Doctor Who Vs. James Bond, Part 6

Another Bond film season continued 
on ITV4 last night with Roger Moore's 

fourth stint as the famous MI6 agent. 

The eleventh entry in the franchise, 
was based on the spy novel of 1955, 
itself adapted from Ian Fleming's own
potential film treatment.
Shot primarily  in France, the production was Eon's most expensive to date (the 
budget of $34 million was almost double 
that of The Spy Who Love Me), but 
Moonraker became the highest-grossing 
title until GoldenEye. 

Bernard Lee made his eleventh and final appearance here as M, and Richard Kiel 
returned as Jaws. Shirley Bassey again 
performed the title song, her third after Goldfinger and Diamonds are 
Forever.
Bond's next cinematic assignment was 
released in 1981. The film took its title from Fleming's Bond anthology
 (published in 1960), and contained elements from the short stories For Your 
Eyes Only and Risico. The feature was shot on location in Italy, Spain, Greece, 
the Bahamas and the North Sea, with interiors filmed at Pinewood studios. 
The theme song by Sheena Easton (nominated for an Oscar and a Golden 
Globe) replaced original choice Blondie. Both films featured a total of twenty-two Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

MOONRAKER 

• Peter Bennett (assistant director here and A View to a Kill; unit manager on For Your Eyes Only; location manager on Octopussy) was the first assistant director on fourteen revived series adventures (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time, and Attack of the Graske), the production manager on four other stories, then produced thirteen further instalments (from The Beast Below to The Zygon Inversion) and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Terry Forrestal (Space Fighter here; stunts on Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, A View to a Kill and Goldeneye) was a Tractor Driver on K9 and Company
• for Derek Meddings, Martin Grace, Dinny Powell, Dorothy Ford and Rick Lester see my other Bond blogs

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

• Julian Glover (Kristatos) playde King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• Graham Crowden (First Sea Lord) was Soldeed in The Horns of Nimon
• Noel Johnson (Vice Admiral) was King Thous in The Underwater Menace, and Charles Grover MP in Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• William Hoyland (McGregor) voiced Premier Jaeger for Big Finish's Live 34 (BF, 2005)
• Paul Brooke (Bunky) voiced Toby for Year of the Pig (BF, 2006)
• John [aka Juan] Moreno (Ferrara) was Dobson in (episode 2 of) The Ambassadors of Death
• Laurie Goode (Skier) was a Mutt in The Mutants (1), Time Lord in The Invasion of Time (3), Bandit in The Creature from the Pit (1), Tigellan in Meglos (2), Sailor in Enlightenment, and UNIT Trooper in Battlefield (1)
• Elizabeth Waller was the costume designer on The Robots of Death too
• Anthony Waye (assistant director here and Octopussy; production manager on A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, Skyfall; producer on Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace) was assistant director on both Dalek features
• Gareth Milne (stunts here and Skyfall) was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, a Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos (2), and doubled for Peter Davison on Warriors of the Deep (1)
• Stuart Fell (stunts here, Octopussy and A View to a Kill) was a stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1) and The Ribos Operation (1), then fight arranger on The Talons of Weng-Chiang and State of Decay, and had roles in thirty-three other episodes (from The Claws of Axos to The Invasion of Time)
• Nick Wilkinson (stunts here, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again and Licence to Kill; Russian Soldier in The Living Daylights) was a stuntman on The Next Doctor too
• for Tim Condren, Jim Dowdall and Bill Weston see my other Bond blogs

Doctor Who Vs. Lesbian Vampire Killers

This British comedy-horror film, shown 

again on the Horror channel last night,
was essentially a big-screen vehicle 
for BBC double-act James Corden
and Matthew Horne, that ultimately
received mainly negative reviews.

Horne (pictured left as Jimmy) is best
known for his roles on three series of
The Catherine Tate Show and Nan,
whilst Corden now hosts The Late 
Late Show on CBS.
 Paul McGann co-starred here as
the Vicar of Cragwych, the Norfolk
village cursed by a centuries-old 
vampire. 

Northern Actors Bernard Hill (Boys 
from the Black Stuff, Titanic) and 
Andrew Lee Potts (Strange, Primeval) were originally set to play the 
Vicar and Jimmy. 

Released by Momentum Pictures in 2009, the film also featured these 
twenty-seven other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Corden (Fletch) played Craig Owens in The Lodger and Closing Time
• Ripper Street actress MyAnna Buring (Lotte) was Scooti Manista in The Impossible Planet 
• Lucy Gaskell (Judy) was Kathy Nightingale in Blink
• Big Finish actor Travis Oliver (Steve) was Milo in Gridlock, and voiced Chris Cweji for Damaged Goods (2015), Original Sin and Cold Fusion (both 2016)
• Millennium FX designer Neill Gorton worked on seventy-nine instalments of the revived run (from The Christmas Invasion to The Doctor Falls), The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and Class
• Rob Mayor was also SFX supervisor on seventy-six adventures (from The Girl in the Fireplace to The Doctor Falls), and the programme's three spin-off series
• Martina Hawkins was also an effects administrator on forty stories (form The Next Doctor to The Doctor Falls), The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and Class
• mould maker Claire Green held that post on nineteen episodes (from The Girl Who Waited to Smile) and Class
• make-up effects technician Paula Eden was a painter on A Good Man Goes to War, The God Complex and Deep Breath
• stunt co-ordinator Derek Lea and Stuart Clark were both stuntmen on Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, whilst Lea also worked on The Age of Steel and Partners in Crime
• Martin Rezard was also a prosthetics technician on ten stories (from The Girl in the Fireplace to The Sontaran Stratagem)
• make-up FX technicians Jon Moore, Darren Nevin, Fiona Walshe, Alexandra Wathey and Lauren Wellman were all prosthetics technicians on twenty-two episodes (from Rose to Deep Breath), four others (The Next Doctor, The Waters of Mars and The End of Time), another eight (from The Doctor's Daughter to The Time of the Doctor), twenty-seven parts (from The Lazarus Experiment to Heist) and seven more (from The Doctor's Daughter to The Bells of Saint John) respectively
• technicians Gill Reeves (was a SFX make-up artist on The Next Doctor and The Time of Angels) and Adrian Rigby (was the hair technician on The God Complex)
• make-up FX co-ordinator Kate Walshe was part of the prosthetics and SFX crews (in various roles) on forty-one instalments (from The Next Doctor to The Doctor Falls), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Mandy Gold was a make-up artist on The Curse of Fatal Death too
• Roger Tarry was also the carpenter on Midnight and The Lodger
• Louise Bohling was a scenic artist on New Earth too
• John Whalley was also a scenic artist on seventeen adventures (from Voyage of the Damned to The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)
• draughtsman Silas Williams was the stand-by carpenter on eight stories (from The Christmas Invasion to A Christmas Carol)
• Nick Foley was the ADR mixer on The Snowmen too
• Stephanie Carey was also a stunt performer on Voyage of the Damned, The Beast Below, The Curse of the Black Spot, Let's Kill Hitler, The Girl Who Waited, The Angels Take Manhattan and The Crimson Horror