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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Following the horrible, at least to my eyes, artwork on the recent StudioCanal 4K release of Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966), here is the US artwork as seen on Kino Lorber's Blu-ray release in 2020 which uses the original cinema poster.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #878a

Name: Rachel Bell [1947 - ]
Year(s): 1988
Stories: The Happiness Patrol part 1 – The Happiness Patrol part 3
Character(s): Priscilla P

Before Who:
Films: Sweet William (1980), Tiny Revolutions (1981), The Waiting War (1983), Miss Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye* (1985), Queen of Hearts (1985)

Television: Second City Firsts: The Writing on the Wall (1975) / Disraeli - Portrait of a Romantic: Dizzy (1978) / Crown Court: Past Times (1978) / Play for Today: Chance of a Lifetime (1980) / Shoestring: The Dangerous Game (1980) / The Magnificent Evans (1984) / Juliet Bravo: Flowers Tomorrow (1984) / Only Fools and Horses: To Hull and Back (1985) / Screen Two: Song of Experience (1986) / Hilary: The Award (1986) / Dear John [14 episodes as Louise (1986-1987)]

After Who:
Films: Superstition (2001), The Death of Klinghoffer (2003), Mary (2005), Red Mercury (2005), Eros Unleashed (2006), The Edge of Love (2008), From Time to Time (2009)
Television: Till We Meet Again [2 episodes as Jeanette (1989)] / Home to Roost: Return to Clagthorpe (1990) / Screenplay: Night Voice (1990) / Last of the Summer Wine: Roll On (1990) / The Upper Hand: The Heiress (1991) / The Darling Buds of May [16 episodes as Edith Pilchester (1991-1993)] / Goodbye Cruel World (1992) / A Dark Adapted Eye [2 episodes as Mrs. Morell (1994)] / Jackanory: Who Stole a Bloater?: [3 episodes as the Storyteller (1994)] / Poirot: Hickory Dickory Dock* (1995) / One Foot in the Grave: The Wisdom of the Witch (1995) / ChuckleVision [2 episodes as Miss Pringle (1995-2001)] / Grange Hill [95 episodes as Mrs. Holmes (1997-2002)] / Murder in Mind: Suicide (2003) / Midsomer Murders: Sins of Commission (2004) / EastEnders [2 episodes as Kitty (2006)] / Where the Heart Is: Greater Love (2006) / The Bill: Forensic Evidence (2009) / Mrs Biggs (2012) / Birds of a Feather: You Can't Always Get What You Want (2014) / Detectorists (2015) / The Worst Witch: The Best Teacher (2017) / Millie Inbetween: The Big Day (2017) / C.B. Strike [2 episodes as Edna (2017)] / Doctors [35 episodes as Eve Haskey (2017-2022)]

Who: Before And After #878b

Name: Richard D, Sharp [? - ]
Year(s): 1988
Stories: The Happiness Patrol part 1 – The Happiness Patrol part 3
Character(s): Earl Sigma

Before Who:
Films: Lifeforce* (1985), Spies Like Us (1985), Turnaround (1987), Love Potion (1987), Crusoe (1988)

Television: None

After Who:
Films: Honor Bound (1988), Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990), The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990), Age of Treason (1993), Five Guys Named Moe (1995) , Mission: Impossible (1996), Code Name: Wolverine (1996), Futuresport ( (1998)
Television: Tropical Heat: Gunshy (1993) / Screenplay: Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles (1993) / Soldier Soldier; Proud Man (1994) / Crucial Tales: Spiders and Flies (1996) / Kavanagh QC: In God We Trust (1997) / CI5 - The New Professionals: Skorpion (1999)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) prepares to step outside the TARDIS for the first time as Susan (Carole Ann Ford) and Ian (William Russell) look on in 100,000 BC (1963)

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

For people who like the old Target novels, this site contains free downloads for all the Target books that were published in the 1960's up to the 1990's - i.e the first releases of 'The Daleks', 'The Crusaders' and 'The Zarbi' up until the final releases of 'Power Of The Daleks' and 'The Evil of The Daleks'

The download options available are:

• ABBYY GZ
• DAISY
• EPUB
• FULL TEXT
• ITEM TILE download
• KINDLE
• PDF
• SINGLE PAGE PROCESSED JP2 ZIP
• TORRENT

I initially looked at the 'Full Text' versions, which are just the words, before settling on downloading (and saving to the computer) the PDF versions as these also contain the front cover artwork, the back cover blurb and any featured illustrations that the books contain

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

As a continuation of this, there are a lot of other Doctor Who titles that are available

In keeping with the classic televised stories, the 'past Doctor' stories from 'The Devil Goblins Of Neptune' to 'Atom Bomb Blues' can be found here and the 'missing adventures' from 'Killing Ground' to 'The Sands Of Time' can be found here

Following on from them, the 'New Adventures' from 'Timewyrm: Genesys' to 'The Dying Days' are here and the 'Eighth Doctor' stories from 'Doctor Who: The Movie' to 'The Gallifrey Chronicles' are here

For completists, the Bernice Summerfield stories from 'Oh No It Isn't' to 'Twilight Of The Gods' are also available here

As a further continuation, if you go here, you can get free downloads of the full set of Vortex magazines [currently March 2009 - September 2022]. For those who don't know, Vortex is the 'in-house' magazine that is produced by Big Finish Productions, and 'Doctor Who' features very prominently almost every edition

[iank]

Smithy being back has been teased by a Twitter photo apparently seeing him in the TARDIS doorway on the 60th set. It looks like it could be a photoshop job, only... it was posted by one of the directors of the specials!
Would seem a very odd tease to do if he wasn't in it!

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #879

Name: Harold Innocent [1935 – 1993] [Different sources give his birth year as either 1933 or 1935]
Year(s): 1988
Stories: The Happiness Patrol part 1 – The Happiness Patrol part 3
Character(s): Gilbert M

Note(s): Provided the voice of Freeth in the 1993 BBC Radio production 'The Paradise of Death'

Before Who:
Films: The Notorious Landlady (1962), Every Home Should Have One* (1970), Loot (1970), Yellow Dog (1973), Galileo (1975), Under Western Eyes (1975), Fellini's Casanova (1976), Afternoon Off (1979), One Fine Day (1979), The Tom Machine (1980), East Lynne (1982), Treasure Island [as Squire Trelawney] (1982), On the Razzle (1983), An Englishman Abroad (1983), The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984), Brazil (1985), The Canterville Ghost (1986), God's Outlaw (1986), Little Dorrit (1987), Buster (1988), Without a Clue* (1988)

Television: Adventures in Paradise [2 episodes, different characters (1959-1960)] / Have Gun - Will Travel: An International Affair (1960) / Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Schartz-Metterklume Method (1960) / Sea Hunt: The Sound of Nothing (1960) / The Barbara Stanwyck Show [2 episodes (1960-1961)] / The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man (1961) / Gunsmoke [5 episodes, different characters (1961-1962)] / Ben Casey: Among Others, a Girl Named Abilene (1962) / The New Breed: Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo? (1962) / The River Flows East [5 episodes as Big Willie Holmes (1962)] / Harpers West One (1963) / The Plane Makers: Loved He Not Honours More (1963) / ITV Play of the Week: Camino Real (1964) / Crane: Gypsy's Warning (1964) / The Avengers: The Medicine Men (1963) / Sergeant Cork: The Case of the Elegant Mistress (1964) / Judith Paris [3 episodes as Reuben (1964)] / Riviera Police: The Lucky One Was the Snake (1965) / The Troubleshooters: Women and Business Never Did Mix (1967) / The White Rabbit: The Beginning (1967) / Theatre 625: Lieutenant Tenant (1967) / BBC Play of the Month: Cyrano de Bergerac (1968) / The Queen Street Gang: The Supercharged Egg [4 episodes as Spitz (1968)] / The Avengers: The Rotters* (1968) / Judge Dee: The Haunted Pavilion (1969) / The Champions: Autokill (1969) / The Elusive Pimpernel [2 episodes as the Prince of Wales (1969)] / Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased): - My Late Lamented Friend and Partner [as a hitman who murders Marty Hopkirk] (1969) / Callan [2 episodes, different characters (1969-1970)] / ITV Playhouse: The High Game (1970) / The Persuaders!: To the Death, Baby (1971) / Budgie: Louie the Ring Is Dead and Buried in Kensal Green Cemetery (1972) / Z Cars: The Amateurs (1972) / Upstairs, Downstairs: A Special Mischief (1972) / New Scotland Yard: Exchange Is No Robbery (1973) / Churchill's People: America! America! (1975) / The Squirrels [3 episodes as Mr. Tucker (1975-1977)] / Killers [2 episodes as Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, KC (1976)] / Lucky Feller [2 episodes, different characters (1976)] / Ripping Yarns: Murder at Moorstones Manor* (1977) / The Upchat Line: The One That Got Away (1977) / Raven [3 episodes as the Minister (1977)] / The Professionals [2 episodes, different characters (1978-1982)] / Come Back, Lucy (1978) / Jackanory Playhouse: The Christmas Cuckoo (1979) / Mystery!: Malice Aforethought [3 episodes as the Rev. Hessary Torr (1979)] / The Further Adventures of Oliver Twist [7 episodes as Mr. Bumble (1980)] / Sounding Brass: H.G. and the Exploding Orange (1980) / The ITV Play: For Services Rendered (1980) / A Tale of Two Cities [3 episodes as Stryver (1980)] / The Good Companions: Curtain Call (1981) / Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1981) / Kessler [3 episodes as Deakin (1981)] / Wilfred and Eileen [3 episodes as Mr. Willett (1981)] / Minder; Dead Men Do Tell Tales (1982) / Juliet Bravo: Where There's Muck... (1982) / Crown Court; Fighting Fire with Fire (1983) / Diana [3 episodes as Mr. Gayelorde-Sutton (1984)] / All at Number 20 (1986) / Hideaway [6 episodes as Arnie (1986)] / Paradise Postponed [6 episodes as Jackson Cantelow (1986)] / Inspector Morse: Service of All the Dead (1987) / Rockliffe's Babies: Up the Down Escalator (1987) / Dead Entry [2 episodes as Nestor (1987)] / Porterhouse Blue [4 episodes as the Bursar (1987)] / Life Without George [2 episodes as David (1988)]

After Who:
Films: The Tall Guy* (1989), Try This One for Size (1989), Henry V (1989), The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1990), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves* (1991), Thatcher: The Final Days ( (1991), Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors (1992)

Television: Thompson (1988) / The Two of Us: Say It With... (1989) / Screenplay: The Spirit of Man (1989) / The Play on One: Killing Time (1990) / Harry Enfield's Television Programme (1990) / May to December: Too Close for Comfort (1991) / Tonight at 8.30: Ways and Means (1991) / Titmuss Regained: Today (1991) / Maigret: Maigret and the Mad Woman (1992) / EastEnders (1992) / The Mixer: The Mixer's Masterpiece (1992) / The Brittas Empire: The Trial (1993) / The Detectives: Acting Constables (1993) / The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries; Death in a White Tie (1993) / Heartbeat: Going Home (1993)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A publicity image of Nicola Bryant taken when she got the role of Perpugilliam “Peri” Brown in 1984.

[Susan Foreman]

According to the 'Doctor Who' comic 'Where's the Doctor?', Elizabeth II was actually a lizard alien!

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #880

Name: Tim Barker [1947 - ]
Year(s): 1988
Stories: The Happiness Patrol part 1
Character(s): Harold V

Before Who:
Films: Punters (1984), Morons from Outer Space* (1985), Pack of Lies (1987), A Month in the Country (1987), Ernie's Incredible Illucinations (1987)

Television: Play for Today: Home Sweet Home (1982) / Juliet Bravo: Betrayals (1982) / Brookside [5 episodes as Trevor Johnston (1983)] / All Creatures Great and Small* [2 episodes as Mr Hammond (1983-1990)] /The Bill [3 episodes, different characters (1984-1994)] Who, Sir? Me, Sir? [6 episodes as Foggerty (1985)] / Summer Season: A Crack in the Ice (1985) / The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (1985) / Mog: Food for Thought (1986) / 'Allo 'Allo!: The Sausage in the Wardrobe (1986) / Screen Two: Coast to Coast (1987) / Inspector Morse: The Settling of the Sun (1988) / The Storyteller: Sapsorrow (1988) / A Gentlemen's Club [5 episodes as Jim (1988)] / Rockliffe's Folly: The Greenhorn (1988)

After Who:
Films: Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1998), Reunion (1989), The Bridge (1991), Day Release (1997), Broken Vessels (1998), Seeing Red (2000), Calendar Girls* (2003), Alter Egos (2012), Peterloo (2018)

Television: Forever Green (1989) / The Jim Henson Hour: Garbage (1989) / Jeeves and Wooster [2 episodes as the Cabbie (1990)] / Screenplay: Night Voice (1990) / The Piglet Files: A Private Member's Bill (1990) / This Is David Harper: An Explosive Situation (1990) / The Chief (1991) / A Perfect Hero (1991) / Rich Tea and Sympathy: Sex & Snooker (1991) / Minder: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Entrepreneur (1991) / Dark Season [3 episodes as Dr. Osley (1991)] / No Job for a Lady: What Care? What Compensation? (1992) / Hope It Rains: No News (1992) / Nice Town: Unto Us a Child Is Born (1992) / Gone to Seed (1992) / Under the Hammer: Wonders in the Deep (1994) / ChuckleVision; Mind Over Marrow (1994) / The Dwelling Place [2 episodes as Morris (1994)] / Once Upon a Time in the North: The Time Pat Was in the Sound of Music (1994) / Heartbeat [2 episodes, different characters (2007)] / Seaforth [6 episodes as Dick Moxham (1994)] / Outside Edge: The Death of Fred (1995) / Cadfael: The Virgin in the Ice (1995) / A Touch of Frost: The Things We Do for Love (1996) / And the Beat Goes On (1996) / Coronation Street (1997) / Wokenwell (1997) / Dangerfield: Perfect Witness (1997) / As Time Goes By: The Bypass (1998) / Out of Hours (1998) / Bugs: Girl Power (1998) / The Vanishing Man: Spooks (1998) / Barbara: Friends (1999) / Dalziel and Pascoe [2 episodes, different characters (1999-2000)] / Peak Practice: Alone (1999) / Let Them Eat Cake: Making Voopee (1999) / Nature Boy (2000) / Emmerdale Farm (2000) / Doctors: Older Man (2001) / Rosamunde Pilcher: Liebe im Spiel (2004) / The Courtroom: Bookends (2004) / The Royal Today (2008) / Trollied (2012) / Moving On: Blood Ties (2013)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Danny (Samuel Anderson) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) under attack in The Caretaker (2014)