Monday, 27 January 2020

Doctor Who Vs. Nothing But the Night

This thriller was made by Charlemagne
Productions, the film company set up
by actor Christopher Lee and producer
Anthony Nelson Keys, with the aim of
creating traditional Britsh horror
features.
However, the drama's box office failure
led Rank to pull out as distributor, and
the short-lived compnay folded.
Shown on the Talking Pictures channel
 last night the film (scripted by Brian 
Hayles) featured Lee, Peter Cushing,
Diana Dors, and ten other Doctor Who
cast connections:

  • Michael Gambon (DI Grant) played both Elliot and Kazran Sardick in A Christmas Carol
  • Keith Barron (Haynes) was Captain Straker in  Enlightenment, then voiced Isaac Barclay for Big Finish's Plague of the Daleks (2009), and Lord Tulip for The Bad Penny (2018)
  • Fulton Mackay (Cameron) was Dr. John Quinn in The Silurians
  • Morris Perry (Yeats) was Captain Dent in Colony in Space
  • Duncan Lamont (Knight) was Dan Galloway in Death to the Daleks
  • Geoffrey Frederick (Operator) was Exorse in The Savages
  • Robin Wentworth (Porter) was Professor Horner in the first episode of The Daemons
  • Andrew McCulloch (Malcolm) later co-wrote Meglos
  • Kenneth Watson (Jamie) and Maxwell Craig (Visitor) both appeared in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD, as Craddock and Fighter - Watson was also Bill Duggan in The Wheel in Space

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