The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The cover of a forthcoming graphic novel of Dalek stories from the pages of Doctor Who Weekly and Doctor Who magazine. No details of which stories as of yet.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Was Clive Swift staying in his Mr Jobel character as he was a bit of a pompous twat or did he not like giving interviews at all.

That I do not know, but this was on Digital Spy in 2017

Hilariously grumpy Doctor Who interview resurfaces

"Most journalists experience their fair share of bad interviews over their careers, but spare a thought for the one who had to interview a very grumpy Doctor Who star many moons ago.

While hard going, this encounter with actor Clive Swift – who played Mr Copper on Who special 'Voyage of the Damned' in 2007 – is certainly entertaining to say the least.

The Q&A session, from Doctor Who Magazine in 2007 during the David Tennant era, has resurfaced online, and in it Swift spends a lot of the time attempting to lecture the journalist on their skills.

Remember, folks: However bad your Monday is, at least you're not interviewing Richard Bucket.

"Don't you know shorthand?" he begins the interview, before asking a few questions later: "Why should I do this? I'm not getting paid, am I?"

The writer then asks Swift about his character in the episode, the actor replying: "You don't need me to tell you that. Have you read the script? That's what I perform. You can tell them about my character. What a silly question."

Oof. Swift does at least lighten up further along in the conversation, calling Mr Copper "appealing" and "brave", and he even compared the role to his previous stint on the show as Professor Jobel in 1985's 'Revelation of the Daleks'.

However, at the end of the interview, Swift tells the writer: "There's no reason why I should talk to you at all, so you shouldn't push it. I'm sure you'll write something very nice.

"I know that you all think that this is a big world, this Who business, but it isn't. There are much bigger things than this."

In the spirit of 'Voyage of the Damned', that was truly Titanic (hello, this thing on?).

The journalist who conducted the interview revealed that the piece had to be okayed before it went to print, saying that senior heads such as Russell T Davies approved."

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

That I do not know, but this was on Digital Spy in 2017

Hilariously grumpy Doctor Who interview resurfaces

"Most journalists experience their fair share of bad interviews over their careers, but spare a thought for the one who had to interview a very grumpy Doctor Who star many moons ago.

While hard going, this encounter with actor Clive Swift – who played Mr Copper on Who special 'Voyage of the Damned' in 2007 – is certainly entertaining to say the least.

The Q&A session, from Doctor Who Magazine in 2007 during the David Tennant era, has resurfaced online, and in it Swift spends a lot of the time attempting to lecture the journalist on their skills.

Remember, folks: However bad your Monday is, at least you're not interviewing Richard Bucket.

"Don't you know shorthand?" he begins the interview, before asking a few questions later: "Why should I do this? I'm not getting paid, am I?"

The writer then asks Swift about his character in the episode, the actor replying: "You don't need me to tell you that. Have you read the script? That's what I perform. You can tell them about my character. What a silly question."

Oof. Swift does at least lighten up further along in the conversation, calling Mr Copper "appealing" and "brave", and he even compared the role to his previous stint on the show as Professor Jobel in 1985's 'Revelation of the Daleks'.

However, at the end of the interview, Swift tells the writer: "There's no reason why I should talk to you at all, so you shouldn't push it. I'm sure you'll write something very nice.

"I know that you all think that this is a big world, this Who business, but it isn't. There are much bigger things than this."

In the spirit of 'Voyage of the Damned', that was truly Titanic (hello, this thing on?).

The journalist who conducted the interview revealed that the piece had to be okayed before it went to print, saying that senior heads such as Russell T Davies approved."

I thought Michael Parkinson got it bad when he interviewed Mag Ryan, but the guy interviewing Clive Swift got it worse.

[iank]

To be fair, the 'journalist' has a less than flattering reputation, particularly given his Twitter behaviour. He probably got on the guy's tits.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #826

Name: Trevor Cooper [1953 - ]
Year(s): 1985 / 2014
Stories: Revelation Of The Daleks part 1 – Revelation Of The Daleks part 2 / Robot Of Sherwood
Character(s): Lancelot Takis / Friar Tuck

Note(s): Appeared in a number of Big Finish audio stories:

• In the 'Doctor Who Main Range' adventures 'The Haunting of Thomas Brewster' / ' Shanks' / 'The Doomwood Curse' / 'Castle of Fear' / 'Army of Death' / 'The Emerald Tiger'
• In 'The Fourth Doctor Adventures' story 'The Ravencliff Witch'
• In 'The Eighth Doctor Adventures' story 'The Beast of Orlok'
• In the 'Classic Doctors, New Monsters' story 'Judoon in Chains'
• in 'The Paternoster Gang' stories 'The Ghosts of Greenwich' / ''Merry Christmas, Mr Jago'
• In the 'Kaldor City' stories 'Occam's Razor' / 'Death's Head' / 'Hidden Persuaders' / 'Taren Capel' / 'Checkmate' / 'Storm Mine'

Before Who:
Films: Baal (1982), Moonlighting (1982)
Television: BBC2 Playhouse: Fatal Spring (1980) / Ladykillers: The Root of All Evil (1981) / Smiley's People: A Mother's Assistance (1982) / Minder [2 episodes, different characters (1982-1991)] / Diana: May 1937 (1984) / All the World's a Stage: A Muse of Fire (1984) / Miracles Take Longer (1984)

After Who:
Films: Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985), The Whistle Blower* (1986), Drowning by Numbers (1988), Infantile Disorders (1988), The Woman in Black* (1989), Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991), An Ungentlemanly Act (1992), Wuthering Heights (1992), The Touch (1992), Century (1993), Loved Up (1995), Sex 'n' Death (1999), Longitude (2000), Lorna Doone (2000), The Emperor's New Clothes (2001), Gangs of New York (2002), Eroica (2003), Vanity Fair (2004), Dear Wendy (2005), Chromophobia (2005), Dead Fish (2005), Stan [as Oliver 'Babe' Hardy] (2006) / The Ruby in the Smoke (2006), Until Death (2007), The History of Mr Polly (2007), Somers Town (2008), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Black Forest Gateau (2008), Kerry (2014), A Quiet Passion (2016), Crooked House (2017), Postcards from London (2018),

Television: Terry and June: Terry in Court (1985) / Tucker's Luck: Tom Robinson (1985) / Mr Pye [3 episodes as Charlie (1986)] / A Very Peculiar Practice: A Very Long Way from Anywhere* (1986) / C.A.T.S. Eyes: Honeytrap (1986) / The Singing Detective [3 episodes (1986)] / Star Cops [8 episodes as Colin Devis (1987)] / Theatre Night: Strife (1988) / Rockliffe's Folly: The Blind Man (1988) / London's Burning: Ding Dong Merrily (1988) / Making Out (1989) / Boon [2 episodes, different characters (1989-1992)] / Mother Love (1989) / Bergerac: The Dig (1990) / Chelmsford 123: Something Beginning with E (1990) / Stay Lucky: A Woman's Lot (1990) / Lovejoy: Who Dares, Sings (1991) / Kinsey: Kinsey's Such a Swine to Deal with Normally (1991) / Screenplay: Redemption (1991) / Drop the Dead Donkey: Baseball (1991) / Underbelly (1992) / The Big One: Flights of Fancy (1992) / Love Hurts: Let's Do It (1992) / Perfect Scoundrels: Let No Man Put Asunder (1992) / Framed [3 episodes as D.I. Frank Shrapnel (1992)] / Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Talking to Strange Men (1992) / Gallowglass [2 episodes as Stan (1993)] / Poirot: Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (1993) / Frank Stubbs [2 episodes as Archie Nash (1993)] / KYTV: Those Sexciting '60s (1993) / Out of the Blue (1995) / Our Friends in the North: 1970 (1996) / Bodyguards: Bodyguards (1996) / The Bill: Decent Proposals (1996) / In Suspicious Circumstances: The Monster of Reading (1996) / Screen Two: Burn Your Phone (1996) / Ivanhoe [6 episodes as Gurth (1997)] / Insiders: Good Behaviour (1997) / A Perfect State [7 episodes as Bert (1997)] / Chalk: Irregular Spending (1997) / Underworld [6 episodes as Builder One (1997)] / Berkeley Square [2 episodes as Sergeant Tomkins (1998)] / The Vanishing Man: Spooks (1998) / Duck Patrol [8 episodes as James 'Ollie' Oliver (1998)] / Bob and Margaret [5 episodes as a voice (1998)] / Children's Ward (1999) / Dalziel and Pascoe: On Beulah Height (1999) / Days Like These [8 episodes as Ron Foreman (1999)] / Always and Everyone (2000) / Up Rising [5 episodes as Mr. Morrissey (2000)] / Heartbeat: Dog Collar (2000) / The Queen's Nose (2000) / The Vice: Out of Mind (2001) / Midsomer Murders: Birds of Prey* (2003) / Georgian Underworld: The Peterloo Massacre (2003) / Fortysomething [2 episodes as Jim The Tramp (2003)] / Trevor's World of Sport [6 episodes as Phil (2003)] / The Afternoon Play: Drive (2004) / Down to Earth: Best Laid Plans (2004) / Rose and Maloney: Daniel Berrington (2004) / Foyle's War: They Fought in the Fields (2004) / Fungus the Bogeyman (2004) / My Hero: Fear and Clothing (2005) / Ancient Rome - The Rise and Fall of an Empire: Nero (2006) / Tripping Over (2006) / Trial & Retribution: Closure (2007) / Murphy's Law [3 episodes as Clive Salter (2007)] / Tess of the D'Urbervilles [2 episodes as Mr Crick (2008)] / Inspector George Gently: Gently Through the Mill (2009) / Outnumbered: The Family Outing (2010) / Spooks (2010) / Andy Hamilton's Search for Satan (2011) / The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret [4 episodes as Neville Lordhunt (2012-2016)] / Vikings [2 episodes as Earl Bjarni (2013)] / Holby City: Every Dog Has Its Day (2014) / Doctors: The House (2014) / Wizards vs. Aliens [3 episodes as Simeon Swann (2014)] / The Wrong Mans: White Mans (2014) / Inside No. 9: The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge (2015) / Ballot Monkeys [5 episodes as Jack Pardew (2015)] / Partners in Crime: N or M? (2015) / Downton Abbey (2015) / Boomers: Camping (2016) / Wolfblood [3 episodes as Grandad (2017)] / Call the Midwife [14 episodes as Sergeant Aubrey Woolf (2017-2020)] / Casualty: One (2017) / This Country [11 episodes as Len Clifton (2017-2020)] / The Windsors: Royal Wedding Special (2018) / Hetty Feather: The Parchment (2019) / Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Slipknot singer and 'roar' of the Fisher King, Corey Taylor (left) on the TARDIS set with director Daniel O' Hara during filming of Before the Flood (2015)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #827

Name: Colin Spaull [1944 - ]
Year(s): 1985 / 2006 / 2006
Stories: Revelation Of The Daleks part 1 – Revelation Of The Daleks part 2 / The Age Of Steel / Rise Of The Cybermen
Character(s): August Lilt / Mr. Crane

Note(s): Appeared in a number of Big Finish audio stories:

• In the 'Eighth Doctor Adventures' story 'Grand Theft Cosmos'
• In the 'Dalek Empire' stories 'The Fearless' Parts 1 & 2
• In the 'Graceless' stories 'The Sphere' / 'The End'

Before Who:
Films: Noddy in Toyland [as Noddy] (1957), The Little Beggars (1958), Frenzy [directed by Alfred Hitchcock] (1972), Present Laughter (1981)
Television: ITV Play of the Week: All My Sons (1958) / Jennings at School [10 episodes as Venables (1958)] / Great Expectations [3 episodes as Young Pip (1959)] / Heidi [4 episodes as Peter (1959)] / The Golden Spur (1959) / Ask for King Billy [3 episodes as Mike Wadham (1959)] / BBC Sunday-Night Play: Twentieth Century Theatre - Dear Octopus (1960) / The Secret Garden [4 episodes as Dickon (1960)] / Saturday Playhouse: A Matter of Age (1960) / Fact and Fiction (1960) / Yorky [2 episodes, different characters (1960-1961)] / A Brother for Joe [3 episodes as Roddy (1961)] / Stranger on the Shore [2 episodes as Peter (1961)] / Citizen James: Crusty Bread (1961) / Probation Officer (1962) / Television Club [33 episodes as Cliff Wade (1962-1963)] / Benny Hill: The Vanishing Man (1963) / Sykes and A...: Sykes and a Referee (1963) / The Larkins: Beatle Drive (1963) / Detective: The Quick One (1964) / Theatre 625: Carried by Storm (1964) / Crossroads (1964) / Z Cars [5 episodes, different characters (1964-1969)] / The Sullavan Brothers: The Humanist (1965) / Blackmail: The Taming of Trooper Tanner (1965) / Barney Is My Darling: The Prodigal Son (1966) / The Bed-Sit Girl (1966) / Drama 61-67: Drama '66 - Conduct to the Prejudice (1966) / No Hiding Place: A Girl Like You (1967) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Gun (1967) / The Fellows: The Straight Way (1967) / The Wednesday Play: Sling Your Hook (1969) / Coronation Street [2 episodes as the Stranger (1969)] / The Gnomes of Dulwich (1969) / Conceptions of Murder: What Do They Know of England? (1970) / Dixon of Dock Green: The House in Albert Street (1970) / Rules, Rules, Rules: The Role of the Rule Breaker (1971) / Holding On (1977) / Seven Faces of Woman: She - Sight Unseen (1977) / Blue Peter Special Assignment: The Brontes at Haworth (1979) / Sykes: The Stay-at-Home Holiday (1979) / Watch This Space: Cleo's Milk (1980) / Agony: A Woman Alone (1980) / Turtle's Progress (1980) / Une maison, une histoire: The Brontes (1980) / L for Lester [6 episodes as Bert the Milkman (1982)] / Relative Strangers (1985) / The Bill [7 episodes, different characters (1985-2003)]

After Who:
Films: Cynthia Payne's House of Cyn (1995), Redemption Road (2001)
Television: The Collectors: Go for Gold (1986) / The Bretts: The Luck of the Irish (1988) / Streets Apart (1989) / Stay Lucky: Bring Back My Barny to Me (1990) / Boon: Undercover (1990) / Birds of a Feather: Poetic Justice (1991) / London's Burning (1991) / The House of Eliott [2 episodes, different characters (1992-1994)] / Get Back: We Can Work It Out (1992) / Minder: Looking for Mr. Goodtime (1993) / Seekers (1993) / The Brittas Empire: Not a Good Day... (1994) / Goodnight Sweetheart: Wish Me Luck... (1995) / Shine on Harvey Moon (1995) / An Independent Man: And So to Bed (1995) / Nelson's Column: Florist Gump (1995) / The Detectives: The Great Escaper (1996) / Maisie Raine: A Blast from the Past (1998) / EastEnders (2000) / Inspector Morse: The Remorseful Day (2000) / 'Orrible: Two Men and a Bastard (2001) / Down to Earth [3 episodes as Bob Bailey (2001-2003)] / Judge John Deed: Abuse of Power (2002) / The Murder Game [5 episodes as Frank Prior (2003)] / The Last Detective: Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts (2004) / Holby City [3 episodes, different characters (2003-2012)] / The Courtroom: Breaking Point (2004) / Casualty: And on That Farm (2005) / Doctors: Illusion (2007) / The Inbetweeners: The Duke of Edinburgh Awards (2009) / Graceless (2010) / The Hour: Pilot (2011) / Catherine Tate's Nan: Nanger Management (2015)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Peter Davison) face to face with Sharaz Jek (Christopher Gable) in The Caves of Androzani (1984)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Michelle Gomez in her Missy outfit behind the scenes of Dark Water / Death in Heaven (2014)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Human slaves of the Daleks armed with Dalek weapons in Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks (2007)