The Doctor Who Thread

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Having said that perhaps we get cameo appearances from McCoy and Davison in the centenary special...they have companions in it... so you never know.

I'm sure Colin would jump at the chance

Not sure about Nicola, although I have never seen anything that suggests that she didn't have a good time when playing Peri (other then the feathers in 'Mindwarp' that is!)

Mind you, they *could* get a penguin!!!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

I'm sure Colin would jump at the chance

Not sure about Nicola, although I have never seen anything that suggests that she didn't have a good time when playing Peri (other then the feathers in 'Mindwarp' that is!)

Mind you, they *could* get a penguin!!!

Nicola was happy to 'star' in a Blu-ray mini episode and is all over the fifth, sixth and seventh Doctor Blu-ray box sets special features so i'm sure she'd be well up for it.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #853

Name: Elizabeth Spriggs [1929 - 2009]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Paradise Towers part 1 – Paradise Towers part 3
Character(s): Tabby
Note(s): Had previously been considered for the roles of Tanha in the 1983 story 'Snakedance' and Queen Katryca in the 1986 story 'The Trial Of A Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet'

Before Who:
Films: All's Well That Ends Well (1968), Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968), Three Into Two Won't Go (1969), Afternoon Off (1979), The Dybbuk (1980), Richard's Things (1980), Lady Chatterley's Lover* (1981), Thank You, P.G. Wodehouse (1981), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982), Spider's Web (1982), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982), Those Glory Glory Days (1983), The Cold Room* (1984), Sakharov (1984), Bones (1984), Going Undercover (1985)

Television: Festival: Lysistrata (1964) / Black and Blue: Rust (1973) / Second City Firsts: Mrs Pool's Preserves (1973) / Village Hall: Miss Health and Beauty (1975) / The ITV Play: A House in Regent Place - Why Weren't We Warned? (1975) / Prometheus: The Life of Balzac [4 episodes Comtesse de Berny (1975)] / Lucky Feller: Lucky Feller: Pilot (1975) / The Glittering Prizes: An Early Life (1976) / Victorian Scandals: Hannah (1976) / The Expert: A Family Affair (1976) / BBC2 Play of the Week: Able's Will (1977) / The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People: The Secret of Charles Dickens (1978) / The BBC Television Shakespeare: Julius Caesar* (1979) / Omnibus: Words Fail Me (1979) / BBC Play of the Month: The Wings of the Dove (1979) / Fox [12 episodes as Connie Fox (1980)] / We, the Accused [2 episodes as Eleanor Presset (1980)] / Tales of the Unexpected: The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby (1980) / BBC2 Playhouse: The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe (1981) / Bognor [6 episodes as Alisa Potts (1981)] / Crown Court: Embers (1981) / Cribb: The Choir That Wouldn't Sing (1981) / Tales of the Unexpected: The Way to Do It (1981) / The Haunting of Cassie Palmer [6 episodes as Mrs. Palmer (1982)] / Frost in May [2 episodes as Mother Radcliffe (1982)] / Play for Today: Intensive Care (1982) / Shine on Harvey Moon [41 episodes as Nan (1982-1995)] / Alan Bennett's Objects of Affection: Our Winnie (1982) / Strangers and Brothers [3 episodes as Lady Muriel Royce (1984)] / Bergerac: Return of the Ice Maiden (1985) / Time for Murder: The Thirteenth Day of Christmas (1985) / Jackanory; London Snow (1986) / Theatre Night: The Devil's Disciple (1987)

After Who:
Films: Impromptu (1991), The Advocate (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Secret Agent (1996), The Snow Queen's Revenge (1996), Paradise Road (1997), For My Baby (1997), The Barber of Siberia (1998), Alice in Wonderland* (1999), A Christmas Carol (1999), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (2001), The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004), Is Anybody There? (2008)

Television: Simon and the Witch [25 episodes as The Witch (1987-1988)] / A Kind of Living (1988) / Young Charlie Chaplin [2 episodes as Madge Kendal (1989)] / Singles: Family Likeness (1989) / Gentlemen and Players: Loyalties (1989) / Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit [3 episodes as May (1990)] / Screen One: Survival of the Fittest (1990) / Boon: The Tender Trap (1990) / Watching [5 episodes as Aunty Peggy (1991)] / Soldier Soldier: Dirty Work (1991) / The Old Devils [3 episodes as Dorothy Morgan (1992)] / Anglo Saxon Attitudes [3 episodes as Inge Middleton (1992)] / The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Austria, March 1917 (1992) / Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Mouse in the Corner (1992) / The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Last Vampyre (1993) / Lovejoy: Fly the Flag (1993) / Jeeves and Wooster [2 episodes as Aunt Agatha (1993)] / Middlemarch [6 episodes as Mrs Cadwallader (1994)] / A Pinch of Snuff [2 episodes as Annabelle Andover (1994)] / Class Act (1994) / The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries: Scales of Justice (1994) / Takin' Over the Asylum [6 episodes as Grandma (1994)] / Martin Chuzzlewit [3 episodes as Mrs. Gamp (1994)] / The Tomorrow People: The Rameses Connection [5 episodes as Milicent Rutherford (1995)] / Performance: Henry IV (1995) / Tales from the Crypt: A Slight Case of Murder (1996) / Midsomer Murders* [2 episodes, different characters (1997-2006)] / Playing the Field [26 episodes as Mrs Mullen (1998-2002)] / Casualty: Eye Spy (1998) / Wives and Daughters [3 episodes as Mrs. Goodenough (1999)] / Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): A Man of Substance (2000) / The Sleeper (2000) / Victoria & Albert (2001) / Nice Guy Eddie [7 episodes as Vera McMullen (2002)] / Shackleton [2 episodes as Janet Stancombe Wills (2002)] / Swiss Toni [12 episodes as Swiss Toni's Mother (2003-2004)] / The Royal [2 episodes as Dolly Smith (2003-2004)] / Where the Heart Is: Care (2005) / Heartbeat: The End of the Road (2005) / Jericho: The Hollow Men (2005) / Poirot: Taken at the Flood (2006) / Love Soup: Integrated Logistics (2008) /

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Colin Baker) says it with flowers to Janet (Yolande Palfrey) in Terror of the Vervoids, parts 9-12 of The Trial of a Time Lord (1986)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #854

Name: Brenda Bruce [1919 - 1996]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Paradise Towers part 1 – Paradise Towers part 3
Character(s): Tilda
Note(s): Had previously been considered for the role of Queen Katryca in the 1986 story 'The Trial Of A Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet'

Before Who:
Films: Laugh with Me (1938), The Wooing of Anne Hathaway (1938), Millions Like Us (1943), They Came to a City (1944), A Yank in London (1945), Night Boat to Dublin* (1946), I See a Dark Stranger (1946), They Met at Midnight (1946), Carnival (1946), While the Sun Shines (1947), When the Bough Breaks (1947), My Brother's Keeper (1948), She Stoops to Conquer (1949), Marry Me (1949), Don't Ever Leave Me (1949), Two on the Tiles (1951), The Final Test (1953), What's New? (1953), Both Ends Meet (1954), Fanny's First Play (1956), Home Is the Sailor (1958), Esmé Divided ( (1957), I Spy (1958), Law and Disorder (1958), Behind the Mask (1958), Nothing Is for Ever (1959), Peeping Tom* (1960), The Winter's Tale (1962), This Year, Next Year (1962), Nightmare (1964), The Uncle (1966), The Virgin Soldiers (1969), That'll Be the Day (1973), Alice Through the Looking Glass (1973), Swallows and Amazons (1974), All Creatures Great and Small (1975), Ubu roi (1976), The Man in the Iron Mask (1977), Henry IV Part I [as Mistress Quickly] (1979), Henry IV Part II [as Mistress Quickly] (1979), Milk and Honey (1983), The Plot to Murder Lloyd George (1983), Macbeth [as the First Witch] (1983), Farmers Arms (1983), Steaming (1985),

Television: The Motorola Television Hour: Westward the Sun (1953) / Rheingold Theatre: Man Who Heard Everything (1954) / Theatre Night: What Shall We Tell Caroline? (1958) / Mary Britten, M.D. [13 episodes as Mary Britten (1958)] / Knight Errant Limited: Troubled Waters (1961) / BBC Sunday-Night Play [4 episodes, different characters (1961-1962)] / Probation Officer [2 episodes, different characters (1961)] / Zero One: Stoneface (1962) / Dr. Finlay's Casebook: The Face Saver (1963) / Love Story [2 episodes, different characters (1964-1965)] / Armchair Mystery Theatre: The Lodger (1965) / ITV Play of the Week: The Browning Version (1966) / Knock on Any Door [2 episodes, different characters (1966)] / Softly Softly: An Eye for an Eye (1967) / Before the Fringe (1967) / Armchair Theatre: The Girl (1967) / The Gamblers: Give and Take (1968) / Late Night Horror: William and Mary (1968) / The First Lady: Mrs. Whatever (1968) / Sherlock Holmes: The Dancing Men (1968) / The Wednesday Play:Happy (1969) / Budgie: Sunset Mansions or Whatever Happened to Janey-Baib? (1971) / A Family at War: Happy Returns* (1971) / The Man from Haven (1972) / Country Matters: The Mill (1972) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: I Wouldn't Tell on You, Miss (1972) / Owen, M.D.: Water Under the Bridge (1973) / Cheri [5 episodes as Charlotte (1973)] / Late Night Theatre: Feet Together, Hands to the Sides (1973) / 2nd House: An Artist's Story (1974) / Bedtime Stories: Hansel and Gretel (1974) / The ITV Play: Mary, Mary (1974) / Dial M for Murder: Recording Angel (1974) / Crown Court [2 episodes as Angela Stacey (1976-1984)] / Centre Play: Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes (1977) / Murder Most English - A Flaxborough Chronicle [4 episodes as Lucilla Teatime (1977)] / Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm [4 episodes as Aunt Miranda (1978)] / BBC Play of the Month: The Beaux Stratagem (1978) / Armchair Thriller: Quiet as a Nun [4 episodes as Sister Elizabeth (1978)] / The Devil's Crown [3 episodes as Empress Matilda (1978)] / Do You Remember?: Night School (1978) / Play for Today: A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts (1978) / Prisoners of Conscience: Vladimir Bukovsky (1981) / The Home Front [6 episodes as Mrs. Place (1983)] / The Mad Death [3 episodes as Miss Stonecroft (1983)] / Love and Marriage: A Matter of Will (1984) / Sharing Time: The Prodigal Grandfather (1984) / Weekend Playhouse: Winter Break (1984) / Connie [10 episodes as Bea (1985)] / David Copperfield [7 episodes as Betsy Trotwood (1986)] / The Secret World of Polly Flint [3 episodes as Granny Porter (1987)]

After Who:
Films: Little Dorrit (1987), The Tenth Man (1988), Back Home (1989), December Bride (1990), The Fool (1990), Growing Rich (1992), Splitting Heirs* (1993), Riders (1993), Harnessing Peacocks (1993)

Television: London Embassy: Tomb with a View (1987) / Menace Unseen (1988) / Worlds Beyond: Home (1988) / The Return of the Antelope [3 episodes as Mrs. Henshaw (1988)] / Hard Cases [2 episodes as Mrs. Pearce (1989)] / Bergerac: In Love and War (1990) / Screen Two: Circles of Deceit (1990) / Jeeves and Wooster [3 episodes as Aunt Dahlia (1990)] /Theatre Night: Bingo - Scenes of Money and Death (1990) / Screenplay: Antonia and Jane (1990) / Lovejoy: Bin Diving (1991) / The New Statesman: Keeping Mum (1991) / 4 Play: Finding Sarah (1991) / Goodbye Cruel World [3 episodes as Marjory (1992)] / Growing Rich [3 episodes as Mrs. Baker (1992)] / Shakespeare - The Animated Tales: Romeo and Juliet [as the voice of the Nurse] (1992) / Casualty: The Final Word (1993) / Men of the World [3 episodes as Mrs. Daff (1994)] / Honey for Tea [2 episodes as Mary Harris (1994)] / The Riff Raff Element [7 episodes as Granny Grogan (1993-1994)] / Performance; The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1995) / The Vet: Stormy Weather (1996)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Captain Jack (John Barrowman) held captive by the Master in the bowels of the UNIT aircraft carrier Valiant in The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords (2007)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #855

Name: Judy Cornwell [1940 - ]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Paradise Towers part 2 – Paradise Towers part 4
Character(s): Maddy

Before Who:
Films: Friends and Neighbours (1959), Dr. Terror's House of Horrors* (1965), Two for the Road (1967), Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967), Call Me Daddy (1967), The Wild Racers (1968), Cry Wolf (1968), Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969), Every Home Should Have One* (1970), Brotherly Love (1970), Paddy (1970), Wuthering Heights (1970), Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972), Perishing Solicitors (1983), The Devil's Lieutenant (1984), Santa Claus: The Movie [as Anya Claus] (1985)

Television: Dixon of Dock Green; Mr. Pettigrew's Bowler (1960) / he Dickie Henderson Show: The Psychiatrist (1960) / The Younger Generation [5 episodes, different characters (1961)] / Drama 61-67: Drama '62 - No Decision (1962) / Saki (1962) / Out of This World: Pictures Don't Lie (1962) / The River Flows East [6 episodes as Susan Melford (1962)] / Coronation Street (1963) / It's a Woman's World: Julie (1964) / The Sullavan Brothers: A Face in the Doorway (1964) / Paris 1900 [5 episodes, different characters (1964)] / The Worker: I Just Don't Want to Get Involved (1965) / The Present Stage [4 episodes (1966)] / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Go Tell It on Table Mountain (1967) / Mickey Dunne: The Stationary Tenants (1967) / Armchair Theatre: The Wind in a Tall Paper Chimney (1968) / Theatre 625: The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1968) / The Wednesday Play: Infidelity Took Place (1968) / Boy Meets Girl: One, Two, Sky's Blue (1969) / Love Story [3 episodes, different characters (1969-1973)] / The Ten Commandments: Husband and Friend (1971) / ITV Playhouse: The Chinese Prime Minister (1971) / Man of Straw [4 episodes as Guste Daimchen (1972)] / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: The Ruffian on the Stair (1973) / Late Night Theatre: The Twelve-Pound Look (1973) / Cakes and Ale [3 episodes as Rosie Gann (1974)] / Moody and Pegg [12 episodes as Daphne Pegg (1974-1975)] / BBC Play of the Month: London Assurance (1976) / The Chiffy Kids: Pot Luck (1976) / Supernatural: Viktoria (1977) / Do You Remember?: The Bonus (1978) / Play for Today: A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts (1978) / The Mill on the Floss [8 episodes as Bessy Tulliver (1978-1979)] / Cribb: A Case of Spirits (1980) / The Good Companions [9 episodes as Elizabeth Trant (1980-1981)] / Plays for Pleasure: A Little Rococo (1981) / BBC2 Playhouse: The Guest (1982) / Fair Ground! [9 episodes as Jean Watson (1983)] / Good Behaviour (1983) / Jane Eyre [2 episodes as Mrs. Reed (1983)] / There Comes a Time [7 episodes as Vanessa James (1985)] / Summer Season: Kisses on the Bottom (1985) / The December Rose [5 episodes as Mrs. McDipper (1986)] / Dramarama: Play Acting (1986) / Screenplay: Paying Guests [2 episodes as Mrs. Bliss (1986)] / Bergerac: The Memory Man (1987) / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Official Secret (1987) / A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery: Strong Poison (1987) / Farrington of the F.O. [2 episodes as Sarah Lawrence (1987)]

After Who:
Films: Cry Freedom (1987), Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992), The Wind in the Willows (1995), The Prince of Hearts (1997), Mad Cows (1999), Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999), David Copperfield (2000), The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003),

Television: Boon: Sickness and Health (1989) / Keeping Up Appearances [44 episodes as Daisy (1990-1995)] / Van der Valk: Doctor Hoffmann's Children (1991) / Nice Town [3 episodes as Aunt Peggy (1992)] / Under the Hammer: The Virgin of Vitebsk (1994) / Screen Two: Persuasion (1995) / The Famous Five: Five on a Hike Together (1996) / The Life and Crimes of William Palmer [2 episodes as Mrs. Palmer (1998)] / Midsomer Murders: Death in Disguise* (1998) / The Bill: S.A.D. (1998) / Heartbeat: Shotgun Wedding (1999) / The Wrong Side of the Rainbow (2000) / The Royal: Doing the Rounds (2003) / Doctors [4 episodes, different characters (2005-2013)] / EastEnders [8 episodes as Queenie (2007-2008)] / Birds of a Feather: You Can't Always Get What You Want (2014)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The cover of the Big Finish audio novel Watchers. A fourth Doctor story set between The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis, written and read by Matthew Waterhouse who played Adric in those stories and more. It was released in January this year.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #856a

Name: Howard Cooke [1960 - ]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Paradise Towers part 1 – Paradise Towers part 4
Character(s): Pex

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Summer Season: Pythons on the Mountain (1985) / Dempsey and Makepeace: Silver Dollar (1985)

After Who:
Films: The Face of Trespass (1988)
Television: None

Who: Before And After #856b

Name: Julie Brennon [? - ]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Paradise Towers part 1 – Paradise Towers part 4
Character(s): Fire Escape
Note(s): Was married to Who actor Mark Strickson

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Angels [2 episodes as Kathy Barnham (1983)] / The Front Line [4 episodes as Maria (1984-1985)] / Emmerdale Farm [48 episodes as Alison Caswell (1984-1985)] / Strike It Rich!; Second Childhood (1987) / Flying Lady: The Away Game (1987)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #856c

Name: Annabel Yuresha [1962 - ]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Paradise Towers part 1 – Paradise Towers part 4
Character(s): Bin Liner

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: None

After Who:
Films: Unmasked Part 25 (1988)
Television: None

Who: Before And After #856c

Name: Catherine Cusack [1968 - ]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Paradise Towers part 1 – Paradise Towers part 4
Character(s): Drinking Fountain

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: None

After Who:
Films: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987), Beyond the Boundary (2000), Boxed (2002), Conspiracy of Silence (2003), Finding Neverland (2004), The Last Days of Anne Boleyn [as Catherine of Aragon] (2013), The Raft of the Medusa (2015)
Television: Sophia and Constance (1988) / Coronation Street [39 episodes as Carmel Finnan (1992-1993)] / The Chief (1994) / Dressing for Breakfast: Hospital (1995) / Cadfael: The Raven in the Foregate (1996) / The Bill: Trust Me (1996) / Ballykissangel [13 episodes as Frankie Sullivan (1999-2001)] / Jonathan Creek: The Seer of the Sands (2004) / Doctors [5 episodes, different characters (2008-2012)] / Hollyoaks (2019) / Endeavour: Scherzo (2021)

Who: Before And After #856e

Name: Astra Sherridan [? - ]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Paradise Towers part 1
Character(s): Last Yellow Kang

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: S.W.A.L.K.: Introducing Amanda (1982) / Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984) / Dramarama: Tam (1987)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

Who: Before And After #856f

Name: Joseph Young [? - ]
Year(s): 1987
Stories: Paradise Towers part 1
Character(s): Caretaker 234/12, subsection 3

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Lytton's Diary [2 episodes as Trevor Bates (1986)'

After Who:
Films: None
Television: None

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Poor Howard Cooke. You could tell from the first few seconds of Pex that he wasn't ever becoming a star.

I have warmed to Pex over the years though.