Doctor Who Vs. They Came From Beyond Space

Adapted from Joseph Millard's book The Gods

Hate Kansas, this British sci-fi B movie was a

Cold War thriller relocated to Cornwall. Like

other genre favourites (including Quatermass)

the Amicus project had an American lead,

Robert Hutton, and went into production

immediately after Daleks: Invasion Earth

2150 AD (many of its sets and props were

reused here), whilst Max Rosenberg and 

Milton Subotsky again acted as producers.

Released in 1967 with The Terrornauts as a

double-bill, director Freddie Francis claimed

that the studio had spent most of their budget

on the first film. Shown on Talking Pictures TV

today, the feature starred fifteen Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Michael Gough (Master) played the titular being in The Celestial Toymaker, and was Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity
• Bernard Kay (Arden) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, Inspector Crossland in The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Big Finish's Night Thoughts (2006)
• Maurice Good (Stilwell) was Phineas Clanton in The Gunfighters
• John Harvey (Trethowan) and Kenneth Kendall both appeared in The War Machines, as Professor Brett and Newscaster - Harvey was also Officia in The Macra Terror
• Luanshya Greer (Attendant) and Leonard Grahame (McCabe) both starred in The Daleks' Master Plan, as Lizan and Darcy Tranton (7)
• Norman Claridge (Dr. Andrews) was a Priest in The Massacre (3)
•  Michael Hawkins (Williams) was General Williams in Frontier in Space
• Bill Constable (production designer) and Scott Slimon (art director) both worked on Dr. Who and the Daleks too
• Ted Wallis (production supervisor), Tony Wallis (manager) and Bunty Phillips (make-up artist) all worked on the second Dalek feature too
• David Harcourt was camera operator on both Dalek films too 

Doctor Who Vs. A Night to Remember

This British big screen adaptation of Walter

Lord's best-selling 

book was released
by Rank in 1958,
 and recounts the
final night on board
RMS Titanic. 

The film was directed
by Roy Ward Baker,
and producer William MacQuitty used White
Star Line blueprints
to create life-like sets,
while Titanic's Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall was a consultant.
Despite its modest production values, A Night to Remember is regarded
by critics as the most historically accurate of the many Titanic movies,
and earned a Golden Globe award.

The story of the 'unsinkable' liner's  loss in 1912 was told from the point
of view of her passengers and crew, principally Second Officer Charles
Lightoller, portrayed by Kenneth More.
Bob Ballard's discovery of the wreck of Titanic in 1985 sparked a fresh
wave of public interest in the disaster, and Lord (1917-2002) penned a
sequel, The Night Lives On (1986) and even acted as a consultant on
James Cameron's Titanic (1997).

Shown again on Film4 today, the acclaimed film featured Geoffrey
Bayldon, and twenty-two future Doctor Who cast and crew alumni:

     

• Honor Blackman (Mrs. Lucas) played Professor Lasky in Terror of the Vervoids, then voiced Queen Anahita for Big Finish's The Children of Seth (2011)
• Roanld Allen (Clarke) was Rago in The Dominators, and Professor Ralph Cornish in The Ambassadors of Death
• Richard Leech (Murdoch) was Gatherer Hade in The Sun Makers
• Ralph Michael (Yates) was Balaton in The Pirate Planet
• Jack Watling (Fourth Officer Boxhall) was Professor Edward Travers in The Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear and Downtime
• Harold Goldblatt (Guggenheim) was Professor Dale in Frontier in Space
• Andrew Keir (Joseph Bell) was Wyler in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Philip Ray (Anderson) was Professor Daniel Eldred in The Seeds of Death
• Roger Avon (Reginald Lee) was Saphadin in The Crusade, Daxtar in (episode 4 of) The Daleks' Master Plan, and Wells in the second Dalek film
• Jeremy Bulloch (Boy) was Hal in The Time Warrior
• George A Cooper (Purser Hughes) was Cherub in The Smugglers
• Glyn Houston (Stoker) was Professor [Owen] Watson in The Hand of Fear, and Colonel Ben Wolsey in The Awakening
• Robert James (Hesketh) was Lester in The Power of the Daleks, and the High Priest in The Masque of Mandragora
• Stratford Johns (Crewman) was Monarch in Four to Doomsday
• Howard Lang (Chief Officer Henry Wilde) was Horg in 100,000 BC
• Derren Nesbitt (Stoker) was Tegana in Marco Polo, and voiced Thomas Dodd for Spare Parts (2002) and Ordinal-General Quences for Auld Mortality (2003)
• Steve Plytas (Greek Passenger) was Wigner in The Tenth Planet
• Mavis Ranson (Passenger) was a Schoolgirl in An Unearthly Child
• Richard Shaw (Crewman) was Lobos in The Space Museum, Cross in Frontier in Space, and Lakh in Underworld
• Pauline Challoner (Child) auditioned for the role of Victoria Waterfield in April 1967
• Jack Silk was a stuntman on The Daemons too
• David Harcourt was a camera operator on both Dalek feature films too