Doctor Who Vs. The Little Vampire

Angela Sommer Bodenburg's series of Der Kleine

Vampir series of children's books began in 1979,

and were first adapted for German television in

1985.

This English language cinema version, filmed and

set in Scotland, was released by New Line in 2000

- it starred ten-year old Jonathan Lipnicki as Tony,

an American boy who befriends a family of ancient vampires.

Shown on Great! (formerly Sony Movies) last

night, the film also featured Richard E Grant

(pictured as Frederick), and ten Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Jim [Edward] Carter (Rookery) voiced Brother Bernard for Big Finish's The Book of Kells (2010)
• Alice [Maud] Krige (Freda) voiced Dr. Patricia Sawyer for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), the Queen Mum for Death and the Queen, Felicity Lyme for UNIT: Shutdown (both 2016), and Reno for Friendly Fire (2023)
• Ed Stoppard (Von) voiced Fortalexa for Theatre of War (2015), and Sir Nicholas Asquin for The Beast of Kravenos (2017)
• Elizabeth Berrington (Elizabeth) was Auntie in The Doctor's Wife
• Steve Griffin was also a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern
• three-times Oscar winning costume designer James Acheson also worked on twenty-nine episodes of the classic run (from The Mutants to The Deadly Assassin) and was responsible for designing the Fourth Doctor's first outfit
• digital compositor Sandra Roach was a 2D artist on The Idiot's Lantern, The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit and Love & Monsters
• Micky Reeves was the gaffer on Closing Time and Torchwood too
• Richard Glass and Jemma Scott-Knox-Gore both worked on The Time of the Doctor too, as (contact lens) optician and co-ordinator respectively

Doctor Who Vs. Space 1999, Series 2

Another repeat run of ITC Entertain-
ment's second and final, twenty-four
part season (which included scripts
from Terrance Dicks and Pip and

Jane Baker) continued on Legend

(formerly the Horror channel) tonight

- it featured Patrick Troughton,

Bernard Cribbins, Geoffrey

Bayldon, and a total of forty-one

other Doctor Who cast connections:

• for Zienia Merton (Benes), Catherine Schell (Maya), Isla Blair (Carla), Brian Blessed (Mentor), Annie Lambert (Operative), Alf Joint (Overseer), Robert Rietty (Sphere Voice), Shane Rimmer (Section Voice) and Alan Harris (Prisoner) see Series 1
• Bayldon (Number 8) is the oldest actor to portray the Doctor in any medium - he was 79 when he starred in Big Finish's Unbond plays Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005) - he was also Organon in The Creature from the Pit
• Nick Brimble (Torens) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
• Roy Stewart (Alien) was Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen, and Tony in Terror of the Autons
• Laurence Harrington (Jackson/Stewart) was Lunar Guard in (episode 3 of) Frontier in Space
• Tim Condren (Clansman) was Saxon Warrior in The Time Meddler (4), Soldier in The Web of Fear (4), and Guerilla in Day of the Daleks (1)
• Peter Brayham (Clansman/Garth/Guard) was stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• Terry [Anthony] Walsh (Guard/Pilot/Technician) was a stunt/fight arranger, stunt double and uncredited extra on a total of seventy instalments of the original run (from The Smugglers to The Creature from the Pit)
• Bernard Kay (Humanoid) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, Inspector Crossland in The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Night Thoughts (2006)
• John Standing (Pasc) voiced Fenric for Gods and Monsters (2012), and Professor Threadstone for Vampire of the Mind (2016)
• John Alkin (Johnson) and Dallas Adams (Sam) both appeared in Planet of Fire, as Lomand (1) and Professor Howard Foster
• Roy Marsden (Alien/Crael) was Mr. Stoker in Smith and Jones
• Godfrey James (Transporter) was Tarn in Underworld
• Sarah Douglas (B) voiced Gillen for Masters of War (2008), and Vortia Trear for The Lives of Captain Jack (2017)
• Harry Fielder (Medic/Guard/Gerry/George/Surveyor) was Guard (in serials PP, ZZZ, 4L, 4P, 5A, 5F, 5Z), Crewman (SS, 4T), Vogan (4D), Assassin (4Q), Tigellan (5Q), and Krarg for Shada
• Lloyd McGuire (Engineer) and Brendan Price (Guard) both starred in The Face of Evil, as Lugo and Tomas
• Tony Osoba (Guard) was Lan in Destiny of the Daleks, Kracauer in Dragonfire, and Duke in Kill the Moon
• Trevor Thomas (Pilot) made his TV debut as a Child in The Cave of Skulls
• Andrew Lodge (Grasshopper) was an Assistant in The Savages
• Nick Hobbs (Guard) made uncredited appearances in The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Day of the Daleks, The Time Monster, both Peladon stories (as Aggedor), The Ark in Space, then Mr. Nainby in Amy's Choice
• David Prowse (Cloud Creature) was the Minotaur in The Time Monster
• Gregory de Polnay (Garforth) was D84 in The Robots of Death, and voiced V23 for Storm Mine (2004)
• Jeremy Young (Bartlett) was Kal in 100,000 BC, and Gordon Lowery in Mission to the Unknown
• Carolyn Seymour [born Von Benckendorff] (Eva) voiced Mordrega for The Ghosts of Gralstead (2014), Freda Mattingly for Prisoners of the Lake, Mrs. Multravers for The Haunting, the Slave for The War Doctor 1 (all 2015), Mrs. Whitaker for The Chartwell Metamorphosis, Lady Suzanne Clare for The New Counter Measures 1 (both 2016), Mrs. Stubbs for Ghost Walk (2018), the Commodore and Mrs. Kidd for Fever Island (2019), Ullmann for Circuit Breaker (2020) and Closed Loop, and Mrs. Plymtree for The Devil's Hoofprints (both 2021)
• James Snell (Stevens) was Harry in The Daemons
• Caroline Munro (Girl) voiced Sentia for Omega (2003)
• Paul Jerricho (Guard) was the Castellan in Arc of Infinity and The Five Doctors
• Alibe Parsons (Alibe) was Matroni Kani in Mindwarp, then voiced Nora for The Lost Resort and Other Stories (2021)
• Nadim Sawalha (Zoran) voiced Swapnil Khan for The Magic Mousetrap (2009), and the Old Man for 1001 Nights (2012)
• Roy Boyd (Lustig) was Driscoll in The Hand of Fear
• Roy Scammell (Animal) was UNIT Soldier and Technician in The Ambassadors of Death, RSF Soldier in Inferno, stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1), Prison Officer and UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, and stunt arranger on Delta and the Bannermen (1)