Thursday, 17 August 2023

Doctor Who Vs. Juggernaut

This British thriller was director
Richard Lester's attempt to exploit
the trend in Hollywood disaster
movies, and was inspired by real
events aboard the QE2 in May 1972.
Royal Marines from the SBS para-
chuted onto the ship during a bomb
hoax.
The production's location filming was
mainly shot onboard TS Hamburg
(which doubled as cruise liner SS
Britannic) in the North Sea.
Released by United Artists in 1974,
the cast was led by Richard Harris,
Anthony Hopkins, David Hemmings,
Omar Sharif, and Ian Holm.
Shown on Talking Pictures TV last night, the drama featured Cyril
Cusack, Michael Hordern, and eighteen Doctor Who cast links:

  • Julian [Wyatt] Glover (Marder) and Tom Chadbon (Contact) both starred in City of Death, as Scaroth and Duggan - Glover was also King Richard in The Crusade, whilst Chadbon was Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet, and voiced Gordon for No More Lies (2007), and Embery for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (2016)
  • Kenneth Colley (Brown) voiced Cristophe Zarodnix for Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008)
  • Ben [Patrick] Aris (Walker) was Lieutenant Shears in (part 1 of) Invasion of the Dinosaurs
  • Kenneth Cope (Bridgeman) was Packard in Warriors' Gate
  • Victor [Stanley] Lucas, David [Lawrence] Purcell and Eric Mason (Detectives) were Andor in The Face of Evil, Abbott in The Hand of Fear (1), and Smedley in The Sea Devils and Green in The Mind of Evil respectively
  • [Jane] Liza Ross (Laura) voiced Jarra To for The Axis of Insanity (2004)
  • Michael Melia (Navigator) was a Terileptil in The Visitation
  • Gareth [Daniel Noake] Thomas (Joiner) voiced Lord Tamworth for Storm Warning (2001), Kalendorf for Return of the Daleks (2006), and Morax for Last of the Colophon (2014)
  • Ian [Clive] Talbot (Technician) was Travis in The Silurians (4), and Klout in The Leisure Hive
  • Peter Roy (PC) was Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, Extra in The Highlanders (1), The Silurians (6), The Sun Makers (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks (1), Sergeant in The Faceless Ones (1), UNIT Bunker Soldier in The Invasion (1), Guard in The Seeds of Death (1), The Space Pirates (1), The Face of Evil (1), The Invasion of Time (1), The Androids of Tara (1) and The Armageddon Factor (1), Technic Obarl in The Hand of Fear (1), Policeman in Logopolis (1), Ambulance Man in Castrovalva (1), and Market Man in Snakedance (1)
  • Barry [John] Summerford (Steward) was Golden Age Man in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (6), Elite Guard in Genesis of the Daleks, Vogan in Revenge of the Cybermen (1), Private Thurston in Terror of the Zygons (2), UNIT Soldier in The Seeds of Doom (6), Security Guard in The Hand of Fear (2), Audience Member in The Sun Makers (4), Shrieve in The Ribos Operation (4), Guard in The Armageddon Factor (1) and The Creature from the Pit (1), and Foster in The Keeper of Traken (1)
  • Eric Kent (PC) was Technician in The Seeds of Death, UNIT Soldier in The Ambassadors of Death (1), and Roundhead in The Time Monster (3)
  • Stuart Myers (PC) was Technician in The Silurians (6), Draconian in Frontier in Space (5), and Photographer in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1)
  • Charlie Gray (Crewman) was Trog in Underworld (4)
  • Martyn Read (Kelsey) was a Security Guard in Silver Nemesis

Saturday, 12 August 2023

Doctor Who Vs. Campion, Series 2

The third television adaptations of the classic 
crime stories of Margery Louise Allingham 
were originally transmitted on BBC1 in 1989
and 1990, and starred Peter Davison (as 
the titular sleuth), Brian Glover, and Andrew
Burt.
Allingham (1904-1966) penned eighteen
Campion novels and twenty short stories
between 1929 and 1965, whilst her final
work (Cargo of Eagles) was written by her
 husband, Philip Youngman Carter and 
published posthumously in 1968.
Following Carter's death, an unfinished
Allingham manuscript was completed by
Mike Ripley and released in 2014 as Mr.
Campion's Farewell.
A repeat run of the second, eight-part
series continued on Drama today - it featured Geoffrey Bayldon,
and a total of thirty-seven Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Sweet Danger [Published 1933]
(BBC1 TX: January 12 & 19 1990/BBC2 TX: December 31 2009)
  • Iain Cuthbertson (Savanke) was Garron in The Ribos Operation
  • Paul Brooke (Parrott) voiced Toby for Big Finish's Year of the Pig (2006)
  • Lysette [Anne] Anthony [born Chodzko] (Amanda) voiced Clara Harris for Assassin in the Limelight (2008), Hazel Bright for Hothouse (2009), and Sophia for The Secret History (2015)
  • David Haig [Collum Ward] (Randall) was Pangol in The Leisure Hive
  • [Albert] Frank Mills (Williams) was the Telescope Director in Terror of the Autons
  • Barry [John] Summerford (Doyle) was Golden Age Man in (part 6 of) Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Elite Guard in Genesis of the Daleks, Vogan in Revenge of the Cybermen (1), Private Thurston in Terror of the Zygons (2), UNIT Soldier in The Seeds of Doom (6), Security Guard in The Hand of Fear (2), Audience Member in The Sun Makers (4), Shrieve in The Ribos Operation (4), Guard in The Armageddon Factor (1) and The Creature from the Pit (1), and Foster in The Keeper of Traken (1)
  • Arthur [James] Blake (Curator) was Hrhoonda in The Web Planet (2)
  • Philip Kloss was also film editor on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The End of Time and Torchwood: Children of Earth
  • for Gareth Milne and John Baker see Series 1
  • Doug Mawson was also film recordist on The Ambassadors of Death (3), The Android Invasion, The Pirate Planet and The Creature from the Pit (1)
  • location manager Pennie Bloomfield was an AFM on Attack of the Cybermen
  • Steve Bowman was also VFX designer on Planet of the Spiders (1), The Creature from the Pit, Earthshock and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
  • Sue Upton was a production assistant on The King's Demons too
Dancers in Mourning [1937] (BBC1 TX: February 9 & 16)
  • Nicolas Chagrin (Mercer) was Quillam in Vengeance on Varos
  • Michael Melia (Petrie) was a Terileptil in The Visitation
  • Stephen [George] Churchett (CI Cooling) was Bill in Attack of the Cybermen (1)
  • Graham [Robert] Weston (Bloom) was Russell in The War Games, and De Haan in Planet of Evil
  • cinematographer Peter Chapman was a film cameraman on The Robots of Death, The Visitation, Black Orchid and Time Flight 
  • Dick Coles was also production designer on Underworld and Terminus
  • make-up designer Suzanne Jansen began her television career as an assistant on The Masque of Mandragora
  • for Clare Graham and Chris Ferriday see Series 1
Flowers for the Judge [1936]
(BBC1 TX: February 23 & March 2/BBC2 TX: December 29 2009)
  • for Michael Owen Morris see Series 1
  • Barrie [Stanton] Ingham (R Barnabas) was Alydon in Dr. Who and the Daleks, then Prince Paris in The Myth Makers
  • Neil Daglish (M Barnabas) was Damon in Arc of Infinity
  • Patricia Maynard (Teddie) was Hilda Winters in Robot, a role reprised for Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith (2002)
  • Roy Spencer (Foreman) was Manyak in The Ark, and Harris in Fury from the Deep
  • Christian Rodska (Sandy) voiced Laan Carder for Faith Stealer (2004), and Reverend Small for AudioGo's The Dead Shoes
  • Christopher Benjamin (Coroner) was Sir Keith Gold in Inferno, then Colonel Hugh Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp, but is best known as Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng Chiang - he reprised the role for The Mahogany Murders (2009), Jago and Litefoot (2010-21), Voyage to Venus, Voyage to the New World (both 2012), The Justice of Jalxar (2013), Mind Games (2014), Stage Fright, The Haunting (both 2015), The Beast of Kravenos, The Jago & Litefoot Revival (both 2017), Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018), The Talents of Greel (2019), Merry Christmas, Mr. Jago (2020) and A Command Performance (2021) - he also voiced Tardelli for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008)
  • dubbing editor Ed Bazalgette was director of The Doctor's Meditation, The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived
  • Simon Wilson was also film recordist on The Green Death and The King's Demons
Mystery Mile [1930] (BBC1 TX: March 9 & !6/BBC2 TX: December 30 2009)
  • Bayldon (Cush here; Kingston in The Case of the Late Pig) and Edward Kelsey (Willsmore) both appeared in The Creature from the Pit as Organon and Edu - Kelsey was also Slave Buyer in The Romans (1), and Resno in The Power of the Daleks
  • [John] Roger Hammond (Kettle) was Francis Bacon in The Chase (1), Dr. Runciman in Mawdryn Undead, and voiced Harold Withers for The Eternal Summer (2009)
  • Donald [Harold Gunn] Bisset (Reverend Watts) was Colin McClaren in The Highlanders
  • John Tordoff (Knapp) was Alec Leeson in Colony in Space (4)
  • David Cann (Roper) was Narrator of Hello Sailor! then voiced Albert for Jenny 3 (2024)