The Doctor Who Thread

[Demoncrat]

I'm in a Target book group on Farceberg, and some of the prices on the Ebum are hilarious (mainly Americans ... go figure )

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

David Suchet guest starred as the landlord in Knock Knock (2017)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #356

Name: Trevor Martin
Year(s): 1969
Stories: The War Games episode 10
Character(s): Adelphi - Second Time Lord
Note: Appeared as alternative Fourth Doctor in the 1974 stage play 'Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday',* and also the Big Finish audio adaptation in 2008.

• Provided the voices for Kaido, Guard 2, Ungar, the Custodian of the Data Store and Jenhegger in the BBC Radio audio story 'The Paradise of Death'
• Provided the voice for Professor Capra in the Big Finish audio story 'Flip-Flop'

Before Who:
Film: Tomorrow Mr. Tompion! And About Time Too! (1958), Medico (1959), Body Found (1959), Portrait of Man (1960), The Silent Highwayman (1961), Struck Off (1962), Othello (1965)
Television: Trouble for Two / Three Golden Nobles [5 episodes as Gilbert Totteridge] / The Splendid Spur [2 episodes as Captain Stubbs] / Scotland Yard: Special Duty / Sheep's Clothing / Z Cars [7 episodes, different characters (1962-1973)] / The Men from Room 13: The Man Who Made Money / Gamble for a Throne: The Affair at Worcester / Television Club: The Wade Family - On the Farm / Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League / No Hiding Place: A Dead Cert / Orlando [6 episodes as Burton] / ITV Play of the Week: Plays of Married Life #2 - Where Shall I Find What Will Change My Life? / ITV Play of the Week: A Choice of Kings / Mr. Rose: The Tin God / The Newcomers / The Troubleshooters: Mr. Know-How / Jackanory [5 episodes as the Storyteller] / Ramshackle Road [4 episodes] / ITV Playhouse: Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar / BBC Play of the Month: Julius Caesar / The Elusive Pimpernel [2 episodes as Monsieur Simon]

After Who:
Films: The Tragedy of King Richard II (1970), Edward II ( (1970), Absolution (1978), Krull* [uncredited voice of The Beast] (1983), Three Kinds of Heat (1987), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998), Bad Blood (1999), The House of Mirth (2000), Gentlemen's Relish (2001), Babel (2006)

Television: The Gold Robbers: The Arrangement / The Wednesday Play: Blood of the Lamb / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Pandora / Jamie: London Bridge Is Falling Down / Van der Valk: Destroying Angel / Special Branch: Red Herring / Churchill's People: The Fine Art of Bubble-Blowing / Within These Walls: Inside Out / Victorian Scandals: The Fruits of Philosophy / Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt: Wish You Were Here / The Onedin Line: Running Free / Prince Regent: Defeat and Victory / Armchair Thriller: The Circe Complex / Bird of Prey [2 episodes as Trevor Chambers] / A Brother's Tale [3 episodes as Alec Taylor] / Angels [2 episodes as Mr. Osborn] / Coronation Street [8 episodes as Arthur Whittaker (1984)] / Mitch: Business as Usual / The Paradise Club: Bring on the Cavalry / Inspector Morse: Ghost in the Machine / Inspector Morse: The Sins of the Fathers / Taggart: Dead Man's Chest / Dangerfield: Trial / Ain't Misbehavin' / A Certain Justice / Wing and a Prayer / The Ambassador: Unholy Alliance / Beast: Cow / The Bill: 120 - Security Risk / The Romantics: Liberty / Doctors: One Part TLC, Two Parts Shoe Leather / Whitechapel / Dead Boss / Call the Midwife / Odd Squad: License to Science/Negative Town

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Daleks begin to revive in 1973's Planet of the Daleks.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #357

Name: Clyde Pollitt
Year(s): 1969 / 1972-1973
Stories: The War Games episode 10 / The Three Doctors episode 1 – The Three Doctors episode 2
Character(s): Socra – Third Time Lord / Chancellor
Note: Was the brother of Who actor Derek Pollitt

Before Who:
Film: Who Killed Menna Lorraine? (1960)

Television: How Green Was My Valley: The Last Rift / Scotland Yard: Robbery with Violence / The Citadel / BBC Sunday-Night Play: Sparrow in a Cage / Festival: The Inner World of Miss Vaughan / Crossroads / Theatre 625: Hermit Crabs / Sherlock Holmes [2 episodes] / Softly Softly [2 episodes] / The Power Game: Cat Is You, Bird Is Me / The First Lady: I Don't Like Him / Z Cars [3 episodes, different characters (1969-1972) / The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder: The Troupe

After Who:
Films: Moll Flanders (1975), The Three Sisters (1981), Lady Jane (1986), What a Way to Run a Revolution (1986), Coming Up Roses (1986)

Television: Mystery and Imagination: The Suicide Club / Ivanhoe: Time of Trial / Callan: God Help Your Friends / Softly Softly - Task Force: Baptism / Suspicion: The Resting Place / Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Gardeners of My Youth / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Thrills Galore / Black and Blue: Soap Opera in Stockwell / Hawkeye, the Pathfinder / Fall of Eagles: Indian Summer of an Emperor / The Changes: The Noise / Churchill's People: The Conquerors / Clayhanger: Death and Dreams / The Gentle Touch: Dany / The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby [2 episodes, multiple characters - Coachman / Mr. Folair / Brooker] / Panorama: Two Weeks in Winter - How the Army Took Over Poland / Screen Two: The Silent Twins / Screen Two: Going Home / Screen One: 1996 / Screen One: Blore M.P. / The Wars of the Roses [7 episodes, different characters (1990-1991)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Sergeant Leigh (Marcus Hutton) reports strange activity in The Curse of Fenric (1989)

[Susan Foreman]

A million years ago, before I regenerated into the twisted sister you all know and love, with a beat up Dalek in a bookshop in Basingstoke!

Mere words cannot express the feeling I had when I walked into the shop and came face to eyestake with the Dalek. My palms were sweaty and my heart(s) were going nineteen-to-the-dozen!

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #358

Name: Patrick Troughton
Year(s): 1966-1969 / 1972-1973 / 1983 / 1985
Stories: The Tenth Planet episode 4 – The War Games episode 10 / The Three Doctors episode 1 - The Three Doctors episode 4 / The Five Doctors / The Two Doctors part 1 – The Two Doctors part 3
Character(s): The Second Doctor [127 episodes] / Ramon Salamander
NOTE:

• Was the father of Who actors David Troughton and Michael Troughton
• Away from the Who-niverse, was the grandfather of Warwickshire cricketer Jim Troughton, and actors Sam Troughton and Harry Melling, best known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter franchise.
• Also appeared as the Second Doctor in a 1985 skit for Children In Need

Before Who:
Films - The Rose Without a Thorn (1947), Edward II (1947), R.U.R. (1948), Escape* (1948), Hamlet (1948), The Case of the Frightened Lady (1948), The Red Shoes [Uncredited BBC Radio Announcer (voice only)] (1948), Nurse Cavell (1948), At the Villa Rose (1948), Someone at the Door (1949), Badger's Green (1949), The Cardboard Cavalier (1949), Trelawny of the Wells (1949), Whitehall Wonders (1949), The Whole World Over (1950), Chance of a Lifetime (1950), Treasure Island* (1950), Waterfront Women (1950), Her Panelled Door (1950), The Franchise Affair (1951), White Corridors (1951), The Florentine Painting (1952), Shadow and Substance (1953), Toad of Toad Hall (1953), Misalliance (1954), The Black Knight (1955), The Bargain (1955), The Olive Jar (1955), Richard III (1955), 1984* (1956), Cycling Holiday (1956), The Condemned (1956), The Well (1957), Ordeal by Fire (1957), Aladdin (1957), Hunted (1958), The Moonraker (1958), The Hill [Voice of Jesus] (1959), The True Mistery of the Passion (1960), She Died Young (1961), Wuthering Heights (1962), The Phantom Of The Opera* (1962), Jason and the Argonauts* (1963), The Gorgon* (1964), The Black Torment (1964)

Television - Hamlet Part 2 [4 episodes as Horatio] /Triple Bill: Exit; Murder Over Draughts; The Body Was Not Disturbed / Celestial Fire / The Tragedy of King Lear Part 1 [4 episodes as Edmund] / Macbeth [2 episodes as Seyton] / For the Children: Toad of Toad Hall / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: The Family Reunion / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: Adventure Story / Kidnapped [5 episodes as Alan Breck] / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: Lines of Communication / Robin Hood [6 episodes as Robin Hood] / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: The Passionate Pilgrim / The Heir of Skipton [3 episodes as Will Angram] / Wednesday Theatre: Waterloo / Clementina [6 episodes as Charles Wogan] / Benbow and the Angels [4 episodes as Mr. Smith] / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: Witch Wood / The Adventures of Annabel: The Hundred Million Francs / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: Midsummer Fire / The Scarlet Pimpernel [15 episodes as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes (1955-1956)] / Theatre Royal: The Ends of Justice / Nom-de-Plume: The Man from the Sea / One Family [2 episodes as The Tarman] / The Count of Monte Cristo* [3 episodes as The Ferret / Branza / Marcel] / / The Adventures of Robin Hood [8 episodes, different characters (1956-1960)] / Kidnapped [5 episodes as Alan Breck] / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: The White Falcon / Assignment Foreign Legion: The Conquering Hero / Precious Bane [6 episodes as Gideon Sarn] / Hour of Mystery: Excursion Into Murder / The New Adventures of Charlie Chan: Something Old, Something New* / Murder Bag: Case 27 / The Dangerous Game [4 episodes as Philip Baker] / The Royalty [6 episodes as Larry Champion] / Ivanhoe: The Kidnapping / Sword of Freedom* [4 episodes, different characters] / Queen's Champion [2 episodes as Don Alonzo] / William Tell: The Golden Wheel / The Rebel Heiress [6 episodes as Roger Trevanion] / The Cabin in the Clearing [4 episodes as Simon Kenton] / The Scarf [4 episodes as Edward Collins] / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: Maigret and the Lost Life / Charlesworth: The Drainpipe / The Naked Lady [4 episodes as Bob Dyson] / World Theatre: The Silver Box / The Moonstone / Interpol Calling: The Thirteen Innocents / The Invisible Man: Strange Partners / The History of Mr. Polly [2 episodes as Uncle Jim] / Three Golden Nobles: The Painter / The Flying Doctor: A Stranger in Distress / Dial 999 [3 episodes, different characters] / The Four Just Men: The Night of the Precious Stones / The Terrible Choice: Dr. Faustus / The Splendid Spur [6 episodes as Captain Luke Settle] / The Four Just Men: The Moment of Truth / Danger Man: Bury the Dead / Danger Man: The Lonely Chair* / Paul of Tarsus [10 episodes as Paul]Knight Errant Limited: A Spider's Life / International Detective: The Martos Case / ITV Television Playhouse: A Walk on the Water / Maigret: Raise Your Right Hand / Sir Francis Drake: The Bridge / Compact [11 episodes as Eddie Goldsmith] / Dr. Finlay's Casebook* [7 episodes, differenct characters (1962-1970)] / BBC Sunday-Night Play: Sword of Vengeance / Man of the World: Death of a Conference / Harpers West One / The Sword in the Web: The Alibi / Somerset Maugham Hour: The Back of Beyond / The Old Curiosity Shop [11 episodes as Daniel Quilp (1962-1963)] / Lorna Doone: A Summons to London / No Cloak - No Dagger [4 episodes as Trev] / The Saint: The Romantic Matron / Espionage: He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday / The Sentimental Agent: The Scroll of Islam / Crane: Man Without a Past / Detective: The Loring Mystery / Z Cars [5 episodes, different characters (1964-1975)] / The Third Man: A Question in Ice / The Midnight Men [5 episodes as Skoder] / Smuggler's Bay [5 episodes as Ratsey] / Thorndyke: The Old Lag / HMS Paradise: Thar's Gold in Them Thar Holes / Artists' Notebooks: William Hogarth (1697-1764) / The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling: The Bronckhurst Divorce Case / Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Foot / The Wednesday Play: And Did Those Feet? / A Tale of Two Cities [10 episodes as Dr. Manette] / No Hiding Place: The Street / The Liars / This Man Craig: A Wise Father / David Copperfield: The Long Journey / Armchair Theatre: The Battersea Miracle / ITV Play of the Week: The First Thunder / Softly Softly: Best Out of Three / The Saint: Interlude in Venice* / Adam Adamant Lives!: D for Destruction

After Who:
Films - The Viking Queen* (1967), Scars of Dracula* (1970), Ego Hugo (1973), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell* (1974), The Omen* (1976), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), A Hitch in Time (1978), Suez 1956 (1979), John Diamond (1981), Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (1981), Amy (1984), Swallows and Amazons Forever!: The Big Six (1984)

Television - A Family at War [9 episodes as Harry Porter (1970-1972)] / Paul Temple: Swan Song for Colonel Harp / The Six Wives of Henry VIII* [5 episodes as Duke of Norfolk] / ITV Playhouse: Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It / Little Women [4 episodes as Mr. March] / Doomwatch: In the Dark / On the House [2 episodes as Dr. Stanley] / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Jilly / Out of the Unknown: The Chopper / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Square One / The Persuaders!: The Old, the New, and the Deadly* / Softly Softly - Task Force: Better Than Doing Porridge / The Goodies: The Baddies / Jason King: That Isn't Me, It's Somebody Else* / The Befrienders: Fallen Star / His Lordship Entertains: Ten Wives / The Main Chance: Acting for Self / The Protectors: Brother Hood / Colditz: The Traitor / Jackanory: The Three Toymakers [5 episodes as storyteller] / Whoops Baghdad!: Ali and the Thieves / Owen, M.D.: You Don't Get Me / Hawkeye, the Pathfinder [5 episodes as Uncle Cap] / Stars on Sunday: Glories of Christmas / Special Branch: Alien / Village Hall: The Magic Sponge / Sutherland's Law: Who Cares? / Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill [2 episodes as Benjamin Disraeli] / Coronation Street [4 episodes as George Barton (1974)] / Crown Court: Pot of Basil / Charles Dickens' World of Christmas / Thriller: Nurse Will Make It Better* / Churchill's People: Silver Giant, Wooden Dwarf / The Sweeney: Hit and Run / Crown Court: Will the Real Robert Randell Please Stand Up / Survivors: Parasites / Angels: Decision / The Feathered Serpent [12 episodes as Nasca (1976-1978)] / Lorna Doone [5 episodes as Counsellor Doone] / Warship: Robertson Crusoe / Yanks Go Home: The Game of the Name / Van der Valk: Accidental / BBC2 Play of the Week: The Sinking of HMS Victoria / Treasure Island [4 episodes as Israel Hands] / Space - 1999: The Dorcons / Horizon: Light of the 21st Century / The Devil's Crown [5 episodes as William Marshal] / Edward & Mrs. Simpson [3 episodes as Clement Attlee] / The Famous Five: Five Run Away Together / The Onedin Line: The Suitor / Sally Ann [2 episodes as Banjo] / All Creatures Great and Small: Hair of the Dog / Only When I Laugh: Where There's a Will / Bognor [6 episodes as Xavier] / King's Royal [3 episodes as Father Campbell] / BBC2 Playhouse: The Pigman's Protege / Nanny [5 episodes as Mr. Jessop] / Shine on Harvey Moon: The Course of True Love / The Cleopatras: 100 BC / Play for Today: Reluctant Chickens / Jury: Ann / Dramarama: The Young Person's Guide to Getting Their Ball Back! / Foxy Lady [8 episodes as J.P. Schofield] / Minder: Windows / The Box of Delights [3 episodes as Cole Hawlings] / Summer Season: Long Term Memory / The Two of Us [5 episodes as Perce] / Inspector Morse: The Dead of Jericho* / Yesterday's Dreams [4 episodes as Jack] / Super Gran: Supergran and the Heir Apparent / Knights of God [13 episodes as Arthur]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) was one of 12 covers released by the Radio Times (Dated Nov 23-29th) to celebrate Doctor Who's 50th anniversary in 2013.

Also featured are the Daleks, a Sea Devil and a Tractator.

[Susan Foreman]

In memory of Myra Francis (1943 - 2021)

Played Lady Adrasta in 'The Creature From The Pit'