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[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #581

Name: David McKail [1938 - ]
Year(s): 1977
Stories: The Talons Of Weng-Chiang part 1 – The Talons Of Weng-Chiang part 2
Character(s): Sergeant Kyle

Before Who:
Films: Who Fought Alone: Epitaph on a Scottish Soldier (1958), Life at the Top* (1965), The Battle of Britain* (1969), Miss Nightingale (1974), The Fortune Hunters (1976)

Television: Thirty Minute Theatre: Death of a Gladiator (1963) / The Brothers Karamazov [2 episodes as the Police Secretary (1965)] / Front Page Story: The Temptation of Sir Anthony (1965) / Jury Room: The Love Letters (1965) / Dr. Finlay's Casebook [2 episodes, different characters (1966)] / Let's Go Out: Bridges (1966) / Redcap: Buckingham Palace (1966) / Softly Softly: All That Glitters (1966) / Scottish Playbill: No Kind of Hero (1966) / Z Cars: Play It Hot, Play It Cool (1967) / Escape: Five Men for Freedom (1967) / The Revenue Men: Combined Operation (1968) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: My Bonnie Jean (1969) / The Inside Man: Death of a Friendship (1969) / The Wednesday Play: The Vortex (1969) / Wicked Women: Alice Rhodes (1970) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Waugh on Crime - In Which Inspector Waugh Encounters the English Class System (1970) / The Brothers [2 episodes as Jim Waters (1973)] / New Scotland Yard: Weight of Evidence (1973) / Helen - A Woman of Today [2 episodes as Peter (1973)] / Crown Court: No Spoiling (1973) / Hawkeye, the Pathfinder [5 episodes as Corporal Mackay (1973)] / Fall of Eagles: The Honest Broker* (1974) / Five Red Herrings [3 episodes as John Ferguson (1975)] / Two's Company: The Burglary (1977)

After Who:
Films: The Four Feathers (1978), Return to Sula (1978), Boswell for the Defence (1983), The Gospel According to Vic (1986), Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter (1990), Silent Scream (1990), The Other Side (1992), Jolly a Man for All Seasons (1994), The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (1999), Hawking (2004), Death Defying Acts (2007), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Captain America: The First Avenger* (2011), Paddington (2014)

Television: Poldark [2 episodes as Alexander Craig (1977)] / 1990 [6 episodes as Inspector Macrae (1978)] / Grange Hill (1979) / Ladykillers: Miss Madeleine Smith (1980) / Angels (1980) / ITV Playhouse: Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1981) / Strangers: A Dear Green Place (1981) / Crown Court: A Sword in the Hand of David (1983) / Murder Not Proven?: Death on the Mountain (1984) / Oliver Twist [2 episodes as Doctor Losberne (1985)] / First Among Equals [4 episodes as Douglas Stewart (1986)] / The Charmer: Gorse, the Tempter (1987) / Taggart: The Killing Philosophy (1987) / A Very British Coup [3 episodes as Robertson (1988)] / City Lights: It's a Wonderful Life, Too (1988) / High Road [8 episodes as Councillor Robert Watt (1989-1990)] / Your Cheatin' Heart: This Could Turn Septic on Us, Ya Big Ungrateful Midden (1990) / The Advocates [3 episodes as Roderick Lennox (1991)] / Waiting for God: Glamorous Grannies (1991) / Lovejoy: Out to Lunch (1992) / Van der Valk: Proof of Life (1992) / A Touch of Frost [20 episodes as Dr. McKenzie (1992-2008)] / Strathblair: Past and Present (1992) / Doctor Finlay: The Return* (1993) / Heartbeat: Bringing It All Back Home (1993) / The Crow Road: Prentice (1996) / Jonathan Creek: Mother Redcap (1998) / People Like Us: The Photographer (1999) / The Bill: Search Me (2000) / Chambers: The Masons (2000) / One Foot in the Grave: The Futility of the Fly (2000) / Brotherly Love: I'll Take the High Life (2000) / Close & True [2 episodes as Judge Phillips (2000)] / Monarch of the Glen (2001) / ChuckleVision: Lost and Floundering (2001) / Mr Charity: Helping People to Help Themselves (2001) / Black Books: The Entertainer (2002) / tlc: Sectioned (2002) / My Family: Blind Justice (2003) / The Last King (2003) / William and Mary (2005) / Extras: Jonathan Ross (2006) / Wire in the Blood: The Names of Angels (2007) / Casualty: Blood (2009)

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Available soon in all good stores.

Slack, shoddy and a cheap cash in!

It *isn't* Dan's wok - it's Dan's *MAM'S* wok!

From the episode:

DOCTOR: We have to get the Sontarans out of the Crimea. But the rest is on you, Dan.
DAN: I was worried you were going to say that.
DOCTOR: The first wave of ships in the Sontaran Temporal Offensive are about to launch. You have to stop those ships leaving.
DAN: How am I supposed to do that?
DOCTOR: What resources do you have?
DAN: A wok.
DOCTOR: I'm sorry, what? Why have you got a wok?
DAN: It's me Mam's. For hitting them on the probic thingy.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Slack, shoddy and a cheap cash in!

It *isn't* Dan's wok - it's Dan's *MAM'S* wok!

From the episode:

DOCTOR: We have to get the Sontarans out of the Crimea. But the rest is on you, Dan.
DAN: I was worried you were going to say that.
DOCTOR: The first wave of ships in the Sontaran Temporal Offensive are about to launch. You have to stop those ships leaving.
DAN: How am I supposed to do that?
DOCTOR: What resources do you have?
DAN: A wok.
DOCTOR: I'm sorry, what? Why have you got a wok?
DAN: It's me Mam's. For hitting them on the probic thingy.

It's a joke. It's not real. No need for the pedantry explanation.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The cold as ice Kane (Edward Peel) in Dragonfire (1987)

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It's a joke. It's not real

I was actually aware of that!

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

No need for the pedantry explanation.

To (mis)quote The Doctor: "That's No point to being grown up if you can't be pedantic sometimes"

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #582

Name: Chris Gannon [1931 - 1983]
Year(s): 1977
Stories: The Talons Of Weng-Chiang part 1 – The Talons Of Weng-Chiang part 4
Character(s): Casey

Before Who:
Films: Design for a Headstone (1962), Poor Cow (1967), Star! (1968), Tales from the Crypt (1972), A Private Enterprise (1974), The Girl from Starship Venus (1975), The Office Party (1976)
Television: ITV Play of the Week: The Quare Fellow (1958) / Scotland Yard: Night Beat (1960) / No Hiding Place [3 episodes, different characters (1962-1965)] / Z Cars [6 episodes, different characters (1962-1974)] / Playboy of the Western World (1964), Festival: Bloomsday (1964) / Jury Room: Traitor (1965) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sugar Cubes (1966) / Softly Softly: The Key (1966) / North and South [2 episodes as Irish man (1966)] / Mickey Dunne: Come on In, the Water's Fine (1967) / The Informer: The Flat Season (1967) / The Gnomes of Dulwich (1969) / Doctor in the House: The Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Casino (1969) / Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased): But What a Sweet Little Room* (1969) / The Rovers: Slipway (1970) / The Liver Birds: The Wedding (1971) / Coppers End: The Box of Blood (1971) / Armchair Theatre: Ireland, Mother Ireland (1971) / The Sinners: One Man, One Boat, One Girl (1971) / The Onedin Line: The High Price (1971) / Dad's Army: A Brush with the Law (1972) / The Fenn Street Gang [2 episodes, different characters (1972)] / Dixon of Dock Green [2 episodes, different characters (1975)] / The Upper Crusts: Decline and Fall (1973) / Jack the Ripper: The First Two* (1973) / Doctor in Charge: The Garden Fete (1973) / Jackanory Playhouse: The Carpet Weaver of Samarkand (1975) / Churchill's People: The Fine Art of Bubble-Blowing (1975) / Six Days of Justice: The Brief Facts (1975) / Poldark (1975) / BBC Play of the Month: Trilby (1976) / Gangsters [2 episodes as the IRA Unit Commander (1976)]

After Who:
Films: Yesterday's Hero (1979), Bud 'n' Ches (1981)
Television: Seven Faces of Woman: She - Carol (1977) / Play for Today: Nipper (1977) / Pennies from Heaven: Painting the Clouds (1978) / The Law Centre: The Galahad Bit (1978) / BBC2 Play of the Week: Another Day (1978) / Kidnapped: Uncle Ebenezer (1978) / Room Service [7 episodes as Horace Murphy (1979)] / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Case of Identity (1979) / We, the Accused (1980) / Maybury: Hugo (1981) / The Day of the Triffids (1981) / World's End [3 episodes as Paddy (1981)] / Armchair Thriller: The Chelsea Murders (1981)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Jamie (Fraser Hines) and Victoria (Deborah Watling) discover the pyramid of silver spheres in a cave in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #583a

Name: Conrad Asquith [1945 - ]
Year(s): 1977
Stories: The Talons Of Weng-Chiang part 1 – The talons Of Weng-Chiang part 2
Character(s): PC Percival Quick

Note:
Reprised the role of PC Quick, (who was later promoted to Sergeant Quick and then Inspector Quick), in numerous audio stories:

• In the Big Finish 'Worlds of Doctor Who' story 'Mind Games'
• In the Big Finish 'Fourth Doctor Adventure' story'The Beast of Kravenos'
• In the Big Finish Jago & Litefoot stories 'The Bloodless Soldier' / 'The Bellova Devil' / 'The Similarity Engine' / 'Litefoot and Sanders' / 'The Theatre of Dreams' / 'The Ruthven Inheritance' / 'Dead Men's Tales' / 'The Man at the End of the Garden' / 'Chronoclasm' / 'Jago in Love' / 'Beautiful Things' / 'The Lonely Clock' / 'The Hourglass Killers' / 'Military Intelligence' / 'The Trial of George Litefoot' / 'The Monstrous Menagerie' / 'The Night of 1000 Stars' / 'The Wax Princess' / ' Encore of the Scorchies' / 'The Backwards Men' / 'Jago & Litefoot & Patsy' / 'Higson & Quick' / 'The Flying Frenchmen' / 'Return of the Nightmare' / 'The Case of the Missing Gasogene' / 'The Year of the Bat' / 'The Mourning After' / 'The Museum of Curiosities' / 'The Hauntin' / 'Jago & Son' / 'Maurice' / 'The Woman in White' / 'Masterpiece' / 'Picture This' / 'The Flickermen' / 'School of Blood' / 'Warm Blood' / 'The Stuff of Nightmares' / 'Chapel of Night' / 'Too Much Reality' / 'Jago & Litefoot Forever'

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Village Hall: Pie in the Sky (1975) / The Legend of Robin Hood [4 episodes as Little John (1975)] / Angels: Facing Up (1976)

After Who:
Films: Sky Bandits (1986), White Hunter Black Heart (1990), Robin Hood (1991), Being Human (1994), Black Beauty (1994), Cold Fish (2001), 7 Lives (2011), Stan & Ollie* (2018)

Television: The Professionals: Fugitive (1980) / Forever Green (1992) / The Hollow Crown [2 episodes as Bracy (2012)]

Who: Before And After #583b

Name: Dudley Simpson [1922 - 2017]
Year(s): 1977
Stories: The Talons Of Weng-Chiang part 4
Character(s): Conductor of The Palace Theatre Orchestra
Note:

• Composed the incidental music for over 200 episodes of Doctor Who between 1964 ('Planet of Giants') and 1980 ('The Horns Of Nimon') – more than any other composer who worked on the show
• Away from the Whoniverse, he also composed the music for The Scarlet and the Black (5 episodes – 1965), Out of the Unknown (4 episodes 1965 – 1971), The Last of the Mohicans (8 episodes – 1971), Paul Temple (21 episodes – 1971), The Brothers (92 episodes 1972 – 1976), The Tomorrow People (68 episodes 1973 – 1979) and Blake's 7 (2 episodes 1978 – 1979)

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Z Cars: You Can't Trust Anyone (1969)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Colin Baker) and Davros (Terry Molloy) in Revelation of the Daleks (1985)

[iank]

Saw Evil of the Daleks last night. Have to be honest, wasn't all that impressed. The animation is fine, but I think the problem is... the story. I watched the first 3 on Monday but couldn't get into it, but thought maybe I was just tired (it had been a long day and it was effing hot here). No such excuse last night. It's reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllly long and overextended, and boiled down the plot is actually pretty silly. I'm sure the original production was very classy and probably helped more than animation, but I found it massively inferior to Power as a story and a bit of a bore to be honest. Oh the controversy!