Doctor Who Vs. Give My Regards to Broad Street

Released theatrically forty years ago today,

this musical drama covers a day in the life

of Paul McCartney, writer of the screen-

play, who appeared here with wife Linda,

and Ringo Starr. Despite a poor box office

and critical performance, the film's sound-

track album (produced by George Martin)

was a global hit - it included the lead single

No More Lonely Nights, and songs from the Beatles and Wings.

Distributed by Fox, the (in-house) MPL Communications production was accom-

panied at cinemas by the animated short

film of Rupert and the Frog Song, which

featured McCartney's next solo single We

All Stand Together.

The two features starred Bryan Brown,

Ralph Richardson, and a total of sixteen Doctor Who cast connections:

Give My Regards to Broad Street

• McCartney, Ringo and their bandmates performed Ticket to Ride in (episode 1 of) The Chase
• Marie Collett (Valerie) voiced Professor Osefa de Palabra Hftzbrn for Big Finish's ..Ish (2002)
• Philip Jackson (Alan) voiced Laxton for Valhalla (2007), Peabody for The Contingency Club (2016), and Harry Price for The Dalby Spook (2022)
• Leonard Fenton [born Feinstein] (Accountant) voiced Castellan Casmus for Death Comes to Time
• Richard [George] Kane [born Wright] (Executive) was Valmar in The Power of the Daleks
• Donald [Macleod] Douglas (Detective) was Vural in The Sontaran Experiment
• John [David] Bennett (Rath) was General Finch in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and Li H'sen Chang in The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Christopher Ellison (Minder) voiced Morian for The Game (2005)
• Arthur Cox (Hardy) was Cully in The Dominators, and Henderson in The Eleventh Hour
• Rosina Stewart (Lady) was an Extra in The Keys of Marinus, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Enemy of the World and The Silurians (6)
• Ruby Buchanan (Baglady) was a Peasant in State of Decay (1)
• Lewis Alexander [born Herbert Alexander Lewis] (Man here; Patron in A Hard Days's Night) was Army Officer in The War Machines (3)
• Aileen [Mary] Lewis [born Halsey] (Woman) was an Extra on The Silurians (6)
• Fight arranger Roy [Edwin] Scammell was UNIT Soldier/Technician in The Ambassadors of Death, RSF Soldier in Inferno, stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1), Prison Officer and UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, and stunt arranger on Delta and the Bannermen (1)
• Sue Crossland was also stunt performer on Destiny of the Daleks (1) and K9 and Company

Rupert and the Frog Song

• June [Rosemary] Whitfield (Mother) was Minnie Hooper in The End of Time
• Windsor Davies (Father) was Toby in The Evil of the Daleks