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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

An interesting article on Classic Who (1963-89), New Who (2005-2022) and Disney Who (2023-)

https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/the-di...who-102863.htm

[will graham]

I really don't see how changing a 50 year look of a disabled bad guy and replacing that with a psychically abled person is being supportive of the representation of the disabled. There are way way more characters who can't walk that are good guys then bad guys. Think you ask the young generation to name a wheelchair character and they'll say professor X.

Despite people referring this to disney who I don't think disney have had that much input, I thought this was all decided between BBC and rtd. It's not like it's that different from the whittaker era.

Also why do things have to have drastic changes for each new generation? Nintendo is currently the number 1 in gaming companies and their main super Mario games are very much the same style and look for almost 30 years now.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Tegan (Janet Fielding), Captain Wrack (Lynda Baron) and the Doctor (Peter Davison) in a scene from Enlightenment (1983)

[Susan Foreman]

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

• Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)
• Jacqueline King (Sylvia Noble)
• Karl Collin (Shaun Temple)

Who: Before And After #1515a / Nu-Who #574

Name: Yasmin Finney [2003 - ]
Year(s): 2023 - 2024
Stories: The Star Beast / The Giggle / The Legend Of Ruby Sunday - Empire Of Death
Character(s): Rose Noble

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Heartstopper* [16 episodes as Elle Argent (2022?2023)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #1515b / Nu-Who #574b

Name: Matt Green [? - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): BBC Reporter

Before Who:
Films: Ali G Indahouse (2002), Finding Neverland (2004), Arcadia (2008), Lapland (2011), Cinderella: After Ever After (2019)
Television: Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge (1994) / Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps: Angry Wangry (2001) / Casualty [4 episodes, different characters (2001-2009)] / Garth Marenghi's Darkplace [2 episodes (2004)] / TV Burp (2004) / Footballers Wive$ TV (2005) / EastEnders (2005) / Extras: Daniel Radcliffe (2006) / Comedy Showcase: Other People (2007) / Starlings (2013) / Cradle to Grave (2015) / Doctors: Crash Bang Pow (2015) / Fresh Meat (2016) / Cuckoo: Macbeth (2019) / In the Long Run (2020) / Unfinished London: Tower Bridge could have looked very different (2022) / The Witchfinder (2022) / Ten Percent (2022) / Avoidance (2022) / Late Night Mash (2022) / Documentary Now!: Soldier Of Illusion (2022) / Mrs Sidhu Investigates: Killer App (2023)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: The Marlow Murder Club (2024)

Who: Before And After #1515c / Nu-Who #574c

Name: Jamie Cho [? - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): Colonel Chan

Before Who:
Films: Die Another Day (2002), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003), The Purifiers (2004), Batman Begins* (2005), Intergalactic Combat (2007), The Dark Knight (2008), New Town Killers (2008), Harrigan (2013)

Television: Beat the Cyborgs (2003) / EastEnders [3 episodes as the Aikido Instructor (2005)] / Spirit Warriors: The Monkey King (2010) / Law & Order - UK: Help (2010) / Hit & Miss [5 episodes as Lee (2012)] / Frikjent [10 episodes as Degang Adams (2015)] / Bulletproof (2020)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Coronation Street* [6 episodes as Rich Pemberton (2024)]

Who: Before And After #1515d / Nu-Who #574d

Name: Ruth Madeley [1987 - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast / The Giggle
Character(s): Shirley Bingham

Note(s): Appeared in a number of 'Sixth Doctor Adventures' Big Finish Producitons audio adventures: 'Water Worlds' ['The Rotting Deep' / 'The Tides of the Moon' / 'Maelstrom'] / 'Purity Undreamed' ['The Mindless Ones' / 'Reverse Engineering' / 'Chronomance'] / 'Purity Unleashed' ['Time-Burst'] / 'Purity Unbound' ['Girl in a Bubble' / 'The Corruptions' / 'The Wrong Side of History']

Before Who:
Films: Don't Take My Baby (2015), Brexit (2019), Then Barbara Met Alan (2022), The Almond and the Seahorse (2022)
Television: Half Moon Investigations: Sick Note (2009) / Fresh Meat (2011) / The Level [6 episodes as Julie (2016)] / Outnumbered: Christmas Special (2016) / The Idris Takeover [2 episodes as Janine (2017)] / Five by Five [2 episodes as Janine (2017)] / Cold Feet [5 episodes as Tracey McHarrie (2017)] / Katy [2 episodes as Helen (2018)] / Years and Years [6 episodes as Rosie Lyons (2019)] / The Rook [8 episodes as Ingrid Woodhouse (2019)] / The Accident [3 episodes as Laura Tucker (2019)] / Save Me (2020) / CripTales [2 episodes as Sue (2020)] / The Watch [3 episodes as Throat Dibbler (2020-2021)] / The Cleaner: The Neighbour* (2021) / Brassic [2 episodes as Clara Marie (2022?2023)] / The Long Shadow (2023)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Renegade Nell: Stop Printing This Muck (2024)

Who: Before And After #1515e / Nu-Who #574e

Name: Dara Lall [? - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): Fudge Merchandani

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: None

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Colin Howard's cover for the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Invasion of the Cat People by Gary Russell. It featured the Doctor as played by Patrick Troughton and Anneke Wills and Michael Craze as his companions Polly and Ben. It was released in 1995.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #1516a / Nu-Who #575a

Name: Ronak Patani [? - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): Major Singh

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

• In the 'Diary of River Song' story 'Friend of the Family'
• In the 'Torchwood: Monthly Range' story 'Red Base'

Before Who:
Films: Schemata (2012), Point Break (2015), Mayfair (2018), Brexit (2019), National Theatre at Home: Dara (2020)
Television: Stella (2016) / The Level (2016) / Call the Midwife (2022) / Our House (2022) / Andor* [2 episodes as Officer #1 (2022)] / The Suspect (2022)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #1516b / Nu-Who #575b

Name: Anna Martine Freeman [? - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): Chief Technician

Before Who:
Films: The Helen Project (2014)
Television: Spoon the Prune (2019) / EastEnders (2019) / Ted Lasso* [10 episodes as Sarah (2020-2023)] / Doctors: Helping Hands (2021) / Pennyworth: Hedgehunter (2022)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #1516c / Nu-Who #575c

Name: Archie Backhouse [? - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): Sergeant

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: The Sandman: The Sound Of Her Wings* (2022)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #1516d / Nu-Who #576d

Name: Ned Porteous [1994 - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): Voice Of Sergeant Zogroth

Before Who:
Films: Astral (2018)
Television: Holby City: Shockwaves (2015) / Suspects: The Enemy Within (2016) / EastEnders [13 episodes as Mark Fowler (2016)] / Delicious: Death Comes To All (2016) / Emmerdale Farm* [182 episodes as Joseph Tate / Tom Waterhouse (2017-2018)] / Bridgerton [3 episodes as Lord Wetherby (2020)] / Extraordinary [4 episodes as Luke (2023)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Here We Go: Amy Valentine's Flowers (2024) / Grantchester (2024)

Who: Before And After #1516e / Nu-Who #576e

Name: John Hopkinson [? - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): Voice of Constable Zreeg

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: None

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #1516f / Nu-Who #575f

Name: Harley McEvilly [? - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): Lad On Bicycle 1

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: None

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #1516g / Nu-Who #575g

Name: Max Fincham [2004 - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): Lad On Bicycle 2

Before Who:
Films: Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (2019), Blue Story (2019), Break (2020), California Dreaming (2021)
Television: The Alienist [2 episodes as Thomas (2018)] / Dark Money [4 episodes as Isaac Mensah (2019)] / Ricky Zoom* [34 episodes as the voice of Ricky Zoom (2019-2020)] / The Duchess (2020) / Invasion* [4 episodes as Jerome Hall (2021)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #1516h / Nu-Who #575h

Name: Cecily Fay [1978 - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): The Body Of The Meep

Before Who:
Films: The Purifiers (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Left for Dead (2005), Intergalactic Combat (2007), Ten Dead Men (2008), Dragon Crusaders (2011), Warrioress (2013), Tarzan (2013), Babes with Blades (2018)
Television: Jim Jam & Sunny [9 episodes as Jim Jam (2006-2007)] / Starhyke: Kill Jill (2009)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Reverend Magister (Roger Delgado) wishes the Cloven Hoof pub windows were cleaned more frequently during The Daemons (1971)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #1517 / Nu-Who #576

Name: Miriam Margoyles OBE [1941 - ]
Year(s): Doctor Who: 2023
Stories: The Star Beast
Character(s): The Voice Of The Meep

Year(s): The Sarah Jane Adventures: 2009
Stories: The Gift Part 1 - The Gift Part 2
Character(s): Voice Of Leef Apple Glyn Slitheen-Blathereen

Note(s): Appeared in the Big Finish Productions 'Eighth Doctor Adventures' sudio story 'The Beast of Orlok'

Before Who:
Films: A Nice Girl Like Me (1969), The Water Margin [voice only] (1972), Sex Through the Ages [as the Narrator] (1974), Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1975), Naughty Girls [voice only] (1975), Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1976), Christmas Box (1976), Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977), Confessions from a Holiday Camp [voice only] (1977), The Battle of Billy's Pond (1977), Spasms (1977), On a Paving Stone Mounted (1978), The Awakening (1980), The Apple (1980), Reds (1981), Crystal Gazing (1982), Scrubbers (1982), Gunfight at the Joe Kaye Corral (1983), Yentl (1983), Electric Dreams (1984), Morons from Outer Space (1985), Honour, Profit & Pleasure (1985), The Good Father (1985), The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors (1986), Little Shop of Horrors* (1986), Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987), Body Contact (1987), Little Dorrit (1987), The Finding (1987), Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989), I Love You to Death (1990), Orpheus Descending (1990), Pacific Heights (1990), The Fool (1990), Dead Again (1991), The Butcher's Wife (1991), The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship [voice only] (1991), As You Like It (1992), Stalin (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Thief and the Cobbler [voice only] (1993), Ed and His Dead Mother (1993), Immortal Beloved (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Babe [voice only] (1995), Balto [voice only] (1995), Different for Girls (1996), James and the Giant Peach [voice only] (1996), William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Place of Lions (1997), Left Luggage (1998), Mulan [voice only] (1998), Babe: Pig in the City [voice only] (1998), Sunshine (1999), Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999), End of Days (1999), Magnolia (1999), House! (2000), Cats & Dogs (2001), Not Afraid, Not Afraid (2001), Alone (2002), Undertaking Betty (2002), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (2002), Chasing Liberty (2004), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers [as Peg Sellers] (2004), Ladies in Lavender (2004), Being Julia (2004), Modigliani [as Gertrude Stein] (2004), Wallis & Edward (2005), Flushed Away [voice only] (2006), Happy Feet [voice only] (2006), The Dukes (2007), How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008), Blind Revenge (2009), Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole [voice only] (2010), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Sir Billi [voice only] (2012), The Wedding Video (2012), The Guilt Trip (2012), The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas [voice only] (2012), Spirit-ED (2012), Maya the Bee Movie [voice only] (2014), The Legend of Longwood (2014), The Little Vampire 3D [voice only] (2017), The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017), Early Man [voice only] (2018), H is for Happiness (2019), Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears (2020), My Happy Ending (2023), Next to You (2023)

Television: Theatre 625: Enter Solly Gold (1965) / Crossroads [3 episodes as Mrs. Perkins (1967)] / ITV Play of the Week: The English Climate (1967) / Boy Meets Girl: Flight Of The Kingfisher (1967) / Dixon of Dock Green: An Ordinary Man (1968) / Jackanory: Albert The Dragon [5 episodes as the Storyteller (1968)] / Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Boat To Addis Ababa [Voice only] (1969) / ITV Playhouse: The Ha Ha (1969) / A Place in the Sun: Achilles Heel (1972) / Scott On...: Language (1972) / Jackanory Playhouse: The Wily Wizard And The Wicked Witch (1972) / Words and Pictures [20 episodes (1972-1973)] / Doctor in Charge: Men Without Women (1973) / Childhood: Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies (1974) / Fall of Eagles: Tell The King The Sky Is Falling (1974) / World of Laughter [5 episodes as a Cast Member (1974-1975)] / The Girls of Slender Means [3 episodes as Jane Wright (1975)] / Kizzy [2 episodes as Mrs. Doe (1976)] / The Glittering Prizes: A Past Life (1976) / Plays for Britain: The Lifeswappers (1976) / The Count of Monte Cristo [17 episodes {English version} voice only (1976)] / Angels [2 episodes, different characters (1976)] / /Crown Court [4 episodes (1976-1982)] Chalk and Cheese: Pilot (1977) / Play for Today: The Thin End Of The Wedge (1977) / The Law Centre: Winning Friends, Losing Lovers (1978) / Monkey [52 episodes {English version} voice only (1978?1980)] / Tales of the Unexpected: Fat Chance (1980) / The Lost Tribe [3 episodes as Queenie (1980)] / The History Man [3 episodes as Melissa Tordoroff (1981)] / Take a Letter Mr. Jones..... [6 episodes as Maria (1981)] / A Kick Up the Eighties [10 episodes, Various Roles (1981-1984)] / Scotch & Wry (1982) / Blackadder: The Queen Of Spain's Beard (1983) / Jackanory: The BFG [5 episodes as the voice of the Queen of England (1983)] / Freud [3 episodes as Baroness von Lieben (1984)] / Oliver Twist [5 episodes as Mrs. Bumble / Mrs. Corney (1985)] / Blackadder II: Beer* (1986) / The Life and Loves of a She-Devil [2 episodes as Nurse Hopkins (1986)] / Muzzy in Gondoland [6 episodes, voice only (1986)] / A Little Princess [6 episodes as Miss Amelia (1987)] / City Lights: All In The Mind (1988) / Blackadder's Christmas Carol [as Queen Victoria] (1988) / Mr. Majeika [3 episodes as Wilhemina Warlock (1988-1989)] / The Play on One: Unexplained Laughter [voice only] (1989) / Muzzy Comes Back [voice only] (1989) / Screen Two: Old Flames (1990) / Tonight at 8.30 [2 episodes, different characters (1991)] / Frannie's Turn [6 episodes as Frannie Escobar (1992)] / The Comic Strip Presents: Demonella (1993) / Moonacre [6 episodes as Old Elspeth (1994)] / Just William: William's Busy Day (1994) / Bruno the Kid: Give Pizza A Chance [voice only] (1996) / The Phoenix and the Carpet [6 episodes as the Cook (1997)] / Supply & Demand [6 episodes as Edna (1998)] / Vanity Fair [3 episodes as Miss Crawley (1998)] / Rugrats [3 episodes as the voice of Shirley Finster (1998-2001)] / Dharma & Greg: Midwife Crisis (2000) / Magic Grandad [3 episodes as Grandmama (2001)] / Dickens [3 episodes as Catherine Dickens (2002)] / Art of the Garden [as Gertrude Jekyll] (2004) / Marple: The Murder At The Vicaridge (2004) / Inconceivable: Balls In Your Court (2005) / Clatterford: Problem Daughter (2006) / American Dad!: I Can't Stan You [as the voice of Margaret Hilda Thatcher] (2007) / Kingdom (2008) / Coming of Age: Doreen (2010) / Merlin: The Changeling (2010) / Doc Martin: Born With A Shotgun (2011) / Merry Widows (2011) / In Love With...: Mrs. Gamp (2012) / Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries [12 episodes as Aunt Prudence (2012-2015)] / Hebburn: Sleep In Hebburly Peace (2013) / Trollied* [8 episodes as Rose (2014)] / Nina Needs to Go [15 episodes as the voice of Nana Sheila (2014)] / Bottersnikes & Gumbles [12 episodes as Weather Snike (2015-2017)] / Plebs: The Cupid (2016) / Rake [3 episodes as Huntley-Brown (2016?2018)] / Bucket [4 episodes as Mim (2017)] / Family Guy: Emmy Winning Episode [voice only] (2017) / Call the Midwife [7 episodes as Sister Mildred / Mother Mildred (2018-2021)]/ 101 Dalmatian Street: A Summer To Remember [voice only] (2019) / The Windsors [as Queen Victoria] (2020) / Dog Squad [3 episodes as the voice of Sylvie (2022)] / Hilda [8 episodes as the voice of Astrid (2023)]

After Who:
Films: Mog's Christmas [voice only] (2023)
Television: None

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Tegana (Derren Nesbitt) grabs Susan (Carole Ann Ford) during the seven part adventure Marco Polo (1964)

[Susan Foreman]

Guest actors appearing in WILD BLUE YONDER who have previously appeared in the show:

• Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)
• Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott)

Who: Before And After #1518a / Nu-Who #577a

Name: Nathaniel Curtis [1990 - ]
Year(s): 2023
Stories: Wild Blue Yonder
Character(s): Issac Newton

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

• In the 'UNIT: Brave New World' stories 'Haunt' / 'The Last Line of Defence'
• In the 'War Master' stories 'The Sublime Porte' / 'Alone'
• In the 'Torchwood: Monthly Range' story 'The Five People You Kill in Middlesbrough'
• In the 'Torchwood: Among Us 2' story 'Cuckoo'

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: It's a Sin* [5 episodes as Ash Mukherjee (2021)] / The Witcher - Blood Origin [2 episodes as Br?an (2022)] / Captain Laserhawk - A Blood Dragon Remix [6 episodes as the voice of Captain Dolph Laserhawk (2023)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #1518b / Nu-Who #577b

Name: Susan Twist [? - ]
Year(s): 2023 - 2024
Stories: Wild Blue Yonder / The Church On Ruby Road - Empire Of Death
Character(s): Mrs Meridew* / Woman At Concert* / Comms Officer Gina Scalzi / Tea Lady / Villengard Ambulance AI / Hiker / Penny Pepper-Bean* / The Portrait / Susan Triad* / Sloogma / Griffin

Before Who:
Films: God Speed Co-operation (1982), Reckless: The Sequel (1998), A Good Thief (2002), Eric, Ernie and Me (2017)
Television: The Squad: Elizabeth (1980) / The Chinese Detective: Washing (1981) / Brookside* [19 episodes as Rosie Banks (1993-1996)] / The Bill [2 episodes, different characters (1998-2003)] / Always and Everyone (2000) / Coronation Street [4 episodes (2002-2017)] / Girls in Love [2 episodes as the Manager (2005)] / The Royal: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man (2006) / See No Evil - The Moors Murders [2 episodes as Nellie Hindley (2006)] / Doctors: Hard Case (2007) / Being Eileen [2 episodes as Beedie (2013)] / In the Flesh [2 episodes as Mrs Bennett (2013)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None