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| Wide-eyed, but no innocent: Theodore Maxtible (Marius Goring) |
Episode 1 (8.1m)
Episode 2 (7.5m)
Episode 3 (6.1m)
Episode 4 (5.3m)
Episode 5 (5.1m)
Episode 6 (6.8m)
Episode 7 (6.1m)
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) March 25th 1920 to March 28th 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born September 22nd 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders
CREDITED GUEST CAST
John Bailey (Edward Waterfield) June 26th 1912 to February 18th 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 in Marigold (1936), then Till the End of Time (1946), 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
John was a friend of husband and wife John Le Mesurier and Hattie Jacques. Alison Bailey has compiled a professional history for John (who was her father's first cousin) here.
Sonny Caldinez (Kemel) July 1st 1932 to April 12th 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), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1967), Virgin of the Secret Service (1968), The Spy Killer (1969), Pardon My Genie (1972), White Cargo (1973), The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), The Fosters (1977), 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), Neverwhere (1996), The Fifth Element (1997) and Ali G: Indahouse (2002).
Facts
Sonny, who was 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, as well as Terence Trent D'Arby, Sade and Janet Jackson. He once appeared on Blue Peter to demonstrate his ability to snap 6inch nails in half with his bare hands, and blow a hot water bottle up until it resembled a beach ball.
Geoffrey Colville (Keith Perry) October 15th 1926 to April 23rd 2006
Career highlights
Other credits include Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1953), The Night We Got the Bird (1961), Crane (1963), Strange Report (1969), Mr Pargiter (1971), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1973), Lillie (1978), The Sponge Man (1980), Last of the Summer Wine (1985/87), Bust (1988), Trainer (1992) and If You See God, Tell Him (1993). He also regularly played Dr Mike Beckett in Emergency Ward 10 (1963-67).
Griffith Davies (Kennedy) Born August 12th 1936
Career highlights
Griffith's first credit was in The Terrorists (1961) and subsequently appeared in Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), 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. Since then, he shied away from the limelight to avoid continued connection to the case.
Windsor Davies (Toby) August 28th 1930 to January 17th 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 (Behind and England, 1975-76), as Sergeant-Major Williams in the sitcom 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. Windsor passed away just four months after his wife.
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) July 28th 1940 to December 1st 2023
Career highlights
Before Doctor Who, Brigit had appeared in R3 (1965) and A Hero of Our Time (1966), and went on to appear in Adam Smith (1972), Holly (1972), The Sinners (1973), The Master of Ballantrae (1975), Leave It to Charlie (1979), The Glamour Girls (1980-82), Tom, Dick and Harriet (1982-83), The Practice (1985), Sharon and Elsie (1984-85), The Practice (1986), Running Wild (1989), Dark Season (1991), Dangerfield (1995), Children's Ward (1997), Coronation Street (1998), The Bill (2002), Down to Earth (2005), Doctors (2006), Midsomer Murders (2008), Mount Pleasant (2012), Hollyoaks (2013), Rovers (2016), Holby City (2016), Unforgotten (2017), Pointless Celebrities (2019) and Time & Again (2019). Her best known roles were as Thelma in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973-74, plus its 1976 film outing), Helen Yeldham in Boon (1989), Francine Pratt in Playing the Field (1998-2002), and Madge in Still Open All Hours (2013-19).
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 This is Your Life, which ended in August 2003. Link to The Big Red Book entry.
Marius Goring (Theodore Maxtible) May 23rd 1912 to September 30th 1998 (stomach cancer)
Career highlights
Isle of Wight born Marius's earliest credit was in Dead Men Tell No Tales (1938), and subsequently became one of Britain's most prolific actors, appearing in The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940), The Big Blockade (1942), Night Boat to Dublin (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), Odette (1950), The Magic Box (1951), The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Ill Met By Moonlight (1957), The Moonraker (1958), Anna Karenina (1961), The Mask of Janus (1965), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), Man in a Suitcase (1968), Zeppelin (1971), Fall of Eagles (1974), Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978), Tales of the Unexpected (1979), 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) August 16th 1928 to May 5th 1991 Click here for Murphy Grumbar's entry on The Daleks (as Peter Murphy)
Peter Hawkins (Dalek voice) April 3rd 1924 to July 8th 2006 (pneumonia) Click here for Peter Hawkins's entry on The Daleks
Robert Jewell (Dalek operator) January 20th 1920 to May 10th 1998 Click here for Robert Jewell's entry on The Daleks
John Scott Martin (Dalek operator) April 1st 1926 to January 6th 2009 (Parkinson's Disease) Click here for John Scott Martin's entry on The Web Planet
Gary Watson (Arthur Terrall) Born June 13th 1930
Career highlights
Gary's earliest role was in The Last Enemy (1956) and he went on to appear in Yorky (1961), Out of This World (1962), The River Flows East (1962), Redcap (1965), The Baron (1966), The Devil in the Fog (1968), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1970), Jackanory (1970), Mistress of Hardwick (1972), The Pallisers (1974), The Hanged Man (1975), Anna Karenina (1977), Raffles (1977), Kids (1979), Shoestring (1980), Chocky (1984), King & Castle (1986), Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) and Hannay (1988). He regularly played Aramis in The Three Musketeers (1966-67), Denisov in War & Peace (1972-73) and Detective Inspector Connor in Z Cars (1972-74). He also dabbled in presentation, appearing on Clapperboard (1964-65), Chronicle (1970-75), Merry-Go-Round (1966/75), Seeing and Believing (1963-76), The World About Us (1968-82) and Five to Eleven (1987-90).
Facts
Gary's birth name is Garrowby Cawthorne Watson. His 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) April 18th 1928 to February 4th 1980 (lymphoma) Click here for David Whitaker's entry on An Unearthly Child
Derek Martinus (director) April 4th 1931 to March 27th 2014 (Alzheimer's Disease) Click here for Derek Martinus's entry on Galaxy 4
Timothy Combe (director) Born October 17th 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 36 episodes of Z Cars (1968-73), 10 episodes of soap The Newcomers (1968-69), eight episodes of The Doctors (1970-71), Away from It All (1973), Sporting Scenes (1974), The Early Life of Stephen Hind (1974), Ballet Shoes (1975), The Brothers (1976), Going to Work (1977) and Angels (1979). He subsequently became an actors' agent.
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) March 25th 1920 to March 28th 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born September 22nd 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield) January 2nd 1948 to July 21st 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 and The Web of Fear, as well as spin-off Downtime. 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.
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 and The Web of Fear, as well as spin-off Downtime. 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.
CREDITED GUEST CAST
John Bailey (Edward Waterfield) June 26th 1912 to February 18th 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 in Marigold (1936), then Till the End of Time (1946), 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
John was a friend of husband and wife John Le Mesurier and Hattie Jacques. Alison Bailey has compiled a professional history for John (who was her father's first cousin) here.
Sonny Caldinez (Kemel) July 1st 1932 to April 12th 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), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1967), Virgin of the Secret Service (1968), The Spy Killer (1969), Pardon My Genie (1972), White Cargo (1973), The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), The Fosters (1977), 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), Neverwhere (1996), The Fifth Element (1997) and Ali G: Indahouse (2002).
Facts
Sonny, who was 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, as well as Terence Trent D'Arby, Sade and Janet Jackson. He once appeared on Blue Peter to demonstrate his ability to snap 6inch nails in half with his bare hands, and blow a hot water bottle up until it resembled a beach ball.
Geoffrey Colville (Keith Perry) October 15th 1926 to April 23rd 2006
Career highlights
Other credits include Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1953), The Night We Got the Bird (1961), Crane (1963), Strange Report (1969), Mr Pargiter (1971), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1973), Lillie (1978), The Sponge Man (1980), Last of the Summer Wine (1985/87), Bust (1988), Trainer (1992) and If You See God, Tell Him (1993). He also regularly played Dr Mike Beckett in Emergency Ward 10 (1963-67).
Griffith Davies (Kennedy) Born August 12th 1936
Career highlights
Griffith's first credit was in The Terrorists (1961) and subsequently appeared in Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), 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. Since then, he shied away from the limelight to avoid continued connection to the case.
Windsor Davies (Toby) August 28th 1930 to January 17th 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 (Behind and England, 1975-76), as Sergeant-Major Williams in the sitcom 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. Windsor passed away just four months after his wife.
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) July 28th 1940 to December 1st 2023
Career highlights
Before Doctor Who, Brigit had appeared in R3 (1965) and A Hero of Our Time (1966), and went on to appear in Adam Smith (1972), Holly (1972), The Sinners (1973), The Master of Ballantrae (1975), Leave It to Charlie (1979), The Glamour Girls (1980-82), Tom, Dick and Harriet (1982-83), The Practice (1985), Sharon and Elsie (1984-85), The Practice (1986), Running Wild (1989), Dark Season (1991), Dangerfield (1995), Children's Ward (1997), Coronation Street (1998), The Bill (2002), Down to Earth (2005), Doctors (2006), Midsomer Murders (2008), Mount Pleasant (2012), Hollyoaks (2013), Rovers (2016), Holby City (2016), Unforgotten (2017), Pointless Celebrities (2019) and Time & Again (2019). Her best known roles were as Thelma in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973-74, plus its 1976 film outing), Helen Yeldham in Boon (1989), Francine Pratt in Playing the Field (1998-2002), and Madge in Still Open All Hours (2013-19).
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 This is Your Life, which ended in August 2003. Link to The Big Red Book entry.
Marius Goring (Theodore Maxtible) May 23rd 1912 to September 30th 1998 (stomach cancer)
Career highlights
Isle of Wight born Marius's earliest credit was in Dead Men Tell No Tales (1938), and subsequently became one of Britain's most prolific actors, appearing in The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940), The Big Blockade (1942), Night Boat to Dublin (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), Odette (1950), The Magic Box (1951), The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Ill Met By Moonlight (1957), The Moonraker (1958), Anna Karenina (1961), The Mask of Janus (1965), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), Man in a Suitcase (1968), Zeppelin (1971), Fall of Eagles (1974), Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978), Tales of the Unexpected (1979), 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) August 16th 1928 to May 5th 1991 Click here for Murphy Grumbar's entry on The Daleks (as Peter Murphy)
Peter Hawkins (Dalek voice) April 3rd 1924 to July 8th 2006 (pneumonia) Click here for Peter Hawkins's entry on The Daleks
Robert Jewell (Dalek operator) January 20th 1920 to May 10th 1998 Click here for Robert Jewell's entry on The Daleks
John Scott Martin (Dalek operator) April 1st 1926 to January 6th 2009 (Parkinson's Disease) Click here for John Scott Martin's entry on The Web Planet
Alec Ross (Bob Hall) May 23rd 1922 to December 4th 1971 (cancer of the oesophagus)
Career highlights
Alec's career began in Jim the Penman (1947) and included appearances in Drawing-Room Detective (1950), The Golden Horseshoe (1952), Deadline Midnight (1961), Detective (1964), Gideon's Way (1965), The Borderers (1969), Manhunt (1970), Grady (1970) 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 The Happiness Patrol) 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 (Melanie's husband is Matthew Byam Shaw, executive producer of The Crown).
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), Call My Bluff (1968), Little Women (1970), Smith (1970), The Befrienders (1972), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Sam and the River (1975), My Son Reuben (1975), Play Away (1974/75), It's Childsplay (1976), I, Claudius (1976), The Sun Trap (1980), We'll Tell You a Story (1980), Terry and June (1981), Going Out (1981), The Detective (1985), The Bretts (1987) and Love Hurts (1992). She regularly played Betty Jones in the series Romany Jones (1972-73) and Auntie Jo in children's series Rainbow (1975-87).
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) July 20th 1931 to June 8th 2011 (pneumonia following a stroke) Click here for Roy Skelton's entry on The Ark
Gerald Taylor (Dalek operator) October 11th 1940 to December 4th 1994 Click here for Gerald Taylor's entry on The Daleks
Ken Tyllsen (Dalek operator) 1939 to June 11th 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: First Sensorite/ Scientist in The Sensorites (1964)
Played: Mechanoid operator in The Chase (1965)
Played: Dalek operator in The Evil of the Daleks (1967)
Career highlights
Ken's other credited TV work included Rex Milligan (1956), Dixon of Dock Green (1962/63), Taxi! (1963), The Airbase (1965) and Doctor in the House (1970), but he 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.
Career highlights
Alec's career began in Jim the Penman (1947) and included appearances in Drawing-Room Detective (1950), The Golden Horseshoe (1952), Deadline Midnight (1961), Detective (1964), Gideon's Way (1965), The Borderers (1969), Manhunt (1970), Grady (1970) 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 The Happiness Patrol) 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 (Melanie's husband is Matthew Byam Shaw, executive producer of The Crown).
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), Call My Bluff (1968), Little Women (1970), Smith (1970), The Befrienders (1972), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Sam and the River (1975), My Son Reuben (1975), Play Away (1974/75), It's Childsplay (1976), I, Claudius (1976), The Sun Trap (1980), We'll Tell You a Story (1980), Terry and June (1981), Going Out (1981), The Detective (1985), The Bretts (1987) and Love Hurts (1992). She regularly played Betty Jones in the series Romany Jones (1972-73) and Auntie Jo in children's series Rainbow (1975-87).
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) July 20th 1931 to June 8th 2011 (pneumonia following a stroke) Click here for Roy Skelton's entry on The Ark
Gerald Taylor (Dalek operator) October 11th 1940 to December 4th 1994 Click here for Gerald Taylor's entry on The Daleks
Ken Tyllsen (Dalek operator) 1939 to June 11th 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: First Sensorite/ Scientist in The Sensorites (1964)
Played: Mechanoid operator in The Chase (1965)
Played: Dalek operator in The Evil of the Daleks (1967)
Career highlights
Ken's other credited TV work included Rex Milligan (1956), Dixon of Dock Green (1962/63), Taxi! (1963), The Airbase (1965) and Doctor in the House (1970), but he 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 June 13th 1930
Career highlights
Gary's earliest role was in The Last Enemy (1956) and he went on to appear in Yorky (1961), Out of This World (1962), The River Flows East (1962), Redcap (1965), The Baron (1966), The Devil in the Fog (1968), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1970), Jackanory (1970), Mistress of Hardwick (1972), The Pallisers (1974), The Hanged Man (1975), Anna Karenina (1977), Raffles (1977), Kids (1979), Shoestring (1980), Chocky (1984), King & Castle (1986), Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) and Hannay (1988). He regularly played Aramis in The Three Musketeers (1966-67), Denisov in War & Peace (1972-73) and Detective Inspector Connor in Z Cars (1972-74). He also dabbled in presentation, appearing on Clapperboard (1964-65), Chronicle (1970-75), Merry-Go-Round (1966/75), Seeing and Believing (1963-76), The World About Us (1968-82) and Five to Eleven (1987-90).
Facts
Gary's birth name is Garrowby Cawthorne Watson. His 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) April 18th 1928 to February 4th 1980 (lymphoma) Click here for David Whitaker's entry on An Unearthly Child
Derek Martinus (director) April 4th 1931 to March 27th 2014 (Alzheimer's Disease) Click here for Derek Martinus's entry on Galaxy 4
Timothy Combe (director) Born October 17th 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 36 episodes of Z Cars (1968-73), 10 episodes of soap The Newcomers (1968-69), eight episodes of The Doctors (1970-71), Away from It All (1973), Sporting Scenes (1974), The Early Life of Stephen Hind (1974), Ballet Shoes (1975), The Brothers (1976), Going to Work (1977) and Angels (1979). He subsequently became an actors' agent.
Innes Lloyd (producer) December 24th 1925 to August 23rd 1991 (cancer) Click here for Innes Lloyd's entry on The Celestial Toymaker
Peter Bryant (associate producer and script editor) October 27th 1923 to May 19th 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones
Gerry Davis (script editor) February 23rd 1930 to August 31st 1991 (stomach cancer) Click here for Gerry Davis's entry on The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
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