The Doctor Who Thread

[will graham]

Urgh I wouldnt even say it worked with Billie piper.

To me the doctor should have always stayed asexual being.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by will graham

Urgh I wouldnt even say it worked with Billie piper.

To me the doctor should have always stayed asexual being.

I dunno. Perhaps after the Time War he just wanted to get laid.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #763a

Name: Vincent Brimble [1948 - ]
Year(s): 1984 / 2021
Stories: Warriors Of The Deep part 1– Warriors Of The Deep part 4 / Flux: Chapter Four - Village of the Angels
Character(s): Tarpok / Gerald
Note: Is the brother of Big Finish Productions Who actor Nick Brimble.

Before Who:
Films: Happy as a Sandbag (1977), Jack's Trade (1981),
Television: Lorna Doone: A Boy and a Girl (1963) / Z Cars: A Woman's Place (1978) / The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin: Timebomb (1979) / Matilda's England: The Tennis Court (1979) / To the Manor Born: All New Together (1979) / Penmarric (1979) / Butterflies: Worrying (1979) / Enemy at the Door: The Raid (1980) / For Maddie with Love [20 episodes as Nick (1980)] / Juliet Bravo: Relief (1980) / Sorry!: The Godfather (1981) / A Married Man [2 episodes as Detective Sergeant Simms (1983)] / Heartattack Hotel (983)

After Who:
Films: A Different Hand (1992), Last Chance Harvey (2008), U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013)
Television: Bulman: Winds of Change (1985) / Howards' Way [2 episodes as PC Exton (1985)] / Grange Hill [11 episodes as Mr. Glover (1986-1987)] / Pulaski - The TV Detective; No Guns Please We're British (1987) / Gentlemen and Players: Stags at Bay (1988) / Executive Stress [5 episodes as Tim Jackson (1988)] / Screenplay: Redemption (1991) / Soldier Soldier: Flying Colours (1991) / Casualty [3 episodes, different characters (1991-1997)] / The Bill: Principled Negotiation (1992) / The Bill: Principled Negotiation (1992) / Between the Lines: Some Must Watch (1993) / The House of Eliott (1994) / The Chief (1994) / All Quiet on the Preston Front: Diesel's Out of Body Experience (1995) / Shine on Harvey Moon (1995) / Bugs: Whirling Dervish (1996) / The Broker's Man: Dangerous Bends (1997) / Wycliffe: Lone Voyager (1997) / Great Performances: Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe (1997) / Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Fallen Curtain (1999) / The Alan Clark Diaries: Into the Wilderness (2004) / Dream Team 80's: It's a Kind of Magic (2006) / Doctors [4 episodes, different characters (2006-2016) / The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Know Thine Enemy (2007) / Mistresses (2009) / The Londoners (2009) / Appropriate Adult (2011) / Holby City: A Night's Tale (2013) / Wizards vs. Aliens: The Daughters of Stone (2014) / War & Peace (2016) / Tokyo Trial [4 episodes as the UK Chief Justice (2016)] / Emmerdale Farm [2 episodes as the H&S Inspector (2018)] / Jessy and Nessy [19 episodes as Birch (2021)]

Who: Before And After #763b

Name: Christopher Farries [1947 - 2016]
Year(s): 1984
Stories: Warriors Of The Deep part 1 – Warriors Of The Deep part 4
Character(s): Sauvix

Before Who:
Films: Nutcracker (1982)
Television: The Fourth Arm (1983)

After Who:
Films: Pretorius (1987),
Television: Fox Mystery Theater: And the Wall Came Tumbling Down (1984) / Shine on Harvey Moon: Anything Goes... (1985) / Terry and June: Mistaken Identity (1985) / The Bill: Blind Alleys, Clogged Roads (1987) / Moon and Son: The Chinese Medicine Man (1992) .

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A publicity image of Alex Kingston as River Song taken in Monument Valley, Utah where filming of the opening two episodes of series 6 (The Impossible Astronaut / The Day of the Moon) took place in 2011.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #764a

Name: James Coombes [1956 - ]
Year(s): 1984
Stories: Warriors Of The Deep part 1 – Warriors Of The Deep part 3
Character(s): Paroli
Note: Also supplied the voice of Sentinel Six

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: High Road; The Laird (1993)

After Who:
Films: Murder with Mirrors (1985), King David (1985), A Vote for Hitler (1988), Harpur and Iles (1997). Monarch (2000)
Television: The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady [5 episodes as Ernest Smith (1984)] / Minder: Minder on the Orient Express (1985) / Robin Hood [4 episodes as Grendel (1986)] / Boon: Taken for a Ride (1987) / Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987) / Saracen: Tooth and Claw (1989) / Capital City: Pension Fund (1989) / Crossbow: Silver Rider (1989) / Howards' Way [6 episodes as Pierre Challon (1990)] / The Bill [2 episodes, different characters (1991-2000)] / Drop the Dead Donkey: Lady Merchant (1993) / Poirot: The Chocolate Box* (1993) / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Red Circle (1994) / Bugs: Shotgun Wedding (1995) / Canary Wharf (1996) / The Wonderful World of Disney: A Knight in Camelot (1998) / Heartbeat: No Surrender (1999) / Starhunter [2 episodes as Ike (2001)] / McCready and Daughter: Pasta La Vista (2001) / Keen Eddie: Who Wants to Be in a Club That Would Have Me as a Member? (2004) / Jericho: The Hollow Men (2005) / My Family: The Spokes Person (2006) / Dinosapien [15 episodes as Dr. Clive Aikens (2007)] / Holby City: Elliot's Wonderful Life (2007) / Doctors: Green Shoots (2011) / Cardinal Burns (2012) / Knightfall [2 episodes as Governor de Rouvray (2018)] / The Nevers: Exposure (2021)

Who: Before And After #764b

Name: William Perrie [1939 - 2018]
Year(s): 1984
Stories: Warriors Of The Deep part 2 – Warriors Of The Deep part 3
Character(s): The Myrka
Note: Also appeared in uncredited roles as a Vervoid in the 1986 story 'The Trial Of A Time Lord: Terror Of The Vervoids' and a caretaker in the 1987 story 'Paradise Towers'

Before Who:
Films: Aladdin and the Forty Thieves [as Dobbin, the Horse] (1984)
Television: Blake's 7: Deliverance (1978) / Rentaghost* [35 episodes as the Pantomime Horse (1979-1984)]

After Who:
Films: Absolute Beginners (1986)
Television: None

Who: Before And After #764c

Name: John Asquith [ - ]
Year(s): 1984
Stories: Warriors Of The Deep part 2 – Warriors Of The Deep part 3
Character(s): The Myrka

Before Who:
Films: The Pirates of Penzance (1983), Aladdin and the Forty Thieves [as Dobbin, the Horse] (1984)
Television: Grandad [2 episodes, different characters (1979-1982)] / Rentaghost* [34 episodes as the Pantomime Horse (1980-1984)]

After Who:
Films: Kin of the Castle (1987), Flamingo Blues (2004)
Television: Galloping Galaxies! [2 episodes, different characters (1985-1986)] / Lost Empires [3 episodes as Esmond (1986)] / Bluebirds [2 episodes, different characters (1989)] / Uncle Jack and Operation Green: All Tied Up (1990) / Uncle Jack and the Loch Noch Monster [4 episodes as the Toxic Monster (1991)] / Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde* [53 episodes as Harriet Hyde (1995-1998)] / Monster TV (1999)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Sondergaard (John Hollis) with the Mutts in the 1972 story The Mutants.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by Rob4

It seems strange that they would follow a policy of inclusivity to foster division? Isn't there a paradox in your analysis? Or is it that it fosters division only in a certain type of person?

I must admit I rolled my eyes too as it does feel like its a decision based on 'isn't it about time we had a Doctor who was... (fill in minority)'. However, just like Duane Jones in NotLD perhaps he did simply have the best audition?

It's not the ethnicity of the Doctor that troubles me it's the direction of the show in general which seems to be 'the message' is more important than the story.

I'm also not hugely optimistic about RTD's return as most second time around's cannot recapture the past. Just ask us Newcastle United fans about Kevin Keegan's second coming...

Anyway, we will see. It surely can't get any worse than it already is...?

Having worked in the BBC back in the 1990's , I can tell you the BBC is nothing more than a mouthpiece to the State, and whatever agenda needs pushing out to the wider audience, namely the public , who pay a rather heavy ransom for the luxury of being socially engineered by the BBC and its left wing or right wing dictates. Though I've noticed it throughout UK media more and more in the last decade. Considering Russell T. Davies views himself as a diverse man with a moral compass, and takes the values of the BBC to his heart, I would say that Dr Who will be in safe hands with it's ethnic beat still intact. Woke Who replaced by Diversity Who. Switch and Bait. But of course, Dr Who will now appeal to those with the acceptance of a diverse and inclusive society that the BBC sets out to mandate upon the UK populous.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I dunno. Perhaps after the Time War he just wanted to get laid.

I'm surprised the BBC didn't go with a gender neutral Doctor. We can't be heterosexual today. That's not the natural way.

[Susan Foreman]

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

• Janet Fielding (Tegan)
• Mark Strickson (Turlough)
• Denis Lil (Sir George Hutchinson)
• Glyn Houston (Colonel Wolsey)

Who: Before And After #765a

Name: Polly James [1941 - ]
Year(s): 1984
Stories: The Awakening part 1 – The Awakening part 2
Character(s): Jane Hampden
Note: Is the mother of Who actor Adam James

Before Who:
Films: East Lynne (1976), A Divorce (1976), Baal (1982)
Television: Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Spoken Word (1966) / Conflict: Hobson's Choice (1967) / Coronation Street (1967) / Emergency-Ward 10; A Matter of Will (1967) / Send Foster [12 episodes as Susan (1967)] / Z Cars: The Victim (1967) / The Liver Birds* [51 episodes as Beryl Hennessey (1969-1996)] / Omnibus: Paradise Restored [as Mary Milton] (1972) / Rainbow: Houses (1972) / Churchill's People: March On, Boys! (1975) / Whodunnit?: Evidence of Death (1975) / Ten from the Twenties: Her Wedding Morn (1975) / On the Move (1975) / Our Mutual Friend [5 episodes as Jenny Wren (1976)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: 4 Play: Finding Sarah (1991) / Casualty: Joy Ride (1991) / That's Love (1992) / The Bill: Stop (1998) / The Worst Witch [13 episodes as Miss Crotchet (2000-2001)]

Who: Before And After #765b

Name: Jack Galloway [1947 - ]
Year(s): 1984
Stories: The Awakening part 1 – The Awakening part 2
Character(s): Joseph Willow
Note: Had previously been considered for considered for the roles of The Minister Of Persuasion in the 1972 story 'Four to Doomsday', Scobie, Bilton and Sheard in the 1982 story 'Time-Flight' and Eirak in the 1983 story 'Terminus'

Before Who:
Films: Moll Flanders ( (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), The Black Panther (1977), Henry IV Part I (1979), Henry IV Part II (1979)
Television: The Troubleshooters: The Bent Bonanza (1971) / Stage 2: The Duchess of Malfi (1972) / Play for Today: The General's Day (1972) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: The Web (1972) / War & Peace: Of Life and Death (1973) / The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Q.C.s (1973) / Thriller: Possession* (1973) / The Protectors: Dragon Chase* (1973) / Churchill's People: The Wallace (1975) / John Macnab [2 episodes as Junius Bandicott (1976)] / The Mayor of Casterbridge [7 episodes as Donald Farfrae (1978)] / Parables: Neighbours (1978) / ITV Playhouse: I'm a Dreamer Montreal (1979) / BBC2 Playhouse: Speed King (1979) / Mackenzie [12 episodes as Robert Mackenzie (1980)] / Codename Icarus [5 episodes as Andy Rutherford (1981)] / The Hard Word: £29,000 a Year for Them, £47.02 a Week for Us (1983) / Crown Court: Gingerbread Girl (1984)

After Who:
Films: Under the Volcano (1984), Foreign Body (1986), Countdown to War (1989), Dirty Weekend (1993), Victory (1996), Mrs Dalloway (1997), Parting Shots (1998), Warrior Queen (2003), A Different Loyalty (2004), Blackbeard: Terror at Sea (2006), Speed Love (2016), A Reel Life (2018)
Television: The Mistress [6 episodes as Luke (1985)] / If Tomorrow Comes (1986) / Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986) / Up Line [3 episodes as Dan Dare (1987)] / Drummonds: Labour of Love (1987) / Three Up Two Down: Jailhouse Shock (1987) /Fortunes of War: The Middle East- January 1943 (1987) /Bergerac: A Man of Sorrows (1988) /The Comic Strip Presents: Didn't You Kill My Brother? (1988) / No Frills (1988) / Grange Hill [4 episodes as Mr. Aldridge (1989)] / The Paradise Club [9 episodes as DS Jack Nesbit (1990)] / Wales Playhouse: I Used to Live Here Before I Was Born (1990) / Taggart: Rogues' Gallery (1990) / Casualty: Sins of Omission (1991) / Maigret [11 episodes as Inspector Janvier (1992-1993)] / Highlander: The Vampire (1994) / Chandler & Co: Wild Justice (1994) / Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Heartstones (1996) / The Ice House [2 episodes as Paddy Clarke (1997)] / Supply & Demand: Golden Goose (1998) / Life Support: Soul and Conscience (1999) / Poirot: Sad Cypress (2003)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The new Doctor (Colin Baker) as he appeared in the closing titles of episode four of The Caves of Androzani (1984)