Carnival of Monsters

Shirna (Cheryl Hall) and Vorg (Leslie Dwyer)
as an alternative Third Doctor and Jo?

Four episodes (Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four)
First broadcast Jan 27 to Feb 17 1973
Average audience for serial: 9.18m

An episode by episode review of this story can be found at Time Space Visualiser.

REGULAR CAST

Jon Pertwee (The Doctor) Jul 7 1919 to May 20 1996 (heart attack) Click here to see Jon Pertwee's entry on Spearhead from Space

Katy Manning (Jo Grant) Born Oct 14 1946 Click here for Katy Manning's entry on Terror of the Autons

GUEST CAST

Leslie Dwyer (Vorg) Aug 28 1906 to Dec 26 1986 (pulmonary embolism and congestive heart failure)
Career highlights
Leslie had a number of uncredited roles in films during World War Two before securing his first on-screen credit for In Which We Serve (1942), after which he appeared in The Way Ahead (1944), Night Boat to Dublin (1946), The Calendar (1948), The Bad Lord Byron (1949), Lilli Marlene (1951), Hindle Wakes (1952), The Good Die Young (1954), Where There's a Will (1955), Face in the Night (1957), The 39 Steps (1959), Jacks and Knaves (1961), Citizen James (1962), Steptoe and Son (1963), Diary of a Young Man (1964), Monster of Terror (1965), The Charlie Drake Show (1967), Crooks and Coronets (1969), You're Only Young Twice (1971), Follyfoot (1972), Beryl's Lot (1973), Oranges and Lemons (1973), Late Call (1975), The Squirrels (1976), Lord Tramp (1977), Coronation Street (1968/78), The Famous Five (1978), Terry and June (1979) and Time of My Life (1980). His most famous role was as grumpy Punch and Judy man Mr Partridge in 36 episodes of holiday camp sitcom Hi-De-Hi! (1980-84).
Facts
Leslie's father was comedian and variety act Johnny Dwyer (aka Gracewell Sutterby).

Tenniel Evans (Major Daly) May 17 1926 to Jun 10 2009 (emphysema)
Career highlights
Kenyan born Tenniel's prolific career began in a 1960 adaptation of Somerset Maugham's The Kite, after which he appeared in Harpers West One (1961), The Plane Makers (1963), The Sullavan Brothers (1964-65, as John Sullavan), Mrs Thursday (1966), Merry-Go-Round (1967, as presenter), The Forsyte Saga (1967), Sanctuary (1967-68), four episodes of The Avengers (1961-63/68), Big Breadwinner Hog (1969), Roads to Freedom (1970), War and Peace (1972), Rooms (1975), My Brother's Keeper (1975-76, as Sergeant Bluett), The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1977), Raven (1977), Yes, Minister (1980), Sink or Swim (1982), Hallelujah! (1984), Shine On Harvey Moon (1985), One By One (1987), Knights of God (1987), Inspector Morse (1989), Rides (1993), Anna Lee (1994), September Song (1994), Pat and Margaret (1994), Giving Tongue (1996), Bugs (1997), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000) and William and Mary (2004). He will be best recognised as the second actor to play Perce in sitcom The Two of Us (1987-90), taking over from original actor Patrick Troughton after he died.
Facts
Tenniel, who qualified as a Church of England non-stipendiary minister in 1985, was legendary screen actor and producer Leslie Banks's son-in-law, his son was TV director Matthew Evans and his daughter actress Serena Evans (better known as Sgt Patricia Dawkins in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line). Tenniel's family is related on one side to author George Eliot and on the other to John Tenniel, the man who originally illustrated Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books. Tenniel was a member of the team behind BBC Radio's The Navy Lark in the 1950s alongside Jon Pertwee, who he urged to audition for the role of the Doctor in 1969.

Cheryl Hall (Shirna) Born Jul 23 1950
Career highlights
Cheryl made her debut in the 1968 series You and the World, after which she appeared in Special Branch (1969), Smith (1970), Deep End (1970), On the Buses (1971), Albert! (1972), Sykes (1972), Rentadick (1972), No Sex Please, We're British! (1973), Anyone for Sex? (1973), Oranges and Lemons (1973), Bless This House (1974), Angels (1975), Whodunnit? (1975), Rainbow (1974/76), Lucky Feller (1975-76), Rooms (1975/77), Survivors (1977), Danger UXB (1979), In Loving Memory (1981), Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest (1985, as well as its 1984 Dramarama "pilot"), EastEnders (1988), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989), The Men's Room (1991), So Haunt Me (1992), Magic Grandad (1993), Woof! (1994), Bramwell (1998), Silent Witness (1999-2000), Waking the Dead (2002), Rehab (2003) and 18 episodes of The Bill between 1984-2007.
Facts
Cheryl made the final six shortlist to play Jo Grant after auditioning for the part in 1970. Between 1974-80 Cheryl was married to actor Robert Lindsay (he left her for actor Diana Weston), and played his character Wolfie's girlfriend Shirley in the sitcom Citizen Smith (1977-79). Cheryl stood as Liberal candidate for Aston Under Lyne in the 1992 UK General Election, coming fourth with 907 votes and 2.1% of the ballot; she later stood as Labour candidate for Canterbury in the 1997 UK General Election, securing almost 17,000 votes and 31% of the ballot, but lost out to Conservative candidate Julian Brazier. She later went on to become a Labour county councillor (and local party leader) in Kent, and later a teacher in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Peter Halliday (Pletrac) Jun 2 1924 to Feb 18 2012
Doctor Who credits
Played: Packer in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Silurian voices in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Alien voices in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Pletrac in Carnival of Monsters (1973)
Played: Soldier in City of Death (1979)
Played: Vicar in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Career highlights
Peter's career began with 1954's Fatal Journey and he then took roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1956), Dunkirk (1958), The Citadel (1960), Garry Halliday (1962), Sierra Nine (1963), Danger Man (1965), Write a Play (1965), The Avengers (1968), UFO (1970-71), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), The Befrienders (1972), Bowler (1973), The Boy with Two Heads (1974), The Sweeney (1975), Keep It Up Downstairs (1976), Beasts (1976), Angels (1982), The Tripods (1984), Hannay (1989), The Remains of the Day (1993), Our Friends in the North (1996), Goodnight Sweetheart (1997), Esther (1999), Micawber (2001) and Lassie (2005). He also played Dr John Fleming in A for Andromeda (1961) and The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962).
Facts
Peter was for a time married to the actress Simone Lovell, daughter of the actors Raymond Lovell and Margot Collis (who had an affair with the poet W B Yeats during her marriage to Lovell).

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

Ian Marter (John Andrews) Oct 28 1944 to Oct 28 1986 (diabetes-related heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: John Andrews in Carnival of Monsters (1973)
Played: Harry Sullivan in Robot, The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks, Revenge of the Cybermen, Terror of the Zygons, The Android Invasion (1974-75)
Career highlights
Ian's first acting credit was in Doctor Faustus (1967), followed by roles in The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971), Holly (1972), The Venturers (1975), Softly Softly (1975), The Brothers (1976), The Medusa Touch (1978, in which he was wrongly credited as Ian Master), ten episodes of Crown Court (1972/74/78), Hazell (1979), The Specialist (1980), Close to Home (1982), Shine On Harvey Moon (1984), Bergerac (1985) and The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986).
Facts
He left Oxford University in 1969 to become a stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic circa 1970. He auditioned for the role of Captain Mike Yates in Doctor Who in 1970, and in later years took to writing, including nine novelisations of Doctor Who TV stories (courting controversy by using the word "bastard" in The Enemy of the World), as well as the original novel Harry Sullivan's War (1986), set a decade after Harry stopped travelling with the Doctor (Marter originally planned to kill Harry off at the end, but the publisher banned the idea). Ian died before completing his adaptation of The Rescue, which had to be completed by Nigel Robinson, and before he could adapt his promised sequel to Harry Sullivan's War. With the pen-name Ian Don, he also wrote the novelisation of the Hollywood films Splash (1984), Baby (1985), Tough Guys (1986) and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), and several unpublished books based on the cartoon series The Gummi Bears. Another writing project that never saw the light of day was the script for an unmade film called Doctor Who Meets Scratchman, which he co-wrote with Tom Baker and James Hill in the mid-1970s.

Jenny McCracken (Claire Daly) Born Apr 9 1946
Career highlights
Jenny's earliest credit was in Z Cars (1968), then Detective (1969), Rookery Nook (1970), A Cuckoo in the Nest (1970), Ace of Wands (1972), The Dick Emery Show (1976), Rings on Their Fingers (1978), Only When I Laugh (1980), Dombey and Son (1983), The Mistress (1985), Jossy's Giants (1986), David Copperfield (1986), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1995), Peak Practice (1997), Heartbeat (2000), Judge John Deed (2001) and From Time to Time (2009).
Facts
Jenny made the final six shortlist to play Jo Grant after auditioning for the part in 1970.

Andrew Staines (Captain) Feb 11 1937 to Sep 16 2016
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sergeant to Benik in The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Played: Goodge in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Played: Captain in Carnival of Monsters (1973)
Played: Keaver in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
Andrew's only other screen credits are on Justice (1971) and The Woman in White (1982), although he worked extensively in theatre.
Facts
Andrew was Doctor Who producer Barry Letts' nephew. In 2008 Andrew was interviewed for the British Library's Theatre Archive Project, and had this to say about his time on Doctor Who: "I was in one - Pertwee had been the Doctor for several episodes then - but he had a change of personnel and had Katy Manning as his female sidekick and Roger Delgado as the Master, and then I was in two or three others after that, and then there I was in Jon's final one. They got Tom Baker in on the last day of rehearsal so that he could be transformed from Jon Pertwee - I was very interested, standing on the sidelines and watching them do it. I rather regret that I never went on to do an episode with Tom Baker." A transcript of the full interview can be found here.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Andrew here.

Michael Wisher (Kalik) May 19 1935 to Jul 21 1995 (heart attack) Click here for Michael Wisher's entry on The Ambassadors of Death

CREW

Robert Holmes (writer) Apr 2 1926 to May 24 1986 (chronic liver ailment) Click here to see Robert Holmes's entry on The Krotons

Barry Letts (director (uncredited) and producer) Mar 26 1925 to Oct 9 2009 (cancer) Click here for Barry Letts's entry on The Enemy of the World

Terrance Dicks (script editor) Apr 14 1935 to Aug 29 2019 Click here for Terrance Dicks's entry on The Invasion