This adventure series was theTV spin-off from Rank's 1978 film version of The Thirty Nine
Steps. Both productions starred
Robert Powell as John Buchan's
Richard Hannay.
This Thames Television period
drama (set before the Great
War) had little in common with
Buchan's novels, but used
character names from his other
works.
Hannay followed The Three
Hostages, the 1977 BBC TV
serial, with Barry Foster as
the hero. Rupert Penry Jones
Hostages, the 1977 BBC TV
serial, with Barry Foster as
the hero. Rupert Penry Jones
portrayed Hannay in BBC1's remake of The 39 Steps in 2008.
In 2017, Polygon (Buchan's original publishers) released The Thirty-
One Kings - the first new Hannay story in eighty years, now written by Scottish children's author, Robert J Harris.
A repeat run of the second and final seven-part season (originally
shown from early 1989) began on Talking Pictures TV today - it
featured Alex Kingston, and a total of thirty-one Doctor Who
cast and crew connections:
- Leslie Schofield (Tennant) was Leroy in (episode 4 of) The War Games, and Calib in The Face of Evil
- Joanna David [born Hacking] (Sybil) voiced Mr. Audley for Audio- Go's The Broken Crown (2011)
- stuntman Alf [Charles Richard] Joint was stunt arranger on Battlefield
- stuntman Rod [Paul] Woodruff was the stunt co-ordinator on Rose and World War Three
- Peter [George Haywood] Halliday (Dearth) was Packer and Cyber Director Voice) in The Invasion, voiced the Silurians in their debut story, and the Aliens in The Ambassadors of Death, then was Pletrac in Carnival of Monsters, Soldier in City of Death, and the Vicar in Remembrance of the Daleks (2)
- stuntman Paul Heasman was an uncredited Nazi in Silver Nemesis, then stunt co-ordinator on Survival
- fight arranger Steve Whyment was an Extra on The Keeper of Traken and Snakedance
- Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (DCI Rodier) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, DI Crossland in The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Big Finish's Night Thoughts (2006)
- Tom [Welsh] Watson (Leigh) was Ramo in The Underwater Menace
- Denys [Vernon] Hawthorne (Counsel) was Rudge in Terror of the Vervoids
- David Haig [Collum Ward] (Smyth here; Sinclair in The 39 Steps) was Pangol in The Leisure Hive
- Sharon [Patricia] Maughan (Dore) voiced Whitfield for Cold Fusion (2016)
- Derek Smith (Colonel) was the Doorman in Human Nature
- Colin Prockter (Harker) was the Chef in The Long Game, and the Air Raid Warden in Victory of the Daleks
- prolific Big Finish actor Steven Wickham (Boris) was an [un- credited] Soldier in The Caves of Androzani (1), and Gastropod in The Twin Dilemma (1), then voiced Dr. Samuel Holywell for Phantasmagoria (1999), Murranus for The Fires of Vulcan (2000), Ron Sharpe for The Tao Connection (2002), Joseph and Victor Farrison for The Dark Flame (2003), Valyes for Gallifrey (2005-13), Uviol for Red (2006), Harom for Urban Myths, Soldiers for Son of the Dragon (both 2007), Garm and the Master of Karn for Seven Keys to Doomsday (2008), Gavin Walker for The Veiled Leopard (2013), and Grisk/Venorg for Memories of a Tyrant (2019)
- [Alexander] Martin Clunes (Amersham) was Lon in Snakedance
- Richenda Carey (Marigold) voiced Alexis Linfoot for Plague of the Daleks (2009), Gliss for Prisoners of the Sun (2011), Sister Frances Beckett for The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Mother Finsey for The Transcendence of the Ephros (2016), Professor Blavatsky for The Wreck of the World (2017), Lady Crozion for Kingdom of Lies (2018), Darial for The Bekdel Test, and Admiral for Concealed Weapon (both 2019)
- Andrew [Hugh] Woodall (Birbeck) depicted Rex Tucker in An Adventure in Space and Time
- Ron [Henry] Pember (Peterson) voiced Seedle for Slipback
- Karen Archer (Madge) voiced Professor Allen for Never Alone (2021), DCI Denise Walker for The Annihilators (2022), and Vrull for Audacity (2023)
- Patrick Carter (Workman) was the Bosun in The Chase (3)
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