Doctor Who Vs. The Moonraker

This 'swashbuckler' adventure was released by
Associated British Pathé in 1958, and depicted the

fictional account of the escape of Charles II from

the Battle of Worcester - the final showdown of the

English Civil War in 1651. 

The Earl of Dawlish (played by George Baker) led

a double life here as the eponymous outlaw (the

contemporary term for a smuggler), who rescues 

Royalists from Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army.

Shown again on film4 last night, the film starred

Patrick Troughton (pictured as Captain Wilcox)

and thirteen future Doctor Who cast connections:

• Baker was Login in Full Circle
• Sylvia [May Laura] Syms (Anne) was Mrs. Pritchard in Ghost Light
• Marius [Re] Goring (Beaumont) was Theodore Maxtible in The Evil of the Daleks
• [Francis] Clive Morton (Harcourt) was George Trenchard in The Sea Devils
• Richard [Leeper] Leech [born McClelland] (Strangeways) was Gatherer Hade in The Sun Makers
• Paul Whitsun-Jones (Parfitt) was Squire Edwards in The Smugglers, and the Marshal in The Mutants
• [Ernest] Edward Dentith (Lieutenant) was Major General Rutlidge in The Invasion
• Neil Hallett [born John Neil] (Trooper) was Maylin Renis in Timelash
• Peter Brace (Trooper) was Guard in (episode 4 of) The Curse of Peladon, Sailor in The Sea Devils, and Soldier in The Android Invasion (2)
• Jack May (Villager) was General Nicolai Hermack in The Space Pirates
• fencing coach Bob Anderson was Guard in The Enemy of the World (4)
• stuntman Peter Diamond was regular stunt double/fight arranger on the classic run (from The Daleks to The Daemons)
• Peter [Randolph] Arne [born Albrecht] (Tyler) had been cast as Range in Frontios - he had just returned to his London home from a costume fitting in 1983 when he was murdered (the role then went to William Lucas)