The Invasion

Tobias Vaughan (Kevin Stoney) gets a
bit shouty

Eight episodes (Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four, Episode Five, Episode Six, Episode Seven, Episode Eight)
First broadcast Nov 2 to Dec 21 1968
Average audience for serial: 6.91m

An episode by episode review of this serial can be read at Time Space Visualiser here.

REGULAR CAST

Patrick Troughton (The Doctor) Mar 25 1920 to Mar 28 1987 (heart attack) See Patrick Troughton's entry on The Power of the Daleks

Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Born Sep 22 1944 Click here for Frazer Hines's entry on The Highlanders

Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot) Born Dec 7 1947 Click here for Wendy Padbury's entry on The Wheel in Space

GUEST CAST

Dominic Allan (Policeman)
Career highlights
Dominic's other credits include The Troubleshooters (1968), The Girl with a Pistol (1968), The Railway Children (1970), A Pin to See the Peepshow (1973), The Naked Civil Servant (1975), The Tomorrow People (1978), Law and Order (1978), Rebecca (1979), Minder (1982) and The Russian Soldier (1986).

Edward Burnham (Professor Watkins) Dec 25 1916 to Jun 30 2015
Doctor Who credits
Played: Professor Watkins in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Professor Kettlewell in Robot (1974-75)
Career highlights
Edward's career began in 1938 with The Marvellous History of St Bernard, followed by Destination Downing Street (1957), Quatermass and the Pit (1959), The Citadel (1960), The Plane Makers (1964), The Saint (1966), To Sir, With Love (1967), The Avengers (1967/69), Christ Crucified (1969), The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971), 10 Rillington Place (1971), The Pallisers (1974), Nicholas Nickleby (1977), Van der Valk (1977), Tales of the Unexpected (1982), Muck and Brass (1982), Eh Brian! It's a Whopper (1984), The Gentle Touch (1984), Oliver Twist (1985), Little Dorrit (1988), Nightingales (1990), The Bill (1992), Black Books (2002) and Swiss Toni (2003).
Facts
Edward was the first director to put Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood on the stage at the 1956 Edinburgh Festival. Edward's daughter Vinilla Burnham has some impressive claims to fame, including designing the Batsuit for Tim Burton's Batman (1989), Aslan the Lion for The Chronicles of Narnia TV series (1988-90) and various creatures and costumes for Brazil (1985), The Fifth Element (1997), The Wind in the Willows (2006) and The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007). In 2008, at the age of 92, Edward released his first novel, Moosia, set during the Russian Revolution.

Ralph Carrigan (Cyberman) Nov 1 1933 to Apr 4 2007
Doctor Who credits
Played: Extra in The Myth Makers (1965, uncredited)
Played: Monoid in The Ark (1966)
Played: Cheerleader in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: White Robot in The Mind Robber (1968)
Played: Cyberman in The Invasion (1968)
Career highlights
Ralph's only other credit is a Wednesday Play (1965) and The Body Stealers (1969).

Derek Chafer (Cyberman) Born May 30 1935
Doctor Who credits
Played: Saxon in The Time Meddler (1965, uncredited)
Played: Greek soldier in The Myth Makers (1965, uncredited)
Played: Guard in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966, uncredited), The Curse of Peladon (1972, uncredited), The Monster of Peladon (1974, uncredited)
Played: Lynch mob member in The Gunfighters (1966, uncredited)
Played: Cyberman in The Moonbase (1967, uncredited), The Invasion (1968)
Played: Extra in The Space Pirates (1969, uncredited)
Played: UNIT soldier in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Prisoner in The Mind of Evil (1971, uncredited)
Played: Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (1974, uncredited)
Played: Armourer in The Masque of Mandragora (1976, uncredited)
Career highlights
Further work includes Softly Softly (1969), Doomwatch (1970), The Moonstone (1972), Upstairs Downstairs (1974), Star Wars (1977), Enemy at the Door (1980), The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and No Problem! (1983).

Geoffrey Cheshire (Tracy) Mar 26 1927 to Oct 5 2004
Doctor Who credits
Played: Viking leader in The Time Meddler (1965)
Played: Garge in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Roboman in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966)
Played: Tracy in The Invasion (1968)
Career highlights
Geoffrey's other credits include The Skull (1965), The Saint (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Doctor in Charge (1972), The Thief of Baghdad (1978) and The Bill (1989).

Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart) Dec 16 1929 to Feb 22 2011 (cancer) Click here for Nicholas Courtney's entry on The Daleks' Master Plan

Stacy Davies (Private Perkins) Jul 13 1936 to Jul 7 2019
Doctor Who credits
Played: Private Perkins in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Veros in State of Decay (1980)
Career highlights
Stacy's earliest credit was on 1963's The Human Jungle, and subsequently King of the River (1966), The Revenue Men (1967), Sex and the Other Woman (1972), Barlow (1975), Clayhanger (1976), The Flockton Flyer (1977), 1990 (1977), A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979), Terry and June (1982), Eh Brian! It's a Whopper (1984), The Magnificent Evans (1984), Scene: Your Place or Mine (1985), Rockcliffe's Folly (1988), Bernard and the Genie (1991), Virtual Murder (1992), Backup (1997), Big Women (1998), Lady Audley's Secret (2000) and London's Burning (2001). He had a recurring role as Dick Willoughby in medical drama Angels (1981-83).

Edward Dentith (Major-General Rutlidge) Sep 22 1917 to Jan 1999
Career highlights
First performing under the name Edward Dain in Without the Prince (1952), My Wife Jacqueline (1952), Operation Diplomat (1953) and Portrait of Alison (1955), Edward also appeared in Abigail and Roger (1956), Yangtse Incident (1957), The Moonraker (1958), The Avengers (1961), Gideon's Way (1965), Crossroads (1966), The Jazz Age (1968), The First Churchills (1969), The Onedin Line (1971), War and Peace (1972), Son of the Bride (1973), Affairs of the Heart (1975), King of the Castle (1977), The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1977), Lillie (1978), Emmerdale Farm (1979), All Creatures Great and Small (1988), Around the World in 80 Days (1989), Mulberry (1992) and Leon the Pig Farmer (1992).
Facts
Edward's son was Professor Simon Dentith, latterly of the University of Reading, who died in 2014 aged 62.

Terence Denville (Cyberman) Nov 22 1930 to Oct 26 2015 (dementia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Foot soldier in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Alien technician in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Prison guard in Frontier in Space (1973, uncredited)
Played: Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (1974, uncredited)
Played: Ice Warrior in The Monster of Peladon (1974, uncredited)
Career highlights
Other work includes No Hiding Place (1963), Hadleigh (1969), Callan (1972), Moonbase 3 (1973), Ripping Yarns (1976), Lytton's Diary (1986), Love Soup (2005) and Miranda (2010).
Facts
Terence - real name Terence Faulkner - had been a member of the British far right nationalist party the National Front since 1970. He added Denville to his surname by deed poll in return for a lifelong income from the estate of theatrical impresario Alfred Denville, who founded Denville Hall, the Actors' Charitable Trust retirement and care home for elderly actors and performers, in 1925. Alfred was also associated with far right politics, and between 1931-45 was Conservative MP for Newcastle Upon Tyne, and was a leading member of the Friends of National Spain and a supporter of Italy's Benito Mussolini. Terence stood for the National Front in several elections, including a March 1976 by-election in Carshalton, London, when he received 4.6% of the ballot; the May 1979 General Election in Carshalton, when he received 1.8% of the ballot; and the June 1983 General Election in Twickenham, London, when he received 0.5% of the ballot.

Sheila Dunn (Phone operator, computer voice) Apr 11 1940 to Mar 3 2004
Doctor Who credits
Played: Blossom Lefevre in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Computer voice/ telephone operator in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Petra Williams in Inferno (1970)
Played: Dr Petra Williams in Inferno (1970)
Career highlights
Sheila's other credits include R3 (1965), Z Cars (1967), Mistress of Hardwick (1972), The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974), Accident (1978), Kessler (1981), The Bill (1997) and Harry Hill (1997-2000, in which she played Harry's mother).
Facts
Sheila was married to director Douglas Camfield, who cast her in three of his Doctor Who stories, and her father was Bill Dunn, inventor of the bullet-proof Spitfire engine and chairman of ICI. In the 1980s and 90s Sheila was a leading light in the Richmond Shakespeare Society (as Sheila Camfield), and popped up on TV in the oddest of places - including playing an old and obese Baby Spice in An Audience with the Spice Girls (1997)!

Clifford Earl (Major Branwell) Aug 29 1933 to Jul 30 2015
Doctor Who credits
Played: Station sergeant in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Major Branwell in The Invasion (1968)
Career highlights
Clifford's CV also includes appearances in The History of Mr Polly (1959), Private Investigator (1959), The Franchise Affair (1962), Gideon's Way (1965), Department S (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Jason King (1972), Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978), Ike (1979), The Sea Wolves (1980), Third Time Lucky (1982) and The Upper Hand (1990). Clifford provided continuity announcements for Southern TV in the 1970s and TVS in the 1980s.
Facts
Clifford's real name was Kenneth Clifford Earl and he was a survivor/ victim of the Porton Down chemical tests into the common cold carried out on British soldiers by the MoD in the 1950s, which resulted in his colleague Ronald Maddison's death in 1953. Ken suffered from a number of health problems throughout his adult life, which he put down to being administered nerve agent Sarin while at Porton Down in 1953 - including prostate cancer, carcinoma, spondylosis, hepatic liver cysts, a lung embolism and depression.

Murray Evans (Lorry driver)
Career highlights
Murray's earliest work was in Payroll (1961), then This Sporting Life (1963), The Sicilians (1963), Orlando (1966), The Shuttered Room (1967), The Troubleshooters (1969) and Youngblood (1986).
In 2018 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Murray here.

Ian Fairbairn (Gregory) Sep 17 1931 to Dec 2 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: Questa in The Macra Terror (1967)
Played: Gregory in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Bromley in Inferno (1970)
Played: Dr Chester in The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Career highlights
Ian's career began with a 1960 episode of Scotland Yard, and then appeared in Emergency Ward 10 (1961-62), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), The Troubleshooters (1969), The Lotus Eaters (1973), The Professionals (1977/80), Dramarama (1986) and Last of the Summer Wine (1991). Self-confessed hoarder Ian, who played Dr Frazer in Timeslip between 1970-71, retained the only original Timeslip scripts known to exist!

Sally Faulkner (Isobel Watkins) Born Aug 14 1946
Career highlights
Sally made her TV debut in a 1967 episode of Boys Meets Girl, and went on to appear in The Body Stealers (1969), The Culture Vultures (1970), Vampyres (1974), I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1976), Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976), Target (1978), Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979), The Professionals (1982), Just Good Friends (1986), Brookside (1988), House of Cards (1990), She-Wolf of London (1990), Chancer (1991), Hollyoaks (1996), Big Kids (2000), Silent Witness (2002), Doctors (2005/07), Identity (2010), The Bill (1988/92/97/2004/10) and The Verity (2016).

Charles Finch (Cyberman)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Invasion (1968)
Played: UNIT soldier in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Villager in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Career highlights
Charles also appeared in Softly Softly (1968-69), Z Cars (1968-71), Groupie Girl (1970), Universal Soldier (1971) and The Morecambe and Wise Show (1973).

Pat Gorman (Cyberman) May 10 1933 to Oct 9 2018
Doctor Who credits
Played: Freedom fighter/ Rebel in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964, uncredited)
Played: Planetarian in Mission to the Unknown (1965, uncredited)
Played: Greek soldier in The Myth Makers (1965, uncredited)
Played: Guard in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966, uncredited), The Enemy of the World (1967-68, uncredited), Day of the Daleks (1972, uncredited), Frontier in Space (1973, uncredited), The Green Death (1973, uncredited), The Monster of Peladon (1974, uncredited), Robot (1974-75, uncredited), The Seeds of Doom (1976, uncredited), The Deadly Assassin (1976, uncredited)
Played: Worker in The War Machines (1966, uncredited), Attack of the Cybermen (1985, uncredited)
Played: Seaman in The Highlanders (1966-67, uncredited)
Played: Monk in The Abominable Snowmen (1967, uncredited)
Played: Cyberman in The Invasion (1968), Revenge of the Cybermen (1975, uncredited), Attack of the Cybermen (1985, uncredited)
Played: Military policeman in The War Games (1969)
Played: Silurian in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Technician in The Seeds of Death (1969, uncredited), The Ambassadors of Death (1970, uncredited)
Played: Primord in Inferno (1970)
Played: Auton leader in Terror of the Autons (1971)
Played: Primitive in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Voice in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Long/ colonist in Colony in Space (1971)
Played: Coven member in The Daemons (1971, uncredited)
Played: Film cameraman in Day of the Daleks (1972, uncredited)
Played: Sea Devil in The Sea Devils (1972), Frontier in Space (1973, uncredited)
Played: UNIT soldier in The Three Doctors (1972-73, uncredited), Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974, as "corporal"), Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Played: 'Nuthutch' resident in The Green Death (1973, uncredited)
Played: Thal soldier in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Played: Dead crewman in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975, uncredited)
Played: Soldier in The Masque of Mandragora (1976), The Caves of Androzani (1984, uncredited)
Played: Brother in The Masque of Mandragora (1976, uncredited)
Played: Medic in The Invisible Enemy (1977)
Played: Kro in The Ribos Operation (1978, uncredited)
Played: Pilot in The Armageddon Factor (1979)
Played: Thug in City of Death (1979, uncredited)
Played: Gundan in Warriors' Gate (1981, uncredited)
Played: Foster in The Keeper of Traken (1981, uncredited)
Played: Policeman in Time-Flight (1982, uncredited)
Played: Grogan in Enlightenment (1983, uncredited)
Career highlights
Many of Pat's roles in other TV shows and films went uncredited, including The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1962), Carry On Jack (1963), Girl in the Headlines (1963), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), The Forsyte Saga (1967), five episodes of Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67), The Prisoner (1967), Dad's Army (1969), Doomwatch (1970), Trog (1970), The Moonstone (1972), On the Buses (1973), Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (1973), Within These Walls (1975), Fawlty Towers (1975), The Sweeney (1975/78), I, Claudius (1976), The New Avengers (1976), The Sandbaggers (1978), The Big Sleep (1978), The Tomorrow People (1975/79), Secret Army (1978-79), The Plank (1979), Bloomers (1979), The Plank (1979), Hammer House of Horror (1980), The Elephant Man (1980), The Nightmare Man (1981), The Day of the Triffids (1981), 10 episodes of Blake's 7 (1978-81), Minder (1979/80/82), The Professionals (1978-82), The Young Ones (1982), 'Allo 'Allo (1984), The Bill (1984), Magnum, PI (1985), Batman (1989), Dark Season (1991), Poirot (1992/93) and Soldier, Soldier (1994).
Facts
Pat appeared (often uncredited) in every series of Doctor Who between Season 2 in 1964 and Season 22 in 1985.

Peter Halliday (Packer) Jun 2 1924 to Feb 18 2012
Doctor Who credits
Played: Packer in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Silurian voices in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Alien voices in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
Played: Pletrac in Carnival of Monsters (1973)
Played: Soldier in City of Death (1979)
Played: Vicar in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Career highlights
Peter's career began with 1954's Fatal Journey and he then took roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1956), Dunkirk (1958), The Citadel (1960), Garry Halliday (1962), Sierra Nine (1963), Danger Man (1965), Write a Play (1965), The Avengers (1968), UFO (1970-71), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), The Befrienders (1972), Bowler (1973), The Boy with Two Heads (1974), The Sweeney (1975), Keep It Up Downstairs (1976), Beasts (1976), Angels (1982), The Tripods (1984), No 73 (1986), Hannay (1989), The Remains of the Day (1993), Our Friends in the North (1996), Goodnight Sweetheart (1997), Esther (1999), Micawber (2001) and Lassie (2005). He also played Dr John Fleming in A for Andromeda (1961) and The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962).
Facts
Peter was for a time married to the actress Simone Lovell, daughter of the actors Raymond Lovell and Margot Collis (who had an affair with the poet W B Yeats during her marriage to Lovell).

Norman Hartley (Sergeant Peters) Jun 13 1930 to Jan 13 2020
Doctor Who credits
Played: Ulf in The Time Meddler (1965)
Played: Sergeant Peters in The Invasion (1968)
Career highlights
Norman's debut came in The Shop at Sly Corner (1948), followed by The Gay Lady (1949), The History of Mr Polly (1959), Our Man at St Mark's (1964), The Spies (1966), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966), Paul Temple (1971), Beasts: The Dummy (1976), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), Breakaway (1980), Blake's 7 (1981), John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985), The Piglet Files (1990) and Between the Lines (1993). Norman also co-wrote the Canadian TV play The Insurance Man from Ingersoll (1975).
Facts
Norman was the godfather of the son of director Douglas Camfield and actor wife Sheila Dunn.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Norman here.

Richard King (Cyberman)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Played: Lunar guard in Frontier in Space (1973, uncredited)
Played: Draconian Emperor guard in Frontier in Space (1973, uncredited)
Career highlights
Richard also had roles in Softly Softly (1967), Doomwatch (1971), Emma (1972), The Two Ronnies (1973), Upstairs Downstairs (1972/74) and Within These Walls (1975).

John Levene (Benton) Born Dec 24 1941 Click here for John Levene's entry on The Web of Fear

Walter Randall (Patrolman) Jun 26 1929 to May 5 2006
Doctor Who credits
Played: Tonila in The Aztecs (1964)
Played: El Akir in The Crusade (1965)
Played: Hyksos in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Patrolman in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Harry Slocum in Inferno (1970)
Played: Guard captain in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
Dancer/ actor Walter's long career began in Rock You Sinners (1958), then Nudist Paradise (1959), Man from Interpol (1960), The Hands of Orlac (1961), Ghost Squad (1963), Danger Man (1964), All Gas and Gaiters (1967), Trial (1971), Follyfoot (1973), The Double Dealers (1974), Target (1977), The Professionals (1980) and Yes, Minister (1982).
Facts
Former dancer Walter went into partnership with Jon Pertwee in the 1970s, owning a hamburger diner.

Robert Sidaway (Captain Turner) Born Jan 24 1942
Doctor Who credits
Played: Avon in The Savages (1966)
Played: Captain Turner in The Invasion (1968)
Career highlights
Further acting credits include It Happened Like This (1962), Out of the Unknown (1965), The Avengers (1968), A Nice Girl Like Me (1969), Crossroads (1973), Joy Division (2006) and Chuck the Eco Duck (as narrator, 2009). Robert also slipped behind the camera to become a producer on The Game of the Century (1978), The Optimist (1983-85), Best of British (1987-94), The World of Hammer (1994) and Chuck the Eco Duck. He also scripted many of the programmes he produced.
Facts
Robert is married to actor Maggie Don. In the 1970s Robert worked in public relations and marketing for London theatre managers. In 1987 he wrote a book based on his documentary series Best of British, focusing on the Rank Organisation, and in 1996 wrote a novelisation of his film Rainbow (which was the first theatrically distributed all-digital feature film). In 1995 Robert co-founded the International Football Hall of Fame.

John Spradbury (Cyberman) Aug 3 1930 to Jun 6 2014
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Foot soldier in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Alien technician in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: UNIT soldier in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Career highlights
John's other work includes No Hiding Place (1963), The First Churchills (1969) and Curry and Chips (1969).
Facts
John - whose father was Walter Spradbery, designer of many London Underground and LNER posters in the 1920s to 40s, and whose mother was opera singer Dorothy D'Orsay - was also a trained set designer and lighting technician. He had close professional associations with dancer and choreographer Lindsay Kemp, with whom he collaborated on the stage directions for David Bowie's legendary live show for Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in 1972. Their working relationship continued for decades to come, including Kemp's memorable performance Flowers, seen in the West End and on Broadway, for which John was lighting designer. In the 1990s John worked for the Paris and New York Metropolitan Opera companies, and in his latter years wrote books, including one about his father and another about his work with Lindsay Kemp.

Kevin Stoney (Tobias Vaughn) Jan 22 1921 to Jan 22 2008 (skin cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66)
Played: Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Career highlights
Kevin's career began in 1950's The Gentle Gunman, followed by David Copperfield (1956), William Tell (1959), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1958-60), The Six Proud Walkers (1962), Murder at the Gallop (1963), The Prisoner (1967), Doomwatch (1970), Spy Trap (1972), The Tomorrow People (1973), The New Avengers (1976), Quatermass (1979), Bergerac (1981-83), Hannay (1988), Inspector Morse (1993) and Alleyn Mysteries (1993). Kevin also played the character Thrasyllus in both The Caesars (1968) and I, Claudius (1976).
Facts
Kevin was voted the Daily Mail's Villain of the Year in 1965 for his memorable role in The Daleks' Master Plan. In 1985 Kevin's very premature death was announced in a Doctor Who fanzine, but he made an appearance at a 1987 convention to prove he was still alive and kicking!

Peter Thompson (Workman) 1925 to 1999
Doctor Who credits
Played: Workman in The Invasion (1968)
Played: Primord in Inferno (1970)
Career highlights
Peter made his debut in Stranger on the Shore (1961), and then popped up in Z Cars (1964), Six Shades of Black (1965), Frankie Howerd (1966), Ollie and Fred's Five O'Clock Club (1966), Freewheelers (1968), Kemek (1970), Twins of Evil (1971), Plugg (1975), High Rolling (1977), Prisoner: Cell Block H (1979/80), The Other Woman (1981), Channel Chaos (1984) and Neighbours (1986).

James Thornhill (Sergeant Walters)
Career highlights
James had previously appeared in The Entertainer (1960), Girl in a Black Bikini (1967), Z Cars (1967), Poor Cow (1967) and The Limbo Line (1968). Doctor Who was his final credit.

Peter Thornton (Cyberman)
Career highlights
Peter's debut was in Man with a Gun (1958), followed by Lorna Doone (1963), The Benny Hill Show (1965), Coronation Street (1968), Jackanory (1970), Man of Violence (1971), Theatre of Blood (1973), Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973), When the Boat Comes In (1976) and Thomas and Sarah (1979). He also regularly played PC Burton in Dixon of Dock Green (1964-68).

CREW

Derrick Sherwin (writer) Apr 16 1936 to Oct 17 2018 Click here for Derrick Sherwin's entry on The Web of Fear

Kit Pedler (story idea) Jun 11 1927 to May 27 1981 (heart attack) Click here for Kit Pedler's entry on The War Machines

Douglas Camfield (director) May 8 1931 to Jan 27 1984 (heart attack) Click here for Douglas Camfield's entry on Planet of Giants

Peter Bryant (producer) Oct 27 1923 to May 19 2006 (cancer) Click here for Peter Bryant's entry on The Faceless Ones

Terrance Dicks (script editor) Apr 14 1935 to Aug 29 2019
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Invasion, The Krotons, The Seeds of Death, The War Games (uncredited), Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Ambassadors of Death, Inferno, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Colony in Space, The Daemons, Day of the Daleks, The Curse of Peladon, The Sea Devils, The Mutants, The Time Monster, The Three Doctors, Carnival of Monsters, Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks, The Green Death, The Time Warrior, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Death to the Daleks, The Monster of Peladon, Planet of the Spiders (1968-74)
Wrote: The Dominators (1968, uncredited), The Seeds of Death (1969, uncredited), The War Games (1969), Robot (1974-75), The Brain of Morbius (1976, as Robin Bland), Horror of Fang Rock (1977), State of Decay (1980), The Five Doctors (1983). Terrance also wrote the Doctor Who stage plays Doctor Who and the Daleks in The Seven Keys to Doomsday (1974) and The Ultimate Adventure (1989), as well as fan spin-offs Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (1994, video) and Mindgame (1998, video).
Played: Man in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970, uncredited)
Career highlights
Prolific writer Terrance also wrote for The Avengers (1962-69), Moonbase 3 (1973) and Space: 1999 (1976). He took script editing duties on Moonbase 3 (1973), Great Expectations (1981), Stalky & Co. (1982), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982, with Tom Baker as Sherlock Holmes), Dombey and Son (1983), Jane Eyre (1983), Goodbye Mr Chips (1984), The Invisible Man (1984), The Prisoner of Zenda (1984) and The Pickwick Papers (1985). As a producer, he worked on Oliver Twist (1985), Alice in Wonderland (1986), Brat Farrar (1986), David Copperfield (1986), The Diary of Anne Frank (1987), Vanity Fair (1987) and The Franchise Affair (1988).
Facts
Terrance maintained his links to Doctor Who over the years, having written over 60 TV story novelisations, as well as three Virgin New Adventures, seven BBC Books and two Quick Reads. Away from Doctor Who, Terrance has also written extensively for children's fiction and non-fiction book ranges since 1976, including Star Quest, The Mounties, The Baker Street Irregulars, Cry Vampire, The Adventures of Goliath, Chronicles of a Computer Game Addict, The Unexplained and many more.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Terrance here.