Doctor Who Vs. Vault of Horror

Shown on Talking Pictures TV

last night, this British anthology

horror film was made by Amicus Productions, and like their

previous portmanteau feature,

Tales from the Crypt (1972), it

was based on stories from the

EC Comics series.

The title was co-produced by Max

Rosenberg, directed by Roy Ward Baker (A Night to Remember,

Quatermass and the Pit), and

comprised five original tales all

written by Milton Subotsky.

Released by Fox in 1973, Vault 
of Horror featured Tom Baker
 (pictured as Moore in the fifth segment, Drawn and Quartered) and fourteen other Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Anna [Raymond] Massey (Donna) voiced Miss Pollard for Big Finish's The Girl Who Never Was (2007)
• Erik Chitty (Walter) was Charles Preslin in (episode 1 of) The Massacre, and Co-ordinator Engin in The Deadly Assassin
• Terence [Joseph] Alexander (Breedley) was Lord Ravensworth in The Mark of the Rani
• [Rupert] John [Blanchflower Featherstone] Witty (Gaskill) was the Computer Voice for The Seeds of Death
• Michael [Francis] Craig [born Gregson] (Maitland) was Commodore Travers in Terror of the Vervoids
• Sylvia Marriott (Mrs. Breedley) was Lexa's Follower in Meglos
• Tony Wall (Painter) was Napoleon Bonaparte in The Reign of Terror (6)
• Roy Evans (Passerby) was Trantis in The Daleks' Master Plan, Bert in The Green Death, and Miner in The Monster of Peladon
• George A Cooper (deleted scenes) was Cherub in The Smugglers
• Richard Atherton (Man) was Lama in The Abominable Snowmen, Inspector/Prison Officer in The Mind of Evil, Noble in The Androids of Tara, and Passenger in Time Flight
• Anthony Lang (Vampire) was an Egyptian Slave in The Daleks' Master Plan, Extra in The Highlanders (1) and The Faceless Ones (1), Time Lord in The Three Doctors (1), and Kaled Councillor in Genesis of the Daleks
• Oswald Hafenrichter was film editor on Dr. Who and the Daleks too
• Anthony Waye (assistant director) and Bill Waldron (construction manager) held those posts on both Daleks films