The Android Invasion

The deadly fingers!

Four episodes (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four)
First broadcast Nov 22 to Dec 13 1975
Average audience for serial: 11.68m

REGULAR CAST

Tom Baker (The Doctor) Born Jan 20 1934 Click here for Tom Baker's entry on Robot

Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) Feb 1 1946 to Apr 19 2011 (pancreatic cancer) Click here for Elisabeth Sladen's entry on The Time Warrior

GUEST CAST

Dave Carter (Grierson) Click here for Dave Carter's entry on Doctor Who and the Silurians

Heather Emmanuel (Tessa)
Career highlights
Sri Lankan Heather, just 4ft 10in tall, seems to have forged a career out of playing nurses, something she first did in her screen debut in Dixon of Dock Green (1961). She went on to play nurses in The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962), The Marriage Lines (1965), Coronation Street (1969), Angels (1976), The Professionals (1982), Grange Hill (1986) and Prime Suspect (1995), although she was promoted to a doctor in a 2005 episode of Coronation Street! Other credits include Outbreak of Murder (1962), Sergeant Cork (1964), The Doctors (1970), Doctor in Charge (1973), Within These Walls (1975), Survivors (1977), First Among Equals (1986), Family Pride (1991), Casualty (1994), The Tailor of Panama (2001), Doctors (2005), Mamma Mia! (2008) and Trauma (2018). Heather also works as a voiceover artist, lip-synching and dubbing dialogue on films such as Blade Runner, A Passage to India and Little Buddha, and working extensively on BBC Radio 4 and on educational/ schools recordings.

Max Faulkner (Corporal Adams) 1931 to Feb 13 2010 Click here for Max Faulkner's entry on The Ambassadors of Death

Stuart Fell (Kraal) Born 1942 Click here for Stuart Fell's entry on The Curse of Peladon

Martin Friend (Styggron) May 30 1931 to Mar 14 2014
Career highlights
Martin's earliest credit was in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1958), after which he appeared in Emergency Ward 10 (1963), two episodes of The Avengers (1963/64), Public Eye (1965), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1967), The Prince and the Pauper (1976), Airline (1982), Prospects (1986), Jack the Ripper (1988), The New Statesman (1991), Red Dwarf (1991), Grace and Favour (1993), Baddiel's Syndrome (2001), Only Fools and Horses (2002), Night and Day (2001-02), Hustle (2009) and Reuniting the Rubins (2010).

Milton Johns (Guy Crayford) Born May 13 1938
Doctor Who credits
Played: Benik in The Enemy of the World (1967-68)
Played: Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion (1975)
Played: Castellan Kelner in The Invasion of Time (1978)
Career highlights
Milton's career began in The Shop at Sly Corner (1960), then Orlando (1965), The Three Musketeers (1966), The Devil in the Fog (1968), The Flaxton Boys (1969), Sense and Sensibility (1971), Budgie (1972), The Jensen Code (1973), South Riding (1974), Poldark (1975), The Good Life (1977), King of the Castle (1977), Midnight is a Place (1977-78), Going Straight (1978), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1978), A Horseman Riding By (1978), Spearhead (1978-81), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Gaffer (1982), Pink Floyd's The Wall (1982), Tucker's Luck (1983), Butterflies (1979-83), Foxy Lady (1982-84), The Pickwick Papers (1985), Ever Decreasing Circles (1986), Supergran (1987), Campion (1989), Happy Families (1989-90), Haggard (1992), Harry's Mad (1995-96), Glam Metal Detectives (1995), Chalk (1997), The X-Files (1998), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999-2000), Micawber (2001), Born and Bred (2002), The Basil Brush Show (2003-07, as Mr Rossiter) and Kidz Time TV (2015). He also had a long-running role as shop owner Brendan Scott in soap Coronation Street (1991-93).
Facts
For a number of years he served as treasurer of actors' union Equity, and also as course announcer and MC at Lingfield racecourse.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Milton here.

John Levene (Benton) Born Dec 24 1941 Click here for John Levene's entry on The Web of Fear

Hugh Lund (Matthews) c.1925 to Dec 29 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zarbi/ Larvae gun in The Web Planet (1965). Note: Despite being credited as operating a Zarbi, Hugh revealed in a 2008 interview that he actually operated the larvae gun, and never a Zarbi at all.
Played: Matthews in The Android Invasion (1975)
Career highlights
Hugh's other work included A for Andromeda (1961), Suspense (1963) and The Borgias (1981).

Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan) Oct 28 1944 to Oct 28 1986 (diabetes-related heart attack) Click here for Ian Marter's entry on Carnival of Monsters

Patrick Newell (Colonel Faraday) Mar 27 1932 to Jul 22 1988 (heart attack)
Career highlights
Prolific character actor Patrick first appeared uncredited in The Way Out (1955), followed by Web (1957-58), Skyport (1960), Jango (1961), Walk a Crooked Mile (1961), Six More Faces of Jim (1962), Thorndyke (1964), The Alphabet Murders (1965), A Study in Terror (1965), Cooperama (1966), The Sandwich Man (1966), The Illustrated Weekly Hudd (1966), Send Foster (1967), The Troubleshooters (1968), Never Say Die (1970), Casanova (1971), The Misfit (1971), Stars on Sunday (1973), Vampira (1974), Bootsie and Snudge (1974), Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975), The Incredible Sarah (1976), The Dick Emery Show (1976), The Duchess of Duke Street (1976-77), Thundercloud (1979), Worzel Gummidge (1981), Kinvig (1981), Whizkid's Guide (1981-83), Bottle Boys (1984), CATS Eyes (1985), Galloping Galaxies! (1986) and Consuming Passions (1988). He also had a regular role as Steed and Tara's boss Mother in The Avengers (1968-69).
Facts
Patrick carried out his National Service alongside Michael Caine, and trained at RADA with Albert Finney and Peter O'Toole. In a 1968 interview, Patrick alleged that he gained weight as a deliberate attempt to boost his career as "fat men". His entry in Who's Who on Television in the late 1970s described him as an "actor with a weight problem - the more he diets, the less work he seems to get". Despite losing a lot of weight in later life, he died of a heart attack at the age of 56. In the 1970s he moved to Cyprus, but when the Turks invaded he had to leave, and lost everything.

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

Peter Welch (Morgan) Mar 30 1922 to Nov 20 1984
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sergeant in The Highlanders (1966-67)
Played: Morgan in The Android Invasion (1975)
Career highlights
His career began in Dial 999 (1955) and included The Admirable Crichton (1957), The House of the Seven Hawks (1959), Danger Man (1961), The Secret of Blood Island (1964), Callan (1969), Doomwatch (1970), Spy Trap (1972-75, as Clark), Law and Order (1978) and Juliet Bravo (1982).

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Terry Nation (writer) Aug 6 1930 to Mar 9 1997 (emphysema) Click here for Terry Nation's entry on The Daleks

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

Philip Hinchcliffe (producer) Born Oct 1 1944 Click here for Philip Hinchcliffe's entry on The Ark in Space

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

Pyramids of Mars

Marcus Scarman (Bernard Archard),
Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen),
a possessed Doctor (Tom Baker) and
a mummy in the TARDIS

Four episodes (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four)
First broadcast Oct 25 to Nov 15 1975
Average audience for serial: 10.73m

REGULAR CAST

Tom Baker (The Doctor) Born Jan 20 1934 Click here for Tom Baker's entry on Robot

Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) Feb 1 1946 to Apr 19 2011 (pancreatic cancer) Click here for Elisabeth Sladen's entry on The Time Warrior

GUEST CAST

Bernard Archard (Marcus Scarman) Aug 20 1916 to May 1 2008
Doctor Who credits
Played: Bragen in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars (1975)
Career highlights
Bernard's career stems back as far as The Immortal Lady (1948) and includes For the Children (1948), The Adventures of Annabel (1955), Kenilworth (1957), Mary Britten, MD (1958), Corridors of Blood (1958), Village of the Damned (1960), Sir Francis Drake (1962), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Sergeant Cork (1964), Out of the Unknown (1966), The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), The Avengers (1965/68), Callan (1969), Manhunt (1970), The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), Dad's Army (1971), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Get Some In! (1975), Sky (1975), Dick Turpin (1979), The Sea Wolves (1980), Krull (1983), Bergerac (1985/87) and Keeping Up Appearances (1991). He also had regular roles as Oreste Pinto in Spy-Catcher (1959-61), General Plaski in The Midnight Men (1964), Ian the editor in Lytton's Diary (1985-86) and Leonard Kempinski in soap Emmerdale (1992-94).
Facts
Bernard, who was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, celebrated a civil partnership with his partner of 60 years, fellow actor Jim Belchamber, in 2006.

Melvyn Bedford (Mummy)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Reig in Planet of Evil (1975)
Played: Mummy in Pyramids of Mars (1975)
Career highlights
His further credits include Waiting for God (1993), Casualty (1994), Peak Practice (1998), EastEnders (2000) and In Deep (2001).

Michael Bilton (Collins) Dec 14 1919 to Nov 5 1993
Doctor Who credits
Played: Teligny in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966)
Played: Collins in Pyramids of Mars (1975)
Played: Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin (1976)
Career highlights
Michael's first credit is in Sing Along With Me (1952), and over the course of his career he appeared in Quatermass II (1955), A Taste of Honey (1961), The Mind of the Enemy (1965), The Prisoner (1967), The Avengers (1968), Doctor at Large (1971), The Fenn Street Gang (1973), South Riding (1974), The Haunting of Julia (1977), The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1977), Pennies from Heaven (1978), Bognor (1981), Brideshead Revisited (1981), Coronation Street (1983), The Fourth Protocol (1987), The New Statesman (1990) and the Alleyn Mysteries (1993). He had memorable roles as Ned in To the Manor Born (1979-81), Mr Thorpe in Grace and Favour (1992-93) and Basil Makepeace in Waiting for God (1990-93). He may also be remembered for playing an elderly gardener in a TV commercial for Yellow Pages.
Facts
Crippling arthritis prevented him from working on stage toward the end of his career. While serving in World War Two, he was wounded in the stomach at the Battle of El Alamein.

Nick Burnell (Mummy) Sep 14 1945 to Dec 13 2018 (lung cancer)
Career highlights
Nick later appeared in Crown Court (1982), The Tripods (1984), 'Allo 'Allo! (1987), Press Gang (1990), Hancock (1991), Second Thoughts (1992), Waiting for God (1993), Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997), Bad Girls (2001), Keen Eddie (2004), Diamond Geezer (2005), Footballers' Wives (2005) and The Honourable Rebel (2015).
Facts
Nick was also an experienced drama teacher. In March 2019, Nick's son Joss ran the Hampton Court Half-Marathon in his father's memory, and raised over £2,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Peter Copley (Dr Warlock) May 20 1915 to Oct 7 2008
Career highlights
Peter's career was massively prolific, with well over 130 appearances. It all began with Tell Me If It Hurts (1934) after making his stage debut two years earlier, followed by roles in Golden Salamander (1950), The Pickwick Papers (1952), The Sword and the Rose (1953), David Copperfield (1956), A Tale of Two Cities (1958), The Strange World of Planet X (1958), The Naked Lady (1959), Follow That Horse! (1960), Victim (1961), Hamlet (1961), Thorndyke (1964), Help! (1965), The Knack... and How to Get It (1965), The Forsyte Saga (1967), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), Doomwatch (1970), All At Sea (1970), Callan (1972), The Long Chase (1972), The Dragon's Opponent (1973), The Venturers (1975), Sky (1976), Bill Brand (1976), The Famous Five (1978), The Foundation (1977-78), Flambards (1979), The Chinese Detective (1982), The Gathering Seed (1983), Empire of the Sun (1987), Hot Metal (1998), One Foot in the Grave (1990), Grange Hill (1993), Cadfael (1994), Wives and Daughters (1999), Strange (2002), The Last Detective (2003), Riot at the Rite (2005) and The Colour of Magic (2008).
Facts
Off screen, Peter was a sharp-witted law expert and part-time attorney who successfully handled several court cases in the 1960s. He was also on the board of directors of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Trust. In November 2001 he was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by the University of West England in recognition of his career and dedication to regional theatre. His parents were lithographer and printmaker John Copley (at 73, once recognised as the oldest ever Olympic medal winner in the now defunct arts categories) and artist Ethel Gabain. Peter's first wife was Emmy-winning actress Pamela Brown (who divorced him in 1953 for infidelity); his second was actress Ninka Dolega; and his third was the writer Margaret Tabor (aka "Shosh").

Peter Mayock (Namin) May 31 1940 to Dec 15 1998
Doctor Who credits
Played: Namin in Pyramids of Mars (1975)
Played: Solis in The Deadly Assassin (1976)
Career highlights
Peter made his debut in The Wright People (1959), then Triton (1961), The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), Ulysses (1967), The Very Merry Widow (1968), Fraud Squad (1969), Emmerdale Farm (1972), My Old Man (1974-75) and Spend Spend Spend (1977).

Kevin Selway (Mummy) Born Jan 24 1953
Kevin's only other credit was Return of the Saint (1978).

Michael Sheard (Laurence Scarman) Jun 18 1938 to Aug 31 2005 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Rhos in The Ark (1966)
Played: Dr Summers in The Mind of Evil (1971)
Played: Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars (1975)
Played: Lowe in The Invisible Enemy (1977)
Played: Mergrave in Castrovalva (1982)
Played: Headmaster in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Career highlights
Michael was a prolific character actor, appearing in over 120 productions, starting in a 1962 episode of Suspense. Further roles included The Likely Lads (1965), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), The Borderers (1969), Albert! (1969), Paul Temple (1971), The Onedin Line (1972), On the Buses (1973), The Sweeney (1975), Space: 1999 (1975), The Tomorrow People (1978), Blake's 7 (1980), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Outsider (1983), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983-84), The Invisible Man (1984), Hannay (1988), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), 'Allo 'Allo (1992), Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), Another Life (2001), The Green Door (2005) and Shadows in the Woods (2006). Michael had a regular role as Mr Bronson in children's school series Grange Hill (1985-89).
Facts
During his career, he played Adolf Hitler five times, and Heinrich Himmler three times. He acted alongside five Doctors in the TV series, and a sixth (Paul McGann) in audio story The Stones of Venice (2001). Michael was the one to formally identify actor Declan Mulholland at the police mortuary after he was found dead on a train (as well as being the original actor to play Jabba the Hutt in a scene deleted from Star Wars, Declan also appeared in the Doctor Who stories The Sea Devils and The Androids of Tara).

Vik Tablian (Ahmed) Born Oct 10 1937
Career highlights
Doctor Who was Jerusalem-born Vik's credited debut (he was born Varoujan Aintablian), after which he appeared in Midnight Express (1978), The Assassination Run (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983), EastEnders (1985), Rockcliffe's Babies (1988), Navy Seals (1990), The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992), Hard Men (1996), The Knock (1999), Between Iraq and a Hard Place (2003), The Bill (2007) and The Promise (2016).

George Tovey (Ernie Clements) Mar 8 1914 to Dec 4 1982
Career highlights
George first appeared in The Prince and the Pauper (1955), then O.S.S (1957), Black Ice (1957), Expresso Bongo (1958), Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959), The Army Game (1959), Colonel Trumper's Private War (1961), The Dickie Henderson Show (1963), The Valiant Varneys (1964), Crooks in Cloisters (1964), Barney is My Darling (1965-66), Poor Cow (1967), Mum's Boys (1968), Detective (1968), Steptoe and Son (1963/65/70), Budgie (1971-72), Frenzy (1972), Baxter! (1973), The Dick Emery Show (1972-73), My Old Man (1974-75), Yus My Dear (1976), Citizen Smith (1977), Mind Your Language (1978), The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1978), Minder (1979), A Fine Romance (1981-82), The Kenny Everett Television Show (1982) and The Wicked Lady (1983).
Facts
George was the father of actress Roberta Tovey, who played Susan to Peter Cushing's Dr Who in the two 1960s Dalek movies.

Gabriel Woolf (Sutekh) Born Oct 2 1932
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sutekh in Pyramids of Mars (1975), The Legend of Ruby Sunday/ Empire of Death (2024)
Played: Voice of the Beast in The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit (2006)
Career highlights
Gabriel was first credited in The Boy with a Cart (1951), then appeared in Knights of the Round Table (1953), Rob Roy (1961), Emergency Ward 10 (1961), Merry-Go-Round (1968), Honey Lane (1969), Paul Temple (1971), Look and Read: The Boy from Space (1971), The Brothers (1972), Dial M for Murder (1974), Bognor (1981), The Prisoner of Zenda (1984) and Wizards vs Aliens (2012-13).
Facts
He is married to opera singer Dame Felicity Lott, who sang at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1986. In 1981 Gabriel read three Doctor Who novelisations as RNIB talking books (imagine a bedtime story read to you by Sutekh!). Gabriel is also a vice-president of the Joyful Company of Singers.

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Lewis Greifer (writer) Dec 19 1915 to Mar 18 2003 (stroke-related illness)
Career highlights
Lewis's writing career began with Dearth of a Salesman (1957), followed by Insomnia is Good for You (1957), Five names for Johnny (1957), Web (1957-58), The Voodoo Factor (1959-60), Ghost Squad (1961), Up Jumped a Swagman (1965), The Prisoner (1967, as Joshua Adam), Love Story (1965-67), Who-Dun-It (1969), Suspicion (1971) and Special Branch (1970/74).
Facts
Lewis wrote the original story for Pyramids of Mars, but when script editor Robert Holmes rewrote it with new themes, Lewis asked for the story to be transmitted under the pseudonym Stephen Harris. After serving in the RAF during the war, Lewis became a journalist on the London Evening Standard, then dabbled as a sketch writer for the Goons on the radio. After writing for Doctor Who, Lewis turned to teaching at the University of Tel Aviv. Lewis suffered a heart attack in 1983, and then a stroke in 1984.

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

Paddy Russell (director) Jul 4 1928 to Nov 2 2017
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966), Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974), Pyramids of Mars (1975), Horror of Fang Rock (1977)
Career highlights
Paddy had worked in the 1950s as production assistant on various Rudolph Cartier shows, as well as the Quatermass serials and the 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Paddy also directed for Compact (1962), The Mind of the Enemy (1965), The Newcomers (1967), Late Night Horror (1968), Little Women (1970), The Moonstone (1972), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), My Old Man (1975), Z Cars (1967-76), Within These Walls (1975-76), 3-2-1 (1979-80), The Omega Factor (1979), The Squad (1980) and Pick of the Week (1988).
Facts
Along with Julia Smith (who directed two Doctor Who stories in 1966/67), Paddy was one of the first two female directors for the BBC. After she retired, Paddy moved to the Yorkshire Moors and lived in relative seclusion, but worked for various cat charities.

Philip Hinchcliffe (producer) Born Oct 1 1944 Click here for Philip Hinchcliffe's entry on The Ark in Space

Planet of Evil

Who knew anti-matter was red?

Four episodes (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four)
First broadcast Sep 27 to Oct 18 1975
Average audience for serial: 9.88m

REGULAR CAST

Tom Baker (The Doctor) Born Jan 20 1934 Click here for Tom Baker's entry on Robot

Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) Feb 1 1946 to Apr 19 2011 (pancreatic cancer) Click here for Elisabeth Sladen's entry on The Time Warrior

GUEST CAST

Melvyn Bedford (Reig)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Reig in Planet of Evil (1975)
Played: Mummy in Pyramids of Mars (1975)
Career highlights
His further credits include Waiting for God (1993), Casualty (1994), Peak Practice (1998), EastEnders (2000) and In Deep (2001).

Terence Brook (Braun) Feb 10 1924 to Oct 4 1990 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Braun in Planet of Evil (1975)
Played: Servant in The King's Demons (1983, uncredited)
Played: Retrograde in Frontios (1984, uncredited)
Career highlights
Terence debuted in The Vise (1954), then The Colditz Story (1955), Our Mutual Friend (1958), The History of Mr Polly (1959), Jezebel ex UK (1963), Girl in the Headlines (1963), The Punch and Judy Man (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Softly Softly (1966), Counterstrike (1969), And Mother Makes Three (1971), A Pin to See the Peepshow (1973), Poldark (1977), The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981), Blake's 7 (1981) and The Fourth Arm (1983).
Facts
Terence also appeared as The Lonely Man in the TV commercial for Strand cigarettes in 1959, shot by The Third Man director Carol Reed. The campaign is regarded in the advertising industry as disastrous, as the advert failed to convince anybody to take the brand (just 1% of the UK's smoker population switched to Strand, which was apparently a "lousy smoke"). The music to the advert, composed by Cliff Adams, got to number 39 in the singles chart but stalled when the BBC banned the disc as it discovered it was promoting tobacco. The only positive to come out of all of this seems to be that Terence Brook (who had a look of Frank Sinatra) received several proposals of marriage as well as "several less respectable forms of enjoyment"! The advert also influenced the music video for David Bowie's Absolute Beginners (1986). Terence's wife was the actress Pamela Craig (the voice of Betty Tucker in BBC Radio 4's The Archers between 1974-2005), who later remarried and moved to Christchurch in New Zealand with her second husband.

Prentis Hancock (Salamar) May 14 1942 to May 30 2025
Doctor Who credits
Played: Second reporter in Spearhead from Space (1970)
Played: Vaber in Planet of the Daleks (1973)
Played: Salamar in Planet of Evil (1975)
Played: Captain in The Ribos Operation (1978)
Career highlights
Prentis debuted in Dr Finlay's Casebook (1969), then became prolific in the 1970s in series such as The Last of the Mohicans (1971), Z Cars (1971), The Shadow of the Tower (1972), Colditz (1973), The Protectors (1973), Life and Death of Penelope (1976), The New Avengers (1976), Survivors (1977), Return of the Saint (1979) and Secret Army (1979), followed by roles in Fox (1980), The House on the Hill (1981), Kim (1984), Defence of the Realm (1986), Bergerac (1989), Bodyguards (1997), CI5: The New Professionals (1999), Outlander (2014) and Autopsy: The Last Hours of Patrick Swayze (2017). He may also be recognised as Lieutenant Saunders in Spy Trap (1972-73), Paul Morrow in Space: 1999 (1975-76) and Arnold Meyer in Chocky's Children (1985) and Chocky's Challenge (1986).
Facts
In 2010 Prentis wrote a children's book called Hotshot - A Chilling Tale.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Prentis here.

Frederick Jaeger (Sorenson) May 9 1928 to Jun 18 2004
Doctor Who credits
Played: Jano in The Savages (1966)
Played: Sorenson in Planet of Evil (1975)
Played: Professor Marius in The Invisible Enemy (1977)
Career highlights
German born Frederick's career began in 1950's Probation Officer and went on to see roles in The Grove Family (1955), The One That Got Away (1957), Ice Cold in Alex (1958), Interpol Calling (1960), Farewell Performance (1963), Hit and Run (1965), The Jazz Age (1968), Ryan International (1970), The Befrienders (1972), Scorpio (1973), The New Avengers (1976), The Omega Factor (1979), Yes, Minister (1980), Remington Steele (1984), The Chief (1990), Selling Hitler (1991), Keeping Up Appearances (1993) and Cold Comfort Farm (1995). He also played Dr James Austen in The Inside Man (1969), Commander Fletcher in Special Branch (1974) and Max Van Der Rheede in The Onedin Line (1980).
Facts
Frederick's family fled Berlin for France when the Nazi party took control in 1933, and then moved to the UK in 1939. He became a naturalized British citizen 11 years later.

Louis Mahoney (Ponti) Sep 8 1938 to Jun 28 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Newscaster in Frontier in Space (1973)
Played: Ponti in Planet of Evil (1975)
Played: Old Billy in Blink (2007)
Career highlights
Making his debut in The Sword in the Web (1962), Gambian Louis's CV includes Danger Man (1965), Voodoo Blood Death (1965), Slave Girls (1967), Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970), The Troubleshooters (1970), Adam Smith (1972), Quiller (1975), Fawlty Towers (1975, as Sybil's doctor), Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981), Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981), Cry Freedom (1987), White Mischief (1987), The Lenny Henry Show (1987, as Jake), The Real Eddy English (1989), Saracen (1989), Love Hurts (1992), Runaway Bay (1992-93), One Foot in the Grave (1993), Turning World (1997), Harbour Lights (1999), Urban Gothic (2000), Oscar Charlie (2001-02), Sea of Souls (2004), Casualty@Holby City (2005), 10 Days to War (2008), Being Human (2012-13), Captain Phillips (2013), The Trials of Jimmy Rose (2015), You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), River (2015), Holby City (2005/2016), The Dumping Ground (2018), Counterpart (2018-19) and The Split (2020). In 2009 he also wrote and narrated a documentary about Victoria Falls in the Nature series.
Facts
Louis, who initially came to the UK to become a doctor, was a key campaigner within the acting industry in the anti-Apartheid movement, and co-created the Black Theatre Workshop.

Tony McEwan (Baldwin)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Redcoat in The War Games (1969)
Played: Baldwin in Planet of Evil (1975)
Career highlights
Tony's further credits include Z Cars (1972), Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (1973), Juliet Bravo (1982) and Howards' Way (1986).

Ewen Solon (Vishinsky) Sep 7 1917 to Jul 7 1985
Doctor Who credits
Played: Chal in The Savages (1966)
Played: Vishinsky in Planet of Evil (1975)
Career highlights
Ewen was born in New Zealand and his first acting credit was in The Fur Coat (1949), followed by roles in Valley of Eagles (1951), Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953), The Dam Busters (1955), Yangtse Incident (1957), Jack the Ripper (1959), The Sundowners (1960), The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), Mystery Submarine (1963), No Hiding Place (1965), The Sandwich Man (1966), Bellbird (1967), The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968), Spyforce (1971), Moving On (1974), The Message (1976), Kidnapped (1978), The Doombolt Chase (1978), Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979), A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979), Into the Labyrinth (1981-82) and Nutcracker (1983). He also played Sgt Lucas in 50 episodes of Maigret (1960-63) and Caesar Smith in almost 40 episodes of The Revenue Men (1967-68).
Facts
Before going into the acting profession, Ewen worked as a farmer, a dock labourer, a door to door salesman, a timber mill worker and a journalist. His wife was actor Vicki Woolf.

Graham Weston (De Haan) Born Sep 10 1944
Doctor Who credits
Played: Russell in The War Games (1969)
Played: De Haan in Planet of Evil (1975)
Career highlights
Graham's debut came in The Hen House (1964), followed by roles in Rainbow City (1967), Parkin's Patch (1969), Ivanhoe (1970), The Brothers (1972), The Dragon's Opponent (1973), My Brother's Keeper (1975-76), Crown Court (1974-77, as DS Fenton), Coronation Street (1978), Empire Road (1978), Tess (1979), Prisoners of Conscience (1981), Angels (1983), London's Burning (1989), Chalkface (1991) and Lovejoy (1992). He regularly played Gregg Harris in soap United! (1965-67) and Colin Dutton in Crossroads (1979).
Facts
Graham's wife was actor Pamela Greenall.

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

Haydn Wood (O'Hara)
Career highlights
Further credits include Fall of Eagles (1974), The Borgias (1981), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1982), Lifeforce (1985) and The Bill (1985). 

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Louis Marks (writer) Mar 23 1928 to Sep 17 2010
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Planet of Giants (1964), Day of the Daleks (1972), Planet of Evil (1975), The Masque of Mandragora (1976)
Career highlights
Louis's writing career began with Skyport (1959-60), followed by duties on The Four Just Men (1960), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1958-60), Ghost Squad (1963), Danger Man (1964), No Hiding Place (1966), Doomwatch (1971-72), Bedtime Stories (1974) and Silas Marner (1985). He was also a prolific script editor - working on The Four Just Men (1959), No Hiding Place (1965-66), No Exit (1972), The Stone Tape (1972), Orde Wingate (1976), Brensham People (1976) and Premiere (1977) - and producer on programmes such as Centre Play (1974-77), The Lost Boys (1978), Baal (1982), Time and the Conways (1985), Thunder Rock (1985), Precious Bane (1989), The Trial (1993), Middlemarch (1994), Plotlands (1997) and Daniel Deronda (2002).
Facts
In 1955 Louis founded the magazine Books and Bookmen, aimed at authors, illustrators and avid readers, which was published until 1980. Oxford University graduate Louis started out as a history teacher at a boarding school before moving into TV production, and after retiring in 2002 ran a B&B with his wife Sonia.

David Maloney (director) Dec 14 1933 to Jul 18 2006 (cancer) Click here for David Maloney's entry on The Mind Robber

Philip Hinchcliffe (producer) Born Oct 1 1944 Click here for Philip Hinchcliffe's entry on The Ark in Space

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

Terror of the Zygons

"Are you going to the fancy
dress party tonight?"
"Yes, who are you going as?"

Four episodes (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four)
First broadcast Aug 30 to Sep 20 1975
Average audience for serial: 9.03m

REGULAR CAST

Tom Baker (The Doctor) Born Jan 20 1934 Click here for Tom Baker's entry on Robot

Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) Feb 1 1946 to Apr 19 2011 (pancreatic cancer) Click here for Elisabeth Sladen's entry on The Time Warrior

Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan) Oct 28 1944 to Oct 28 1986 (diabetes-related heart attack) Click here for Ian Marter's entry on Carnival of Monsters

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

John Levene (Benton) Born Dec 24 1941 Click here for John Levene's entry on The Web of Fear

GUEST CAST

Keith Ashley (Zygon) Died 2007
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in The Savages (1966, uncredited), Planet of the Spiders (1974, uncredited)
Played: Firing squad member in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Villager in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Dalek operator in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Zygon in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Played: Sir Colin's aide in The Seeds of Doom (1976, uncredited)
Played: Brother in The Masque of Mandragora (1976, uncredited)
Career highlights
Keith's earliest credit was in The Love of Mike (1960), followed by roles in The Cheaters (1962), Frankie Howerd (1966), Hugh and I (1967), Doctor in the House (1970), No, That's Me Over Here! (1970), The Adventurer (1972), Upstairs Downstairs (1972/73), six episodes of Z Cars (1967-73), Marked Personal (1973), Colditz (1974), The Onedin Line (1976), Get Some In! (1977) and Three Piece Suite (1977).

Ronald Gough (Zygon) Nov 10 1927 to Nov 15 1996
Doctor Who credits
Played: Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Extra in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974, uncredited)
Played: Zygon in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Career highlights
Further appearances include Softly Softly (1966), Big Breadwinner Hog (1969), Menace (1970), Colditz (1972), The Two Ronnies (1973), three episodes of Dixon of Dock Green (1971-74) and four episodes of Z Cars (1971-77).

Facts

Ron was part of the family that ran Gough's Pet Store in East Grinstead, until the family sold it in 1980. The store is still going today, and although not run by the Gough family, retains the name.

Bernard G High (Corporal) 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.

Angus Lennie (Angus) Apr 18 1930 to Sep 14 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: Storr in The Ice Warriors (1967)
Played: Angus in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Career highlights
Angus first appeared in The Mortimer Touch (1957) and later Para Handy - Master Mariner (1959-60), Tunes of Glory (1960), Petticoat Pirates (1961), The Great Escape (1963), 633 Squadron (1964), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1967), Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), The Borderers (1970), Paul Temple (1971), The Onedin Line (1973), One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975), Send in the Girls (1978), Doom Castle (1980), Lovejoy (1986), Hannay (1988), All Night Long (1994), The Upper Hand (1995), Dad (1997) and Monarch of the Glen (2002-03). His most famous role was as chef Shughie McFee in the soap Crossroads (1974-80/85), as well as Murdoch in HMS Paradise (1964-65).

Hugh Martin (Munro) Dec 8 1933 to Jul 16 1997
Doctor Who credits
Played: Munro in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Played: Priest in Vengeance on Varos (1985)
Career highlights
Debuting in The Errol Flynn Theatre (1957), Hugh's further work included Suspense (1962), Resurrection (1968), Softly Softly (1972), Hadleigh (1973), Oil Strike North (1975), The Sweeney (1976), Black Island (1979), The Enigma Files (1980), Union Castle (1982), Up the Elephant and Round the Castle (1985), A Very British Coup (1988) and Taggart (1983/90).

Robert Russell (The Caber) May 24 1936 to May 12 2008 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Played: The Caber in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Career highlights
In 1947, Kent-born Robert's family moved to South Africa, where he began to work in a gold mine, but he soon moved into acting, debuting in Police Surgeon (1960), The Saint (1966), Inspector Clouseau (1968), Witchfinder General (1968), Orlando (1968), The Guardians (1971), The Protectors (1973), Public Eye (1975), Space: 1999 (1975), Blake's 7 (1978), Sorry! (1981), The Chinese Detective (1982) and Strange Horizons (1993).
Facts
Robert worked in a South African gold mine in the early 1950s.

Tony Sibbald (Huckle) Jun 28 1936 to Dec 13 2011
Career highlights
Canadian Tony first appeared in a 1966 Play of the Month, and then appeared in Doomwatch (1970), Cry of the Banshee (1970), The Venturers (1975), Second Verdict (1976), Lillie (1978), Quatermass IV (1979), The Professionals (1980), Superman II (1980), The Nightmare Man (1981), Scream for Help (1984), A View to a Kill (1985), Small World (1988), Selling Hitler (1991), Hackers (1995) and One Foot in the Grave (1995).
Facts
Sadly, Tony was asked to do an interview for the DVD of Terror of the Zygons, but died while visiting friends in Thailand after the letter requesting the interview was sent.

Peter Symonds (Soldier) Born Oct 5 1942
Career highlights
Peter first appeared in Ooh La La! (1973), then Callan (1974), Look, Mike Yarwood! (1974), Plain Murder (1978), The Lonelyheart Kid (1984), Rumpole of the Bailey (1988), The Darling Buds of May (1991), The Final Cut (1995), The Long Firm (2004), Sharpe's Challenge (2006), Lewis (2007), EastEnders (2008), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2013) and My Mad Fat Diary (2015).
Facts
Peter appears as one of the judges in the music video for Emeli Sande's Clown (2012) - look out for Torchwood's Murray Melvin too!

Lillias Walker (Sister Lamont) Aug 1 1930 to Aug 10 2023 (vascular disease)
Career highlights
First appearing in Mr Brown Comes Down the Hill (as a harlot!) in 1965, Lillias also appeared in Out of the Unknown (1969), The First Churchills (1969), Paul Temple (1969), What Became of Jack and Jill? (1972), Sporting Scenes (1974), Intimate Reflections (1974), Beasts (1976), The Walls of Jericho (1981) and Charlie (1984). She also had a long-running role as Rosemary Cartland in 60 episodes of The Cedar Tree (1976-78).
Facts
Lillias's second husband was actor Peter Vaughan, who she married in 1966 after divorcing her first husband, the actor Peter Burton. Lillias and Peter Burton had a daughter, the actress Victoria Burton, best known for playing Holly Parks in Gems (1985), and Victoria is married to actor Gregor Fisher, making Lillias Walker the mother-in-law of Rab C Nesbitt!

Bruce Wightman (Radio operator) Mar 5 1925 to Jan 8 2009
Doctor Who credits
Played: William de Tornebu in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Scott in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Radio operator in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Career highlights
Bruce began his career in The Black Tulip (1956), then Blood of the Vampire (1958), The Rag Trade (1961), The Heart of Midlothian (1966), Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) and Great Performances (1977).
Facts
Bruce co-founded London's Dracula Society in 1973 with fellow actor Bernard Davies (who appeared in The War Games in 1969). During the 1970s and 80s Bruce ran Dracula tours in Romania. In the 1990s he lived in Bulgaria working as an art critic and journalist, but moved to New Zealand in 2001 to continue writing about the career of Bram Stoker.

John Woodnutt (Duke of Forgill/ Broton) Mar 3 1924 to Jan 2 2006
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hibbert in Spearhead from Space (1970)
Played: Draconian Emperor in Frontier in Space (1973)
Played: Duke of Forgill/ Broton in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Played: Seron in The Keeper of Traken (1981)
Career highlights
John became a prolific character actor after he first appeared in The Black Brigand (1956), then The Cabin in the Clearing (1959), Gamble for a Throne (1961), Swizzlewick (1964), The Avengers (1966), Rogues' Gallery (1969), The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970, as Henry VII), Look and Read: The Boy from Space (1971, as the spooky Thin Man), The Tomorrow People (1973), The Secret Garden (1975), Children of the Stones (1977), Shoestring (1979), Stalky and Co. (1982), Lifeforce (1985), Porterhouse Blue (1987), Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93, as Sir Watkyn), Wycliffe (1995) and Harry Enfield and Chums (1997). He also played Mr Quelch in Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1959), Judge Weightman in Crown Court (1977-84) and Merlin/ Mogdred in children's virtual reality show Knightmare (1987-90).
Facts
John ended his years in the actors' retirement home Denville Hall.

CREW

Robert Banks Stewart (writer) Jul 16 1931 to Jan 14 2016 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Terror of the Zygons (1975), The Seeds of Doom (1976), The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977, story outline only)
Career highlights
Robert's writing career began with the 1959 series Knight Errant, and he went on to pen scripts for Interpol Calling (1959-60), Danger Man (1960-61), The Human Jungle (1963), Thorndyke (1964), Dr Finlay's Casebook (1964-65), Undermind (1965), The Avengers (1965-66), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), Callan (1967-69), Special Branch (1969), Jason King (1972), Arthur of the Britons (1973), The Protectors (1974), The Sweeney (1975), Sutherland's Law (1975-76), Rooms (1977), Shoestring (1979-80), Jukes of Piccadilly (1980), Bergerac (1981-91), The Darling Buds of May (1991), Moon and Son (1992) and My Uncle Silas (2001-03). He also worked on many of these dramas as a producer, as well as Intrigue (1966), Lovejoy (1986), Hannay (1988) and Frank Stubbs (1993). He was also script editor on series such as The Human Jungle, Undermind, Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Van der Valk (1973) and Armchair Thriller (1978).
Facts
In 1981 he was nominated for BAFTA's Best Drama Series for Shoestring. Robert published his first novel in 2011 at the age of 81, called The Hurricane's Tail, and his memoirs, To Put You in the Picture, in 2015.

Douglas Camfield (director) May 8 1931 to Jan 27 1984 (heart attack) Click here for Douglas Camfield's entry on Planet of Giants

Philip Hinchcliffe (producer) Born Oct 1 1944 Click here for Philip Hinchcliffe's entry on The Ark in Space

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

Revenge of the Cybermen

Back after six-and-a-half years...

Four episodes (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four)
First broadcast Apr 19 to May 10 1975
Average audience for serial: 9.03m

REGULAR CAST

Tom Baker (The Doctor) Born Jan 20 1934 Click here for Tom Baker's entry on Robot

Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) Feb 1 1946 to Apr 19 2011 (pancreatic cancer) Click here for Elisabeth Sladen's entry on The Time Warrior

Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan) Oct 28 1944 to Oct 28 1986 (diabetes-related heart attack) Click here for Ian Marter's entry on Carnival of Monsters

GUEST CAST

David Collings (Vorus) Jun 4 1940 to Mar 23 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Vorus in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Played: Poul in The Robots of Death (1977)
Played: Mawdryn in Mawdryn Undead (1983)
Career highlights
David debuted in Crime and Punishment (1964), then took roles in Gideon's Way (1965), The Troubleshooters (1966), Point Counterpoint (1968), The Possessed (1969), Strange Report (1969), Scrooge (1970), UFO (1970), Elizabeth R (1971), The Regiment (1972), For the Love of Ada (1972), Mahler (1974), The Love School (1975), Treasure Island (1977), Midnight is a Place (1977-78), The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978), Breakaway (1980), Look and Read: Dark Towers (1981), Blake's 7 (1981), Airline (1982), The All Electric Amusement Arcade (1983), By the Sword Divided (1985), The Return of the Antelope (1988), Through the Dragon's Eye (1989), Boon (1991), Love Hurts (1992), The Darling Buds of May (1993), Press Gang (1989/93), Persuasion (1995), The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1995), Wren: The Man Who Built Britain (2004), The Invisible Woman (2013) and Holby City (2015). He is perhaps best remembered as Silver in the telefantasy series Sapphire and Steel (1981-82), but fewer people might know he dubbed the English voice for the character of Monkey in the 1978-80 Japanese series of the same name (originally Saiyuki, based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West).
Facts
David's ex-wife was fellow actor Karen Archer, while his son Samuel is also an actor, perhaps best known to TV viewers as Tom in Hex (2005).
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with David here.

Brian Grellis (Sheprah) Born Jul 12 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sheprah in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Played: Safran in The Invisible Enemy (1977)
Played: Megaphone man in Snakedance (1983)
Career highlights
Brian's earliest credit was in The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: The Double in 1963, followed by roles in Only When I Larf (1968), The First Lady (1969), Trial (1971), On the Buses (1971), Jason King (1972), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads (1973), The Brothers (1974), Circus (1975), The Good Life (1976), Survivors (1976), Room Service (1979), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), Bergerac (1983), Threads (1984), Brookside (1986) and Help! (1986). He also regularly played Detective Sergeant Bowker in Z Cars (1974-78).

Melville Jones (Cyberman)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in The Time Monster (1972)
Played: Cyberman in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Career highlights
Melville's other work includes Warship (1977), Fathers and Families (1977) and Phoelix (1980).
Facts
Melville gave up acting to become a writer, including plays for BBC Radio, and the first ever dramatisation of an Inspector Morse novel (in 1985), years before the ITV series (it starred Andrew Burt (from Doctor Who story Terminus) as Morse). In the late 1990s Melville began lecturing in creative writing at Cornwall College.

Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Commander Stevenson) Oct 5 1920* to Sep 12 2005 (broncho-pneumonia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Commander Radnor in The Seeds of Death (1969)
Played: Commander Stevenson in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Career highlights
Ronald's first credit was in 1950's Blackout, and he subsequently popped up in Three Steps to the Gallows (1953), Sword of Freedom (1957), Cards with Uncle Tom (1959), Oscar Wilde (1960), The Avengers (1961/65), Emergency Ward 10 (1964), Voodoo Blood Death (1965), Khartoum (1966), The Gamblers (1967), Hostile Witness (1968), Department S (1969), General Hospital (1972), Baxter! (1973), The Brothers (1975), The Omen (1976), The Professionals (1978), Blake's 7 (1980), Airline (1982), Remington Steele (1987), Slinger's Day (1987), Frankenstein (1992) and One Foot in the Grave (1995). Ronald, whose cousin was actress Barbara Leigh-Hunt, also had regular roles as King Arthur in The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956-57) and Colonel Buchan in Freewheelers (1968-71). * Obituaries claim Ronald was born in 1916, but birth records state 1920.

William Marlowe (Lester) Jul 25 1930 to Jan 31 2003
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mailer in The Mind of Evil (1971)
Played: Lester in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Career highlights
Debuting in Tunes of Glory (1960), William's other credits include The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse (1962), Emergency Ward 10 (1963), Crane (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Wuthering Heights (1967), The Avengers (1969), Zeppelin (1971), Villains (1972), The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Breakaway (1980), Revolution (1985), Cry Freedom (1987) and EastEnders (1991). William also had a regular role as Brian Kettle in Rooms (1977) and DCI Bill Russell in The Gentle Touch (1980-84).
Facts
William had two wives, both of them Doctor Who actresses - Catherine Schell between 1968-77 (who was in 1979's City of Death) and Kismet Delgado from 1979 (who was in Planet of the Spiders (1974) and was also Master actor Roger's widow). Many sources claim he was also married to actress Fernanda Marlowe (who played Corporal Bell in The Mind of Evil and The Claws of Axos in 1971), but this is incorrect.

Christopher Robbie (Cyber Leader) Born May 30 1938
Doctor Who credits
Played: The Karkus in The Mind Robber (1968)
Played: Cyber Leader in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Career highlights
Christopher debuted in The Avengers (1964), followed by Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964), The Expert (1969), Codename (1970), Pardon My Genie (1973), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985), The Lady and the Highwayman (1989), Taggart (1993), One Foot in the Grave (1997), The Commander (2003), Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (2006), Holby City (2008) and Enemies Closer (2013).
Facts
Christopher's other talents include writing and directing stage plays, design and photography. He may also be remembered in the Southern Television region for his role as an in-vision announcer, a role he also performed over the years for Associated Rediffusion, Thames TV, TVS and Anglia TV.
In 2013 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Christopher here.

Kevin Stoney (Tyrum) Jan 22 1921 to Jan 22 2008 (skin cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Career highlights
Kevin's career began in 1950's The Gentle Gunman, followed by David Copperfield (1956), William Tell (1959), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1958-60), The Six Proud Walkers (1962), Murder at the Gallop (1963), The Prisoner (1967), Doomwatch (1970), Spy Trap (1972), The Tomorrow People (1973), The New Avengers (1976), Quatermass (1979), Bergerac (1981-83), Hannay (1988), Inspector Morse (1993) and Alleyn Mysteries (1993). Kevin also played the character Thrasyllus in both The Caesars (1968) and I, Claudius (1976).
Facts
Kevin was voted the Daily Mail's Villain of the Year in 1965 for his memorable role in The Daleks' Master Plan. In 1985 Kevin's very premature death was announced in a Doctor Who fanzine, but he made an appearance at a 1987 convention to prove he was still alive and kicking!

Alec Wallis (Warner) Dec 2 1920 to Aug 12 2004
Doctor Who credits
Played: Ldg Telegraphist Bowman in The Sea Devils (1972)
Played: Warner in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Career highlights
Debuting in Escape (1957), Alec's other work includes The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), R3 (1965), Happy Ever After (1969), Colditz (1972), Within These Walls (1975), Dickens of London (1976), Treasure Island (1977), Cowboys (1980), Bognor (1981), RHINO: Really Here In Name Only (1983), The Bill (1985/89), First of the Summer Wine (1988), Grange Hill (1983/89), 2Point4 Children (1992) and London's Burning (1994).

Jeremy Wilkin (Kellman) Jun 6 1930 to Dec 19 2017 (cancer)
Career highlights
Jeremy's first role was in The Cruise of the Toytown Belle in 1950, after which he took work in Hamlet (1955), Producers' Workshop (1955), The Hill (1960), Sergeant Cork (1964), Undermind (1965), Man in a Suitcase (1967), The Troubleshooters (1969), Detective (1969), A Kiss is Just a Kiss (1971), Eyeless in Gaza (1971), The Hanged Man (1975), The New Avengers (1976/77), Blake's 7 (1978), Kessler (1981), Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), Two (1996) and Just Cause (2002). Jeremy also had a long-standing association with Gerry Anderson's TV series, including providing the voices for Virgil Tracy in Thunderbirds (1966), Captain Ochre in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-68), various characters in Joe 90 (1968-69), The Bishop in The Secret Service (1969), and playing Gordon Maxwell in the live action series UFO (1969-71).
Facts
Born David Jeremy Wilkin, his mother was actor and dancer Greta Fayne, who, in 1926, was among a clutch of performers immortalised on Murray cigarette cards, along with Mary Pickford, Ivor Novello and Harold Lloyd. A 1934 Rolls Royce 20/25 Windovers Limousine remained in the Wilkin family for decades, being first purchased by Jeremy's engineer father Noel, then given to Greta, and finally to Jeremy, before he auctioned it for sale at Bonhams in 2004. The car, named Peabody, can now be hired for weddings and other events. To series creator Brian Clemens' annoyance, Jeremy vetoed permission to repeat his 1977 New Avengers episode Medium Rare on terrestrial TV. In his latter years, Jeremy valiantly struggled with mental illness/ dementia. A website has been set up in his memory.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Jeremy here.

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

CREW

Gerry Davis (writer) Feb 23 1930 to Aug 31 1991 (stomach cancer) Click here for Gerry Davis's entry on The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

Michael E Briant (director) Born Feb 14 1942 Click here for Michael Briant's entry on Colony in Space

Philip Hinchcliffe (producer) Born Oct 1 1944 Click here for Philip Hinchcliffe's entry on The Ark in Space

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

Genesis of the Daleks

Did he have the right...?

Six episodes (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six)
First broadcast Mar 8 to Apr 12 1975
Average audience for serial: 9.57m

REGULAR CAST

Tom Baker (The Doctor) Born Jan 20 1934 Click here for Tom Baker's entry on Robot

Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) Feb 1 1946 to Apr 19 2011 (pancreatic cancer) Click here for Elisabeth Sladen's entry on The Time Warrior

Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan) Oct 28 1944 to Oct 28 1986 (diabetes-related heart attack) Click here for Ian Marter's entry on Carnival of Monsters

GUEST CAST

Keith Ashley (Dalek operator) Died 2007
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in The Savages (1966, uncredited), Planet of the Spiders (1974, uncredited)
Played: Firing squad member in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Villager in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Dalek operator in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Zygon in Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Played: Sir Colin's aide in The Seeds of Doom (1976, uncredited)
Played: Brother in The Masque of Mandragora (1976, uncredited)
Career highlights
Keith's earliest credit was in The Love of Mike (1960), followed by roles in The Cheaters (1962), Frankie Howerd (1966), Hugh and I (1967), Doctor in the House (1970), No, That's Me Over Here! (1970), The Adventurer (1972), Upstairs Downstairs (1972/73), six episodes of Z Cars (1967-73), Marked Personal (1973), Colditz (1974), The Onedin Line (1976), Get Some In! (1977) and Three Piece Suite (1977).

Jeremy Chandler (Gerrill)
Career highlights
Jeremy also appeared in The Revenue Men (1967) and Dr Faustus (1967).

Dennis Chinnery (Gharman) May 14 1927 to Feb 29 2012
Doctor Who credits
Played: Albert C Richardson in The Chase (1965)
Played: Gharman in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Professor Sylvest in The Twin Dilemma (1984)
Career highlights
Dennis's career began with White Fire (1953), then Great Scott, It's Maynard (1956), Mostly Maynard (1957), Hancock's Half Hour (1957-59), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Avengers (1967), Orlando (1966-68), Hadleigh (1969), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), Survivors (1975), Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), The Bill (1989) and The Right Impression (2005).
Facts
The character of the accident-prone vet in black comedy The League of Gentlemen was named Mr Chinnery after Dennis.

Max Faulkner (Thal guard) 1931 to Feb 13 2010 Click here for Max Faulkner's entry on The Ambassadors of Death

John Franklyn-Robbins (Time Lord) Dec 14 1924 to Mar 21 2009
Career highlights
John debuted in The Haven (1955), followed by roles in The Victorians (1963), It's Dark Outside (1965), The Baron (1967), Christ Recrucified (1969), Ivanhoe (1970), Seeing and Believing (1961-70), Jude the Obscure (1971), Cider with Rosie (1971), Running Scared (1972), Asylum (1972), The Edwardians (1972), Napoleon and Love (1974), Whodunnit! (1975), I, Claudius (1976), This Year Next Year (1977), Atom Spies (1979), In Loving Memory (1979), Get Lost! (1981), The Black Tower (1985), The Storyteller (1988), Campion (1989), The Woman in Black (1989), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1994), Emma (1996), Mrs Dalloway (1997), A Christmas Carol (1999), Bright Young Things (2003), Vanity Fair (2004), Sergeant Pepper (2004), Hogfather (2006) and The Golden Compass (2007). John, who was also a classical theatre director, had a regular role as Detective Superintendent Adler in Softly Softly (1972-73).

James Garbutt (Ronson) Sep 12 1925 to Apr 6 2020
Career highlights
Debuting in Codename: Portcullis in 1969, James's other credits include The Borderers (1970), The Witch's Daughter (1971), Woodstock (1973), Warship (1973), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1974), The Stars Look Down (1975), Bill Brand (1976), Superman (1978), One By One (1985), Ladies in Charge (1986), Brookside (1988), Gems (1988), The Manageress (1989-90), Spender (1992), Between the Lines (1993), Middlemarch (1994), Coronation Street (1997), Badger (1999) and Night Flight (2002). James had a regular role in The Onedin Line as Robert Onedin (1973-74) and Bill Seaton in When the Boat Comes In (1976-77).
Facts
Before becoming an actor, James was an art teacher in Newcastle.

Tom Georgeson (Kavell) Born Aug 8 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Kavell in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Detective inspector in Logopolis (1981)
Career highlights
Prolific Tom's earliest credit was in All's Well That Ends Well (1968), followed by roles in The Assistant (1969), Shabby Tiger (1973), Lizzie Dripping (1975), Rooms (1975), Headmaster (1977), When the Boat Comes In (1981), Maybury (1981), Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), Juliet Bravo (1983), The Last Place on Earth (1985), Strike It Rich! (1986), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Les Girls (1988), The Manageress (1989-90), Stay Lucky (1990), GBH (1991), Bramwell (1996), Fierce Creatures (1997), Cadfael (1997), Liverpool 1 (1998), City Central (2000), Ultimate Force (2002), Bleak House (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Angel (2007), Ashes to Ashes (2009), Justice (2011), The Crimson Petal and the White (2011), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011), The Hollow Crown (2012) and Electricity (2014). He also had a long-standing role as Harry Naylor in Between the Lines (1992-94).
Facts
Tom's daughter Rosalind is married to actor Tom Bell's son Aran, and the two of them have a daughter, actor Florence Bell.

John Gleeson (Thal soldier)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Thal soldier in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Charles Winlett in The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Career highlights
John's other credits include Public Eye (1975), The Sweeney (1978), Accident (1978), Butterflies (1978), To the Manor Born (1979-80), Terry and June (1985), Lovejoy (1986), The Les Dennis Laughter Show (1991) and Lexx (2001).
Facts
John's father was early cinema and Broadway actor Leon Quatermaine, and his uncle was fellow actor Charles Quatermaine.

Pat Gorman (Thal soldier) May 10 1933 to Oct 9 2018 Click here for Pat Gorman's entry on The Invasion

Andrew Johns (Kravos) Born Jun 10 1949
Career highlights
Debuting in Julius Caesar (1969), Andrew's other roles include The Merchant of Venice (1973), Rooms (1975), Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975), Pride and Prejudice (1980), Lady Killers (1980-81), Shakedown (1988), London's Burning (1992), Strange But True (1994) and Gentlemen's Relish (2001).

Michael Lynch (Thal politician) Jul 13 1927 to Jan 29 2012
Doctor Who credits
Played: Spencer in The War Games (1969)
Played: Thal politician in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Career highlights
Debuted in The Morning After (1962), then The Saint (1964), The Woman in White (1966), The Avengers (1967), The Last of the Mohicans (1971) and Woodstock (1973).

Facts

Born in Barbados, Michael worked for a time as a radio announcer in the West Indies.

Peter Mantle (Kaled guard) Born Apr 17 1950
Career highlights
Doctor Who was Peter's acting debut, after which he appeared in Rooms (1977), Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978), The Boy Merlin (1979), Fox (1980), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) and The Shadow of the Noose (1989).
Facts
Peter now runs his own actors' agency called The Elliott Agency.

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

Peter Miles (Nyder) Aug 29 1928 to Feb 26 2018
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dr Lawrence in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Professor Whitaker in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Played: Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Tragan in The Paradise of Death (1993, radio)
Career highlights
Peter made his first appearance in The Ballad of the Artificial Mash (1968), followed by Softly Softly (1968), The Borderers (1970), Colditz (1972), The Sweeney (1975), Survivors (1975), The Hill of the Red Fox (1975), The Eagle Has Landed (1976, uncredited as Hitler), Disraeli (1978), Blake's 7 (1978-79, as Rontane), The Whistle Blower (1986), Little Dorrit (1987), Bergerac (1990), The Punk (1993) and Monarch (2000).
Facts
Peter started out as a teacher, and one of his pupils was The Thick Of It actor Chris Langham. He was also an accomplished jazz singer, and enjoyed a primetime set with his band at the 2006 Ealing Jazz Festival. He was a childhood friend of legendary singer Dusty Springfield - in fact the first recording Dusty ever made (Can't We Be Friends) was with Peter. He appeared in a South Bank Show special about Dusty in 2006.
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Peter here.

Hilary Minster (Thal Soldier) Mar 21 1944* to Nov 24 1999 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Marat in Planet of the Daleks (1973)
Played: Thal soldier in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Career highlights
Debuting in Z Cars (1967), Hilary's other credits include Timeslip (1970), The Long Chase (1972), Man About the House (1975), Poldark (1977), The Tomorrow People (1978), Crossroads (1979), Secret Army (1979), Strike It Rich! (1986), The Girl in a Swing (1988) and Bugs (1998). His most memorable role was as General Erich von Klinkerhoffen in 59 episodes of sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (1984-92).
Facts
He occasionally wrote scripts for the variety programme International Cabaret with host Kenneth Williams, and in the 1980s was producer and presenter of Central Television's Here and Now documentary strand. *Hilary's birth is sometimes given as 1939 or 1945, but records state 1944.

Harriet Philpin (Bettan)
Career highlights
Harriet debuted in Doctor in Charge (1973), then The Sweeney (1975), Blake's 7 (1979) and Number on End (1980).
Facts
Harriet famously appeared in the 1970s and 80s as the wife of the Secret Lemonade Drinker in the popular TV commercials for R Whites lemonade. In 2012 there was a nationwide search to track Harriet down (as well as her R Whites co-star Julian Chagrin, son of Francis Chagrin, who composed the music for The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and brother of Vengeance on Varos actor Nicolas Chagrin) to stage a remake of the advert for its 40th anniversary. She was traced to her new home in Ireland.

Richard Reeves (Kaled leader)
Career highlights
Richard's short acting career includes Dixon of Dock Green (1973), Upstairs Downstairs (1974), Katy (1976) and Secret Army (1977).
Facts
Richard retired from acting in 1980 to enter the pharmaceutical industry.

Ivor Roberts (Mogran) Jul 19 1925 to Sep 5 1999
Career highlights
Ivor's earliest role was in the soap Coronation Street in 1972 playing Tommy Silcock, followed by Ace of Wands (1972), Marked Personal (1973), Sam (1974), Edward the King (1975), Secret Army (1977), Alternative 3 (1977), Crossroads (1978), The Legend of King Arthur (1979), Agony (1980), The Talisman (1980-81), Shackleton (1982), Death of an Expert Witness (1983), The New Statesman (1984), Sorry! (1985), Personal Services (1987), Inspector Morse (1989), The Nineteenth Hole (1989), The Piglet Files (1990), You Rang, M'Lord? (1990-93, as Mr Barnes) and Peak Practice (1999). He also had a regular role as Arnold Thomas in sitcom Oh Doctor Beeching! (1995-97).
Facts
Before becoming an actor Ivor had been an in-vision announcer for the Welsh ITV companies between 1962-68. Ivor also appears as a lascivious businessman in the video for Barbra Streisand's Emotion (1984). He also appeared as Grandad in a series of TV adverts for Dulux paint.

Guy Siner (Ravon) Born Oct 16 1947
Career highlights
New York born Guy made his earliest appearance in Z Cars (1972), followed by I, Claudius (1976), Secret Army (1979), You Rang, M'Lord? (1990), The Brittas Empire (1994), Seinfeld (1995), Leprachaun 4 (1997), Lost Highway (1997), Babylon 5 (1997), Diagnosis Murder (1999), Return to the Secret Garden (2000), That's My Bush! (2001), Star Trek: Enterprise (2002), The Agency (2002), Spongebob Squarepants (2001-02), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Doctors (2005), ChuckleVision (2008), Ironclad (2011) and Mr Sloane (2014). His most recognisable role was as Lieutenant Hubert Gruber in over 80 episodes of sitcom 'Allo 'Allo (1982-92), and he has also provided the voice for various Imperial officers on Star Wars computer games since 1994.
Facts
His cousins are fellow actors Selina and Simon Cadell, the latter best known from the sitcom Hi-De-Hi!. Guy also worked as editor on two Doctor Who stories written by David Roden - The Weeping, part of the BBC Book The Story of Martha (2008), and The Nemonite Invasion (2009), a BBC Audiobook (incidentally, Roden was also the co-writer of the 1993 30th anniversary story Dimensions in Time).

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

Cy Town (Dalek operator) Feb 17 1931 to Mar 26 2024 Click here for Cy Town's entry on Frontier in Space

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

Drew Wood (Tane)
Career highlights
Drew debuted in Dr Finlay's Casebook (1967), followed by roles in Codename (1970), And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973), Assassin (1973), Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (1973), I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1976) and Television Club (1977).

Stephen Yardley (Sevrin) Born Mar 24 1942
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sevrin in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Arak in Vengeance on Varos (1985)
Career highlights
Stephen's earliest appearance was in The Bender (1964), followed by The Flying Swan (1965), Danger Man (1965), The Champions (1968), Villains (1972), Harriet's Back in Town (1972), Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall (1972), Oranges & Lemons (1973), The Brothers (1974), Coronation Street (1974), Thriller (1976), The Gentle Touch (1980), Blake's 7 (1981), The Day of the Triffids (1981), Funny Money (1983), Morgan's Boy (1984), Widows 2 (1985), The Doctor and the Devils (1985), Remington Steele (1987), Virtual Murder (1992), Heartbeat (1996), Bugs (1998), Holby City (2000) and Hex (2004). He has enjoyed a number of regular roles in ongoing dramas, including PC May in Z Cars (1967-68), William "Spider" Scott in The XYY Man (1976-77), Max Brocard in Secret Army (1978) and Vince Farmer in 93 episodes of the soap Family Affairs (1999-2003), but will be best remembered as Ken Masters in Howards' Way (1985-90).
Facts
Stephen is married to his Howards' Way co-star Jan Harvey.

CREW

Terry Nation (writer) Aug 6 1930 to Mar 9 1997 (emphysema) Click here for Terry Nation's entry on The Daleks

David Maloney (director) Dec 14 1933 to Jul 18 2006 (cancer) Click here for David Maloney's entry on The Mind Robber

Philip Hinchcliffe (producer) Born Oct 1 1944 Click here for Philip Hinchcliffe's entry on The Ark in Space

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

The Sontaran Experiment

Roth (Peter Rutherford), Sarah Jane
 (Elisabeth Sladen) and toad-faced
Styre (Kevin Lindsay)

Two episodes (Part One, Part Two)
First broadcast Feb 22 to Mar 1 1975
Average audience for serial: 10.75m

REGULAR CAST

Tom Baker (The Doctor) Born Jan 20 1934 Click here for Tom Baker's entry on Robot

Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) Feb 1 1946 to Apr 19 2011 (pancreatic cancer) Click here for Elisabeth Sladen's entry on The Time Warrior

Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan) Oct 28 1944 to Oct 28 1986 (diabetes-related heart attack) Click here for Ian Marter's entry on Carnival of Monsters

GUEST CAST

Donald Douglas (Vural) Mar 7 1933 to Jan 14 2026
Career highlights
Donald debuted as Darsie Latimer in Redgauntlet (1959), followed by Rob Roy (1961), Witch Wood (1964), Middlemarch (1968), The Avengers (1969), Strange Report (1969), Budgie (1971), The Onedin Line (1972), Harriet's Back in Town (1973), War and Peace (1972-73), Heidi (1974), Five Red Herrings (1975), Poldark (1975-76), Couples (1976), Dick Barton: Special Agent (1979), Blake's 7 (1980), Sense and Sensibility (1981), Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982), Scotland's Story (1984), Bluebell (1986), High Road (1980/87), Boon (1989), Diana: Her True Story (1993), EastEnders (1995), Photographing Fairies (1997), Wonderful You (1999), Greenfingers (2000), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), From Hell (2001), A is for Acid (2002), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Monarch of the Glen (2004-05), An Enemy to Die For (2012) and Bridget Jones's Baby (2016).

Facts

Donald became an expert in ceramic restoration.

In 2019 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Donald here.

Brian Ellis (Prisoner) Born Jul 21 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Prisoner in The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
Played: Brother in The Masque of Mandragora (1976)
Career highlights
Brian's debut came in Z Cars (1969), then The Challengers (1972) and Marked Personal (1974).

Glyn Jones (Krans) Apr 27 1931 to Apr 2 2014 (heart condition leading to organ failure)
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Space Museum (1965)
Played: Krans in The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
Career highlights
Glyn's screen acting credits include Queen's Champion (1958), then The Secret Kingdom (1960), Strange Report (1969), Barlow (1974), Breakaway Girls (1978) and Bognor (1981), while he has written for A King's Story (1965), The Magnificent Six and a Half (1968-69), The Gold Robbers (1969), Here Come the Double Deckers! (1970-71, for which he was also script editor), The Chiffy Kids (1976) and Metal Matters (1978). In 1965 Glyn supplied the narration script for the documentary film A King's Story, which went on to be nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar.
Facts
South African Glyn is one of only a handful of people to have both written and appeared in Doctor Who credited (along with Victor Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Toby Whithouse). Glyn also acted and directed in the United States and at the London Fringe, and released a book of children's poetry called Hildegarde H and Her Friends In 2006 he created a new private eye named Thornton King, and wrote six books featuring his exploits. In 2008 he released his autobiography, No Official Umbrella.
In 2013 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Glyn here.

Kevin Lindsay (Styre and The Marshal) Apr 17 1924 to Apr 26 1975 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Linx in The Time Warrior (1973-74)
Played: Cho-je in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Played: Styre in The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
Played: The Marshal in The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
Career highlights
Australian Kevin's earliest credit was in One Got Fat (1963), followed by roles in Love Story (1966), Mr Rose (1968), Paul Temple (1969), War and Peace (1972) and Eleanor (1974). Kevin died of a long-standing heart condition nine days after his 51st birthday, and less than two months after his appearance as Styre in Doctor Who.

Peter Rutherford (Roth) Mar 16 1937 to May 21 1995 (brain tumour)
Career highlights
After South African Peter's Doctor Who debut, he appeared in Churchill's People (1975), Poldark (1975), The Professionals (1980), The Boys in Blue (1982), The Hounds of the Baskervilles (1983), Only Fools and Horses (1989), Young Charlie Chaplin (1989) and Highlander (1994).

Terry Walsh (Zake) May 5 1939 to Apr 21 2002 (cancer) Click here for Terry Walsh's entry on Terror of the Autons

Peter Walshe (Erak) Born May 10 1948
Doctor Who credits
Played: Erak in The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
Played: Pikeman in The Masque of Mandragora (1976)
Career highlights
South African Peter's other work includes New Scotland Yard (1974), The Naked Civil Servant (1975), Z Cars (1978) and Winterspelt (1979).

CREW

Bob Baker (writer) Jul 26 1939 to Nov 3 2021 Click here for Bob Baker's entry on The Claws of Axos

Dave Martin (writer) Jan 1 1935 to Mar 30 2007 (lung cancer) Click here for Dave Martin's entry on The Claws of Axos

Rodney Bennett (director) Mar 24 1935 to Jan 3 2017
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Ark in Space (1975), The Sontaran Experiment (1975), The Masque of Mandragora (1976)
Career highlights
Rodney started out as a child psychologist, then a BBC radio producer, before moving into TV with the advent of BBC2. Some examples of the series he directed are nine Thirty Minute Theatres (1969-73), 13 episodes of Z Cars (1969-74), Trial (1971), The Regiment (1972), Mistress of Hardwick (1972), Madame Bovary (1975), North and South (1975), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1978), The Lost Boys (1978), Sense and Sensibility (1981), Stalky & Co (1982), Dombey and Son (1983), Rumpole of the Bailey (1987), The Darling Buds of May (1991-93), The House of Eliott (1991), Soldier Soldier (1993-94) and Doctor Finlay (1996).
Facts
Rodney wrote three books for children called Eagle Boy (1986), Abbots Way (1994) and Angel Voice (1997).
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Rodney here.

Philip Hinchcliffe (producer) Born Oct 1 1944 Click here for Philip Hinchcliffe's entry on The Ark in Space

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