The Doctor Who Thread

[Susan Foreman]

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

• Matthew Waterhouse (Adric)
• Sarah Sutton (Nyssa)
• Janet Fielding (Tegan)
• John Baker (Ralph)
• Stuart Fell (Masked Villager)
• Alan Chuntz (Masked Villager)

Who: Before And After #708

Name: Michael Robbins [1930 - 1992]
Year(s): 1982
Stories: The Visitation part 1 – The Visitation part 4
Character(s): Richard Mace

Before Who:
Films: The Miser (1956), Final at Furnell (1957), One Man Absent (1958), Daphne Laureola (1958), Poet and Pheasant (1959), In the Zone (1960), Annual Outing (1960), A Prize of Arms* (1962), A World Inside (1962), What a Crazy World (1963), Lunch Hour (1963), Children of the Damned (1964), The Bargee (1964), Rattle of a Simple Man (1964), The Whisperers (1967), Up the Junction (1968), Till Death Us Do Part (1968), Crossplot (1969), The Looking Glass War (1970), All the Way Up (1970), Zeppelin (1971), Villain (1971), On the Buses (1971), Cider with Rosie (1971), Mutiny on the Buses (1972), That's Your Funeral (1972), No Sex Please - We're British (1973), Holiday on the Buses (1973), You'd Better Go in Disguise (1973), Man About the House (1974), Time and Time Again (1976), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), The Great Muppet Caper* (1981)

Television: Be Soon [3 episodes (1957-1958)] / The Sky Larks: Exercise Merry-Go-Round (1958) / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: Shadow of Heroes (1959) / Strife: Act 2 (1960) / Scotland Yard: Information Received (1960) / On Trial: Sir Roger Casement (1960) / Julius Caesar [2 episodes as Dardanius (1960)] / Saturday Playhouse: A Run for the Money (1960) / Probation Officer [3 episodes, different characters (1960-1962)] / Deadline Midnight: It's a Free Country (1961) / BBC Sunday-Night Play: Wet Fish (1961) / The Avengers: Dragonsfield (1961) / Philoctetes [2 episodes as a Sailor (1961)] / You Can't Win: Professional Status (1961) / A Chance of Thunder [3 episodes as Mills (1961)] / Studio 4: The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1962) / ITV Play of the Week: Major Barbara (1962) / The Avengers; Mr. Teddy Bear* (1962) / The Caucasian Chalk Circle [3 episodes as a Trooper (1962)] / ITV Television Playhouse: The Cage (1963) / Z Cars [8 episodes, different characters (1963-1974)] / Dimensions of Fear [2 episodes as PC Dumphy (1963)] / Crane: A Death of No Importance (1963) / The Plane Makers: Point of Contact (1963) / Taxi!: Barricades in Bailey Street (1963) / Suspense: Scissors (1963) / Teletale: Dr. Murke's Collection of Silences (1963) / Boyd Q.C.: A Little Learning (1963) / Drama 61-67: Drama '64 - Across the Border (1964) / The Saint: The Saint Steps In (1964) / Dixon of Dock Green [6 episodes, different characters (1964-1967)] / Ghost Squad: Scorpion Rock (1964) / First Night: The Improbable Mr. Claybill (1964) / Story Parade: A Travelling Woman (1964) / The Four Seasons of Rosie Carr [2 episodes as Dave (1964)] / Diary of a Young Man: Power (1964) / Redcap: A Town Called Love (1964) / No Hiding Place [2 episodes, different characters (1964-1965)] / The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Act of Murder (1964) / The Count of Monte Cristo [4 episodes as Gaspard Caderousse (1964)] / Gideon C.I.D.: Fall High Fall Hard (1965) / Public Eye : My Life - That's a Marriage (1965) / ITV Sunday Night Drama: The Paper Man (1965) / The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Dead Man's Chest (1965) / Londoners: Joe Nobody (1965) / Zero One: The Body (1965) / Sherlock Holmes: The Copper Beeches (1965) / The Wednesday Thriller: The House (1965) / Jury Room: The Baccarat Scandal (1965) / The Baron: There's Someone Close Behind You (1966) / ITV Play of the Week: The First Thunder (1966) / The Man in Room 17: Vendetta (1966) / Three Rousing Tinkles [2 episodes (1966)] / Pardon the Expression [2 episodes, different characters (1966)] / Adam Adamant Lives!: Death Has a Thousand Faces (1966) / Thirteen Against Fate: The Friends (1966) / Turn Out the Lights: A Big Hand for a Little Lady (1967) / Four Tall Tinkles: At Least It's a Precaution Against Fire (1967) / Seven Deadly Virtues: It's Your Move (1967) / Callan: Goodbye, Nobby Clarke (1967) / Theatre 625: Stan's Day Out (1967) / The Pilgrim's Progress [2 episodes, different characters (1967)] / The Gamblers: The Wrecker (1967) /Les Misérables: Sanctuary (1967) / You and the World: Terry (1968) / Pere Goriot: Vautrin (1968) / ITV Playhouse: Horizontal Hold (1968) / The First Lady: Vacancy (1968) / The Very Merry Widow: Anything Legal Considered (1968) / The Root of All Evil?: Of Course We Trust You Arnold (1968) / Her Majesty's Pleasure: You're as Old as You Are (1968) / The Saint: The Double Take (1968) / The Saint: The People Importers (1968) / Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Carbuncle (1968) / Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width: I'm Dreaming of a Kosher Christmas (1968) / Armchair Theatre: Go on... It'll Do You Good (1969) / The Avengers: Take Me to Your Leader (1969) / On the Buses* [61 episodes as Arthur Rudge (1969-1972)] / Department S: The Man in the Elegant Room (1969) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: The Dirt on Lucy Lane (1969) / Judge Dee: The Day of the Scavengers (1969) / The Liver Birds: The Photographer (1969) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Trial (1969) / Parkin's Patch [2 episodes as Parry (1969)] / The Wednesday Play: The Hunting of Lionel Crane (1970) / Oh Brother!: By the Fleshpots (1970) / BBC Play of the Month: Ross (1970) /Biography: Danton (1970) / Albert!: De Profundis (1971) / Justice: People Have Too Many Rights (1971) / Comedy Playhouse: Home from Home (1973) / Black and Blue: Soap Opera in Stockwell (1973) / Thick as Thieves [2 episodes as Sergeant Black (1974)] / How's Your Father? [13 episodes as Eddie Cropper (1974-1975)] / The Main Chance: When There's No Law (1975) / Moody and Pegg: Full House (1975) / The Sweeney: Big Brother (1975) / Centre Play: Hoodwink (1975) / Operation Patch [7 episodes as George Cosserat (1976)] / The Good Life: Whose Fleas Are These? (1976) / Murder Most English - A Flaxborough Chronicle [2 episodes as Pumphrey (1977) ] / Devenish [6 episodes as George Craddock (1977-1978)] / The Fuzz [7 episodes as Det. Sgt. Sidney Marble (1977)] / Mixed Blessings: You Haven't Got Much, Have You? (1978) / That's the Way the Money Goes: Good as New? (1978) / Return of the Saint: Collision Course - The Brave Goose (1979) / Leave It to Charlie: ...And Harry's Just Wild About Me (1979) / George & Mildred: The Last Straw (1979) / Play for Today: Murder Rap (1980) / Dick Turpin: The Elixir of Life (1980) / Minder: All Mod Cons (1980) / Brendon Chase [10 episodes as Sergeant Bunting (1981)] / Legacy of Murder: Dying to Meet You (1982)

After Who:
Films: Victor Victoria (1982), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982), Lost in London (1985), Diamond's Edge (1988)
Television: The Chinese Detective: Secret State (1982) / Tears Before Bedtime: Show Me the Way to Leave Home (1983) / The Bounder [2 episodes as Bert (1983)] / Fairly Secret Army [12 episodes as Sgt. Maj. Throttle (1984-1986)] / Fresh Fields: Do It Yourself (1985) / Comrade Dad: Cars That Pass in the Night (1986) / Dempsey and Makepeace: Jericho Scam (1986) / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole's Last Case (1987) / A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery: Strong Poison (1987) / Hi-de-Hi!: Wedding Bells (1988) / The Bill [2 episodes as Tobin (1989-1991)] / EastEnders (1989) / Making News: Line of Fire (1990) / One Foot in the Grave* [2 episodes, different characters (1990-1991)] / You Rang, M'Lord?: Stranger in the Night (1990) / The New Statesman: Let Them Sniff Cake (1991) / El C.I.D.: Paradise Mislaid (1991) / The Winjin' Pom (1991) / Screen One: Adam Bede (1992) / In Sickness and in Health (1992)

[Susan Foreman]

According to Matthew Sweet on Twitter, the two Dalek films that were made in the 1960's are going to be re-released to cinemas as a double bill on July 8th

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1504551250372829191

[Susan Foreman]

In memory of Peter Bowles (1936 - 2022)

Played Lionel Carson in the 'Sarah Jane Adventures' story 'The Man Who Never Was'

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

According to Matthew Sweet on Twitter, the two Dalek films that were made in the 1960's are going to be re-released to cinemas as a double bill on July 8th

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1504551250372829191

I bet that means StudioCanal are re-releasing the films on disc.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The cover to the Big Finish audio adventure Ghost Walk, released in 2018.

[MrBarlow]

Doctor Who.

An Unearthly Child
Two teachers look into the life of a pupil and her grandfather who lives in a junkyard with a police box which the young Susan refers to as The Tardis.

The Caves of Skulls
The Tardis lands in the place of dawn of history where the inhabitants are trying to rediscover man's greatest invention, fire.

The Forest Of Fear
The Old Mother of the tribe frees the prisoners while they are being hunted by members of the thribe.

The Firemaker
The Old Mother was killed but The Doctor tells convinces tribe that someone has done it, but a member of the tribe insists the travelers be held until they can show them how to make fire.

Signed up to Britbox and first tv show to come up was Doctor Who, and this is my first time seeing the first season of William Hartnell who plays a somewhat eccentric old man able to try and play mind games in the first episode until he makes the phrase "seeing is believing" actually happen. This would have been amazing to see when it was first broadcasted back in 1963.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #709

Name: John Savident [1938 - ]
Year(s): 1982
Stories: The Visitation part 1
Character(s): The Squire
Note: Provided the voice of Pendle in the 2016 Big Finish Productions audio story 'Order of the Daleks'

Before Who:
Films: Eight O'Clock Walk (1954), Robbery (1967), The White Bus (1967), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), The Merry Widow (1968), Before Winter Comes (1968), Otley (1969), The Battle of Britain* (1969), Waterloo (1970), Put Out More Flags (1970), Say Hello to Yesterday (1971), Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971), A Clockwork Orange* (1971), Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973), Penny Gold (1973), Diamonds on Wheels (1973), Butley (1974), Galileo (1975), Goose with Pepper (1975), A Dirty Knight's Work (1976), Seal Island (1976), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1976), The Common Lot (1977), Rachel and the Beelzebub Bombardiers (1977), The Day Christ Died (1980), Moving Pictures ( (1980), The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls (1980), Thank You, P.G. Wodehouse (1981), The Various Ends of Mrs. F's Friends (1981)

Television: Redcap: Stag Party (1966) / Thirteen Against Fate: The Consul (1966) / Emergency-Ward 10: Hide Me, Hide Me (1967) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Playing with Fire (1967) / Seven Deadly Virtues: A Pain in the Neck (1967) / Armchair Theatre: Compensation Alice (1967) / ITV Play of the Week: ITV Summer Playhouse #1 - The Sleeping Partner (1967) / Boy Meets Girl: The Raging Moon (1967) / Mrs. Thursday: A Genuine Moorish Momento (1967) / The Troubleshooters: And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (1967) / City '68: In Memoriam (1968) / Man in a Suitcase: Web with Four Spiders (1968) / Mystery and Imagination: The Listener (1968) / The Avengers: My Wildest Dream* (1968) / The Saint: Where the Money Is (1968) / Callan: Red Knight, White Knight (1969) / Department S: The Double Death of Charlie Crippen (1969) / Judge Dee: Traitors in High Places (1969) / ITV Playhouse: Colombe (1969) / Nearest and Dearest [2 episodes as the Landlord (1969)] / The Wednesday Play: The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury (1969) / Two in Clover (1970) / Codename: The Alpha Men (1970) / Manhunt [3 episodes as Raoul (1970)] / A Family at War [4 episodes as George Askew (1970-1972)] / The Mating Machine: Only Three Can Play (1970) / Biography: I Measured the Skies (1970) / Doomwatch [2 episodes as The Minister (1971)] / Budgie: In Deep (1971) / Brett [2 episodes as the Counsel (1971)] / Hine: The Old School Noose (1971) / Public Eye: I Always Wanted a Swimming Pool (1971) / BBC Play of the Month: Rasputin (1971) / Justice: The Rain It Raineth (1971) / Man of Straw [4 episodes as Von Wulchow (1972)] / Spyder's Web [2 episodes as the Chief (1972)] / Tightrope [13 episodes as Forrester (1972)] / Alcock and Gander: Soho Is Too Small (1972) / Lollipop: My Fur Lady (1972) / The Adventurer: Poor Little Rich Girl (1972) / Omnibus; Max Beerbohm Remembers (1972) / Colditz: Murder? (1973) / New Scotland Yard: My Boy Robby? (1973) / The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway* (1973) / Love Story: Forsaking All Others (1973) / Harriet's Back in Town [2 episodes as Marius (1973)] / A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (1973) / Between the Wars: Yes, Aunt (1973) / Warship [2 episodes, different characters (1973-1974)] / The Lotus Eaters [2 episodes as Major Constantinos (1973)] / Orson Welles' Great Mysteries: Trial for Murder (1974) / QB VII (1974) / Dial M for Murder: Dead Connection (1974) / Late Night Drama: A Brisk Dip Sagaciously Considered (1974) / Softly Softly - Task Force: Pardon (1974) / Looking for Clancy (1975) / The Main Chance: Killing (1975) / Comedy Premiere: The Truth About Verity (1975) / Quiller: Assault on the Ritz (1975) / Crown Court: The Right of Every Woman (1976) / Our Mutual Friend [2 episodes as Mr. Podsnap (1976)] / Dixon of Dock Green: Legacy (1976) / When the Boat Comes In: In the Front Line You Get Shot At (1977) / The Velvet Glove: Beyond This Life (1977) / Raffles: Mr Justice Raffles (1977) / Whodunnit?: The Rajah's Ruby (1977) / 1990 [5 episodes as Dan Mellor (1977)] / Just William: William and the Tramp (1978) / Z Cars: Deserter (1978) / The BBC Television Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (1978) / Two's Company [2 episodes as Paul (1978-1979)] / The Professionals: Servant of Two Masters (1979) / Blake's 7: Trial (1979) / Yes Minister [4 episodes as Sir Frederick 'Jumbo' Stewart (1980)] / Shelley: Tea and Sympathy (1980) / The Good Companions: In Which We Meet the Company (1980) / In Loving Memory: The Fall of the House of Unsworth (1980) / BBC2 Playhouse: Clapperclaw (1981) / Private Schulz (1981) / Blake's 7: Orbit (1981) / The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1982) / Jackanory Playhouse: The Unknown Enchantment (1982)

After Who:
Films: Oliver Twist (1982), Gandhi (1982), The Wicked Lady (1983), The Crystal Cube (1983), This Office Life (1984), The Pyrates (1986), Little Dorrit (1987), A Summer Story (1988), Camping (1990), Mountains of the Moon (1990), Duel of Hearts (1991), Impromptu (1991), Hudson Hawk (1991), One Against the Wind (1991), Brain Donors (1992), Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), Heart of Darkness (1993), Tom & Viv (1994), Good Friday 1663 (1994), Othello (1995), Loch Ness* (1996), Aladdin (2000), The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)

Television: Father Charlie [2 episodes as Bishop Larkin (1982)] / The Chinese Detective: Oblomov (1982) / Juliet Bravo: Amateur Night (1982) / The Cleopatras: 80 BC (1983) / Let There Be Love: Spilling the Beans (1983) / Never the Twain: Partners (1983) / Jane [4 episodes as Count Boris Badinov (1984)] / The Bill: It's Not Such a Bad Job After All (1984) / Fresh Fields: A Waiting Game (1985) / Screen Two: The Silent Twins (1986) / Starting Out: Life and Death (1986) / Screenplay: The Marlowe Inquest (1986) / Chance in a Million [2 episodes as Derek (1986)] / David Copperfield p2 episodes as Mr. Creakle (1986)] / Boon: The Devil You Know (1988) / T.Bag and the Revenge of the T.Set: La Boheme (1989) / Chelmsford 123: Bird Trouble (1990) / Haggard: The Great Lover (1990) / Tygo Road (1990) / Parnell & the Englishwoman [2 episodes as W.E. Forster (1991)] / Mr. Bean Takes an Exam (1991) / Jeeves and Wooster: Bertie Ensures Bicky Can Continue to Live in Manhattan (or, the Full House) (1992) / Take Off with T. Bag: The Curse of the Mummy (1992) / Lovejoy: Dainty Dish (1993) / Mike & Angelo [3 episodes as Howard Fogle (1993-1994)] / The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Palestine, October 1917 (1993) / Middlemarch [4 episodes as Raffles (1994)] / Coronation Street* [879 episodes as Fred Elliott (1994-2006) / Sharpe: Sharpe's Regiment (1996) / The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) / Blackadder: Original Pilot* [as the King (2003)] / Above Suspicion (2009) / Hotel Babylon (2009) / Holby City: And We Banish Shade (2012)

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

...this is my first time seeing the first season of William Hartnell who plays a somewhat eccentric old man able to try and play mind games in the first episode until he makes the phrase "seeing is believing" actually happen. This would have been amazing to see when it was first broadcasted back in 1963.

Sadly, because *everyone* knows what the TARDIS is like, first time viewers nowadays are never get the same jaw-dropping experience that first time viewers in the 1960's got

In some ways, it's a shame the mysteries of 'Doctor Who' have become so familiar to everyone, regardless of whether they are a fan (and viewer) or not, that some of the magic has been lost

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Sadly, because *everyone* knows what the TARDIS is like, first time viewers nowadays are never get the same jaw-dropping experience that first time viewers in the 1960's got

In some ways, it's a shame the mysteries of 'Doctor Who' have become so familiar to everyone, regardless of whether they are a fan (and viewer) or not, that some of the magic has been lost

Sadly that is very true Susan, I grew up in the era from Colin Baker to present and a lot of the past Dr Who episodes never appealed to me, over the last few years I am a Who fan now.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Daleks arrive on the planet Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (1974)