The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Georgia Tennant tweeted earlier "Still not Ginger".

You can imagine the reaction this triggered

Wouldn't surprise me if David Tennant came back for the 60th as the Doctor. I could imagine the look on his face as he looks in the TARDIS mirror following the regeneration and exclaims "Eh, what, how's this happened?" then grins at the camera.

Could be explained by his initial awful regeneration of crying about not wanting to go.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Doctor Who: Flux Episode One - The Halloween Apocalypse

On Halloween, all across the universe, terrifying forces are stirring. From the Arctic Circle to deep space, an ancient evil is breaking free. And in
present day Liverpool, the life of Dan Lewis is about to change forever. Why is the Doctor on the trail of the fearsome Karvanista? And what is the Flux?

The episode will premiere at 6.25pm, Sunday 31 October 2021 on BBC One. It has been granted a 45-minute timeslot, ending at 7.15pm.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #561

Name: Glyn Houston [1925 - 2019]
Year(s): 1976 / 1984
Stories: The Hand Of Fear part 2 – The Hand Of Fear part 3 / The Awakening part 1 – The Awakening part 2
Character(s): Professor Owen Watson / Colonel Ben Wolsley
Note: Was considered for the role of Captain Stapley in the 1982 story 'Time-Flight'

Before Who:
Films: Choir Practice (1949), The Blue Lamp (1950), Waterfront Women (1950), Trio (1950), The Clouded Yellow (1950), Home to Danger (1951), High Treason (1951), I Believe in You (1952), Wide Boy (1952), Glory at Sea (1952), Girdle of Gold (1952), The Great Game (1953), The Cruel Sea* (1953), Turn the Key Softly (1953), Follow the Plough (1953), Stryker of the Yard (1953), Hell Below Zero (1954), River Beat (1954), The Rainbow Jacket (1954), The Sleeping Tiger (1954), Betrayed (1954), The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954), Wishing Well (1954), Passage Home (1955), Tears for Simon (1956), Private's Progress (1956), Who Done It? (1956), The Third Key (1956), Jinny Morgan (1956), Poison Pen (1956), The Rescuers (1956), The Light of Heart (1956), High Flight (1957), The Birthday Present (1957), The One That Got Away (1957), Wishing Well (1957), Dunkirk (1958), A Night to Remember (1958), A Cry from the Streets (1958), The Queen and the Welshman (1958), Nowhere to Go (1958), Tiger Bay (1959), Breakout (1959), Home Winner (1959), Four Desperate Men (1959), Jet Storm (1959), Follow a Star (1959), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), The Battle of the Sexes (1960), Circus of Horrors (1960), There Was a Crooked Man (1960), The Bulldog Breed* (1960), I Promised to Pay (1961), The Wind of Change (1961), The Green Helmet (1961), Flame in the Streets (1961), Leading the Blind (1962), Emergency (1962), Mix Me a Person (1962), A Stitch in Time (1963), Panic (1963), Escape by Night (1964), One Way Pendulum (1965), The Secret of Blood Island (1965), Invasion (1965), The Brigand of Kandahar (1965), Headline Hunters (1968), Choir Practice (1970)

Television: Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Stolen Crime (1956) / The Grove Family: For Want of Nourishment (1956) / Theatre Royal: The Ends of Justice (1956) / ITV Play of the Week: They Came by Night (1956) / Rheingold Theatre: Homecoming (1956) / Wideawake [5 episodes as Shon (1957)] / Dixon of Dock Green [6 episodes, different characters (1958-1974)] / Saturday Playhouse: Murder on the Agenda (1959) / World Theatre: Mother Courage and Her Children (1959) / Crime Sheet: Lockhart Closes the Door (1959) / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: No Friendly Star (1959) / The Flying Doctor: Death in the Clouds (1959) / How Green Was My Valley [7 episodes as Davy Morgan (1960)] / The Splendid Spur: Bristol Keep (1960) / Scotland Yard: Information Received (1960) / Mill of Secrets [6 episodes as Douglas Wallace (1960)] / Probation Officer [3 episodes, different characters (1960-1962)] / Boyd Q.C.: One for the Road (1960) / No Hiding Place [4 episodes, different characters (1960-1967)] / Deadline Midnight [24 episodes as Mike Grieves (1961)] / BBC Sunday-Night Play: Centenary Year (1961) / Stryker of the Yard: The Case of the Studio Payroll (1961) / The Cheaters: A Hood from Canada (1962) / Ghost Squad: The Green Shoes (1962) / Outbreak of Murder [7 episodes as Det. Insp. Mitchell (1962)] / The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Solo for Sparrow (1962) / Z Cars [4 episodes, different characters (1962-1970)] / The Arthur Haynes Show (1963) / ITV Television Playhouse: A Sickening Thud (1963) / Suspense: The Rescuers (1963) / The Plane Makers: A Bunch of Fives (1964) / Detective: End of Chapter (1964) / Taxi!: Christmas in May (1964) / ITV Sunday Night Drama: Sunday Mystery Theatre - The Primitives (1964) / The Hidden Truth: The Boiler Suite Shape (1964) / Gideon C.I.D. [2 episodes as Sgt. Carmichael (1964-1965)] / The Troubleshooters: Tosh and Nora (1965) / Drama 61-67: Drama '65 - Traitor at the Gate (1965) / The Worker [2 episodes, different characters (1965)] / Danger Man: The Man on the Beach (1965) / The Spies: It's Much Colder Where I Come From (1966) / Public Eye: No, No, Nothing Like That (1966) / Softly Softly [7 episodes as Det. Supt. Arthur Jones (1966-1969)] / The Saint: The House on Dragon's Rock* (1966) / Girl in a Black Bikini [6 episodes as Det. Sgt. Napier (1967)] / Mickey Dunne: Over the Hill (1967) / Sanctuary: Sisters & Brothers (1967) / Life with Cooper: Getting a Passport (1968) / BBC Play of the Month: The Corn Is Green (1968) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Where Have They Gone, All the Little Children (1969) / The Borderers: Fugitive (1969) / The Expert: Death in the Rain (1969) / The Wednesday Play: There Is Also Tomorrow (1969) / Harry Worth: One for the Road (1969) / Paul Temple: Which One of Us Is Me? (1969) / Two D's and a Dog: Mr. and Mrs. Chick-Chick (1970) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: The Exiles - Zo (1970) / Doomwatch: Public Enemy (1971) / Brett [3 episodes as Morris (1971)] / Armchair Theatre: Man Charged (1971) / Trial: A Load of Guilt (1971) / Owen, M.D.: The Birdwatcher (1971) / The Brighton Belle: In for the Night (1972) / The Befrienders: Allenby and Son, Limited (1972) / Clouds of Witness [5 episodes as Bunter (1972)] / The Long Chase [13 episodes as Tom Corby (1972)] / Country Matters: The Black Dog (1973) / Justice: Trespass to the Person (1973) / Harriet's Back in Town [2 episodes as Mr. Parry-Jones (1973)] / Reg Varney [7 episodes, various characters (1973)] / Thirty Minutes Worth [2 episodes (1973)] / Sporting Scenes: Up and Under (1974) / The Nine Tailors [4 episodes as Bunter (1974)] / My Name Is Harry Worth: Just a Roll of Lino Please (1974) / The Tommy Cooper Hour (1974) / Love Thy Neighbour: The Opinion Poll (1975) / Whodunnit?: Pop Goes the Weasel* (1975) / Five Red Herrings [4 episodes as Bunter (1975) / Bless This House: Well, Well, Well... (1976)

After Who:
Films: Are You Being Served? (1977), The Sea Wolves* (1980), If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981), Better Days (1988), Ballroom (1988), Conspiracy (1989), Thatcher: The Final Days (1991), Old Scores (1991), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1993), A Light in the Valley (1998), A light on the Hill (2000)

Television: Beasts: The Dummy* (1976) / Robin's Nest: A Matter of Note (1977) / The XYY Man [3 episodes as Tom Moody (1977)] / Target: Rogue's Gallery (1978) / Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Moving House (1978) / A Horseman Riding By [12 episodes as John Rudd (1978)] / ITV Playhouse: The Purple Twilight (1979) / Shoestring: Higher Ground (1979) / Breakaway [6 episodes as C.S. Bert Sinclair (1980)] / It Ain't Half Hot Mum: Class of 1945 (1980) / Minder: Caught in the Act, Fact* (1980) / Keep It in the Family [27 episodes as Duncan Thomas (1980-1983)] / Crown Court: Soldier, Soldier (1982) / Freud [3 episodes as Professor Meynert (1984)] / Inspector Morse: Last Seen Wearing (1988) / The Play on One: Heartland (1989) / We Are Seven [6 episodes as the Narrator (1989)] / After Henry: The Dinner Party (1990) / Troublemakers [6 episodes as Albert Griggs (1990)] / The Bill: Awaydays (1993) / The Sherman Plays: The Beach Inspector (1996)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

October nightmares - Control (Sharon Duce), a ghostly apparition in Ghost Light (1989)

Ghost Light as requested by Mr.Barlow.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

^ I'd be long gone the moment this appeared in the doorway.

I think that's a wonderfully spooky image. Even if i do say so myself.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #562a

Name: David Purcell [? - ]
Year(s): 1976
Stories: The Hand Of Fear part 1
Character(s): Tom Abbott
Note: Had previously been booked to play Ssorg in the 1972 story 'The Curse of Peladon', but had dropped out for unknown reasons and was replaced by Sonny Caldinez

Before Who:
Films: Juggernaut (1974), Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
Television: Doomwatch: In the Dark (1971) / Z Cars: Kid's Stuff (1971) / The Main Chance: The Killing Ground (1972) / Warship: The Drop (1973) / Seven Faces of Woman: A Woman's Estate (1974) / Barlow: Bullion (1975) / The Brothers [3 episodes, different characters (1974-1975)] / Edward the King: The Royal Quadrille (1975) / Circus [6 episodes as Police Sergeant (1975)] / Clayhanger: Centenary (1976)

After Who:
Films: Phoelix (1979), Airey Neave: A Will of Steel (1980), Loose Connections (1983), Watch Me (1995)
Television: The New Avengers: Dirtier by the Dozen* (1976) / Backs to the Land: Waits and Desperate Measures (1978) / Kids [2 episodes as PC Nicholls (1979)] / Lovely Couple: Wedding Bells (1979) / Company and Co: A Little Confidence (1980) / Holding the Fort: Twelve Good Men and Pooh (1980) / Bless Me Father: A Legend Comes to Stay (1981) / Educating Marmalade: Short Sharp Shock (1982) / The Cleopatras: 100 BC (1983) / Bergerac: A Miracle Every Week (1983) / Play for Today: The Falklands Factor (1983) / Dramarama: Mighty Mum and the Petnappers (1983)

Who: Before And After #562b

Name: Robin Hargrave [1942 - 2020]
Year(s): 1976
Stories: The Hand Of Fear part 1
Character(s): Security Guard

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: None

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #562c

Name: Judith Paris [1944 - ]
Year(s): 1976
Stories: The Hand Of Fear part 3 – The Hand Of Fear part 4
Character(s): Female Endrad

Before Who:
Films: Seaside Swingers (1964), Isadora (1966), Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971), The Devils* (1971), Savage Messiah (1972)

Television: Zodiac [2 episodes as a Dancer (1966)] / Omnibus: Dante's Inferno (1967) / Omnibus: Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) / A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (1973) / Within These Walls: The Group (1974) / The Girls of Slender Means [3 episodes as Pauline Fox (1975)] / The Squirrels: The Renaissance (1976)

After Who:
Films: The Various Ends of Mrs. F's Friends (1981), The Rainbow (1989), The Saint: The Brazilian Connection (1989), Prisoner of Honor (1991), Pleasure (1994), Cider with Rosie (1998), Dragonworld: The Legend Continues (1999), Lady Audley's Secret (2000), Mind Games (2001), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), The Reverend and Mrs Simpson (2022)
Television: Warship: Fall from Grace (1977) / Take Three Women: Avril (1982) / The Happy Apple [5 episodes as Miss Wheeler (1983)] / All the World's a Stage [2 episodes, different characters (1984)] / Chance in a Million: Good-bye Mr Henstridge (1986) / High Street Blues: Matters of Conscience (1989) / C.A.B. [6 episodes as Eleanor (1989)] / The Two of Us: The Treasure (1990) / Ruth Rendell Mysteries: An Unkindness of Ravens (1990) / The Camomile Lawn (1992) / Lovejoy: Highland Fling (1992) / Lady Chatterley [2 episodes as Mrs. Marshall (1993)] / 2point4 Children: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1993) / A Touch of Frost: Fun Times for Swingers (1996) / A Dance to the Music of Time: The Thirties (1997) / Doctors: In Her Own Shoes (2005) / We Got This [4 episodes as Mindy 'Boom Boom' Van der Graaf (2020)] / The Crown [2 episodes as Wendy Mitchell (2020)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

October Nightmares - Screamtime in The Waters of Mars (2009)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #563

Name: Roy Boyd [1938 - ]
Year(s): 1976
Stories: The Hand Of Fear part 2
Character(s): Driscoll

Before Who:
Films: The Fiction-Makers (1968), Twins of Evil* (1971), Escape to Nowhere (1973), Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood (1973), The Wicker Man* (1973), The Omen (1976)

Television: Dr. Finlay's Casebook: The Deep End (1963) / Crossroads (1964) / Riviera Police: Past Indefinite - Future Imperfect (1965) / Vendetta: The Anniversary Man (1968) / Tom Grattan's War [3 episodes as Enemy Agent (1968)] / The Saint: The Fiction Makers (1968) / Counterstrike: Backlash (1969) / The Borderers: What a Vengeance Upon England (1970) / Codename: Kingsmate (1970) / Manhunt: Intent to Steal (1970) / Big Brother: Dying Gets You Nowhere (1970) / Jamie: Remember, Remember (1971) / Mandog [4 episodes as Henry (1972)] / The Regiment: A Lion at Sunset (1972) / Pretenders: Fare Thee Well (1972) / The Frighteners: Bed and Breakfast (1972) / Villains: Grass (1972) / Colditz: Missing, Presumed Dead (1972) / New Scotland Yard [2 episodes, different characters (1972-1973)] / Van der Valk: Rich Man, Poor Man (1973) / Helen - A Woman of Today: Independence (1973) / Armchair 30: John Sloan's Story (1973) / Moses the Lawgiver (1974) / The Zoo Gang: Mindless Murder (1974) / Emmerdale Farm [46 episodes as Dryden Hogben (1974)] / BBC2 Playhouse: The Breakthrough (1975) / Dixon of Dock Green: The Hired Man (1975) / You're on Your Own: Contract to Kill (1975) / The Stars Look Down: Daily Bread (1975) / The Sweeney: Big Brother (1975) / Warship: What Are Friends For? (1976) / The XYY Man [2 episodes as Brian (1976)]

After Who:
Films: A Bridge Too Far (1977), A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979), An Enemy of the People (1980), Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980), Tuxedo Warrior (1982), Thief (1983), Black Arrow (1985), King Solomon's Mines (1985), Biggles: Adventures in Time* (1986), A Hazard of Hearts (1987), The Lady and the Highwayman (1988), Duel of Hearts (1991), Asylum (2005)

Television: The New Avengers: Target!* (1976) / Space: 1999: The Immunity Syndrome (1977) / Romance: House of Men (1977) / Survivors: The Last Laugh (1977) / Treasure Island [4 episodes as George Merry (1977)] / The Professionals: Everest Was Also Conquered (1978) / Coronation Street (1978) / Pennies from Heaven: Says My Heart (1978) / The Devil's Crown [4 episodes as Ranulf de Glanville (1978)] / Secret Army: Days of Judgement (1979) / Play for Today: Number on End (1980) / Goodbye Darling: Maude (1981) / Scarf Jack [6 episodes as Scarf Jack (1981)] / Blake's 7: Warlord (1981) / The Fourth Arm [11 episodes as Paul 'Ferdy' Lamboit (1983)] / Fox Mystery Theater: Czech Mate (1984) / Minder: Second Hand Pose (1984) / Strike It Rich!: Suspicions (1986) / Return to Treasure Island: Spanish Gold (1986) / Dempsey and Makepeace: Extreme Prejudice (1986) / Chocky's Challenge [4 episodes as Professor Fraycott (1986)] / Dramarama: Snap (1987) / Knights of God* [3 episodes as Fenn (1987)] / EastEnders (1988)] / The Bill: FAT'AC (1989) / Crossbow: The Gods (1989) / The Silver Chair (1990) / Poirot: The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (1991) / Heartbeat: Outsiders (1992) / Natural Lies (1992) / Covington Cross: Blinded Passions (1992) / New Tricks: The Fourth Man (2010) / Autopsy - The Last Hours of: Hugh Hefner (2018)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

October Nightmares - Window dummies come alive in Spearhead from Space (1970)

As requested by Susan and Mojo.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #564a

Name: Frances Pidgeon [1930 - 2015]
Year(s): 1976
Stories: The Hand Of Fear part 2 – The Hand Of Fear part 3
Character(s): Miss Jackson

Note:

• Was married to Who director Lennie Mayne
• Had previously appeared in an uncredited role as the lady-in-waiting to Queen Thalira in the 1974 story 'The Monster of Peladon'

Before Who:
Films: Love from Judy (1953), Value for Money (1955), This Is Bobby Darin (1960), Die kleinste Schau der Welt (1963), Up Jumped a Swagman (1965), The Long Cocktail Party (1966)
Television: Armchair Theatre: The Long Nightmare (1966) / Three of a Kind [5 episodes, various characters (1967)] / Doomwatch: Public Enemy (1971) / Doomwatch: High Mountain (1972) / Softly Softly - Task Force: Cat Among the Pigeons (1974) / The Brothers: Life Goes On (1975) / Within These Walls [2 episodes, different characters (1975)] / Quiller: Thundersky (1975)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Jubilee: Our Kid (1977)

Who: Before And After #564b

Name: John Cannon [? - 2020]
Year(s): 1976 / 1979
Stories: The Hand Of Fear part 2 / The Armageddon Factor part 1
Character(s): Elgin / Guard

Note: Appeared in numerous uncredited roles: 'The Monster of Peladon' as a Peladonian Miner / 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' as a Passerby / 'The Pirate Planet' as a Technician / 'The Creature from the Pit' as a Guard / 'Time-Flight' as a Security Guard / 'Mawdryn Undead' as a Police Sergeant / 'Enlightenment' as a Helmsman on The Shadow / 'The King's Demons' as a Retainer

Before Who:
Films: Frenzy (1972), Theater of Blood* (1973), Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973), Brannigan (1975)

Television: Z Cars [7 episodes, different characters (1970-1978)] / The Onedin Line: Blockade (1972) / Upstairs, Downstairs: I Dies from Love (1972) / Spyder's Web: Life at a Price (1972) / Clochemerle: The Inexorable Power of the Third Republic (1972) / Softly Softly: Task Force [6 episodes, different characters (1972-1976)] / New Scotland Yard: A Gathering of Dust (1972) / Moonbase 3: Castor and Pollux (1973) / BBC Play of the Month: Pygmalion (1973) / Colditz: Liberation (1974) / The Brothers: Loneliness (1974) / Porridge* [3 episodes as a Prisoner (1974-1975)] / Barlow [2 episodes, different characters (1974-1975)] / The Sweeney: Supersnout (1975) / The Sweeney: Thou Shalt Not Kill (1975) / When the Boat Comes In: Empire Day on the Slag Heap (1976) / Dixon of Dock Green; Alice (1976) / I, Claudius: A Touch of Murder* (1976)

After Who:
Films: The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), The Dancing Princesses (1978), S.O.S. Titanic (1979), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Superman II (1980), Outland* (1981), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Burning an Illusion (1981), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982), Ivanhoe (1982), John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984), Defense of the Realm (1985)

Television: Secret Army [5 episodes, different characters (1977-1978)] / Enemy at the Door: V for Victory (1978) / Blake's 7 [4 episodes, different characters (1978-1980)] / Law & Order: A Villain's Tale (1978) / The Devil's Crown: When Cage-Birds Sing (1978) / Everyday Maths: Which Way to Go? (1979) / Breakaway: The Family Affair (1980) / Cribb: The Horizontal Witness (1980) / Buccaneer: Grounded (1980) / Shoestring [3 episodes, different characters (1979-1980)] / The Professionals: It's Only a Beautiful Picture... (1980) / Play for Today: Beyond the Pale (1981) / West End Tales [2 episodes as The Minders (1981)] / Great Expectations (1981) / The Gentle Touch: Doubt (1981) / Juliet Bravo: A Breach of the Peace (1982) / Beau Geste [4 episodes as a Legionnaire (1982)] / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Carbuncle (1984) / Up the Elephant and Round the Castle: Wakey Wakey (1985) / Classic Ghost Stories: The Rose Garden (1986)