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[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #1074a / Nu-Who #153a

Name: Thomas Nelstrop [1980 - ]
Year(s): 2007
Stories: Blink
Character(s): Ben Wainwright

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: EastEnders [2 episodes as the Best Man (2004)]

After Who:
Films: Chemical Wedding (2008), Arcadia (2008), Love Meet Hope (2016), Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (2016), Soul Reaper (2019), Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)

Television: Comedy - Shuffle [3 episodes as Dr. Gustav Grippenschaaft (2007)] / Honest [5 episodes as Constable Harrison (2008)] / The Wrong Door [3 episodes, Various characters (2008)] / Genie in the House [2 episodes, different characters (2009)] / The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson [4 episodes, various characters (2009)] / Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps [7 episodes as Wesley (2009)] / Doctors: How Green Is Your Home (2010) / Hotel Trubble: Lobe Conkers All (2010) / Little Howard's Big Question: Where Is Big Howard? (2011) / BBC Comedy Feeds: For The Win (2012) / Pat & Cabbage [3 episodes as Toby [2013)] / Mr Selfridge (2016) / Class Dismissed [23 episodes, different characters (2016–2017)] / Stella Gets Her Wings (2017) / Damned (2018) / Casualty (2019) / The Trial of Christine Keeler (2020) / The Jewish Enquirer: Feathers & Foreskins (2020) / Brave New World: Swallow (2020) / The Crown: Decommissioned (2022)

Who: Before And After #1074b / Nu-Who #135b

Name: Ian Boldsworth [1973 - ]
Year(s): 2007
Stories: Blink
Character(s): Banto

Note(s): Away from the Whoniverse, he is a stand-up comedian, performing under the name Ray Peacock

Before Who:
Films: Skin Deep (2005)
Television: Doctors: The Other Side (2006)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: No Heroics: The Family Chore (2008) / Skins: Cook (2009) / Not Going Out: Band (2012) / Red Dwarf: M-Corps (2017)

Who: Before And After #1074c / Nu-Who #153c

Name: Ray Sawyer [? - ]
Year(s): 2007
Stories: Blink
Character(s): The Desk Sergeant

Before Who:
Films: Demolition Man (1975), Brave (1994) / The Wyvern Mystery (2000), Trust (2000)
Television: Brookside (1989) / London's Burning (1989) / Press Gang: Breakfast At Czars (1990) / Watching: Nesting (1990) / The Bill [2 episodes, different characters (1991–2004)] / Poirot: Death In The Clouds (1992) / Bottom: Dough (1995) / Grange Hill (1996) / Beast: Cat (2001) / High Stakes: Project Italy (2001) / My Family [2 episodes, different characters (2002–2006)] / Judge John Deed: Hard Gating (2006)

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Collision [3 episodes as Paul (2009)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A great image of the TARDIS depicted on the cover of Doctor Who Magazine #523, dated April 2018.

[Susan Foreman]

Guest actors appearing in UTOPIA who have previously appeared in the show:

• Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones)
• John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness)

Who: Before And After #1075 / Nu-Who #154

Name: Sir Derek Jacobi CBE [1938 - ]
Year(s): 2007
Stories: Utopia
Character(s): Professor Yana / The 7th Master

Note(s):

• Had previously been considered for the role of Captain Rorvik in the 1981 story 'Warriors' Gate'
• Had previously been considered for the part of the Eighth Doctor
• Provided the voice of The Master in the 2003 animated 'Doctor Who' adventure 'Scream of the Shalka'
  
  
• Provided the voice of The War Master in the 2020 webcast 'The Legend Of ...The Master'
• Is the partner of Big Finish Productions Who voice actor Richard Clifford

Appeared as The War Master in a number of Big Finish Productions audio adventures:

• In the 'Special Releases' story 'Masterful'
• In the 'Ravenous' story 'Day of the Master'
• In the 'The War Master' stories 'Only the Good' ['Beneath the Viscoid' / 'The Good Master' / 'The Sky Man' / 'The Heavenly Paradigm'] 'The Master of Callous' ['Call for the Dead' / ' The Glittering Prize' / 'The Persistence of Dreams' / 'Sins of the Father'] / 'Rage of the Time Lords' ['The Survivor' / 'The Coney Island Chameleon' / 'The Missing Link' / 'Darkness and Light'] / 'Anti-Genesis' ['From the Falmes' / 'The Master's Dalek Plan' / 'Shockwave' / 'He Who Wines'] / 'Hearts of Darkness' ['The Edge of Redemption' / 'The Scaramancer' 'The Castle of Kurnos 5' / 'The Cognition Shift'] / 'Killing Time' ['The Sincerest Form of Flattery' / 'A Quiet Night In ' / 'The Orphan' / 'Unfinished Business'] / 'Self-Defence' / 'The Forest of Penitence' / 'The Players' / 'Boundaries' / 'The Last Line'] / 'Escape from Reality' / 'The Wrath of Medusa' / 'The Shadow Master' / 'The Adventure of the Deceased Doctor' / 'The Master of Dorian Gray']
• In the 'Gallifrey: Time War' story 'The Devil You Know'
• In the 'UNIT: The New Series' story 'Master of World'
• In the 'Diary of River Song' story 'Concealed Weapon'

Appeared as characters other than The Master in

• The Big Finish Productions audio adventure 'Deadline'

Provided the Audiobook Readings for

• The 'Target' Novelisations of 'The Mind Robber'
• The BBC Children's Books 'Tales of Terror' stories 'The Monster in the Woods' / 'Baby Sleepy Face'

Before Who:
Films: Othello (1965), Much Ado About Nothing (1967), Interlude (1968), Three Sisters (1970), The Day of the Jackal* (1973), The Odessa File (1974), Blueblood (1974), Markheim (1974), Philby, Burgess and Maclean [as Guy Burgess] (1977), The Medusa Touch* (1978), The Human Factor (1979), Hamlet, Prince of Denmark [as Hamlet] (1980), The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1980), Charlotte (1981), The Hunchback of Notre Dame [as Dom Claude Frollo] (1982), Inside the Third Reich [as Adolf Hitler] (1982), The Secret of NIMH [voice only] (1982), Enigma (1982), Cyrano de Bergerac [as Cyrano de Bergerac] (1985), David Macaulay: Cathedral [voice only] (1986), On Wings of Fire [as the narrator] (2001), The Secret Garden (1987), Little Dorrit (1987), The Tenth Man (1988), David Macaulay: Pyramid [voice only] (1988), Henry V (1989), The Fool (1990), Dead Again (1991), Aladdin [voice only] (1992), Circle of Deceit (1993), Witness Against Hitler (1996), Breaking the Code [as Alan Turing] (1996), Hamlet [as Claudius] (1996), Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon [as Francis Bacon] (1998), Basil (1998), Animated Epics: Beowulf [as the Narrator] (1998), Molokai (1999), The Chimes [as the Narrator] (1999), The Wyvern Mystery (2000), Up at the Villa (2000), Gladiator* (2000), The Body (2001), The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream [voice only] (2001), Revelation (2001), Gosford Park (2001), The Gathering Storm [as Stanley Baldwin] (2002), Revengers Tragedy (2002), Two Men Went to War (2002), Inquisition (2002), The Dinosaur Hunters [as the Narrator] (2002), Henry VIII [as the Narrator] (2003), Mr. Ambassador (2003), Cloud Cuckoo Land (2004), Bye Bye Blackbird (2005), Nanny McPhee (2005), Underworld: Evolution* (2006), Pinochet's Last Stand (2006), Guantanamero (2007), Anastezsi (2007)

Television: BBC Sunday-Night Play: She Stoops To Conquer (1961) / Armchair Theatre: The Fishing Match (1962) / ITV Playhouse: The Photographer (1968) / The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Secret Of The Foxhunter (1971) / Man of Straw [6 episodes as Diederich Hessling (1972)] / Budgie: Do Me A Favour (1972) / The Strauss Family [2 episodes as Josef Lanner (1972) / The Pallisers [8 episodes as Lord Fawn (1974) / Affairs of the Heart: Elizabeth (1975) / I, Claudius* [13 episodes as Claudius (1976)] / Tycoon: What Price A Life (1978) / Jackanory: Tales From Tartary [5 episodes as the Storyteller (1978) / The BBC Television Shakespeare: Richard II (1978) / Minder: The Bounty Hunter (1979) / Tales of the Unexpected: Skin (1980) / Tales of the Unexpected: Stranger In Town (1982) / Mr Pye [4 episodes as Mr. Pye (1986)] / The Civil War [9 episodes, voice only (1990)] / The Storyteller: Greek Myths: Daedalus & Icarus (1991) / Screenplay: The Vision Thing (1993) / The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale Of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle And Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1994) / ABC Weekend Specials: The Secret Garden (1994) / Cadfael* [13 episodes as Brother Cadfael (1994–1998)] / Jason and the Argonauts [2 episodes as Phineas (2000)] / Frasier: The Show Must Go Off (2001) / Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): Painkillers (2001) / The Jury [6 episodes as George Cording QC (2002)] / Nova: Shackleton's Voyage Of Endurance (2002) / The Long Firm [2 episodes as Lord Edward Thursby (2004)] / Agatha Christie's Marple: Murder At The Vicarage (2004)

After Who:
Films: The Riddle (2007), The Golden Compass (2007), The Old Curiosity Shop (2007), Adam Resurrected (2008), A Bunch of Amateurs (2008), Morris: A Life with Bells On (2009), Endgame (2009), Diamonds (2009), Margot (2009), The King's Speech (2010), Hereafter (2010), Joe Maddison's War (2010), National Theatre Live: King Lear [as King Lear] (2011), Ironclad (2011), There Be Dragons (2011), Anonymous (2011), My Week with Marilyn* (2011), Jail Caesar (2012), Grace of Monaco (2014), Effie Gray (2014), Cinderella (2015), Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet (2016), The History of Love (2016), The Bed-Sitting Room (2016), Stratton (2017), Murder on the Orient Express* (2017), Tomb Raider (2018), The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019), Tolkien (2019), Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans [as Claudius] (2019), Muse (2019), The Host (2020), Come Away (2020), Say Your Prayers (2020), Romeo & Juliet [as the Narrator] (2021), A Bird Flew In (2021), Allelujah (2022)

Television: In the Night Garden... [5 episodes as the Narrator (2007)] / Mist - Sheepdog Tales [38 episodes as the Narrator (2007–2009)] / The Borgias* [2 episodes as Cardinal Orsini (2011)] / Titanic - Blood and Steel [12 episodes as Lord Pirrie (2012)] / Last Tango in Halifax [24 episodes as Alan (2012–2020)] / Vicious [14 episodes as Stuart Bixby (2013–2016)] / This Is Jinsy: Population 791 (2014) / Inside No. 9: The Devil Of Christmas (2016) / Les Misérables (2018) / The Crown: Dangling Man [as the Duke of Windsor] (2019) / Good Omens [2 episodes as Metatron (2019–2023)] / The Lost Pirate Kingdom [6 episodes as the Narrator (2021)] / Inside No. 9: How Do You Plead? (2021) / Royals - Keeping the Crown [6 episodes as the Narrator (2021)] / The Sandman: Dream Of A Thousand Cats (2022) /

[Susan Foreman]

Some rarely seen behind-the-scenes pictures in this Radio Times article including evidence of the alias that was used by The Master in the story 'Frontier in Space'. Although he is unnamed in dialogue (and closing credits) for the broadcast version, the production team went to the trouble to giving the character a name - G R Xsathos – which is clearly legible in the close-up detail of a document bearing the Master’s fake credentials

The full text in the document reads:

"SOVEREIGN DOMINION OF SIRIUS FOUR
INTRA GALACTIC OFFICE
WARRANT OF ARREST

1 Defrauding the Sirius Four Dominion Bank.

2 Evasion of Planetary Income tax.

3 Assault and battery committed upon the person of a Sirius Four police official.

4 Taking a space ship without the owner's consent and piloting the said space ship without the owner's consent and piloting
the said space ship without payment of taxes and insurance.

5 Loading the said space ship in an unauthorised zone on Sirius Four.
BE IT KNOWN that the holder of this warrant is authorised to apprehend the person known as THE DOCTOR and to hold him in custody to answer the above charges.

G.R.Xsathos
(Commissioner)"

Also featured are pictures from 'Genesis...' including one close-up that shows some intriguing details. This is the only picture I have seen of Davros actor Michael Wisher’s left hand

It's also interesting to see the plastic bulb that is being held in the right hand. It is thought that this is what Wisher used to activate the 'eye light' on the Davros mask

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Love the photo of Davros above.

Nice level of detail regarding the Master's identity in Frontier in Space.

I only rewatched it on Blu-ray a couple of weeks ago and The Master simply appears, walks in through the door says he's the Commissioner and hands over the document.

The document could have been signed 'Commissioner Sleer' for all anyone would notice.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A stock studio portrait of Jenna Coleman (Clara) in her costume for The Bells of Saint. John (2013) which was distributed to outside sources for use in their promotional materials

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #1076a / Nu-Who #155a

Name: Chipo Chung [1977 - ]
Year(s): 2007 / 2008
Stories: Utopia / Turn Left
Character(s): Chantho / Fortune Teller

Before Who:
Films: Proof (2005), Sunshine (2007)
Television: Absolute Power: History Man (2003) / Dalziel and Pascoe [2 episodes as Layla Jadwin (2007) / Holby City: Past Imperfect (2007)

After Who:
Films: The Way We Live Right Now (2008), In the Loop (2009), Phèdre (2009), 360 (2011), Resurrection [asMary Magdalene] (2021)
Television: The Last Enemy [2 episodes as Lucy Fox (2008)] / Casualty: Who Do You Think You Are? (2009) / Identity: Second Life (2010) / Camelot [8 episodes as Vivian (2011)] / Sherlock: The Hounds Of Baskerville (2012) / The Politician's Husband [3 episodes as Lian Hooper (2013)] / Fortitude [5 episodes as Trish Stoddart (2015)] / A.D. The Bible Continues* [12 episodes as Mary Magdalene (2015)] / From Darkness (2015) / Thirteen [3 episodes as Alia Symes (2016)] / Absentia [7 episodes as Agent Whitman (2017)] / Into the Badlands [14 episodes as The Master (2017–2019)] / Moving On: Invisible (2018) / Chimerica [2 episodes as Maria Meng (2019)] / Octonauts: Above & Beyond [4 episodes as the voice of Min (2021)] / Foundation* [2 episodes (2021)] / His Dark Materials [8 episodes as Xaphania (2022–2023)]

Who: Before And After #1076b / Nu-Who #155b

Name: Rene Zagger [1973 - ]
Year(s): 2007
Stories: Utopia
Character(s): Padra Toc Shafe Cane

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Screen One: She's Been Away (1989) / Grange Hill [25 episodes as Mike Bentley (1990–1991)] / Up the Garden Path [16 episodes as Roger 'Razors' Razebrook (1990–1993)] / The Bill [202 episodes as PC Nick Klein (1991–2004)] / Second Thoughts: Youth And Consequences (1992) / The Upper Hand: The Girl Next Door (1992) / Magic Grandad: (90 Years Ago – Cars And No Cars (1993) / Minder: Looking For Mr. Goodtime (1993) / Medics (1993) / Frank Stubbs Promotes: Paint (1993) / Casualty [3 episodes, different characters (1993–2014)] / Numbertime [5 episodes (1995)] / Dangerous Lady [2 episodes as Johnny (1995)] / Wycliffe: Four And Twenty Black Birds (1995) / My Good Friend (1996) / M.I.T. - Murder Investigation Team: Moving Targets (2003) / Dream Team 80's [3 episodes as Johnny Fletcher (2006)] / Robin Hood: A Thing Or Two About Loyalty (2006) / Spies, Lies and the Superbomb: Vanunu And The Bomb (2007) / Rome: Death Mask (2007)

After Who:
Films: Night Junkies (2007), The Marchioness Disaster (2007), God on Trial (2008), National Theatre Live: The Comedy of Errors (2012), Hard Boiled Sweets (2012), Interview with a Hitman, (2012), Dragonfly (2015), Untitled (A Film) (2017)
Television: 10 Days to War: Blowback (2008) / The Passion (2008) / New Tricks: Mad Dogs (2008) / Silent Witness [2 episodes as Danny Land (2008)] / M.I.High: Dark Star (2009) / The Take [2 episodes as Altay Nevzat (2009) ] / Law & Order - UK: Hidden (2009) / My Family: A Night Out (2011) / Holby City [2 episodes, different characters (2011–2017)] / Dark Matter -: Twisted But True [2 episodes, different characters (2012)] / All at Sea: Carwash (2013) / Cardinal Burns [4 episodes as the Scooter Man (2014)] / Doctors [3 episodes, different characters (2014–2022)] / Britannia* [3 episodes as Decimus (2018)] / Emmerdale Farm [4 episodes as Terry (2019)] / Sherwood [2 episodes as CSI Madison (2022)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (William Hartnell) and Dodo (Jackie Lane) are off their horses and drinking their milk during The Gunfighters (1966)

[Susan Foreman]

March 26th, 2005 - 18 years ago today, the episode 'Rose' was transmitted, and 'Doctor Who' returned to our television screens after a break of 9 years

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #1077 / Nu-Who #156

Name: Paul Marc Davis [1974 - ]
Year(s): Doctor Who: 2007
Stories: Utopia
Character(s): Futurekind Chieftan

Year(s): Torchwood: 2008
Stories: Exit Wounds
Character(s): Cowled Ghost

Year(s): The Sarah-Jane Adventures: 2007 / 2008 / 2009
Stories: Whatever Happened To Sarah-Jane? / The Temptation Of Sarah-Jane / The Wedding Of Sarah-Jane
Character(s): The Trickster

Year(s): Class: 2016
Stories: For Tonight We Might Die / Co-Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Brave-ish Heart / The Lost
Character(s): Corakinus

Note(s): Is the only actor who has appeared in 'Doctor Who' and all three of the BBC Wales spin-off shows

Before Who:
Films: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), The Real Casanova (2003), Quality Indigo (2005), Three Minute Moments (2007)
Television: None

After Who:
Films: Cassandra's Dream (2007), The Seer (2007), Hardly Bear to Look at You (2009), The Symmetry of Love (2010), Diagnosis Superstar (2011), The Sky in Bloom (2013), Son of God (2014), Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot (2020)
Television: EastEnders (2007), The Bible: Mission (2013) / Doctors: Try A Little Tenderness (2014) / Silent Witness [3 episodes, different characters (2014–2016)]