Monday, 6 January 2025

Doctor Who Vs. The Moonraker

This swashbuckler adventure was released by
Associated British Pathé in 1958, and depicted the
fictional account of the escape of Charles II from the
Battle of Worcester - the final showdown of the English
Civil War in 1651.
Here, the Earl of Dawlish (played by George Baker)
led a double life here as the eponymous outlaw (the
contemporary term for a smuggler), who rescues
Royalists from Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army.
Shown on Film4 today, the film starred Patrick
Troughton (pictured as Wilcox), John Le Mesurier
(Cromwell), and these thirteen future Doctor Who
cast connections:

  • Baker was Login in Full Circle
  • Sylvia [May Laura] Syms (Anne) was Lady [Margaret] Pritchard in Ghost Light
  • Marius [Re] Goring (Beaumont) was Theodore Maxtible in The Evil of the Daleks
  • [Francis] Clive Morton (Harcourt) was George Trenchard in The Sea Devils
  • Richard [Leeper] Leech [born McClelland] (Strangeways) was Gatherer Hade in The Sun Makers
  • Paul Whitsun-Jones (Parfitt) was Squire Edwards in The Smugglers, and the Marshal in The Mutants
  • [Ernest] Edward Dentith (Lieutenant) was Major General Rutlidge in The Invasion
  • Neil Hallett [born John Neil] (Trooper) was Maylin Renis in Timelash
  • Peter Brace (Trooper) was Guard in (episode 4 of) The Curse of Peladon, Sailor in The Sea Devils, and Soldier in The Android Invasion (2)
  • Jack May (Villager) was General Nicolai Hermack in The Space Pirates
  • fencing coach Bob Anderson was Guard in The Enemy of the World (4)
  • stuntman Peter Diamond was regular stunt double/fight arranger on the classic run (from The Daleks to The Daemons)
  • Peter [Randolph] Arne [born Albrecht] (Tyler) had been cast as Range in Frontios - he had just returned to his London home from a costume fitting in 1983 when he was murdered (the role then went to William Lucas)

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