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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

You're back with the images, Susan.

Servalan commanded it on pain of death.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Commander Maxil (Colin Baker), the Doctor (Peter Davison) and Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) in the renegades TARDIS in Arc of Infinity (1983)

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

You're back with the images, Susan.

[Susan Foreman]

Rumour has it... the opening episode of the 60th anniversary series is going to be shown on January 1st, 2023

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #817

Name: Aimee Delamain [1906 - 1999]
Year(s): 1985
Stories: The Two Doctors part 1
Character(s): Dona Arana
Note(s): At the time of her death, she was the oldest actor to have appeared in the show

Before Who:
Films: The Bishop's Candlesticks (1949), The Princess and the Woodcutter (1952), Give Them a Ring (1954), The Case of the Red Monkey* (1955), The Secret (1955), Two Left Feet (1965), Rotten to the Core (1965), Hassan (1970), The Price of Love (1970), Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971), I, Monster (1971), The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972), The House in Nightmare Park* (1973), Haunted: The Ferryman (1974), One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975), Huggy Bear (1976), Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), Cymbeline (1982), Invitation to the Wedding (1983), Oxford Blues (1984)

Television: Huckleberry Finn [2 episodes as Miss Watson (1952)] / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: The Paragon (1955) / Our Miss Pemberton [10 episodes as Miss Henrietta Copley (1957-1958)] / Theatre 70: The Violent Stranger (1960) / Dixon of Dock Green [3 episodes, different characters (1961-1975)] / Boyd Q.C.: The Headmistress (1961) / Oliver Twist [2 episodes as Old Sally (1962)] / Z Cars: People's Property (1962) / Tales of Mystery: Chinese Magic (1962) / Maigret: Death in Mind (1962) / Harpers West One (1962) / Suspense: The Tourelle Skull (1963) / Emergency-Ward 10 (1963) / Moonstrike: Unwelcome Ghost (1963) / Maupassant: Wives and Lovers (1963) / The Plane Makers [2 episodes as Mrs. Milne (1963)] / The Avengers: November Five (1963) / It's Dark Outside: A Room with No View (1964) / Madame Bovary: First Love (1964) / The Human Jungle: Wild Goose Chase (1964) / Six: The Logic Game (1965) / ITV Play of the Week: The Edwardians #4 - The Madras House (1965) / Contract to Kill: Voice from the Past (1965) / Riviera Police: That Kind of Girl (1965) / Hereward the Wake [6 episodes as the Lapp Nurse (1965)] / The Wednesday Play: Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (1965) / The Liars (1966) / Pardon the Expression: Between the Cover (1966) / No Hiding Place: It Isn't Just the Money... (1966) / Thirteen Against Fate: The Widower (1966) / The Saint: The Better Mousetrap (1966) / Les Miserables: Sanctuary (1967) / ITV Playhouse: Camille 68 (1968) / Omnibus: The Woman from the Shadows (1969) / The Avengers: Who Was That Man I Saw You With?* (1969) / The Main Chance: Liar's Dice (1969) / Softly Softly: Recovery (1969) / The Root of All Evil?: What's in It for Me? (1969) / Crime of Passion: Nicole (1970) / Menace: Something Cries Out (1970) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Paper Roses (1971) / The Troubleshooters: Pie in the Sea (1971) / The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Horse of the Invisible (1971) / Upstairs, Downstairs: I Dies from Love (1972) / The Befrienders: Allenby and Son, Limited (1972) / The Man Outside: Eric (1972) / The Visitors [5 episodes as Singe Bielska (1972)] / The Pearcross Girls [2 episodes as Great Aunt Nettie (1973)] / Away from It All: Such a Small Word (1973) / Ooh La La!: Kept on a String (1973) / Owen, M.D.: Long Voyage Home (1973) / Crown Court: Further Charges (1974) / The Carnforth Practice [4 episodes as Lady Mary, Dowager Countess of Penmere (1974)] / The Early Life of Stephen Hind [2 episodes as Lady Emily Grosmont (1974)] / Thriller: Murder on the Midnight Express (1975) / Making Faces: Packaging Industry Convention 1963 - A Christmas Box (1975) / Shadows: The Other Window (1975) / Beryl's Lot [2 episodes as Phoebe (1975)] / Angels: Day Hospital (1976) / ITV Sunday Night Drama: The Nicest Man in the World (1976) / The Crezz [10 episodes as Lady Clarke (1976)] / Jackanory: Jubilee Jackanory - The Boy Who Started a War (1977) / The Upchat Line: Accommodation Address (1977) / The Peppermint Pig [4 episodes as Miss. Mantripp (1977)] / Target: Lady Luck (1977) / Devenish: The Liversedge Affair (1978) / Come Back, Lucy [2 episodes as Aunt Olive (1978)] / BBC2 Play of the Week: Ice Age (1978) / Armchair Thriller: The Limbo Connection [2 episodes as Mrs. Franklyn (1978)] / Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt: The Road to Paradise Valley (1978) / The Famous Five: Five Get Into a Fix (1978) / George & Mildred [2 episodes, different characters (1978-1979)] / Fawlty Towers: The Psychiatrist* (1979) / Shoestring: Knock for Knock (1979) / The Swish of the Curtain (1980) / The Sandbaggers: Sometimes We Play Dirty Too (1980) / BBC2 Playhouse: Dancing Country (1981) / Chronicle: For the Love of Egypt (1982) / All for Love: A Dedicated Man (1982) / Never the Twain: A Woman's Place... (1982) / The Professionals: Cry Wolf (1983) / The Nation's Health: Collapse (1983) / Shine on Harvey Moon: Goodnight Sweetheart (1984)

After Who:
Films: Florence Nightingale (1985), Santa Claus: The Movie (1985), The Finding (1987), High Spirits [as Great Granny Plunkett] (1988), Getting It Right (1989), First and Last (1989)
Television: One by One: Thank You, Mr. D.H. Lawrence (1985) / Fresh Fields: Moveable Feasts (1985) / Murder of a Moderate Man [2 episodes as Mrs. Baine (1985) / C.A.T.S. Eyes: Honeytrap (1986) / The District Nurse: Highjinks and Tomfooling (1987) / Casualty: Anaconda* (1987) / 'Allo 'Allo!: Good Staff Are Hard to Find (1987) / All in Good Faith: And He Fell Among Thieves (1988) / Don't Wait Up (1988) / The Bill [2 episodes, different characters (1988-1989)] / Dramarama: Making Waves (1988) / Wyatt's Watchdogs: Getting Out and Spreading the Word (1988) / You Rang, M'Lord?: Beg, Borrow or Steal (1990) / Devices and Desires [3 episodes as Mrs. Copley (1991)] / Dizzy Heights Hotel: In the Bleak Mid-Winter (1991) / Screen Two: Memento Mori (1992)

[Susan Foreman]

In memory of Mona Hammond (1931 - 2022)

Played Rita-Anne Smith, the 'alternative universe' version of Mickey's grandmother in the 2006 story 'Rise of the Cybermen'

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The cover art of the Big Finish audio story The Silver Turk, starring Paul McGann as the Doctor and Julie Cox as Mary Shelley. It was released in 2011.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #818a

Name: James Saxon [1954 - 2003]
Year(s): 1985
Stories: The Two Doctors part 1 – The Two Doctors part 3
Character(s): Oscar Botcherby

Before Who:
Films: The Nesting (1981)
Television: Seeing and Believing: Brother Francis (1976) / Jukes of Piccadilly: Dulverton Green (1980) / The Gentle Touch: Damage (1982) / We'll Meet Again [13 episodes as Sgt. Elmer Jones (1982)] / Brass [32 episodes as Morris Hardacre (1983-1990)]

After Who:
Films: Family Ties Vacation (1985), Biggles* (1986), London's Burning (1986), Twelfth Night, or What You Will [as Sir Toby Belch] (1988), Smack and Thistle (1991), England, My England (1995), Poldark (1996), Les Miserables (1998), The Prince and the Pauper (2000Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2003)

Television: Theatre Night: Lady Windermere's Fan (1985) / Brush Strokes [5 episodes as Phillip Crane (1986)] / Roland Rat: The Series [14 episodes as Darcey De-Farcey (1985-1986)] / Vanity Fair [10 episodes as Joseph 'Jos' Sedley (1987)] / T.Bag and the Revenge of the T.Set: When in Rome (1989) / The Paradise Club [7 episodes as DI Fairweather (1989)] / Poirot: The Lost Mine (1990) / T.Bag and the Pearls of Wisdom: Mutiny! (1990) / Troublemakers [4 episodes as Boss (1990)] / Tygo Road (1990) / Boon: Daddy's Girl (1990) / T.Bag's Christmas Ding Dong (1990) / The New Statesman: Labour of Love (1991) / Spatz: Takeover (1991) / Time Riders (1991) / T.Bag and the Sunstones of Montezuma: Wilma Tell (1992) / Casualty: Cascade (1992) / Haggard: Beau Haggard (1992) / Minder: Last Orders at the Winchester (1993) / Medics (1993) / Maigret: Maigret on the Defensive (1993) / Soldier Soldier: Trouble and Strife (1993) / Between the Lines: Honourable Men (1993) / Lovejoy: Never Judge a Book by Its Cover (1993) / Harry (1993) / If You See God, Tell Him (1993) / A Touch of Frost: Nothing to Hide (1994) / Murder Most Horrid: A Severe Case of Death (1994) / Sharpe: Sharpe's Honour (1994) / McCallum [9 episodes as Fuzzy Brightons (1995-1998)] / Tales from the Crypt: Fatal Caper (1996) / Chalk: The Inspection (1997) / In the Red (1998) / Wing and a Prayer (1999) / Cleopatra [2 episodes as Pothinus (1999)] / Mike & Angelo: The Emperor's New Clothes (2000) / Metropolis [2 episodes as Marcus Hammond (2000)] / Jonathan Creek: Satan's Chimney (2001)

Who: Before And After #818b

Name: Carmen Gomez [1949 - ]
Year(s): 1985
Stories: The Two Doctors part 1 – The Two Doctors part 3
Character(s): Anita


Before Who:
Films: Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (1974)
Television: Barlow: Snatch (1974) / Don't Drink the Water: The Fuse (1974) / The Crezz: The Spanish Succession (1976) / The Aphrodite Inheritance [4 episodes as Maria (1979)]

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Farrington of the F.O. [2 episodes, different characters (1987)] / Star Cops: Conversations with the Dead (1987) / The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Put on by Cunning (1990) / About Face: Monkey Business (1991) / Scarlet and Black (1993) / Surgical Spirit: Reunion Night (1994) / Dalziel and Pascoe: A Killing Kindness (1997) / A Dance to the Music of Time [2 episodes as Rosie Mansach (1997)]

Who: Before And After #818c

Name: Tim Raynham [1958 - ]
Year(s): 1985
Stories: The Two Doctors part 1 – The Two Doctors part 3
Character(s): Varl
Note(s): Also appeared as Turner in the 'Jim'll Fix It' segment 'A Fix With Sontarans'

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: None

After Who:
Films: None
Television: The Paradise Club: The Great Fly-Tipping War (1990) / The Comic Strip Presents: Jealousy (1993)

Who: Before And After #818d

Name: Nicholas Fawcett [? - ] [Sometimes credited as Nick Fawcett]
Year(s): 1985
Stories: The Two Doctors part 1
Character(s): Technician

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: All the World's a Stage: Silk Stockings and White Bosoms (1984)

After Who:
Films: Hardcore: A Poke Into the Adult Film Orifice (2005), Coincidence (2011), Lad: A Yorkshire Story (2013), Perfect Piece (2016)
Television: Doctors: Shambles (2015)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Kaftan (Shirley Cooklin) and Klieg (George Pastell) up to no good in Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)

[Susan Foreman]

Looks like 'The Abominable Snowmen' is back on the cards!

Amazon UK has a pre-order listing for DVD (£14:99) and Blu-Ray (£19:99)

No release date is given, however