The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Vampires of Venice go in for the kill in the 2010 story of the same name.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Series 2 Blu-Ray trailer

Just watched this for the first time. It's lovely. Another Pete McTighe production. He really does seem to get Doctor Who if these mini episodes / trailers are anything to go by. Certainly more than other people seem to.

When R-TD's tenure comes to an end i really hope he becomes showrunner. Not just because of this single beautifully written and directed piece with Maureen O'Brien but because of all of the ones he's written, produced and directed.

He even wrote Kerblam from Chibnall's first season. Suffice to say as far as proper Doctor Who goes it was easily in the top two stories of that series. The other was The Witchfinders and that wasn't written by Chibnall either.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #859a

Name: Morgan Deare [1945 - ]
Year(s): 1987 / 2018
Stories: Delta And The Bannermen part 1 – Delta And The Bannermen part 3 / Rosa
Character(s): CIA Agent Hawk / Arthur
Note(s): Is married to Who actress Mary Healey

Before Who:
Films: Down in the Valley (1983), Scream for Help (1984), Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
Television: Star Cops: Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits (1987)

After Who:
Films: Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (1988), Mission: Impossible (1996), United 93 (2006), When All Is Said and Done (2008), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), The Callback Queen (2013), Wild Oats (2016), Queen Marie of Romania (2019)

Television: Small World: Hurry Up, Please, It's Time (1988) / The Bill: Street Smart (1990) / Jeeves and Wooster: Safety in New York (or, Bertie Sets Sail) (1992) / Coronation Street (1995) / The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Strawberry Tree (1995) / Melissa (1997) / Wing and a Prayer (1999) / The Wild West: Billy the Kid (2006) / The Real American: Joe McCarthy (2011) / Nixon's the One: Elites (2013) / Storyline [4 episodes as Morgan (2016)] / Harley and the Davidsons: Race to the Top (2016) / Deep State: Blood in the Sand (2018) / Soulmates: Watershed (2020) / The Man Who Fell to Earth: Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (2022)

Who: Before And After #859b

Name: Sir Ken Dodd OBE [1927 - 2018]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Delta And The Bannermen part 1
Character(s): The Tollmaster

Note(s): The following are only starring and / or character roles. Stand-up comedy and chat-show appearances are not included
Before Who:
Films: Red Riding Hood ( (1955), Robinson Crusoe (1970)
Television: Points North (1958) / Funny You Should Say That (1972)

After Who:
Films: Hamlet* [as Yorick] (1996), Alice in Wonderland* ( (1999)

Television: Dennis the Menace: The Day TV Was Banned (1996) / The Canterbury Tales: The Journey Back (2000)

Who: Before And After #859c

Name: David Kinder [? - ]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Delta And The Bannermen part 1 – Delta And The Bannermen part 3
Character(s): Billy

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: None

After Who:
Films: Killing American Style (1988), Young Rebels (1989), The Natural History of Parking Lots (1990)
Television: Casualty: A Grand in the Hand (1989) / Grange Hill [6 episodes as John (1990)]

Who: Before And After #859d

Name: Sara Griffiths [? - ]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Delta And The Bannermen part 1 – Delta And The Bannermen part 3
Character(s): Ray

Note(s):

• Provided the voice of Claudia Bridge in the 2007 Big Finish story 'I.D
• Was considered as a potential companion if Bonnie Langford had turned down the role of Mel

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Late Expectations [4 episodes as Polly Jackson (1987)]

After Who:
Films: Kangaroo Valley ( 1989), A Likeness in Stone (2000)
Television: Gentlemen and Players [12 episodes as Liz Beaufort (1988-1989)] / Emmerdale Farm [4 episodes as Clare Sutcliffe (1989)] / The Chief [4 episodes as Emma Stafford (1990-1991)] / Van der Valk: A Sudden Silence (1991) / Rich Tea and Sympathy [5 episodes as Tracey Rudge (1991)] / Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Talking to Strange Men (1992) / Chiller: Number Six (1995) / Castles [24 episodes as Anita Castle (1995)] / Headless (2000) . Holby City [2 episodes, different characters (2002-2006)] / Doctors [2 episodes, different characters (2003-2014)] / The Bill; Old Timer (2004) / Casualty [2 episodes, different characters (2009-2013)]

[Susan Foreman]

In memory of Bruce Montague (1939 - 2022)

Appeared in the Big Finish Production audio adventures 'The Genocide Machine' as Elgin and 'Sword of Orion' as Grash

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Tegan (Janet Fielding) gets ready to go on The Visitation (1982)

[Susan Foreman]

Rumour has it... Ncuti Gatwa's companion is going to be Rose Ayling-Ellis (who has just left 'EastEnders')!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Rumour has it... Ncuti Gatwa's companion is going to be Rose Ayling-Ellis (who has just left 'EastEnders')!

Really not sure how that would work. Please excuse my ignorance as well. But Doctor Who plots can be convoluted with techno babble enough without the Doctor having to speak it in sign to his companion / friend.

I've never seen her in Eastenders so cannot comment at all on that but i assume slanging matches across the bar at the Queen Vic would be quite different to saving a planet from the nibble pibbleys who have evil machinations of piloting the Earth through a black hole in order to reverse the polarity of the cosmos and undo the Flux.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

My Blu-ray of Die Invasion der Daleks auf der Erde 2150 n. Chr. has shipped from hotshotrecordsgermany

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Really not sure how that would work. Please excuse my ignorance as well. But Doctor Who plots can be convoluted with techno babble enough without the Doctor having to speak it in sign to his companion / friend.

I've never seen her in Eastenders so cannot comment at all on that but i assume slanging matches across the bar at the Queen Vic would be quite different to saving a planet from the nibble pibbleys who have evil machinations of piloting the Earth through a black hole in order to reverse the polarity of the cosmos and undo the Flux.

I have no idea what level of deafness she has, but Tim Barlow, who played Tyssan in the 1979 story 'Destiny Of The Daleks' lost his hearing in the 1950s when testing a high velocity Muzzle Rifle for the British Army. It wasn't until 2008 (almost 30 years after he appeared in the show), that he received a cochlear implant which resulted in him regaining some of his hearing

More recently, Sophie Stone played Cass in the 2015 stories 'Under The Lake' and Before The Flood. She was deaf from birth, and didn't develop any form of speech until much later in her life. She was also the first ever deaf person to be accepted into, and trained at RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - in London

[will graham]

I havent seen her act because I cant stand eastenders but she sure is pretty!