Doctor Who Vs. Moonbase 3

Between seasons ten and eleven of Doctor Who, the core prod-
uction team of producer Barry Letts (1925-2009) and script editor
Terrance Dicks
(1935-2019) created and launched a more adult sci-fi drama.

Commissioned in late 1972 and running to six, fifty-minute episodes,

Moonbase 3 began filming at Ealing Studios in April 1973 (concurrent
with The Green Death) and continued to the end of May (when The Time 
Warrior was recording). 

Here, the moon was first colonised by the five superpowers in 1995. Set
 in 2003, the series followed the lives of the European crew of the titular
settlement - four other lunar bases were crewed by America, Russia,
China and Brazil. The cast was led by Donald Houston, Ralph Bates,
Fiona Gaunt and Barry Lowe.

A co-production from BBC1, Fox and ABC, Moonbase 3 was originally
screened on Sunday nights in September and October 1973 - it garnered
disappointing ratings, and Dicks later considered the show a failure. The
programme featured seventy-three further Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:

• Christopher Barry (1925-2014) was also director of ten adventures (from The Daleks to The Creature from the Pit) and Downtime
• John Lucarotti (1926-1994) also scripted Marco Polo, The Aztecs, The Massacre and the original treatment of The Ark in Space
• Dudley Simpson (born 1922) also composed incidental music for sixty-two stories (from Planet of Giants to The Horns of Nimon)
• Dick Mills (born 1936) of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop also provided special sound for three-hundred and sixty episodes of the classic run (from 100,000 BC to Survival), K9 and Company, Dimensions in Time, then the revived series (from Rose to The Name of the Doctor)
• Dee Robson was also costume designer on The Invasion of Time, Arc of Infinity and Terminus
• Roger Liminton was also production designer on The Three Doctors and Carnival of Monsters
• Michael Wisher (Sanders) was John Wakefield in The Ambassadors of Death, Rex Farrel in Terror of the Autons, Kalik in Carnival of Monsters, Davros in Genesis of the Daleks and The Trial of Davros, Magrik in Revenge of the Cybermen, Morelli in Planet of Evil, Father in Wartime, Robar in Shakedown, and provided Dalek voices for (episode 6 of) Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks, Death to the Daleks and 30 Years in the TARDIS
• Peter Bathurst (Director General) was Hensell in The Power of the Daleks, and Chinn in The Claws of Axos
• Garrick Hagon (Ponti) was Ky in The Mutants, Abraham in A Town Called Mercy, and voiced the Jester for Big Finish's The Axis of Insanity (2004)
• John Hallam (Conway) was Light in Ghost Light
• Robert La Bassiere (Jackson) was a titular alien in The Krotons
• Madhav Sharma (Rao) was Patel in Frontier in Space (3)
• Peter Miles (Laubenthal) was Dr. Charles Lawrence in The Silurians, Professor Whitaker in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, then Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks (a role he reprised for The Trial of Davros and I, Davros: Guilt (2006) - he also voiced Tragan for The Paradise of Death, and Curator Gantman for Whispers of Terror (1999)
• Michael Gough (Dyce) played the titular villain in The Celestial Toymaker, and was Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity
• John Moreno (Benavente) and Joanna Ross (Jane) both appeared in The Ambassadors of Death, as Dobson (2) and Control Room Assistant
• Edward Brayshaw (Blaney) was Leon Colbert in The Reign of Terror, and the War Chief in The War Games
• George Pravda (Trenkin) was Denes in The Enemy of the World, Professor Jaeger in The Mutants, and Castellan Spandrell in The Deadly Assassin
• Anne Ridler (Weyman) was Dr. Gemma Corwyn in The Wheel in Space
• Edmund Pegge (Macadam) was Meeker in The Invisible Enemy (1)
• Joe Santo (José) was Resistance Man in The War Games (7), and Tharil in Warriors' Gate (1)
• Ken Barker (Foreman) was Mutant in Revelation of the Daleks (1)
• Aubrey Danvers Walker (Hopkirk) was Council Member in The Dominators
• Terrance Denville, Cy Town, Michael Stevens, Monique Bryant, David Waterman, Dennis Marlowe, Ann Plenty, Dennis Plenty, David Billa, Richard King, David Melbourne, Stuart Myers, Maureen Nelson, Steve Peters, Barry Summerford, Paul Barton, Leslie Bates, John Cannon, Geoffrey Brighty, James Griffin, Emmett Hennessy, Clinton Morris, Bill Weston, James Muir, Les Shannon, Ken Tracey, Kelly Varney, Lionel Wheeler, Bob Wilyman and Harry Fielder (Technicians) all appeared on the classic run
• Brian Hiles also provided studio sound on The Crusade, The Chase, The Time Meddler, The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Ambassadors of Death (7), Frontier in Space, Pyramids of Mars and The Hand of Fear
• Andy Hunter and Linton Howell Hughes were grams operators on Planet of the Spiders (1) and Terror of the Autons (1) respectively
• Andy Stacey was also grams operator on Vengeance on Varos, Timelash and Revelation of the Daleks
• Graham Hare also worked on film sound for Inferno, The Invasion of Time and Terminus
• John Holmes also provided studio sound for The Massacre, The Wheel in Space, The Mind Robber, The Krotons, Planet of the Spiders, Robot, The Seeds of Doom, Meglos, Full Circle, The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis
• make-up artist Monica Ludkin began her career on The Time Meddler
• Mat Irvine was also VFX assistant on The Curse of Peladon (1) and Planet of the Spiders (1), then VFX designer on The Face of Evil, The Invisible Enemy (1), The Stones of Blood, The Creature from the Pit, Warriors' Gate, Warriors of the Deep and K9 and Company
• Ron Oates was also VFX designer on The Abominable Snowmen, The Ice Warriors, The Web of Fear, The Dominators and The Green Death
• Colin Mapson was also VFX designer on The Green Death, The Hand of Fear, Image of the Fendahl, The Invasion of Time, The Pirate Planet, Nightmare of Eden and Time and the Rani
• Ron Bristow and Derek Slee also worked on studio lighting for the classic run
• Peter Sargent was also film cameraman on The Power of the Daleks, The Curse of Peladon (1) and The Sea Devils
• Mike Catherwood was vision mixer on Day of the Daleks too
• John Barclay was also vision mixer on The Web of Fear, The Ambassadors of Death and The Time Warrior (4)
• John Cook was assistant floor manager on Planet of the Daleks (6) too
• Trina Cornwell was also AFM on The Seeds of Death and The Three Doctors
• production assistant Caroline Walmsley was AFM on The Daleks' Master Plan and The War Games (10)
• George Gallaccio was also production assistant then manager on 33 episodes (from Planet of the Daleks to The Seeds of Doom) 
• Sue Upton was production assistant on The King's Demons too