The Doctor Who Thread

[Susan Foreman]

'No one in the Colony believes in a petrol shortage. There is no such thing as a petrol shortage. Petrol shortages do not exist … There are no petrol shortages!'

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Siren (Lily Cole) sings to the Doctor (Matt Smith) in The Curse of the Black Spot (2011)

[Susan Foreman]

Guest actors appearing in PLANET OF EVIL who have already appeared in the show:

• Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah-Jane Smith)
• Ewen Solon (Vishinsky)
• Frederick Jaeger (Sorenson)
• Prentis Hancock (Salamar)
• Michael Wisher (Moreli and Voice Of Ranjit)
• Graham Weston (De Haan)
• Louis Mahoney (Ponti)
• Tony McEwan (Baldwin)

Who: Before And After #538a

Name: Terence Brook [1924 - 1990]
Year(s): 1975
Stories: Planet Of Evil part 1
Character(s): Braun
Note: Would later appear in uncredited roles as a servant in 1983 story 'The King's Demons' and as a Retrograde in the 1984 story 'Frontios'

Before Who:
Films: The Colditz Story (1955), Madeleine (1955), Secret Venture (1955), The Holly and the Ivy (1955), The Fourpenny Box (1956), Yesterday's Enemy (1958), Crossroads to Crime (1960), Seven Keys (1961), Wonderful to Be Young! (1961), The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1962), The Punch and Judy Man (1963), August for the People (1963), Dr. Crippen (1963), The Model Murder Case (1963), Rattle of a Simple Man (1964), Goldfinger* (1964)

Television: The Vise: The Eavesdropper (1954) / The Recording Angells: A Wedding Will Not Take Place (1956) / Our Mutual Friend (1958) / The Eustace Diamonds (1959) / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: A Spoke in the Wheel (1959) / The History of Mr. Polly (1959) / Emergency-Ward 10 [2 episodes as Bob Vaughan (1959)] / Scotland Yard: Reasonable Doubt (1960) / Theatre 70: Answered Prayers (1961) / The Escape of R.D.7: Twice Bitten (1961) / BBC Sunday-Night Play [3 episodes, different characters (1962)] / No Hiding Place [3 episodes, different characters (1962-1963)] / ITV Play of the Week: The Cruel Deadline (1963) / Jezebel ex UK: Send a Telegram (1963) / The Sentimental Agent: The Scroll of Islam (1963) / The Human Jungle: Solo Performance (1964) / The Sullavan Brothers: Put Them Away for Keeps (1965) / Mrs. Thursday: Thursday's Child... (1966) / Softly Softly: Made in Britain (1966) / Honey Lane: The Killing (1967) / Dr. Finlay's Casebook: Unfit to Marry (1967) / The Champions: The Silent Enemy* (1968) / Counterstrike: Joker One (1969) / Paul Temple [2 episodes as Police Inspector (1970-1971)] / The Last of the Mohicans [3 episodes as the Huron Chief (1971)] / The Rough with the Smooth: Pilot (1971) / And Mother Makes Three: Get Mobile (1971) / The Brothers [2 episodes, different characters (1972)] / A Pin to See the Peepshow (1973) / Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (1973) / Marked Personal [2 episodes as Adrian Collins (1974)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: The Duchess of Duke Street: Plain Sailing (1976) / Poldark Poldark (1977) / The Life and Times of David Lloyd George: Win or Lose (1981) / Blake's 7: Power (1981) / Nancy Astor [2 episodes as the Speaker (1982)] / The Fourth Arm [2 episodes as Paumer (1983)]

Who: Before And After #538b

Name: Haydn Wood [? - ]
Year(s): 1975
Stories: Planet Of Evil part 1 – Planet Of Evil part 2
Character(s): O'Hara

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Softly Softly - Task Force [2 episodes, different characters (1973-1974)] / Fall of Eagles: Dress Rehearsal (1974)

After Who:
Films: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1982), Lifeforce* (1985)

Television: The Borgias (1981) / Scarecrow and Mrs. King: To Catch a Mongoose (1984) / Mixed Doubles: Home Is Where the Art Is (1985) / The Bill: Hostage (1985)

Who: Before And After #538c

Name: Melvyn Bedford [? - ]
Year(s): 1975 / 1975
Stories: Planet Of Evil part 3 – Planet Of Evil part 4 / Pyramids Of Mars part 1 – Pyramids Of Mars part 4
Character(s): Reig / Mummy

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: None

After Who:
Films: None

Television: Waiting for God: The Conference (1993) / The Bill [3 episodes, different characters (1993-1999)] / Casualty [2 episodes as PC John Milligan (1994)] / Family Money (1996) / Peak Practice: The Ghost in the Machine (1998) / EastEnders (2000) / In Deep: Blue on Blue (2001)

[Susan Foreman]

** Breaking news**

A sneak preview of the 60th anniversary episode

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) with the Ice Warrior named Friday by humans in Empress of Mars (2017)

[Susan Foreman]

Guest actors appearing in PYRAMIDS OF MARS who have already appeared in the show:

• Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah-Jane Smith)
• Bernard Archard (Marcus Scarman)
• Michael Sheard (Lawrence Scarman)
• Michael Bilton (Collins)

Who: Before And After #539

Name: Peter Copley [1915 - 2008]
Year(s): 1975
Stories: Pyramids Of Mars part 1 – Pyramids Of Mars part 2
Character(s): Dr. Warlock

Before Who:
Films: The Soul of Nicholas Snyders (1937), Troopship (1937), The Fighting Pimpernel (1949), Golden Salamander (1950), The Promoter (1952), The Hour of 13 (1952), The Sword and the Rose (1953), The New Morality (1953), The Clue of the Missing Ape (1953), Saadia (1953), Montserrat (1954), The Woman for Joe (1955), The End Begins (1956), Foreign Intrigue (1956), Peril for the Guy (1956), Time Without Pity (1957), Big Time Operators (1957), The Man Without a Body (1957), Just My Luck (1957), A Tale of Two Cities (1958), The Strange World of Planet X (1958), Mad Little Island (1958), Mystery in the Mine (1959), Follow That Horse! (1960), Victim* (1961), The Third Secret (1964), King & Country (1964), The Knack... and How to Get It (1965), Help! (1965), The Jokers (1967), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed* (1969), Tower of London: The Innocent (1969), Mosquito Squadron (1969), All at Sea (1969), Walk a Crooked Path (1969), Jane Eyre (1970), The Laughing Stock of Television (1971), What Became of Jack and Jill? (1972), That's Your Funeral (1972), Gawain and the Green Knight (1973), Miss Nightingale (1974), Hennessy (1975)

Television: The Pickwick Papers [5 episodes as Mr. Alfred Jingle (1952-1953)] / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre [6 episodes, different characters (1952-1959)] / Wednesday Theatre: Great Catherine (1953) / The Passing Show: All Our Yesterdays (1953) / Sherlock Holmes [2 episodes, different characters (1954)] / Patrol Car: Against the Evidence (1955) / Nom-de-Plume: The Man with a Hundred Hands (1956) / The Other Man [5 episodes as Ralph Merson (1956)] / David Copperfield (1956) / Television World Theatre: The Government Inspector (1958) / Television Playwright [3 episodes, different characters (1958)] / The Last Chronicle of Barset [3 episodes as Mr. Thumble (1959)] / The Naked Lady [4 episodes as Laurence Odell (1959)] / Theatre Night: A Clean Kill (1960) / Don't Do It Dempsey: Travelling Hopefully (1960) / No Hiding Place: The Last Flight of the Eel (1960) / Maigret: Unscheduled Departure (1960) / Hamlet [2 episodes as a Ghost (1961)] / Dimensions of Fear [4 episodes as Prof. Meredith (1963)] / Compact [2 episodes as Mr. Charlton (1963)] / The Avengers: The White Dwarf (1963) / Suspense: The Honest Man (1963) / The Plane Makers: A Job for the Major (1964) / Secret Agent: Yesterday's Enemies (1964) / Redcap: A Town Called Love (1964) / Detective [2 episodes, different characters (1964-1969)] / Thorndyke [6 episodes as Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke (1964)] / The Saint: The Sign of the Claw (1965) / It's Dark Outside: Specimens Walk on Their Hind Legs, Too (1965) / Riviera Police: Past Indefinite - Future Imperfect (1965) / Out of the Unknown: Stranger in the Family (1965) / Knock on Any Door [2 episodes, different characters (1965-1966)] / Softly Softly: A-Z (1966) / A Game of Murder [5 episodes as Norman Penn (1966)] / BBC Play of the Month: The Devil's Eggshell (1966) / Our Man at St. Mark's: Are You There? (1966) / Blackmail: The Setup (1966) / ITV Sunday Night Drama: Four Triumphant - St Patrick (1966) / Intrigue: Mr. Jenkins Is a Very Fair Man (1966) / The Troubleshooters [2 episodes, different characters (1966-1969)] / ITV Play of the Week: The Investigation (1967) / The Wednesday Play: Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness (1967) / The Forsyte Saga [3 episodes as the Rev. Hilary Charwell (1967)] / Half Hour Story: Dead Certainty (1967) / Sanctuary: Has Everyone Heard of Juliet? (1967) / The Informer: Your Secrets Are Safe with Us, Mr Lambert (1967) / Theatre 625: The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1968) / The Expert: Liars, Damn Liars (1968) / City '68: The System - Keep Out of Sight (1968) / ITV Playhouse: The Night of Talavera (1968) / The Avengers: All Done with Mirrors* (1968) / The Champions: Project Zero (1968) / Imperial Palace [4 episodes as Emile Cousin (1969)] / The Prior Commitment [5 episodes as Cadwaller (1969)] / Out of the Unknown: Immortality Inc (1969) / The Gold Robbers [4 episodes as Asst. Commissioner Farr (1969)] / Department S: Death on Reflection (1969) / Manhunt: Fare Forward, Voyagers (1970) / Paul Temple: Mr Wallace Predicts (1970) / Doomwatch: Burial at Sea (1970) / NBC Experiment in Television: The Engagement (1970) / Kate: The Man Who Broke the Rules (1970) / Big Brother: The Eleventh Commandment (1970) / Bless This House: Another Fine Mess...* (1971) / Hadleigh: The Sealed Offer (1971) / Out of the Unknown: Taste of Evil (1971) / Z Cars: System (1971) / You're Only Young Twice [6 episodes as Peter (1971)] / The Brothers: Confrontation (1972) / Clochemerle: The Inexorable Power of the Third Republic (1972) / The Regiment: A Gentleman's War (1972) / Callan: The Carrier (1972) / The Man Outside: Hawk Street Horror (1972) / Softly Softly - Task Force: Spit and Polish (1972) / The Long Chase [5 episodes as Morrison (1972)] / Justice: Divorce (1973) / Follyfoot: The Bridge Builder (1973) / Armchair 30: Simon Fenton's Story (1973) / Armchair Theatre: Beyond Our Means (1973) / The Dragon's Opponent [2 episodes as Dr. Gough (1973)] / Arthur of the Britons: Six Measures of Silver (1973) / Vienna 1900: A Confirmed Bachelor (1973) / Crown Court [7 episodes, different characters (1973-1978)] / Fall of Eagles [2 episodes as Bethmann-Hollweg (1974)] / Father Brown: The Curse of the Golden Cross (1974) / The Venturers: The Leak (1975) / Survivors: The Fourth Horseman (1975) / Sky: Chariot of Fire (1975) / The Hill of the Red Fox [3 episodes as Major Cassell (1975)]

After Who:
Films: Shout at the Devil (1976), Peer Gynt (1976), The Black Panther (1977), Churchill and the Generals (1979), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980), Witness for the Prosecution (1982), Androcles and the Lion (1983), Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987), Empire of the Sun (1987), The Importance of Being Earnest (1988), A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992), Second Best (1994), Far from the Madding Crowd (1998), Janice Beard 45 WPM (1999), Kingdom of Heaven: Directors Cut (2005), Oliver Twist (2005), Riot at the Rite (2005)

Television: Prometheus - The Life of Balzac [2 episodes as Doctor Nacquart (1975)] / Seeing and Believing: John Clifford (1836-1923) (1976) / Sutherland's Law: Small Print (1976) / Bill Brand [4 episodes as Cedric Maddocks (1976)] / The Cedar Tree: Anne (1976) / The New Avengers: Cat Amongst the Pigeons* (1976) / Three Piece Suite: Bitter Suite: Entrance Fee: Public Lives (1977) / The Foundation [21 episodes as Dr. Richard Montagu (1977-1978)] / Anna Karenina [2 episodes as the Priest (1977)] / The Famous Five: Five on Finniston Farm( (1978) / Flambards: The Inheritance (1979) / Premiere: Rabbit Pie Day (1980) / Tales of the Unexpected: There's One Born Every Minute (1981) / Bless Me Father: A Legend Comes to Stay (1981) / Play for Today: United Kingdom (1981) / The Gentle Touch: Vigil (1982) / Into the Labyrinth: Xanadu (1982) / The Chinese Detective: Pasts (1982) / Jackanory Playhouse: The Magic of Monday (1982) / The Forgotten Story (1983) / Nanny: Into the Blitz (1983) / Caught in a Free State [2 episodes as Sir John Maffey (1983)] / Strangers and Brothers [2 episodes as Despard-Smith (1984)] / The Prisoner of Zenda [2 episodes as Marshal Strakencz (1984)] / Artists and Models: Men and Wild Horses (1986) / King of the Ghetto [2 episodes as Vicar (1986)] / Return to Treasure Island [4 episodes as Dr. Livesey (1986)] / Hudson Frontier (1986), Screenplay: The Trial of Klaus Barbie (1987) / Never Say Die [5 episodes as George (1987)] / Hot Metal: Religion of the People (1988) / One Foot in the Grave: The Eternal Quadrangle (1990) / The Paper Man (1990), Poirot: The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (1991) / Casualty [4 episodes, different characters (1991-1999)] / Josie (1991) / Moon and Son: Where No Birds Sing (1992) / Ruth Rendell Mysteries: An Unwanted Woman (1992) / Grange Hill (1993) / Lovejoy: Lovejoy Loses It (1993) / All or Nothing at All (1993) / Cadfael [4 episodes as Abbot Heribert (1994)] / Jonathan Creek: The Scented Room (1998) / The Bill: Badlands (1999) / Where the Heart Is: Flesh and Blood (1999) / Wives and Daughters [3 episodes as Robinson (1999)] / Strange: Pilot (2002) / Doctors: Cast the First Stone (2002) / The Last Detective: Lofty (2003) / The Color of Magic (2008)

[Susan Foreman]

The Evil Of The Daleks

WOW! What an incredible story. It's one that I had absolutely no knowledge of, apart from seeing the existing episode 2 - I was too young to see the original transmission, I don't have the Target book, I have not heard the storybook version and I have never seen the telesnaps - and it blew me away

It's an incredible story, and the three hour run time flew by. I cannot really comment on the animation because I found the actual story engrossing. Alongside 'Fury From The Deep', it is now the story that I most want to be found

However...I do think that the final battle on Skaro fell a bit flat, but that maybe because I was so overwhelmed by the story. I also think that the animation didn't do full justice to Marius Goring's incredible facial hair!

One thing I did notice early in the story...The Doctor and Jamie are walking along an alley. On the walls of the alley are bands and concert flyers. One of these posters seemed to be advertising a concert by The Who at The Birdcage on June 11th (1967?). Now, the only 'Birdcage' that I know of where The Who used to play regularly was the one in Portsmouth, but why would a Portsmouth concert be advertised in London? Either I saw it wrongly or the person who animated the scene came from Portsmouth and was having an in-joke. Either way it's wrong because the band didn't play The Birdcage on June 11th 1967 - they played Northern Ireland on June 9th and Cambridge on June 12th [Maybe the concert on the 11th was cancelled!]

Shada

Shada is the infamous never completed or screened Tom Baker story. It's one I have in my collection, but I have only bothered watching the VHS release once and the (original) DVD release the same amount of times. It bores me, and I find that Tom Baker's linking narration was tiresome, so when I saw a copy of the latest Blu-Ray release in CEX I was in two minds whether I should get it or not - the completist in me said 'yes', while the sensible head (with an eye on the [lack of] money in my purse) said 'no'!

I went with my heart and got it!!

The Blu-Ray is a lot better than the previous releases. With the part animation, the story makes a lot more sense now and, while it is no masterpiece, is it certainly watchable

I do think that it was a mistake to release it as a single 138 minute episode though. It should have been available as a six part adventure like it was intended to be seen

It also reminded me why I fell in love with Lalla Ward at such an early age!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The cover of the BBC Doctor Who Sound Effects record released in 1978.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #540a

Name: Peter Mayock [1940 - 1998]
Year(s): 1975 / 1976
Stories: Pyramids Of Mars part 1 – Pyramids Of Mars part 2 / The Deadly Assassin part 3
Character(s): Ibrahim Namin / Solis

Before Who:
Films: A Guy Called Caesar (1962), The Face of Fu Manchu* (1965), Ulysses (1967), Wedding Night (1969), The Becauseway (1971), Slater's Day (1974)

Television: The Wright People [18 episodes as Ronnie Wright (1959)] / Armchair Mystery Theatre: Flight from Treason (1960) / Triton (1961) / Love Story: A Cure for Tin Ear (1965) / Insurrection [2 episodes as Second Lieutenant Chalmers (1966)] / The Wednesday Play: A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant (1967) / The Newcomers [2 episodes as Dan Ducket (1967)] / Sam and Janet (1968) / Virgin of the Secret Service: The Pyramid Plot (1968) / Mr. Rose: The Dead Commercial (1968) / The Very Merry Widow: Animal Crackers in My Group (1968) / ITV Playhouse: Murder: Identikit (1969) / Fraud Squad: Turbot on Ice* (1969) / The Flaxton Boys [2 episodes, different characters (1970-1973)] / Armchair Theatre: The Breaking of Colonel Keyser (1972) / My Old Man [9 episodes as Cyril (1974-1975)] / Z Cars [2 episodes as the Doctor (1975)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Emmerdale Farm [2 episodes as Dr. Evans (1976)] / Play for Today: Spend Spend Spend (1977)

Who: Before And After #540b

Name: Vik Tablian [1937 - ]
Year(s): 1975
Stories: Pyramids Of Mars part 1
Character(s): Ahmed

Before Who:
Films: Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Television: None

After Who:
Films: The Message (1976), Midnight Express (1978), Sphinx* (1981), The Monster Club (1981), Raiders of the Lost Ark* [played 2 characters] (1981), Trenchcoat (1984), Sakharov (1984), Eleni (1985), Navy Seals (1990), Hard Men (1996), The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure (2000), South Kensington (2001), Between Iraq and a Hard Place (2003), Twelfth Night, or What You Will (2003), Blind Flight (2003), The Promise (2016)

Television: Well Anyway: Be That as It May (1976) / BBC2 Play of the Week: Exiles (1977) / Sexton Blake and the Demon God (1978) / Dick Barton: Special Agent (1979) / ITV Playhouse: The Reaper (1979) / Screenplay: The Sound of Guns (1979) / The Assassination Run [2 episodes as Costain (1980)] / The Professionals: Hijack (1980) / Tales of the Unexpected: Would You Believe It? (1981) / Yes Minister: The Moral Dimension (1982) / Reilly - Ace of Spies: An Affair with a Married Woman (1983) / Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: If I Were a Carpenter (1983) / EastEnders [3 episodes as Mustapha (1985-1986)] / Rockliffe's Babies: Hearts and Flowers (1988) / South of the Border (1988) / The Paradise Club: Snow Business (1990) / Kinsey: I've Been Nutmegged, Done Up Like a Kipper (1991) / The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal (1992) / The Knock [2 episodes as Issat Assan (1999)] / Believe Nothing: Get Rich Quick (2002) / The Bill: Moving Target (2007)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Imperial Daleks attend Coal Hill School in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)