The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) in the 2005 two part story The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances.

[Susan Foreman]

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

• Mary Tamm (Romana I)
• John Leeson (Voice Of K-9)

Who: Before And After #620

Name: Bruce Purchase [1938 - 2008]
Year(s): 1978
Stories: The Pirate Planet part 1 – The Pirate Planet part 4
Character(s): The Captain

Before Who:
Films: Othello (1965), Macbeth* (1971), Mary, Queen of Scots* (1971), A Phoenix Too Frequent (1972), The Optimists (1973), Alice Through the Looking Glass (1973), Undercovers Hero (1974), The Secret Agent (1975), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1976)

Television: The Newcomers (1965) / The Big Spender: The Twist (1966) / The Paradise Makers (1967) / Write a Play: The White Christ & The Freeze Man (1967) / High Dreams [2 episodes, different characters (1967)] / Emergency-Ward 10: Song Without Words (1967) / Escape: A Bad Risk (1967) / City '68: The Shooting War (1967) / Callan [2 episodes, different characters (1967-1969)] / The Inside Man: The Spy Vanishes (1969) / Rogues' Gallery: The Wicked Stage (1969) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Rogues Gallery - The Wicked Stage (1969) / The Flaxton Boys: 1854 - The Deserter (1969) / The First Churchills [2 episodes as the Duke of Buckingham (1969)] / Softly Softly - Task Force: Resolution (1972) / Doomwatch: Waiting for a Knighthood (1972) / A Picture of Katherine Mansfield [4 episodes, different characters (1973)] / Six Days of Justice: Case for Committal (1973) / Vienna 1900: Man of Honour (1973) / Fall of Eagles* [2 episodes as Von Plehve (1974)] / Intimate Strangers (1974) / The Fight Against Slavery: A Matter of Insurance (1975) / Edward the King [3 episodes as Czar Alexander III (1975)] / Looking for Clancy (1975) / BBC Play of the Month: Trilby (1976) / Shades of Greene: Under the Garden (1976) / Clayhanger [14 episodes as Big James (1976)] / The New Avengers: Target! (1976) / I, Claudius: Hail Who?* (1976) / Crown Court: You Won't Escape When Hendrik Witbooi Comes (1976) / Supernatural: Mr. Nightingale (1977) / London Belongs to Me (1977) / BBC2 Play of the Week: Exiles (1977) / The Devil's Crown: If All the World Were Mine (1978) / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade (1978)

After Who:
Films: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979), All Quiet on the Western Front (1979), Henry IV Part I (1979), Henry IV Part II (1979), Saint Joan (1979), Pope John Paul II (1984), Other Halves (1984), Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985), Casanova (1987) Playing Away (1987), Lionheart (1987), Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992), Richard III (1995), The Sea Change (1998), Esther (1999), Another Life (2001)
Television: A Horseman Riding By [4 episodes as Parson Augustus Bull (1978)] / Kidnapped: Uncle Ebenezer (1978) / ITV Playhouse: The Quiz Kid (1979) / Blake's 7: The Keeper (1979) / Diary of a Nobody [2 episodes as Farmerson (1979)] / Quatermass* [2 episodes as Tommy Roach (1979)] / Play for Today: Atlantis (1983) / Freud: In the Name of the Gods (1984) / Anna of the Five Towns (1985) / The Tripods [2 episodes as Ali Pasha (1985)] / Return to Treasure Island [4 episodes as Trelawney (1986)] / Casualty: Teeny Poppers (1986) / The Bill: The New Order of Things (1987) / Law and Disorder: The Cannibal (1994) / Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Strawberry Tree (1995) / David (1997) / Killer Net (1998) / ChuckleVision: Double Trouble (2000) / Bob Martin: Mr. and Mrs. (2000)

[Susan Foreman]

The sixth in an occasional series: 'Doctor Who' as featured in other medium

An episode of the cartoon 'Rugrats' from 1992 entitled 'Toy Place'

[Susan Foreman]

December 24th - Talking Pictures TV - 13:55-15:05

"Christmas Eve with Tom Baker 1993

Tom Baker introduces a Dickens theme into the service from St Andrews United Reform Church in Eastbourne."

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Matt Smith) and friend in A Christmas Carol (2010)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #621

Name: Andrew Robertson [1941 - ]
Year(s): 1978
Stories: The Pirate Planet part 1 – The Pirate Planet part 4
Character(s): Mr. Fibuli

Before Who:
Films: Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1972)
Television: The Master of Ballantrae [2 episodes as Alexander Durie (1962)] / Judith Paris: The Wheel Comes Full Circle (1964) / The Scarlet and the Black: A Man of Intelligence (1965) / Dr. Finlay's Casebook [5 episodes, different characters (1965-1969)] / This Man Craig: Certain Standards (1966) / The Likely Lads: Goodbye to All That* (1966) / Adam Adamant Lives!: The Doomsday Plan (1966) / Broome Stages [2 episodes, different characters (1966)] / The Revenue Men: A Cup of Kindness (1967) / Softly Softly: The Hunt (1967) / Theatre 625: The Pistol Shot (1968) / The Wednesday Play: Patterson O.K. (1969) / The Rebellious Red Gauntlets [8 episodes as Alan Fairford (1970)] / The Borderers: Hostage (1970) / The Search for the Nile: The Great Debate (1971) / Hold the Front Page (1974), BBC Play of the Month: The School for Scandal (1975) / Oil Strike North [19 episodes as Donald Cameron (1975)] / Strangers: The Paradise Set (1978)

After Who:
Films: The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990), Year of the Comet (1992), Anybody's Nightmare (2001)
Television: Secret Army: Little Old Lady (1978) / Blake's 7: Hostage (1979) / Out of the Past [3 episodes (1979)] / All Creatures Great and Small: Plenty to Grouse About (1979) / High Road [6 episodes as Leslie Maxwell (1980)] / The Onedin Line: Jonah's Luck (1980) / Prisoners of Conscience: William Beausire (1981) / Pinkerton's Progress [6 episodes as Clifford (1983)] / Miracles Take Longer (1984) / All the World's a Stage: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On (1984) / Cold Warrior: Bright Sting (1984) / One by One [10 episodes as Jock Drummond (1987)] / Colin's Sandwich [9 episodes as Travers (1988-1990)] / The Play on One: Biting the Hands (1989) / Casualty [2 episodes, different characters (1989-1999)] / The Bill: Visitors (1989) / Alas Smith & Jones: The Unprepared Version (1989) / The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries [2 episodes as the Police Doctor (1990-1993)] / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Right to Silence (1991) / KYTV [2 episodes, different characters (1992)] / The Blackheath Poisonings* [3 episodes as the Landlord (1992)] / The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends [2 episodes as the voice of Mr. McGregor (1993-1995)] / The Man from Auntie (1994) / Little Lord Fauntleroy [2 episodes as Hodson (1995)] / The Tales of Para Handy: Para Handy's Piper (1995) / Rab C. Nesbitt: Racket (1996) / The Creatives: Soup Family Robinson (1998) / Gimme Gimme Gimme: Dirty Thirty (2000)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (David Tennant) and Astrid (Kylie Minogue), flanked by Heavenly Host in 2007's Christmas special Voyage of the Damned.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #622

Name: Ralph Michael [1907 - 1994]
Year(s): 1978
Stories: The Pirate Planet part 1 – The Pirate Planet part 2
Character(s): Balaton

Before Who:
Films: False Evidence (1937), John Halifax (1938), The Girl Who Forgot (1940), Front Line Kids (1942), Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1942), Women Aren't Angels (1943), The Bells Go Down (1943), San Demetrio London (1943), For Those in Peril (1944), They Came to a City (1944), Johnny Frenchman (1945), Dead of Night* (1945), The Captive Heart (1946), Henry IV (1947), Pygmalion (1948), Emma (1948), A Song for Tomorrow (1948), Penny and the Pownall Case (1948), The Hasty Heart (1949), The Astonished Heart (1950), The Sound Barrier (1952), Six Characters in Search of an Author (1954), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1955), Women Without Men (1956), Blonde Bait (1956), Call It a Day (1956), Seven Days from Now (1957), The Druid Circle (1957), The Cocktail Party (1957), The Birthday Present (1957), A Night to Remember* (1958), As I Die (1958), Women in Love (1958), The Supreme Secret (1958), Result of an Accident (1959), Date at Midnight (1959), A Taste of Money (1961), The Court Martial of Major Keller (1961), The Valiant (1962), Children of the Damned (1964), They All Died Laughing (1964), Murder Most Foul (1964), Private Potter (1964), He Who Rides a Tiger (1965), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Khartoum (1966), Grand Prix (1966), Deadlier Than the Male (1967), House of Cards (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)

Television: Mourning Becomes Electra [2 episodes as Captain Adam Brant (1947)] / Theatre Royal [2 episodes (1956)] / The Count of Monte Cristo: Albania (1956) / The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Hero (1956) / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: Uncle Vanya (1957) / Dixon of Dock Green: They Don't Like Policemen (1958) / Murder Bag: Case 28 (1958) / Theatre Night: Any Other Business (1958) / The New Adventures of Charlie Chan: Rhyme or Treason (1958) / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: View Friendship and Marriage (1958) / The Invisible Man: Jailbreak (1958) / The Verdict Is Yours: The Case of the Offensive General (1958) / Boyd Q.C.: Confession of Murder (1959) / William Tell: The Avenger (1959) / Charlesworth: The Key (1959) / The Man Who Finally Died [2 episodes as Dr. Von Brecht (1959)] / Probation Officer (1959) / No Hiding Place: Black Fashion (1959) / Strife [2 episodes as John Anthony (1960)] / Saturday Playhouse: Going Like a Fox (1960) / Man from Interpol: Death in Oils (1960) / Somerset Maugham Hour [3 episodes, different characters (1960-1962)] / The World of Tim Frazer [11 episodes as Charles Ross (1960-1961)] / Julius Caesar [4 episodes as Caesar / the Ghost of Caesar (1960)] / Armchair Theatre: Till the Day I Die (1961) / The Cheaters [2 episodes, different characters (1960-1961)] / ITV Television Playhouse: Private Potter (1961) / BBC Sunday-Night Play: That Lady (1961) / The Third Man: A Question of Libel (1962) / It Happened Like This [14 episodes as Jim Marriott (1962-1963)] / Richard the Lionheart [2 episodes as the Sheriff of Nottingham (1963)] / Suspense: Scissors (1963) / Festival: Everyman (1964) / The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling: A Bank Fraud (1964) / Detective [3 episodes, different characters (1964-1969)] / Danger Man: A Man to Be Trusted* (1964) / Theatre 625: The Minister (1965) / Compact [15 episodes as Sir John Marsden (1965)] / R3: The Big Balloon (1965) / Jury Room: The Love Letters (1965) / Hudd (1965) / Danger Man: Secret Agent: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1965) / The Man in the Mirror [6 episodes as Peter Gilbey (1966)] / This Man Craig: A Rough Passage (1966) / The Power Game [4 episodes as Gillingham (1966)] / Vendetta: The Putty Man (1966) / Broome Stages [2 episodes as Sir Joscelyn Pallas (1966)] / Uncle Charles: Patience (1967) / The Rat Catchers [2 episodes as Sir Miles Casimir (1967)] / Mickey Dunne: A Handful of Coloured Chalks (1967) / ITV Play of the Week: The New Assistant (1967) / The Forsyte Saga [2 episodes as Stanley Baldwin (1967)] / The Gamblers: The Glory of Llewellyn Smiley (1967) / The Revenue Men [2 episodes, different characters (1967-1968)] / Man in a Suitcase [2 episodes, different characters (1968)] / A Touch of Venus: The Jewish Wife (1968) / Gazette [7 episodes as Colonel Chamberlayne (1968)] / The Avengers: Who Was That Man I Saw You With?* (1969) / Judge Dee: A Place of Great Evil (1969) / Fraud Squad: All Clean and Paid For (1969) / The Expert: Do Not Go Gentle (1969) / Not in Front of the Children: Friendships Old, Friendships New (1969) / Doctor in the House [7 episodes as The Dean (1969-1970)] / Doctor at Large [4 episodes as The Dean (1971)] / The Challengers: History Does Not Pay the Rent (1972) / The Brothers: Full Circle (1972) / The World About Us: The Insect Man (1972) / Six Faces: Around the Child (1972) / Colditz: Court Martial (1972) / Public Eye: A Family Affair (1973) / Justice [2 episodes as Mr. Justice Bebbington (1974)] / Crown Court: Corruption (1974) / Sutherland's Law: Just a Little Death (1974) / ITV Sunday Night Drama: Harry Lifters (1974) / The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs: The Contact (1974) / Churchill's People: O Canada (1975) / Softly Softly - Task Force: Blind Alley (1975) / Hadleigh: Incident (1976) / Murder: A Variety of Passion (1976) / Dickens of London: Magic (1976) / When the Boat Comes In [3 episodes as Father Courtnay (1976-1977)] / Rob Roy [3 episodes (1977)] / Romance: High Noon (1977) / Les samedis de l'histoire: Foch pour vaincre (1977) / The Professionals: Heroes (1978) / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Younger Generation (1978) / The Devil's Crown [6 episodes as Hubert Walter (1978)]

After Who:
Films: Henry IV Part II (1979), The Marquise (1980), No Man's Land (1984), Romance on the Orient Express (1985), Diary of a Mad Old Man (1987), Lionheart (1987), Empire of the Sun (1987), The Heat of the Day (1990)
Television: Prince Regent: The Bride from Brunswick (1979) / A Question of Guilt: Constance Kent (1980) / A Tale of Two Cities [8 episodes as Doctor Manette (1980)] / Echoes of Louisa [3 episodes as Sir Reginald Hallam (1981)] / The Borgias (1981) / Kessler [6 episodes as Colonel Hans Ruckert (1981)] / ITV Playhouse: The Boxwallah (1982) / The Quest [9 episodes as King Charles (1982)] / Bergerac: The Company You Keep (1984) / Love and Marriage: Sweet Echo (1984) / Dream Stuffing (1984) / Fox Mystery Theater: And the Wall Came Tumbling Down (1984) / Scarecrow and Mrs. King: The Legend of Das Geisterschloss (1984) / Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985) / Dempsey and Makepeace [3 episodes as Lord Winfield (1985)] / Black Silk: Undesirable Activities (1985) / Hold the Back Page: Old Partners (1985) / Howards' Way (1987) / Rockliffe's Babies: A Trip to the Zoo (1988) / Crossbow: The Inquisitor (1988) / First Born (1988) / Jeeves and Wooster [3 episodes as Tom Travers / Uncle Tom (1990-1993)] / Devices and Desires [3 episodes as Reverend Copley (1991)] / Selling Hitler (1991) / The Camomile Lawn [2 episodes as the older Tony (1992)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and River Song (Alex Kingston) share a poignant moment in the bittersweet Christmas special The Husbands of River Song (2015)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #623

Name: David Sibley [1948 - ]
Year(s): 1978
Stories: The Pirate Planet part 1, The Pirate Planet part 3 – The Pirate Planet part 4
Character(s): Pralix

Note: Appeared in numerous Big Finish audio stories:

• The 'Doctor Who Main Range' stories 'The Seeds of War' / 'Persuasion'
• The 'Fourth Doctor Adventures' story 'Destroy the Infinite'
• The 'Sixth Doctor and Peri' story 'Conflict Theory'
• The 'Dark Eyes' stories 'Time's Horizon' / 'Eyes of the Master' / 'The Death of Hope' / 'The Reviled' / 'Masterplan' / 'Rule of the Eminence' / 'Eye of Darkness'
• The 'Early Adventures' story 'The Morton Legacy'
• The 'Gallifrey' Stories 'Celestial Intervention' / 'Desperate Measures'
• The 'Torchwood' Story 'The Dying Room'
• The 'Aliens Among Us' story 'Orr'
• The 'Sins of Captain John' story 'Darker Purposes'

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Survivors: The Chosen (1976) / Dickens of London: Mask (1976) / Get Some In!: Erks (1977) / Wings [3 episodes as Corporal Morgan (1977)] / Three Piece Suite: Bitter Suite / Entrance Fee / Public Lives (1977) / Crown Court [2 episodes as Hugh Inglis (1977-1982)] / Sister Dora (1977) / Rooms [8 episodes as Chris Wilson (1977)] / BBC2 Play of the Week: The Kitchen (1977) / ITV Playhouse: A Question of Time (1978)

After Who:
Films: Gandhi (1982), Killer Contract (1984), Stars of the Roller State Disco (1984), Willow (1988), Great Balls of Fire! (1989), Hands of a Murderer (1990), Traitors (1990), Princess Caraboo (1994), The Big One (1995), Incognito (1997), Guest House Paradiso (1999), Newborn (2000), Care (2000), Love Again (2003), The Year London Blew Up: 1974 (2005), The Commander: Blacklight (2006), Closed Circuit (2013), The Sleeping Room (2014), 45 Years (2015), The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
Television: Target: The Trouble with Charlie (1978) / The Voyage of Charles Darwin: How Wide Was the Distance Between Savage and Civilised Man (1978) / The BBC Television Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet* (1978) / A Family Affair [9 episodes as John Barnes (1979)] / Blake's 7: Death-Watch (1980) / Shoestring: Mocking Bird (1980) / BBC2 Playhouse: Fatal Spring (1980) / BBC2 Playhouse: Skylark (1981) / The Chinese Detective: Hammer and Nails (1981) / Minder [2 episodes, different characters (1982-1991) / An Inspector Calls [3 episodes as Eric Birling (1982)] / Pinkerton's Progress [3 episodes as Parsons (1983)] / Give us a Break [4 episodes as Billy Wilson (1983-1984)] / Miracles Take Longer (1984) / Wilderness Road: The End of the World (1986) / The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: No More Dying Then (1989) / The Bill [7 episodes, different characters (1989-2008)] / The Nightmare Years [4 episodes as Jan Muller (1989)] / The Manageress [6 episodes as Steve Simms (1989-1990)] / 4 Play: Talking Takes Two (1990) / Screenplay: Redemption (1991) / The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Austria, March 1917 (1992) / Casualty [2 episodes, different characters (1992-2015)] / The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries: The Nursing Home Murder (1993) / Middlemarch [3 episodes as Mr Spooner (1994) / Annie's Bar (1996) / Frontiers [6 episodes as Det. Chief Insp. Peter Lennox (1996)] / In Suspicious Circumstances: Who's Sorry Now? (1996) / Drovers' Gold (1997) / Attachments: Just Upgraded (2000) / Holby City: The Real Thing (2000) / Fun at the Funeral Parlour: The Jaws of Doom (2001) / Doctors [6 episodes, different characters (2001-2015)] / Judge John Deed: Exacting Justice (2001) / Trial & Retribution: Paradise Lost (2007) / Land Girls: Codes of Honour (2009) / Wallander: The Man Who Smiled (2010) / Midsomer Murders: The Silent Land (2010) / Downton Abbey* (2011) / Mrs Biggs (2012) / New Tricks: Part of a Whole (2012) / Utopia (2013) / Broadchurch (2013) / Silent Witness: Protection (2015) / War & Peace (2016) / Vanity Fair [2 episodes, as the Solicitor (2018)] / MotherFatherSon (2019)