The Doctor Who Thread

[Susan Foreman]

In memory of all the people connected with the Whoniverse who died in 2024

Sadly it's a long list:

* Georgina Hale (Daisy K in The Happiness Patrol)
* Clifford Norgate (Nimon voice in The Horns of Nimon and Generator voice in The Leisure Hive)
* David Soul (Mission Control voice in the webcast Death Comes to Time)
* David Tilley (floor assistant on The Reign of Terror and Planet of Giants, assistant floor manager on The Evil of the Daleks, The Krotons, Robot, The Robots of Death, Destiny of the Daleks, The Creature from the Pit and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and production assistant on The Three Doctors)
* Les Conrad (extra in The Massacre, The Invasion, The Space Pirates, The War Games, Doctor Who and the Silurians to The Mind of Evil, Colony in Space, The Time Monster, Genesis of the Daleks, The Pirate Planet, Time* Flight, Mawdryn Undead, The Caves of Androzani, The Twin Dilemma and Vengeance on Varos; brother of fellow Doctor Who actor Les Conrad and father of The Twin Dilemma guest actors Gavin and Andrew Conrad)
* Nick Spender (cover artist for Target Books' novelisations of The Aztecs, The Sensorites, The Highlanders and Inferno and Virgin Books novel Just War)
* Michael Jayston (The Valeyard in The Trial of a Time Lord and Big Finish Productions' audio adventures and Tsar in BBC Audio's audio series Serpent Crest)
* Paul Nery (former Doctor Who Magazine editor)
* Georgine Anderson (May Cassini in Gridlock)
* Pamela Salem (Xoanon voice in The Face of Evil, Toos in The Robots of Death and Big Finish's Doctor Who spin* off The Robots, Rachel Jensen in Remembrance of the Daleks and Big Finish's Doctor Who and Counter* Measures audio adventures and Lorretta Waldorf in the Big Finish audio The Silent Scream)
* John Savident (Squire in The Visitation and Pendle in the Big Finish audio Order of the Daleks)
* Stuart Organ (Bazin in Dragonfire and Helgert Teveler, Kenneth, Trooper & Docking in the Big Finish audio The Seeds of War)
* Russell Brook (extra in Mawdryn Undead, The King's Demons, Warriors of the Deep, Revelation of the Daleks, Time and the Rani and Delta and the Bannermen)
* John Hobbs (production assistant on The Smugglers)
* Roger Noel Cook (writer and comic strip artist)
* Stuart Lindley (cameraman on The Evil of the Daleks, The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Web of Fear and the mini-episode A Fix With Sontarans)
* Karen Poolman (extra in Closing Time, The Wedding of River Song and The Power of Three)
* Christian Rodska (Laan Carda in the Big Finish audio Faith Stealer and Reverend Small in BBC Audio's audio series Hornets' Nest)
* Angharad Walsh (make-up artist on The Woman Who Fell to Earth and It Takes You Away and junior make-up artist on The Witchfinders)
* Cy Town (Dalek actor [1973 - 1988]; uncredited roles in several stories between Spearhead from Space and The Curse of Fenric)
* Adrian Schiller (Uncle in The Doctor's Wife; Big Finish actor)
* Roy Boyd (Driscoll in The Hand of Fear)
* Janet Radenkovic (production unit manager from Planet of Evil to The Seeds of Doom)
* Brian McCardie (Alan Weir in the Big Finish audio Masters of Earth)
* Ian Gelder (Remnants voice in The Ghost Monument, Zallin in Can You Hear Me?, Mr. Dekker in the Torchwood story Children of Earth and Dracula & Long John Silver in the Big Finish audio Legend of the Cybermen)
* Colin Fay (Condo in The Brain of Morbius)
* Dave Ould (uncredited roles as a Sea Devil in Warriors of the Deep and a Walkman in Silver Nemesis)
* William Russell (First Doctor's companion Ian Chesterton from An Unearthly Child to The Chase, The Power of the Doctor, BBC Video's recreation of The Crusade's missing episodes and Big Finish's audio adventures, Harry in the 50th anniversary docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time, Lord Darzil Carlisle in the Big Finish audio The Game and the First Doctor in Big Finish's The Light at the End and The Early Adventures audio adventures)
* Julian Forsyth (Grei Potemic in the Big Finish audio Rewind)
* Jon* Paul Rowden (Soldier in Big Finish's audio anthology Reflections, released after his death)
* Ysanne Churchman (Alpha Centauri voice in The Curse of Peladon, The Monster of Peladon and Empress of Mars and Eight Legs voice in Planet of the Spiders)
* Roberta Taylor (Big Finish actress)
* Ian Frost (Baccu in The Ark and Draconian Messenger in Frontier in Space)
* Brett James (3D artist on The God Complex)
* Jamie Baughan (Father Dinsdale in Big Finisn's Torchwood Soho story Ascension)
* Marina Martin (Drahvin One in Galaxy 4)
* Lisa Westcott (make-up artist on Black Orchid)
* Robert Sidaway (Avon in The Savages and Captain Turner in The Invasion)
* Richard Morris (designer on Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
* Kenneth Cope (Packard in Warriors' Gate; father of Bad Wolf and Big Finish actress Martha Cope)
* Nigel Lambert (Harlon in The Leisure Hive and Priest Triangles voice in Flux; Big Finish actor)
* Geoffrey Hinsliff (Jack Tyler in Image of the Fendahl, and as Fisk in Nightmare of Eden)
* David Graham (Dalek voices [1963 - 1966]; Charlie in The Gunfighters, Professor Kerensky in City of Death and Professor Valentines Park in the DVD exclusive mockumentary Weird Science; Big Finish actor)
* Cleo Sylvestre (extra in The Crusade; Big Finish actress)
* Richardson Morgan (Corporal Blake in The Web of Fear and Rogin in The Ark in Space)
* Ernie Vincze (Doctor Who's director of photography from 2005 - 2009)
* Sheelagh Wells (make- up assistant on Planet of the Spiders and make-up artist on Mawdryn Undead and The Christmas Invasion to Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)
* Antony Carrick (Rossini in The Masque of Mandragora)
* Timothy West (Big Finish actor; father of fellow Big Finish actor Samuel West)
* Arnold Yarrow (Bellal in Death to the Daleks)
* David A. McIntee (writer)
* Joanna Tope (Tish in BBC Audio's audio series Serpent Crest)

* Other Who - related 2024 obituaries (specified dates unknown at the time of writing): Martin Muncaster (Tannoy voice in Terminus); Heather Emmanuel (Tessa in The Android Invasion); Nick Hobbs (Aggedor in The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon, Wirrn in The Ark in Space, Mr. Nainby in Amy's Choice and uncredited roles in The Ambassadors of Death to The Claws of Axos, Day of the Daleks and The Time Monster)

[Susan Foreman]

Key Crew working on LISTEN who have previously worked on the show:

• Douglas Mackinnon (Director)
• Steven Moffat (Writer)
• Peter Bennett (Producer)

Key Crew working on TIME HEIST who have previously worked on the show:

• Douglas Mackinnon (Director)
• Steve Thompson (Writer)
• Peter Bennett (Producer)

Key Crew working on THE CARETAKER who have previously worked on the show:

• Paul Murphy (Director)
• Gareth Roberts (Writer)
• Steven Moffat (Writer)
• Nikki Wilson (Producer)

Key Crew working on KILL THE MOON who have previously worked on the show:

• Peter Bennett (Producer)

Who: Before And After #1687a / Doctor Who: Key Crew: Story #248 / Nu-Who Story #111 - Kill The Moon

Name: Paul Wilmshurst [1961 - ]

Role: Director [3 episodes]
Year(s): 2014
Stories: Kill The Moon - Mummy On The Orient Express / Last Christmas

Before Who: Director Credits
Films: Sharpe: The Legend (1997), A Little Bit of Elvis (1998), Mob Law: A Film Portrait of Oscar Goodman (1998), Diceworld (1999), Secrets & Lines (2000), The Gambler (2000), Frank Skinner on Frank Skinner (2001), Dogumentary: Rewind the Summer (2003), Pissed on the Job (2004), Hiroshima (2005), Forgiven (2007)
Television: The Number 10 Show [1 episode] (1995) / Without Walls [3 episodes] (1995-1996) / Inside Out [1 episode] (1996) / All Mod Cons [1 episode] (1997) / White Tribe [3 episodes] (2000) / Seven Wonders of the Industrial World [1 episode] (2003) / I Shouldn't Be Alive [1 episode] (2005) / Trial & Retribution [2 episodes] (2008) / Runaway [3 episodes] (2009) / Silent Witness [2 episodes] (2010 / Law & Order: UK [1 episode] (2010) / Combat Kids [3 episodes] (2010) / Strike Back [10 episodes] (2011-2020) / Da Vinci's Demons [2 episodes] (2013)

After Who
Films: None
Television: A.D. The Bible Continues [2 episodes] (2015) / Indian Summers [4 episodes] (2016) / Jamestown [4 episodes] (2017-2018) / History [1 episode] (2020) / The Last Kingdom [3 episodes] (2022) / Belgravia: The Next Chapter [4 episodes] (2024) / The Day of the Jackal [3 episodes] (2024)

Who: Before And After #1687b

Name: Peter Harness [? - ]

Role: Writer [4 episodes]
Year(s): 2014 / 2015 / 2017
Stories: Kill The Moon / The Zygon Invasion - The Zygon Inversion / The Pyramid At The End Of The World
Note(s):

• Wrote the Doctor Who: Lockdown! Webcast story 'The Zygon Isolation'
• Wrote the Target novelisation of 'The Zygon Invasion'
• Wrote the Doctor Who: Lockdown! short story 'How the Monk Got His Habit'

Before Who: Writer Credits
Films: A View from a Hill (2005), Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me (2008), Is Anybody There? (2008), Heist (2008), Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen (2009)
Television: City of Vice [2 episodes] (2008) / 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth [2 episodes] (2009) / Case Histories [3 episodes] (2011-2013) / Wallander [5 episodes] (2012-2015)

After Who
Films: None
Television: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell [7 episodes] (2015) / McMafia [2 episodes] (2018) / The War of the Worlds [3 episodes] (2019) / Constellation [8 episodes, also series creator] (2024)

[iank]

Watched Revelation of the Daleks, with my NYD dinner. Both very enjoyable. Here's to watching more classic in 2025 (think I only saw about 4 last year...)

[Mojo]

Watched The War Games in colour.
To be honest, I?m not a fan of colourising black and white programmes, or cutting them down drastically. One of the many appeals of classic Who is the multi episode serials and one of the many reasons why Season 7 is my favourite.
Yes, the music was a bit overbearing at times and the quick cut editing a bit much, but I have to say I really enjoyed it. The colourisation was really good and the regeneration between the second and third Doctor was a lovely touch.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Mojo

Watched The War Games in colour.
To be honest, I?m not a fan of colourising black and white programmes, or cutting them down drastically. One of the many appeals of classic Who is the multi episode serials and one of the many reasons why Season 7 is my favourite.
Yes, the music was a bit overbearing at times and the quick cut editing a bit much, but I have to say I really enjoyed it. The colourisation was really good and the regeneration between the second and third Doctor was a lovely touch.

Those early scenes outside the TARDIS were beautiful to look at.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) prepare to paint the town of Victorian London red at the beginning of The Unquiet Dead (2005)

[Susan Foreman]

Key Crew working on MUMMY ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS who have previously worked on the show:

• Paul Wilmshurst (Director)
• Peter Bennett (Producer)

Who: Before And After #1688 / Doctor Who: Key Crew: Story #249 / Nu-Who Story #112 - Mummy On The Orient Express

Name: Jamie Mathieson [? - ]

Role: Writer [4 episodes]
Year(s): 2014 / 2015 / 2017
Stories: Mummy On The Orient Express - Flatline / The Girl Who Died / Oxygen
Note(s): Wrote the Twelfth Doctor short story 'My Dad, The Doctor'

Before Who: Writer Credits
Films: Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009), Alt (2014)
Television: My Parents Are Aliens [1 episode] (2005) / Being Human [4 episodes] (2010-2013) / Becoming Human [3 episodes] (2011) / Dirk Gently [1 episode] (2012)

After Who
Films: None
Television: Tripped [4 episodes, also series creator] (2015) / Metal Hurlant Origins (2016)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

An image of Stewart Bevan as Cliff Jones and Katy Manning as Jo Grant plus a giant maggot from the 1973 Radio Times tenth anniversary Doctor Who special.

If Stewart Bevan did nothing else in his acting life his mid seventies output on his cv could simply consist of three names - Doctor Who, Pete Walker and John Wayne - and he'd have achieved more in the awesome coolness stakes than more celebrated actors had done their entire career.

[Susan Foreman]

Key Crew working on FLATLINE who have previously worked on the show:

• Douglas Mackinnon (Director)
• Jamie Mathieson (Writer)
• Nikki Wilson (Producer)

Who: Before And After #1689a / Doctor Who: Key Crew: Story #251 / Nu-Who Story #114 - In The Forest Of The Night

Name: Sheree Folkson [? - ]

Role: Director [1 episode]
Year(s): 2014
Stories: In The Forest Of The Night

Before Who: Director Credits
Films: A Royal Scandal (1996), Gypsy Woman (2001), My Family and Other Animals (2005), Judy's Got a Gun (2007), The Decoy Bride (2011)
Television: Saturday Review [1 episode] (1987) / Edinburgh Nights [1 episode] (1989) / The Late Show [1 episode] (1990) / Performance [1 episode] (1991) / The Bill [2 episodes] (1992) / Stages [1 episode] (1994) / Dear Dilemma [1 episode] (1995) / Band of Gold [2 episodes] (1997) / Gold [2 episodes] (1997) / Touching Evil [2 episodes] (1998) / The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star [3 episodes] (1998) / Love in the 21st Century [2 episodes] (1999) / Lock, Stock ... [1 episode] (2000) / Burn It [5 episodes] (2003) / Mine All Mine [3 episodes] (2004) / Casanova [3 episodes] (2005) / Ugly Betty [1 episode] (2006) / Nearly Famous [2 episodes] (2007) / Hope Springs [2 episodes] (2009) / Hit & Miss [3 episodes] (2012) / Jo [2 episodes] (2013) / Truckers [3 episodes] (2013) / Graceland [1 episode] (2014)

After Who
Films: Kerry (2014), The Scandalous Lady W (2015)
Television: Call the Midwife [4 episodes] (2016-2017) / The Tick [1 episode] (2017) / Shut Eye [1 episode] (2017) / Britannia [2 episodes] (2018) / UnREAL [1 episode] (2018) / Imposters [1 episode] (2018) / 12 Monkeys [1 episode] (2018) / Sacred Lies [2 episodes] (2018) / American Horror Story [1 episode] (2018) / Claws [1 episode] (2019) / Another Life [2 episodes] (2019) / Penny Dreadful: City of Angels [2 episodes] (2020) / Bridgerton [2 episodes] (2020) / Sex / Life [4 episodes] (2021-2023) / Our House [4 episodes] (2022) / Pennyworth [1 episode] (2022) / The Great [2 episodes] (2023) / Will Trent [2 episodes] (2023-2024)

Who: Before And After #1689b

Name: Frank Cottrell-Boyce [1959 - ]

Role: Writer [2 episodes]
Year(s): 2014 / 2017
Stories: In The Forest Of The Night / Smile

Before Who: Writer Credits
Films: Forget About Me (1990), Butterfly Kiss (1995), Saint-Ex (1996), New York Crossing (1996), Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), Hilary and Jackie (1998), Pandaemonium (2000), The Claim (2000), 24 Hour Party People (2002), Revengers Tragedy (2002), Code 46 (2003), Millions (2004), A Cock And Bull Story (2005), Grow Your Own (2007), God on Trial (2008), Accelerate [short] (2009), Framed (2009), The Railway Man (2013)
Television: Brookside [28 episodes] (1986-1989) / Damon and Debbie [3 episodes] (1987) / The English Programme [2 episodes] (1988) / South [2 episodes] (1988) / The Real Eddy English [4 episodes] (1989) / Coronation Street [43 episodes] (1991-1996) / Crime Story [1 episodes] (1992) / In Suspicious Circumstances [3 episodes] (1992-1994) / A Woman's Guide to Adultery (1993) / Springhill (1996-1997) / Captain Star [4 episodes, also series creator] (1997) / London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony (2012)

After Who
Films: A Winter's Tale: Shakespeare Lives [short] (2016), A Day in the Life - Twenty Four Zero Hours [short] (2017), Earth: One Amazing Day (2017), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), Sometimes Always Never (2018), Kensuke's Kingdom (2023) / The Beautiful Game (2024)
Television: Stephen [2 episodes] (2021) / Queen Elizabeth and Paddington Bear Film (2022)

Who: Before And After #1589c

Name: Paul Frift [1957 - ]

Role: Producer [2 episodes]
Year(s): 2014
Stories: In The Forest Of The Night / Last Christmas

Before Who: Producer Credits
Films: Anything for a Quiet Life (1990), The House of Bernarda Alba (1991), This Is the Sea (1997), Mrs Dalloway (1997), B.U.S.T.E.D (1998), Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998), Bomber (2000), Essex Boys (2000), Room to Rent (2000), Aka Albert Walker (2002), May 33rd (2004), Instinct (2007), Coronation Street: A Knight's Tale (2010), Just Henry (2011), Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story (2012), Restless (2012)
Television: Screen Two (1993) / Demob [6 episodes] (1993) / Best of Both Worlds (2001) / The Way We Live Now [4 episodes] (2001) / Messiah 2: Vengeance Is Mine [2 episodes] (2003) / State of Play [6 episodes] (2003) / To the Ends of the Earth [3 episodes] (2005) / Primeval [7 episodes] (2008) / Sharpe [1 episode] (2008) / Crooked House [4 episodes] (2008) / Going Postal [2 episodes] (2010) / Room at the Top (2012) / The Escape Artist [3 episodes] (2013)

After Who
Films: That Day We Sang (2014)
Television: Victoria [17 episodes] (2016-2017) / Good Omens [6 episodes] (2019) / Deep State [7 episodes] (2019) / Joan [6 episodes] (2024)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Roy Knipe's excellent cover art for Ian Marter's novel of The Sontaran Experiment (1975). It was released by Target Books in 1978. An artwork that really captured my imagination as a child.