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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Martha (Freema Agyeman), Donna (Catherine Tate) and the Doctor (David Tennant) held at gunpoint by an unseen assailant in The Doctor's Daughter (2008)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #757

Name: Philip Latham [1929 - 2020]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: The Five Doctors
Character(s): Lord President Borusa

Before Who:
Films: The Dam Busters (1955), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1956), The Chertsey Apprentice (1956), Dead Easy (1957), Left Right and Centre (1959), The Man from the Moors (1961), The Monster of Highgate Ponds (1961), Masters of Venus (1962), Young and Willing (1962), Shadow of Treason (1964), The Devil-Ship Pirates* (1964), The Secret of Blood Island (1965), Dracula: Prince of Darkness* [as Klove] (1966). The Last Grenade (1970), Spy Story (1976), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), From a Far Country (1981),

Television: A Rubovian Legend: The Queen's Dragon (1955) / Jesus of Nazareth [5 episodes, different characters (1956)] / Huntingtower [2 episodes as Mike (1957)] / The Silver Sword: The Last Lap (1958) / The Common Room: Love in the Library (1958) / Murder Bag [2 episodes (1958)] / Television Playwright: Ice Blink (1959) / Armchair Theatre: Parole (1959) / Emergency-Ward 10 [10 episodes as RSO Barnett (1959)] / The Moonstone (1959) / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: The Pohutukawa Tree (1959) / The Army Game: The Bisley Court Martial (1959) / The Flying Doctor: Death in the Clouds (1959) / Dial 999: Robbery with Violence (1959) / The Four Just Men: The Man with the Golden Touch (1960) / The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Bushel of Apples (1960) / The Cheaters [2 episodes, different characters (1960-1961)] / Danger Man: View from the Villa (1960) / Paul of Tarsus [10 episodes as Luke, the story-teller (1960)] / The Treasure Seekers [5 episodes as Mr. Bastable (1961)] / Echo Four Two: Hot Money (1961) / Drama 61-67: Drama '61 - So Long at the Fair (1961) / Compact: The Man for the Job (1962) / The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Locker Sixty Nine (1962) / The Odd Man: Francis the Third (1962) / The Andromeda Breakthrough [2 episodes as Osborne's P.A. (1962)] / Maigret: The Wedding Guest (1962) / Harpers West One [14 episodes as Oliver Backhouse (1962-1963)] / The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: The Rivals (1963) / Suspense: Deferred Terms (1963) / Richard the Lionheart: The Raiders (1963) / Sergeant Cork [2 episodes, different characters (1963-1966)] / Moonstrike: The Canary (1963) / The Saint: The Elusive Ellshaw (1963) / ITV Television Playhouse; To Bury Caesar (1963) / The Scales of Justice: The Invisible Asset (1963) / The Avengers: The White Dwarf *(1963) / Crane: Death Is a Black Camel (1964) / Detective: The Moving Toyshop (1964) / The Human Jungle: Success Machine (1964) / The Saint: The Scorpion (1964) / The Plane Makers: A Lesson for Corbett (1964) / Thursday Theatre: Murder Mistaken (1964) / R3: The Critical Moment (1965) / Z Cars: Brotherly Love (1965) / Public Eye: They Go Off in the End, Like Fruit (1965) / Dr. Finlay's Casebook: Soon or Late (1965) / The Troubleshooters: [110 episodes as Willy Izard (1965-1972)] / Story Parade: The Campaign (1965) / Front Page Story: Stateless (1965) / Undermind: Puppets of Evil (1965) / No Hiding Place: Danger: Wrong Turning (1965) / The Avengers: Room Without a View (1966) / Theatre 625: A Month in the Country (1966) / ITV Play of the Week The New Men (1966) / This Man Craig: Pressures (1967) / The Wednesday Play: A Brilliant Future Behind Him (1967) / Middlemarch [5 episodes as The Rev. Mr. Casaubon (1968)] /BBC Play of the Month: The Marquise (1969) / UFO: The Dalotek Affair (1971) / Justice: The Most Important Thing of All (1971) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Time Lock (1972) / No Exit: Good at Games (1972) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Is Nellie Dead? (1973) / Love Story: Reflections (1973) / Harriet's Back in Town [4 episodes as MacIntosh (1973)] / Away from It All: The New Life (1973) / The Pallisers [26 episodes as Plantagenet Palliser (1974)] / Killers: The Blazing Car Murder (1976) / The Cedar Tree [75 episodes as Arthur Bourne (1976-1978)] / Screenplay: Lives of Our Own (1980) / Hammer House of Horror: The Two Faces of Evil* (1980) / Play for Today: Name for the Day (1980) / Nanny: Ringtime (1982) / The Professionals: Discovered in a Graveyard (1982) / Number 10: The Iron Duke (1983) / The Fourth Arm [9 episodes as Colonel Hugh Gwillim (1983)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Jackanory Playhouse: Rolf the Stonemason (1984) / Leaving [6 episodes as Mr. Raphael (1985)] / Murder of a Moderate Man [5 episodes as Ashley (1985)] / Worlds Beyond: Captain Randolph (1987) / Screen Two: The Man from the Pru (1990)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) as seen in The Web Planet (1965)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After 758

Name: Dinah Sheridan [1920 - 2012]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: The Dive Doctors
Character(s): Councillor Flavia
Note: Was later considered for the part of of Queen Katryca in the 1986 story 'The Trial Of A Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet'

Before Who:
Films: Landslide (1937), Behind Your Back (1937), Father Steps Out (1937), Merely Mr. Hawkins (1938), Irish and Proud of It (1938), Gallows Glorious (1938), Full Speed Ahead (1940), Salute John Citizen (1942), Get Cracking (1943), For You Alone (1945), The Facts of Love (1945), Query (1945), The Hills of Donegal (1947), Calling Paul Temple (1948), The Story of Shirley Yorke (1948), The Huggetts Abroad (1949), Dark Secret (1949), Paul Temple's Triumph (1950), No Trace (1950), Blackout (1950), Highly Dangerous (1950), Ivory Hunter (1951), The Sound Barrier (1952), Gilbert and Sullivan (1953), Raiders in the Sky (1953), Genevieve* (1953), The Railway Children* (1970), The Mirror Crack'd (1980), Present Laughter (1981),

Television: Armchair Theatre: The Contact (1968) / Play for Today: Alma Mater (1971) / Seasons of the Year: The Three Graces (1971) / Ooh La La!: Caught in the Act (1973) / Zodiac: Saturn's Rewards (1974) / Crown Court: 30,000 Pieces of Silver (1974) / Marked Personal [2 episodes as Rosemary Forbes (1974)] / Village Hall: Silver Threads (1975) / BBC Play of the Month: Loyalties (1976) / Whodunnit?: Village Fate (1977) / Sykes: The Insurance Money (1979) / The Swish of the Curtain (1980) / Hammer House of Horror: The Thirteenth Reunion* (1980) / Sink or Swim: The Interviewer (1981) / All for Love: Fireworks for Elspeth (1983) / Don't Wait Up [38 episodes as Angela Latimer (1983-1990)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: The Winning Streak [6 episodes as Frances Savage (1985)] / Keeping Up Appearances; Golfing with the Major (1991) / Just Us [7 episodes (1992)] / Lovejoy: The Prague Sun (1992) / All Night Long [6 episodes as Clare (1994)] / Jonathan Creek: Miracle in Crooked Lane (1999)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Flavia was a Chancellor not a councillor. And it's actually The Five Doctors not The Dive Doctors.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

One of The Robots of Death (1977)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #759a

Name: Richard Mathews [1914 -1992 ]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: The Five Doctors
Character(s): Rassilon

Before Who:
Films: No Medals (1948), Airport (1970), The Nelson Affair (1973), The Satanic Rites of Dracula* (1973), It Could Happen to You (1976)

Television: ITV Play of the Week: ... And Humanity (1958)
Endless Adventure (1959) / ITV Television Playhouse: Murder Stamp (1960) / Somerset Maugham Hour: The Ant and the Grasshopper (1960) / Emergency-Ward 10 [2 episodes as Mr. Curtis (1961)] / The Protectors: Freedom! (1964) / Dixon of Dock Green [2 episodes, different characters (1964-1969)] / Story Parade: The Flaw in the Crystal (1964) / Thorndyke: The Case of Phyllis Annesley (1964) / R3 [2 episodes, different characters (1965)] / Theatre 625: Portraits from the North - The Nutter (1965) / The Baron: The Maze (1966) / Mr. Rose: The Tin God (1967) / Escape: The Kindness of Strangers (1967) / Mrs. Thursday: When in Malaga (1967) / Z Cars [3 episodes as the Doctor (1967-1970)] / The Flight of the Heron: Torture (1968) / The Caesars: Sejanus (1968) / Callan: Jack-on-Top (1969) / Judge Dee: The Curse of the Lacquer Screen (1969) / Dr. Finlay's Casebook: Conquest (1969) / W. Somerset Maugham: The Creative Impulse (1969) / Armchair Theatre: The Prime Minister's Daughter (1970) / Softly Softly - Task Force: A Policeman's Lot - It Depends Where You're Standing (1972) / The Main Chance: Copper-Bottomed Cert (1972) / New Scotland Yard: Shadow of a Deadbeat (1972) / Crown Court: Espionage(1972) / War & Peace: An Epilogue (1973) / John Halifax, Gentleman (1974) / No, Honestly: Now We Are Married (1974) / Churchill's People: True Patriots All (1975) / Sutherland's Law; A Murmur of Malice (1975) / The Adams Chronicles: John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State (1976) / Dangerous Knowledge: A Deadly Policy (1976) / Children of the Stones [2 episodes as Dr. Lyle (1977)] / Beryl's Lot [3 episodes as Mr. Quillet (1977)] / The Standard: Silence Is Golden (1978) / Square Mile of Murder: A Kiss, a Fond Embrace (1980) / The Walls of Jericho: Order of Battle (1981) / Ladykillers: A Boy's Best Friend (1981) / The Forgotten Story (1983)

After Who:

Films: Harnessing Peacocks (1993)
Television: Fighting Back (1986)

Who: Before And After #759b

Name: Stephen Meredith [? - ]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: The Five Doctors
Character(s): Time Lord Technician

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: The Enchanted Castle [3 episodes as Alf (1979)] / A Little Silver Trumpet [2 episodes as the Shop assistant (1980)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Red Dwarf: Balance of Power (1988)

Who: Before And After #759c

Name: Ray Float [? - ]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: The Five Doctors
Character(s): Sergeant

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Emmerdale Farm [2 episodes as Brian Carter (1981)] / How We Used to Live: 1936-1953: Home from Home (1981) / County Hall (1982) / All for Love: A Bit of Singing and Dancing (1982) / The Chinese Detective: Pasts (1982) / Juliet Bravo: Retribution (1983)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: 'Allo 'Allo! The Dance of Hitler Youth (1984) / By the Sword Divided: Cruel Necessity (1985)

Who: Before And After #759d

Name: John Tallents [1947 - ]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: The Five Doctors
Character(s): Guard

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Nancy Astor: Scandals (1982) / The Fourth Arm (1983)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Crown Court: There Was an Old Woman (1984) / Diana: November 1940 (1984) / Play for Today: Under the Hammer (1984) / Blind Justice: White Man Listen (1988) / Island at War: Eve of the War (2004)

Who: Before And After #759e

Name: William Kenton [? - 2021]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: The Five Doctors
Character(s): Cyber Scout

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Armchair Theatre: Russian Roulette (1973)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #759f

Name: Keith Hodiak [1950 - ]
Year(s): 1983
Stories: The Five Doctors
Character(s): Raston Warrior Robot

Before Who:
Films: Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1980), An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Television: Shelley [2 episodes, different characters (1979-1981)] / Fox: It's All Them Psychia-Whatever-You-Call-It Books He Reads (1980) / Time of My Life (1980) / The Chinese Detective; Hammer and Nails (1981) / Are You Being Served? [4 episodes as Seymour (1983-1985)

After Who:
Films: Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Television: All the World's a Stage: The Master Builders (1984) / The Bill: Lost (1985) / The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe [4 episodes as Aslan's Satyr (1988)] / EastEnders (1992)

[Rob4]

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[Susan Foreman]

If people couldn't accept a woman as The Doctor, they are going to absolutely hate a black person as The Doctor!!

[Rob4]

I'd never heard of him, but my son says he's in Sex Education and he says...

'he's so goofy... but not in a good way...'