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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Matt Smith) comes under attack from a Cube in The Power of Three (2012)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #716

Name: Michael Cochrane [1957 - ]
Year(s): 1982 / 1989
Stories: Black Orchid part 1 – Black Orchid part 2 / Ghost Light part 1 – Ghost Light part 3
Character(s): Lord Charles Cranleigh / Redvers Fenn-Cooper

Note:

• Is the brother of Who actor Martin Cochrane
• Is the brother-in-law of Who actress Kate O'Mara
• Is the brother-in-law of Who actress Adrienne Burgess
• Was considered for the roles of The Minister Of Persuasion in the 1982 story 'Four to Doomsday' and the characters of Scobie, Bilton and Sheard in the 1982 story 'Time-Flight'

Appeared in a number of audio stories for Big Finish Productions:

• In the 'Doctor Who' Main Range stories 'No Man's Land' / 'Brotherhood of the Daleks'
• In the The Fourth Doctor Adventures stories 'Trail of the White Worm' / 'The Oseidon Adventure ' / 'The Fate of Krelos' / 'Return to Telos'
• In the Destiny of the Doctors story 'The Time Machine'
• In the Graceless stories 'The Flood' / 'Consequences'

Provided the narration for the Audiobook readings of the Target Novelisations for:

• Black Orchid
• The War Machines

Before Who:
Films: Daphne Laureola (1978), Daisy (1980), Escape To Victory (1980), The Return of the Soldier (1982)
Television: Bonny!: The Ghost of Ballikillern (1974) / Warship [2 episodes as Lt. Palfrey RM (1974)] / The Pallisers [4 episodes as Gerald (1974)] / Love Thy Neighbour: Club Concert (1975) / Wings [26 episodes as Charles Gaylion (1976-1978)] / BBC Play of the Month: The Country Wife (1977) / Drama: Six Characters in Search of an Author by Pirandello (1977) / Love in a Cold Climate [4 episodes as Cedric Hampton (1980)] / The Life and Times of David Lloyd George [2 episodes as Charles Masterman (1981)] / Shelley: Slaughterhouse Sling (1982) / Angels (1982)

After Who:
Films: Ascendancy (1983), Real Life (1984), Hay Fever (1984), Frankenstein (1984), The Return of Sam McCloud (1989), Number One Gun (1990), A Murder of Quality (1991), A Dangerous Man (1992), The Saint (1997), Incognito (1997), Longitude (2000), Justice in Wonderland (2000), Offending Angels (2000), The Innocent (2001), The Cry (2002), The Falklands Play (2002), Reversals (2003), A Different Loyalty (2004), Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore (2005), The Government Inspector (2005), HG Wells' War with the World (2006), Suez: A Very British Crisis (2006), Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), Margaret (2009), Holy Flying Circus [as Malcolm Muggeridge] (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), Run for Your Wife (2012), Only Human (2012), Panto! (2012), Coalition (2015), We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story [as Arnold Ridley] (2015), Living (2022)
Television: Live from Pebble Mill: Cargo Kings (1983) / The Citadel [5 episodes as Freddy Hamson (1983)] / King's Royal [4 episodes as Lord Mortimer (1983)] / Partners in Crime: The House of Lurking Death (1983) / The Far Pavilions [2 episodes as Crimpley (1984)] / Goodbye Mr. Chips (1984) / Strangers and Brothers [2 episodes as Sammikins (1984)] / Space [2 episodes as Wing Cmdr. Blount (1985)] / The Detective [5 episodes as David Marchwint (1985)] / Dear John: A Singular Man (1986) / The Collectors [4 episodes as Chris Lucas (1986)] / Big Deal: The Z Team (1986) / Fortunes of War: Egypt - April 1941 (1987) / Home James!: First Impressions (1988) / Rockliffe's Folly: Nine-Tenths of the Law (1988) / Chelworth: My Dear Jamie... (1989) / The Bill [3 episodes, different characters (1989-2010)] / Howards' Way (1990) / The Chief [17 episodes as Nigel Crimmond (1990-1995)] / Screen One: Tell Me That You Love Me (1991) / Taggart: Nest of Vipers (1992) / No Job for a Lady [6 episodes as Richard Monkton (1992)] / The Darling Buds of May: The Season of Heavenly Gifts (1992) / Uncle Jack and Cleopatra's Mummy [2 episodes as Denis Ashington-Smythe (1993)] / Sharpe [5 episodes as Sir Henry Simmerson (1993-2008)] / Keeping Up Appearances: Sea Fever (1993) / Pie in the Sky: An Innocent Man (1994) / EastEnders [2 episodes as the Coroner (1994)] / 99-1: A Game of Two Halves (1995) / The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Simisola (1996) / Beck (1996) / Wycliffe: Strangers Home (1997) / The Broker's Man: Siege (1997) / The Uninvited (1997) / Heartbeat [3 episodes, different characters (1997-2009)] / Coronation Street (1998) / Nancherrow (1999) / The Ambassador: Getting Away with Murder (1999) / Big Bad World [3 episodes as George Lacey (1999)] / Perfect World [13 episodes as Terence Bentley (2000-2001)] / Swallow [2 episodes as the Solicitor (2001)] / Micawber: Micawber and the Aristocracy (2002) / A Touch of Frost: Mistaken Identity (2002) / Night & Day [2 episodes as Dr. Anthony Kenworthy (2002)] / Spooks* (2003) / Rosemary & Thyme: The Tree of Death (2003) / Mad About Alice: School Craze (2004) / Jonathan Creek: Gorgons Wood (2004) / Keen Eddie: Keeping Up Appearances (2004) / Holby City: Striking a Chord (2004) / Murphy's Law: Go Ask Alice (2004) / Julian Fellowes Investigates - A Most Mysterious Murder: The Case of Charles Bravo (2004) / Monarch of the Glen (2004) / The Brief: Blame (2005) / Doctors [11 episodes, different characters (2005-2019)] / Wire in the Blood: Hole in the Heart (2006) / The Worst Week of My Life: The Worst Christmas of My Life (2006) / To the Manor Born (2007) / Mutual Friends (2008) / My Spy Family: The Laughing Lord Affair (2008) / Mumbai Calling: Dating Season (2008) / Criminal Justice [3 episodes as Felix Crane (2009)] / Law & Order - UK: Help (2010) / Downton Abbey* [8 episodes as the Reverend Travis (2011-2015)] / New Tricks: Lost in Translation (2011) / Titanic: Blood and Steel [4 episodes as Captain Smith (2012)] / The Escape Artist [2 episodes as the Judge (2013)] / The Musketeers: The Homecoming (2014) / Grandpa in My Pocket: A Mix-up at the Mill (2014) / Vicious: Wedding (2015) / Cradle to Grave (2015) / Man Down [2 episodes as Dr. Baxter (2015-2017)] / Agatha Raisin: Murderous Marriage (2016) / The Crown: Scientia Potentia Est (2016) / Decline and Fall (2017) / Sticks and Stones (2019) / The Outlaws (2021)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Tony Masero's cover art for the Target novel of The Faceless Ones (1967), released in 1987.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #717

Name: Brian Hawksley [1920 - 2001]
Year(s): 1982
Stories: Black Orchid part 1 – Black Orchid part 2
Character(s): Brewster

Before Who:
Films: The Stiffkey Scandals of 1932 (1969), Galileo (1975), Adam and Nicole (1975), Whose Child Am I? (1976), The Assignment (1977), A Bridge Too Far* (1977), Black Jack (1979), Sweet William (1980)

Television: The Voodoo Factor: The Malayan (1959) / Probation Officer (1962) / Call Oxbridge 2000 (1962) / Secret Beneath the Sea (1963), Emergency-Ward 10 (1963) / Sergeant Cork: The Case of the Hero's Return (1964) /No Hiding Place: Why Baker Died (1964) /Mike: From Berlin with Love (1964) / The Brothers Karamazov: Inheritance (1964) / 199 Park Lane [2 episodes as Joseph Porter (1965)] / Death Is a Good Living [3 episodes as Edward Malline (1966)] / Redcap: Information Received (1966) Man in a Suitcase: The Whisper* (1968) / Colditz [2 episodes as Col. Andre Leclerq (1974)] / Dixon of Dock Green: A Sense of Guilt (1974) / Fall of Eagles: Indian Summer of an Emperor* (1974) / Justice: Persona Non Grata (1974) / Softly Softly - Task Force: Alert (1974) / South Riding: Dreams and Destinations (1974) / Father Brown: The Quick One (1974) / The Onedin Line [2 episodes, different characters (1974-1976)] / The Main Chance; No Names (1975) / Ten from the Twenties: Mr Oddy (1975) / Days of Hope: 1924 - A Miracle (1975) / The Nearly Man: Opportunity - March 1975 (1975) / Hadleigh: God Save Us from Moralists (1976) / Plays for Britain: Fast Hands (1976) / Second Verdict: Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? (1976) / Murder: Nobody's Conscience (1976) / Killers: Murder at the Metropole (1976) / Romance: Moths (1977) / The Upchat Line: Casualty Ward (1977) / Law & Order: A Brief's Tale (1978) / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade (1978) / Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Motorbike (1978) /The Professionals p2 episodes, different characters (1978-1980) / Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Return to the Circus (1979) / Shoestring: Private Ear (1979) / Grandad (1979) / The Enchanted Castle: Magic End (1979) / Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids (1979) / Yes Minister: Jobs for the Boys (1980) / A Question of Guilt: Adelaide Bartlett (1980) / The Other 'Arf: Them and Us (1980) / Play for Today: Beyond the Pale (1981) / Maybury: Mary (1981) / Jackanory Playhouse: The Unknown Enchantment (1982) .

After Who:
Films: Newstime (1985), Lace II (1985), Half Moon Street (1986), The Witches (1990)
Television: The Haunting of Cassie Palmer (1982) / Nancy Astor: The First Lady (1982) / Union Castle (1982) / The Fourth Arm (1983) / Last of the Summer Wine: The Waist Land (1983) / Number 10: A Woman of Style (1983) / Bergerac: Holiday Snaps (1983) / Minder: Willesden Suite (1984) / Murder Not Proven?: A Big Romping Boy (1984) / Dempsey and Makepeace: Cry God for Harry (1985) / Shine on Harvey Moon: Anything Goes... (1985) / Yes, Prime Minister: The Smoke Screen* (1986) / C.A.T.S. Eyes: Honeytrap (1986) / Paradise Postponed: The Wrongs of Man (1986) / Big Deal: Innocent, OK? (1986) / A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery: Have His Carcase: Episode Three (1987)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The wonderful Jackie Tyler (Camille Coduri) as seen in Love and Monsters (2006)

[Susan Foreman]

Rumour has it...the BBC want to air a fourteenth Doctor ‘unveil’ trailer straight after 'Legend of the Sea Devils' on Sunday 17th April on BBC One

[iank]

Nah. I imagine they'll want more than two million to see it.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

Nah. I imagine they'll want more than two million to see it.

I could imagine it happening at half time during the FA Cup final.

If i remember rightly they introduced Bill with a short film at half time in 2016.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #718a

Name: Timothy Block [1944 - ]
Year(s): 1982
Stories: Black Orchid part 1 – Black Orchid part 2
Character(s): Tanner
Note: Is the brother of Who actor Giles Block

Before Who:
Films: Julius Caesar ( (1964), Coriolanus (1965), Troilus and Cressida (1966)
Television: Shoestring: Stamp Duty (1979) / Armchair Thriller: Dead Man's Kit [3 episodes as the Operator (1980)] The Enigma Files: Dead Reckoning (1980)

After Who:
Films: The Keep (1983), The Woman in Black* (1989), Frequencies (2013), Arthur & Merlin (2015)

Television: Minder: In (1982) / The Professionals: Cry Wolf (1983) / Reilly - Ace of Spies; The Visiting Fireman (1983) / Bergerac [2 episodes, different characters (1983)] / Mitch: Nature of the Beast (1984) / The Bill [2 episodes, different characters (1985-1990)] / Dempsey and Makepeace: The Bogeyman (1985) / Boon: Jack of All Tradesmen (1986) / The Monocled Mutineer: When the Hurly-Burly's Done (1986) / The Theban Plays by Sophocles: Oedipus the King (1986) / Casualty: Professionals* (1986) / Hannay: The Fellowship of the Black Stone (1988) / The Franchise Affair [4 episodes as Stanley Peters (1988)] / Grange Hill [2 episodes, different characters (1989)] / Poirot: The Kidnapped Prime Minister (1990) / Tygo Road (1990) / Frederick Forsyth Presents: The Price of the Bride (1990) / 99-1 [5 episodes as Albertson (1995)] / The Chief (1995) / Silent Witness: Long Days, Short Nights (1996) / Wooden Overcoats: Flip Flap Flop (2016)

Who: Before And After #718b

Name: Ahmed Khalil [? - ]
Year(s): 1982
Stories: Black Orchid part 1 – Black Orchid part 2
Character(s): Latoni

Before Who:
Films: The Devil Rides Out* (1968), The Alf Garnett Saga (1972), The Thief of Baghdad (1978), Suez 1956 (1979)

Television: Crossroads (1964), The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim [2 episodes (1967)] / Vendetta: The Blackfoot Man (1968) / Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four (1968) / Paul Temple: Who Dies Next (1969) / BBC Play of the Month: King Oedipus (1972) / It Ain't Half Hot Mum [3 episodes, different characters (1974-1976)] / Play for Today: Gangsters (1975) / Six Days of Justice: Belonging (1975) / Quiller: Political Jungle (1975) / Till Death Us Do Part: Drunk in Charge of a Bicycle (1975) / Are You Being Served?: Fire Practice* (1976) / Well Anyway; Be That as It May (1976) / Gangsters * [12 episodes as Khan (1976-1978)] / Parables: Britannia Mansions (1978) / Mind Your Language: I Belong to Glasgow (1979) / Minder: The Bengal Tiger (1979) / Watch All Night [4 episodes as Colonel Ferrata (1980)] / The Gentle Touch: Shame (1980) / The Chinese Detective: Release (1981) / Only Fools and Horses: Cash and Curry (1981)

After Who:
Films: Come to Mecca (1983), Son of the Pink Panther (1993), It Could Be You (1995), Shooting Fish (1997), The Hamburg Cell (2004)
Television: Grange Hill (1983) / The Old Men at the Zoo: Godmanchester's Plan (1983) / The Nation's Health: Collapse (1983) / Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: Home Thoughts from Abroad (1983) / The Irish R.M.: A Royal Command (1984) / Mr. Palfrey of Westminster: Music of a Dead Prophet (1985) / The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ [3 episodes as Mr. Singh (1985)] / Screen Two: Lucky Sunil (1988) / Home James!: A Sheep's Eye for an Eye (1988) / Saracen: Girls' Talk (1989) / The Bill [3 episodes, different characters (1989-1995)] / The Piglet Files: Trouble with Reception (1991) / Specials (1991) / Civvies (1992)] / The Big Battalions [3 episodes as Dr. Khan (1992)] / The Good Guys [2 episodes as Ajit Singh (1992-1993)] / Crime Story: The Stonehouse Affair (1993) / EastEnders (1995) / Ali Ya Wika (2006)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) welcomes you in a promo photo for Time and the Rani (1987)