Colony in Space

An utterly terrifying
Uxarien Guardian (Norman Atkyns)

Six episodes (Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four, Episode Five, Episode Six)
First broadcast Apr 10 to May 15 1971
Average audience for serial: 8.53m

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

Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart) Dec 16 1929 to Feb 22 2011 (cancer) Click here for Nicholas Courtney's entry on The Daleks' Master Plan

Roger Delgado (The Master) Mar 1 1918 to Jun 18 1973 (car accident) Click here for Roger Delgado's entry on Terror of the Autons

GUEST CAST

Norman Atkyns (Guardian) Dec 13 1905 to Aug 7 1980
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guardian in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Rear Admiral in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Australian Norman debuted (uncredited) in Emil and the Detectives (1935), followed by roles in Anthony and Anna (1947), Playbox (1959), Idol on Parade (1959), followed by roles in Dr Finlay's Casebook (1965), Resurrection (1968), For the Love of Ada (1972), Follyfoot (1973), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973), The Good Life (1975), Doctor on the Go (1977) and A Tale of Two Cities (1980).
Facts
He was a close friend of Doctor Who director Michael Briant.

John Baker (Time Lord) Aug 8 1917 to Dec 2 2002
Doctor Who credits
Played: Time Lord in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Audience member/ meditator in Planet of the Spiders (1974, uncredited)
Played: Ralph in The Visitation (1982)
Career highlights
John first appeared in Hotel Reserve (1944), and later had roles in Morning Departure (1946), RUR (1948), Midshipman Barney (1951), Five Children and It (1951), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954), The End of the Road (1957), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1957), Cover Girl Killer (1959), The Frightened City (1961), Echo Four Two (1961), Contract to Kill (1965), It! (1966), Trog (1970), War and Peace (1972), Are You Being Served? (1974), Blake's 7 (1978), Spy! (1980), Shine on Harvey Moon (1982), Bergerac (1985), The Dark Angel (1987), The Brittas Empire (1992) and Class Act (1994).

Tony Caunter (Morgan) Born Sep 22 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Thatcher in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Morgan in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Jackson in Enlightenment (1983)
Career highlights
Tony's long career stems back to 24-Hour Call (1963), then The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), The Likely Lads (1966), The Avengers (1967), The Queen Street Gang (1968), Parkin's Patch (1969), Ace of Wands (1970), War and Peace (1973), Marked Personal (1974), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Blake's 7 (1978), Angels (1979), Home to Roost (1985), London's Burning (1988), Boon (1990), Westbeach (1993), May to December (1994), Down to Earth (2004) and Doctors (2004/08). Tony will be best known as Roy Evans in the soap EastEnders (1994-2003), but he also had regular roles in Queenie's Castle (1970-72) as Jack, All Our Saturdays (1973) as Ken Hicks, Beryl's Lot (1973-77) as Trevor Tonks, Juliet Bravo (1980-82) as Jim Logan, Big Deal (1984) as Henry Diamond and The Chief (1990-94) as Arthur Quine.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Tony here.

Peter Forbes-Robertson (Time Lord) Jan 16 1927 to Dec 7 1995
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: Time Lord in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Chief Sea Devil in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Peter's first credit is in The Case of Charles Peace (1949) and over the years he appeared in Let's Have a Murder (1950), Those People Next Door (1953), Girl in the Headlines (1963), Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966), Island of Terror (1966), The Persuaders! (1971), Scream... and Die! (1974), Sex Play (1974), Enemy at the Door (1980), The Tripods (1985), The Love Boat (1986) and Foreign Body (1986).
Facts
Little-known fact: Peter provided the spoken word parts on the 1974 ELO album Eldorado.

Pat Gorman (Primitive and voice, Long, Colonist) May 10 1933 to Oct 9 2018 Click here for Pat Gorman's entry on The Invasion

Sheila Grant (Jane Leeson) Mar 7 1933 to Sep 14 1990
Doctor Who credits
Played: Quark voices in The Dominators (1968)
Played: Jane Leeson in Colony in Space (1971)
Career highlights
Sheila's first credit was Madame Bovary (1964), then Up the Junction (1965), The Witness (1966), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966/67), Point Counterpoint (1968), Cold Comfort Farm (1968), Doomwatch (1971), Shoulder to Shoulder (1974), Yes, Honestly (1977), Funny Man (1981), Captain Zep, Space Detective (1983), The Witches and the Grinnygog (1983), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), The Practice (1986) and The Bill (1990).

John Herrington (Holden) Aug 4 1912 to Jul 3 1996
Doctor Who credits
Played: Rhynmal in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Holden in Colony in Space (1971)
Career highlights
John's first role was uncredited in Quatermass II (1955), and he went on to take roles in Dixon of Dock Green (1959), A Shot in the Dark (1964), Timeslip (1971), Colditz (1972-73), The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974), Second Verdict (1976) and The Woman in White (1982).

Facts

It is believed John was born in Germany as Johannes Ludwig von Herzfeld.

Roy Heymann (Alien priest) Sep 11 1941 to Feb 23 1996
Doctor Who credits
Played: Alien priest in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Gotal in Death to the Daleks (1974)
Career highlights
Roy's only other credit is a 1962 edition of Dixon of Dock Green.
Facts
If you've ever wondered what the human face is beneath the masks of the alien priest or Gotal, you can see Roy's picture on his Brazilian travel documents from 1963/4 here!

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

Graham Leaman (Time Lord) 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.

John Line (Martin) Jan 5 1931 to Aug 4 2018
Doctor Who credits
Played: Captain Redway in The Curse of the Daleks (1964, stage)*
Played: Martin in Colony in Space (1971)
Career highlights
Debuting in Rupert of Hentzau (1957), John's career included roles in Rag Doll (1961), No Hiding Place (1964), Castors Away! (1968), Hadleigh (1969), Paul Temple (1971), Colditz (1973), Oil Strike North (1975), Out of Bounds (1977), To Serve Them All My Days (1980-81, as Garside), The Brack Report (1982), Another Country (1984), Howards' Way (1989), EastEnders (1990), Brookside (1995), The Grand (1998), Crust (2001) and My Last Five Girlfriends (2009). He also played Andrew Shaw in over 70 episodes of medical soap Emergency Ward 10 (1962-64).
Facts
*John returned to The Curse of the Daleks, playing Professor Vanderlyn, in the 2008 audio adaptation by Big Finish.

John Scott Martin (IMC Robot operator) Apr 1 1926 to Jan 6 2009 (Parkinson's Disease) Click here for John Scott Martin's entry on The Web Planet

Stanley McGeagh (Allen) Born Aug 30 1936
Doctor Who credits
Played: Allen in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Castle guard Drew in The Sea Devils (1972)
Career highlights
Stanley's other credits include Haunted (1967), Dad's Army (1969), Burke and Hare (1972), The Land That Time Forgot (1975), Law and Order (1978), Carry On Emmannuelle (1978), Blood Money (1981), Gandhi (1982), Big Deal (1986), Neighbours (1993), Worst Best Friends (2002) and You and Your Stupid Mate (2005).
Facts
In 1970, Stanley married fellow actor Deborah Brayshaw, who appeared in Day of the Daleks (1972). They later divorced. Stanley now lives in Victoria, Australia.

Nicholas Pennell (Winton) Nov 19 1938 to Feb 22 1995 (lymphatic cancer)
Career highlights
Debuting in Aren't We All (1960), then Emergency Ward 10 (1963), Detective (1964), The Brothers Karamazov (1964), A Tale of Two Cities (1965), The Woman in White (1966), The Forsyte Saga (1967, as Michael Mont), Battle of Britain (1969), Mr Forbush and the Penguins (1971), The Flaxton Boys (1971), Full House (1973), As You Like It (1983), The Comedy of Errors (1989) and Satie and Suzanne (1994).
Facts
Nicholas regularly performed at the Stratford Festival of Canada in the 1970s and 80s, and became a respected Shakespearean director in North America. Nicholas worked with actor Robin Phillips at the Stratford Festival when the latter was artistic director (Phillips had also appeared in The Keys of Marinus (1964)). In his final years he became something of a recluse. Mary Z Maher wrote a book about his career called Risking Enchantment (2005).

Morris Perry (Dent) Mar 28 1925 to Sep 19 2021
Career highlights
Making his first appearance in New Ramps for Old (1956), Morris went on to appear in The Man Who Was Two (1957), Cards with Uncle Tom (1959), Out of this World (1962), Diary of a Young Man (1964), The Rise and Rise of Cesar Birotteau (1965), Witch Hunt (1967), Sexton Blake (1968), Counterstrike (1969), War and Peace (1972), The Shadow of the Tower (1972), Blue Movie Blackmail (1973), Whodunnit! (1974), Survivors (1977), Secret Army (1979), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982), The Cleopatras (1983), Drummonds (1985-87), The Christmas Tree (1986), Shadow of the Noose (1989), Stay Lucky (1993), Crush (2001), The Royal (2004), Holby City (2007) and Not Going Out (2011). Morris's most high profile roles were as Charles Moxon in Special Branch (1969-70) and Detective Chief Superintendent Maynon in The Sweeney (1975-76) and its film Sweeney! (1977).
Facts
Morris's wife (until her death in 2016) was actress Margaret Ashcroft, best known for her long-running roles in both The Main Chance (1969-75) and The Brothers (1974-76).
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Morris here.

John Ringham (Ashe) Feb 10 1928 to Oct 20 2008
Doctor Who credits
Played: Tlotoxl in The Aztecs (1964)
Played: Josiah Blake in The Smugglers (1966)
Played: Ashe in Colony in Space (1971)
Career highlights
John's acting career stretches as far back as Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans in 1957, and took in Very Important Person (1961), The Plane Makers (1963), The Forsyte Saga (1967), The Railway Children (1968), Up Pompeii (1970), The Pallisers (1974), Poldark (1975-76), Pennies from Heaven (1978), Maybury (1981) The Tripods (1985), Terry and June (1987), And There's More (1988), The Darling Buds of May (1991), The Governor (1995), Out of Sight (1997), The Secret of Eel Island (2005-07), V for Vendetta (2005) and Wallander (2008). He also played Captain Bailey in Dad's Army (1969-70), Superintendent Lake in Juliet Bravo (1980), Norman Warrender in Just Good Friends (1983-86) and Mr Blocker in Woof! (1989-93).
Facts
John was a member of the ensemble cast in the pilot episode of sitcom Dad's Army, but his character was dropped for the series as he was considered too similar to the bumbling Private Godfrey. He starred in TV adverts for Terry's Chocolate Orange spoofing the Indiana Jones films. He also wrote a couple of stage plays which were both premiered at the Edinburgh Festival, in 1991 and 1999. John's first wife was actress Elizabeth Shepherd (1959-62).

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

John Tordoff (Alec Leeson) Born Sep 11 1938
Career highlights
Making his debut in The Whisperers (1961), John's further work includes Nearest and Dearest (1969), The First Churchills (1969), Doctor in Charge (1972), Churchill's People (1975), The Sweeney (1975), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), Rumpole of the Bailey (1978), Agony (1981), The Gaffer (1983), Without a Clue (1988), Campion (1990), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Merlin (1998), Parting Shots (1998), Coronation Street (1978/99), Another Life (2001) and Eyes Wide Open (2001). John also wrote TV movie Charlie Was a Rich Man in 1981, and wrote and directed the 2001 short Feeling Lucky.
Facts
John is now a keen artist and garden designer in Umbria, Italy.

David Webb (Leeson) Mar 6 1931 to Jun 30 2012 (pancreatic cancer)
Career highlights
David debuted in a 1957 episode of Rupert of Hentzau, then appeared in The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff (1959), Hilda Lessways (1959), Tunes of Glory (1960), Emergency Ward 10 (1960-61), Crossroads (1964), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1967), Witchfinder General (1968), Wicked Women (1970), The Stanley Baxter Show (1971), The New Avengers (1976), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), The Pickwick Papers (1985), The Black Tower (1985), Rebecca (1997), A Dance to the Music of Time (1998) and Berkeley Square (1998).
Facts
David was for a time the lover of comedian Frankie Howerd. Libertarian David founded, in 1976, the National Council for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts and began his long campaign against the prudes and censors of every political and religious complexion (his motto: "So long as it's by and for consenting adults, nothing should be forbidden"). In the 1983 General Election he stood as a freedom of expression candidate in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's constituency of Finchley. He secured only 28 votes (0.1% of the vote).

Mitzi Webster (Mrs Martin) Born Nov 18 1934
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mrs Martin in Colony in Space (1971, as Mitzi Webster)
Played: Nancy in The Green Death (1973, as Mitzi McKenzie)
Career highlights
Mitzi had earlier appeared in The Wanderer (1959), Scotland Yard (1960), Resurrection (1968), Boys Meets Girl (1969) and Anne of Green Gables (1972), and later appeared with her new surname in The Hole in the Wall (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) and The Darling Buds of May (1991).
Facts
She later became a schoolteacher.

Helen Worth (Mary Ashe) Born Jan 7 1951
Career highlights
Helen's CV is relatively slight as her career has been dominated since 1974 by playing Gail in over 2,100 episodes of the soap Coronation Street. Her other appearances include Scene at 6.30 (1961), Z Cars (1963, using her birth surname of Wigglesworth), Oliver! (1968), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Confession (1970), The Strauss Family (1972), Within These Walls (1974) and The Carnforth Practice (1974).
Awards
2000: British Soap Award for Best Storyline (shared with Tina O'Brien)
2014: British Soap Award for Lifetime Achievement
Facts
Helen was married to actor Michael Angelis between 1991-2001 (she forgave an affair he had in 1995, but not his second one in 2001). Her real name is Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth.

CREW

Malcolm Hulke (writer) Nov 21 1924 to Jul 6 1979 Click here for Malcolm Hulke's entry on The Faceless Ones

Michael Briant (director) Born Feb 14 1942
Doctor Who credits
Assistant floor manager: The Crusade (1965, uncredited)
Production assistant: The Power of the Daleks (1966, uncredited), Fury from the Deep (1968, uncredited)
Directed: Colony in Space (1971), The Sea Devils (1972), The Green Death (1973), Death to the Daleks (1974), Revenge of the Cybermen (1975, as Michael E Briant), The Robots of Death (1977, as Michael E Briant)
Played: Radio DJ (voice) in The Sea Devils (1972, uncredited)
Played: Monitor voice in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975, uncredited)
Career highlights
Michael's first directing credit was on The Newcomers (1969), then The Doctors (1970-71), Z Cars (1970/74), Sutherland's Law (1973), Dixon of Dock Green (1975-76), Warship (1976-77), Treasure Island (1977), Blake's 7 (1978), The Onedin Line (1978), Secret Army (1978-79), Breakaway (1980), Blood Money (1981), Kessler (1981), One By One (1985), Hideaway (1986), Howards' Way (1987), Spijkerhoek (1989-90), Emmerdale (1979/88/90), Zonder Ernst (1992), Jansen, Jansen (1995) and EastEnders (1995). He had also taken an acting role in the 1952 series Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School, as well as The Little Round House (1955) and True as a Turtle (1957); he also wrote and directed the 1980 adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities.
Facts
Michael is now a keen Spain-based yachtsman and sailor and travels the world filming excursions - and occasionally getting attacked by pirates, according to his website! Michael says he was asked by Doctor Who producer Graham Williams to direct a Season 15 story, but was unavailable - after that, he was not asked back. Michael directed his final two Doctor Who stories as Michael E Briant (the E is for Edwin).
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Michael here.

Barry Letts (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