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| "C'mon, we're gonna be late for work!" |
First broadcast Feb 3 to Mar 9 1968
Average audience for serial: 7.62m
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
Rod Beacham (Corporal Lane) Dec 3 1940 to Feb 12 2013
Career highlights
After debuting in Doctor Who, Rod's further work included Strange Report (1969), The Brothers (1972), Van der Valk (1973), Within These Walls (1975), The Squeeze (1977), Enemy at the Door (1978) and Shoestring (1980). He gave up acting to move behind the camera to script-write for Blake's 7 (1981), Bergerac (1983-90), Coasting (1990), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1991) and The Bill (1997-2000), and also wrote extensively for radio and the stage, most notably the production Lies Have Been Told, a one-man play about newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell. Rod was adapting the play into a film script at the time of his death.
Facts
He was also a founder member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre, and the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond.
Nicholas Courtney (Colonel Lethbridge Stewart) Dec 16 1929 to Feb 22 2011 (cancer) Click here for Nicholas Courtney's entry on The Daleks' Master Plan
Bernard G High (Soldier) Born Mar 21 1944
Doctor Who credits
Played: Soldier in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Corporal in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Career highlights
Bernard debuted in A Game of Murder (1966), then took roles in Z Cars (1967), Detective (1968), Night After Night After Night (1969) and Within These Walls (1975). Bernard also wrote plays for the stage.
Roger Jacombs (Yeti) Apr 7 1940 to Dec 26 1999
Career highlights
Roger's other work includes Adam Adamant Lives! (1966) and Up Pompeii (1970), as well as the Morecambe and Wise vehicle Two of a Kind (1967-68).
Jeremy King (Yeti)
This is Jeremy's only known credit.
Richardson Morgan (Corporal Blake) 1939 to Sep 22 2024
Doctor Who credits
Played: Corporal Blake in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Rogin in The Ark in Space (1975)
Career highlights
Debuting in Vendetta (1967), Detective (1968), Richardson's career took in Tales of Unease (1970), New Scotland Yard (1972), Van der Valk (1973), The Adventurer (1973), Holding On (1977), Rebecca (1979), Two People (1979), Shine on Harvey Moon (1984), Inspector Morse (1987), EastEnders (1994) and A Respectable Trade (1998). He also wrote an episode of the anthology series Tales of Unease in 1970.
Facts
From the 1980s he went by the professional name of Ric Morgan.
Joseph O'Connell (Soldier)
Career highlights
Joseph's other work include Z Cars (1967), Thingumybob (1968), Callan (1969), Public Eye (1969) and Special Branch (1970).
Tina Packer (Ann Travers) Born Sep 28 1938
Career highlights
Tina's earliest acting role was in No Hiding Place (1964), after which she appeared in The Avengers (1965), David Copperfield (1966), Two a Penny (1967), Boy Meets Girl (1968), Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970) and Crime of Passion (1972). She also appeared as herself in It's Saturday Night (1959), Charlie Rose (2013) and the 2017 documentary Nothing is Truer Than the Truth (about Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford).
Facts
Tina was a drama teacher in London before leaving the UK for the US in 1972, where in 1978 she founded and became artistic director of the Shakespeare and Company Theatre in Lenox, Massachusetts until her retirement in 2009. Although not proven, it is thought Tina may have directed more productions of Shakespeare's plays than any other woman in the world. She is the subject of Helen Epstein's biography, The Companies She Keeps, and the WGBH film Sex, Violence & Poetry: a Portrait of Tina Packer. She continues to spearhead an international effort to reconstruct an historically accurate reproduction of the 1587 Rose Playhouse, where Shakespeare's plays were first performed. Her first husband was actor Laurie Asprey, with whom she had son Jason, now an actor.
Derek Pollitt (Driver Evans) Dec 16 1926 to Jul 11 2010
Doctor Who credits
Played: Driver Evans in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Private Wright in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Professor Caldera in Shada (1980, untransmitted)
Career highlights
Further work included Such is Life (1950), Strife (1960), Coronation Street (1966), The Body Stealers (1969), Bread (1971) and The Onedin Line (1978).
Facts
Derek sadly went blind in 1997 and moved into an RNIB hostel, but this didn't stop him raising money for a hospice in Llandudno, North Wales, by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End for a penny a mile (raising £1,301). His brother was fellow actor Clyde Pollitt, who appeared in two Doctor Who stories - The War Games (1969) and The Three Doctors (1972-73). His mother was Betty (Lloyd-) Davies, who was also a noted Welsh bard called Branwen Ellis. In 1955, Derek and his wife formed the Galleon touring theatre company, and ran two others with his brothers Brian and Clyde.
Jon Rollason (Harold Chorley) Apr 9 1931 to Feb 20 2016
Career highlights
Jon's screen acting debut came in The Children of the New Forest (1955), after which he appeared in First Night (1963), Swizzlewick (1964), Danger Man (1966), The Troubleshooters (1967), The Borderers (1970), Barlow (1973) and Robin's Nest (1979). He also played semi-regular Dave Robbins in soap Coronation Street (1963-64/69/71) but will be best remembered as short-lived regular Dr Martin King in The Avengers (1962). Jon also wrote many radio serials, as well as The Double Dealers (1974) and episodes of soap Crossroads (1976, for which he invented the popular character of Benny) for TV, before moving to North Wales to get involved in local politics, becoming mayor of the town of Llanrwst for a time.
Frederick Schrecker (Julius Silverstein) Jan 10 1892 to Jul 13 1976
Career highlights
Austrian Fritz/ Frederick's earliest known credit was in Der Feldherrnhugel (1926), followed by roles in Die Koffer des Herrn O.F (1931), Counterspy (1953), Breakaway (1955), The Trollenberg Terror (1956-57), Dixon of Dock Green (1957), Women in Love (1958), The Cheaters (1961), Billion Dollar Brain (1968), The Liver Birds (1971), The Man Outside (1972), The Glittering Prizes (1976) and Killers (1976).
Gordon Stothard (Yeti) Born Jan 31 1933
Doctor Who credits
Played: Yeti in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Cyberman in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Played: Man carrying caskets in The Invasion (1968, uncredited)
Played: Prison officer in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: Grun in The Curse of Peladon (1972, as Gordon St Clair)
Career highlights
Gordon's only other credited role was in Paul Temple (1970).
Colin Warman (Yeti)
Colin's only other credit is Z Cars (1968).
Jack Watling (Travers) Jan 13 1923 to May 22 2001 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Professor Travers in The Abominable Snowmen (1967), The Web of Fear (1968) + fan spin-off Downtime (1995)
Career highlights
Jack was a veteran film actor by the time he appeared in Doctor Who, alongside his daughter Debbie. His first CV credit was in 1943's We Dive at Dawn (although he'd been acting uncredited since before the war), and subsequent credits included The Way Ahead (1944), The Winslow Boy (1948), Under Capricorn (1949), Stryker of the Yard (1953), A Time to Kill (1955), The Admirable Crichton (1957), A Night to Remember (1958), Invisible Man (1959), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Hancock (1961), The Newcomers (1965), The Nanny (1965), Nearest and Dearest (1969), Paul Temple (1970), The Pathfinders (1972-73), Jason King (1972), Father, Dear Father (1972), Lord Tramp (1977), The Cedar Tree (1977-78), Doctor's Daughters (1981), Family Fortunes (1981), Andy Robson (1982-83), Hot Metal (1986), Fortunes of War (1987), Bergerac (1989-91) and Heartbeat (1994). His last role was reprising Prof Travers in Downtime (1995), which reunited him with his daughter, as well as the Great Intelligence, the Yeti and the Brigadier. Travers was also supposed to appear in the Doctor Who story The Invasion (1968), but Jack was unavailable. One of Jack's other longer-running roles was as Don Henderson in The Plane Makers (1963-65) and The Power Game (1965-69).
Facts
Jack's other children are actors Giles and Dilys and sculptor Nicky Matthews. In the 1940s Jack was pestered by love letters sent to him from Viennese psychiatrist and vocal coach Keith Newman, who Jack was eventually forced to commit to a mental institution. Jack also suffered from acute anxiety neurosis. Jack's widow Patricia Hicks died just three days after the tenth anniversary of his passing.
Ralph Watson (Captain Knight) Jan 20 1936 to Jun 20 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Technician in The Underwater Menace (1967)
Played: Captain Knight in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Ettis in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
Played: Ben in Horror of Fang Rock (1977)
Career highlights
His first credit was Front Page Story (1965), then The Three Musketeers (1966), The Anniversary (1968), Barlow at Large (1973), Edward the Seventh (1975), Battle of the Sexes (1976), When the Boat Comes In (1976), Dave Allen At Large (1976-78), Hazell (1979), One By One (1985), Prospects (1986), Boon (1989), Spender (1992), The Glass Virgin (1995), Shooting Fish (1997), A Soldier's Tunic (2004) and Casualty (2007).
Facts
In the early 1980s Ralph worked as a teacher in London.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Ralph here.
Stephen Whittaker (Craftsman Weams) Jun 28 1947 to Feb 7 2003
Career highlights
Other credits include The Edwardians (1964), The Gun (1967), Sat'day While Sunday (1967), Chastity (1969), Strange Report (1969), Callan (1972), Crown Court (1973), I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Target (1977), Spearhead (1979), Yanks (1979), Only a Game (1981), The Keep (1983) and Blott on the Landscape (1985). After giving up acting Stephen moved behind the scenes to go into directing, working on What If It's Raining (1986), Eurocops (1988), Portrait of a Marriage (1988), Inspector Morse (1993), Grafters (1999), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000), Sons and Lovers (2003) and The Rocket Post (2004).
Jack Woolgar (Staff Sergeant Arnold) Sep 15 1913 to Jul 14 1978
Career highlights
After debuting in The Artful Dodger (1959), Jack's CV included roles in Skyport (1960), Biggles (1960), It's Dark Outside (1964), Orlando (1966), The Avengers (1967), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1967), Hammerhead (1968), The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (1969, as the titular character), Kate (1970), Paul Temple (1970), The Liver Birds (1971), Ace of Wands (1971), Follyfoot (1972), Review (1972), Our Kid (1973), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1974), Crown Court (1973/74), The Sweeney (1975) and Last of the Summer Wine (1975). In his last years he became best known for playing Sam Carne in soap Crossroads (1975-78).
Facts
A tribute site to Jack created by his son Tim can be found here.
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
Rod Beacham (Corporal Lane) Dec 3 1940 to Feb 12 2013
Career highlights
After debuting in Doctor Who, Rod's further work included Strange Report (1969), The Brothers (1972), Van der Valk (1973), Within These Walls (1975), The Squeeze (1977), Enemy at the Door (1978) and Shoestring (1980). He gave up acting to move behind the camera to script-write for Blake's 7 (1981), Bergerac (1983-90), Coasting (1990), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1991) and The Bill (1997-2000), and also wrote extensively for radio and the stage, most notably the production Lies Have Been Told, a one-man play about newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell. Rod was adapting the play into a film script at the time of his death.
Facts
He was also a founder member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre, and the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond.
Nicholas Courtney (Colonel Lethbridge Stewart) Dec 16 1929 to Feb 22 2011 (cancer) Click here for Nicholas Courtney's entry on The Daleks' Master Plan
Bernard G High (Soldier) Born Mar 21 1944
Doctor Who credits
Played: Soldier in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Corporal in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Career highlights
Bernard debuted in A Game of Murder (1966), then took roles in Z Cars (1967), Detective (1968), Night After Night After Night (1969) and Within These Walls (1975). Bernard also wrote plays for the stage.
Roger Jacombs (Yeti) Apr 7 1940 to Dec 26 1999
Career highlights
Roger's other work includes Adam Adamant Lives! (1966) and Up Pompeii (1970), as well as the Morecambe and Wise vehicle Two of a Kind (1967-68).
Jeremy King (Yeti)
This is Jeremy's only known credit.
John Levene (Yeti) Born Dec 24 1941
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Moonbase (1967, uncredited)
Played: Yeti in The Web of Fear (1968), The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Sergeant/ RSM Benton in The Invasion (1968), The Ambassadors of Death (1970), Inferno (1970), Terror of the Autons (1971), The Mind of Evil (1971), The Claws of Axos (1971), The Daemons (1971), Day of the Daleks (1972), The Time Monster (1972), The Three Doctors (1972-73), The Green Death (1973), Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974), Planet of the Spiders (1974), Robot (1974-75), Terror of the Zygons (1975), The Android Invasion (1975)
Played: Platoon Under Leader Benton in Inferno (1970)
Career highlights
John's other appearances include Undermind (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), Z Cars (1967), A Handful of Thieves (1969), Germinal (1970), UFO (1970), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), Callan (1972), Double Take (1972), Psychomania (1973), The Jensen Code (1973), The Adventurer (1974), Carry On Laughing! (1975), The Growing Pains of PC Penrose (1975), The Executioner (1975), BeetleBorgs (1997), CanniBallistic! (2002), Automatons (2006) and Satan Hates You (2010).
Facts
John was inspired to become an actor after meeting Telly Savalas (filming The Dirty Dozen at the time) while working in a men's clothing shop. He quit acting in 1977 and set up his own audio-visual production company, before moving to America, where he started acting once more after working for some years as an entertainer on cruise liners. In 1987 he reprised the role of Benton for the fan video spin-off Wartime. If you have a desire to hear John sing, then why not try out his 2012 album The Ballads of Sergeant Benton?
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Moonbase (1967, uncredited)
Played: Yeti in The Web of Fear (1968), The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Sergeant/ RSM Benton in The Invasion (1968), The Ambassadors of Death (1970), Inferno (1970), Terror of the Autons (1971), The Mind of Evil (1971), The Claws of Axos (1971), The Daemons (1971), Day of the Daleks (1972), The Time Monster (1972), The Three Doctors (1972-73), The Green Death (1973), Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974), Planet of the Spiders (1974), Robot (1974-75), Terror of the Zygons (1975), The Android Invasion (1975)
Played: Platoon Under Leader Benton in Inferno (1970)
Career highlights
John's other appearances include Undermind (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), Z Cars (1967), A Handful of Thieves (1969), Germinal (1970), UFO (1970), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), Callan (1972), Double Take (1972), Psychomania (1973), The Jensen Code (1973), The Adventurer (1974), Carry On Laughing! (1975), The Growing Pains of PC Penrose (1975), The Executioner (1975), BeetleBorgs (1997), CanniBallistic! (2002), Automatons (2006) and Satan Hates You (2010).
Facts
John was inspired to become an actor after meeting Telly Savalas (filming The Dirty Dozen at the time) while working in a men's clothing shop. He quit acting in 1977 and set up his own audio-visual production company, before moving to America, where he started acting once more after working for some years as an entertainer on cruise liners. In 1987 he reprised the role of Benton for the fan video spin-off Wartime. If you have a desire to hear John sing, then why not try out his 2012 album The Ballads of Sergeant Benton?
John Lord (Yeti)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Yeti in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Masters in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Career highlights
His other credits include Doomwatch (1970), No, That's Me Over Here! (1970) and The Man Outside (1972).
Doctor Who credits
Played: Yeti in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Masters in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Career highlights
His other credits include Doomwatch (1970), No, That's Me Over Here! (1970) and The Man Outside (1972).
Richardson Morgan (Corporal Blake) 1939 to Sep 22 2024
Doctor Who credits
Played: Corporal Blake in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Rogin in The Ark in Space (1975)
Career highlights
Debuting in Vendetta (1967), Detective (1968), Richardson's career took in Tales of Unease (1970), New Scotland Yard (1972), Van der Valk (1973), The Adventurer (1973), Holding On (1977), Rebecca (1979), Two People (1979), Shine on Harvey Moon (1984), Inspector Morse (1987), EastEnders (1994) and A Respectable Trade (1998). He also wrote an episode of the anthology series Tales of Unease in 1970.
Facts
From the 1980s he went by the professional name of Ric Morgan.
Joseph O'Connell (Soldier)
Career highlights
Joseph's other work include Z Cars (1967), Thingumybob (1968), Callan (1969), Public Eye (1969) and Special Branch (1970).
Tina Packer (Ann Travers) Born Sep 28 1938
Career highlights
Tina's earliest acting role was in No Hiding Place (1964), after which she appeared in The Avengers (1965), David Copperfield (1966), Two a Penny (1967), Boy Meets Girl (1968), Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970) and Crime of Passion (1972). She also appeared as herself in It's Saturday Night (1959), Charlie Rose (2013) and the 2017 documentary Nothing is Truer Than the Truth (about Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford).
Facts
Tina was a drama teacher in London before leaving the UK for the US in 1972, where in 1978 she founded and became artistic director of the Shakespeare and Company Theatre in Lenox, Massachusetts until her retirement in 2009. Although not proven, it is thought Tina may have directed more productions of Shakespeare's plays than any other woman in the world. She is the subject of Helen Epstein's biography, The Companies She Keeps, and the WGBH film Sex, Violence & Poetry: a Portrait of Tina Packer. She continues to spearhead an international effort to reconstruct an historically accurate reproduction of the 1587 Rose Playhouse, where Shakespeare's plays were first performed. Her first husband was actor Laurie Asprey, with whom she had son Jason, now an actor.
Derek Pollitt (Driver Evans) Dec 16 1926 to Jul 11 2010
Doctor Who credits
Played: Driver Evans in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Private Wright in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Professor Caldera in Shada (1980, untransmitted)
Career highlights
Further work included Such is Life (1950), Strife (1960), Coronation Street (1966), The Body Stealers (1969), Bread (1971) and The Onedin Line (1978).
Facts
Derek sadly went blind in 1997 and moved into an RNIB hostel, but this didn't stop him raising money for a hospice in Llandudno, North Wales, by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End for a penny a mile (raising £1,301). His brother was fellow actor Clyde Pollitt, who appeared in two Doctor Who stories - The War Games (1969) and The Three Doctors (1972-73). His mother was Betty (Lloyd-) Davies, who was also a noted Welsh bard called Branwen Ellis. In 1955, Derek and his wife formed the Galleon touring theatre company, and ran two others with his brothers Brian and Clyde.
Jon Rollason (Harold Chorley) Apr 9 1931 to Feb 20 2016
Career highlights
Jon's screen acting debut came in The Children of the New Forest (1955), after which he appeared in First Night (1963), Swizzlewick (1964), Danger Man (1966), The Troubleshooters (1967), The Borderers (1970), Barlow (1973) and Robin's Nest (1979). He also played semi-regular Dave Robbins in soap Coronation Street (1963-64/69/71) but will be best remembered as short-lived regular Dr Martin King in The Avengers (1962). Jon also wrote many radio serials, as well as The Double Dealers (1974) and episodes of soap Crossroads (1976, for which he invented the popular character of Benny) for TV, before moving to North Wales to get involved in local politics, becoming mayor of the town of Llanrwst for a time.
Frederick Schrecker (Julius Silverstein) Jan 10 1892 to Jul 13 1976
Career highlights
Austrian Fritz/ Frederick's earliest known credit was in Der Feldherrnhugel (1926), followed by roles in Die Koffer des Herrn O.F (1931), Counterspy (1953), Breakaway (1955), The Trollenberg Terror (1956-57), Dixon of Dock Green (1957), Women in Love (1958), The Cheaters (1961), Billion Dollar Brain (1968), The Liver Birds (1971), The Man Outside (1972), The Glittering Prizes (1976) and Killers (1976).
Gordon Stothard (Yeti) Born Jan 31 1933
Doctor Who credits
Played: Yeti in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Cyberman in The Wheel in Space (1968)
Played: Man carrying caskets in The Invasion (1968, uncredited)
Played: Prison officer in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: Grun in The Curse of Peladon (1972, as Gordon St Clair)
Career highlights
Gordon's only other credited role was in Paul Temple (1970).
Colin Warman (Yeti)
Colin's only other credit is Z Cars (1968).
Jack Watling (Travers) Jan 13 1923 to May 22 2001 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Professor Travers in The Abominable Snowmen (1967), The Web of Fear (1968) + fan spin-off Downtime (1995)
Career highlights
Jack was a veteran film actor by the time he appeared in Doctor Who, alongside his daughter Debbie. His first CV credit was in 1943's We Dive at Dawn (although he'd been acting uncredited since before the war), and subsequent credits included The Way Ahead (1944), The Winslow Boy (1948), Under Capricorn (1949), Stryker of the Yard (1953), A Time to Kill (1955), The Admirable Crichton (1957), A Night to Remember (1958), Invisible Man (1959), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Hancock (1961), The Newcomers (1965), The Nanny (1965), Nearest and Dearest (1969), Paul Temple (1970), The Pathfinders (1972-73), Jason King (1972), Father, Dear Father (1972), Lord Tramp (1977), The Cedar Tree (1977-78), Doctor's Daughters (1981), Family Fortunes (1981), Andy Robson (1982-83), Hot Metal (1986), Fortunes of War (1987), Bergerac (1989-91) and Heartbeat (1994). His last role was reprising Prof Travers in Downtime (1995), which reunited him with his daughter, as well as the Great Intelligence, the Yeti and the Brigadier. Travers was also supposed to appear in the Doctor Who story The Invasion (1968), but Jack was unavailable. One of Jack's other longer-running roles was as Don Henderson in The Plane Makers (1963-65) and The Power Game (1965-69).
Facts
Jack's other children are actors Giles and Dilys and sculptor Nicky Matthews. In the 1940s Jack was pestered by love letters sent to him from Viennese psychiatrist and vocal coach Keith Newman, who Jack was eventually forced to commit to a mental institution. Jack also suffered from acute anxiety neurosis. Jack's widow Patricia Hicks died just three days after the tenth anniversary of his passing.
Ralph Watson (Captain Knight) Jan 20 1936 to Jun 20 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Technician in The Underwater Menace (1967)
Played: Captain Knight in The Web of Fear (1968)
Played: Ettis in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
Played: Ben in Horror of Fang Rock (1977)
Career highlights
His first credit was Front Page Story (1965), then The Three Musketeers (1966), The Anniversary (1968), Barlow at Large (1973), Edward the Seventh (1975), Battle of the Sexes (1976), When the Boat Comes In (1976), Dave Allen At Large (1976-78), Hazell (1979), One By One (1985), Prospects (1986), Boon (1989), Spender (1992), The Glass Virgin (1995), Shooting Fish (1997), A Soldier's Tunic (2004) and Casualty (2007).
Facts
In the early 1980s Ralph worked as a teacher in London.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Ralph here.
Stephen Whittaker (Craftsman Weams) Jun 28 1947 to Feb 7 2003
Career highlights
Other credits include The Edwardians (1964), The Gun (1967), Sat'day While Sunday (1967), Chastity (1969), Strange Report (1969), Callan (1972), Crown Court (1973), I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Target (1977), Spearhead (1979), Yanks (1979), Only a Game (1981), The Keep (1983) and Blott on the Landscape (1985). After giving up acting Stephen moved behind the scenes to go into directing, working on What If It's Raining (1986), Eurocops (1988), Portrait of a Marriage (1988), Inspector Morse (1993), Grafters (1999), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000), Sons and Lovers (2003) and The Rocket Post (2004).
Jack Woolgar (Staff Sergeant Arnold) Sep 15 1913 to Jul 14 1978
Career highlights
After debuting in The Artful Dodger (1959), Jack's CV included roles in Skyport (1960), Biggles (1960), It's Dark Outside (1964), Orlando (1966), The Avengers (1967), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1967), Hammerhead (1968), The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (1969, as the titular character), Kate (1970), Paul Temple (1970), The Liver Birds (1971), Ace of Wands (1971), Follyfoot (1972), Review (1972), Our Kid (1973), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1974), Crown Court (1973/74), The Sweeney (1975) and Last of the Summer Wine (1975). In his last years he became best known for playing Sam Carne in soap Crossroads (1975-78).
Facts
A tribute site to Jack created by his son Tim can be found here.
CREW
Mervyn Haisman (writer) Mar 15 1928 to Oct 29 2010 (heart failure) Click here for Mervyn Haisman's entry on The Abominable Snowmen
Henry Lincoln (writer) Feb 12 1930 to Feb 23 2022 Click here for Henry Lincoln's entry on The Abominable Snowmen
Douglas Camfield (director) May 8 1931 to Jan 27 1984 (heart attack) Click here for Douglas Camfield's entry on Planet of Giants
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
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Web of Fear, Fury from the Deep, The Wheel in Space, The Dominators, The Mind Robber (all 1968), The Space Pirates (1969)
Produced: The War Games (1969), Spearhead from Space (1970)
Wrote: The Mind Robber (episode 1, 1968, uncredited), The Invasion (1968)
Played: UNIT commissionaire in Spearhead from Space (1970, uncredited)
Career highlights
Derrick started out as an actor, debuting in 1958's Duty Bound, and later appearing in Starr and Company (1958), William Tell (1959), The Men from Room 13 (1959), Here Lies Miss Sabry (1960), Danger Man (1960), Clue of the Silver Key (1961), The Spanish Sword (1962), Saki (1962), Accidental Death (1963), The Bed-Sit Girl (1965), The Baron (1967) and Vengeance of She (1968). He also had a regular role as Bryn Morriston in the football soap United! (1965-66).
Behind the cameras, he worked as producer on Paul Temple (1970-71), The Man Outside (1972), Ski-Boy (1973) and Perils of Pendragon (1974), and wrote scripts for Emergency Ward 10 (1966), United! (1966-67), Z Cars (1967), Boy Meets Girl (1967-68), Paul Temple, Nobody's House (1976), Kim & Co (1976) and Magic Circle (1977).
Facts
Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale, a big influence on the direction Derrick took Doctor Who in Seasons 6 and 7, was Sherwin's next-door neighbour in 1969, while his wife until 1982 was actress Jane Sherwin, who appeared in The War Games.
Mervyn Haisman (writer) Mar 15 1928 to Oct 29 2010 (heart failure) Click here for Mervyn Haisman's entry on The Abominable Snowmen
Henry Lincoln (writer) Feb 12 1930 to Feb 23 2022 Click here for Henry Lincoln's entry on The Abominable Snowmen
Douglas Camfield (director) May 8 1931 to Jan 27 1984 (heart attack) Click here for Douglas Camfield's entry on Planet of Giants
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
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Web of Fear, Fury from the Deep, The Wheel in Space, The Dominators, The Mind Robber (all 1968), The Space Pirates (1969)
Produced: The War Games (1969), Spearhead from Space (1970)
Wrote: The Mind Robber (episode 1, 1968, uncredited), The Invasion (1968)
Played: UNIT commissionaire in Spearhead from Space (1970, uncredited)
Career highlights
Derrick started out as an actor, debuting in 1958's Duty Bound, and later appearing in Starr and Company (1958), William Tell (1959), The Men from Room 13 (1959), Here Lies Miss Sabry (1960), Danger Man (1960), Clue of the Silver Key (1961), The Spanish Sword (1962), Saki (1962), Accidental Death (1963), The Bed-Sit Girl (1965), The Baron (1967) and Vengeance of She (1968). He also had a regular role as Bryn Morriston in the football soap United! (1965-66).
Behind the cameras, he worked as producer on Paul Temple (1970-71), The Man Outside (1972), Ski-Boy (1973) and Perils of Pendragon (1974), and wrote scripts for Emergency Ward 10 (1966), United! (1966-67), Z Cars (1967), Boy Meets Girl (1967-68), Paul Temple, Nobody's House (1976), Kim & Co (1976) and Magic Circle (1977).
Facts
Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale, a big influence on the direction Derrick took Doctor Who in Seasons 6 and 7, was Sherwin's next-door neighbour in 1969, while his wife until 1982 was actress Jane Sherwin, who appeared in The War Games.
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