Doctor Who Vs. The Temple of Doom

The second instalment in Lucasfilm's Indiana Jones

franchise was again directed by Steven Spielberg,

and opened in 1984. The Temple of Doom was

actually set in 1935, a year before the events of

Raiders of the Lost Ark. Harrison Ford returned as

Dr. Henry Jones Jnr. The film won an Oscar and a

BAFTA award in 1985.

Paramount Pictures had originally planned a run of

five movies, whilst George Lucas had always intended

to create a trilogy of stories - The Last Crusade com-

pleted Indy's saga in 1989. Then in 2008, a fourth feature, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was

released. Disney obtained the rights to the series in

2012, and a fifth production, The Dial of Destiny,

debuted at Cannes in 2023.

This adventure was shown on Film4 last night - it featured Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, and thirteen

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• David [Nicholas] Yip (Wu Han) was Veldan in Destiny of the Daleks, then voiced Curly for Big Finish's The Girl Who Never Was (2007), Kenendy for The Fearless (2008), and Hector for Evolution (2013)
• Philip Tan (Henchman) was an Extra in Four to Doomsday
• Bhasker Patel (Guard) was Jival Chowdry in Turn Left
• for stunt performers Peter Brace, Billy Horrigan, Rocky Taylor, Martin Grace and Kiran Shah see Raiders of the Lost Ark
• stuntman [Timothy] Tip Tipping was stunt arranger on Remembrance of the Daleks, The Curse of Fenric and Survival
• stuntman Chris Webb was a Monoid in The Ark
• stuntman Terry Forrestal was a Tractor Driver in K9 and Company
• stuntman Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos, and doubled for Peter Davison on Warriors of the Deep
• stuntman Nick Hobbs made uncredited appearances in The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Day of the Daleks, The Time Monster, both Peladon stories (as Aggedor), The Ark in Space, then was Mr. Nainby in Amy's Choice