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 First, Second and Third Class passengers,

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 RMS Carpathia. Some

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 on the Talking Pictures TV 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 Daemons, The Curse of Peladon, The Time Monster, The Android Invasion, The Seeds of Doom and The Hand of Fear
• gaffer Maurice Gillett was the supervising electrician on both Amicus Dalek films