Doctor Who Vs. Robin of Sherwood, Series 3

Jason Connery (pictured), Judi Trott, Clive

Mantle, Ray Winstone, Phil Rose, Mark Ryan,

Peter Llewellyn Williams, Philip Jackson, John

Abineri, Nckolas Grace and Robert Addie all

returned for ITV's third and final round of

Robin Hood adventures. At the conclusion to

this series, makers Goldcrest pulled out of the

venture. Despite critical and commercial hits

(Chariots of Fire and Gandhi) Goldcrest Films

struggled after box office flops, Revolution

and Absolute Beginners.

The programme ultimately ceased production

because partner HTV could not finance it alone.

Richard Carpenter's script for the unmade story,

The Knights of the Apocalypse, was eventually

adapted by Bafflegab and was released in 2016

- Connery, Trott, Winstone, Mantle, Rose, Ryan,

Jackson and Grace all reprised their TV roles.

A repeat run of the thirteen-part season (originally broadcast from April

to June 1986) continued on ITV4 today - it featured William Russell,

Richard O'Brien, and a total of twenty-six Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Connery was Jondar in Vengeance on Varos
• Oliver Cotton (Owen) voiced Sir Gideon Vale/Handler for Big Finish's 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), and Major Callahan/Vilal Captian/Crook for Quicksilver (2017)
• Michael [Francis] Craig [born Gregson] (Huntingdon) was Commodore Travers in Terror of the Vervoids
• James [Southey] Coombes (Grendel) provided the Krarg voices for Shada, and was Paroli in Warriors of the Deep
• Daniel Peacock (Sparrow) was Nord in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Hywel [Thomas] Bennett (voice of Arthur) made his TV debut as Rynian in (episode 2 of) The Chase
• Brendan Price (Abbot) was Tomas in The Face of Evil
• Graham [Robert] Weston (Blacksmith) was Russell in The War Games, and De Haan in Planet of Evil
• Charlie [Lomax David] Condou (Marcus Dent, 2007-14) was Gary Gabbastone in The Interstellar Song Contest - he also voiced Crab- head/System/Jarl for Ravenous 1 (2018), Chris for Five Hundred Ways to Kill Your Lover (2025), and Marty for Cloud Eight (2026)
• Patrick Travis (Matthew) was a Kaled Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks
• Cory Pulman (Queen Isabella) was Kathleen Dudman in The Curse of Fenric
• Iain Armstrong (Villager) was Technician in The Armageddon Factor (3)
• Neville Watchurst (Carter) voiced Argot for Memory Lane (2006), and Manus/Stennar for The Song of Megaptera (2010)
• Peter [Alexander] Diamond (Monk here; Hangman in A Challenge for Robin Hood) was regular Extra/stunt double/fight arranger on the classic run (from The Daleks to The Daemons)
• Andrew McCulloch and John Flanagan co-wrote Meglos too
• Gerry Mill was director of The Faceless Ones too
• for Mantle, Grace, Jackson and Abineri see Series 1
• for Jeremy Bulloch, George Baker, Robert Daws, Phil Davis and Richard Bonehill see Series 2