Doctor Who Vs. It's A Sin

Years and Years singer Alexander
played Ritchie Tozer, an actor cast
Trooper Linden in Regression of the
Daleks

Olly Alexander led the cast of young

newcomers in Channel 4's acclaimed

period drama (a Red Production/HBO

Max collaboration), formely called

Boys. Created by Russell T Davies

(and named after the Pet Shop Boys

1987 number one single) the series

explored the impact of the AIDS crisis

on London's gay community in the

1980s.

The five-part series (produced by Phil Collinson) began last night - it

featured twenty-seven Doctor Who

cast and crew connections, whilst

composer Murray Gold provided the

music here too:

• Peter Hoar was director of A Good Man Goes to War too
• Andy Pryor also worked as casting director on the revived run (from Rose to The Timeless Children), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Neil Patrick Harris (Coltrane) reprised the Toymaker in The Giggle
• Michelle Greenidge (Rosa) was Carla Sunday in The Church on Ruby Road
• Keeley Hawes (Valerie) played Ms. Delphox in Time Heist
• Shaun Dooley (Tozer) was Epzo in The Ghost Monument 
• Stephen Fry (Garrison) voiced the Minister of Chance for Death Comes to Time, and was C in Spyfall (1)
• Tracey Ann Oberman (Carol) was Yvonne Hartman in Army of Ghosts and Doomsday - a role reprised for Big Finish's Torchwood - she also voiced Temperence Finch for Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars (both 2010), and the titular Tartarus (2019)
• Lydia West (Jill) voiced Vivien for The Sorcerer of Albion (2020), and Cahlo for Metamorphosis (2024)
• Nathaniel Curtis (Ash) voiced Dom McNeil/Zeta Hydan 1 for Visitants (2022), then appeared as Isaac Newton in Wild Blue Yonder
• Ashley McGuire (Lorraine) voiced the Sergeant for The Red House (2015)
• Michelle Greenidge (Rosa) was Carla in The Church on Ruby Road 
• Steve Toussaint (Alan) was Feekat in Ascension of the Cybermen
• Moya Brady (Millie) was Bridget Sinclair in Love & Monsters
• Caroline Berry (Dr. Gleaves) was a Dinner Lady in School Reunion
• Calvin A Dean (Clifford) was Chris in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift, and Ha-Ha in Nightmare in Silver
• Natasha Williams (Bee) was a Pharmacist in Gridlock
• Jonny Green (Pascoe) voiced Cole for The War Master 7 (2022), and Tyler Steele for Beyond Bannerman Road (2023)
• Martyn Ellis (Grove) was Blakeman in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen, then voiced the Rotter and Delius for Into the Stars (2022)
• Barnaby Edwards and Nicholas Pegg were also Dalek operators on the revived run, following 30 Years in the TARDIS
• Curtis Rivers was also a stunt double on Utopia, The Sound of Drums and Torchwood
• prolific Big Finish actor Susan Brown (Mrs. Bowen) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Midwife for 100 BC, Mary for Bedtime Story (both 2007), Alice Withers for The Eternal Summer, Maud for Castle of Fear, Mrs. Withers/Mrs. Sowerby for Plague of the Daleks (all 2009), Margaret for Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars, Eleanor Harvey for Return of the Krotons, Chief Engineer and Chanel for The Song of the Megaptera, Babs for Prison in Space (all 2010), and Kastrella for Death Match (2015)
• Ross Gurney Randall (Crane) was Reg in An Adventure in Space and Time, then Man in The Giggle
• Richard Clifford (St. Clement) voiced Novar for The Master's Dalek Plan, Pandak for Shockwave (both 2019), and Jessop for Mind of the Hodiac (2022)
• Delroy [Hugh] Atkinson (Ibisu) voiced Dav Christos/Therian Leader for Animal Instinct, Wadmore for The Avenues of Possibility (both 2019), Mike/Messingham/UNIT Soldier for Long Shot (2021), and Grayson for The Running Men (2024)
• Richard Cant (Marcus) was Malcolm Wainwright in Blink
• Matthew Earley (Director) was Man in The Bells of Saint John

Doctor Who Vs. Waking the Dead, Series 3

Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Holly

Aird, and Claire Goose all returned for the

third season of BBC1's crime drama, which

first aired in the autumn of 2003.

Following an International Emmy award
nomination for the series two serial, Special 
Relationship, the programme was recomm-
issioned for two further seasons (with an
increased episode count from the next run).
Meanwhile, two cases here, Multistorey
and Breaking Glass, won the Emmy award

for Drama Series.

Another repeat run of the eight-part series

concluded on the Drama channel last night

- it featured Sharon D Clarke, and a total

of twenty-six Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Multistorey (UK TX: September 14 & 15)

• Robert Pugh (Cross) was Tony Mack in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, and voiced Emmett Burrows for Big Finish's Five Twenty-Nine (2016)
• Raji James (Markland) was Dr. Rajesh Singh in Doomsday and Army of Ghosts
• Joseph Tremain (Boy) was Jim in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances
• Clarke Peters (Boorstin) voiced Night Eagle for Dreamland
• Ony Uhiara (Janice) voiced Sisrella Teveler for The Seeds of War (2013), Alice Lloyd for The End of the Line (2015), Ronica for Planet of Dust (2019), and Rita Cooper for Treason and Plot (2020)
• Guy Henry (Reynolds) voiced Director Ikron for Infamy of the Zaross (2017)
• Sean Pertwee (Mackenzie) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors 
• Simon Clark was the sound editor on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Michael Feinberg was also sound editor on ten episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures and The Lazarus Experiment
• make-up supervisor Suzan Broad was an artist on Kinda
• make-up designer Gillian Thomas was an artist on The Creature from the Pit
• Paul McFadden was also dialogue editor on eighty-one instalments of the revived series (from Rose to The Power of Three), Music of the Spheres, Time Crash, The Infinite Quest, Torchwoood and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Walking on Water (UK TX: September 21 & 22)

• Craig Kelly (Mark) voiced Joe for Scream of the Shalka
• Linda Broughton (April) was the Woman in Hell Bent
• Ray Fearon (Patterson) voiced Barlow Teveler for The Seeds of War

Breaking Glass (UK TX: September 28 & 29)

• Ian Hogg (Gill) was Josiah Samuel Smith (pictured) in Ghost Light, and voiced General Voshkar for The Sandman (2002), and Albert Marsden, General Petrov and Sgt. Schumacher for Protect and Serve (2012)
• Saskia Reeves (Dr. Poole) voiced Carmen Rega for Emissary of the Daleks (2019)
• Navin Chowdry (Rainman) was Indra Ganesh in Aliens of London and World War Three
• Tariq Jordan (Teenager) was a Rep in Planet of the Ood
• Jamie McCoan was film editor on Blink too

Final Cut (UK TX: October 5 & 6)

• Maurice Roéves (Peverell) was Stotz in The Caves of Androzani
• Nicholas Beveney (Fraser) was Dad in Attack of the Graske
• Earl Cameron (Jordan) was Williams in The Tenth Planet
• Allister Bain (Lawrence) was Winston Katusi in The End of Time
• Derek Ezenagu (Young Fraser) voiced Tony for The Gift, and Ruslan and Ivo for The Sonomancer (both 2016)
• series veteran of eighty-two instalments, Paul Smith was also the props master on fifteen stories (from Asylum of the Daleks to The Day of the Doctor)

Doctor Who Vs. Waking the Dead, Series 2

The second series of BBC1's
crime drama first aired in the
autumn of 2002, and saw the
return of Trevor Eve, Sue
Johnston, Wil Johnson, Holly
Aird, and Claire Goose (as
Cold Case investigators
Superintendent Peter Boyd,
Dr. Grace Foley, Sergeant Will
Jordan, Dr. Frankie Wharton,
and DC Mel Silver).

Another repeat run of the

eight-part season (nominated 

for an International Emmy)

began on Drama last night -

it featured twenty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Life Sentence (UK TX: September 2 & 3 2002)

• Susannah [Owens] Harker (Claire) voiced Clare Keightley for Shada (2003), and Anya for Big Finish's Eye of Darkness (2015)
• Samuel [Alexander Joseph] West (Rice) played Cyrian in Dimensions in Time, then voiced the titular renegade for The Vengeance of Morbius (2008), Albert Tiermann for AudioGo's Demon Quest: A Shard of Ice (2010), Aristophanes for Mask of Tragedy (2014), Mr. Song for I Went to a Marvellous Party and Signs (both 2016), and the Mazzini Family for Serpent in the Silver Mask (2018)
• Paterson Joseph (Sullivan) was Rodrick in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, then voiced Victor Espinosa for Earth Aid (2011), and Matthew for Torchwood One: Machines (2018)
• Simon Gregor (Bryant) was the Steward in The Vampires of Venice
• Guy List (Pardy) was a stuntman on Evolution of the Daleks
• Graham Frake (cinematographer), Steve Robinson (first assistant director) and Shirley Schumacher (camera assistant) all worked on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks
• Caroline McCall was also costume assistant on The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon, The Doctor's Wife, The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People and Night Terrors

Deathwatch (UK TX: September 9 & 10)

• [Rafael] David de Keyser (Freeman) provided the Atraxi voice in The Eleventh Hour, and voiced the Cybermen for The Eternity Clock
• David [Scott] Ashton (Cameron) was Kendron in Timelash
• Tony Osoba (Wallace) was Lan in Destiny of the Daleks, Kracauer in Dragonfire, and Duke in Kill the Moon
• Ronald [Alfred] Pickup (Sutton) made his TV debut as the Physician in (episode 4 of) The Reign of Terror, and voiced Kestorian for Time Works (2006), and Elder Bones for Spaceport Fear (2013)
• Jonathan [Louis] Tafler (Young Edgar) voiced Captain Waldo Rudley for The Paradise of Death, and Clemenza for The Ghosts of N-Space
• Cheryl Hall (Valerie) was Shirna in Carnival of Monsters

Special Relationship (UK TX: September 16 & 17)

• Amanda Root (Lorna) voiced Madeleine Fairweather for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Lendek and Scientist for The Lords of Terror (2018)
• Colin Stinton (Karp) was President Arthur Winters in The Sound of Drums
• Ed Bishop (Tyler) voiced General Finch for Full Fathom Five (2003)

Thin Air (UK TX: November 3 & 4)

• Paul Bazely (Doctor) was Ven Garr in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Cherie [Mary] Lunghi (Leah) voiced Lady Adela Forster for The Emerald Tiger (2012)
• Sophie Winkleman (Joanna) voiced Kelly Westwood for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (2009), Rachel Allan for Torchwood One: Before the Fall (2017), and Sofia for Serpent in the Silver Mask
• Justin Salinger (Garvey) was Tasker in Oxygen
• Steve Toussaint (Bellows) was Feekat in Ascension of the Cybermen
• SFX supervisor Graham Brown was VFX assistant on Full Circle, The Five Doctors, Resurrection of the Daleks, The Caves of Androzani, Attack of the Cybermen, Revelation of the Daleks and The Curse of Fenric 
• Rod Woodruff was also the stunt co-ordinator on Rose and World War Three

Doctor Who Vs. The New Avengers @ 45: Series 1 [Part 2]

In 1969, Dennis Spooner

(1932-1986) said that The

Avengers had gone as far as

 it could in terms of parody.

Producer Brian Clemens there-

fore aimed for espionage-based

narratives for the sequel series

- the first, thirteen-part season

also included sci-fi themes.

The titular Avengers were now

 a triumvirate, but John Steed

(again portrayed by Patrick 

Macnee) now acted more like 

the Mother figure from the

parent show.

A repeat run of the cult drama

continued on the Sony channel

last night - these seven episodes

featured a total of thirty-two

Doctor Who cast connections:

To Catch A Rat (UK TX: December 3 1976)

• Barry Jackson (Cledge) was Ascaris in The Romans, Jeff Garvey in Mission to the Unknown, and Drax in The Armageddon Factor
• Dallas Cavell (Farmer here; Manager in The Avengers: Box of Tricks) was the Overseer in (episode 2 of) The Reign of Terror, Bors in The Daleks' Master Plan (3), Jebb Trask in The Highlanders, Sir James Quinlan in The Ambassadors of Death, and the Head of Security in Castrovalva (1)
• Anita Graham (Helga) was Bollitt in Delta and the Bannermen

The Tale of the Big Why (UK TX: December 10)

• Derek Waring (Harmer) was Shardovan in Castrovalva
• George A Cooper (Brandon here; Barker in White Dwarf; Burgess in The Curious Case of the Countless Clues) was Cherub in The Smugglers
• Roy Marsden (Turner) was Dr. Stoker in Smith and Jones, and voiced Todd Hulbert for Big Finish's Human Resources (2007)
• Geoffrey Toone (Minister) was Temmosus in Dr. Who and the Daleks, and Hepesh in The Curse of Peladon

Faces (UK TX: December 17)

• [Rafael] David de Keyser (Prater) provided the Atraxi voice in The Eleventh Hour, and voiced the Cybermen for The Eternity Clock
• Richard Leech (Terrison here; Franks in Traitor in Zebra; Policeman in Dressed to Kill; Drew in Mission Highly Improbable) was Gatherer Hade in The Sun Makers
• Neil Hallett (Clifford here; Roberts in Medium Rare; Weber in Dead of Winter; Packer in The Winged Avenger; Ryder in Get-a-Way!) was Maylin Renis in Timelash
• Donald Hewlett (Torrance here; Waversham in The Thirteenth Hole) was Hardiman in The Claws of Axos
• Michael Sheard (Peters) was Rhos in The Ark (2), Dr. Roland Summers in The Mind of Evil, Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars, Lowe in The Invisible Enemy, Mergrave in Castrovalva, the Headmaster in Remembrance of the Daleks, then voiced Orsino for The Stones of Venice (2001)

Dirtier by the Dozen (UK TX: January 7 1977)

• Stephen Moore (Prentice) was Eldane in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, and voiced Clark Goodman for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (2009)
• Michael Barrington (Stevens here; Waiter in The Yellow Needle; Todhunter in Dial a Deadly Number) and John Challis (Soldier) both appeared in The Seeds of Doom, as Sir Colin Thackeray and Scorby respectively
• Brian Croucher (Terry) was Borg in The Robots of Death, and Kurt in Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans, then voiced Cotton for Kaldor City (2001-03)
• David Purcell (Orderly) was Abbott in The Hand of Fear
• Richard Derrington (Turner) voiced Dr. Farrer for The Harvest, Landscar for The Last (both 2004), and Commander Burton for Storm of the Horofax (2017)

Sleeper (UK TX: January 14)

• Mark Jones (Chuck) was Arnold Keeler in The Seeds of Doom
• Prentis Hancock (Bart) was a Reporter in Spearhead from Space, Vaber in Planet of the Daleks, Salamar in Planet of Evil, and the Captain in The Ribos Operation
• Walter Henry (Officer here; Security Man in Obsession) was an Extra in The Myth Makers (2) and The Silurians (6), Primord in Inferno, and Brother in The Masque of Mandragora
• Reg Woods (Gangmember here; Soldier in Dirtier by the Dozen; Wigmore in Medium Rare; Journalist in The Lion and the Unicorn) was a Krarg in Shada, and Guard in State of Decay (1)
• Maxwell Craig (Gang member here; Guard in Trap; Wilson in Murdersville; Thug in Homicide and Old Lace) was Fighter in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD

Three Handed Game (UK TX: January 21)

• Stephen Greif (Juventor) voiced Kwundaar for Primeval (2001), and Gurney for The Infinite Quest
• Annie Lambert (Helen) was Enlightenment in Four to Doomsday
• Hugh Morton (Professor here; Admiral in Esprit De Corps) and Ronald Leigh-Hunt (General here; Reddington in Dragonsfield; Lambert in The Cybernauts) both appeared in The Seeds of Death, as Sir James Gregson and Radnor respectively - the latter was also Commander Stevenson in Revenge of the Cybermen

Gnaws (UK TX: January 28)

• Julian Holloway (Thornton) was Paterson in Survival
• Peter Cellier (Carter) was Andrews in Time Flight
• Jeremy Young (Chislenko here; Frant in A Touch of Brimstone; Penrose in Never, Never Say Die; Burton in The Forget-Me-Knot) was Kal in !00,000 BC, and Gordon Lowery in Mission to the Unknown
• Keith Marsh (Tramp) was Conway in the second Dalek film
• William Morgan Sheppard (Walters) was the Older Canton in The Impossible Astronaut

Doctor Who Vs. The Avengers @ 60: Series 1

January 7 1961 saw the debut of

ITV's cult fantasy drama. Patrick

Macnee (1922-2015) and Ian

Hendry (1931-1984) portrayed spy

John Steed and Dr. David Keel.

Beginning with the murder of Keel's 

fiance Peggy, and his sworn intent
to avenge her death, the initial run

comprised twenty-six instalments.

Only two complete stories exist in

the archives, whilst just the final

act of the opening episode remain

 intact.

After 161 episodes, spanning six

series, The Avengers finished in

1969 and was shown in ninety

countries.

The programme spawned the television sequel, The New Avengers

(1976-77), a British stage production (1971), the South African radio

series (1971-73), even a cinema version (1998), and Big Finish's full-

cast audio version (2014 to present).

The TV executive credited with conceiving Doctor Who in 1963,

Sydney Newman (1917-1997) also created The Avengers for ABC 

(later Thames), and he assembled a team of writers that included

Dennis Spooner, John Lucarotti, Bill Strutton, and Peter Ling.

The first season of The Avengers featured Roger Delgado, and

fifty-nine other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Hot Snow (UK TX: January 7 1961)

• Robert James (Vance, here & next episode) played Lesterson in The Power of the Daleks, and the High Priest in The Masque of Mandragora
• Geoffrey Quigley (Spicer here & Brought To Book) was Dortmun in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Charles Wade (Johnson) was Malik in (episode 3 of) Marco Polo

Brought To Book (UK TX: January 14)

• Clifford Elkin (Boy) was the Earth Cruiser Captain in Frontier in Space (5)
• Neil McCarthy (Bart) was Barnham in The Mind of Evil, and Thawn in The Power of Kroll
• Charles Morgan (Mason) was Songsten in The Abominable Snowmen, and Gold Usher in The Invasion of Time

Square Root of Evil (UK TX: January 21)

• Heron Carvic (Five) was the Voice of Morpho in The Keys of Marinus (2)
• John Woodvine (Bloom here, Harry in Dead of Winter) was the Marshall of Atrios in The Armageddon Factor

Nightmare (UK TX: January 28)

Crescent (UK TX: February 4)

• Eric Thompson (Paul) was Viscount Gaston de Levis in The Massacre

Girl On The Trapeze (UK TX: February 11)

• Edwin Richfield (Stefan) was Captain Hart in The Sea Devils, and Mestor in The Twin Dilemma
• Ivor Salter (Sergeant) was the Morok Commander in The Space Museum, Odysseus in The Myth Makers, and Sergeant Markham in Black Orchid
• David Grey (Sterret) was Rinchen, also in serial NN
• production designer Paul Bernard (here & Kill The King) went on to direct Day of the Daleks, The Time Monster and Frontier in Space

Diamond Cut Diamond (UK TX: February 18)

The Radioactive Man (UK TX: February 25)

• Paul Grist (Constable) was Bill Filer in The Claws of Axos
• George Pravda (Ogrin) was Denes in The Enemy of the World, Professor Jaeger in The Mutants, and Castellan Spandrell in The Deadly Assassin
• Christine Pollon (Mary) provided the voice of the Oracle in Underworld

Ashes of Roses (UK TX: March 4)

• Mark Eden (Beronne) was the titular Venetian explorer in Marco Polo, and depicted Donald Baverstock in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Edward Dentith (Roffey) was Major General Rutlidge in The Invasion

Hunt The Man Down (UK TX: March 18)

• Maurice Good (Stacey) was Phineas Clanton in The Gunfighters

Please Don't Feed The Animals (UK TX: April 1)

• Tenniel Evans (Felgate) was Major Daly in Carnival of Monsters

Dance With Death (UK TX: April 15)

• Angela Douglas (Beth) was Doris Lethbridge-Stewart in Battlefield
• Geoffrey Palmer (Anthony) was Edward Masters in The Silurians, the Administrator in The Mutants, and Captain Hardaker in Voyage of the Damned
• Neil Wilson (Sergeant here; Beppi in The Frighteners) was Seeley in Spearhead from Space

One For The Mortuary (UK TX: April 29)

• Frank Gatliff (Dubois here; Harvey in The Sell-Out; Pitt-Norton in A Chorus of Frogs; Fryer in Love All; Karl in The New Avengers: The Eagle's Nest) was Ortron in The Monster of Peladon
• Dennis Edwards (Pallaine) was a Centurion in The Romans (2), and Lord Gomer in The Invasion of Time
• Steven Scott (Concierge here, and Boris in Dragonsfield) was Kebble in The Power of the Daleks

The Springers (UK TX: May 13)

• Donald Morley (Neame) was Jules Renan in The Reign of Terror

The Frighteners (UK TX: May 27)

• Stratford Johns (Weller) and Philip Locke (Moxon here; Primble in From Venus With Love) both appeared in Four to Doomsday, as Monarch and Bigon respectively
• Godfrey James (Boy) was Tarn in Underworld
• Eric Elliott (Butler) was the Commander of The Ark

The Yellow Needle (UK TX: June 10)

• Eric Dodson (Inspector here; One-Fifteen in Dragonsfield) was the Headman in The Visitation
• Michael Barrington (Waiter here; Todhunter in Dial a Deadly Number; General Stevens in The New Avengers: Dirtier by the Dozen) was Sir Colin Thackeray in The Seeds of Doom
• Wolfe Morris (Ali) was Padmasambhava, also in serial NN

Death On The Slipway (UK TX: June 24)

• Tom Adams (Butterworth here; Rayner in The Far Distant Dead) was Vorshak in Warriors of the Deep
• Hamilton Dyce (Brodie) was Major General Scobie, also in serial AAA
• Gary Watson (Pardoe) was Arthur Terrall in The Evil of the Daleks

Double Danger (UK TX: July 8)

• Ron Pember (Mills) voiced Seedle for Slipback
• Peter Reynolds (Brady here; Tulip in Who's Who???) was Man on Bicycle, also in the second Dalek film

Toy Trap (UK TX: July 22)

• Tex Fuller (Taylor) was an uncredited Exxilon Messenger in Death to the Daleks (3)
• Anne Tirard (Mrs McCabe) was Locusta in The Romans (3), and the Seeker in The Ribos Operation

Tunnel of Fear (UK TX: August 5)

• Morris Perry (Sergeant here; Technician in Dragonsfield) was Captain Dent in Colony in Space

The Far Distant Dead (UK TX: August 19)

• Reed De Rouen (Garcia) was Pa Clanton, also in serial Z
• Francis De Wolff (Zeebrugge) was Vasor in The Keys of Marinus (4), and Agamemnon in The Myth Makers 

Kill The King (UK TX: September 2)

• Peter Barkworth (Crichton-Bull) was Leader Clent in The Ice Warriors
• Burt Kwouk (Tenuphon) was Lin Futu, also in serial 5W, and voiced Dr Hayashi for Loups-Garoux (2001)

Dead of Winter (UK TX: December 9)

• Neil Hallett (Weber here; Packer in The Winged Avenger; Ryder in Get-a-Way!; Clifford in The New Avengers: Faces; Roberts in Medium Rare) was Maylin Renis in Timelash

The Deadly Air (UK TX: December 16)

• Geoffrey Bayldon (Kilbride) was Organon in The Creature from the Pit, and voiced the Doctor for Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005)
• Ann Bell (Barbara) voiced Sylvia O'Donnell for A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010)
• Keith Anderson (Heneger) was Robespierre in The Reign of Terror
• Michael Hawkins (Karswood) was General Williams in Frontier in Space
• John Stratton (Craxton) was Shockeye in The Two Doctors

A Change of Bait (UK TX: December 23)

• Henry Lincoln (Sampson) later co-wrote both Yeti stories and The Dominators with Mervyn Haisman
• John Bailey (Potts) was the Commander in The Sensorites (6), Edward Waterfield in The Evil of the Daleks, and Sezom in The Horns of Nimon (4) 
• Graham Rigby (Fletcher) was Larry Madison in The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Dragonsfield (UK TX: December 30)

• Keith Barron (Technician here; Draker in The New Avengers: Target!) was Captain Straker in Enlightenment, and voiced Isaac Barclay for Plague of the Daleks (2009), and Lord Tulip for The Bad Penny (2018)
• Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Reddington here; Lambert in The Cybernauts; General in The New Avengers: Three Handed Game) was Commanders, Julian Radnor in The Seeds of Death, and Stevenson in Revenge of the Cybermen
• Michael Robbins (Landlord) was Richard Mace, also in serial 5X
• Barbara Shelley (Susan here; Venus in From Venus With Love) was Sorasta in Planet of Fire

Doctor Who Vs. The New Avengers @ 45: Series 1 [Part 1]

The sequel series to cult classic

The Avengers debuted in the

autumn of1976, and has since

been re-run in Wales (in 1981),

on BBC2 (1995), and ITV4

(2013). I rediscovered the

drama when BBC Four began

a repeat season in late 2008.

Having re-watched the show on
DVD, I realised that the stories

are not listed in their actual

transmission order (probably in

the original production order),

and (due to regional variations) 

there are at least three different 

sets of broadcast dates online.

The dates provided here are 

courtesy of Wikipedia.

The programme (a joint Anglo-

French-Canadian production) was developed for ITV by the original

series producers Albert Fennell (1920-1988) and Brian Clemens (1931-

2015), and was sold to 120 countries. Dennis Spooner wrote seven 

of the twenty-six) episodes, and co-wrote another two.

Patrick Macnee (1922-2015) reprised the iconic role of Major John

[Wickham Gascoyne Beresford] Steed from The Avengers (1961-69),

and was now joined by Gareth Hunt (1942-2007) as Mike Gambit and

Joanna Lumley (born 1946) as Purdey. Hunt had played Arak in Planet

of the Spiders, whilst Lumley would later appear in The Curse of the

Fatal Death as the first female incarnation of the Doctor.

Another repeat run of the first season began on the Sony channel last

night, and the first six stories featured Peter Cushing, and a total of

thirty-three Doctor Who cast connections:

The Eagle's Nest 
(RI TX: September 28 1976/UK TX: October 19 1976 [Anglia], April 5 1981 [HTV], November 13, November 14 2008, April 10 2009 [BBC4], January 2013 [ITV4], July 2018, January 2, June 17 2019 [True Ent], January 4,

February 9 2021 [Sony]/France TX: January 2 1977/Aus TX: February 9 1977/US TX: September 5 1978)

• Frank Gatliff (Karl here; Dubois in The Avengers: One for the Mortuary, Harvey in The Sell-Out, Pitt-Norton in A Chorus of Frogs, Fryer in Love All) was Ortron in The Monster of Peladon
• Trevor Baxter (Brown-Fitch) first played Professor Litefoot in The Talons of Weng-Chiang, a role reprised for Big Finish's Jago & Litefoot series (2010 to present)
• Derek Chafer (Monk here; Guest in Dead Man's Treasure; Packer in Homicide and Old Lace) appeared in forty episodes (from The Time Meddler to Warriors' Gate)

House of Cards (UK TX: October 29)

• Peter [Neville] Jeffrey (Perov here; Varnals in Room Without a View; Prendergast in The Joker; Bristow in Game) was the Pilot in The Macra Terror, and Count Grendel in The Androids of Tara
• Derek Francis (the Bishop) was Nero in The Romans
• [Gerhard Paul] Gordon Sterne (Vasil) was Professor Heldorf in (episode 3 of) The Ambassadors of Death [according to IMDB he was to play a Cyberman in The Moonbase but was replaced by Peter Greene]
• [David] Jeremy Wilkin (Dr. Tulliver here, Richards in Medium Rare) was Kellman in Revenge of the Cybermen

The Last of the Cybernauts? (UK TX: November 5)

• Martin Fisk (Guard) was Vargos in The Leisure Hive
• Ray Armstrong (Guard) was Grey in The Ambassadors of Death
• Eric Carte (Terry) voiced Arak Varren for The Robots of Life (2019)
• Rocky Taylor (stunt double on The Avengers & The Eagle's Nest, Cybernaut here, Soldier in Dirtier by the Dozen) was an Egyptian in The Daleks' Master Plan (9), Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4), and stunt- man on The Idiot's Lantern

The Midas Touch (UK TX: November 12)

• John [Derek] Carson [Parker] (Freddy here, Ariston in A Chorus of Frogs, Halvarssen in Second Sight, Fitch in Dial a Deadly Number) was Director Ambril in Snakedance
• Pik Sen Lim (Sing) was Captain Chin Lee in The Mind of Evil then for UNIT: Open the Box, and Dom-Ra for Neon Reign (both 2018)
• Chris [Peter John Small] Tranchell (Doctor) was Roger Colbert in The Massacre, Steven Jenkins in The Faceless Ones, and Andred in The Invasion of Time
• Geoffrey Bateman (Simpson) was Dymond in Nightmare of Eden
• Tim Condren (Boz) was a Saxon Warrior in The Time Meddler (4), Soldier in The Web of Fear (4), Guerilla in Day of the Daleks (1), and Roboman in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Kenneth Gilbert (Rostock) was Richard Dunbar in The Seeds of Doom
• [Abraham] Arnold Chazen (MO) was John Stacey in The Moonbase, and Auton in Spearhead from Space (4)
• Terry Sartain (MO here; Delegate in They Keep Killing Steed) was an Alien Technician in The War Games (3), Warrior in The Mutants (1), UNIT Soldier in The Three Doctors (1), Prison Guard and Draconian in Frontier in Space, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, Brother in The Masque of Mandragora (3), Gundan in Warriors' Gate (3), and Market Man in Snakedance (1)
• Jay McGrath (Visitor) was Worker in The War Machines (3), UNIT Soldier in The Silurians (3), Coven Member in Image of the Fendahl, and Dead Androgum in The Two Doctors (1)
• John More (Visitor) was a Prisoner in Frontier in Space (3)
• John Tatham (Elliston here; Usher in Medium Rare; Operator in Room Without a View; Passenger in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station) was Villager/Coven member in The Daemons

Cat Amongst the Pigeons (UK TX: November 19)

• Peter [Francis Gabian] Copley (Waterlow here; Barker in White Dwarf; Sparhott in All Done With Mirrors) was Dr. Warlock in Pyramids of Mars
• Hugh [Thornton] Walters (Lewington here; Cowley in Medium Rare) was William Shakespeare in The Chase (1), Commentator Runcible in The Deadly Assassin, Vogel in Revelation of the Daleks, then voiced Roderick Allingham for The Fearmonger (2000)
• [Thomas] Kevin [Harvest] Stoney (Tomkins here; Bancroft in Mission Highly Improbable) was Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion, and Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen

Target! (UK TX: November 26)

• Keith Barron (Draker here; Technician in Dragonsfield) was Captain Straker in Enlightenment, and voiced Isaac Barclay for Plague of the Daleks (2009), and Lord Tulip for The Bad Penny (2018)
• Robert Beatty (Ilenko) was General Cutler in The Tenth Planet
• Roy Boyd (Bradshaw) was Driscoll in The Hand of Fear
• [Manfred] Frederick Jaegar (Jones here, Getz in Death of a Great Dane, Benson in The Cybernauts and Return of the Cybernauts) was Jano in The Savages, Sorenson in Planet of Evil, and Professor Marius in The Invisible Enemy
• Deep Roy [born Mohinder Purba] (Klokoe) is possiby the only actor to appear in Star Wars, Star Trek, The X Files and Doctor Who - he was the Possican Delegate in Mindwarp but is best known as Mr. Sin (also in serial 4S)
• [William Reginald] Bruce Purchase (Lopez) was the Captain in The Pirate Planet
• Peter Brace (Potterton here, Danvers in The Bird Who Knew Too Much, Opponent in The Correct Way to Kill, Guard in Who Was That Man I Saw You With?) was a Guard in the first Peladon serial (4), and Soldier in The Android Invasion (2)
• Marc Boyle (McKay here, Parr in Medium Rare, Stuntman on The Avengers movie) was stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1), Prisoner and UNIT motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, Kronos in The Time Monster, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, and fight arranger on The Time Warrior

TO BE CONTINUED