Doctor Who Vs. Scrooge

This musical adaptation of Charles

Dickens' literary classic, A Christmas

Carol was released in late 1970, and

remains the only live-action version of

the story to be Oscar nominated.

This faithful retelling of the original

novella (published in 1843), starred

a stellar cast led by Albert Finney

(winner of the Golden Globe award for

his titular role), Alec Guinness (Jacob

Marley), Kenneth More, Roy Kinnear,

and Gordon Jackson.

Shown on channel 5 today, the film

also featured David Collings (Crachit),

Geoffrey Bayldon, and nineteen other

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Mary Peach (Wife) was Astrid Ferrier in The Enemy of the World
• Derek Francis (Gentleman here; Pemberton in A Christmas Carol, 1984) was Nero in The Romans
• Reg Lever [born Stanley Edward Russell] (Punch & Judy Man) was the Joker in (episode 2 of) The Celestial Toymaker
• Keith Marsh (Wellwisher), Alf Mangan, Fred [Thomas] Wood (Men) and [Frederick] Alan Meacham (Guest) all appeared in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD, as Conway and Extras - Meacham was also Servant in The Massacre (4), and Technician in The Silurians (1)
• Stephen Garlick (Child) was Ibbotson in Mawdryn Undead
• Roy Evans (Coachman) was Trantis in The Daleks' Master Plan, Bert in The Green Death, and Miner in The Monster of Peladon
• Graham Armitage and Kenneth Waller (Guests) were Barney in The Macra Terror (1), and Hedges in The Invisible Enemy (2)
• Alan Harris (Man) was a Sevateem in The Face of Evil, and a titular alien in Terror of the Vervoids
• Eric Kent (Guest) was Technician in The Seeds of Death, and Round- head in The Time Monster (3)
• John Owens (Extra) was Thorpe in The Daemons
• Peter Roy (Man) was Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, Sergeant [Erskine]/Chauffeur in The Faceless Ones (1), UNIT Bunker Soldier in The Invasion (1), Guard in The Seeds of Death (1), The Space Pirates (1), The Face of Evil (1), The Invasion of Time (1), The Androids of Tara (1) and The Armageddon Factor (1), Technic Obarl in The Hand of Fear (1), Policeman in Logopolis (1), Ambulance Man in Castrovalva (1), Market Man in Snakedance (1), and Extra in The Highlanders (1), The Silurians (6), The Sun Makers (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks (1)
• stuntman Martin [Ryan] Grace was a Thal in Dr. Who and the Daleks
• John Cox (sound supervisor), Gerald Larn (matte painter) and Maurice Gillett (electrician) all worked on both Dalek films too