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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The textless dvd artwork by Lee Binding for the fifth Doctor story Kinda (1982)

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The textless dvd artwork by Lee Binding for the fifth Doctor story Kinda (1982)

For me, the opening of the Kinda box at the end of episode 2 was one of the most tense, edge-of-the-seat, sweaty palm moments in the entire history of the show

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #485a

Name: Dennis Bowen (1916 – 1999)
Year(s): 1973
Stories: Frontier In Space episode 3 – Frontier In Space episode 4
Character(s): Prison Governer

Before Who:
Films: The Dinner Was Deadly (1946), Five Ways to Paradise (1946), 1066 and All That (1947), A Word in Your Eye (1947), The Two Bouquets (1947), Lovers' Meeting or, a Handbook to Courting (1947), La vie parisienne (1948), Derby Day (1948), Jolly Roger (1948), Balalaika (1948), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1948), Big Ben (1949), A Word in Your Eye (1949), The Malory Secret (1951), Wall of Death (1951), La belle Helene (1951)
Television: Don't Look Now [6 episodes (1950)] / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew (1952) / The Tony Hancock Show: Napoleon and Josephine (1957) / Jim's Inn (1957), Out of the Unknown: The Little Black Bag (1969) / Paul Temple: Mr Wallace Predicts (1970)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #485b

Name: Lawrence Harrington (1938 – )
Year(s): 1973
Stories: Frontier In Space episode 3
Character(s): Lunar Guard
Note: Had previously had an uncredited role as the voice of a man in The Mind of Evil

Before Who:
Films: The Ragged Thieves (1955), Struck Off (1962), Julius Caesar* (1970)

Television: Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School [11 episodes as Frank Nugent (1956-1957)] / Armchair Theatre: Come in Razor Red (1960) / Z Cars [4 episodes, different characters (1969-1972)] / The Black Tulip [3 episodes as War veteran (1970)] / Happy Ever After: The Marriage Vow (1970)

After Who:
Films: Wipers Three (1973), The Boys in Blue (1982), Don't Open Till Christmas (1984), Car Trouble (1986), Out of Order (1987), Afraid of the Dark (1987), Interview Day (1996), Julie and the Cadillacs (1999)
Television: Six Days of Justice: We'll Support You Evermore (1973) / Softly Softly - Task Force: A Quiet Man (1973) / The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs: The Defector (1974) / Upstairs, Downstairs: Facing Fearful Odds (1974) / Doctor on the Go [2 episodes, different characters (1975-1977)] / The Sweeney: Visiting Fireman (1976) / Van der Valk: The Professor (1977) / Space: 1999 [2 episodes, different characters (1976-1977)] / Warrior Queen [3 episodes as Marcellus (1978)] / Pennies from Heaven: Painting the Clouds (1978) / Law & Order: A Brief's Tale (1978) / Tycoon: What Price a Life (1978) / Horse in the House: Strangles (1979) / Agony: Help (1979) / Grange Hill (1980) / Armchair Thriller: Fear of God (1980) / Worzel Gummidge [4 episodes as Cyril Edmunds (1980-1981)] / On the Line (1982) / Jockey School [4 episodes as Vic Favell (1982)] / A Brother's Tale (1983) / Minder: If Money Be the Food of Love, Play on (1984) / Storyboard: King & Castle (1985) / Prospects: Running All the Way (1986) / Yesterday's Dreams: Getting Near Enough (1987) / Boon: Never Say Trevor Again (1988) / Traffik: The Courier (1989) / Lazarus & Dingwall: The Whisper of a Bat's Wing (1991) / Lovejoy: Sugar & Spice (1991) / The Bill: Addict (1991) / Love Hurts: Walk Right Back (1992) / Poirot: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1992) / Screen Two: Dead Romantic (1993) / Every Silver Lining [3 episodes as Les (1993)] / Pie in the Sky: The Best of Both Worlds (1994) / Class Act (1995) / Loved by You: Met Someone (1997) / Dalziel and Pascoe: Ruling Passion (1997)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Sontarans as seen in The Two Doctors (1985)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #486a

Name: Bill Wilde (1940 – ) [also credited as William Wilde]
Year(s): 1973
Stories: Frontier In Space episode 4 – Frontier In Space episode 5
Character(s): Draconian Captain
Note: Also provided the voice for 'Patient Zero' in the story 'The Eleventh Hour'

Before Who:
Films: Jungle Street Girls (1960), The Blood Beast Terror* (1968)

Television: The Villains: Over the Hill (1964) / Armchair Theatre: Old Soldiers (1964) / Public Eye: They Go Off in the End, Like Fruit (1965) / Sherlock Holmes: The Retired Colourman (1965) / ITV Play of the Week: The Edwardians #1 - the Walls of Jericho (1965) / Undermind: Song of Death (1965) / Emergency-Ward 10 [70 episodes as Dr. Brook (1965-1967)] / Dr. Finlay's Casebook: Persons Unknown (1967) / Softly Softly: Major Incident (1968) / The Avengers: Get-A-Way!* (1968) / The Saint: The World Beater (1969) / The Main Chance: With All My Worldly Goods (1969) / Department S: The Man Who Got a New Face* (1969) / Doomwatch: Train and De-Train (1970) / Softly Softly - Task Force: Who Wants Pride...? (1970)

After Who:
Films: Steven (1974), Galileo (1975), The Apocalypse Watch (1997), Parting Shots (1998), Soho Square (2000), Jack of Diamonds (2001)
Television: The Jensen Code (1973) / New Scotland Yard: The Trojan Horse (1974) / Notorious Woman: Prelude (1974) / Thriller: Look Back in Happiness* (1975) / Ten from the Twenties: Two or Three Graces (1975) / Within These Walls: Prison Cat (1975) / Oil Strike North: The Fatal Hours (1975) / Poldark (1975) / Dixon of Dock Green: Legacy (1976) / Survivors: A Friend in Need (1976) / The Expert: Fail Safe (1976) / The Canal Children [4 episodes as Charlie the Mule (1976)] / The Mackinnons [10 episodes as Ian Turner (1977)] / Breakaway Girls: Sarah Carter (1978) / 1990: Young Sparks (1978) / Accident [2 episodes as Ted Pearce (1978-1979)] / Danger UXB: Just Like a Woman (1979) / The Aphrodite Inheritance [6 episodes as Eric Morrison (1979)] / The Omega Factor: St. Anthony's Fire (1979) / Shoestring: Stamp Duty (1979) / Buccaneer [3 episodes as Don Saunders (1980)] / Ladykillers: Not for the Nervous (1980) / The Onedin Line: The Honeymoon (1980) / Airline: Look After Number One (1982) / The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1982) / Smiley's People (1982) / Reilly: Ace of Spies: Gambit (1983) / Maths Counts: Drawing the Line (1984) / Lytton's Diary: Rules of Engagement (1986)

Who: Before And After #486b

Name: Clifford Elkin (1935 – 2012)
Year(s): 1973
Stories: Frontier In Space episode 5
Character(s): Earth Cruiser Captain

Before Who:
Films: Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Lisa (1962), Stranglehold (1963), The Crimson Blade (1963)
Television: Time Is the Enemy (1958), ITV Television Playhouse: Two Dozen Red Roses (1958) /Television Playwright: Thirty Pieces of Silver (1958) / Murder Bag: Lockhart Calls the Tune (1958) / Saturday Playhouse: The Man Who Came to Dinner (1960) / Armchair Theatre: Lena, O My Lena (1960) / The Mystery of Edwin Drood [7 episodes as Neville Landless (1960)] / The Avengers: Brought to Book (1961) / You Can't Win: Greater Than Fear (1961) / Sir Francis Drake: The Prisoner* (1961) / Studio 4: The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1962) / Compact [2 episodes as Cesare (1962)] / Zero One: Big Sister (1962) / The Sentimental Agent: The Scroll of Islam (1963) / Z Cars: Cage Until Tame (1964) / ITV Play of the Week: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1964) / Crossroads (1964), Orlando [5 episodes as Crown Prince Urandi (1966)] / Uncle Charles: Mrs Philipe Is Hurt (1967) / Dixon of Dock Green: Sleigh Ride (1971)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) chases the space pig through a hospital in Aliens of London (2005)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #487

Name: Tim Preece (1938 – )
Year(s): 1973
Stories: Planet Of The Daleks episode 1 – Planet Of The Daleks episode 6
Character(s): Codal
Note: Also appeared as The President in the 2003 Big Finish Productions 'Doctor Who Unbound' audio story 'He Jests at Scars....'

Before Who:
Films: Crossplot* (1969)

Television: Mr. Pastry's Pet Shop [2 episodes as PC Jenkins (1962)] / 24-Hour Call: Love for Caroline (1963) / Love Story: A Girl Like Me (1964) ./ The Sullavan Brothers: Ward of Court (1964) / Redcap: Nightwatch (1964) / Mystery and Imagination: The Tractate Middoth (1966) / Armchair Theatre: Don't Utter a Note* (1966) / Lord Raingo [2 episodes as Geoffrey Raingo (1966)] / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Friday Night's the Best Night (1966) / This Man Craig: Chris and the Wheelbarrow (1967) / ITV Play of the Week: Present Laughter (1967) / Seven Deadly Virtues: The Whole Truth (1967) / Theatre 625: Sword of Honour #2 (1967) / Theatre 625: The Fantasist (1967) / The Possessed [6 episodes as Kirilov (1969)] / The Expert: Playing with Fire (1969) / Ivanhoe [7 episodes as Prince John (1970)]

After Who:
Films: Out of the Trees (1976), Act of Rape (1977), Playhouse: the Combination (1982), Brimstone & Treacle (1982), Red Monarch (1983), Flying Into the Wind (1983), Events in a Museum (1983), Terry on the Fence (1986), Shadowlands (1986), God's Chosen Car Park (1986), The Plant (1995), Feast of July (1995), The Wyvern Mystery (2000), Vanity Fair (2004), Frances Tuesday (2004), The Year London Blew Up: 1974 (2005), The Queen's Sister (2005), The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton (2006), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008), The Ghost Writer (2010), A Prominent Patient (2016), Sitting in Limbo (2020)
Television: Churchill's People: The Conquerors (1975) / Play for Today: Funny Farm (1975) / BBC2 Playhouse: Diane (1975)/ Against the Crowd: Blind Man's Buff (1975) / Making Faces [6 episodes as Stuart (1975)] / The Glittering Prizes: A Country Life (1976) / Westway [5 episodes as Graham Lawrence (1976)] / Angels: Somewhere to Go (1976) / The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin* [9 episodes as Tom (1977)] / Kilvert's Diary [2 episodes as Dr. Clouston (1977)] / Emmerdale Farm [9 episodes as Ian Hepton (1978)] / The Deep Concern [6 episodes as Nigel Jackson (1979)] / ITV Playhouse: Too Close to the Edge (1980) / Forgive Our Foolish Ways [4 episodes as Cameron Worrell (1980)] / The Glamour Girls [2 episodes as Donald (1980)] / Crown Court: Proof Spirits (1981) / The Bagthorpe Saga [5 episodes as Uncle Parker (1981)] / Maybury: Eddie (1981) / The World About Us: The Forgotten Voyage (1982) / Pull the Other One [6 episodes as Terry (1984)] / Dempsey and Makepeace: Out of Darkness (1986) / Late Expectations (1987) / Porterhouse Blue [3 episodes as Dr. Messmer (1987)] / A Very Peculiar Practice: May the Force Be with You (1988) / The Bill [5 episodes, different characters (1988-2007) / Brookside (1989) / Take Me Home [3 episodes as Ray (1989)] / Nice Work [2 episodes as Bob Busby (1989)] / Making News: Yes, We Have No Secrets (1990) / EastEnders (1990) / Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1990) / Perfect Scoundrels: Grandmother's Footsteps (1991) / Casualty: Cascade (1992) / Screen Two: The Law Lord (1992) / Forever Green (1992) / Growing Rich [5 episodes as Kim (1992)] / Virtual Murder: Dreams Imagic (1992) / Love Hurts: If the Cap Fits (1993) / A Year in Provence [2 episodes as Harry (1993)] / Screen One: Money for Nothing (1993) / The Chief (1994) / Class Act (1994) / Waiting for God [5 episodes as the Rev. Dennis Sparrow (1994)] / Against All Odds: Lost and Found (1994) / Jake's Progress (1995) / Just William: William Turns Over a New Leaf (1995) / Into the Fire [3 episodes as Barry (1996)] / Harry's Mad: Spooks (1996) / Grange Hill (1996) / Expert Witness: The Answer's in the Soil (1996) / The Legacy of Reginald Perrin [7 episodes as Tom Patterson (1996)] / McLibel! (1997) / Plotlands [6 episodes as Mr. Clarke (1997)] / As Time Goes By: The House Next Door (1997) / Chalk: Dreams (1997) / Bloomin' Marvellous [4 episodes as Doug (1997)] / Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Childsplay (1998) / Noah's Ark: Stormy Weather (1998) / Kiss Me Kate: Teeth (1999) / Dalziel and Pascoe: A Sweeter Lazarus (2000) / People Like Us: The Journalist (2001) / Sweet Revenge (2001) / Rescue Me (2002) / Attachments [2 episodes as David (2002)] / Midsomer Murders: A Tale of Two Hamlets (2003) / My Uncle Silas: The Race (2003) / Spine Chillers: Bradford in My Dreams (2003) / Roger Roger: Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose (2003) / Peep Show: Dream Job (2003) / Doctors: 'Til Death Do Us Part (2003) / Foyle's War: War Games (2003) / Fingersmith (2005) / The Robinsons (2005) / Coronation Street [4 episodes as Reverend Michael (2005)] / Prime Suspect 7 - The Final Act (2006) / Great News (2006) / Monday Monday (2009) / Come Fly with Me (2011) / Silent Witness: The Legacy (2013) / 1066: A Year to Conquer England [3 episodes as Edward the Confessor (2017)] / Holby City: Left Behind (2017)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Leela (Louise Jameson) and the Doctor (Tom Baker) in The Invasion of Time (1978)

[iank]

Been watching some series 9 of late and - gasp - didn't hate it. The Zygon 2 parter is dumb, the immigration metaphor is as subtle as a half brick to the face and they should not have used the Zygons for this, but it was watchable enough. I dug the cliffhanger and the Clara twist. And Sleep No More, which I quite liked too. The major issue again is the concept behind the monsters, which makes zero sense and is very silly, even if I liked the idea of the Morpheus machine itself. But it's got a good atmosphere and I liked the ending, even if the found footage riff seems wholly unnecessary.
Maybe I'm going soft...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

Been watching some series 9 of late and - gasp - didn't hate it. The Zygon 2 parter is dumb, the immigration metaphor is as subtle as a half brick to the face and they should not have used the Zygons for this, but it was watchable enough. I dug the cliffhanger and the Clara twist. And Sleep No More, which I quite liked too. The major issue again is the concept behind the monsters, which makes zero sense and is very silly, even if I liked the idea of the Morpheus machine itself. But it's got a good atmosphere and I liked the ending, even if the found footage riff seems wholly unnecessary.
Maybe I'm going soft...

Series 9 was my worst series since the 2005 reboot. Following the Davros two parter it goes downhill very quickly. The rest is very poor in my opinion except Face the Raven.

And then series 11 and the Chibnall era came along