Doctor Who Vs. The War of the Worlds

"Across the gulf of space.. intellects vast and cool and
unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes,
and slowly and surely drew their plans against us"

H G Wells' seminal 'scientific
romance' was published in
1898 following serialisation
in Pearson's Magazine and
Cosmopolitan. The novel has
 inspired many adaptations,
most famously Orson Welles'
radio version of 1938, and
has influenced other literary
works ever since.
The first British television
iteration of the sci-fi classic
was announced in late 2015,
and the co-production (from
Mammoth Screen. Creasun
 Media and Red Square) began
transmission last month. The
 three-part drama (written
by Peter Harness) con-
cluded on BBC1 last night,
and featured Rafe Spall,
Eleanor Tomlinson, Robert Carlyle, Jonathan Aris, and twenty-three
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Rupert Graves (Frederick) was John Riddell in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Charles De'ath (Graves) was Adelaide's Father in The Waters of Mars
• Harry Melling (Artilleryman) voiced Harvey Taker and Demi-Taker for Big Finish's The Whispering Forest (2010)
• Milo Twomey (Sgt. Major) voiced Jorvik for Theatre of War (2015)
• Adam Darlington (Refugee) was Passerby in Arachnids in the UK
• Sam Benjamin (Salesman) was the Estate Agent in Knock Knock
• Mickey Lewis (Policeman) was Dalek Operator on Asylum of the Daleks, Into the Dalek and The Magician's Apprentice, Policeman in The Snowmen, Beast Man in The Rings of Akhaten, Alien in The Witch's Familiar, Chauffeur in The Zygon Invasion, UNIT Soldier in The Zygon Invrsion, Corpse in Oxygen, Harbour master in The Lie of the Land, Cyberman in The Doctor Falls, and Soldier in Twice Upon a Time
• Susan Wooldridge (Mrs. Elphinstone) auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976
• Nick Gillard (stunt co-ordinator) was stunt arranger on (part 2 of) Silver Nemesis
• Damian Timmer (co-exec producer) and Tony Gibson (SFX editor) both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Howard Burden was also the costume designer on thirty adventures (from Asylum of the Daleks to Last Christmas)
• Carly Griffith was also assistant costume designer on eighteen episodes (from Asylum of the Daleks to In the Forest of the Night)
• Charlie Bestwick was also costume assistant on fourteen stories (from The Time of the Doctor to Last Christmas)
• Sean Clayton  was also the second assistant director on Dalek and Father's Day
• Daniel Kennedy was draughtsman on Series 12 too
• Dan Walker was concept artist on Series 1 too
• Robert Searl was ADR recordist on Twice Upon a Time too
• Chris Reynolds was also a SFX technician on Terror of the Vervoids and Battlefield
• Peter Kersey was SFX technician on the Doctor Who TV Movie too
• Sophie Hardcastle was also camera trainee on Demons of the Punjab, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos and Resolution
• Peter Lowden was camera assistant on The Time of the Doctor too
• Rob Arrowsmith was also a camera operator on The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang and A Christmas Carol
• Liam Byrne was armourer on The Wedding of River Song too

Doctor Who Vs. Pet Shop Boys

This post combines my two greatest creative influences: the

British institutions that are Doctor Who and Pet Shop Boys.

For the uninitiated, the Wikipedia entry for the Pet Shop Boys describes them as

"an English electronic dance music duo [formed in London in 1982, and originally called West End], consisting of Neil Tennant [b. 1954], who provides main 

vocals and Chris Lowe [b. 1959] on keyboards." 
One of the world's best-selling music artists, Pet Shop Boys have sold over 100 million records worldwide, and are listed as the most successful duo in UK music history. Three times Brit Award winners and six-times Grammy nominees, since 1985 they have achieved forty-two Top 30 singles and twenty-two Top 10 hits in the UK chart, including four number ones: West End Girls, It's a Sin, Always On My Mind, and Heart. At the 2009 Brit Awards, Pet Shop Boys received the Outstanding Contribution to Music.

This month, the duo released their first single for three years. Dreamland,

a duet with Olly Alexander (of Years & Years), is the intended title track of

their forthcoming album, to be released next January. PSB headlined the

recent Live in Hyde Park festival, and the band also announced a new 

worldwide arena tour for 2020 - Dreamworld will celebrate their greatest

 hits. These two icons of British culture are connected by these sixteen 

facts:

• in the late 1980's, a young Scottish drama student called David John McDonald adopted the stage name of David Tennant, after PSB front- man Neil Tennant
• their 1988 film, It Couldn't Happen Here, starred Gareth Hunt (Arak in Planet of the Spiders), Barbara Windsor (given a cameo in Army of Ghosts), extra Chris Chering (Tetrap in Time and the Rani, and Skin- head in Silver Nemesis), and Simon Archer (lighting cameraman) was later the cinematographer on The Lodger
• comic actors, David Walliams and Matt Lucas (both longtime Petheads and dedicated Whovians) appeared in the video for I'm With Stupid (2006)
• Frances Barber (who played Madame Kovarian in Series Six) starred in the PSB's 2001 stage musical, Closer to Heaven as Billie Trix, a role reprised for Musik (2019) - Concrete (2006) included her live version of Friendly Fire
• Tennant provided backing vocals on Robbie Williams' 1998 single, No Regrets with Neil Hannon, who later sang Love Don't Roam for The Runaway Bride, and performed Song For Ten on the first Doctor Who OST album (2006)
• former PSB manager Tom Watkins also worked with Billie Piper during her pop career
• the character of Elton Pope in Love & Monsters was named after Elton John, who recorded a cover version of In Private with Tennant for Fundamentalism (2006)
• Tennant and Lowe have collaborated with many other musicians, including Kylie Minogue, who played Astrid Peth in Voyage of the Damned
• the PSB revived the career of Dusty Springfield with the release of the single, What Have I Done to Deserve This? in 1987, leading to her PSB-produced album, Reputation in 1990 - the number one hit record, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (1966), was heard in The Rebel Flesh, and Rory remarked that his mum was a fan of Dusty (along with Wilf Mott)
• Phil Oakey also dueted with Tennant (on Yes Etc. with This Used to be the Future), his former band, the Human League, recorded a tribute B-side track entitled Tom Baker in 1981
• Sir Ian McKellern (the voice of the Great Intelligence in The Snowmen) starred as a vampire in the video for Heart (1988)
• Ron Moody appeared as the Judge in the video for It's a Sin (1987), and he later voiced the Duke of Wellington for Big Finish's Other Lives (2005)
• the duo wrote I'm Not Scared for Eighth Wonder's vocalist Patsy Kensit in 1988 - she later voiced Mercenary for Kingdom of Lies (2018)
• Joanna Lumley starred in the video for Absolutely Fabulous (1994) and was later seen as the first female incarnation of the Doctor in The Curse of the Fatal Death
• Bettrys Jones, a dancer in the video for I'm With Stupid, voiced Judith for Black Thursday (2019)

Doctor Who Vs. Deep Water

Produced by Kudos, ITV's latest crime drama concluded last night.
 The six-part thriller was adapted 
by Anna Symon from the Lake 
District-based series by novelist
Paula Daly.
Deep Water debuted on August
14 (then the entire run was made 
available on the ITV Hub) and it
featured Anna Friel, Rosalind 
Eleazer, and thirteen Doctor Who
cast and crew connections:

• Big Finish actor Sinead Keenan (Roz) played Addams in The End of Time, and voiced Margery Phipps for Council of War (2013), Aoife Dineen for Iterations of I, Stephanie Wilton for The Reesinger Process, Rosheen for The Highest Science (all 2014), and Mary Summersby for The Darkness of Glass (2015)
• Alastair Mackenzie (Riverty) voiced Galen for Prisoners of Fate (2013), Robots for The Entropy Plague (2015), and Julian St. Stephen for Counter Measures 1 (2012)
• Faye Marsay (Joanne) was Shona McCullough in Last Christmas
• Gerald Kyd (Elias)  voiced Martin Regan, Sir Robert Devere and Mulryne for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), and Lieutenant Maurizio Savinio for Aquitaine (2016)
• Matthew Aubrey (Wayne) voiced Gwyn Hughes for Black Thursday (2019)
• Steven Cree (Joe) voiced Neil Redmond for Torchwood: Uncanny Valley (2016)
• Gordon Seed was also stunt co-ordinator on thirty-six episodes (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
• Christina Low was stunt driver on Series 12 too
• casting director Andy Brierley was casting associate on fifty-eight episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The Big Bang), Music of the Spheres, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• sound mixer Brian Milliken  was the sound recordist on The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• George Atkins was also ADR mixer on The Time of the Doctor, Flatline and Empress of Mars
• Euan Toms was ADR assistant on The Witchfinders too
• Nigel Squibbs was the dubbing mixer on An Adventure in Space and Time too

Doctor Who Vs. Carry On Doctor & Carry On Again Doctor

The fifteenth production (and the 
second with a medical theme) from

the Carry On stable was released

 in 1968. Series stalwarts Kenneth
Williams, Sid James, Joan Sims,
 Bernard Bresslaw, Charles Hawtrey,
Jim Dale, and Peter Butterworth 
were joined here by newcomer 
Frankie Howerd (1917-1992). 
Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor,
and Anita Harris all returned to 
the series.

The comedy was the third biggest
release at the UK box office that
year (after The Jungle Book and
Barbarella), and a sequel (shown again on ITV3 today) followed a year
later - they featured a total of twenty-five Doctor Who cast alumni:

• Stephen Garlick (Boy) was Ibbotson in Mawdryn Undead
• Bart Allison (Grandad here and Carry On Loving) was Maximus Pettulian in (episode 1 of) The Romans
• Cheryl Molineaux (Nurse) was Miss Rutherford in The Ambassadors of Death
• Jay McGrath (Visitor) was Worker in The War Machines (3), UNIT Soldier in The Silurians (3), Coven Member in Image of the Fendahl, and Dead Androgum in The Two Doctors (1)
• Derek Francis (Burke here; Farmer in Carry On Camping and Carry On Henry; Bishop in Carry On Loving; Arthur in Carry On Matron; Brother in Carry On Abroad) was Emperor Nero in The Romans
• Robin Scott (Patient) was Charlie Wise in The Moonbase, and Resistance Man in The War Games (7)
• for Walter Henry (Visitor), Peter Gilmore (Henry here and sequel), Gertan Klauber (Orderly), and Jill Goldston (Nurse here and sequel) see Carry On Cleo
• for Bresslaw (Biddle), Julian Holloway (Simmons) and Simon Cain (Orderly here; X-Ray Man in the sequel) see Carry On At Your Convenience
• stuntman Ken Norris was a Morok Guard in The Space Museum

Carry On Again Doctor (the franchise's eighteenth title) was released

 in 1969, and again starred regulars James, Williams, Hawtrey, Sims, 

Windsor, Jacques, and Butterworth. Patsy Rowlands (1931-2005) 

debuted here, and featured in eight further titles, whilst Jim Dale

made his final series appearance until Carry On Columbus (1992).

• William Mervyn (Paragon here; Ponsonby in Follow That Camel; Physician in Carry On Henry) and Lewis Alexander (Partygoer) both appeared in The War Machines, as Sir Charles Summer and Army Officer (3)
• Donald Bisset (Patient) was Colin McLaren in The Highlanders
• Heather Emmanuel (Girl) was Tessa in The Android Invasion (4)
• Anthony Lang (Sick man) was an Egyptian Slave in The Daleks' Master Plan, Extra in The Highlanders (1) and The Faceless Ones (1), Time Lord in The Three Doctors (1), and Kaled Councillor in Genesis of the Daleks
• Claire Davenport (Guest here; Blonde in Carry On Emmannuelle) was the Empress in Marco Polo (7)
• for Alan Harris (Man) and Aileen Lewis (Lady) see Carry On Cruising
• for Billy Cornelius (Patient) see Carry On Screaming
• for Hugh Futcher (Cabbie) see Carry On At Your Convenience
• for Michael Stevens (Ordely) see Carry On Cowboy
• for Elizabeth Knight (Nurse) see Carry On Camping

Doctor Who Vs. The Avengers, Series 3

Wills (born 1941) as
Jane  Wentworth in
Dressed to Kill, her
first of two roles in
the series

This cult British fantasy show returned to the

ITV network in the autumn of 1963 - it again

starred Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman

as spies John Steed and Cathy Gale.

The duo even recorded the novelty song, Kinky

Boots in 1964 (reissued in 1990) - Blackman

 left the series at the end of this run to play

Pussy Galore in the third James Bond film,

Goldfinger.

Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks and John Lucarotti again provided screenplays here.

Another repeat run of the third, twenty-six

part season concluded on the True Movies

channel last night today - it featured (former

actor) Barry Letts, Anneke Wills, and fifty-

four further Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Brief For Murder (TX: September 28 1963)

• for Fred Ferris (Inspector) see Series 2: Bullseye
• Alec Ross (Wescott) was Bob Hall in (episode 1 of) The Evil of the Daleks
• Michael Goldie (Bart) was Jack Craddock in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and Elton Laleham in The Wheel in Space

The Undertakers (TX: October 5)

• Valentino Musetti (Harper) see Series 2: The Decapod

Man With Two Shadows (TX: October 12)

• for designer Paul Bernard (here and Death of a Batman) and Geoffrey Palmer (Terence) see Series 1
• Paul Whitsun-Jones (Charles here and The Wringer) was Squire Edwards in The Smugglers, and the Marshal in The Mutants
• Philip Anthony (Cummings here; Sharp in The Outside-In Man) was Roald in The Daleks' Master Plan (1)
• George Little (Sigi) and Robert Lankesheer (Official) both appeared in The Crusade - as Haroun ed-Din and the Chamberlain respectively
• Terence Lodge (Borowski here; titular villain in The Wringer) was Medok in The Macra Terror, Orum in Carnival of Monsters and Moss in Planet of the Spiders

The Nutshell (TX: October 19)

• John Cater (Disco) was Professor Krimpton in The War Machines 

Death of a Batman (TX: October 26)

• Andre Morell (Teale) was Marshal Gaspard de Saux Tavannes in The Massacre
• for Philip Madoc (Van Doren) see Series 2: The Decapod and Six Hands Across a Table

November Five (TX: November 2)

• Aimee Delamain (Lady) was Dona Arana in The Two Doctors

The Gilded Cage (TX: November 9)

• for Alan Haywood (Westwood) see Series 2: A Chorus of Frogs
• Martin Friend (Hammond here; George in The White Elephant) was Styggron in The Android Invasion
• for Neil Wilson (Groves) see Series 1: Dance With Death and The Frighteners

Second Sight (TX: November 16)

• John Carson (Halvarssen) also appeared in A Chorus of Frogs
• for Steven Scott (Vilner) see Series 1: One For The Mortuary and Dragonsfield

The Medicine Man (TX: November 23)

• for Peter Barkworth (Willis) see Series 1: Kill the King
• Harold Innocent (Leeson) was Gilbert M in The Happiness Patrol

The Grandeur That Was Rome (TX: November 30)

• Hugh Burden (Luca) was Channing in Spearhead from Space
• John Flint (Dodds) was William des Preaux in The Crusade and Captain Urquhart in Time Flight

The Golden Fleece (TX: December 7)

• for Tenniel Evans (Ruse) see Series 2: The Big Thinker
• for Michael Hawkins (Jones) see Series 1: The Deadly Air

Don't Look Behind You (TX: December 14)

• for Maurice Good (Goodman) see Series 1: Hunt the Man Down
• Kenneth Colley (Man) voiced Cristophe Zarodnix for Sisters of the Flame and Vengeance of Morbius (2008)

Death a La Carte (TX: December 21)

• David Nettheim (Umberto) was Fedorin in The Enemy of the World
• for Robert James (Mellor) and Henry Lincoln (Emir) see Series 1: Hot Snow and A Change of Bait

Dressed to Kill (TX: December 28)

• for Richard Leech (Roberts) see Series 2: Traitor in Zebra
• Leon Eagles (Newman) was Jabel in The Face of Evil

The White Elephant (TX: January 4 1964)

• for Edwin Richfield (Lawrence) and Godfrey Quigley (Marshall) see the Series 1: Girl on the Trapeze and Hot Snow

The Little Wonders (TX: January 11)

• Mark Heath (Coalman) was Ralph Debayo in The Moonbase
• Christopher Robbie (Thug) was the Karkus in The Mind Robber (5), and the Cyberleader in Revenge of the Cybermen

The Wringer (TX: January 18)

• Peter Sallis (Anderson) was Penley in The Ice Warriors

Mandrake (TX: January 25)

• for Philip Locke (Hopkins) see Series 1: The Frighteners

The Secrets Broker (TX: February 1)

• John Ringham (Howard) was Tlotoxl in The Aztecs, Josiah Blake in The Smugglers, and Robert Ashe in Colony in Space
• Jack May (Waller) was General Nicolai Hermack in The Space Pirates
• Ronald Allen (Paignton) was Rago in The Dominators, and Ralph Cornish in The Ambassadors of Death

Trojan Horse (UK TX: February 8)

• TP McKenna (Heuston) was Captain Cook in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 
• Derek Newark (Johnson here; Crawford in Series 5A: From Venus With Love) was Za in 100,000 BC, and Greg Sutton in Inferno

Build a Better Mousetrap (UK TX: February 15)

• Dave Anderson (Gordon) was Warrior/Guard in Marco Polo, Captain in The Aztecs, Reynier de Marun in The Crusade (1), Sven in The Time Meddler, and Egyptian in The Daleks' Master Plan (9)

The Outside-In Man (UK TX: February 22)

• James Maxwell (Charter) was Jackson in Underworld
• Ronald Mansell (Jenkins) was a Council Member in The Dominators
• Eddie Powell (Guard) was Thompson in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD

The Charmers (UK TX: February 29)

• Frank Mills (Harrap) was the Radio Telescope Director in Terror of the Autons (1)
• John Greenwood (Sam) was D'Artagnan and Lancelot in The Mind Robber (5)

Concerto (UK TX: March 7)

• Nigel Stock (Zalenko) was Professor Hayter in Time Flight
• Geoffrey Colville (Burns) was Perry in The Evil of the Daleks

Esprit De Corps (TX: March 14)

• Hugh Morton (Admiral here; Professor in The New Avengers: Three Handed Game) was Sir James Gregson in The Seeds of Death
• Tony Lambden (Drummer) was the Court Messenger in The Romans (2)

Lobster Quadrille (TX: March 21)

• Jennie Linden (Katie) was Barbara in Dr.Who and the Daleks
• for Burt Kwouk (Mason here) see Series 1: Kill the King
• for Gary Watson (Bush) see Series 1: Death on the Slipway

Doctor Who Vs. Jon Pertwee at the Cinema, Part 1

The centenary of the birth of
Jon Pertwee was marked by
BBC Radio 4 this week. The 
Jon Pertwee Files was narrated
by his son, Sean Pertwee.
Tomorrow, the Talking Pictures
TV channel will screen the 1955
British film comedy, A Yank in 
Ermine. The network screened
two other vintage comedies
today, The Gay Dog and The 
Ugly Ducking - all starred
Pertwee (1919-1996)
Released in 1954, the first
feature, written by future
Carry On producer Peter Rogers (based on the play from Joseph Colton),
also starred William Russell, and Peter Butterworth.
The second production (from the iconic Hammer stable) was released in
1959, and meant a more prominent role for Pertwee, but it was a box
office flop - it featured six other Doctor Who cast connections:

• Bernard Bresslaw (Henry) was Varga in The Ice Warriors
• John Harvey (DS Barnes) was Professor Brett in The War Machines, and Officia in The Macra Terror
• Aileen Lewis (Dancer here and A Yank in Ermine) was an Extra on (episode 6 of) The Silurians
• Ernest Blyth (Guest) was a Villager in The Daemons
• Roger Avon (Reporter) and Reg Thomason (Guest) both appeared in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD - Avon also played Saphadin in The Crusade, and Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan (4)
• Henry Montsash was hairdresser on Dr. Who and the Daleks too

Doctor Who Vs. Broadchurch, Series 2

Whilst the first run of this multi-

award winning crime drama
focused on the hunt for a child
killer, this second season con-
centrated on the subsequent
trial of prime suspect Joe Miller,
and the reopening of another
murder case.
Series creator Chris Chibnall 
again scripted this whole season
(following the American remake,
entitled Gracepoint) which concluded another repeat run 
on ITV last night. David 
Tennant and Olivia Coleman 
reprised their roles as detective
partners, DI Alec Hardy and DS
 Ellie Miller. Jodie Whittaker,
Arthur Darvill and Andrew
Buchan also returned.

First aired over eight consecutive Monday nights in January and February 2015 (again averaging almost ten 
million viewers), series two of Broadchurch now starred Eve Myles, Adjoa Andoh, Charlotte Rampling, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and twenty-four

further Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• for Jonathan Bailey, Carolyn Pickles, Matthew Gravelle, Peter De Jersey, Julian Seager and director James Strong see my blog for Series 1
• James D'Arcy (Lee Ashworth) voiced Michael for Big Finish's Paradise 5 (2010)
• Shaun Dooley (Gillespie) was Epzo in The Ghost Monument
• Gbemisola Ikumelo (PC Stewart) voiced Morandi for White Ghosts (2014), and Prim for The Boundless Sea (2016)
• Meera Syal (Judge) was Nasreen Choudhry in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
• Alan Bond (Solicitor) was a UNIT Soldier in both The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• Daniel Hill (Judge) was Chris Parsons in Shada, and voiced Percy Noggins for AudioGo's Hornet's Nest: The Stuff of Nightmares (009)
• Janet Dibley (Chaz) voiced Commander Flail for The Black Hole (2015)
• Phil Nice (Dalington) was Henry in Kill the Moon
• Jenny Bede (Laura) voiced Florrie for Absolute Power (2016)
• David Ellis (Visitor) was a Spectator in The Woman Who Lived
• Brendan Murphy (Waiter) was cast in The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook (2021)
• Amanda Drew (Cate) provided the voice of the Mouri in Flux
• Dean Forster was also a stuntman on nine adventures (from The Christmas Invasion to Robot of Sherwood)
• stunt performer Rachelle Beinart was Goblin in The Church on Ruby Road
• Richard Rowntree was also the greensman on forty-one stories (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Husbands of River Song)
• Geoff Holloway was also an electrician on The Christmas Invasion, Closing Time and The Day of the Doctor
• both Ian Fowler and Andrea Mear were also costume assistants on twenty-four episodes (from Into the Dalek to The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos) and another fifteen (from The End of the World to The Woman Who Fell to Earth) respectively

Doctor Who Vs. Oliver Twist (2005)

By 2004, the controversial French-born filmmaker 

Roman Polanski was keen to produce a child 

friendly version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

- actually the first cinematic treatment since the 

Oscar-winning musical, Oliver! in 1968.
This new adaptation was shot entirely in the
Czech Republic.

This literary classic (also known as The Parish 

Boy's Progress, and originally published monthly
 in Bentley's Miscellany from 1837 to 1839) was
only the writer's second novel.

Barney Clark now portrayed the famous orphan,
 and the cast, headed by Ben Kingsley as Fagin,
also featured twelve Doctor Who acting alumi:

• Jeremy Swift (Bumble) voiced Fraser for Big Finish's Hidden Depths (2022)
• Ian McNeice (Limbkins) played Winston Churchill in Victory of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens and The Wedding of River Song (a role reprised for The Churchill Years and Their Finest Hour), and voiced Zeus for Immortal Beloved (2007), and Reginald Harcourt for The Renaissance Man (2012)
• John Nettleton (Magistrate) was Reverend Ernest Matthews in Ghost Light
• Chris Overton (Noah) voiced Terrill and Levek for The Brood of Erys (2014)
• Jamie Foreman (Bill Sykes) was Eddie Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern
• Timothy Bateson (Parson) was Binro in The Ribos Operation
• Joseph Tremain (Hungry Boy) was Jim in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances
• Peter Copley (Master) was Dr Warlock in Pyramids of Mars
• Gerald Horan (Farmer) was Clark in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
• Patrick Godfrey (Bookseller) was Tor in The Savages, and Major Cosworth in The Mind of Evil
• Frank Mills (Officer) was the Radio Telescope Director in Terror of the Autons
• Paul Brooke (Grimwig) voiced Paolo for The Ghosts of N-Space, and Toby the Sapient Pig for Year of the Pig (2006)

Doctor Who Vs. Adam Adamant Lives! Series 1 [Part 1]

On this day in 1966, this fantasy series debuted on BBC1, and Big Finish have announced that their next audio series is based on the cult classic. The show chronicled the adventures of the eponymous hero (played by Gerald Harper),
an Edwardian transported to the
swinging Sixties, having been
frozen in ice by his nemesis, the
Face (Peter Duckrow). Adamant
(the Corporation's own version
of John Steed, mainstay of The 
Avengers) was joined in his crime
fighting by Georgina Jones (Juliet
Harmer).

Contemporary observers viewed
the programme makers as "what
Doctor Who did next" because
Sydney Newman, Verity 
Lambert, and Donald Cotton
all had key roles in the pilot episode, A Vintage Year for Scoundrels, and
would be credited as co-creators. Adam Adamant Lives! was actually the replacement for an intended adaptation of the Sexton Blake canon.

The sixteen-part season was originally shown from June to October 1966
 (the unaired pilot remains lost) - the first eight episodes featured fifty-
nine further Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Ivor Salter (Hoggett) was the Morok Commander in The Space Museum, Odysseus in The Myth Makers, and Sergeant Markham in Black Orchid
• Duckrow (the Face) was Guard in (episode 1 of) Fury from the Deep
• Frank Jarvis (Hicks) was a Corporal in The War Machines (3), Ankh in Underworld, and Skart in The Power of Kroll
• Bartlett Mullins (Gramps) and Ilona Rodgers (Susan) both appeared in The Sensorites, as an Elder and Carol
• Gordon Faith and Arnold Chazen (Foreigners) were the Guard Captain in The Enemy of the World; and Scientist [John Stacey] in The Moonbase, and Auton in Spearhead from Space (4)
• Kenneth Benda (Sir James) was the Minister in The Claws of Axos
• John Greenwood (Doctor) was D'Artagnan and Sir Lancelot in The Mind Robber (5)
• Alan Cassell (Villain), Gloria Forstner, Diana Hallows and Chris Reck (Partygoers) were all Inferno Customers in The War Machines (1)
• John Clamp and Roland Robinson (Reporters) were Guard in The Masque of Mandragora (2); and Militiaman in The Smugglers (4)
• Sheelagh McGrath (Disco Girl) and Victor Munt (Partygoer/Tourist) were Guardians in The Ark - Munt was also an Inferno Customer, and UNIT Soldier in The Silurians (3)
• Charles O'Rourke (Lackey), David Ronowski (Passerby) and Emmett Hennessy (Partygoer) were all Tavern Patrons in The Massacre (1) - Hennessy was also an Inferno Customer in The War Machines (1), Roman Soldier in The War Games (2), Guerilla and American Aide in Day of the Daleks, and Prison Guard in Frontier in Space
• Jack May (Simms) was General Nicolai Hermack in The Space Pirates
• Stephanie Bidmead (Madame) was Maaga in Galaxy 4
• Michael Robbins (Jeffreys) was Richard Mace in The Visitation
• Geoffrey Hinsliff (Parky) was Jack Tyler in Image of the Fendahl, and Fisk in Nightmare of Eden
• Patrick O'Connell (Danny) was Ashton in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (4)
• John Rolfe (Kelvin) was Fell in The Green Death
• Dave Carter (Partygoer) was a Rebel in The Power of the Daleks (1), IE Guard in The Invasion (1), titular monster in The Silurians, Primord in Inferno, Attendant in Terror of the Autons (1), Prison Officer in The Mind of Evil, Skybase Guard in The Mutants (1), Roundhead Officer in The Time Monster (3), Sergeant Duffy in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1), and Grierson in The Android Invasion
• Philip Ryan (Jackson) was a Soldier in The Web of Fear (4), Redcoat in The Mind Robber, and Primord in Inferno
• Peter Baldwin and Denise Brown were Children in The Savages (1) too
• Laurie Goode (Partygoer/Tourist) was a Mutt in The Mutants, Time Lord in The Invasion of Time, Bandit in The Creature from the Pit, Tigellan in Meglos, Sailor in Enlightenment, and UNIT Trooper in Battlefield
• Barry Jackson (Executioner/Samurai/Victor/Guard/Fight Arranger) was Ascaris in The Romans, Jeff Garvey in Mission to the Unknown, and Drax in The Armageddon Factor - a role reprised for Big Finish's The Trouble With Drax (2016)
• Roger Jacombs (Partygoer/Tourist/Workman/Thug) was a Yeti in The Web of Fear (6)
• David James (Partygoer/Tourist) was Arab Sheikh in The Feast of Steven
• Arthur McGuire (Partygoer/Tourist) was Guard in The Massacre (4) and The Enemy of the World (4), and UNIT Soldier in The Silurians (3)
• Eric Mills (Student) was an Egyptian Warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (9), and Parisian in The Massacre (3)
• Dennis Chin (Guard) and Basil Tang (Bellboy/Photographer/Business- man) were Coolies in The Talons of Weng-Chiang (5) - Tang was also Foreman in Marco Polo, and Diplomat in Day of the Daleks (4)
• Derek Ware (Samurai) was an uncredited fight arranger on 100,000 BC, The Aztecs (4), The Crusade (1), The Feast of Steven, The Underwater Menace (3) and The Web of Fear (1), stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1), then starred as Bus Conductor in The Chase (6), Trojan Soldier in The Myth Makers (4), Tuthmos in The Daleks' Master Plan, Spaniard in The Smugglers, UNIT Soldier in The Ambassadors of Death, Private Wyatt in Inferno, and Pigbin Josh in The Claws of Axos (1)
• Pat Gorman (Guard) appeared in eighty-three instalments of the classic series (from The Dalek Invasion of Earth to Attack of the Cybermen)
• Adrienne Corri (Shani) was Mena in The Leisure Hive
• William Hurndell (McLintock) was Ike Clanton in The Gunfighters
• John Hollis (Calvert) was Sondergaard in The Mutants
• David Spenser (Ahmed) was Thonmi in The Abominable Snowmen
• John Woodnutt (the Sheik) was George Hibbert in Spearhead from Space, the Draconian Emperor in Frontier in Space, the Duke of Forgill and Broton in Terror of the Zygons, and Seron in The Keeper of Traken
• Andrew Andreas (Croupier) was an Egyptian Warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (10), Guard in The Enemy of the World, and German Soldier in The War Games (3)
• Norman Hartley (Florist) was Ulf in The Time Meddler, and Sergeant Peters in The Invasion 
• Valerie Stanton (Girl) was a Parisian in The Massacre (3), and  Secretary in The Space Pirates
• George Tovey (Cabbie) was Ernie Clements in Pyramids of Mars
• Jeremy Young (Wilson) was Kal in 100,000 BC, and Gordon Lowery in Mission to the Unknown
• Hamilton Dyce (George) was Major General Scobie in Spearhead from Space
• Ernest Blyth (Pallbearer) was a Villager/Coven member in The Daemons
• Colin Jeavons (Clair) was Damon in The Underwater Menace, and George Tracey in K9 & Company
• Keith Anderson (Charles) was Maximilien Robespierre in The Reign of Terror
• John Dawson (Minister) was a Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin 
• Ian Fairbairn (Barber) was Questa in The Macra Terror (1), Gregory in The Invasion, Bromley in Inferno, and Dr. Chester in The Seeds of Doom (3)
• Kenneth Ives (Man) was Toba in The Dominators 
• stuntman Peter Diamond was stunt double and fight arranger on twelve episodes (from The Daleks to The Daemons)
• designer Darrol Blake later directed The Stones of Blood