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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Murray Gold is returning to do the music for the new era. The three sixtieth specials at least.

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi...rn-newsupdate/

Delighted about that. Hopefully bring back his Eccleston / Tennant theme as i always loved that. It promised thrills and excitement.

His theme tunes for Smith and Capaldi were greatly lacking though.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #1106a / Nu-Who #185a

Name: Paul Clayton [1957 - ]
Year(s): 2008
Stories: Planet Of The Ood
Character(s): Mr. Bartle

Note(s): Provided the voice of Ulysees Meregrass in the 2007 animated story 'The Infinite Quest'

Appeared in numerous Big Finish Productions audio adventures:

• In the 'Doctor Who Main Range' story 'The Wormery'
• In the 'Time Lord Victorious' story 'Echoes of Extinction'
• In the 'Bernice Summerfield' story 'The Kingdom of the Blind'
• In the 'War Master' story 'The Survivor'
• In the 'Lives of Captain Jack' story 'Crush'
• In the 'Torchwood' stories 'The Red List' / 'Death in Venice'
• In the 'Torchwood Special Releases' stories 'The Torchwood Archive' / 'A Postcard from Mr. Colchester'
• In the 'Aliens Among Us' stories 'Aliens Among Us 1' ['Changes Everything' / 'Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy' / 'Orr' / 'Superiority Complex'] / 'Aliens Among Us 2' ['Love Rat' / 'A Kill to a View' / 'Zero Hour' / 'The Empty Hand'] / 'Aliens Among Us 3' ['Poker Face' / 'Tagged' / 'Escape Room' / 'Herald of the Dawn'] /
• In the 'God Among Us' stories 'God Among Us 1' ['Future Pain' / 'The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood' / 'See No Evil' / 'Night Watch'] / 'God Among Us 2' ['Flight 405' / 'Hostile Environment' / 'Another Man's Shoes' / 'Eye of the Storm'] / 'God Among Us 3' ['A Mother's Son' / 'ScrapeJane' / 'Day Zero' / 'Thoughts and Prayers']

Before Who:
Films: Salome's Last Dance (1988), The Man Who Cried (2000), Ali G Indahouse* (2002), Fakers (2004), The Bad Food Guide (2006), He Kills Coppers (2008)

Television: Screenplay: Gossip From The Forest (1979) / All Creatures Great and Small: If Wishes Were Horses (1980) / Tales of the Unexpected: The Boy Who Talked With Animals (1981) / Brideshead Revisited: Orphans Of The Storm (1981) / Forever Green (1989) / Drop the Dead Donkey: Luck (1996) / Look and Read: Captain Crimson [5 episodes as the voice (1997)] / Kiss Me Kate: Money Matters (1999) / One Foot in the Grave: The Futility Of The Fly (2000) / Doctors [7 episodes, different characters (2001–2010)] / My Family [2 episodes, different characters (2002–2009)] / Georgian Underworld: Invitation To A Hanging (2003) / 55 Degrees North (2005) / Coronation Street [4 episodes, different characters (2005–2011)] / The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006) / Hotel Babylon (2007) / Peep Show [5 episodes as Ian Chapman (2007–2010)]

After Who:
Films: Affinity (2008), Wasteland (2012), Gambit (2012), Greed (2019)
Television: Monday Monday (2009) / The Queen: The Rivals [as Bernard Ingham] (2009) / Law & Order - UK: Crush (2011) / Sugartown (2011) / The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012) / Him & Her [6 episodes as Graham (2012–2013)] / Vera: Prodigal Son (2013) / Hollyoaks [8 episodes as Ch Supt Marlow (2013–2014)] / Mr Selfridge (2015) / Wolf Hall: Master Of Phantoms (2015) / The Frankenstein Chronicles [2 episodes as the Confectioner (2015)] / Drifters: Funeral (2016) / Delicious: Funeral Plans (2017) / Man in an Orange Shirt (2017) / The Crown [2 episodes as Bob Boothby (2017)] / The Split (2018) / Black Earth Rising: Double Bogie On The Ninth (2018) / Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators: Outrageous Fortunes (2019) / This Time with Alan Partridge (2019) / Holby City [2 episodes as Roger Ffolkes (2019–2020)] / Breeders: No Exit (2020) / Cursed: Festa And Moreii (2020) / House of the Dragon: The Green Council (2022)

Who: Before And After #1106b / Nu-Who #185

Name: Tariq Jordan [? - ]
Year(s): 2008
Stories: Planet Of The Ood
Character(s): The Rep

Before Who:
Films: White Girl (2008)
Television: Holby City [2 episodes as Keith Skinner (2002)] / Waking the Dead [2 episodes as the Teenage Rainman (2003)] / Blue Murder: Fragile Relations (2004) / The Bill [2 episodes as Rahim Woods (2008)]

After Who:
Films: Cleanskin (2012), The Turtle and the Sea (2014)
Television: Wired [2 episodes as Jez (2008)] / Spooks (2008) / Inspector George Gently: Gently In The Blood (2009) / Doctors: My Other Life (2009) / Lewis: The Quality Of Mercy (2009) / Law & Order - UK [11 episodes as Teddy (2009–2011)] / Shameless: Secret Relations(2010) / Injustice [2 episodes as Jameel Khan (2011)] / EastEnders [2 episodes as Dr. Ali (2017)] / Marcella (2018) / Death in Paradise: Christmas Special (2021)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Mordred (Christopher Bowen) in Battlefield (1989)

[Susan Foreman]

Guest actors appearing in THE SONTARAN STRATAGEM who have previously appeared in the show:

• Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)
• Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones)
• Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott)
• Jacqueline King (Sylvia Noble)
• Christopher Ryan (General Staal)
• Jon David (ATMOS Worker)

Who: Before And After #1107 / Nu-Who #186

Name: Ryan Sampson [1985 - ]
Year(s): 2008
Stories: The Sontaran Stratagem – The Poison Sky
Character(s): Luke Rattigan

Note(s): Appeared in a number of Big Finish Productions audio adventures:

• In the 'Doctor Who Main Range' story '1963: Fanfare for the Common Men'
• In the 'Lost Stories' story 'The Elite'
• In the 'Eighth Doctor Adventures' story 'The Book of Kells'
• In the 'Torchwood' story 'Visiting Hours'
• In the 'Torchwood Special Releases' story 'The Torchwood Archive'

Before Who:
Films: In Denial of Murder (2004), The Things I Haven't Told You (2008)
Television: Wire in the Blood*: Right To Silence (2003) / Heartbeat: Bad Company (2006) / Holby City [3 episodes, different characters (2006–2016)] / After You've Gone [25 episodes as Alex (2007–2008)]

After Who:
Films: From Here to Eternity: The Musical (2014)
Television: Fresh Meat (2011) / The Work Experience [6 episodes as Shussi (2012)] / Dates: Jenny And Nick (2013) / Up the Women [9 episodes as Thomas (2013–2015)] / Plebs [39 episodes as Grumio (2013–2022)] / Drunk History - UK (2015) / Undercover [5 episodes as Stepan (2015)] / Strike Back: Legacy (2015) / The Frankenstein Chronicles [11 episodes as Boz (2015–2017)] / Horrible Histories: Savage Songs (2017) / The Crown [2 episodes as Dudley Moore (2017)] / Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! [20 episodes, voice only (2017–2020)] / Lore: Jack Parsons – The Devil And The Divine (2018) / Waiting [6 episodes, different characters (2019)] / Brassic [29 episodes as Tommo (2019–2023)]

Who: Before And After #1107b / Nu-Who #186b

Name: Eleanor Matsuura [1983 - ]
Year(s): 2008
Stories: The Sontaran Stratagem
Character(s): Jo Nakashima

Note(s):

• Is married to Who actor Trevor White
• Provided the voice of Dana Tanaka in the 2010 BBC Wales interactive video game 'Shadows of the Vashta Nerada'

Before Who:
Films: A Very Social Secretary (2005), Inside the Twin Towers (2006), Breaking and Entering (2006), Magicians (2007)
Television: Hustle: The Lesson (2005) / Holby City: Damage Limitation (2005) / Extras: Ben Stiller (2005) / EastEnders (2006) / Doctors [2 episodes, different charaters (2006–2008)] / Party Animals (2007) / After You've Gone: Ripped Off (2007) / Trial & Retribution: Conviction (2008)

After Who:
Films: Hacks (2012), The Grind (2012), Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013), The Love Punch (2013), Blood Moon (2014), Residue (2015), Spooks: The Greater Good (2015), The Lady in the Van (2015), Burn Burn Burn (2015), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016), The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared (2016), Lost in London (2017), Wonder Woman (2017), Justice League (2017), Juliet, Naked (2018), The One and Only Ivan (2020), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), I Used to Be Famous (2022)
Television: My Family: Neighbour Wars (2008) / Lead Balloon: Mistake (2008) / Casualty [2 episodes, different characters (2008–2012)] / Hunter [2 episodes as DI Zoe Larson (2009)] / The Old Guys: Marriage (2009) / FM: System Addict (2009) / Money (2010) / Lunch Monkeys: Big Trouble In Little Cranford (2011) / Sirens: Two Man Race (2011) / New Tricks: Old Fossils (2011) / The Fades [4 episodes as Vicky (2011)] / The Royal Bodyguard [2 episodes as Dana (2011–2012)] / Twenty Twelve: Inclusivity Day (2012) / Vexed (2012) / Utopia [3 episodes as Bev (2013)] / Law & Order - UK: Fatherly Love (2013) / The Smoke (2014) / Silk (2014) / Residue [3 episodes as Angela Rossi (2015)] / Da Vinci's Demons [6 episodes as Madame Singh (2015)] / Cuffs [8 episodes as PC Donna Prager (2015)] / The Comic Strip Presents: Redtop (2016) / Sherlock: The Six Thatchers (2017) / Into the Badlands [6 episodes as Baron Chau (2017–2019)] / Shetland [2 episodes as DI Jessie Cole (2018)] / The Walking Dead* [58 episodes as Yumiko Okumura (2018–2022)] / The Rook [2 episodes as Claudia Clifton (2019)] / Feel Good [2 episodes as Donna Ridley (2021)] / This Time with Alan Partridge (2021) /

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Susan (Carole Ann Ford) with a Voord in a publicity still from The Keys of Marinus (1964)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #1108 / Nu-Who #187

Name: Rupert Holliday-Evans [1964 - ]
Year(s): 2008
Stories: The Sontaran Stratagem – The Poison Sky
Character(s): Colonel Alan Mace

Note(s): Appeared in the AudioGO stories 'The Relics of Time' / 'The Demon of Paris' / 'Starfall'

Before Who:
Films: Personal Services (1987), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Getting It Right (1989), A Wanted Man (1989), One Against the Wind (1991), Thacker (1992), Wuthering Heights (1992), Just Like a Woman (1992), 15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight (1993), Nostradamus (1994), Lost for Words (1996), Horatio Hornblower: The Fire Ship (1998), Cider with Rosie (1998), Perfect (2001), From Hell (2001), Stranded (2002), Crime & Punishment (2002), Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (2002), Driving Lessons (2006), Dracula (2006)
Television: Inspector Morse: The Blood Of Jericho (1987) / Boon: A Once Fluid Man (1987) / No Frills (1988) / Screen Two [2 episodes, different characters (1989–1990)] / Harry Enfield's Television Programme [6 episodes as the Double Take Brother (1990)] / Bergerac: There For The Picking (1990) / May to December: I'll See You In My Dreams (1990) / The Bill [12 episodes, different characters (1990–2007)] / Van der Valk: The Little Rascals (1991) / Chancer: Secrets (1991) / Casualty [5 episodes, different characters (1991–2015)] / Screen One: Born Kicking (1992) / Between the Lines: Watching The Detectives (1992) / Lovejoy: Three Men And A Brittle Lady (1993) / Men of the World: Team Table (1994) / A Touch of Frost: Appropriate Adults (1995) / 99-1: Getting Wise (1995) / Call Red: Breaking Strain (1996) / No Bananas [2 episodes as Buster (1996)] / Pie in the Sky: Gary's Cake (1996) / Accused: Joyce (1996) / The Detectives: Special Branch (1997) / Cadfael: St. Peter's Fair* (1997) / The History of Tom Jones - a Foundling (1997) / Wing and a Prayer (1999) / Second Sight [4 episodes as DS Pewsey 1999-2000)] / The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells: Brownlow's Newspaper (2001) / Home and Away [3 episodes as Robbie Jamieson (2001)] / The American Embassy: Long Live The King (2002) / Family Affairs [2 episodes as Steve Kirby (2002)] / Manchild (2003) / Powers [13 episodes as Professor Henry Powers (2004)] / The Giblet Boys [5 episodes as Dad (2005)] / Brandvagg [2 episodes as Carter (2006)] / Rough Diamond: Old Gold (2007) / Mistresses (2008) / Skins: Everyone (2008)

After Who:
Films: Blitz (2011), Outside Bet (2012), The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013), A Dark Reflection (2015), 5 Greedy Bankers (2016), Another Mother's Son (2017), Patrick the Pug (2018), Muse (2019), Six Minutes to Midnight (2020), Nemesis (2021)
Television: Four Seasons: Summer (2008) / My Family: Bringing Up Janey (2009) / Doctors [5 episodes, different characters (2009–2021)] / Married Single Other: Chink (2010) / Midsomer Murders: The Silent Land (2010) / Holby City: Keep On Keeping On (2011) / Life's Too Short (2011) / Dracula [2 episodes as the Lead Engineer (2014)] / The Bletchley Circle: Uncustomed Goods (2014) / Rosamunde Pilcher: Unknown Heart (2014) / New Worlds [2 episodes as Thomas (2014)] / EastEnders [10 episodes as the Jury Foreperson (2015)] / Call the Midwife (2016) / Father Brown: The Passing Bell (2019) / Grantchester (2020) / Grace: Dead Simple (2021) / Showtrial [5 episodes as Brian Reeves (2021)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The cover artwork of The Acheron Pulse. A Big Finish audio adventure starring Colin Baker as the Doctor. It was released in 2012.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #1109 / Nu-Who #188

Name: Dan Starkey [1977 - ]
Year(s): Doctor Who: 2008 / 2009 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2021
Stories: The Sontaran Stratagem* – The Poison Sky / The End Of Time part 2 / A Good Man Goes To War* / The Snowman / The Crimson Horror / The Name Of The Doctor / The Time Of The Doctor / Deep Breath / Last Christmas* / Flux: Chapter One – The Halloween Apocalypse / Flux: Chapter Two – War Of The Sontarans / Flux: Chapter Six – The Vanquishers*

Character(s): Commander Skorr* / Lieutenant Skree / Commander Jask / Strax* / Skarr / Ian* / Kragar / Svild / Senstarg / Shallo / Kragar*

Year(s): The Sarah-Jane Adventures: 2011
Stories: The Man Who Never Was
Character(s): Plark

Note(s): Very active in the Whoniverse:

• Appeared as himself (in Sontaran make-up) in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
• Appeared as himself (in Sontaran make-up) in the 2009 cast and crew music video for "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)".

• Appeared as Strax in the mini episode / webcasts Vastra Investigates: A Christmas Prequel / The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Late / Songtaran Carols
• Provided the voice of Strax in the Doctor Who: Lockdown! Short Strax Saves the Day
• Appeared as Commander Skorr in Doctor Who at the Proms 2008
• Appeared as Commander Strax in Doctor Who at the Proms 2013
• Appeared as Commander Strax in numerous Strax Field Reports
• Appeared as Commander Strax in the cinema introduction segment of The Day of the Doctor

Appeared as Strax in numerous Big Finish Productions audio adventures:

• In the 'The Paternoster Gang' stories 'Heritage 1' ['The Cars That Ate London' / 'A Photograph to Remember' / 'The Ghosts of Greenwich'] / 'Heritage 2' ['Dining with Death' / 'The Screaming Ceiling' / 'Spring-Heeled Jack'] / 'Heritage 3' ['Family Matters' / 'Whatever Remains' / 'Truth and Bone'] / 'Heritage 4' ['Merry Christmas, Mr Jago' / 'The Ghost Writers' / 'Rulers of Earth']
• In the 'Eighth of March' story 'Inside Every Warrior'
• In the 'Jago & Litefoot' story 'The Haunting'
• In the 'Missy' story 'Brimstone and Terror'

Appeared as characters other than Strax in:

• The 'Doctor Who Main Range' stories 'Robophobia' / 'Wirrn Isle' / 'Starlight Robbery' / 'Terror of the Sontarans'
• In the 'Special Releases' story 'The Five Companions'
• In the 'Lost Stories' adventures 'The Foe from the Future' / 'Hexagora' / 'The First Sontarans'
• In the 'Fourth Doctor Adventures' stories 'Energy of the Daleks' / 'The Oseidon Adventure' / 'The King of Sontar' / 'The Eternal Battle' / 'The Crowmarsh Experiment' / 'The Bad Penny' / 'Planet of the Drashigs'
• In the 'Fifth Doctor Adventures' stories 'The Moonrakers' / 'The People Made of Smoke'
• In the 'Seventh Doctor Adventures' story 'Bad Day in Tinseltown'
• In the 'Dark Eyes' story 'Master of the Daleks'
• In the 'Ravenous' story 'Deeptime Frontier
• In the 'War Doctor' story 'The Eternity Cage'
• In the 'Ninth Doctor Adventures' stories 'Ravagers' ['Sphere of Freedom' / 'Cataclysm' / 'Food Fight] / 'Salvation Nine'
• In the 'Tenth Doctor Adventures' story 'Time Reaver'
• In the 'Classic Doctors, New Monsters' stories 'Fallen Angels' / 'The Sontaran Ordeal' / 'The House That Hoxx Built'
• In the 'Early Adventures' story 'The Sontarans'
• In the 'First Doctor Adventures' story 'Last of the Romanovs'
• In the 'Short Trips' story 'Reargurad'
• In the 'Jago & Litefoot' stories :The Devil's Dicemen' / 'Island of Death'
• In the 'New Counter-Measures' story 'The Splintered Man'
• In the 'UNIT: The New Series' story 'The Sontaran Project'
• In the 'Missy' stories :A Spoonful of Mayhem' / 'Brimstone and Terror'
• In the 'Diary of River Song' stories 'The Unknown' / 'Five Twenty-Nine' / ''Peepshow'
• In the 'Robots' story :The Mystery of Sector 13'
• In the 'Susan's War' story 'The Uncertain Shore'
• In the 'Charlotte Pollard' stories 'Series Two' ['Embankment Station' / 'Ruffing' / 'Seed of Chaos' / 'The Destructive Quality of Life']
• In the 'Graceless' stories 'The Ward' / 'The Dance'
• In the 'Donna Noble: Kidnapped!' stories :Out of this World' / 'Spinvasion'
• In the 'Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon' stories 'The Flood' / 'Ghost Machines'
• In the 'Torchwood' stories 'One Rule' / 'The Great Sontaran War'

Appeared in a number of Video Games:

• In the 'Adventure Games' adventure 'The Gunpowder Plot'
• In the 'BBC Website' adventures 'The Doctor and the Dalek' / 'Doctor Who Game Maker'

Provided the Audiobook Readings for the:

• Target Novelisations of 'The TV Movie' / 'The Crimson Horror' / 'Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden' / 'The Romans'
• BBC Novelisations of 'Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen'
• The Virgin New Adventures Novelisation of 'Shakedown'
• The Virgin Missing Adventures Novelisation of 'The Scales of Injustice'
• The BBC Past Doctor Adventures Novelisation of 'Amorality Tale'
• The BBC New Series Adventures Novelisations of 'Silhouette' / 'Deep Time' / 'Molten Heart'
• The Audio Novels release of /Emancipation of the Daleks'
• The BBC Audio releases of 'Devil in the Smoke' / 'The Lost Magic' / 'Rhythm of Destruction ' /'The Scent of Blood' / 'The Nightmare Realm ' / 'The Code of Flesh'
• The Interludes story 'I, Kamelion'
• The Doctor Who Audio Annuals stories 'The Sinister Sponge' / 'A Midsummer's Nightmare' / 'The Sons of the Crab' / 'Famine on Planet X'
• The K9 Audio Annual story 'The Voton Terror'
• The Time Lord Fairy Tales story 'The Three Little Sontarans'

Has written a number of 'Doctor Who' stories:

• For the 'Doctor Who Main Range' - 'Terror of the Sontarans' / 'Interlude'
• For the 'Fourth Doctor Adventures' - 'The Bad Penny'
• For the 'Seventh Doctor Adventures' - Bad Day in Tinseltown'
• For the 'Short Trips' series - 'The Authentic Experience'
• For the 'Paternoster Gang' - 'Dining with Death'

Before Who:
Films: Listen to the Words (2008)
Television: None

After Who:
Films: Alex the Vampire (2015), Sherlock Gnomes [voice only] (2018), Love Type D (2019), Mummies (2023)
Television: Casualty: Sixteen Candles (2012) / Wizards vs. Aliens [27 episodes as Randal Moon (2012–2014)] / Inside No. 9: Seance Time (2015) / Catherine Tate's Nan: Nanger Management (2015) / BBC Proms [as Joseph Haydn] (2016) / Class Dismissed [24 episodes, different characters (2016–2017)] / Good Omens: Saturday Norming Funtime (2019) / Years and Years (2019) / Brassic (2019) / How To Date A Magical Creature: How To Date Satan And Santa [as Satan] (2020) / EastEnders (2020) / Miss Scarlet & the Duke: The Black Witch Moth (2022)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

River Song (Alex Kingston) investigates some unusual statues in The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone (2010)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

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