (1972), Coronation Street (1973), Doctor in Charge (1973), The Naked Civil Servant (1975), Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976), Sapphire and Steel (1979), Minder (1980), Sink or Swim (1981), A Fine Romance (1983), The Box of Delights (1984), Bread (1987), Simon and the Witch (1987-88), The Upper Hand (1990), Virtual Murder (1992), Pat and Margaret (1994), The Vicar of Dibley (1999) and Foyle's War (1994).
Facts
Charles' partner of 39 years was fellow actor David Cleeve (who himself appeared in Doctor Who several times as an uncredited extra between 1973-80, and credited as David Woolliscroft in The Space Museum (1965)). Charles, who was an accomplished magician and held the Inner Magic Circle Silver Star, had his own one-man show which he toured the world with entitled WS Gilbert: A Disagreeable Man?. Charles also played Yorkshireman Alf in a series of TV commercials for John Smith's Bitter.

Aubrey Richards (Professor Parry) Jun 6 1920 to May 29 2000
Career highlights
Debuting in Women of Dolwyn (1949), Aubrey's long career went on to take in Time Without Pity (1957), The Davy Jones Saga (1959), Barbara in Black (1962), Emergency Ward 10 (1962), Sergeant Cork (1964), Davy Jones (1964), Undermind (1965), The Ipcress File (1965), It! (1967), The Avengers (1965/68), The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970), Doomwatch (1970), Under Milk Wood (1972), Villains (1972), Sporting Scenes (1974), Carrie's War (1974), Piano Smashers of the Golden Sun (1975), How Green Was My Valley (1975-76), The Onedin Line (1979), Thomas and Sarah (1979), Travelling Man (1984), Cadfael (1994) and A Mind to Kill (1994).
Facts
Aubrey was married to successful stage manager Diana Boddington, a close colleague of Sir Laurence Olivier.

George Roubicek (Captain Hopper) Born May 25 1935
Career highlights
Austrian born George made his screen debut in The One That Got Away (1957), followed by roles in Maigret (1961), Badger's Bend (1963), The Baron (1966), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), You Only Live Twice (1967), Department S (1969), Dad's Army (1971), Tightrope (1972), Star Wars (1977), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Bergerac (1981), Mr Palfrey of Westminster (1985), Soldier Soldier (1993) and The Infiltrator (1995). He has also worked as an English translator for various foreign language productions, such as Lupin the Third: The Secret of Mamo (1978), Asterix and the Big Fight (1989) and X (1996), and in 2004 directed the dubbing of 13 episodes of the English language version of the Japanese TV series Monkey which hadn't been adapted in the 1970s (George had also been involved in a minor role in the dubbing of 39 of the original episodes in 1979).

Kenneth Seeger (Cyberman) Feb 21 1931 to Sep 20 2009
Career highlights
Debuted in Before Your Very Eyes (1956), then Quatermass and the Pit (1958-59), The Haunted House (1960), Knock on Any Door (1966), Dixon of Dock Green (1967) and Z Cars (1969).

Cyril Shaps (John Viner) Oct 13 1923 to Jan 1 2003
Doctor Who credits
Played: John Viner in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Lennox in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Professor Clegg in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Played: Archimandrite in The Androids of Tara (1978)
Career highlights
Prolific character actor Cyril's first credit was in 1955's The Vale of Shadows, followed by Quatermass II (1955), Miracle in Soho (1957), Follow That Horse! (1960), Supercar (1961-62, as the voices of Professor Popkiss and Masterspy), The Third Man (1965), Man in a Suitcase (1967), Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1967-70), Please Sir! (1971), The Liver Birds (1971-72), The Onedin Line (1971/73), Freewheelers (1973), Porridge (1975), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Holocaust (1978), Private Schulz (1981), The Young Ones (1982), Running Scared (1986), Dark Season (1991), The Madness of King George (1994), Our Mutual Friend (1998), Doctors (2000), Murder Rooms (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) and The Pianist (2002).
Facts
Starting out as a child radio broadcaster at the age of 12, Cyril was also one of the voices of Mr Kipling in those "exceedingly good" cake commercials. One of Cyril's children was Simon Shaps, a sometime director of programmes for London Weekend Television and Granada.

Roy Stewart (Toberman) May 15 1925 to Oct 27 2008 (heart disease)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Saracen warrior in The Crusade (1965, uncredited)
Played: Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: Strongman in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Career highlights
Jamaican Roy made his screen debut in The Mummy (1959), then On the Fiddle (1961), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), She (1965), Slave Girls (1967), The Avengers (1968), Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Up Pompeii (1970), Twins of Evil (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), I, Claudius (1976), Rentaghost (1978), Arabian Adventure (1979) and Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (1981).
Facts
Roy - 6ft 4in - arrived in the UK in the 1940s intent on becoming a doctor, but had his head turned by acting when he got into stuntwork. In 1954 he opened his own gym in North Kensington, London, one of the first to allow mixed race training and which boasted among its customers Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse (the gym also doubled as a late night drinking club, and by 1964 Roy had been convicted four times of operating without a liquor licence). In the 1960s he opened the Globe, a Caribbean restaurant and bar in Notting Hill, frequented by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. It was Roy who gave vital tips and encouragement to bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger to enter the Mr Universe title in London in 1969. There's a nice pictorial tribute to Roy here.

Reg Whitehead (Cyberman) Dec 11 1932 to Mar 11 2016
Doctor Who credits
Played: Krail in The Tenth Planet (1966)
Played: Jarl in The Tenth Planet (1966)
Played: Cyberman in The Moonbase (1967), The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
Played: John in The Abominable Snowmen (1967, uncredited)
Played: Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
Career highlights
After debuting in Z Cars (1963), Reg went on to appear in The Power Game (1966), Counterstrike (1969), Hardy Heating Company (1970) and Bachelor Father (1971).
Facts
In The Tomb of the Cybermen, a character mentions "Whitehead logic", which could refer to computer logic pioneer Alfred North Whitehead, or indeed Reg! In the 1970s Reg invested in the manufacture of executive toys such as the Newton's Cradle, and made a good living from it, especially when they sold to America. In later years Reg helped found the Finders Keepers Partnership, which owns and breeds race horses.

CREW

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

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

Morris Barry (director) Feb 9 1918 to Nov 20 2000 Click here for Morris Barry's entry on The Moonbase

Peter Bryant (producer) Oct 27 1923 to May 19 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones

Victor Pemberton (script editor) Oct 10 1931 to Aug 13 2017 Click here for Victor Pemberton's entry on The Moonbase

The Evil of the Daleks

Wide-eyed but no innocent:
Theodore Maxtible (Marius Goring)

Seven episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6; Episode 7)
First broadcast May 20 to Jul 1 1967
Average audience for serial: 6.43m

An episode by episode review of this story can be found 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

Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield) Jan 2 1948 to Jul 21 2017 (lung cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Victoria Waterfield in 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 (1967-68). Return appearance in Dimensions in Time (1993). She appears in archive footage in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984).
Career highlights
Debbie first appeared on TV at the age of 10 as Sally in 11 episodes of The Invisible Man (1958-59), then appeared in William Tell (1959), A Life of Bliss (1960), Alice in Wonderland (1965, as Alice), The Power Game (1966), Calf Love (1966), This Man Craig (1966), Out of the Unknown (1966), Mister Misfit (1967), No Hiding Place (1967), Call My Bluff (1969), Crime of Passion (1971), Old Newsome (1972), Doctor in Charge (1972), Arthur of the Britons (1973), That'll Be the Day (1973), Take Me High (1973), Electric Cinema (1975), A Roof Over My Head (1977), Rising Damp (1978), Lillie (1978), Accident (1979), five editions of The Jim Davidson Show (1981) and Punchlines! (1983). Other regular roles included Julie Robertson in 26 episodes of The Newcomers (1969) and Norma in Danger UXB (1979). She also reprised the role of Victoria Waterfield (alongside Nicholas Courtney's Brigadier, Elisabeth Sladen's Sarah Jane Smith and her father Jack as Professor Travers) in the fan spin-off production Downtime (1995).
Facts
Her father was actor Jack Watling, who appeared alongside her in the Doctor Who stories The Abominable Snowmen (1967) and The Web of Fear (1968), as well as spin-off Downtime (1995). Her mother was actor Patricia Hicks, while she also had several siblings: half-sister Dilys appeared in various light entertainment shows in the 1970s and 80s alongside the likes of Frankie Howerd, Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies; brother Giles was also an actor, best known as Oswald in the sitcom Bread (1988-91); her younger brother Adam died tragically in 1952 when he was buried by a snowdrift which slid off the roof; fourth sibling Nicola also acted on stage for a while. In the 1980s Debbie was married to fellow actor Nicholas Field, son of vaudeville comedian Sid Field. Between 1957-81 the Watling family lived at the Grade II-listed medieval farmhouse Alderton Hall, Loughton, which was said to be haunted by a poltergeist. In the late 1960s, Deborah opened her own clothes boutique in Buckhurst Hill, Epping, called The Pink Clock. Deborah was diagnosed with lung cancer in June 2017, and died in a care home the following month.

GUEST CAST

John Bailey (Edward Waterfield) Jun 26 1912 to Feb 18 1989
Doctor Who credits
Played: Commander in The Sensorites (1964)
Played: Edward Waterfield in The Evil of the Daleks (1967)
Played: Sezom in The Horns of Nimon (1979-80)
Career highlights
Debuted as Till the End of Time (1946), then enjoyed roles in Romeo and Juliet (1947), It Happened in Soho (1948), The Night Won't Talk (1952), The Granville Melodramas (1955-56), The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957), Ivanhoe (1958/59), Ghost Squad (1963), Quick Before They Catch Us (1966), The Forsyte Saga (1967), The Champions (1969), Journey to the Unknown (1969), Steptoe and Son (1970), Van der Valk (1973), Thriller (1976), Return of the Saint (1978), Tales of the Unexpected (1983) and Personal Services (1987).
Facts
Alison Bailey has compiled a professional history for John (who was her father's first cousin) here.

Sonny Caldinez (Kemel) Jul 1 1932 to Apr 12 2022
Doctor Who credits
Played: Kemel in The Evil of the Daleks (1967)
Played: Turoc in The Ice Warriors (1967)
Played: Ice Warrior in The Seeds of Death (1969)
Played: Ssorg in The Curse of Peladon (1972)
Played: Sskel in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
Career highlights
Trinidadian Sonny's other appearances include Scott On... (1964), Virgin of the Secret Service (1968), The Spy Killer (1969), White Cargo (1973), The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), Mind Your Language (1978), Sexton Blake and the Demon God (1978), Arabian Adventure (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997).
Facts
Sonny, who is 6ft 4in, emigrated to the UK in 1952 and started working on the railways and as a wrestler, before moving into stuntwork and acting. He also worked for a time as bodyguard for music legend Michael Jackson. He moved to Spain in 2005.

Geoffrey Colville (Perry) Oct 15 1926 to Apr 23 2006
Career highlights
Other credits include Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1953), The Night We Got the Bird (1961), Crane (1963), Strange Report (1969), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1973), Lillie (1978), The Sponge Man (1980), Bust (1988) and If You See God, Tell Him (1993). He also regularly played Dr Mike Beckett in Emergency Ward 10 (1963-67).

Griffith Davies (Kennedy)
Career highlights
Griffith's first credit was in The Terrorists (1961) and subsequently appeared in Coronation Street (1965), The Avengers (1966), Spindoe (1968), Department S (1970), Under Milk Wood (1972), Spring and Autumn (1974), Dick Turpin (1979) and Minder (1984).
Facts
In 1964, Griffith (full name, Michael Griffith-Davies) married the actor Jacqueline Ellis (who had previously been married to the journalist Jeffrey Bernard), but they later divorced. One evening in February 1970, Griffith got talking to a man in a pub in Berden, Essex, who boasted that he was going to become a millionaire. This man, Arthur Hosein, was put on trial at the Old Bailey six months later, along with his brother, for the abduction and murder of Muriel Mackay, although their intended victim was newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch's wife Anna. Griffith was called as a witness at the trial, causing him to miss performances of the stage play he was in at the time at the Theatre Royal Stratford, Joan Littlewood's Forward, or Up Your End.

Windsor Davies (Toby) Aug 28 1930 to Jan 17 2019
Career highlights
Windsor's first credit was in The Pot Carriers (1962) and he subsequently notched up appearances in productions such as Probation Officer (1962), Murder Most Foul (1964), The Corridor People (1966), Orlando (1966), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), UFO (1970), Callan (1972), Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (1973), Sam (1975), Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976), The New Statesman (1984), Old Scores (1991), Paris (1994), Oh, Doctor Beeching! (1997), Mosley (1998), Vanity Fair (1998), Gormenghast (2000), Cor Blimey! (2000) and My Family (2004). Windsor's best known roles were in two Carry On films (1975-76), as Sergeant-Major Williams in It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (1974-81), the voice of Sergeant Major Zero in Terrahawks (1983-86) and Oliver Smallbridge in the sitcom Never the Twain (1981-91).
Facts
He worked as both a miner and a teacher before turning to acting in the early 1960s. Windsor enjoyed a UK number one hit single with It Ain't Half Hot, Mum co-star Don Estelle in the form of Whispering Grass in June 1975. He also unsuccessfully auditioned to be the voice of the Speaking Clock in 1985. Sitcom casting director Jane Davies is his daughter.
This is Your Life: Windsor was the subject of Thames TV's This is Your Life on January 7th, 1976, surprised by host Eamonn Andrews outside a Chelsea restaurant.

Brigit Forsyth (Ruth Maxtible) Jul 28 1940 to Dec 1 2023
Career highlights
Before Doctor Who, Brigit had appeared in R3 (1965) and a Wednesday Play (1966), and went on to appear in Adam Smith (1972), Holly (1972), The Sinners (1973), The Glamour Girls (1980-82), Tom, Dick and Harriet (1982-83), The Practice (1985), Sharon and Elsie (1984-85), The Practice (1986), Dark Season (1991), Dangerfield (1995), Children's Ward (1997), Playing the Field (1998-2002), The Bill (2002), Down to Earth (2005), Doctors (2006), Midsomer Murders (2008), Hollyoaks (2013), Still Open All Hours (2013-19, as Madge), Rovers (2016) and Holby City (2016). Her best known roles were as Thelma in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973-74, plus its 1976 film outing) and Helen Yeldham in Boon (1989).
Facts
Brigit was also an accomplished cellist and composer for the cello. She was married to prolific TV director Brian Mills until his death in 2006.
This is Your Life: Brigit was the subject of BBC TV's This is Your Life on April 24th, 2002, surprised by host Michael Aspel at BBC Broadcasting House. Doctor Who actors James Ellis and Elizabeth Spriggs appeared as guests on the show, as did Torchwood writer Jacquetta May. As of 2016, Brigit was the last Doctor Who actor to be honoured by the show, which ended in August 2003. Link to The Big Red Book entry.

Marius Goring (Theodore Maxtible) May 23 1912 to Sep 30 1998 (cancer)
Career highlights
Isle of Wight born Marius's earliest credit was in Consider Your Verdict (1937) and subsequently became one of Britain's most prolific actors, appearing in The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940), Night Boat to Dublin (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), Odette (1950), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Ill Met By Moonlight (1957), The Moonraker (1958), Anna Karenina (1961), The Mask of Janus (1965), Man in a Suitcase (1968), Zeppelin (1971), Fall of Eagles (1974), Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978), Levkas Man (1981), The Old Men at the Zoo (1983) and Strike It Rich (1990). Marius may be best remembered as Professor John Hardy in over 60 episodes of The Expert (1968-71/76), as well as Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1956). Marius also dabbled behind the camera, producing 12 episodes of The Scarlet Pimpernel, as well as writing one.
Awards
1991: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama
Facts
He first hit the stage in 1925, became a founder member of British Equity in 1929 (of which he was an ardent supporter, even going as far as the courts to fight its cause, and serving as its vice president between 1963-65 and 1975-82) and during World War Two became supervisor of productions for the BBC's service broadcasts using the name Charles Richardson (the surname Goring wasn't too popular during the war!). His second wife was the German actor Lucie Mannheim, while his third was prolific TV director and producer Prudence Fitzgerald.

Murphy Grumbar (Dalek operator) Aug 16 1928 to May 5 1991 Click here for Murphy Grumbar's entry on The Daleks (as Peter Murphy)

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

Robert Jewell (Dalek operator) Jan 20 1920 to May 10 1998 Click here for Robert Jewell'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

Alec Ross (Bob Hall) May 23 1922 to Dec 4 1971 (cancer of the oesophagus)
Career highlights
Alec's career began in Jim the Penman (1947) and included appearances in The Golden Horseshoe (1952), Deadline Midnight (1961), Detective (1964), Gideon's Way (1965), The Borderers (1969) and Softly Softly (1971).
Facts
In 1948, the actor Kenneth Morgan walked out of his relationship with the playwright Terence Rattigan to be with Alec, despite Alec preferring women. Alec, who was a heavy drinker, was actress Sheila Hancock's first husband until his death. Sheila (who appeared in Doctor Who in 1988) then married actor John Thaw, who also died of cancer of the oesophagus in 2002. Alec's daughter is actress Melanie Thaw, who changed her surname when Sheila married John.

Jo Rowbottom (Mollie Dawson) Born 1942
Career highlights
Jo's lengthy career began in Probation Officer (1962) and includes Steptoe and Son (1963), Dimensions of Fear (1963), The Troubleshooters (1965), Tom Grattan's War (1968), Little Women (1970), Smith (1970), The Befrienders (1972), Romany Jones (1972-73), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Sam and the River (1975), My Son Reuben (1975), I, Claudius (1976), The Sun Trap (1980), Terry and June (1981), Going Out (1981), The Detective (1985), The Bretts (1987) and Love Hurts (1992).
Facts
Jo, who started out as a secretary at the BBC, originally auditioned for the role of Victoria Waterfield. She has appeared in a number of TV commercials, including Rose's lime marmalade (1977), British Gas (1987), the Milk Marketing Board (1990) and house insurance (1992).

Roy Skelton (Dalek voice) Jul 20 1931 to Jun 8 2011 (pneumonia following a stroke) Click here for Roy Skelton's entry on The Ark

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

Ken Tyllsen (Dalek operator) 1939 to Jun 11 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: First Sensorite/ Scientist in The Sensorites (1964)
Played: Mechanoid in The Chase (1965)
Played: Dalek in The Evil of the Daleks (1967)
Career highlights
Ken's other credited TV work included Doctor in the House (1970), but he had also worked for the Royal Ballet and National Theatre.
Facts
Since the 1980s Ken was a member and vice-president of the Adlerian Society, the Institute for Individual Psychology and Counselling, and worked closely with the mental health charity MIND. There are some lovely tributes to Ken from fellow Adlerians here.

Gary Watson (Arthur Terrall) Born Jun 13 1930
Career highlights
Gary's earliest role was in The Last Enemy (1956) and he went on to appear in Out of This World (1962), The Baron (1966), The Three Musketeers (1966-67, as Aramis), The Devil in the Fog (1968), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1970), War and Peace (1972-73), The Pallisers (1974), Z Cars (1972-74), The Hanged Man (1975), Anna Karenina (1977), Chocky (1984) and Hannay (1988).
Facts
Gary's most noted work was with George Rylands and the Marlowe Society of Cambridge, which enacted the complete works of Shakespeare for radio in the 1960s.

CREW

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

Derek Martinus (director) Apr 4 1931 to Mar 27 2014 (Alzheimer's Disease) Click here for Derek Martinus's entry on Galaxy 4

Timothy Combe (director) Born Oct 17 1936
Doctor Who credits
Assistant floor manager: The Keys of Marinus (1964, uncredited)
Production assistant: The Reign of Terror (1964, uncredited), The Evil of the Daleks (1967, uncredited)
Directed: The Reign of Terror (1964, episode 6, uncredited), The Evil of the Daleks (1967, fight sequence in episode 7), Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970), The Mind of Evil (1971)
Played: Prisoner in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Career highlights
Timothy later directed for Z Cars (1968-73), The Newcomers (1968-69), The Doctors (1970-71), Away from It All (1973), The Early Life of Stephen Hind (1974), Ballet Shoes (1975), The Brothers (1976) and Angels (1979). He subsequently became an actors' agent.

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

Peter Bryant (associate producer and script editor) Oct 27 1923 to May 19 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones

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

The Faceless Ones

A fond farewell to Ben (Michael Craze)
and Polly (Anneke Wills)

Six episodes (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6)
First broadcast Apr 8 to May 13 1967
Average audience for serial: 7.38m

An episode by episode review of this serial 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

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

James Appleby (Policeman) Jan 1 1923 to Mar 9 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966, uncredited), The Masque of Mandragora (1976)
Played: Policeman in The Faceless Ones (1967)
Career highlights
James debuted in An Enemy of the State (1965), then The Troubleshooters (1967/68), Hine (1971), My Name is Harry Worth (1974),  Fawlty Towers (1975), Our Mutual Friend (1976), Bless This House (1972/73/74/76), Shoestring (1979), Potter (1983), Bluebell (1986), and The Countess Alice (1992).

Pauline Collins (Samantha Briggs) Born Sep 3 1940

Doctor Who credits

Played: Samantha Briggs in The Faceless Ones (1967)

Played: Queen Victoria in Tooth and Claw (2006)

Career highlights

After starting out as a teacher, Pauline first emerged in Emergency Ward 10 (1963), and went on to appear in The Corridor People (1966), The Three Musketeers (1966), The Liver Birds (1969, as Dawn), Wodehouse Playhouse (1975-76), The Black Tower (1985), Shirley Valentine (1989), Paradise Road (1997), Mrs Caldicott's Cabbage War (2000), Bleak House (2005), From Time to Time (2009), Merlin (2010), Mount Pleasant (2011-12), The Time of Their Lives (2014), Dickensian (2015-16) and Ernestine and Kit (2016). Pauline enjoyed regular roles as Clara Burrell-Danby in No, Honestly (1974-75), Sarah Moffat in both Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-75) and Thomas and Sarah (1979), Harriet Boult in Forever Green (1989-92) and Harriet Smith in The Ambassador (1998-99). She also narrated the cartoon series Little Misses and the Mr Men (1983).
Awards
1988: Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play (Shirley Valentine)
1989: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (Shirley Valentine)
1990: BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress (Shirley Valentine)
2001: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama

Facts

Pauline turned down the chance to appear in Doctor Who as a regular companion when she appeared as Samantha Briggs in 1967. In 1973 Pauline recorded a single called What Are We Going To Do With Uncle Arthur?, which was sung by her Upstairs Downstairs character Sarah several times in the series. Pauline won countless awards for her role as Shirley Valentine on the stage, before she reprised the role for the film version, for which she was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. She is married to actor John Alderton, and their daughter is actress Kate Alderton. Pauline has another daughter called Louise, with actor Tony Rohr, who she gave up for adoption in 1963 because she was penniless. They were reunited in 1985, and Pauline wrote a book about the experience, called Letter to Louise.
This is Your Life: Pauline was the subject of Thames TV's This is Your Life on April 5th, 1972, surprised by host Eamonn Andrews while on location filming a trailer for Upstairs, Downstairs in Belgravia, London.

Gilly Fraser (Ann Davidson) Born Mar 24 1939
Career highlights
Gilly also appeared in Watch the Birdies (1966), Champion House (1968), The Morecambe and Wise Show (1969), The Liver Birds (1971) and A Warning to the Curious (1972).
Facts
Gilly is also a writer (as Gilly Fraser Lester), and was for a time married to Peter Purves (aka Steven Taylor in Doctor Who).

Colin Gordon (Commandant) Apr 27 1911 to Oct 4 1972
Career highlights
Sri Lanka born Colin appeared in around 100 productions, beginning with 1947's Jim the Penman and including Golden Arrow (1949), The Man in the White Suit (1951), Up to His Neck (1955), The Green Man (1956), Don't Tell Father (1959), The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960), Don't Bother to Knock (1961), Hancock (1961), Night of the Eagle (1962), Strongroom (1962), The Pink Panther (1963), The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966), Casino Royale (1967), Oh, Brother! (1968), Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968), Department S (1970), UFO (1970), Bachelor Father (1970) and Steptoe and Son (1962/72). As well as playing regular character John Alexander Templeton-Green in The Baron (1966) and Walpole Gibb in Hine (1971), Colin also played Number Two in two episodes of The Prisoner (1967).
Facts
Colin's first wife Sidney Short divorced him for adultery in 1943. The Cheltenham Chronicle reported: "A few years after their marriage [in 1936] there were financial troubles between them and her husband left her. She asked him to return to her for the sake of their only child, but in 1941 he admitted being in love with another woman, an actress in his company." His second wife was actor and playwright Zena Howard, who he married in 1945, but for the last 20 years of his life, Colin lived with actress and writer Gwen Cherrell. Colin was appearing in the Jack Popplewell play Darling, I'm Home in Johannesburg, South Africa (alongside Cherrell), when he was taken ill and flown home to the UK, where he passed away.

Bernard Kay (Inspector Crossland) Feb 23 1928 to Dec 25 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)
Played: Saladin in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Inspector Crossland in The Faceless Ones (1967)
Played: Caldwell in Colony in Space (1971)
Career highlights
Bernard's first acting job was in ITV Television Playhouse (1957), followed by Carry on Sergeant (1958), The Avengers (1962), Compact (1964), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Breaking Point (1966), Witchfinder General (1968), The Hunting Party (1971), Warship (1974), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), Accident (1978-79), The Gentle Touch (1982), The Bill (1984), Remington Steele (1987), Bomber Harris (1989), Century Falls (1993), Jonathan Creek (1997), Foyle's War (2002), Harry Hill's TV Burp (2008), Casualty 1909 (2009) and Psychosis (2010).
Facts
Bernard began as a reporter on the Manchester Guardian and Bolton Evening News in the 1940s. In 2006 he won the creative non-fiction prize of the New Writing Ventures Awards for his account of life growing up in 1930s/40s Bolton. Between 1963-77 (until her death) Bernard was married to actress Patricia Haines (first wife of Michael Caine).
In 2013 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Bernard here.

Michael Ladkin (RAF Pilot) Mar 3 1945 to Apr 17 2017
Michael's only other credit is in Deja Vu (1985). He later became an actors' agent, including for Kate O'Mara (aka the Rani).

Madalena Nicol (Nurse Pinto) Dec 25 1919 to Nov 6 1996
Career highlights
Brazilian-born Madalena's other credits include Grande Teatro Tupi (1951-52), International Detective (1961), Watch the Birdies (1966) and The Champions (1968).
Facts
She was also a director of stage and screen back home in Sao Paulo, and worked for a time as a drama teacher in Texas, USA.

Brigit Paul (Announcer)
Career highlights
Other work includes David Copperfield (1966), Vanity Fair (1967) and The First Churchills (1969).

Donald Pickering (Captain Blade) Nov 15 1933 to Dec 19 2009
Doctor Who credits
Played: Eyesen in The Keys of Marinus (1964)
Played: Captain Blade in The Faceless Ones (1967)
Played: Beyus in Time and the Rani (1987)
Career highlights
Donald's prolific career began with an appearance in Woman in a Dressing Gown (1956), after which he took roles in Sykes in a ... (1964), Gideon's Way (1965), A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967), Barlow At Large (1971), The Pallisers (1974), Wings (1977-78), Zulu Dawn (1979), Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980, as Watson to Geoffrey Whitehead's Holmes), The Professionals (1982), Yes, Prime Minister (1986), Executive Stress (1986-87), The Camomile Lawn (1992), Lovejoy (1994), The Brittas Empire (1997), Heartbeat (2001) and Holby City (2004).
Facts
Donald once said in an interview that he did not recall ever working on The Keys of Marinus!

George Selway (Meadows) Feb 21 1924 to May 1994
Career highlights
George's earliest credit was Saloon Bar (1947), followed by The Only Way (1948), New Ramps for Old (1956), The Secret Place (1957), Tiger Bay (1959), The Spread of the Eagle (1963), A Tale of Two Cities (1965), The Gamblers (1967), Paul Temple (1970), Jason King (1972), All Creatures Great and Small (1978) and The Gentle Touch (1980). He played the regular role of Mr Campbell in And Mother Makes Three (1971-72) and Tom Humphries in Beryl's Lot (1976-77).
Facts
George married actress Patricia Greene (best known as Jill Archer in radio soap The Archers) in 1959, but they later divorced.

Christopher Tranchell (Jenkins) Born Apr 13 1941
Doctor Who credits
Played: Roger in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966)
Played: Jenkins in The Faceless Ones (1967)
Played: Andred in The Invasion of Time (1978)
Career highlights
Christopher's other credits include The Whisperers (1961), 199 Park Lane (1965), Out of the Unknown (1971), Churchill's People (1975), Survivors (1975-76, as Paul Pitman), County Hall (1981), Casualty (1992/93), Between the Lines (1993) and The Bill (1987/96), and he also presented Playschool (1976-84).

Leonard Trolley (Superintendent Reynolds) Jan 1 1918 to Feb 10 2005
Career highlights
Leonard first appeared in Rebecca (1947), then Prelude to Fame (1950), Destination Downing Street (1957), Jane Eyre (1963), A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), Tales of Unease (1970), Jason King (1971), Turnbull's Finest Half-Hour (1972), The Zoo Gang (1974), One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975), London Belongs To Me (1977), Dick Barton: Special Agent (1979), The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981), Jane (1982), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Consuming Passions (1988) and Come Home Charlie and Face Them (1990). He also had a regular role as Shaab in Crane (1964-65).

Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock) Born Aug 5 1935
Doctor Who credits
Played: Jean Rock in The Faceless Ones (1967)
Played: Thea Ransome in Image of the Fendahl (1977)
Played: Faroon in Time and the Rani (1987)
Career highlights
Wanda is a stalwart of British TV and film, first appearing in 1956's Teenage Bad Girl. Over her long career she popped up in The Navy Lark (1959), Carry On Cleo (1964), Hit and Run (1965), The Likely Lads (1965), The Avengers (1965), Death is a Woman (1966), The Prisoner (1967), Carry On Up the Khyber (1968), The Blood Beast Terror (1968), A Family at War (1970-71), The Troubleshooters (1967-71), Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974), Rutland Weekend Television (1975), Emmerdale Farm (1976), Fallen Hero (1978-79), The Two Ronnies (1980), Union Castle (1982), Don't Wait Up (1987), Executive Stress (1986-87), Capstick's Law (1989), Only Fools and Horses (1989-92, as Rodney's mother-in-law (coincidentally, her husband in this is played by Denis Lill, who she plays against in Image of the Fendahl)), Next of Kin (1995-96), Heartbeat (1996-97), Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1998), Coupling (2001), Oscar Charlie (2001-02), Mrs Caldicott's Cabbage War (2002), Lewis (2007), Run for Your Wife (2012), Sherlock (2014/17, as Sherlock's mum - which she is, of course!), Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016), Father Brown (2018), Holby City (2018), Departure (2019) and Penance (2020). She regularly played Shirley in The Rag Trade (1962-63), Virginia Lake in UFO (1970-73) and Ann Shepherd in The Lotus Eaters (1972-73).
Facts
Wanda's son is actor Benedict Cumberbatch (best known for Sherlock), and her husband actor Timothy Carlton. Wanda is a collector of barn owl memorabilia.

Peter Whitaker (Inspector Gascoigne) Feb 12 1921 to Nov 24 2002
Doctor Who credits
Played: Inspector Gascoigne in The Faceless Ones (1967)
Played: Weather station worker in The Seeds of Death (1969, uncredited)
Played: Thal politician in Genesis of the Daleks (1975, uncredited)
Played: Mentiad in The Pirate Planet (1978, uncredited)
Played: Grecian man in Four to Doomsday (1982, uncredited)
Played: Onlooker in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988, uncredited)
Career highlights
Peter's other credits included Compact (1962/63), Taxi! (1963), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), The First Churchills (1969), Crown Court (1972), Blake's 7 (1978), The Dark Side of the Sun (1983), London's Burning (1992) and The Secret Rapture (1993).

Barry Wilsher (Heslington) Mar 24 1932 to Mar 30 2020
Career highlights
Debuted in The Castiglioni Brothers (1958), then The Moonstone (1959), The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse (1962), Oliver Twist (1962), The Avengers (1962), Silas Marner (1964), Miss Adventure (1964), Softly Softly (1968), The Gold Robbers (1969), Six Days of Justice (1973) and The Cherry Picker (1974). In 1972, he and his wife Jill wrote a story for Jackanory Playhouse called The Wednesday Wand.
Facts
Barry also narrated audiobooks, and along with his wife Jill helped bring poetry to life as part of a variety of performance media aimed at primary schoolchildren called Words Alive.

Victor Winding (Spencer) Jan 30 1929 to Oct 9 2014
Career highlights
Victor's earliest credit was in Three Golden Nobles (1959), then The Splendid Spur (1960), A Tale of Two Cities (1965), The Informer (1966), The Jazz Age (1968), Warship (1973), Frightmare (1974), House of Mortal Sin (1976), Bognor (1981), Angels (1983), Strike It Rich! (1986-87), The Bill (1989) and Casualty (1993). Victor had regular roles as Dr Fairfax in Emergency Ward 10 (1965), Detective Chief Inspector Fleming in over 50 episodes of The Expert (1968-71), Benjamin Sweet in The Flaxton Boys (1970-73) and Victor Lee in Crossroads (1978-79).

CREW

David Ellis (writer) Jun 22 1918 to Jun 30 1978
Career highlights
David had also written for Trinder Box (1959), Pops and Lenny (1962), Compact (1965), United! (1965-66), Dixon of Dock Green (1963-71), The Inside Man (1969), Paul Temple (1969-71), Spy Trap (1973), Z Cars (1967-74) and Marked Personal (1974).
Facts
David had sent in a number of scripts previously to the Doctor Who team (including The Clock, The People Who Couldn't Remember and The Ocean Liner), all rejected, although his ideas for The Big Store were reworked for The Faceless Ones.

Malcolm Hulke (writer) Nov 21 1924 to Jul 6 1979
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Faceless Ones (1967), The War Games (1969), Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970), The Ambassadors of Death (1970), Colony in Space (1971), The Sea Devils (1972), Frontier in Space (1973), Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Career highlights
He had earlier written This Day in Fear (1958), Gert and Daisy (1959), Target Luna (1960), the Pathfinders series (1960-61), Ghost Squad (1961), Sergeant Cork (1963), The Protectors (1964), United! (1966-67), and his career also saw him penning nine scripts for The Avengers (1962-69), Woobinda, Animal Doctor (1969-70) and Crossroads (1971-74). He also acted as script supervisor on Spyder's Web (1972).
Awards
1975: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Children's Drama Script (Season 11, shared with Robert Holmes, Terry Nation, Brian Hayles and Robert Sloman)
Facts
Malcolm was also author of the industry "bible" Writing for Television in the 70s (1974), and in the 1950s was a member of the British Communist Party. In 1959 he helped to set up the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. His other non-Who titles included Bring Your Own Towel (1977) and The Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine and Self-Help (1978). Malcolm's first connection with Doctor Who was in 1963 when he pitched scripts called The Hidden Planet and Britain 408AD for Season 1, but neither were developed. Malcolm also wrote a pilot for a planned radio series starring Peter Cushing as the Doctor in the late 1960s entitled Journey into Time which was produced but never aired.

Gerry Mill (director)
Doctor Who credits
Production assistant: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966, uncredited)
Directed: The Faceless Ones (1967)
Career highlights
Starting out as an assistant floor manager on Hancock's Half Hour (1959-60) and A Song for Europe (1961) - as well as Doctor Who - Gerry forged a successful directing career on series such as The Newcomers (1966-67), The First Lady (1968), Coronation Street (1969), A Family at War (1970-72), Follyfoot (1972), Adam Smith (1972-73), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Doctor on the Go (1975), Couples (1975-76), Rooms (1977), The Duchess of Duke Street (1977), Crown Court (1972-78), Hazell (1979), A Kind of Loving (1982), The Gentle Touch (1982-84), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985), Super Gran (1985), Robin of Sherwood (1986), Pulaski (1987), Yellowthread Street (1990), She-Wolf of London (1990), London's Burning (1988-95), Runaway Bay (1992) and over 50 episodes of Heartbeat (1995-2009). He also produced 187 episodes of Heartbeat between 1996-2004.

Facts

Gerry is the godfather of actor Benedict Cumberbatch, son of Wanda Ventham (who appears in this story).

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

Peter Bryant (associate producer) Oct 27 1923 to May 19 2006 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Associate producer: The Faceless Ones (1967 - credited on episodes 1-3 only), The Evil of the Daleks (1967, uncredited)
Story editor: The Evil of the Daleks (1967, episodes 4-7), The Abominable Snowmen, The Ice Warriors, The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Produced: The Tomb of the Cybermen, 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 (1968-69)
Career highlights
Peter started out as an actor in TV such as BBC Sunday Night Theatre's Wuthering Heights (1953) and playing Jack Grove in The Grove Family (1954-57, the first British soap opera - here's a clip), as well as productions such as The Man Who Sold Death (1958), Champion Road (1958), Leave It to Todhunter (1958) and A Farthing Damages (1959). After a spell as a radio announcer, he became head of the Drama Script Unit for BBC Radio. He later trained to go behind the camera, dabbling in a number of roles while on Doctor Who. After leaving the series, he worked as producer on Special Project Air (1969) and Paul Temple (1970-71), and then became a literary agent for actors and writers, including Eric Pringle, who would write for Doctor Who in 1984.
Facts
He was for a time married to actress Shirley Cooklin, who appeared in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967).

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