Doctor Who Vs. The Elephant Man

Directed by David Lynch and released in

late 1980, this Anglo-American period

production was based on the 1977 play

from Bernard Pomerance.

Victorian surgeon Dr. Frederick Treves

befriended and rescued Joseph Merrick

(the heavily deformed subject of a freak

show, dubbed the Elephant Man), and

housed him in the London Hospital. Treves

(1853-1923) and Merrick (1862-1890)

were portrayed here by Anthony Hopkins

and the Oscar-nominated John Hurt.

Shown on BBC2 last night, the black and

white picture was nominated for another nine Academy Awards, and

won three BAFTAs - it featured Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, and

twenty-seven Doctor Who cast alumni:

• Hannah [Campbell Grant] Gordon (Ann) was Kirsty McLaren in The Highlanders, and voiced Skagra's Ship for Big Finish's Shada
• John [Robert Leon] Standing (Fox) voiced Fenric for Gods and Monsters (2012), and Professor Threadstone for Vampire of the Mind (2016)
• Lesley Dunlop (Nora) was Norna in Frontios, and Susan Q in The Happiness Patrol
• [William] Pat Gorman (Bobby) made appearances in a eighty-three episodes (from The Dalek Invasion of Earth to Attack of the Cybermen)
• Frederick [William] Treves (Alderman) was Lieutenant Brotadac in Meglos
• Claire [Bernice] Davenport (Fat Lady) was the Empress in (episode 7 of) Marco Polo
• Brenda [Elizabeth] Kempner (Woman) was Mrs. Grose in Ghost Light
• Roy Evans (Cabman) was Trantis in The Daleks' Master Plan, Bert in The Green Death, and Miner in The Monster of Peladon
• Marcus Powell (Midget) was a Prisoner in Destiny of the Daleks (2)
• Eiji Kusuhara (Bleeder) was a Chinese Man in Four to Doomsday
• Hugh Spight (Actor) was a Dalek operator in Remembrance of the Daleks, and Robot Clown in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (2)
• Janie Kells (Horse) was a Sister in The Brain of Morbius
• Harry Fielder (Policeman) was a Guard (PP, ZZZ, 4L, 4P, 5A, 5F, 5Z), Crewman (SS, 4T), Vogan (4D), Assassin (4Q), Tigellan (5Q), and Krarg in Shada
• Tommy Wright (Bobby) was the Guardmaster in The Creature from the Pit
• Jill Goldston (Nurse) was Extra in The Masqu of Mandragora (4), and Peasant in State of Decay (1)
• Jay McGrath (Man) 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)
• Ralph G Morse (Aristocrat) was a Foster in The Keeper of Traken
• Henry Roberts (Man) was a Jousting Judge in The King's Demons (1)
• Peter Ross Murray (Docker) was a Lakertyan in Time and the Rani (4)
• Juba [Elgar] Kennerley (Committee) was an Old Man in The Massacre (2)
• Chick Fowles, Cyril Kent, Fred Wood (Men) and Reg [George] Thomason (Assistant) all appeared in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD, as Prisoner, Captive, and Men respectively
• William Morgan Sheppard and David [John] Ryall (Men) were [the Older] Canton in The Impossible Astronaut, and voiced Carthok for Phantasmagoria (1999)
• Patsy [Doris] Smart (Woman) was the Ghoul in The Talons of Weng-Chiang