Resurrection of the Daleks

Davros (Terry Molloy) did like a nice
Dalek marshmallow

Two episodes (Part One, Part Two)
First broadcast Feb 8 to 15 1984
Average audience for serial: 7.65m

REGULAR CAST

Peter Davison (The Doctor) Born Apr 13 1951 Click here for Peter Davison's entry on Logopolis

Janet Fielding (Tegan) Born Sep 9 1953 Click here for Janet Fielding's entry on Logopolis

Mark Strickson (Turlough) Born Apr 6 1959 Click here for Mark Strickson's entry on Mawdryn Undead

GUEST CAST

Chloe Ashcroft (Professor Laird) Born Jul 7 1942
Career highlights
Although best known for her television presenting duties on Play School and Play Away in the 1970s and 80s, Chloe has enjoyed a few dramatic roles, notably in The Scheme (1963), Much Ado About Nothing (1967), Out of the Unknown (1969), Softly Softly: Task Force (1970), Edward the King (1975) and Pie in the Sky (1986, a series she devised with her husband co-star).
Facts
Chloe is married to actor (and fellow Play School presenter) David Hargreaves, and is the niece of acting legend Peggy Ashcroft.

John Adam Baker (Crewmember)
John's other credits were in The Cleopatras (1983), London's Burning (1989) and The Bill (1991). John was also a member of the dance troupe Zoo, which performed on Top of the Pops between 1981-82.

Rodney Bewes (Stien) Nov 27 1937 to Nov 21 2017
Career highlights
Rodney's earliest acting credit was in The Pickwick Papers in 1952, after which he took roles in Dixon of Dock Green (1962), A Prize of Arms (1962), Billy Liar (1963), Cluff (1964), San Ferry Ann (1965), Hicks and Stokes (1967), Father Dear Father (1968), Spring and Port Wine (1970), Shirley's World (1971), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972), Jonah and the Whale (1975), Jabberwocky (1977), The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980), Just Liz (1980), The Adventures of a Lady (1987), Spender (1993), Revolver (2004) and Heartbeat (2009). He also had a regular role as "Mr Rodney" in The Basil Brush Show between 1968-69, and played the title character in the sitcom Dear Mother... Love Albert (1969-72, which he also wrote and produced in its entirety), but will forever be synonymous with the part of Bob Ferris in the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964-66) and its sequel series Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973-74), the 1976 film version and the radio versions (1967-68/75).
Facts
Famously, Rodney had a long-standing (and one-sided) rift with his Likely Lads co-star James Bolam, who Rodney said in his 2005 autobiography hadn't spoken to him since they filmed the 1976 movie. This apparently stems from when Bolam's wife became pregnant and Rodney revealed the fact in a press interview. The intensely private Bolam was so annoyed with his co-star that he never spoke to or met Rodney since, and has even been known to block repeats of The Likely Lads which Rodney claimed would give him much-needed income to pay his debts and mortgage. It was one of the most infamous celebrity feuds in UK showbiz, although Bolam denied the rift, claiming their "busy schedules" were to blame for the lack of contact, and that he had nothing but fond memories of Bewes. In 1997 Rodney won the Stella Artois Price at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for his one-man rendition of Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. In the 1970s Rodney was the commercial face of the British Onion Marketing Board (or, amusingly, BOMB), and in one newspaper advert he said: "I had the most delicious baloney sandwich today with red onions and field greens on very fresh bread. I was shocked how good it was."
This is Your Life: Rodney was the subject of Thames TV's This is Your Life on December 10th, 1980, surprised by host Eamonn Andrews in central London.

Toby Byrne (Dalek operator)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dalek operator in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Revelation of the Daleks (1985)
Career highlights
Further work includes The Last Window Cleaner (1979), Blake's 7 (1979/81), The Hard Word (1983), Crossfire (1988), Children of the North (1991) and Beyond Reason (1995).

Maurice Colbourne (Lytton) Sep 24 1939 to Aug 4 1989 (heart attack)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Lytton in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Attack of the Cybermen (1985)
Career highlights
Maurice's debut came in Cry of the Banshee (1970), then Churchill's People (1975), The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976), The Duellists (1977), Bloodline (1979), The Onedin Line (1979), Hawk the Slayer (1980), Strangers (1980), The Day of the Triffids (1981), Johnny Jarvis (1983) and Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985). He secured early success playing John Kline in the Play for Today Gangsters (1975) and its resultant series (1976-78), but found his biggest fame as Tom Howard in 61 episodes of the maritime drama Howards' Way (1985-89).
Facts
Before becoming an actor Maurice (born Roger Middleton) was a ghost train operator in Manchester and a waiter in London. He adopted his stage name after seeing an obituary (in 1965) for an actor called Maurice Colbourne, who coincidentally shared his birthdate. In 1972 Maurice co-founded the Half Moon Theatre Company (named after an alley near the rented building they used), but the company folded in 1990 (a Wetherspoon's pub is named after it, the Half Moon in Stepney Green, London. Maurice died in his wife's arms in Brittany, while there renovating a holiday home, shortly after returning from a sailing trip. He was due to return to the UK the following week to complete filming series five of Howards' Way (his character's disappearance was explained as a sailing accident).

Roger Davenport (Trooper) Born Oct 4 1946
Career highlights
Roger's other credits include Softly Softly: Task Force (1974), Brassneck (1975), Henry V (1979), Good Behaviour (1983), My Parents are Aliens (2005) and The Library of Burned Books (2013). Roger has another string to his bow, as a writer, having penned for Bergerac (1985), Indelible Evidence (1987), All Creatures Great and Small (1989-90), Growing Pains (1993), The Bill (1993-94) and The Double Life of Saki (2007).
Facts
Roger's wife is actress Joanna McCallum (whose parents were the actors John McCallum and Googie Withers), while his father was Observer literary critic John Davenport and his grandmother was the singer and actress Muriel George. Roger quit acting in the 1980s and went into advertising (for Unilever) and theatre management before returning to the boards and taking up writing books for children, such as 1989's Onlooker, Out of His Mind (1996) and Wanderer (2013).

Jim Findley (Mercer)
Career highlights
Trinidad-born Jim debuted in The Zoo (1980), after which he took roles in Britannia Hospital (1982), Johnny Jarvis (1983), Playboy of the West Indies (1985), Playing Away (1987), Cry Freedom (1987), Lazarus and Dingwall (1991), Paradise Heights (2002), The Crooked Man (2003), Dalziel and Pascoe (2005), The Chase (2007), Let's Bring Back Sophie (2016) and Pitching In (2019).
Facts
Here's a lovely video with Jim from 2013 in which he is interviewed about his appearance in Doctor Who by his son.

Leslie Grantham (Kiston) Apr 30 1947 to Jun 15 2018 (lung cancer)
Career highlights
Leslie's earliest credited role was in 1982's Jake's End, after which he took roles in Goodnight and God Bless (1983), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Morons from Outer Space (1985), Bulman (1985), Winners and Losers (1989), The Nightwatch (1989), The Good Guys (1992), The Detectives (1993), Cluedo (1993), Wycliffe (1997), The Uninvited (1997), Urban Gothic (2000), Heartbeat (2002), DeadTime (2012), The Factory (2013), Mob Handed (2016) and The Krays: Dead Man Walking (2018). Leslie also enjoyed a lead role in the series The Paradise Club (1989-90) and 99-1 (1994-95), and was the presenter for a time of game show Fort Boyard (1998-2001). However, it is the iconic role of "Dirty" Den Watts in more than 550 episodes of soap EastEnders between 1985-89 and 2003-05 that he will be best known for.
Facts
Leslie was until 2013 married to Australian born actress Jane Laurie. While he was in the Army, in 1966, Leslie was convicted of murdering a West German taxi driver who he shot in the back of the head while attempting to rob him in Osnabruck. Handed a life sentence, he served 10 years in prison, and it was while at Leyhill Prison in Gloucestershire that he met actress and part-time prison visitor Louise Jameson (aka Leela) who persuaded him to pursue acting. In 2004 Leslie was mixed up in a tabloid scandal when a Sunday newspaper printed pictures of him exposing himself and masturbating on MSN Instant Messenger via a webcam with an undercover reporter. In the 2006 Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts, the Doctor watches an edition of EastEnders in which it is said the ghost of Den Watts was returning to the soap's pub, the Queen Vic, but it is told to leave before the channel is changed.

Sneh Gupta (Osborn) Born May 12 1957
Career highlights
Kenyan-born Sneh debuted in Angels in 1979, then appeared in The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls (1980), Kelly Monteith (1982), Octopussy (1983), The Far Pavilions (1984), Kim (1984), Rainbow (1986), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987), Tandoori Nights (1987) and The Peacock Spring (1996). Before she was an actor, Sneh was a hostess on the game show Sale of the Century (1977-78).
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Sneh here.

Del Henney (Colonel Archer) Jul 24 1935 to Jan 14 2019
Career highlights
Debuting in United! (1965), Del's further work includes The Revenue Men (1968), Parkin's Patch (1970), Straw Dogs (1971), The Mad Trapper (1972), Brannigan (1975), Wings (1978), Fallen Hero (1978-79), A Woman of Substance (1985), Resnick (1992-93), Jonathan Creek (1997), North Square (2000), The Brief (2004), Devil's Playground (2010) and A Confession (2015).
Facts
Del was married to fellow actor Rosemary McHale.

Rula Lenska (Styles) Born Sep 30 1947
Career highlights
Her earliest credit was on The Doctors (1971), after which she appeared in Special Branch (1974), Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975), Royal Flash (1975), Alfie Darling (1976), Queen Kong (1976), The Cuckoo Waltz (1980), Take a Letter Mr Jones (1981), Robin of Sherwood (1984), Cluedo (1991), Kappatoo (1992), Stay Lucky (1993), One Foot in the Grave (1996), EastEnders (2002), Doctors (2006), Grandpa in My Pocket (2009), Ideal (2011), Bait (2014), Inside No 9 (2016) and The Exorcism of Karen Walker (2018). She enjoyed regular roles as Nancy Cunard de Longchamps in Rock Follies (1976-77) and Claudia Colby in soap Coronation Street (2009-11 & 2017-19). In 2006 she was one of the contestants on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, a career move that attracted substantial controversy and criticism when she took part in a task with British politician George Galloway which saw him pretend to be a cat and lick milk from Rula's cupped hands. Rula was the third celeb to be voted out.
Facts
Rula's full birth name is Countess Roza-Marie Leopoldnya Lubienska, but she was actually born in unassuming St Neots in Cambridgeshire, UK, the daughter of Polish immigrant parents (her father was the head of Poland's Radio Free Europe and one-time adjutant to the Polish Prime Minister in exile during World War Two). Rula has since renounced her title. Between 1977-87 Rula was married to actor Brian Deacon (not the one from Queen; this one's the brother of actor Eric Deacon, who appeared in the Doctor Who story Timelash), and between 1987-98 she was married to actor Dennis Waterman, who in 2012 admitted to hitting Rula. However, his comment was controversial: "It's not difficult for a woman to make a man hit her. She certainly wasn't a beaten wife, she was hit and that's different." In the United States she became known for her appearances in TV commercials for Alberto VO5 shampoo in the 1970s and 80s, in which she was hailed as internationally renowned but was actually unheard of in the US. This "celebrity endorsement" led to Rula being ridiculed on shows like The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Saturday Night Live. In 2009 Rula began to seek £1m compensation from the Polish government for its seizure of her family's estate. This was still ongoing as of 2017 ("It’s important for honour, not for money. The stately home my mother was born in still exists. It looks the same on the outside. But it was taken over by the Communists and turned into an agricultural college and the inside was destroyed. Thousands of acres of land belonged to the property, it was in my family for generations, there were churches on the land and carp lakes and schools. Compensation from the government for loss of the property and lands is a possibility.")
This is Your Life: Rula was the subject of BBC TV's This is Your Life on January 10th, 1996, surprised by host Michael Aspel during the curtain call of a pantomime at Redhill's Harlequin Theatre.
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Rula here.

John Scott Martin (Dalek operator) Apr 1 1926 to Jan 6 2009 (Parkinson's Disease) Click here for John Scott Martin's entry on The Web Planet

Philip McGough (Sergeant Calder) Born 1950
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sergeant Calder in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984)
Played: Alien voices in The Stolen Earth (2008, scene cut)
Career highlights
Philip's earliest role was in Dixon of Dock Green (1975), after which he appeared in Rooms (1977), Muck and Brass (1982), Oxbridge Blues (1984), Brookside (1986), The Monocled Mutineer (1986), Only Fools and Horses (1989), A Sense of Guilt (1990), The Manageress (1990), Chancer (1991), French Fields (1991), Forever Green (1989/92), Nightingales (1993), Eye of the Storm (1993), The Magician (1993), So Haunt Me (1994), Bugs (1995), And the Beat Goes On (1996), Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999), Ultimate Force (2003), Keen Eddie (2004), The Illusionist (2006) and Canoe Man (2010). Regular roles include Dr Malcolm Nicholson in Bad Girls (2000-05) and Dr Charlie Bradfield in daytime soap Doctors (2010).
Facts
For 12 years in the 1960s and 70s Philip trained to be a monk, during which he spent 12 months in almost complete silence. However, he left the order after being subjected to beatings and going through "some awful times".

Brian Miller (Dalek voice) Born Apr 17 1941
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dugdale in Snakedance (1983)
Played: Dalek voice in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Played: Harry in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic (2009)
Played: Barney in Deep Breath (2014)
Career highlights
Brian started out on Compact in 1964, followed by Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life the year after, after which he appeared in Mr Rose (1968), The Dustbinmen (1970), Hey Brian! (1973), A Raging Calm (1974), Sam (1975), Out of Bounds (1977), The Devil's Crown (1978), Blake's 7 (1979), Ladykillers (1980), Angels (1981), Eh Brian! It's a Whopper (1984), Brazil (1985), Alice in Wonderland (1986), Strike It Rich! (1986-87), Grange Hill (1991), Stay Lucky (1993), The Ghost of Greville Lodge (2000), Line of Duty (2012), Wizards vs Aliens (2012) and Loose Ends (2017).
Facts
Brian was married to Doctor Who's very own Sarah Jane Smith, Elisabeth Sladen, from 1968 until her death in 2011. Their daughter Sadie Miller appeared as Natalie Redfern in Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith audio series, and wrote the book Moon Blink for Candy Jar's Lethbridge-Stewart series. Sadie also appeared, aged eight, with her mother in the 1993 documentary Thirty Years in the TARDIS, wearing a replica of her mum's costume as seen in The Hand of Fear.
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Brian here.

Royce Mills (Dalek voice) May 12 1942 to May 21 2019
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dalek voice in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Revelation of the Daleks (1985), Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Career highlights
Debuted in Charley's Aunt (1969), then Coppers End (1971), Up Pompeii! (1971), Queenie's Castle (1972), The Kids from 47A (1974), The Tomorrow People (1977), Marti (1977), The Rather Reassuring Programme (1977), Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas (1977), Come Back, Lucy (1978), Bernie (1978), Sykes (1979), Mike Yarwood In Persons (1977/79), Rings on Their Fingers (1978/80), The Jim Davidson Show (1980), The Cut Price Comedy Show (1982-83), See How They Run (1984), Alice in Wonderland (1985), The Kenny Everett Television Show (1982-83/86), Edward and Friends (1987), Never the Twain (1990), Fiddlers Three (1991), Polterguests (1999), Bernard's Watch (2001) and Run for Your Wife (2012). Royce also had the occasional role of Andrew in Minder (1984-85/89).
Facts
Royce initially qualified in fine art to become a theatre set designer before branching in front of the cameras and on stage.

Terry Molloy (Davros) Born Jan 4 1947
Doctor Who credits
Played: Davros in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Revelation of the Daleks (1985), Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Played: Russell in Attack of the Cybermen (1985)
Career highlights
Debuted in God's Wonderful Railway (1980), then Radio Phoenix (1982), Connie (1985), Oliver Twist (1985), A Sort of Innocence (1987), Crossroads (1987), French and Saunders (1988), Tales of Sherwood Forest (1989), Chalkface (1991), Dangerfield (1998), Urban Gothic (2000), Kingdom (2008), In Love with Alma Cogan (2012), Kosmos (2015), ChickLit (2016) and Anoraks (2017). Terry has been playing Davros for Big Finish audio productions since 2003. His voice will be well-known to fans of BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers as that of Mike Tucker since 1973.
Facts
In the 1960s, Terry played saxophone in a soul band called The T-Bunkum Band in Liverpool, even appearing at famous Beatles venue The Cavern Club.

William Sleigh (Galloway) May 23 1941 to Jun 25 2023
Career highlights
6ft 3in William debuted in Marie Curie in 1977, then appeared in Arabian Adventure (1979), Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), Bad Boyes (1987), Bellman and True (1987), Gems (1988), Sleepers (1991), Tipping the Velvet (2002), Shadowmen (2015) and Gangster Kittens (2016).
Facts
This unbeatable trivia appeared on William's IMDb profile: "Played Gandalf in a theatre production of The Hobbit. One night a pyrotechnic went wrong and he set fire to a Hobbit."

Tony Starr (Dalek operator) Died Jan 6 2015
Doctor Who credits
Played: British soldier in The War Games (1969, uncredited)
Played: Dalek operator in Planet of the Daleks (1973, uncredited), Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Revelation of the Daleks (1985), Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Career highlights
Tony's other screen work includes The Boys of San Francisco (1981), Little Miss Perkins (1982), Russ Abbot's Saturday Madhouse (1982) and Couchers (2012).
Facts
Tony was also a singer and songwriter. In 1964 he wrote and recorded two rare, collectible singles for Decca, I'll Take a Rocket to the Moon and The Next Train Leaving from Platform 2. He was a contemporary of music promoter Joe Meek in the 1960s, and also wrote the song What Am I To Do for the Wildwoods in 1966.

Cy Town (Dalek operator) 1931 to Mar 2024 Click here for Cy Town's entry on Frontier in Space

Linsey Turner (Crewmember)
Career highlights
This is Linsey's only acting credit, but she went on to become a talented session singer, working with singer/ songwriter Rod Taylor after they met in a BBC studio in 1983 (was it Doctor Who?).

CREW

Eric Saward (writer and script editor) Born Dec 9 1944 Click here for Eric Saward's entry on on Castrovalva

Matthew Robinson (director) Born Jul 27 1944
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Attack of the Cybermen (1985)
Career highlights
Matthew started out directing Beryl's Lot (1975), Z Cars (1975-76), Crown Court (1976/79), Sally Ann (1979), Angels (1980-81), Coronation Street (1977/82), The Practice (1986), Howards' Way (1987), EastEnders (1985-87), Byker Grove (1989-92) and Taste of Life (2004). He also graduated into producing, such as Byker Grove, EastEnders (1998-2000), Servants (2003) and AirWaves (2010).
Awards
1999: BAFTA TV Award for Best Soap (EastEnders)
1999: British Soap Award for Best Storyline (EastEnders) - shared with Martine McCutcheon
2000: BAFTA TV Award for Best Soap (EastEnders)
Facts
Matthew's brother is musician, DJ and former gay activist Tom Robinson. Matthew was head of drama for BBC Wales between 2000-03. In 2003 his career took him to Cambodia, where he subsequently set up a film and TV production company in Phnom Penh called Khmer Mekong Films. He even has his own poetry website.

John Nathan-Turner (producer) Aug 12 1947 to May 1 2002 (liver failure) Click here for John Nathan-Turner's entry on The Leisure Hive