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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Tom Baker) in Pyramids of Mars (1975)

[Susan Foreman]

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

• John Leeson (Voice Of K-9)
• Prentis Hancock (Shrieve Captain)
• Anne Tirard (The Seeker)
• Pat Gorman (Gro)

Who: Before And After #613

Name: Mary Tamm [1950 - 2012]
Year(s): 1978 – 1979 [26 episodes]
Stories: The Ribos Operation part 1 – The Armageddon Factor part 6
Character(s): Romanadvoratrelundar [Romana I], Princess Strella

Note: Very prolific in the Who-niverse:

• Appeared as Romana in the Big Finish Fourth Doctor Adventures 'The Auntie Matter' / 'The Sands of Life / War Against the Laan' / 'The Justice of Jalxar' / 'Phantoms of the Deep' / 'The Dalek Contract' / 'The Final Phase'
• Appeared as Romana in the Big Finish Companion Chronicle stories 'The Stealers from Saiph' / 'Ferril's Folly' / 'Tales from the Vault'
• Appeared in the Big Finish Gallifrey stories 'Lies' / 'Imperiatrix' / 'Fractures' / 'Warfare' / 'Reborn'
• Provided the Reading for the audoiobook release 'The Tunnel at the End of the Light'

Before Who:
Films: Tales That Witness Madness (1973), The Odessa File* (1974), L'évasion de Hassan Terro (1976), The Likely Lads (1976), Rampage (1978)

Television: Hunter's Walk: Reasonable Suspicion (1973) / The Donati Conspiracy [3 episodes as Sally Ross (1973)] / Coronation Street [2 episodes as Pauline Ogden (1973)] / A Raging Calm [3 episodes as Julie Warner (1974)] / The Inheritors: Double, Double... (1974) / Warship: The Immortal Memory (1974) / Public Eye: How About It, Frank? (1975) / The Girls of Slender Means [3 episodes as Selina Redwood (1975)] / Whodunnit?: Nothing to Declare (1975) / Return of the Saint: The Debt Collectors (1978)

After Who:
Films: Three Kinds of Heat (1987), Sorted (2000), Melody's Her 2nd Name (2000), Amazons and Gladiators (2001), A Class Apart 2007), Doghouse (2009)

Television: The Assassination Run [3 episodes as Jill Fraser (1980)] / The Treachery Game [3 episodes as Jill Fraser (1981)] / Only When I Laugh: Postman's Knock (1981) / Not the Nine O'Clock News: Made in Wales (1982) / Jane Eyre [2 episodes as Blanche Ingram (1983)] / Bergerac: Tug of War (1984) / The Hello Goodbye Man [6 episodes as Jennifer Reynoldston (1984)] / Worlds Beyond: Guardian of the Past (1986) / Poirot: The Dream (1989) / Casualty: A Grand in the Hand (1989) / The Bill [2 episodes, different characters (1991-2001)] / Perfect Scoundrels: No Thanks for the Memory (1991) / Brookside [6 episodes as Penny Crosbie (1993)] / The New Adventures of Robin Hood: Witches of the Abbey (1997) / Crime Traveller: A Death in the Family* (1997) / Heartbeat: Bad Apple (1997) / Loved by You: The Spy Girl Who Loved Me (1998) / CI5: The New Professionals: Phoenix (1999) / Up Rising: The Green Man (2000) / Headless (2000) / Doctors [3 episodes, different characters (2000 - 2007)] / Jonathan Creek: Satan's Chimney (2001) / Paradise Heights [5 episodes as Yvonne Edwards (2002)] / Coronation Street (2002) / Twisted Tales: Flat Four (2005) / Rose and Maloney: Alan Richmond (2005) / Holby City: Crossing the Line (2006) / Rough Diamond: A Royal Affair (2007) / Wire in the Blood: Unnatural Vices (2008) / EastEnders [4 episodes as Orlenda (2009)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

One of the invading Sycorax from the 2005 Christmas special The Christmas Invasion.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The Doctor (Tom Baker) in Pyramids of Mars (1975)

"Are you my mummy?"






I'll get me cloak .....

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Series 13 Ratings

Title, 7 Day Rating, AI, Chart Position

Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse 5.79m, 76, 9th

Chapter Two: War of The Sontarans 5.10m, 77, 13th

Chapter Three: Once, Upon Time 4.67m, 75, 19th

Chapter Four: Village of the Angels 4.55m, 79, 21st

Chapter Five: Survivors of the Flux 4.72m, 77, 25th

Chapter Six: The Vanquishers 4.61m, 76, 26th

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #614

Name: Cyril Luckham [1907 - 1989]
Year(s): 1978 / 1983
Stories: The Ribos Operation part 1 / Enlightenment part 1, Enlightenment part 4
Character(s): The Guardian / The White Guardian
Note: Was the father of Who actor Robert Luckham

Before Who:
Films: Query (1945), The Poppenkast (1952), The Venusian* (1954), Out of the Clouds (1955), The Great Little Tilley (1956), The End Begins (1956), Flash (1956), Theatre (1956), Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956), The Hostage (1956), Battle Hell (1957), How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957), The Birthday Present (1957), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959), Invasion Quartet* (1961), Some People (1962), Billy Budd (1962), The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Alphabet Murders (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Naked Runner (1967), Happy Deathday (1968), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), One More Time (1970), Cry of the Penguins (1971), Seal Island (1976), Providence (1977), What Every Woman Knows (1978)

Television: Steve Hunter, Trouble Merchant (1955) / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: Pygmalion (1956) / Overseas Press Club – Exclusive!: The General's War with Scotland (1957) / Suspense: A Slight Case of Felony (1960) / Knight Errant Limited: Eve and the Serpent (1960) / BBC Sunday-Night Play [7 episodes, different characters (1960-1963)] / Deadline Midnight (1960) / An Age of Kings: Signs of War (1960) / Coronation Street [2 episodes as Dr. Tinsley (1960-1961)] / Probation Officer [2 episodes, different characters (1960-1961)] / Arms and the Man [3 episodes as Major Petkoff (1961)] / ITV Television Playhouse: Johnny Dark (1961) / Z Cars: What Kind of Hero? (1962) / Armchair Theatre: Night Conspirators (1962) / The Dark Island [6 episodes as the Brigadier (1962)] / The Sword in the Web: The Priest of St. Quentin (1962) / The Bacchae [2 episodes as Cadmus (1962)] / Suspense: The Patch Card (1963) / The Scales of Justice: Position of Trust (1963) / No Cloak - No Dagger [6 episodes as Det. Chief-Supt. Gage (1963)] / The Saint: Iris* (1963) / Espionage: Do You Remember Leo Winters? (1964) / Crane: The Secret Assassin (1964) / First Night: The Happy Ones (1964) / Mary Barton [4 episodes as Mr. Carson (1964)] / The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling: A Germ Destroyer (1964) / The Sleeper [2 episodes as Sir John (1964)] / The Old Wives' Tale [5 episodes as Mr. Critchlow (1964)] / Victoria Regina: Spring (1964) / The Great War [26 episodes providing various voices (1964)] / Thursday Theatre: The Young Elizabeth (1964) / It's Dark Outside: Arrangement in Black and White (1965) / The Mind of the Enemy [5 episodes as Sir Henry Blake (1965)] / The Troubleshooters: Young Turk (1965) / The Flying Swan; Relative Proof (1965) / Jury Room: The Chicken Farm Mystery (1965) / R3: A Source of Contamination (1965) / Blackmail: A Nice Little Family Fiddle (1965) / The Wednesday Play: Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (1965) / ITV Play of the Week: The New Men (1966) / The Lost Peace [12 episodes (1966)] / Softly Softly [2 episodes as Det. Chief Supt. Keith Orton (1967)] / Conflict: Trelawny of the Wells (1967) / Blandings Castle [2 episodes as the Vicar (1967)] / The Forsyte Saga [10 episodes as Sir Lawrence Mont (1967)] / Angel Pavement [4 episodes as Mr. Smeeth (1967)] / The Gamblers: When the Chips Are Down (1967) / Virgin of the Secret Service: Dark Deeds on the Northwest Frontier (1968) / The Spanish Farm [4 episodes as Baron D'Archeville (1968)] / Sanctuary: The Private Image (1968) / The Company of Five [4 episodes, different characters (1968)] / Imperial Palace [4 episodes as Sir Henry Savott (1969)] / W. Somerset Maugham: Lord Mountdrago (1969) / Detective: The Public School Murder (1969) / Hadleigh: The Wrong Side of the Hill (1969) / Department S: The Perfect Operation* (1969) / Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased): Who Killed Cock Robin? (1969) / Oh Brother!: By the Fleshpots (1970) / On Trial; J. Robert Oppenheimer - Security Risk? (1970) / Horizon: The Expert Witness (1970) / Kate: The King Is Dead (1970) / Ryan International [9 episodes as Henri Bersac (1970)] / Fraud Squad: The Great Blanket Factory Swindle (1970) / Paul Temple: Requiem for a Don (1971) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham - Retreat (1971) / Public Eye: I Always Wanted a Swimming Pool (1971) / The Guardians [9 episodes as Sir Timothy Hobson (1971)] / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Ted (1972) / ITV Playhouse: Dear Octopus (1972) / The Adventurer: The Case of the Poisoned Pawn (1973) / Jackanory [14 episodes as the Storyteller (1973-1982)] / Scotch on the Rocks [5 episodes as Lord Thorganby (1973)] / The Flaxton Boys [2 episodes as Peter Weekes (1973)] / Crime of Passion: Claudine (1973) / The Protectors: Petard (1973) / Justice: It's Always a Gamble (1974) / BBC Play of the Month: The Wood Demon (1974) / Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill [3 episodes as the Duke of Marlborough (1974)] / Father Brown: The Secret Garden (1974) / Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em [2 episodes as Father O'Hara (1973-1974)] / Crown Court: The Quest (1975) / The Venturers [10 episodes as Lord Kilvern (1975)] / The Loner: Dawson's Complaint (1975) / Village Hall: Battleground (1975) / Wodehouse Playhouse [2 episodes as the Bishop of Bognor (1975-1978)] / The Doll [3 episodes as Sir Arnold Wyatt (1975)] / North & South (1975) / The Flight of the Heron (1976) / Victorian Scandals: The Fruits of Philosophy (1976) / Mr. Big: Three Nights at the Palace (1977) / The Cedar Tree [48 episodes as Charles Ashley (1976-1977)] / The Lively Arts: A Haunted Man (1978) / The Famous Five: Five Go Off to Camp (1978)

After Who:
Films: The Saint and the Brave Goose (1979), Donkeys' Years (1980), The Winter's Tale (1981), Thank You, P.G. Wodehouse (1981), Honour, Profit & Pleasure (1985)
Television: Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt: Take a Tip from Selwyn (1978) / The Professionals: The Rack (1978) / Return of the Saint [2 episodes as the Coroner (1979)] / My Son, My Son (1979) / Tales of the Unexpected: The Man from the South* (1979) / The Omega Factor [2 episodes as Edward Drexel (1979)] / Murder at the Wedding [4 episodes as Eric Russell (1979)] / The Camerons [2 episodes as Lord Leitch (1979)] / BBC2 Playhouse: Sweet Wine of Youth (1979) / Jackanory Playhouse: The Silver Fish (1980) / Time of My Life (1980) / Tales of the Unexpected: Back for Christmas (1980) / Tales of the Unexpected: The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby (1980) / To Serve Them All My Days [5 episodes as Sir Rufus Creighton (1980-1981)] / Levkas Man (1981) / Celebrity Playhouse: The Potting Shed (1981) / The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1982) / Q.E.D.: To Catch a Ghost (1982) / L for Lester (1982) / The Barchester Chronicles [3 episodes as Bishop Grantly (1982)] / The Citadel (1983) / All for Love: Mrs. Silly (1983) / Strangers and Brothers (1984) / Hallelujah!: It Happened One Night (1984) / In Loving Memory: Three's a Crowd (1986) / The Houseman's Tale (1987)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A promo image of fifth Doctor Peter Davison.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #615

Name: Iain Cuthbertson [1930 - 2009]
Year(s): 1978
Stories: The Ribos Operation part 1 – The Ribos Operation part 4
Character(s): Garron
Note: Was later considered for the part of the Fifth Doctor

Before Who:
Films: The Boy David (1957), Guilty Together (1959), The Railway Children* (1970), Up The Chastity Belt (1972), The Stone Tape (1972), Caesar and Cleopatra (1976), Once Upon a Union (1977)

Television: Para Handy - Master Mariner: A Happy New Year (1960) / ITV Play of the Week: The Accomplices (1960) / BBC Sunday-Night Play: Storm in a Teacup (1962) / The Wednesday Play: Toddler on the Run (1966) / Adam Adamant Lives!: D for Destruction (1966) / ITV Sunday Night Drama: Four Triumphant: St Andrew (1966) / This Man Craig: Fresh Off the Boat (1966) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Crabbe's Practice (1967) / The Borderers [26 episodes as Sir Walter Ker of Cessford (1968-1970)] / The Avengers: Thingumajig* (1969) / The Troubleshooters: This Place Is a Paradise, Mister (1969) / Department S: Spencer Bodily Is Sixty Years Old (1969) / Manhunt: With a Sort of Love (1970) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Lilly (1970) / Diamond Crack Diamond [4 episodes as Mark Terson (1970)] / Dr. Finlay's Casebook: The Burgess Ticket (1971) / Tom Brown's Schooldays [5 episodes as Dr. Thomas Arnold (1971)] / The Onedin Line: Mutiny (1971) / Budgie* [24 episodes as Charlie Endell (1971-1972)] / The Adventures of Black Beauty: The Recruiting Sergeant (1972) / The New Road [2 episodes as Colonel Barisdale (1973)] / Scotch on the Rocks [4 episodes as Chief Con. Blair (1973)] / The Protectors: Petard (1973) / Arthur of the Britons: Daughter of the King (1973) / Sutherland's Law [46 episodes as John Sutherland (1973-1976)] / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Geography of a Horse Dreamer (1974) / The Pallisers (1974) / The Ghosts of Motley Hall: Godfrey of Basingstoke (1977) / Children of the Stones [6 episodes as Hendrick (1977)] / Survivors: Power (1977) / Ripping Yarns: Murder at Moorstones Manor (1977) / The Sunday Drama: Caledonian Cascade (1977) / The Duchess of Duke Street [2 episodes as the Vicar (1977)] / Play for Today: Destiny (1978) / The Standard: The Name of the Game (1978) / Z Cars: Departures (1978)

After Who:
Films: The House with the Green Shutters (1980), The Fasting Girl (1984), John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984), The Assam Garden (1985), Off Peak (1985), Smart Money (1986), The Venus de Milo Instead (1987), Gorillas in the Mist* (1988), Scandal (1989), Let Him Have It (1991), The Guilty (1992), Chasing the Deer (1994), Painted Lady (1997), The Tichborne Claimant (1998), Strictly Sinatra (2001), Hamlet (2003)

Television: The Voyage of Charles Darwin [3 episodes as Dr. Robert Darwin (1978)] / Danger UXB [6 episodes as Doctor Gillespie (1979)] / ITV Playhouse: Casting the Runes [as Julian Karswell] (1979) / The Mourning Brooch [2 episodes as Dicky Doig (1979)] / The Dick Francis Thriller - The Racing Game: Horsenap (1979) / Charles Endell, Esq [6 episodes as Charlie Endell (1979-1980)] / We, the Accused [4 episodes as Chief Inspector Boltro (1980)] / The Walls of Jericho [3 episodes as Alexander Russell (1981)] / Vice Versa [7 episodes as Dr. Grimstone (1981)] / Rep [4 episodes as J.C. Benton (1982)] / Storyboard: Lytton's Diary (1983) / The Glory Boys (1984) /Juliet Bravo: Lost and Found (1984) / Super Gran [27 episodes as The Scunner Campbell (1985-1987)] / First Among Equals (1986) / The Return of the Antelope: Philippa's Brave Deed (1986) / The Stamp of Greatness: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1986) / Bulman: Death by Misadventure (1987) / A Perfect Spy (1987) / Hannay: Act of Riot (1988) / Ten Great Writers of the Modern World: Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain' (1988) / The Ray Bradbury Theater: Punishment Without Crime (1988) / Rab C. Nesbitt [3 episodes, different characters (1988-1992)] / Minder: The Wrong Goodbye (1989) / The Justice Game (1989) / Hard Cases (1989) / City Lights: Play It Again, Willie (1989) / Screenplay [3 episodes, different characters (1989-1990)] / Campion:Sweet Danger (1990) / Inspector Morse: Masonic Mysteries (1990) / Poirot: Dead Man's Mirror* (1993) / Headhunters: The Golden Hello (1994) / Moonacre [6 episodes as Father Francis (1994)] / Seaforth [5 episodes as Lord Scawton (1994)] / Oliver's Travels; Do We Look Like That? (1995) / The Tales of Para Handy: Para Handy's Piper (1995) / The Baldy Man: Barbecue - China Doll (1997) / Casualty: Calm Before the Storm (1999) / Brotherly Love: Art and Soul (2000)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Santa (Nick Frost) and the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) have words in Last Christmas (2014)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #616a

Name: Nigel Plaskitt [1950 - ]
Year(s): 1978
Stories: The Ribos Operation part 1 – The Ribos Operation part 4
Character(s): Unstoffe

Before Who:
Films: Charleston (1977), Owner Occupied (1977)
Television: Television Adverts: Vicks Sinex [as Malcolm] (1972-1981) / Churchill's People: The Agreement of the People (1975) / Warship: Quiet Run Ashore (1976) / The Sunday Drama: The Man Who Liked Elephants (1977) / Pipkins [2 episodes, various voices (1976-1978)]

After Who:
Films: The Killing Edge (1984), The Tale of the Bunny Picnic (1986), Spy Story (1990), The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Alice in Wonderland* (1999), Combat Sheep (2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Come Away (2020)

Television: Golden Soak (1979) / Young at Heart: Love Is (1981) / Angels [2 episodes as Martin Fisher (1982)] / The Cleopatras: 100 BC (1983) / Spitting Image [Puppeteer] (1984) / The Pickwick Papers (1985) / Treehouse (1987) / Round the Bend! [18 episodes as Vince Vermin (1989-1990)] / Treasure Box (1992) / Spooks of Bottle Bay (1992) / The Secret Life of Toys (1994) / Hotch Potch House: Grandpa and Grandma come to stay (1996) / Potamus Park: Invitation to the Dance (1997) / Mopatop's Shop [260 episodes, various voices including Moosey Mouse, Bradley, Lamont (1999)] / Captain Scarlet [25 episodes, various voices including Captain Black, Doctor Gold (2005)] / Thomas & Friends [5 episodes as the Narrator of Awdry's Letter (2007-2011)] / That Puppet Game Show [8 episodes, various voices (2013-2014)] / Monty & Co (2020)

Who: Before And After #616b

Name: Paul Seed [1947 - ]
Year(s): 1978
Stories: The Ribos Operation part 1 – The Ribos Operation part 4
Character(s): Graff Vynda-K

Note:

• Was the owner of the dog that bit Tom Baker on the lip after he tried to perform a trick with the dog that Seed himself had performed. This resulted in a scar on Baker's lip that was visible for much of the rest of the season
• Away from the Whoniverse, he became a director who directed television programmes including 'House of Cards', 'To Play the King', 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' and 'Doc Martin'

Before Who:
Films: Thinking Man As Hero (1973), Heydays Hotel (1976)
Television: Pretenders [2 episodes as a Sentry (1972)] / Doomwatch: Say Knife, Fat Man (1972) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Willy (1973) / The Double Dealers [4 episodes as Frank Orchard (1974)] / 2nd House: 45 Minutes Each Way (1974) / Z Cars: Innocent and Vulnerable (1975) / Against the Crowd: Bread and Circuses (1975) / Softly Softly - Task Force; Protection (1975) / Survivors: The Peacemaker (1977)

After Who:
Films: The Human Factor (1979),
Television: Hazell; Hazell Gets the Part (1979) / Secret Army [2 episodes, different characters (1978-1979)] / Coronation Street [3 episodes as Father Harris (1979)] / Screenplay: Nearly a Happy Ending (1980) / Escape: Hijack to Mogadishu (1980) / Crown Court: Freedom to Incite (1981) / BBC2 Playhouse: Preview (1982) / Tales of the Unexpected: Blue Marigold (1982)