Thursday, 7 May 2020

Doctor Who Vs. S.O.S. Titanic

Warner also appeared
in James Cameron's 1997
blockbuster
This Anglo-American production was
originally shown over two nights on ABC
television in September 1979, then
opened in European cinemas.
The TV movie depicts the doomed maiden
voyage of 1912 from the perspectives of
passengers in First, Second and Third
Classes, and was the first Titanic film
released in colour.
Exterior deck scenes on the famed liner
were filmed on board RMS Queen Mary,
whilst TSS Manxman doubled for rescue ship RMS CarpathiaSome interior onboard scenes were recorded in the
Adelphi and Waldorf hotels in Liverpool
and London, and Peel in the Isle of Man 
served as the backdrop for Queenstown.
Shown again on the Talking Pictures channel
 tonight, the film featured David Warner (as
Laurence Beesley), Ian Holm (Bruce Ismay),
David Janssen (John Jacob Astor), Harry
Andrews (Captian Smith), and thirteen 
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

  • Ed Bishop (Harris) voiced General Finch for Big Finish's Full Fathom Five (2003)
  • Tony Caunter (Officer Wilde) was Morgan in Colony in Space, and Jackson in Enlightenment 
  • Robert Pugh (Farrell) was Tony Mack in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, and voiced Emmett Burrows for Five Twenty-Nine (2016) 
  • Maurice Roeves (Stoker Barret) was Stotz in The Caves of Androzani
  • Peter Bourke (Harold Bride) was Mr. Chambers in Human Nature
  • Alec Sabin (Frederick Fleet) was Ringway in Earthshock
  • Malcolm Stoddard (Officer Lightoller) voiced Urtak for The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (2008)
  • Phil Davis (Lookout) was Lucius Petrus Dextrus in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Titus for The Cannibalists (2009)
  • André Maranne (Navratil) was Roger Benoit in The Moonbase
  • Nick Brimble (Abelseth) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Olaf Ericksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
  • Barbara Lane was also the costume designer on The Claws of Axos, The DaemonsThe Curse of PeladonThe Time MonsterThe Android Invasion, The Seeds of Doom and The Hand of Fear
  • gaffer Maurice Gillett was the supervising electrician on both Amicus Dalek films

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