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