Doctor Who Vs. Carry On Don't Lose Your Head

The thirteenth production in the
British film franchise was the first

Carry On feature produced by the

Rank Organisation, and was not

planned as part of the series.

Don't Lose Your Head and the

next title, Follow That Camel,

were both originally promoted

without the Carry On prefix.

Series veterans Sid James,

Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims,

Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, and

Peter Butterworth were joined here by French actress Dany Robin.

Released in late 1966 as a parody of Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet

Pimpernel, the comedy was shown on ITV3 today - it featured these nineteen Doctor Who cast connections:

• Jacqueline [Kay] Pearce (Lady) was Chessene of the Franzine Grig in The Two Doctors, and voiced Sherilyn Harper for Big Finish's The Fearmonger (2000), Admiral Mettna for Death Comes to Time, the Keeper for Sarah Jane Smith 2 (2006), Queen Zafira/Bev for Hexagora (2011), and Cardinal Ollistra for The War Doctor (2015-17), Day of the Vashta Nerada, and The Time War (2017/18)
• [Max] Richard Shaw (Captain) was Lobos in The Space Museum, Cross in Frontier in Space, and Lakh in Underworld
• Lewis Alexander [born Herbert Alexander Lewis] (Citizen here; Partygoer in Carry On Again Doctor; Councillor in Carry On Girls) was Army Officer in (episode 3 of) The War Machines
• Douglas Roe (Soldier) was Prisoner in The War Games (2), and titular alien in The Claws of Axos (1)
• Peter Brace (Soldier) was Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4), and Soldier in The Android Invasion (2)
• Tina Simmons (Citizen here; Camper in Carry On Camping; Nurse in Carry On Matron) began her career as Inferno Patron in The War Machines (1), then was Passenger in The Faceless Ones (1)
• Gerry Wain (Soldier here; Horseman in Carry On Dick) was Soldier in The Reign of Terror (1), Guard in The Romans (1), Sailor in The Chase (3), Blackbeard in The Mind Robber (5), and Sergeant/Alien Guard/Horseman in The War Games
• John [Ernest Clotworthy] More (Citizen here; Passenger in Carry On Emmannuelle) was Prisoner in Frontier in Space (3)
• Lee Fenton (Guest here; Man in Carry On Again Doctor) was Recruit/ Technician in The War Games
• for Sims (Désirée) see Carry On Nurse
• for Butterworth (Bidet) and Alf Mangan see Carry On Cowboy
• for Hugh Futcher see Carry On At Your Convenience
• for Aileen Lewis see Carry On Cruising
• for Peter Gilmore, Rita Tobin Weske and stuntman Peter Diamond see Carry On Cleo
• for Billy Cornelius see Carry On Screaming
• for Jim O'Brady and Martin Lyder see Carry On Jack

Doctor Who Vs. The Plague of Zombies

Morell in Quatermass
and the Pit (1959)

Shown on Legend today, this production was

another typically gothic feature from the iconic

Hammer stable. It opened in some markets on

 a double bill with Dracula: Prince of Darkness.

Released in 1966, the cast was led by André

Morell - the only actor to portray Professor

Bernard Quatermass, then appear on Doctor

Who (as Marshal Gaspard de Saux-Tavannes in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve).

The film (shot back-to-back with The Reptile,

which shared the same period Cornish setting

and some of the cast) featured sixteen Doctor

Who cast connections:

• Big Finish actor Jacqueline [Kay] Pearce (Alice here; Anna in The Reptile) was Chessene of the Franzine Grig in The Two Doctors, then voiced Sherilyn Harper for The Fearmonger (2000), Admiral Mettna for Death Comes to Time, the Keeper for Sarah Jane Smith (2006), Queen Zafira/Bev for Hexagora (2011), and Cardinal Ollistra for The War Doctor, The Time War (2015-18) and Day of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
• John [Derek] Carson [Parker] (Hamilton) was Ambril in Snakedance
• Marcus Hammond (Martinus) was Antodus in The Daleks
• Tim Condren (Young Blood) was Saxon Warrior in (episode 4 of) The Time Meddler, Soldier in The Web of Fear (4), and Guerilla in Day of the Daleks (1)
• Dennis [Arthur Robert] Chinnery (Christian) was Albert C. Richardson in The Chase (3), Gharman in Genesis of the Daleks, and Professor Sylvest in The Twin Dilemma (1)
• Louis [Felix Danner] Mahoney (Servant) was a Newscaster in Frontier in Space, Ponti in Planet of Evil, and the Older Billy Shipton in Blink
• Ben [Patrick] Aris (John) was Lieutenant Shears in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1)
• Francis Willey (Young Blood) was an uncredited Visian in The Daleks' Master Plan (6), and Guard in The Massacre (4)
• Ron [Leonard] Gregory (Gravedigger) and Bernard Barnsley (stunt- man) both starred in The Ark - as Guardian and Monoid, whilst the latter was UNIT Soldier in The Silurians (2)
• Jolyon [Roger] Booth (Driver) was Prapillus in The Web Planet
• Del Watson (Zombie) was an uncredited Alien Guard/Crimean Soldier in The War Games
• Jim O'Brady [born George Clifford Watkin] (Patron) and Fred [Thomas] Wood (Villager) both appeared in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Eric Kent (Patron) was Technician in The Seeds of Death, UNIT Soldier in The Ambassadors of Death (1), and Roundhead in The Time Monster (3)
• Peter [Alexander] Diamond (stuntman here & The Reptile) was fight arranger/stunt double on eighteen instalments (from The Rescue to The Daemons)

The Reptile featured four further Doctor Who links:

• Ray [Charles] Barrett (HG Spalding) was Bennett and Koquillion in The Rescue
• David Baron (CE Spalding) was Ralpachan in The Abominable Snowmen
• Harold [born Israel] Goldblatt (Solicitor) was Professor Dale in Frontier in Space
• film editor Roy [William] Hyde was the sound editor on Dr. Who and the Daleks

Hammer's third part of their Dracula saga also starred:

• Barbara [Teresa] Shelley [born Kowin] (Helen) was Sorasta in Planet of Fire
• Andrew Keir [born Buggy] (Sandor) was Wyler in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• [Charles] Philip Latham (Klove) was President Borusa in The Five Doctors
• Philip Ray [born Roy Edgar Cochrane] (Priest) was Eldred in The Seeds of Death
• John Maxim (Driver) was Frankenstein's Monster in The Chase (4), and [as John Wills] a Cyberman in The Moonbase