William Nicholas Stone Courtney (1929-2011) had failed to land the part of King Richard
for The Crusade, but director Douglas Camfield
would soon cast him as Bret Vyon in The Daleks'
Master Plan. Camfield then provided Courtney
with his first lead role on TV, as photographer
Bill Page in this production.
When David Langton dropped out of the role of
Colonel Lethbridge Stewart in The Web of Fear,
Courtney was then 'promoted' (from his part as
Captain Knight) by the director.
The long-lost BBC2 thriller centred on the invest
-igations of DI Clayton (played by Nicholas Selby,
also later considered as Langton's replacement) into the London underworld. The five-part drama,
broadcast in June and July 1966, also featured
these twelve Doctor Who cast and crew links:
- Camfield (1931-1984) was production assistant on 100,000 BC and Marco Polo, then director of fifty-two further instalments, from Planet of Giants to The Seeds of Doom
- producer Alan [James] Bromly (1915-1995) was director of The Time Warrior and Nightmare of Eden
- [Thomas] Kevin [Harvest] Stoney (Bergmann) and [Ernest] Edward Dentith (Crawford) both appeared opposite Courtney in The Invasion, as Tobias Vaughn and Major General Billy Rutlidge respectively - Stoney was also Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan, and Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen
- Wanda Ventham (Irene), Madalena Nicol (Countess) and Gilly Fraser (Waitress) all starred in The Faceless Ones, as Jean Rook, Nurse Pinto and Ann Davidson - Ventham was also Thea Ransome in Image of the Fendahl, and Faroon in Time and the Rani
- Royston Tickner (Attendant) and [Jocelyn] Paula Topham (Recept- ionist) both starred in The Daleks' Master Plan (7), as Steinberger P Green and Vamp - Tickner was also Robbins in The Sea Devils (1)
- Terry Wright (Dragos) was a Cheerleader in The Macra Terror (4), and White Robot in The Mind Robber
- Jo Rowbottom (Marcia) was Mollie Dawson in The Evil of the Daleks
- Sarah Lisemore [born Gee] (Extra) was a Shelterer in The Enemy of the World
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