The Doctor Who Thread

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #731

Name: Nigel Stock [1919 - 1986]
Year(s): 1982
Stories: Time-Flight part 2 – Time-Flight part 4
Character(s): Professor Hayter

Note:

• Had previously been considered for the part of Monarch in the 1981 story 'Four to Doomsday'
• Was later considered for the role of Orcini in the 1985 story 'Revelation of the Daleks'

Before Who:
Films: The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936), Lancashire Luck (1937), Vice Versa (1937), Break the News (1938), North Sea Patrol (1938), The Monkey's Paw (1939), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Sons of the Sea (1939), Rope (1947), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1947), Boys in Brown (1947), Edward II (1947), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947), Brighton Rock* (1948), The Lady with a Lamp (1951), Derby Day (1952), Raiders in the Sky (1953), Seagulls Over Sorrento (1953), Malta Story (1953), Aunt Clara (1954), The Night My Number Came Up (1955), The Dam Busters (1955), Eyewitness (1956), The Chertsey Apprentice (1956), The Battle of the River Plate (1956), The Silent Enemy (1958), Yvette (1958), Never Let Go (1960), Who Pays the Piper? (1960), The Road to Carey Street (1960), Victim (1961), Where the Difference Begins (1961), Damn the Defiant! (1962), The Winter's Tale (1962), Late Summer Affair (1962), The Password Is Courage (1962), The Great Escape [as Cavendish 'The Surveyor'] (1963), Nothing But the Best (1964), Weekend at Dunkirk (1964), McGuire, Go Home! (1965), The Night of the Generals (1967), The Lost Continent* (1968), The Lion in Winter (1968), No! No! No! (1969), Cromwell (1970), The Nelson Affair (1973), Russian Roulette (1975), Operation Daybreak (1975), The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Television: Assignment Foreign Legion: The Testimonial of a Soldier (1957) / Theatre Night: Subway in the Sky (1957) / Overseas Press Club – Exclusive!: The Man Who Changed Faces (1957) / The Gay Cavalier: The Lost Is Found (1957) / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1958) / Saturday Playhouse: Devonshire Cream (1960) / Suspense: Payment in Full (1960) / Scotland Yard: Complaints Against the Police (1960) / ITV Television Playhouse: The Unquiet Spirit (1960) / No Hiding Place: Trial and Error (1960) / Police Surgeon: Wilful Neglect (1960) / Knight Errant Limited: Money No Object (1960) / ITV Play of the Week: The Road to Hilda Brown (1961) / Theatre 70: Answered Prayers (1961) / Out of This World: The Yellow Pill (1962) / The Saint: The Invisible Millionaire (1963) / The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: To Have and to Hold (1963) / Lorna Doone [7 episodes as Jeremy Stickles (1963)] / BBC Sunday-Night Play: The Affair (1963) / Espionage: Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) / First Night: The Happy Ones (1964) / Drama 61-67: Studio '64 - The Happy Moorings (1964) / Festival: The Life of Galileo (1964) / Detective: The Speckled Band (1964) / The Avengers: Concerto (1964) / Armchair Mystery Theatre: You Must Be Virginia? (1964) / Sherlock Holmes [29 episodes as Dr. Watson (1964-1968)] / The Wednesday Play: The Seven O'Clock Crunch (1965) / Famous Gossips: Charles Apperley - The Tribute to Squire Mytton (1965) / Danger Man: Loyalty Always Pays (1965) / Buddenbrooks [7 episodes as Thomas Buddenbrooks (1965)] / Dr. Finlay's Casebook: The General (1966) / This Man Craig: Dougie (1966) / The Avengers: A Sense of History* (1966) / Seven Deadly Sins: My Friend Corby (1966) / Out of the Unknown: Second Childhood (1966) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Confession (1966) / Theatre 625: The Family Reunion (1966) / The Troubleshooters [2 episodes as Arthur Rogers (1966-1967)] / Adam Adamant Lives!: The Deadly Bullet (1967) / Haunted: Many Happy Returns (1967) / Out of Town Theatre: The Picnic (1967) / The Prisoner: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling* (1967) / Doomwatch: Project Sahara (1970) / Armchair Theatre: The Others (1970) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Hamlet (1970) / The Doctors [77 episodes as Dr. Thomas Owens (1970-1971)] / Owen, M.D. [61 episodes as Dr. Thomas Owen (1971-1973)] / No Exit: Queen's Messenger (1972) / Kate: A Man for All That (1972) / Colditz: Name, Rank and Number (1972) / The New Road: A Kistful of Muskets (1973) / Fall of Eagles: Tell the King the Sky Is Falling (1974) / Centre Play: Is It Something I Said? (1974) / Marked Personal [2 episodes as Don Howie (1974)] / Churchill's People: Mutiny (1975) / The Main Chance: When There's No Law (1975) / Quiller [2 episodes as Loman (1975)] / Orde Wingate [3 episodes as General Wavell (1976)] / The Expert: Inheritance (1976) / BBC Play of the Month: London Assurance (1976) / Softly Softly - Task Force: Alarums and Excursions (1976) / Drama: Six Characters in Search of an Author by Pirandello (1977) / Van der Valk [12 episodes as Samson (1977)] / Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Return to the Circus (1979) / A Man Called Intrepid [3 episodes as Winston Churchill (1979)] / A Tale of Two Cities [7 episodes as Jarvis Lorry (1980)] / The Good Companions: Supper at the Royal Standard (1980) / Flesh and Blood [20 episodes as Jim Turner (1980-1982)] / Triangle [15 episodes as Wally James (1981)] / Play for Today: The Union (1981) / Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years: His Own Funeral (1981) / Yes Minister [2 episodes as Sir Mark Spencer (1982)]

After Who:
Films: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1982), Red Monarch (1983), Yellowbeard (1983), The World Walk (1984), Young Sherlock Holmes* (1985)

Television: Strangers: The Tender Trap (1982) / Father's Day: Family Togetherness (1983) / Crown Court: Big Deal (1984) / Scotland's Story [3 episodes, different characters (1984)] / The Pickwick Papers [12 episodes as Mr. Pickwick (1985)] / Oscar: Trials (1985) / Screen Two: Blood Hunt (1986) / The Theban Plays by Sophocles: Oedipus the King (1986) / Unnatural Causes: Ladies' Night (1986) / Worlds Beyond: The Barrington Case (1987) / Knights of God [7 episodes as Brother Simon (1987)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and the Doctor (Peter Davison) in Snakedance (1983)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #732a

Name: Judith Byfield [1951 - 1989]
Year(s): 1982
Stories: Time-Flight part 1 – Time-Flight part 3
Character(s): Angela Clifford
Note: Also provided the Tannoy voice in episode 4

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Wuthering Heights (1978) / Rosie: Tune on a Silent Dog Whistle (1981) / Bergerac: Picking It Up (1981)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Play for Today: Whistling Wally (1982) / Minder: Windows (1984) / The Brief: Look at Me (1984)

Who: Before And After #732b

Name: Hugh Hayes [1950 - ]
Year(s): 1982
Stories: Time-Flight part 3
Character(s): Anithon

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Nancy Astor: The Passenger on the Ocean Liner (1982)

After Who:
Films: Rude Awakening (1989), Niagaravation (1996), Goodnight Mr Tom (1998), The Russian Bride (2001), Rehab (2003), Happy New Year London (2007), Crowhurst (2017)
Television: BBC Play of the Month: The White Guard (1982) / The Theban Plays by Sophocles: Oedipus the King (1986) / The Bill [2 episodes, different characters (1989)] / Starting Out: Sara's Story (1992) / Bugs: Assassins Inc. (1995) / Frontiers: Casual Bank Robbers (1996) / Silent Witness: Answering Fire (2003) / Inventions That Changed the World: Computer (2004) / Holby City: Battle of Who Could Care Less (2008) / Criminal Justice [2 episodes as the Court Usher (2009)] / Rosamunde Pilcher: Lass es Liebe sein (2009) / EastEnders (2012) / Doctors: Forever (2015)

Who: Before And After #732c

Name: Andre Winterton [? - ]
Year(s): 1982
Stories: Time-Flight part 3
Character(s): Zarak
Note: Also provided the voice of the Plasmatron in part 2

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: The Talisman (1981)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: The Cleopatras: 100 BC (1983) / The Collectors: Major Barclay's Last Stand (1986) / Strike It Rich! [2 episodes as the Jury foreman (1987)] / Star Cops: This Case to Be Opened in a Million Years (1987) / Vanity Fair: A Vulgar Incident (1987) / Howards' Way (1988) / 4 Play: Work! (1991) / The Bill: Addict (1991) / Crimewatch File: Scarred (1995)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The cover art of 2021's Forged in Fire, part of The War Doctor Begins series from Big Finish that features The War Doctor, as played on tv by John Hurt, the Daleks and the Tharils, last seen in Warriors Gate (1981)

[Susan Foreman]

Guest actors appearing in ARC OF INFINITY who have previously appeared in the show:

• Sarah Sutton (Nyssa)
• Janet Fielding (Tegan)
• Leonard Sachs (President Borusa)
• Michael Gough (Councillor Hedin)
• Ian Collier (Omega / 'The Renegade')

Who: Before And After #733a

Name: Elspet Grey [1929 -2013]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: Arc Of Infinity part 1 – Arc Of Infinity part 4
Character(s): Chancellor Thalia
Note: Appeared as Hera in the 2007 Big Finish audio story 'Immortal Beloved'

Before Who:
Films: Fly Away Peter (1948), Love in Waiting (1948), The Blind Goddess (1948), The Gay Lady (1949), Reluctant Heroes (1949), The Poppenkast (1952), Postman's Knock (1952), Johnny on the Spot (1954), Devil's Harbor (1954), The Night We Got the Bird (1961), Uproar in the House (1967), Let Sleeping Wives Lie (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Television: Eight to a Bar [2 episodes as Mrs. Quentin Abel (1952) / Johnny, You're Wanted [3 episodes as Beryl (1953)] / Patrol Car [2 episodes, different characters (1955)] / Strange Experiences: Halloween (1955) / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre [11 episodes, different characters (1955-1959)] / Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Murder Is Permanent (1956) / The Adventures of the Big Man: Edge of Darkness (1956) / A Life of Bliss: Plead Guilty (1960) / BBC Sunday-Night Play [3 episodes, different characters (1960-1961)] / Dial RIX [6 episodes, different characters (1962-1963)] / Brian Rix Presents ... [10 episodes, different characters (1962-1970)] / Laughter from the Whitehall [3 episodes, different characters (1963-1964)] / The Brian Rix Theatre of Laughter: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1967) / ITV Playhouse: The Tycoon (1968) / Fraud Squad: Brother Simple (1969) / Catweazle [11 episodes as Lady Collingford (1971)] / Father, Dear Father [2 episodes, different characters (1971-1972)] / Six with Rix [4 episodes, different characters (1972)] / My Good Woman: Two of a Kind (1974) / The Crezz [11 episodes as Jackie Bronte (1976)] / The Many Wives of Patrick [11 episodes as Nancy Grenville (1976-1978)] / Fawlty Towers: The Psychiatrist* (1979) / Take My Wife... (1979) / The Agatha Christie Hour: In a Glass Darkly (1982) / Solo [13 episodes as Mrs Palmer (1981-1982)]

After Who:
Films: The Girl in a Swing (1988), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Television: Blackadder* [7 episodes as The Queen (1983-2003)] / Tenko [8 episodes as Phyllis Bristow (1984) / Lytton's Diary: National Hero (1986) / Inspector Morse: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (1987) / Pulaski: The TV Detective [3 episodes as Celia Parker-Smith (1987)] / Making News: Line of Fire (1990) / Poirot: Double Sin (1990) / Casualty: Love's a Pain (1990) / The Good Guys: The MacQuarrie Treasure (1992) / Screen Two: Dead Romantic (1993) / Doctor Finlay: Private Lives (1995) / Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Heartstones (1996) / The Wingless Bird (1997) / Dinnerladies: Moods (1998)

Who: Before And After #733b

Name: Max Harvey [1942 - 2006]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: Arc Of Infinity part 1 – Arc Of Infinity part 4
Character(s): Cardinal Zorac

Before Who:
Films: Othello (1981), Troilus & Cressida (1981)
Television: 1990: The Market Price (1978) / The BBC Television Shakespeare: As You Like It* (1978) / Play for Today: A Hole in Babylon (1979) / Blake's 7: Animals (1981) / We'll Meet Again: All Day & Every Day (1982) / The Professionals: Lawson's Last Stand (1982)

After Who:
Films: Dallas: The Early Years (1986), Shadowlands ( (1986), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Countdown to War (1989), Dirty Old Town (1995), Dead Gorgeous (2002), Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004), Land of the Blind (2006)
Television: Angels (1983) / The Tripods: France - October, 2089 AD (1984) / The Mistress (1985) / Blackadder II: Chains (1986) / Only Fools and Horses: The Longest Night (1986) / Screen Two: Here Is the News (1989) / Bradley (1989) / A Bit of a Do: The Christening (1989) / Last of the Summer Wine: Roll On (1990) / Crime Monthly: Who Was Jack the Ripper? (1990) / Sleepers: The Net Tightens (1991) / Lovejoy: Members Only (1992) / May to December: Catch the Bouquet (1992) / Strathblair [3 episodes as Walter Barker (1993)] / The Upper Hand: Nobody's Child (1996) / The Echo (1998)

[Susan Foreman]

In memory of Jeremy Young (1934 - 2022)

Played Kal in 'An Unearthly Child'...

...and Gordon Lowery in 'Mission To The Unknown'

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen disguised as Margaret Blaine (Annette Badland) with Rose (Billie Piper) in Boom Town (2005)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #734a

Name: Paul Jerricho [1948 - ]
Year(s): 1983 / 1983
Stories: Arc Of Infinity part 1 – Arc Of Infinity part 4 / The Five Doctors
Character(s): The Castellan

Note:

• Was married to Who actress Barbara Kinghorn
• Reprised the role of The Castellan in 2020 for an unlicensed webcast to advertise a 'Doctor Who: Lockdown!' watchalong of 'The Five Doctors'
• Had previously been considered for the roles of The Minster of Persuasion in the 1981 story 'Four to Doomsday' and Scobie, Bilton and Sheard in the 1982 story Time-Flight
• Was later considered for the role of Merdeen in the 1986 story 'The Trial of A Tome Lord: The Mysterious Planet'

Before Who:
Films: Force 10 from Navarone (1978), The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back* (1980)

Television: Clayhanger: Taking a Share (1976) / Space 1999: Dorzak (1977) / BBC2 Play of the Week: True Patriot (1977) / Secret Army: Hymn to Freedom (1977) / Enemy at the Door: After the Ball (1978) / Armchair Thriller: The Victim [6 episodes as Steve Turner (1980)] / Emmerdale Farm [6 episodes as Danny Moorcock (1980)] / Grange Hill (1981) / Ladykillers: A Smile Is Sometimes Worth a Million Dollars (1981) / Triangle [78 episodes as Charles Woodhouse (1981-1983)] / Q.E.D.: Target - London (1982) / The Discovery of Animal Behaviour: Signs and Signals (1982)

After Who:
Films: The Biko Inquest (1984), Cry Freedom (1987), Forced March (1989), The Accompanist (1992), Touch and Go (1998), A Likeness in Stone (2000), Girl from Rio (2001), Oh Happy Day (2007), The Whistleblower (2010)
Television: Knights of God (1987) / Howards' Way [11 episodes as Robert Hastings (1990)] / The Bill [5 episodes, different characters (1992-2000)] / Love Hurts: Strictly Business (1993) / Press Gang: Windfall (1993) / The New Adventures of Robin Hood: Rage of the Mongols (1997) / The Ice House [2 episodes as David Maybury (1997)] / Melissa (1997) / Backup: Something for the Weekend, Sir? (1997) / Mosley: Young Man in a Hurry (1998) / The Jump (1998) / ChuckleVision: Lotta Bottle (1999) / Doctors [5 episodes, different characters (2001-2021)] / Footballers' Wives (2004) / Holby City: Braver Soul Than I (2004) / Look Around You [2 episodes as Computer Jones (2005)] / Jericho: The Hollow Men (2005) / EastEnders (2009) / Little Crackers: David Baddiel's Little Cracker - The Norris McWhirter Chronicles (2010) / Inspector Lewis: The Soul of Genius (2012) / Casualty: Born Lucky (2014)

Who: Before And After #734b

Name: Neil Daglish [1949 - ]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: Arc Of Infinity part 1 – Arc Of Infinity part 4
Character(s): Damon

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Z Cars: The Team (1972) / Coronation Street [2 episodes as Paul Meggitt (1974)] / The Stars Look Down: Daily Bread (1975) / BBC Play of the Month: Look Back in Anger (1976) / Romance: House of Men (1977) / Three Piece Suite: Come in, No.1 / This Situation / All in the Mind (1977) / Angels: Human Error (1978) / Secret Army [7 episodes as Wullner (1978-1979)] / Armchair Thriller: The Circe Complex [4 episodes as Det. Sgt. Rees (1980)] / The Little World of Don Camillo (1981) / When the Boat Comes In: A Gift from Heaven (1981) / The Member for Chelsea [3 episodes as Freddie Warner (1981)] / Tales of the Unexpected: Who's Got the Lady? (1982) / Tales of the Unexpected: The Eavesdropper (1982) / Educating Marmalade: Marmalade in Venice (1982) / Crown Court: Seconds Away (1983)

After Who:
Films: Jacob (1994), The Fourth Angel (2001)
Television: Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Last Resort (1983) / The New Statesman: May the Best Man Win (1989) / EastEnders [8 episodes as Officer McLeish (1989)] / Chelworth: A Real House (1989) / Campion: Flowers for the Judge (1990) / Harry (1993) / The Bill [5 episodes, different characters (1993-2005)] / Ruth Rendell Mysteries Thornapple (1997) / Rag Nymph [2 episodes as Sergeant Fenwick (1997)] / A Prince Among Men: The Good Samaritan (1998) / Badger: Finders Keepers (2000) / Close & True: Wide Awake (2000) / Doctors: The Road to Enlightenment (2005) / Egypt: The Curse of Tutankhamun (2005) / Casualty: Heroes and Villains (2006) / EastEnders [2 episodes as Dr. Prescott (2006)]

[Susan Foreman]

2022 Re-Release 4K Trailer...

...and new posters

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Trailer looks superb but that artwork is ghastly.