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[Demoncrat]

Slow. News. Day. Alert.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Ho hum!

Doctor Who: New missing episodes 'held to ransom in Middle East' claim emerges online / Plymouth Herald

"A Doctor Who fan has made the extraordinary claim that 17 classic era stories are being used as a "political bargaining tool" in the Middle East..."

It's about a week old that story.

For some reason The PLymouth Herald seem to be on some sort of Doctor Who thing

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Flux ,which came out last week entered the UK Blu-ray chart at #1 and the dvd chart at #4.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #665a

Name: Martin Fisk [1946 - ]
Year(s): 1980
Stories: The Leisure Hive part 1 – The Leisure Hive part 4
Character(s): Vargos

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Budgie: And in Again (1971) / Doctor at Large: Operation Loftus (1971) / The Guardians: Appearances (1971) / Poldark [4 episodes as Mark Daniel (1975-1976)] / Thriller: The Next Victim* (1976) / Bill Brand: Anybody's (1976) / The Sweeney: In from the Cold (1976) / The New Avengers: The Last of the Cybernauts...?* (1976) / Fathers and Families: Winter Shapes (1977) / Miss Jones and Son: Baby Talk (1977) / The XYY Man: Law and Order (1977) / Crown Court: A Pocketful of Pills (1977) / Enemy at the Door: By Order of the Fuhrer (1978) / 1990: Young Sparks (1978) / Armchair Thriller: The Girl Who Walked Quickly (1978) / A Horseman Riding By [8 episodes as Smut Potter (1978)] / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Case of Identity (1979) / Breakaway: The Family Affair (1980) / A Question of Guilt [8 episodes as PC Urch (1980)] / Coronation Street (1980) / Angels [3 episodes as Dave (1980)]

After Who:
Films: Terry on the Fence (1986)
Television: Shoestring: Looking for Mr Wright (1980) / BBC2 Playhouse: Elizabeth Alone (1981) / On the Line [12 episodes as Alan Baxter (1982)] / The Gentle Touch: The Meat Rack (1982) / Minder [2 episodes as a Security Guard (1982-1988)] / No Problem! [2 episodes as a Policeman (1983)] / Miss Marple: The Moving Finger* (1985) / Shine on Harvey Moon: Mud Sticks... (1985) / Storyboard: King & Castle (1985) / Bergerac: Low Profile (1985) / Worlds Beyond: Guardian of the Past (1986) / Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Wolf to the Slaughter (1987) / Hard Cases (1988) / Room at the Bottom [4 episodes as Jeffrey (1988)] / London's Burning (1989) / Stay Lucky: Hotrod Horace (1990) / Soldier Soldier: All the King's Men (1991) / Love Hurts: Relative Values (1992) / The Bill: Questionable Judgement (1993) / Bugs: Pandora's Box (1998) / Heartbeat: Child's Play (2000)

Who: Before And After #665b

Name: Roy Montague [? - ]
Year(s): 1980
Stories: The Leisure Hive part 1 – The Leisure Hive part 4
Character(s): Guide

Before Who:
Films: Yesterday's Hero (1979)
Television: None

After Who:
Films: None
Television: ITV Playhouse: Only a Game (1981) / Private Schulz (1981)

Who: Before And After #665c

Name: Harriet Reynolds [1944 - 1992]
Year(s): 1980
Stories: The Leisure Hive part 1 – The Leisure Hove part 2, The Leisure Hive part 4
Character(s): Tannoy Voice

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Play for Today: Abigail's Party (1977) / Last of the Summer Wine: A Merry Heatwave (1978) / Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Scottish Dancing (1978) / Play for Today: Keep Smiling (1980) / Pig in the Middle: Something of Interest (1980) / Yes Minister: The Right to Know (1980) / Time of My Life (1980) / Agony: Second Time Around (1980) / The Enigma Files: Backtrack (1980)

After Who:
Films: Strike It Rich (1990), Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)
Television: Butterflies: Parting (1980) / Sink or Swim: Tourists (1981) / Angels [2 episodes as Mrs. Daley (1981)] / I Remember Nelson [2 episodes as Queen Maria Carolina (1982)] / The Front Line (1982) / Ever Decreasing Circles: The Party (1984) / The Pickwick Papers (1985) / Are You Being Served?: Gambling Fever* (1985) / Summer Season: Phoebe (1985) / Me and My Girl; Nothing Like a Quiet Sunday (1985) / A Very Peculiar Practice: A Very Long Way from Anywhere* (1986) / Sorry!: Natural Wastage (1986) / Rockliffe's Babies: A Bad Few Days (1987) / A Small Problem [2 episodes as the Chairwoman (1987)] / London's Burning (1988) / The Bretts: Home and Away (1988) / Wish Me Luck (1989) / The New Statesman: Who Shot Alan B'Stard? (1990) / Close to Home: While the Vet's Away (1990) / Lovejoy: Bin Diving (1991) / Screen Two: The Law Lord (1992) / Jeeves and Wooster: Bertie Takes Gussie's Place at Deverill Hall (or, Right Ho! Jeeves) (1992)

[Susan Foreman]

In memory of Donald Gee (1937 - 2022)

Played Major Ian Warne in The 1969 story 'The Space Pirates'...

...and Eckersley in the 1974 story 'The Monster of Peladon'

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A Smiler from The Beast Below (2010)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #666a

Name: David Allister [? - ]
Year(s): 1980 /
Stories: The Leisure Hive part 2 / The Trial Of A Time Lord: Terror Of The Vervoids part 1 – The Trial Of A Time Lord: Terror Of The Vervoids part 4
Character(s): Stimson / Bruchner

Before Who:
Films: The Statue (1971), The Firefighters (1975), Face of Darkness (1976)
Television: Softly Softly: Task Force [22 episodes as Sgt. Richard Jackson (1969-1971)] / BBC Play of the Month: The Heiress (1969) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen? (1970) / Out of the Unknown: The Uninvited (1971) / The Befrienders: Hunted (1972) / Budgie: Louie the Ring Is Dead and Buried in Kensal Green Cemetery (1972) / Alexander the Greatest: Sam Leaves Home (1972) / Romany Jones: Look After the Pennies (1973) / The Donati Conspiracy (1973) / 2nd House: National Service (1973) / Heil Caesar! [3 episodes as Cassius (1973)] / The Protectors: Border Line* (1973) / Colditz [2 episodes as Capt. George Holland (1974)] / Justice: Duty of Care (1974) / Dial M for Murder: Both Hands Free (1974) / Six Days of Justice: A Juicy Case (1975) / Wodehouse Playhouse: Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court (1975) / Oil Strike North: The Fatal Hours (1975) / Red Letter Day: For Services to Myself (1976) / The Law Centre: Winning Friends, Losing Lovers (1978) / Lillie [2 episodes as Edward Michael (1978)] / Kids [3 episodes as Derek Frost (1979)] / Heartland: Repent at Leisure (1979) / Flesh and Blood [17 episodes as Ian McKellar (1980-1982)

After Who:
Films: People from the Forest (1981), The Jigsaw Man (1983), Newstime (1985), The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
Television: Masterpiece Theatre: Sons and Lovers (1981) / Maybury: Ten Green Bottles (1981) / Triangle [2 episodes as Rudi (1983)] / Crown Court: Oddball (1984) / The Jewel in the Crown: Daughters of the Regiment (1984) / One by One [2 episodes as Mr. Lomax (1984)] / Juliet Bravo: Getting Away with It (1984) / Mitch; Nature of the Beast (1984) / By the Sword Divided: Cruel Necessity (1985) / Hold the Back Page: Running Feuds (1985) / The Monocled Mutineer [2 episodes as General Asser (1986)] / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Judge's Elbow (1987) / Rockliffe's Babies: Extra Curricular (1987) / Horizon: The Race for the Double Helix (1987) / The Bill [3 episodes, different characters (1987-1993)] / The Franchise Affair (1988) / The Chief [2 episodes as Insp. Bob Morissey (1991)] / The Sharp End (1991) / Virtual Murder: Dreams Imagic (1992) / Sitting Pretty: Mother and Child Reunion (1992) / The Good Guys: All That Sparkles (1993) / Between the Lines: Shoot to Kill (1994) / Holding On [3 episodes as the Psychiatric Consultant (1997)] / The Uninvited [4 episodes as James Wilson (1997)] / Midsomer Murders: Blood Will Out* (1999) / Anna Karenina (2000) / Kavanagh QC: The End of Law (2001)

Who: Before And After #666c

Name: Andrew Lane [1947 - 1999]
Year(s): 1980
Stories: The Leisure Hive part 3 – The Leisure Hive part 4
Character(s): Foamasi

Before Who:
Films: Tomcats (1976), Silver Bears (1977)
Television: ITV Play of the Week: ITV Summer Playhouse #9 - The Voysey Inheritance (1967) / Z Cars: A Little Bit of Respect (1967) / Dixon of Dock Green: The Mercenary (1967) / ITV Playhouse: The Swan Won't Go in the Fridge (1969) / Stage 2: Peer Gynt (1972) / A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (1973) / David Copperfield (1974) / Churchill's People: March On, Boys! (1975) / The Main Chance: World of Silence (1975) / Prometheus - The Life of Balzac: The Human Comedy (1975) / BBC Play of the Month: Loyalties (1976) / The Onedin Line [2 episodes as Frazer's Clerk (1976)] / The Lady of the Camellias [2 episodes as a Lunch Guest (1976)] / The ITV Play: Are You Stone Cold, Santa Claus? (1977) / Last of the Summer Wine: A Merry Heatwave (1978) / Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Moving House (1978) / All Creatures Great and Small: Alarms & Excursions (1980) / Yes Minister: Big Brother (1980) / The History of Mr. Polly (1980)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Maxtible (Marius Goring) seems to be lecturing a Dalek Jodie Whitaker style in Evil of the Daleks (1967)

[Susan Foreman]

Guest actors appearing in MEGLOS who have previously appeared in the show:

• Lalla Ward (Romana II)
• John Leeson (Voice Of K-9)
• Jacqueline Hill (Lexa)

Who: Before And After #667

Name: Bill Fraser [1908 - 1987]
Year(s): Doctor Who: 1980
Stories: Meglos part 1 – Meglos part 4
Character(s): General Grugger

Year(s): K-9 And Co.: 1981
Stories: A Girl's Best Friend
Character(s): Commander Bill Pollock

Before Who:
Films: Murder in the Family (1938), The Strangler (1941), The Common Touch (1941), New Faces (1947), Tons of Money (1947), Between Ourselves (1948), Forbidden (1949), Helter Skelter (1949), Cinderella (1950), Tonight at 8:30 (1952), Scotland Yard Inspector (1952), Terror on a Train (1953), The Captain's Paradise (1953), Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953), Duel in the Jungle (1954), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Orders Are Orders (1954), Tons of Money (1954), Alias John Preston (1955), Jumping for Joy (1956), Charley Moon (1956), You Pay Your Money (1957), Doctor at Large (1957), Second Fiddle (1957), Three Sundays to Live (1957), Just My Luck (1957), Davy (1958), Doomsday for Dyson (1958), Another Time, Another Place (1958), The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959), Doctor in Love* (1960), The Fast Lady (1962), What a Crazy World (1963), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Richard Whittington Esquire (1964), A Home of Your Own (1965), Joey Boy (1965), Masquerade (1965), I've Gotta Horse (1965), Where I Live (1965), Diamonds for Breakfast (1968), Pickwick (1969), The Best House in London (1969), Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969), All the Way Up (1970), Up Pompeii* (1971), Up The Chastity Belt (1972), Up the Front (1972), That's Your Funeral (1972), Double Take (1972), Not Now Darling (1973), Love Thy Neighbour (1973), The Village Concert (1973), Dead Cert (1974), Intent to Murder (1974), Moments (1974), The Amorous Milkman (1975), Forget-Me-Not-Lane (1975), The Madness (1976), The Corn Is Green (1979)

Television: Paging You(1948) / And So to Bentley [5 episodes, Various Roles (1954)] / Rheingold Theatre: The Mix-Up (1954) / Fast and Loose [3 episodes (1955)] / Before Your Very Eyes (1956) / Assignment Foreign Legion: The Dollar a Year Man (1956) / The Tony Hancock Show: The Further Adventures of Hancock (1956) / The Vise [2 episodes as the Bishop (1956-1957)] / O.S.S.: Operation Blue Eyes (1957) / Hancock's Half Hour [5 episodes, different characters (1957)] / Sword of Freedom: The Pagan Venus (1957) / Murder Bag: Case 27 (1958) / ITV Play of the Week: The Chigwell Chicken (1958) / Educated Evans: Job for the Boy (1958) / Dial 999 [2 episodes, different characters (1958-1959)] / The Army Game [39 episodes as CSM Claude Snudge (1959-1960)] / Bootsie and Snudge [104 episodes as Claude Snudge (1960-1974)] / Chelsea at Nine (1960) / Foreign Affairs [8 episodes as Claude Snudge (1964)] / Six Shades of Black: A Touch of Uplift (1965) / Londoners: A Little Touch of Henry (1965) / Barney Is My Darling [6 episodes as Barney Pank (1966)] / Theatre 625: Yob and Nabob (1965) / The Avengers: Small Game for Big Hunters* (1966) / The Liars (1966) / David Copperfield [5 episodes as Mr. Micawber (1966)] / The Wednesday Play: A Way with the Ladies (1967) / Conflict: Volpone (1967) / Vacant Lot [7 episodes as William Bendlove (1967)] / Till Death Us Do Part: The Funeral (1968) / ITV Playhouse: Funeral Games (1968) / Armchair Theatre: The Frobisher Game (1969) / Father, Dear Father: We Can't Afford a Carriage (1969) / Hadleigh: Thanks for the Offer (1969) / Detective: Mr. Guppy's Tale (1969) / Parkin's Patch: Wisemen (1970) / Comedy Playhouse: Last Tribute (1970) / Tom Grattan's War [2 episodes as Sergeant Major - Uncle Wally (1970)] / Albert!: Hearts and Flowers (1970) / Two D's and a Dog [2 episodes as Foggitt (1970)] / That's Your Funeral [7 episodes as Basil Bulstrode (1970-1971)] / The Train Now Standing [10 episodes as Hedley Green (1972-1973)] / Whoops Baghdad! [2 episodes, different characters (1973)] / The Goodies: Way Outward Bound (1973) / Ooh La La!: Keep an Eye on Amélie (1973) / Black and Blue: The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family (1973) / Jackanory Playhouse: The Ghost Who Couldn't (1974) / BBC Play of the Month: The Apple Cart (1975) / A Legacy (1975) / Shades of Greene: The Root of All Evil (1975) / The Professionals: Not a Very Civil Civil Servant (1978) / Strangers: Marriages, Deaths and Births (1979) / Ripping Yarns: Golden Gordon (1979) / Play for Today: Comedians (1979) / Flesh and Blood [20 episodes as Henry Brassington (1980-1982)]

After Who:
Films: Eye of the Needle (1981), Puccini (1984), Christmas Present (1985), Pirates (1986), Little Dorrit (1987)
Television: Rhubarb Rhubarb (1980), Doctors' Daughters [6 episodes as Dr. Freddie Fellows-Smith (1981)] / Wagner (1983) / Cover Her Face [5 episodes as Sir Reynold Price (1985)] / The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ [6 episodes as Bert Baxter (1985)] / The Giddy Game Show (1985) / The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole [6 episodes as Bert Baxter (1987)] / Rumpole of the Bailey [6 episodes as Judge Roger Bullingham (1987)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The wounded Bostock (John Ogwen) takes aim at Davros (Terry Molloy) in Revelation of the Daleks (1985)