Eve of the Daleks

I want to spend my New Year
with a Dalek

One episode (Eve of the Daleks)
First broadcast: Jan 1 2022
Audience for story: 4.30m

REGULAR CAST

Jodie Whittaker (The Doctor) Born Jun 17 1982 Click here for Jodie Whittaker's entry on Twice Upon a Time

Mandip Gill (Yasmin Khan) Born Jan 5 1988 Click here for Mandip Gill's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth

John Bishop (Dan Lewis) Born Nov 30 1966 Click here for John Bishop's entry on Flux

GUEST CAST

Aisling Bea (Sarah) Born Mar 16 1984

Career highlights

Irish comedy actor and writer Aisling got her first screen credit in Fair City (2009), followed by roles in We Are Klang (2009), Come Fly with Me (2011), Cardinal Burns (2012), Dead Boss (2012), The Town (2012), Fit (2013), The Assets (2014), The Delivery Man (2015), Trollied (2014-15), The Fall (2016), Hard Sun (2018), Finding Joy (2018), Living with Yourself (2019), Quiz (2020), This Way Up (2019-21, which she also wrote, produced and created), Home Sweet Home Alone (2021) and Chivalry (2022). Aisling has also appeared on various programmes as herself, including Never Mind the Buzzcocks (2014), A League of Their Own (2015-16), Taskmaster (2017), 8 Out of 10 Cats (2013-19), House of Games (2020) and QI (2014-21).

Awards

2014: British Comedy Award for Best Female TV Comic

2020: BAFTA TV Craft Award for Breakthrough Talent (This Way Up)

Facts

In 2012, Aisling won the Gilded Balloon So You Think You're Funny? stand-up contest at the Edinburgh Fringe, the first woman to do so in 20 years. Her birth name is Aisling O'Sullivan, but to avoid confusion with another Irish actor with the same name, her stage name is Aisling Bea (after her late father Brian, who took his own life when she was three years old). Aisling's sister is costume designer Sinead Kidao.

Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Daleks) Born Sep 29 1961 Click here for Nicholas Briggs' entry on Rose

Jonny Dixon (Karl Wright) Born Aug 10 1988

Doctor Who credits

Played: Karl in The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Eve of the Daleks (2022)
Career highlights
After making his uncredited debut at the age of six in Heartbeat (2005), Jonny rose to prominence playing Mathew "Mooney" Humphries in 44 episodes of Grange Hill (2003-07) before securing his most high profile role to date, as Darryl Morton in more than 200 episodes of soap Coronation Street (2007-09). Later credits include Casualty (2010/12), All at Sea (2013), Boy Meets Girl (2015-16), Loaded (2017), The Feed (2019), Thick as Thieves (2020) and The Rising (2022).

Barnaby Edwards (Dalek operator) Born Aug 20 1969 Click here for Barnaby Edwards' entry on Dalek

Pauline McLynn (Mary) Born Jul 11 1962

Career highlights

Irish born Pauline debuted in Troubles (1988), followed by Far and Away (1992), Family (1994), Ballykissangel (1998), Angela's Ashes (1999), Dark Ages (1999), Iris (2001), Dalziel and Pascoe (2002), Gypo (2005), High Hopes (2007), Demons (2009), The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (2011), Threesome (2011-12), Father Figure (2013), Pramface (2013-14), Johnny English Strikes Again (2018), GameFace (2017-19), Bing (2014-19), Inside No 9 (2021), Last Night in Soho (2021) and Holding (2022). Pauline's regular roles include Tippi Haddem in Jam and Jerusalem (2006-09), Libby Croker in Shameless (2010-11), Yvonne Cotton in EastEnders (2014-15) and Bunni in Drop Dead Weird (2017-19), but she will always be remembered as Mrs Doyle in the sitcom Father Ted (1995-98).

Awards

1996: British Comedy Award for Top TV Comedy Actress (Father Ted)

Nicholas Pegg (Dalek operator) Click here for Nicholas Pegg's entry on Bad Wolf

Adjani Salmon (Nick) Born 1989

Career highlights

Jamaican Adjani's first acting credit on screen was 2018's Dreaming Whilst Black, which he also wrote, directed and produced. Further work includes Enterprice (2020) and Chivalry (2022).

Awards

2022: BAFTA TV Award for Emerging Talent, Fiction (Dreaming Whilst Black)

2022: BAFTA TV Craft Award for Emerging Talent, Fiction (Dreaming Whilst Black) - shared with Thomas Stogdon and Dhanny Jhoshi

Facts

Adjani had so much fun working on Doctor Who that he pitched a script to head writer Chris Chibnall which would see his character return thanks to the wizardry of time loops.

CREW

Chris Chibnall (writer) Born Mar 21 1970 Click here for Chris Chibnall's entry on 42

Annetta Laufer (director)

Career highlights

Doctor Who was Annetta's first TV job as a director, after having worked on six short films, including Winnie and the Duppy Bat (2006), Winking Man Rock (2010), Afro Punk Girl (2016) and The Arrival (2018). She also wrote these shorts. As well as directing, Annetta has worked as part of the production team of children's show M.I High (2007), and worked in the script department for productions such as Feather Boy (2004), All About Me (2007), 28 Weeks Later (2007), My Almost Famous Family (2009) and Boxing Day (2021).

Awards

2017: Black International Film Award for Best Narrative Film (Afro Punk Girl)

Facts

Annetta is the founder of Roman Candle Films.