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| The terrifying Mr Quill (Bill Burridge) |
First broadcast Mar 16 to Apr 20 1968
Average audience for serial: 7.20m
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
John Abineri (Van Lutyens) May 18 1928 to Jun 29 2000 (motor-neurone disease)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Van Lutyens in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: General Carrington in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Richard Railton in Death to the Daleks (1974)
Played: Ranquin in The Power of Kroll (1978-79)
Career highlights
John's first credit was in The Children of the New Forest (1955), and later appeared in The Third Man (1959), Formula for Danger (1960), The Odd Man (1962), Redcap (1965), Funeral in Berlin (1966), The Witch's Daughter (1971), The Last of the Mohicans (1971), General Hospital (1972), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), The Moon Stallion (1978), Blake's 7 (1979), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), Jamaica Inn (1983), Maelstrom (1985), Red Dwarf (1988, as Rimmer's father), The Godfather Part III (1990), Seaforth (1994), Wycliffe (1995) and The Window Bed (1999). John also had regular roles as Hubert Goss in Survivors (1976-77) and Herne the Hunter in Robin of Sherwood (1984-86); he was also the butler in the original series of Ferrero Rocher advertisements.
Facts
John's son Daniel is an actor and voiceover artist who claims to have discovered Russell Crowe (Daniel is married to TV producer Claudia Rosencrantz). John's other son Sebastian is also an actor. When actor Duncan Lamont died during the film of the 1979 Blake's 7 episode Hostage, John took over the role (both had co-starred in the Doctor Who story Death to the Daleks (1974)). In 1973 John was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for playing Chingachgook in Last of the Mohicans and Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (he lost to Anthony Murphy).
Bill Burridge (Quill) Died 1975*
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in The Savages (1966, uncredited)
Played: Priest in The Underwater Menace (1967, uncredited)
Played: Quill in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Villager/ coven member in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Draconian in Frontier in Space (1973, uncredited)
Career highlights
Bill's earliest credit was in Flower of Evil (1961) and he also appeared in Frontier Drums (1961), The King's Breakfast (1963), Taxi! (1964), The Man in the Iron Mask (1968), The Worker (1970) and Upstairs, Downstairs (1972).
Facts
* The BBC has reportedly stated that Bill has passed away; a William Burridge died in 1975, which could have been him, but it's not confirmed. In 1976 Equity began to put out an annual appeal for his contact details so that royalties could be paid to him, but nobody ever contacted them. Equity renewed the appeal in 2005, to no avail. However, according to actor Terence Denville in the 2014 book Memories of Who, Bill suffered a near-fatal brain seizure on the set of Frontier in Space following an allergic reaction to the metallic greasepaint, and had to move into a nursing home. It is presumed he died soon after.
Brian Cullingford (Perkins) Born Apr 14 1937
Career highlights
Further credits include The Old Campaigner (1967), Z Cars (1968) and Out of the Unknown (1969).
Facts
Brian was a presenter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the pirate radio station Radio 390 and worked on TV in series such as What the Papers Say, Songs of Praise and Nationwide. More recently he has been involved in a company supplying speakers, actors and musicians for world events. He met his future wife - June Murphy - on the set of Fury from the Deep.
Peter Ducrow (Guard) Oct 19 1917 to Dec 19 1976 (heart attack)
Career highlights
Peter's earliest role was in Children of Chance (1949) and he went on to appear in A for Andromeda (1961), A Man Called Harry Brent (1965), Where the Bullets Fly (1966), The Expert (1969) and The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1973). Peter's most memorable role was as villain The Face in Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67).
Facts
In the early 1960s Peter worked as a DJ on pirate radio station Radio Caroline, but although he left in 1964 to pursue his acting career, he continued to perform in over 4,000 radio schools programmes over a 15-year period. Peter was born with the surname Bailey, but took his stage name from an ancestor of his, Andrew Ducrow, a prominent British circus and equestrian performer from the early 19th century.
John Garvin (Carney)
Career highlights
Debuting in For the Children (1948), John's other credits include Arrow to the Heart (1952), Out of this World (1962), Emergency Ward 10 (1963), It's a Woman's World (1964), Undermind (1965), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969), Public Eye (1972), Thriller (1974), The Nearly Man (1975) and The Citadel (1983).
Graham Leaman (Price) 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), 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.
Victor Maddern (Robson) Mar 16 1928 to Jun 22 1993 (brain tumour)
Career highlights
Victor appeared in well over 100 productions, starting with Morning Departure (1950) and including The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954), The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), Private's Progress (1956), Blood of the Vampire (1958), Dunkirk (1958), Mess Mates (1960), HMS Defiant (1962), Fair Exchange (1962), Bonanza (1963), The Avengers (1966), Circus of Fear (1966), Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966), The Prisoner (1967), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Shadows of Fear (1971), The Frighteners (1972), Steptoe and Son (1973), 1990 (1977), The Dick Emery Show (1968-80, as Lampwick's son-in-law), It's a Knockout (1979), Together (1980), That's My Boy (1983), The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987), CAB (1988), The Darling Buds of May (1992) and Freddie as FRO7 (1992). Victor, who'd turn down scripts that included profanities, also appeared in five Carry On films (1960-78) and the series Carry On Laughing (1975).
Facts
He was also a tireless fundraiser for religious charities. In 1991 Victor opened a public speaking school called The Talking Point frequented by politicians, and at another time ran a mushroom farm, as well as a printing company for film and TV scripts.
Richard Mayes (Chief Baxter) Dec 26 1922 to Oct 22 2006
Career highlights
Debuting in A for Andromeda (1961), experienced stage actor Richard went on to appear in Oliver Twist (1962), Out of the Past (1970), The Crezz (1976), A Bunch of Fives (1977), Wings (1978), Tycoon (1978), Gandhi (1982), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985), How We Used to Live (1990), Van der Valk (1992), Heartbeat (1997), Emmerdale (2002, as Jed Dingle), Waking the Dead (2004) and Casualty (2005).
Facts
Richard spent most of World War Two as an RAF pilot, and flew 29 sorties to Germany, for which he was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. In 2004 he suffered a stroke, and against doctors' expectations made a startling recovery, regaining the use of his arms and legs and getting back into acting.
June Murphy (Maggie Harris) Born 1940
Doctor Who credits
Played: Maggie Harris in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Jane Blythe in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
June's other roles include Who Killed Menna Lorraine? (1960), then Z Cars (1962), Compact (1962), The Avengers (1962), Ricochet (1963), Londoners (1965) and Cock, Hen and Courting Pit (1966).
Facts
BBC Enterprises was for many years unable to locate June to pay her fees resulting from the VHS release of The Sea Devils in 1995, but it was discovered in 2007 that she changed her name to Laura Langley. She met her future husband - Brian Cullingford - on the set of Fury from the Deep.
Hubert Rees (Chief engineer) Apr 27 1928 to Oct 20 2009
Doctor Who credits
Played: Chief engineer in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Captain Ransom in The War Games (1969)
Played: John Stevenson in The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Career highlights
Hubert's career began with 1958's Uncle Harry, followed by roles in 1962's Richard the Lionheart, Ring Out an Alibi (1964), Menace (1970), Fish (1973), Public Eye (1971-75, as George), The Government Inspector (1976), Sweeney 2 (1978), The Sandbaggers (1978), Buccaneer (1980), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982, as Inspector Lestrade to Tom Baker's Sherlock Holmes), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982), The Baker Street Boys (1983, as Dr Watson), Howards' Way (1985), Chance in a Million (1986), Jeeves and Wooster (1991), Dandelion Dead (1994), Class Act (1995), Darklands (1996), Daylight Robbery (2000) and Sunburn (2000).
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
John Abineri (Van Lutyens) May 18 1928 to Jun 29 2000 (motor-neurone disease)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Van Lutyens in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: General Carrington in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Richard Railton in Death to the Daleks (1974)
Played: Ranquin in The Power of Kroll (1978-79)
Career highlights
John's first credit was in The Children of the New Forest (1955), and later appeared in The Third Man (1959), Formula for Danger (1960), The Odd Man (1962), Redcap (1965), Funeral in Berlin (1966), The Witch's Daughter (1971), The Last of the Mohicans (1971), General Hospital (1972), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), The Moon Stallion (1978), Blake's 7 (1979), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), Jamaica Inn (1983), Maelstrom (1985), Red Dwarf (1988, as Rimmer's father), The Godfather Part III (1990), Seaforth (1994), Wycliffe (1995) and The Window Bed (1999). John also had regular roles as Hubert Goss in Survivors (1976-77) and Herne the Hunter in Robin of Sherwood (1984-86); he was also the butler in the original series of Ferrero Rocher advertisements.
Facts
John's son Daniel is an actor and voiceover artist who claims to have discovered Russell Crowe (Daniel is married to TV producer Claudia Rosencrantz). John's other son Sebastian is also an actor. When actor Duncan Lamont died during the film of the 1979 Blake's 7 episode Hostage, John took over the role (both had co-starred in the Doctor Who story Death to the Daleks (1974)). In 1973 John was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for playing Chingachgook in Last of the Mohicans and Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (he lost to Anthony Murphy).
Bill Burridge (Quill) Died 1975*
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in The Savages (1966, uncredited)
Played: Priest in The Underwater Menace (1967, uncredited)
Played: Quill in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Villager/ coven member in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Draconian in Frontier in Space (1973, uncredited)
Career highlights
Bill's earliest credit was in Flower of Evil (1961) and he also appeared in Frontier Drums (1961), The King's Breakfast (1963), Taxi! (1964), The Man in the Iron Mask (1968), The Worker (1970) and Upstairs, Downstairs (1972).
Facts
* The BBC has reportedly stated that Bill has passed away; a William Burridge died in 1975, which could have been him, but it's not confirmed. In 1976 Equity began to put out an annual appeal for his contact details so that royalties could be paid to him, but nobody ever contacted them. Equity renewed the appeal in 2005, to no avail. However, according to actor Terence Denville in the 2014 book Memories of Who, Bill suffered a near-fatal brain seizure on the set of Frontier in Space following an allergic reaction to the metallic greasepaint, and had to move into a nursing home. It is presumed he died soon after.
Brian Cullingford (Perkins) Born Apr 14 1937
Career highlights
Further credits include The Old Campaigner (1967), Z Cars (1968) and Out of the Unknown (1969).
Facts
Brian was a presenter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the pirate radio station Radio 390 and worked on TV in series such as What the Papers Say, Songs of Praise and Nationwide. More recently he has been involved in a company supplying speakers, actors and musicians for world events. He met his future wife - June Murphy - on the set of Fury from the Deep.
Peter Ducrow (Guard) Oct 19 1917 to Dec 19 1976 (heart attack)
Career highlights
Peter's earliest role was in Children of Chance (1949) and he went on to appear in A for Andromeda (1961), A Man Called Harry Brent (1965), Where the Bullets Fly (1966), The Expert (1969) and The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1973). Peter's most memorable role was as villain The Face in Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67).
Facts
In the early 1960s Peter worked as a DJ on pirate radio station Radio Caroline, but although he left in 1964 to pursue his acting career, he continued to perform in over 4,000 radio schools programmes over a 15-year period. Peter was born with the surname Bailey, but took his stage name from an ancestor of his, Andrew Ducrow, a prominent British circus and equestrian performer from the early 19th century.
John Garvin (Carney)
Career highlights
Debuting in For the Children (1948), John's other credits include Arrow to the Heart (1952), Out of this World (1962), Emergency Ward 10 (1963), It's a Woman's World (1964), Undermind (1965), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969), Public Eye (1972), Thriller (1974), The Nearly Man (1975) and The Citadel (1983).
John Gill (Oak) Oct 24 1912 to Mar 29 2007
Career highlights
John's first credit was At Your Service Ltd (1951), and later Rich Girl (1956), Barnaby Rudge (1960), The Avengers (1962), This Sporting Life (1963), Swizzlewick (1964, as Fidgett), Orlando (1966), Privilege (1967), Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Middlemarch (1968), Paul Temple (1970), Father, Dear Father (1973), David Copperfield (1974), Two's Company (1979), To Serve Them All My Days (1980), Juliet Bravo (1984), After Pilkington (1987), All Creatures Great and Small (1989-90), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994), Crime Traveller (1997) and The Land Girls (1998).
Career highlights
John's first credit was At Your Service Ltd (1951), and later Rich Girl (1956), Barnaby Rudge (1960), The Avengers (1962), This Sporting Life (1963), Swizzlewick (1964, as Fidgett), Orlando (1966), Privilege (1967), Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Middlemarch (1968), Paul Temple (1970), Father, Dear Father (1973), David Copperfield (1974), Two's Company (1979), To Serve Them All My Days (1980), Juliet Bravo (1984), After Pilkington (1987), All Creatures Great and Small (1989-90), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994), Crime Traveller (1997) and The Land Girls (1998).
Margaret John (Megan Jones) Dec 14 1926 to Feb 2 2011 (liver cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Megan Jones in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Grandma Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern TARDISode and The Idiot's Lantern (2006)
Career highlights
Margaret's first credit was The Prodigal Tenor (1957), and later How Green Was My Valley (1960), Badger's Bend (1963), Coronation Street (1965), Z Cars (1967), The First Lady (1968-69), The Challengers (1972), Emmerdale Farm (1972), New Scotland Yard (1974), Crown Court (1975), Last of the Summer Wine (1977), Blake's 7 (1978), International Velvet (1978), The Boy Merlin (1979), Breakaway (1980), Crossroads (1979-80, as Marian Owen), The District Nurse (1984, as Gwen Harris), Dear John (1987), B&B (1992), Mortimer's Law (1998), Fun at the Funeral Parlour (2001), Eyes Down (2003-04, as Kay), According to Bex (2005), Tea and Biscuits with Maggie Pritchard (2004-05), The Mighty Boosh (2005), Little Britain (2005), Run Fatboy Run (2007), Being Human (2010), Skins (2010) and Game of Thrones (2011). She also played Elsie Hepplewhite in High Hopes (2002-08) and Doris in Gavin and Stacey (2007-09).
Awards
2009: BAFTA Cymru Lifetime Achievement Award
Awards
2009: BAFTA Cymru Lifetime Achievement Award
Facts
Her husband Ben Thomas - who died aged 39 just three years after they married - was viola player with the London Symphony Orchestra and once performed with Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Sammy Davis Jr and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Graham Leaman (Price) 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), 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.
Victor Maddern (Robson) Mar 16 1928 to Jun 22 1993 (brain tumour)
Career highlights
Victor appeared in well over 100 productions, starting with Morning Departure (1950) and including The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954), The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), Private's Progress (1956), Blood of the Vampire (1958), Dunkirk (1958), Mess Mates (1960), HMS Defiant (1962), Fair Exchange (1962), Bonanza (1963), The Avengers (1966), Circus of Fear (1966), Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966), The Prisoner (1967), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Shadows of Fear (1971), The Frighteners (1972), Steptoe and Son (1973), 1990 (1977), The Dick Emery Show (1968-80, as Lampwick's son-in-law), It's a Knockout (1979), Together (1980), That's My Boy (1983), The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987), CAB (1988), The Darling Buds of May (1992) and Freddie as FRO7 (1992). Victor, who'd turn down scripts that included profanities, also appeared in five Carry On films (1960-78) and the series Carry On Laughing (1975).
Facts
He was also a tireless fundraiser for religious charities. In 1991 Victor opened a public speaking school called The Talking Point frequented by politicians, and at another time ran a mushroom farm, as well as a printing company for film and TV scripts.
Richard Mayes (Chief Baxter) Dec 26 1922 to Oct 22 2006
Career highlights
Debuting in A for Andromeda (1961), experienced stage actor Richard went on to appear in Oliver Twist (1962), Out of the Past (1970), The Crezz (1976), A Bunch of Fives (1977), Wings (1978), Tycoon (1978), Gandhi (1982), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985), How We Used to Live (1990), Van der Valk (1992), Heartbeat (1997), Emmerdale (2002, as Jed Dingle), Waking the Dead (2004) and Casualty (2005).
Facts
Richard spent most of World War Two as an RAF pilot, and flew 29 sorties to Germany, for which he was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. In 2004 he suffered a stroke, and against doctors' expectations made a startling recovery, regaining the use of his arms and legs and getting back into acting.
June Murphy (Maggie Harris) Born 1940
Doctor Who credits
Played: Maggie Harris in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Jane Blythe in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
June's other roles include Who Killed Menna Lorraine? (1960), then Z Cars (1962), Compact (1962), The Avengers (1962), Ricochet (1963), Londoners (1965) and Cock, Hen and Courting Pit (1966).
Facts
BBC Enterprises was for many years unable to locate June to pay her fees resulting from the VHS release of The Sea Devils in 1995, but it was discovered in 2007 that she changed her name to Laura Langley. She met her future husband - Brian Cullingford - on the set of Fury from the Deep.
Hubert Rees (Chief engineer) Apr 27 1928 to Oct 20 2009
Doctor Who credits
Played: Chief engineer in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Played: Captain Ransom in The War Games (1969)
Played: John Stevenson in The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Career highlights
Hubert's career began with 1958's Uncle Harry, followed by roles in 1962's Richard the Lionheart, Ring Out an Alibi (1964), Menace (1970), Fish (1973), Public Eye (1971-75, as George), The Government Inspector (1976), Sweeney 2 (1978), The Sandbaggers (1978), Buccaneer (1980), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982, as Inspector Lestrade to Tom Baker's Sherlock Holmes), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982), The Baker Street Boys (1983, as Dr Watson), Howards' Way (1985), Chance in a Million (1986), Jeeves and Wooster (1991), Dandelion Dead (1994), Class Act (1995), Darklands (1996), Daylight Robbery (2000) and Sunburn (2000).
Roy Spencer (Harris)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Manyak in The Ark (1966)
Played: Harris in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Career highlights
Roy's career began uncredited in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), then an ITV Play of the Week (1961), R3 (1965), The Expert (1969), War and Peace (1972-73), Dracula (1973), Barry Lyndon (1975), Grange Hill (1978), Julius Caesar (1979), The Gentle Touch (1983), Howards' Way (1986), Bomber Harris (1989) and Campion (1990).
Facts
Roy is an authority on the life and works of D H Lawrence, having written books and a one-man stage show about him
Doctor Who credits
Played: Manyak in The Ark (1966)
Played: Harris in Fury from the Deep (1968)
Career highlights
Roy's career began uncredited in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), then an ITV Play of the Week (1961), R3 (1965), The Expert (1969), War and Peace (1972-73), Dracula (1973), Barry Lyndon (1975), Grange Hill (1978), Julius Caesar (1979), The Gentle Touch (1983), Howards' Way (1986), Bomber Harris (1989) and Campion (1990).
Facts
Roy is an authority on the life and works of D H Lawrence, having written books and a one-man stage show about him
CREW
Victor Pemberton (writer) Oct 10 1931 to Aug 13 2017 Click here for Victor Pemberton's entry on The Moonbase
Hugh David (director) Jul 17 1925 to Sep 11 1987 Click here for Hugh David's entry on The Highlanders
Peter Bryant (producer) Oct 27 1923 to May 19 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones
Derrick Sherwin (script editor) Apr 16 1936 to Oct 17 2018 Click here for Derrick Sherwin's entry on The Web of Fear
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