Doctor Who Vs. James Bond, Part 4: Thunderball

Eon Productions intended to follow 1963's

From Russia With Love with an adaptation

of Casino Royale (the first Bond story from

1953), but were again thwarted by legal

issues. The alternative project, Thunderball

became the most successful feature in the

run to date. 

Based on Ian Fleming's eighth full length

novel (published in 1961), the film was

planned as the first entry in the franchise,

and was then reworked by Warner Bros as

Never Say Never Again in 1983 - Bond was

 played by Sean Connery in both versions.

Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewellyn, and Lois

Maxwell reprised their respective series

roles as M, Q, and Moneypenny. Released

in late 1965, the film was shown on ITV1

today - it featured eighteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Earl Cameron (Pinder) was Glyn Williams in The Tenth Planet
• Philip [born Roy James] Locke (Vargas) was Bigon/Control Voice in Four to Doomsday
• George [born Jiri] Pravda (Kutze) was Alexander Denes in The Enemy of the World, Professor Jaeger in The Mutants, and Castellan Spandrell in The Deadly Assassin
• Leonard [Meyer] Sachs (Captain) and Clive [Benabu] Cazes (Spectre 9) both appeared in The Massacre - as Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and the Guard Captain - Sachs was also Lord President Borusa in Arc of Infinity
• [Charles] Edward Underdown (Air Vice Marshal) was Zastor in Meglos
• Gabor Baraker (Spectre 13) was Wang-Lo in Marco Polo, and Luigi Ferrigo in (episode 2 of) The Crusade
• Neil Hallett [born John W H Neil] (Pilot) was Maylin Renis in Timelash
• André [Gaston] Maranne [born Maillol] (Spectre 10) was Roger Benoit in The Moonbase
• Peter [John Buckley] Forbes Robertson (Spectre 12) was Guard in The Power of the Daleks, Time Lord in Colony in Space (1), and titular reptile in The Sea Devils
• Jack Silk was a stuntman on The Daemons (4) too
• stuntman Bernard Barnsley was Monoid in The Ark, and UNIT Soldier in The Silurians (2)
• Peter Roy (006) was Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, Sergeant in The Faceless Ones (1), UNIT Bunker Soldier in The Invasion (1), Guard in The Seeds of Death (1), The Space Pirates (1), The Face of Evil (1), The Invasion of Time (1), The Androids of Tara (1) and The Armageddon Factor (1), Technic Obarl in The Hand of Fear (1), Policeman in Logopolis (1), Ambulance Man in Castrovalva (1), Man in Snakedance (1), and Extra in The Highlanders (1), The Silurians (6), The Sun Makers (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks (1)
• for Tim Condren see Goldfinger
• for Robert Rietty, Rick Lester, Arthur Howell, Pat Judge and Cliff Culley see Dr. No

Doctor Who Vs. Campion, Series 1

The only television adaptations of the classic crime stories of Margery

Allingham were originally transmitted in 1989 and 1990, and starred

Peter Davison as gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (pictured centre),

with Brian Glover (as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg, left), and

Andrew Burt (as Inspector Stanislaus Oates, right).

Allingham (1904-1966) penned eighteen Campion novels and twenty 

short stories between 1929 and 1965, whilst her final work (Cargo of 

Eagles) was completed by her husband and published posthumously 

in 1968.

A repeat run of the eight-part series began on U&Drama today - it

featured a total of thirty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Look to the Lady (BBC1 TX: January 22 & 29 1989/BBC2 TX:

December 27 2009/Published 1931)

• John [Harry] Gill (Peck) was Mr. Oak in Fury from the Deep
• Roy Evans (Branch) was Trantis in The Daleks' Master Plan, Bert in The Green Death, and Miner in The Monster of Peladon
• Dinny Powell (King) was a stuntman on (episode 1 of) Terror of the Autons, and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4) and Genesis of the Daleks (3)
• Paul Heasman (Taxi Driver) was a Nazi in Silver Nemesis, and the stunt arranger on Survival
• cinematographer John Baker was a film cameraman on The Evil of the Daleks, Terror of the Autons, The Three Doctors, The Masque of Mandragora, Castrovalva, Snakedance, The Five Doctors and The Twin Dilemma
• Ken Ledsham was also production designer on The Ribos Operation, Destiny of the Daleks and The King's Demons
• Suzan Broad was make-up designer on Kinda too
• Tony Harding was also VFX designer on The Invisible Enemy, The Power of Kroll, State of Decay, The King's Demons and The Awakening
• Diana Brookes was production assistant on Arc of Infinity too

Police at the Funeral (TX: February 5 & 12/Pub. 1931)

• Timothy [Lancaster] West (Faraday) voiced Kai Tobias for Phobos (2007), Turvey for Cuddlesome (2008), and Dr. Magnus Soames for House of Blue Fire (2011)
• Mary [Lilian Agnes] Morris (Caroline) was Panna in Kinda
• Gillian [Mary] Martell (Julia) was Lily Gregson in K9 and Company
• John Franklyn-Robbins (Seeley) was a Time Lord in Genesis of the Daleks (1)
• cinematographer here Ian Punter was a film cameraman on Planet of the Spiders (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks
• Howard Billingham was the film editor on The Mind of Evil too
• Dinah Collin was also costume designer on Earthshock, Enlightenment and The Mark of the Rani
• production manager Joanna Gueritz was an AFM (assistant floor manager) on Frontios
• Chris Ferriday was property buyer on Remembrance of the Daleks too
• film recordist Malcolm Campbell worked on film sound for The Caves of Androzani and The Twin Dilemma 

The Case of the Late Pig (TX: February 19 & 26/Pub. 1937)

• [Francis] Michael Gough (Hayhoe) played the titular role in The Celestial Toymaker, and was Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity
• Moray [Robin Philip Adrian] Watson (Sir Leo) was Sir Robert Muir in Black Orchid
• Rob [Charlton] Edwards (Whippet) provided the voice of Xoanon for The Face of Evil, and was Chub in The Robots of Death (1)
• Voice artist Peter Tuddenham (Pepper) worked on The Ark in Space (1), The Masque of Mandragora and Time and the Rani
• Georgine Anderson (Turner) was May in Gridlock
• Philip Bird (Bathwick) made his TV debut as a Swampie in The Power of Kroll
• Joanna Newbery was AFM on Time and the Rani too
• film recordist here Richard Manton worked on film sound for The Daemons and The Mutants
• Dave Bezkorowajny was VFX designer on Battlefield too

Death of a Ghost (TX: March 5 & 12/Pub. 1934)

• Michael Owen Morris was PA (production assistant) on The Pirate Planet, then also director of The Awakening
• Milton Johns [born John Robert Milton] (Potter) was Theodore Benik in The Enemy of the World, Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion, and Castellan Kelner in The Invasion of Time
• Adrian Lukis (D'Urfey) voiced Officer Bragg for Cobwebs (2010), Byzan for The Children of Seth (2011), Professor Jeffrey Broderick for Counter Measures 1 (2012), Harvey Marsh for The Justice of Jalxar, Sigmund Freud for Return of the Repressed (both 2013), Ansillon for Blood of the Time Lords (2022), and Secretary Pym for Satrap (2025) - he was also Sir Jonathan Hynes in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• Tom Lucy (Policeman) was the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen episodes (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)
• Clare Graham was production manager on The Mysterious Planet too
• VFX assistant Mickey Edwards was the VFX designer on Four to Doomsday
• series stunt co-ordinator Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos, and also doubled for Davison on Warriors of the Deep
  

Doctor Who On This Day #27

 

1968 - The Enemy of the World, Episode

6 first screened on BBC1

1970 - The Web of Fear, Episode 2, The

Ice Warriors, Episode 3 and Fury from

the Deep, Episode 1 all repeated on ABC

1971 - The Invasion, Episode 6

repeated on ABC

1973 - Carnival of Monsters, Episode

1 first screened on BBC1
1975 - Planet of the Daleks, Episode

4 repeated on ABC
1979 - The Armageddon Factor, Part

2 first screened on BBC1 
1982 - The Brain of Morbius, Part 4 repeated

on KQED Plus; and Four to Doomsday, Part

4 first screened on BBC Cymru

1983 - The Power of Kroll, Part 2

repeated on KQED Plus
1984 - Director Douglas Camfield died

 in Hounslow, aged 52; Snakedance,

Part 4 repeated on KQED Plus; and

 Frontios, Part 2 first screened on BBC1

1985 - The Caves of Androzani

Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus

1986 - The Leisure Hive Omnibus repeated on WTTW

 11; Earthshock, Part 1 first screened on TROS; and

Revelation of the Daleks, Part 3 (of 4) first screened

on ABC

1987 - The Space Museum, Episode 2: The Dimensions

of Time repeated on KQED Plus; and The Sontaran

Experiment, Part 1 repeated on TV1

1988 - Image of the Fendahl, Part 1 repeated on KQED

Plus; and The Power of Kroll, Part 2 repeated on TV2

1989 - Colony in Space, Episode 5 repeated on KQED Plus
1990 - The Invisible Enemy Omnibus repeated on

WTTW 11; and Kinda, Part 1 repeated on KQED Plus

1993 - The Seeds of Death, Episode 3 repeated on UK Gold

1994 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Part 3 repeated

 on UK Gold; and Frontios, Part 4 repeated on ABC

1995 - The Mysterious Planet, Part

2 repeated on UK Gold

1996 - The Ghosts of N-Space,

Episode 2 first broadcast on Radio 2

1997 - Colony in Space, Episode 2 repeated on UKTV

 (Aus); Day of the Daleks Omnibus repeated KQED Plus;

and The Sea Devils Omnibus repeated on UK Gold

1998 - The Gunfighters, Episode 4: The OK Corral

first screened on Space; and Castrovalva, Part

3 repeated on UKTV (Aus)

1999 - The Gunfighters, Episode 4: The

OK Corral repeated on Space; and The

King's Demons Omnibus repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2000 - The Daleks, Episode 7: The Rescue repeated

on UKTV (Aus); The Mind Robber, Episode 2 repeated

on Space; and The Mind of Evil, Episode 5 first screened

on TG4

2001 - Terror of the Zygons Omnibus repeated on UKTV

(Aus); The Stones of Blood, Part 3 first screened on Prairie

 PTV; The Creature from the Pit, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated

 on Colorado PTV; Nightmare of Eden, Parts 1 and 2 both

repeated on Iowa PTV; and Time Flight, Part 1 repeated

on BBC Prime

2002 - Frontier in Space Omnibus repeated on MPT; Genesis of 
the Daleks, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on MiND; The Robots 
of Death, Part 1 repeated on WILL; The Ribos Operation, Part

4 repeated on KUED; The Horns of Nimon, Part 1 repeated

 on Twin Cities PTV; State of Decay, Part 4 and Warriors'

Gate, Part 1 both repeated on WCET; Four to Doomsday,

Part 3 repeated on Lakeshore PTV and Part 4 repeated

on Lakeshore PTV and WQED; Kinda, Parts 3 and 4

both repeated on NHPTV; Snakedance, Parts 3 and

4 both repeated on Colorado PTV; Frontios, Parts 1

and 2 both repeated on Iowa PTV; and Ghost

Light Omnibus repeated on UK Gold 

2003 - Planet of the Spiders, Parts 5 and 6 both repeated on KQED 
Plus; The Face of Evil Omnibus repeated on BBC Kids (Can); and 
The Ghosts of N-Space, Episode 6 repeated on Radio 4 Extra

2004 - The Gunfighters, Episode 4: The OK Corral

repeated on ABC; and The Deadly Assassin, Parts

 1 and 2 both repeated on BBC Kids (Can)
2005 - The Deadly Assassin, Part 4 repeated on ABC
2006 - Battlefield, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on ABC;

The End of the World and The Unquiet Dead both first

screened on Yes Action; and Bad Wolf first screened on

 Jimmy

2007 - Carnival of Monsters Omnibus and School Reunion

both repeated on UK Gold; The End of the World repeated

on één; Father's Day repeated on BBC America; The Girl

in the Fireplace repeated on Jimmy; and Doomsday first

screened on KBS2

2008 - The End of the World repeated on WXXI

2009 - The Two Doctors, Parts 2 and 3 (of 6) both first

screened on MTV3 SciFi and TV4; World War Three and

Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown: Why On Earth? both

repeated on UKTV (Aus); The Christmas Invasion

repeated on ABC1; Midnight and Turn Left both first

screened on France 4; and Doctor Who Confidential:

Christmas Special 2008 repeated on BBC3

2010 - Father's Day repeated on Syfy (FRG); and The Idiot's

Lantern and Doctor Who Confidential: The Writer's Tale both

repeated on BBC3

2011 - Father's Day and The Empty Child both repeated on

Syfy (FRG); Doomsday repeated on Space; and Silence in

the Library repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2012 - Aliens of London repeated on BBC America; The Age

 of Steel repeated on ABC2; The Shakespeare Code repeated 

on Watch; and Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown: Friends

and Foe repeated on UKTV

2013 - The War Machines Omnibus repeated on UKTV; The Ark

in Space, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on KBTC; The Girl in the 
Fireplace repeated on UKTV (NZ); Amy's Choice and The Hungry 
Earth both repeated on Fox (FRG); A Christmas Carol repeated

on WTTW HD; The Doctor's Wife repeated on MPTV; and Night

Terrors first screened on WPT

2014 - The Brain of Morbius, Parts 1 and 2 and Mawdryn Undead,
Parts 3 and 4 all repeated on Syfy (Aus); Smith and Jones repeated
on France 4; Voyage of the Damned repeated on Syfy (Port); Victory 
of the Daleks repeated on Watch; Cold Blood and Vincent

and the Doctor both repeated on DR3; The Big Bang, The

Pandorica Opens and Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown:

Heartbreak Hotel all repeated on UKTV (Aus); A

Christmas Carol and The Impossible Astronaut both
repeated on BBC America; The Doctor, the Widow

and the Wardrobe repeated on TV3 (Spa); The Angels

Take Manhattan repeated on Ztélé; Journey to the

Centre of the TARDIS repeated on WPT; The Crimson

Horror repeated on BBC Entertainment LA; and

The Name of the Doctor first screened on KBS2

2015 - Death to the Daleks, Part 4 and Planet of the Spiders,

Part 1 both repeated on Horror; The Robots of Death, Part 3

first screened on Retro TV and Part 4 first screened on Retro

TV and repeated on Syfy (Aus); Tooth and Claw and

The Big Bang both repeated on Syfy (Aus); The Fires

of Pompeii and Planet of the Ood both repeated on

BBC America; Closing Time repeated on Watch;

The Power of Three, Doctor Who Confidential: About

a Boy and Bigger on the Inside all repeated on BBC

Entertainment AP; Hide repeated on UKTV (NZ); and

Nightmare in Silver repeated on KCPT2

2016 - The Invasion of Time, Part 4 repeated on Syfy (Aus)

and Parts 5 and 6 both repeated on Retro TV; Resurrection

of the Daleks, Parts 3 and 4 (of 4) both repeated on Horror;

 Army of Ghosts repeated on BBC America; Doomsday

repeated on BBC America and France 4; The Impossible

 Planet repeated on Watch; Amy's Choice and The Hungry 

Earth both repeated on BBC Polska HD; Night Terrors

repeated on Syfy (Aus); The Angels Take Manhattan

repeated on TV Cultura; The Time of the Doctor repeated

 on KLRU; Into the Dalek repeated on BBC Entertainment 

AP; Robot of Sherwood repeated on WGVU; and Dark

Water repeated on FX (Ind)

2017 - Actor Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE died in Cromer,

aged 77; The Time Meddler, Episode 1: The Watcher

repeated on The Zone; Nightmare of Eden, Parts 2 and

3 both repeated on Retro TV; The Long Game repeated

on FX (Ind); Voyage of the Damned, A Good Man Goes

to War, Let's Kill Hitler, Night Terrors, The Girl Who

Waited and The God Complex all repeated on Syfy (Aus);

The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon, Doctor Who

Extra: In the Forest of the Night and Death in Heaven all

repeated on BBC Polska HD; The Angels Take Manhattan

and The Bells of Saint John both repeated on France 4;

Kill the Moon repeated on KLRU; Under the Lake repeated

on BBC Entertainment EU; The Zygon Invasion, Sleep No

More, Face the Raven and Heaven Sent all repeated on

Syfy (Bra); and Class, Episode 2 first screened on Prime

2018 - Image of the Fendahl, Parts 2 and 3 and Warriors

of the Deep, Parts 1 and 2 all repeated on Retro TV; Love

& Monsters, Fear Her, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and

The Runaway Bride all repeated on Star World Premiere;

The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, Sleep No More,

Heaven Sent and Hell Bent all repeated on Syfy (LA);

The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People, A Good Man Goes to 

War, Let's Kill Hitler and Night Terrors all repeated on BBC

Polska HD; Under the Lake, The Girl Who Died, The Woman

Who Lived and The Zygon Invasion all repeated on Syfy

(Aus); The Pyramid at the End of the World repeated and

The Lie of the Land first screened, both on RAI4; and The

Renaissance Man repeated on Radio 4 Extra

2019 - 100,000 BC, Episodes 3 and 4 both repeated

on Retro TV; Planet of Evil Omnibus repeated on WSRE;

The Brain of Morbius, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on

KBTC; The Seeds of Doom Omnibus repeated on

MPTV; Meglos, Part 3 repeated on KPTS; Four to

Doomsday Omnibus repeated on Idaho PTV; The Poison

Sky, The Doctor's Daughter, The Unicorn and the Wasp,

Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead, Midnight and

Turn Left all repeated on W; Day of the Moon and The

Curse of the Black Spot both repeated on BBC Polska

HD; The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe and

Asylum of the Daleks both repeated on One ARD; 

Empress of Mars repeated on Fox (FRG); The Ghost

Monument and Rosa both first screened on RAI4;

and The Tsuranga Conundrum repeated on France 4

2020 - The Space Museum, Episodes 3 and 4 both repeated
on Retro TV; Day of the Moon repeated on Syfy (Fra); World
Enough and Time repeated on Star World Premiere; and
Fugitive of the Judoon first screened on BBC America and

CTV SciFi

2021 - The Ambassadors of Death,

Episodes 3 and 4 both repeated on

Retro TV; Rise of the Cybermen

repeated on ABC2; The Time of the

Angels repeated on Syfy (Fra); and

Closing Time repeated on BBC Polska

HD

2022 - Underworld, Parts 1 and 2 both

repeated on Retro TV; Death in Heaven

repeated on BBC Polska HD; The Pyramid

at the End of the World repeated on BBC

First Turkey; The Doctor Falls repeated on

ABC2; and Fugitive of the Judoon repeated

on NRJ12

2023 - The Vampires of Venice repeated

on Fox SciFi; Closing Time repeated on

ABC2; and Orphan 55 repeated on BBC

Entertainment EU

2024 - Fugitive of the Judoon and

Praxeus both repeated on Fox SciFi