Doctor Who Vs. Operation Crossbow

Shown on BBC2 today, this British

war film was a fictional account of

the real-life Allied operations to

infiltrate the Nazi V1 and V2 rocket programmes, between 1943 and

1945.

Released by MGM in 1965, the
thriller starred a stellar cast led by
 John Mills, George Peppard, Trevor
Howard, Tom Courtenay, Anthony
Quayle, Patrick Wymark, Sophia
Loren, and featured these twenty-
one Doctor Who cast connections:

• Richard [Andrew Palethorpe] Todd (Wing Comm. Kendall) was Sanders (pictured left) in Kinda
• Sylvia [May Laura] Syms (Constance) was Lady Pritchard in Ghost Light
• John [Alexander] Fraser (Flight Lt. Post) was the Monitor in Logopolis
• [William] Maurice Denham (Air Chief Marshal) was Azmael in The Twin Dilemma, then voiced the President for The Paradise of Death 
• Moray [Robin Philip Adrian] Watson (Colonel Post) was Sir Robert Muir in Black Orchid
• William Mervyn [Pickwoad] (Examiner) was Sir Charles Summer in The War Machines
• John Abineri (Policeman) was Van Lutyens in Fury From the Deep, General Carrington in The Ambassadors of Death, Richard Railton in Death to the Daleks, and Ranquin in The Power of Kroll
• Bernard Barnsley (Operator) was a Monoid in The Ark, and UNIT Soldier in (episode 2 of) The Silurians
• Ernest Blyth and John Tatham (Officers) were both Villagers in The Daemons
• George Curtis (Policeman) and Paul Phillips (Engineer) both starred in The War Games, as Firing Squad Soldier (1) and Guard/Prisoner (2) - Phillips was also Miner in The Monster of Peladon (3)
• Anton Diffring [born Alfred Pollack] (Soldier) was De Flores in Silver Nemesis
• [George] Gertan Klauber (Guard) was the Galley Master in The Romans, and Ola in The Macra Terror
• Alan Harris (Soldier) was Sevateem Council Member in The Face of Evil, and titular alien in Terror of the Vervoids
• Philip [Arvon Jones] Madoc (Police Officer) was Eelek in The Krotons, the War Lord in The War Games, Dr. Mehendri Solon in The Brain of Morbius, Fenner in The Power of Kroll, Brockley in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD, then voiced Victor Schaeffer for Big Finish's Master (2003), and Rag Cobden for Return of the Krotons (2009)
• Billy Cornelius (Operator) was stuntman on 100,000 BC (4), Man-at-arms in The Crusade (4), and Morok Guard in The Space Museum
• Paddy Ryan (Operator) and Harry Van Engel (Van Ostamgen) both appeared as Kaled Scientists in Genesis of the Daleks
• Fred Wood (Steward) and Alf Mangan (Engineer) were both Extras in the second Dalek feature