The Two Doctors

The Doctor (Colin Baker and Patrick
Troughton) and Jamie (Frazer Hines) do their
best to hide the fact Peri (Nicola Bryant)
 is behind them.

Three episodes (Part One, Part Two, Part Three)
First broadcast Feb 16 to Mar 2 1985
Average audience for serial: 6.50m

REGULAR CAST

Colin Baker (The Doctor) Born Jun 8 1943 Click here for Colin Baker's entry on Arc of Infinity

Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown) Born Oct 11 1960 Click here for Nicola Bryant's entry on Planet of Fire

GUEST CAST

Aimee Delamain (Dona Arana) Apr 21 1906 to Jun 18 1999 (natural causes)
Career highlights
Aimee's earliest role was in The Bishop's Candlesticks (1949), followed by The Princess and the Woodcutter (1952), The Secret (1955), Boyd QC (1961), Oliver Twist (1962), Suspense (1963), The Plane Makers (1963), The Liars (1966), The Saint (1966), The Avengers (1963/69), Menace (1970), I, Monster (1971), The Visitors (1972), The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972), The House in Nightmare Park (1973), The Morecambe and Wise Show (1974), One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975), Beryl's Lot (1975), Huggy Bear (1976), The Crezz (1976), The Peppermint Pig (1977), Come Back, Lucy (1978), The Famous Five (1978), Fawlty Towers (1979), The Sandbaggers (1980), Cymbeline (1982), Shine on Harvey Moon (1984), Florence Nightingale (1985), Fresh Fields (1985), Santa Claus: The Movie (1985), The District Nurse (1987), 'Allo 'Allo! (1987), High Spirits (1988), You Rang, M'Lord? (1990), A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1990), Devices and Desires (1991) and Memento Mori (1992).

Nicholas Fawcett (Technician)
Career highlights
Further work includes See You at Wembley, Frankie Walsh (1987), Bare Naked Talent (2007), Coincidence (2011), Doctors (2015) and Perfect Piece (2016).

Carmen Gomez (Anita) Born Feb 6 1949
Career highlights
Carmen's further credits include Barlow At Large (1974), Don't Drink the Water (1974), The Crezz (1976), The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979), Farrington of the F.O (1987), Star Cops (1987), About Face (1991), The Scarlet and the Black (1993), Surgical Spirit (1994) and Dalziel and Pascoe (1997).
Facts
Carmen - who in 1970 had the honour of being crowned Miss Gibraltar - now lives in the British overseas territory, and in 2013 became a member of a committee of theatrical figures to advise the Government on the restoration and refurbishment of the Queen's Cinema, with a view to it becoming the home of Gibraltar's National Theatre. She has also presented children's programmes on Gibraltar TV and the BBC World Service. In a 2017 interview with Spain's Talk Radio Europe, Carmen claimed she was one of the very few actresses to do two episodes of Doctor Who...

Clinton Greyn (Stike) Sep 29 1933 to Mar 19 2019
Doctor Who credits
Played: Ivo in State of Decay (1980)
Played: Stike in The Two Doctors (1985)
Clinton also played Group Marshal Nathan in the Jim'll Fix It sketch A Fix with Sontarans (1985)
Career highlights
Clinton debuted in The Dark Pits of War (1960), then Off Centre (1961), soap Compact (1962-63, as Mike McClusky), The Newcomers (1966), Robbery (1967), The Ugliest Girl in Town (1969), The Champions (1969), Raid on Rommel (1971), The Love Machine (1971), Swedish Fly Girls (1971), Jason King (1971), The Zoo Gang (1974), Shine On Harvey Moon (1985), Howards' Way (1987) and The Chef's Apprentice (1989). Clinton also played the lead role of Captain Robert Virgin in the action series Virgin of the Secret Service (1968).
Facts
In the early 1970s Clinton bought a plot of land between a row of 19th century houses in Notting Hill, London, the last vacant bombsite left over from the Blitz. There he had built a minimalist house, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's house Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, USA, which was almost never completed due to protests from English Heritage. It is now regarded as a masterful piece of architecture which may well become listed in years to come. Clinton comes in for some unfortunate criticism from acting legend Richard Burton in his diaries during the filming of Raid on Rommel in July 1970: "Clinton Greyn is not a very good actor I'm afraid. He's tall and good-looking in a kind of weak way with a voice that threatens to become prissy when he presses... It's odd that I cannot define what a good actor has, what quality or style, but I can tell a bad actor immediately and Clinton Greyn is bad... He is a typically mediocre Rep actor and there's nowt one can do about that. He should never have been cast in the first place."
In 2018 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Clinton here.

Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born Sep 22 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders

Laurence Payne (Dastari) Jun 5 1919 to Feb 23 2009 (vascular dementia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Johnny Ringo in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Morix in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Played: Dastari in The Two Doctors (1985)
Career highlights
Laurence's further credits include Till Tomorrow (1948), Train of Events (1949), The Face of Love (1954), The Three Musketeers (1954), Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), The Trollenberg Terror (1958), Moonstrike (1963), The Midnight Men (1964), The Saint (1966), Vampire Circus (1972), The Hanged Man (1975), The Sandbaggers (1978), Airline (1982) and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). He became well known for playing the title character in Sexton Blake (1967-71).
Facts
Between 1962-93, Laurence wrote 11 detective novels, the first of which (The Nose on My Face) was adapted into the film Girl in the Headlines aka The Model Murder Case (1963). A sword-fighting accident while filming Sexton Blake in 1968 cost him the sight in his left eye. Laurence's first wife (of three) was actress Sheila Burrell, cousin to Sir Laurence Olivier. In a 1998 interview with Edinburgh's Evening News, Laurence said: "Dr Who was great fun. I was one of the villains in the second series with that strange elderly man as Dr Who. We did about ten weeks filming at a time, and then had a break. I got on very well with the boy playing Dr Who's grandson. I wasn't in any of the ones with those robots [Daleks] in, thank God! I think I would have laughed!" In the 1990s Laurence contracted septicaemia, causing some brain damage, and the last three years of his life were spent in a nursing home suffering with vascular dementia.

Jacqueline Pearce (Chessene) Dec 20 1943 to Sep 3 2018 (lung cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Chessene in The Two Doctors (1985)
Played: Admiral Mettna (voice) in Death Comes to Time (2001, webcast)
Career highlights
Jacqueline's first role was in a 1964 episode of Danger Man, after which she appeared in Gypsy Girl (1965), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Reptile (1966), The Avengers (1966), Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1966), Haunted (1967), Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), The Edwardians (1973), David Copperfield (1974), Couples (1975-76), Shadows (1978), White Mischief (1987), Moondial (1988), How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989), Dark Season (1991), Princess Caraboo (1994), Guru in Seven (1998), Daniel Deronda (2002) and Casualty (2006). Jacqueline will forever be remembered as villainous villainess Servalan in Blake's 7 (1978-81), a role she later reprised on audio.
Facts
Between 1963-67 Jacqueline was married to actor Drewe Henley, best known for playing Red Leader in Star Wars (1977). She later married (and divorced) Michael Rudman. Bizarrely, both her ex-husbands went on to marry actor Felicity Kendal (who appeared in The Unicorn and the Wasp). For a time in the 1960s, Jacqueline worked as a receptionist for Sammy Davis Jr in Los Angeles. In 2007, Jacqueline moved for a time to South Africa to care for endangered animals such as chimpanzees and vervet monkeys. In 2004, and then 2012, Jacqueline was diagnosed with breast cancer, and beat it following chemotherapy.

Tim Raynham (Varl) Born Jun 2 1958
Career highlights
Tim's only other credits are for The Paradise Club (1990) and The Comic Strip Presents... Jealousy (1993). He also played a Sontaran in the 1985 Jim'll Fix It skit In a Fix with Sontarans.

James Saxon (Oscar) Jun 12 1955 to Jul 2 2003 (heart attack)
Career highlights
James debuted in Seeing and Believing (1976), then appeared in Jukes of Piccadilly (1980), We'll Meet Again (1982, as Sergeant Elmer Jones), Lady Windermere's Fan (1985), Family Ties Vacation (1985), Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986), Roland Rat: The Series (1986, as D'arcy DeFarcy), Brush Strokes (1986), A Prayer for the Dying (1987), Vanity Fair (1987), The Paradise Club (1989), Troublemakers (1990), The New Statesman (1991), Time Riders (1991), Spatz (1991), Haggard (1992), Medics (1993), Lovejoy (1993), Murder Most Horrid (1994), England, My England (1995), Poldark (1996), Chalk (1997), Cleopatra (1999) and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2003). He was also a regular player in the T-Bag series of children's dramas (1989-92) and played Fuzzy Brightons in detective series McCallum (1995-98), but he found his greatest recognition as Morris Hardacre in Brass (1983-84/90). James also provided the voices for the 1998 version of the Captain Pugwash cartoons.

John Stratton (Shockeye) Nov 7 1925 to Oct 25 1991
Career highlights
John's career began with an uncredited appearance in Hour of Glory (1949), then The Cure for Love (1950), Mr Lord Says No (1952), The Cruel Sea (1953), You Know What People Are (1955), Dick and the Duchess (1958), The Secret Kingdom (1960), Kipps (1960), The Avengers (1961), The Odd Man (1963), It's Dark Outside (1965), Turn Out the Lights (1967), Letters from the Dead (1968), Sherlock Holmes (1968), The First Lady (1968-69), The Black Tulip (1970), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), Coronation Street (1965/72), Follyfoot (1972), The Love Pill (1972), The Pallisers (1974), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974), Trinity Tales (1975), Clayhanger (1976), The Witches of Pendle (1977), The Mill on the Floss (1978-79), The Good Companions (1980-81), Great Expectations (1981), My Cousin Rachel (1983), Countdown to War (1989), Lovejoy (1991) and The Law Lord (1992). He played Captain Potter in Quatermass and the Pit (1958-59) and Mr Bott in Just William (1977-78).

Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) Mar 25 1920 to Mar 28 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks

CREW

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

Peter Moffatt (director) Aug 15 1922 to Oct 21 2007
Doctor Who credits
Directed: State of Decay (1980), The Visitation (1982), Mawdryn Undead (1983), The Five Doctors (1983), The Twin Dilemma (1984), The Two Doctors (1985)
Played: Man outside restaurant in The Two Doctors (1985, uncredited)
Played: Tourist in Silver Nemesis (1988, uncredited)
Career highlights
His training to become an actor was disturbed by the outbreak of World War Two, during which he became a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft 3 in Germany. After the war he went back into acting in programmes such as Emil and the Detectives (1952) and Tales from Soho (1956), but then turned to directing, working on Small Time (1960), Tales of Mystery (1961), It Happened Like This (1963), Crane (1963-64), Seven Deadly Sins (1966-67), Sexton Blake (1968), Hadleigh (1969), Big Brother (1970), Crime of Passion (1971-72), New Scotland Yard (1972), Melissa (1974), Rooms (1974-77), The Camerons (1979), The Gentle Touch (1980), Juliet Bravo (1980/82), EastEnders (1986) and All Creatures Great and Small (1978-88).
Facts
He was married to actress/ director/ producer Joan Kemp-Welch.

John Nathan-Turner (producer) Aug 12 1947 to May 1 2002 (liver failure) Click here for John Nathan-Turner's entry on The Leisure Hive

Eric Saward (script editor) Born Dec 9 1944 Click here for Eric Saward's entry on on Castrovalva