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| The Pirate Captain (Bruce Purchase) ponders his next dastardly move |
First broadcast Sep 30 to Oct 21 1978
Average audience for serial: 8.28m
- A pictorial guide to the guest cast is at the bottom of this entry
Tom Baker (The Doctor) Born Jan 20 1934 Click here for Tom Baker's entry on Robot
Mary Tamm (Romana) Mar 22 1950 to Jul 26 2012 (cancer) Click here for Mary Tamm's entry on The Ribos Operation
John Leeson (Voice of K-9) Born Mar 16 1943 Click here for John Leeson's entry on The Invisible Enemy
GUEST CAST
Clive Bennett (Citizen) Born Aug 10 1942
Clive's only other credit is Who Do You Do (1976).
Bernard Finch (Mentiad) Feb 11 1939 to Oct 15 1990
Career highlights
Debuting in An Age of Kings (1960), Bernard's further credits include The Spread of the Eagle (1963), The Liars (1966), Signpost (1966), Blackmail (1966), Out of the Unknown (1969), Merry-Go-Round (1971), The Regiment (1973), Tycoon (1978), Robin's Nest (1981), I Remember Nelson (1982), Lytton's Diary (1985) and The Bill (1989/90).
Adam Kurakin (Guard) Oct 21 1945 to Apr 8 1989
Career highlights
Born as Richard Parsons, Adam debuted in The Mating Machine (1970), then Doomwatch (1970), Colditz (1974), Accident (1978), Enemy at the Door (1980) and The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1982-84).
Rosalind Lloyd (Nurse) Born Mar 25 1953
Career highlights
Debuted in Menace (1970), and then took roles in Wives and Daughters (1971), The Wild Geese (1978), A Question of Guilt (1980), Inseminoid (1981), Only Fools and Horses (1982), Bergerac (1984), The Optimist (1985) and The Noshing with Nina Show (2017).
Facts
Rosalind is the daughter of film producer Euan Lloyd and actress Jane Hylton, who sadly died of a heart attack four months after The Pirate Planet aired. Rosalind's stepfather was actor Peter Dyneley, the voice of Thunderbird Jeff Tracy. In the 1980s Rosalind appeared in an in-store promotional video for Hoover.
Ralph Michael (Balaton) Sep 26 1907 to Nov 9 1994
Career highlights
Ralph enjoyed a long career, beginning with False Evidence (1937), and then The Girl Who Forgot (1940), Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1943), They Came to a City (1944), Dead of Night (1945), Emma (1948), Breaking the Sound Barrier (1952), The Count of Monte Cristo (1956), A Night to Remember (1958), Date at Midnight (1959), The World of Tim Frazer (1960-61), It Happened Like This (1962-63), Children of the Damned (1963), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Khartoum (1966), The Avengers (1969), Gazette (1968), Doctor in the House (1969-70), Doctor At Large (1971), Justice (1974), Hadleigh (1976), Rob Roy (1977), The Devil's Crown (1978), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), Kessler (1981), The Borgias (1981), Scarecrow and Mrs King (1984), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1990), Selling Hitler (1991), The Camomile Lawn (1992), Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93) and The All New Alexei Sayle Show (1994).
Facts
Ralph was married twice, to actresses Fay Compton (they divorced when he had an affair with actress Patricia Roc) and Joyce Heron.
Bruce Purchase (Captain) Oct 2 1938 to Jun 5 2008 (cancer)
Career highlights
6ft 2in New Zealander Bruce first appeared in The Newcomers (1965), then The Big Spender (19665), The Paradise Makers (1967), The Flaxton Boys (1969), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Doomwatch (1972), Alice Through the Looking Glass (1974, incidentally starring Nyssa actress Sarah Sutton as Alice), Fall of Eagles (1974), Clayhanger (1976), The New Avengers (1976), I, Claudius (1976), London Belongs To Me (1977), A Horseman Riding By (1978), Quatermass IV (1979), The Quiz Kid (1979), Blake's 7 (1979), Freud (1984), The Tripods (1985), Casanova (1987), Law and Disorder (1994), David (1997), Killer Net (1998), ChuckleVision (2000) and Another Life (2001).
Facts
Bruce was a founding actor-member of Sir Laurence Olivier's National Theatre. Bruce became seriously ill while touring with the production The Last Confession in 2007. Bruce was once declared bankrupt, and emerged from the hearing in court to encounter a tramp, to whom he confessed his difficult situation. He was so taken with the tramp's response - "Yes, it's happening to so many" - that he gave him the £6 in his pocket. Bruce was married for a time to New Zealand historical novelist Elspeth Sandys.
Andrew Robertson (Mr Fibuli) Born 1941
Career highlights
Andrew's first credit was in The Master of Ballantrae (1962), then The Likely Lads (1966), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), The Rebellious Red Gauntlets (1970), Hold the Front Page (1974), Oil Strike North (1975), Blake's 7 (1979), Take the High Road (1980), One By One (1987), Colin's Sandwich (1988-90), KYTV (1992), The Blackheath Poisonings (1992), The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1995), Rab C Nesbitt (1996), The Creatives (1998), Gimme Gimme Gimme (2000) and Anybody's Nightmare (2001).
David Sibley (Pralix) Born Jul 16 1948
Career highlights
David debuted in Survivors (1976), and has since gone on to appear in Wings (1977), Rooms (1977), A Family Affair (1979), Blake's 7 (1980), An Inspector Calls (1982), Gandhi (1982), Stars of the Roller Skate Disco (1984), Willow (1988), Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1989), The Manageress (1989-90), Middlemarch (1994), Princess Caraboo (1994), Frontiers (1996), Guest House Paradiso (1999), Attachments (2000), Fun at the Funeral Parlour (2001), Judge John Deed (2001), Trial and Retribution (2007), Land Girls (2009), New Tricks (2012), Utopia (2013), Broadchurch (2013), Closed Circuit (2013), The Sleeping Room (2014), 45 Years (2015), War & Peace (2016) and Vanity Fair (2018).
Primi Townsend (Mula) Born Mar 2 1951
Career highlights
Primi's other credits include Harriet's Back in Town (1972), My Honourable Mrs (1975), Schizo (1976), 1990 (1978), Tycoon (1978), Blake's 7 (1980), Bergerac (1984), Lame Ducks (1984), Life Without George (1987) and Grange Hill (1991).
David Warwick (Kimus) Born Jan 15 1948
Note: Although uncredited for her role as Old Xanxia, Vi Delmar (Sep 26 1902 to Nov 26 1994) deserves a mention here, if just for the fact she asked for extra payment to remove her false teeth in her scenes! She also appeared in No Hiding Place (1963), A Little Big Business (1965), Z Cars (1970), Within These Walls (1975/78) and Everyday Maths (1978).
CREW
Douglas Adams (writer) Mar 11 1952 to May 11 2001 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Pirate Planet (1978), City of Death (1979, as David Agnew), Shada (1980, unbroadcast)
Script edited: Destiny of the Daleks, City of Death, The Creature from the Pit, Nightmare of Eden, The Horns of Nimon, Shada (unbroadcast) (1979-80)
Career highlights
Douglas is most famous for writing the BBC radio series The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy in 1978, which then became a series of books (1979-92), a TV series (1981), a film (2005), a stage play, a computer game and even a bath towel. Douglas's first TV writing was for Monty Python's Flying Circus (1974), followed by Out of the Trees (1976), Doctor on the Go (1977), Doctor Snuggles (1979), Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979) and Hyperland (1990). He also made appearances in front of the camera in Monty Python's Flying Circus, Out of the Trees, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and Rockstar (2000).
Facts
Douglas, who was heavily involved in computer technology, created the Digital Village/ h2g2, and inspired the online encyclopedia Babelfish. It was Douglas who popularised the now commonly accepted belief that 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything. He owned the first two Apple Macintosh computers ever in the UK. Douglas also wrote the Dirk Gently series of novels, and a short-lived TV series of the same name based on them was made by the BBC 2010/12. Further trivia... Douglas helped come up with the title for Pink Floyd's 1994 album The Division Bell... He was part of the team that originally founded the UK charity Comic Relief in 1985... There are asteroids named after both Douglas and his Hitch Hikers "hero" Arthurdent... Towel Day is celebrated every year on May 25 by fans as a tribute to Douglas, on which people carry a towel around with them all day because "a towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have", according to his multi-million selling book!
Pennant Roberts (director) Dec 15 1940 to Jun 22 2010 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Face of Evil (1977), The Sun Makers (1977), The Pirate Planet (1978), Shada (1980, unfinished), Warriors of the Deep (1984), Timelash (1985)
Career highlights
Pennant's directing career began with Doomwatch in 1972, followed by work on The Regiment (1973), Sutherland's Law (1974), Oil Strike North (1975), Survivors (1975-76), Blake's 7 (1978), The Onedin Line (1979), Juliet Bravo (1980), Tenko (1981), Cold Warriors (1984), Howards' Way (1985), The Snow Spider (1988, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Children's Drama), The Bubblegum Brigade (1989), Emlyn's Moon (1990), The Chestnut Soldier (1991), Crime Story (1992), Wycliffe (1993) and The Sherman Plays (1993-97). He also acted as producer on a handful of these latter series.
Facts
Pennant was also chairman of the Directors' and Producers' Rights Society (now Directors UK), vice-president of the Strasbourg European Film Forum, chair of Media Skills Wales, a governor of the Welsh College of Music and Drama, and a board member of Sgrîn, the Welsh audiovisual media agency. He campaigned for many years for the rights of actors and directors to receive fees when programmes are repeated on television.
Graham Williams (producer) May 24 1945 to Aug 17 1990 (shooting incident) Click here for Graham Williams's entry on Horror of Fang Rock
Anthony Read (script editor) Apr 21 1935 to Nov 21 2015 Click here for Anthony Read's entry on Underworld
Career highlights
David debuted in Survivors (1976), and has since gone on to appear in Wings (1977), Rooms (1977), A Family Affair (1979), Blake's 7 (1980), An Inspector Calls (1982), Gandhi (1982), Stars of the Roller Skate Disco (1984), Willow (1988), Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1989), The Manageress (1989-90), Middlemarch (1994), Princess Caraboo (1994), Frontiers (1996), Guest House Paradiso (1999), Attachments (2000), Fun at the Funeral Parlour (2001), Judge John Deed (2001), Trial and Retribution (2007), Land Girls (2009), New Tricks (2012), Utopia (2013), Broadchurch (2013), Closed Circuit (2013), The Sleeping Room (2014), 45 Years (2015), War & Peace (2016) and Vanity Fair (2018).
Primi Townsend (Mula) Born Mar 2 1951
Career highlights
Primi's other credits include Harriet's Back in Town (1972), My Honourable Mrs (1975), Schizo (1976), 1990 (1978), Tycoon (1978), Blake's 7 (1980), Bergerac (1984), Lame Ducks (1984), Life Without George (1987) and Grange Hill (1991).
David Warwick (Kimus) Born Jan 15 1948
Doctor Who credits
Played: Kimus in The Pirate Planet (1978)
Played: Police Commissioner in Army of Ghosts (2006)
Career highlights
David debuted in Savage Messiah (1972), then Buggins' Ermine (1972), The Prince of Denmark (1974), The Glittering Prizes (1976), The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976, as son Mark Perrin), Ripping Yarns (1979), Shelley (1980), Dear John (1987), On the Up (1990), The Bill (1990), Peak Practice (1994), All About Me (2002), EastEnders (2012), Surviving the Impact: A Tale of Restorative Justice (2015) and Trust Me Babydoll (2019).
Facts
David is the ex-partner of Doctor Who companion Louise Jameson.
Note: Although uncredited for her role as Old Xanxia, Vi Delmar (Sep 26 1902 to Nov 26 1994) deserves a mention here, if just for the fact she asked for extra payment to remove her false teeth in her scenes! She also appeared in No Hiding Place (1963), A Little Big Business (1965), Z Cars (1970), Within These Walls (1975/78) and Everyday Maths (1978).
CREW
Douglas Adams (writer) Mar 11 1952 to May 11 2001 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Pirate Planet (1978), City of Death (1979, as David Agnew), Shada (1980, unbroadcast)
Script edited: Destiny of the Daleks, City of Death, The Creature from the Pit, Nightmare of Eden, The Horns of Nimon, Shada (unbroadcast) (1979-80)
Career highlights
Douglas is most famous for writing the BBC radio series The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy in 1978, which then became a series of books (1979-92), a TV series (1981), a film (2005), a stage play, a computer game and even a bath towel. Douglas's first TV writing was for Monty Python's Flying Circus (1974), followed by Out of the Trees (1976), Doctor on the Go (1977), Doctor Snuggles (1979), Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979) and Hyperland (1990). He also made appearances in front of the camera in Monty Python's Flying Circus, Out of the Trees, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and Rockstar (2000).
Facts
Douglas, who was heavily involved in computer technology, created the Digital Village/ h2g2, and inspired the online encyclopedia Babelfish. It was Douglas who popularised the now commonly accepted belief that 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything. He owned the first two Apple Macintosh computers ever in the UK. Douglas also wrote the Dirk Gently series of novels, and a short-lived TV series of the same name based on them was made by the BBC 2010/12. Further trivia... Douglas helped come up with the title for Pink Floyd's 1994 album The Division Bell... He was part of the team that originally founded the UK charity Comic Relief in 1985... There are asteroids named after both Douglas and his Hitch Hikers "hero" Arthurdent... Towel Day is celebrated every year on May 25 by fans as a tribute to Douglas, on which people carry a towel around with them all day because "a towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have", according to his multi-million selling book!
Pennant Roberts (director) Dec 15 1940 to Jun 22 2010 (cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Face of Evil (1977), The Sun Makers (1977), The Pirate Planet (1978), Shada (1980, unfinished), Warriors of the Deep (1984), Timelash (1985)
Career highlights
Pennant's directing career began with Doomwatch in 1972, followed by work on The Regiment (1973), Sutherland's Law (1974), Oil Strike North (1975), Survivors (1975-76), Blake's 7 (1978), The Onedin Line (1979), Juliet Bravo (1980), Tenko (1981), Cold Warriors (1984), Howards' Way (1985), The Snow Spider (1988, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Children's Drama), The Bubblegum Brigade (1989), Emlyn's Moon (1990), The Chestnut Soldier (1991), Crime Story (1992), Wycliffe (1993) and The Sherman Plays (1993-97). He also acted as producer on a handful of these latter series.
Facts
Pennant was also chairman of the Directors' and Producers' Rights Society (now Directors UK), vice-president of the Strasbourg European Film Forum, chair of Media Skills Wales, a governor of the Welsh College of Music and Drama, and a board member of Sgrîn, the Welsh audiovisual media agency. He campaigned for many years for the rights of actors and directors to receive fees when programmes are repeated on television.
Graham Williams (producer) May 24 1945 to Aug 17 1990 (shooting incident) Click here for Graham Williams's entry on Horror of Fang Rock
Anthony Read (script editor) Apr 21 1935 to Nov 21 2015 Click here for Anthony Read's entry on Underworld
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