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| The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) embarks upon his last ever TV run of stories |
First broadcast Aug 30 to Sep 20 1980
Average audience for serial: 5.10m
REGULAR CAST
Tom Baker (The Doctor) Born Jan 20 1934 Click here for Tom Baker's entry on Robot
Lalla Ward (Romana) Born Jun 28 1951 Click here for Lalla Ward's entry on The Armageddon Factor
John Leeson (Voice of K-9) Born Mar 16 1943 Click here for John Leeson's entry on The Invisible Enemy
GUEST CAST
David Allister (Stimson)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Stimson in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Played: Bruchner in The Trial of a Time Lord (1986)
Career highlights
After debuting in The Heiress (1969), David got a regular role as Sergeant Jackson in 22 episodes of Softly Softly (1969-71), and then appeared in Budgie (1972), Heil Caesar! (1973), Colditz (1974), The Firefighters (1975), Lillie (1978), Flesh and Blood (1980-82), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), The Jigsaw Man (1984), The Monocled Mutineer (1986), Rockcliffe's Babies (1987), The Franchise Affair (1988), Virtual Murder (1992), The Good Guys (1993), The Uninvited (1997), Anna Karenina (2000) and The Discovery of Heaven (2001).
Career highlights
John's debut was in The Mad O'Haras (1958), followed by roles in Garry Halliday (1959-60), Deadline Midnight (1961), The Valiant (1962), Dead Man's Chest (1965), Undermind (1965), The Witches (1966), Boy Meets Girl (1967), Star! (1968), Before Winter Comes (1969), The Expert (1969), The Guardians (1971), Crime of Passion (1972), A Raging Calm (1974), Our Mutual Friend (1976), Wuthering Heights (1978), Tess (1979), Coronation Street (1961/69/79), The Guns and the Fury (1981), The Chinese Detective (1982) and All Creatures Great and Small (he actually played the same role of Mr Alderson (James Herriot's father-in-law) in both the 1975 film version and the BBC TV series in 1978 and 1983!). He also played Detective Sergeant Haggar in 50 episodes of Z Cars (1971-78).
Adrienne Corri (Mena) Born Nov 13 1930 to Mar 13 2016 (heart disease)
Career highlights
Born and bred in Scotland by Italian parents, Adrienne's career debut was in The Infernal Machine (1947, as Adrienne Riccoboni, her birthname), followed by appearances in Naughty Arlette (1949), The River (1951), Devil Girl from Mars (1954), The Three Musketeers (1954), Sword of Freedom (1957), The Big Chance (1957), Corridors of Blood (1958), What's My Line? (1958), Epilogue to Capricorn (1959), Dynamite Jack (1961), The Hellfire Club (1961), Doctor Zhivago (1965), A Study in Terror (1965), Bunny Lake is Missing (1965), The Viking Queen (1967), Journey to the Unknown (1968), My Partner the Ghost (1969), A Family at War (1971), A Clockwork Orange (1971), You're Only Young Twice (1971), Vampire Circus (1972), Rosebud (1975), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), Love in a Cold Climate (1980), Shades of Darkness (1986) and Lovejoy (1992).
Facts
Adrienne was an expert on 18th century portrait painting and the author of a book about painter Thomas Gainsborough (The Search for Gainsborough (1984)). She was married in the 1960s to actor Daniel Massey (making actor Anna Massey her sister-in-law for a time). Prior to this she had two children out of wedlock with film-maker Patrick Filmer-Sankey.
Martin Fisk (Vargos) Born Apr 28 1946
Career highlights
Martin's further work includes Budgie (1971), Doctor At Large (1971), Poldark (1975-76), The Sweeney (1976), The XYY Man (1977), A Horseman Riding By (1978), Rumpole of the Bailey (1979), Shoestring (1980), Angels (1980), On the Line (1982), Terry on the Fence (1985), Room at the Bottom (1988), London's Burning (1989), Soldier Soldier (1991), Bugs (1998) and Heartbeat (2000).
Facts
In the late 1970s Martin achieved recognition as the Yorkie chocolate bar truck driver in British TV commercials.
David Haig (Pangol) Born Sep 20 1955
Career highlights
David made his debut in 1978's The Moon Stallion and has since become one of the most recognised faces on British TV, appearing in Blake's 7 (1980), Diamonds (1981), Morons from Outer Space (1985), Hannay (1989), Campion (1990), Portrait of a Marriage (1990), Chancer (1991), Soldier Soldier (1991), The Darling Buds of May (1993), Cracker (1993), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Love on a Branch Line (1994), Nice Day at the Office (1994), Never Mind the Horrocks (1996), Keeping Mum (1997-98), Talking Heads 2 (1998), Crime and Punishment (2002), Hustle (2004), A for Andromeda (2006), The 39 Steps (2008), Doc Martin (2009), The Thick of It (2009), Strike Back (2011), Yes, Prime Minister (2013), The Wright Way (2013), Penny Dreadful (2015), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), The Witness for the Prosecution (2016) and Killing Eve (2018). He also wrote, produced and starred in My Boy Jack (2007). David's best known role will be as Detective Inspector Derek Grim in sitcom The Thin Blue Line (1995-96).
Awards
1988: Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play (Our Country's Good)
2013: Member of the order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to drama
Facts
His partner is American actress Jane Galloway.
Nigel Lambert (Hardin) Born May 11 1944
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hardin in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Played: Voice of the Priest Triangle in Flux (2021, as Nigel Richard Lambert)
Career highlights
Nigel made his debut in Cry Wolf! (156), followed by Any Old Iron? (1957), 18 episodes of The Thompson Family (1957-58, as Andrew), The Pocket Lancer (1959), Mr Browne Comes Home (1959), Katy (1962), Out of the Unknown (1965), The Further Adventures of the Musketeers (1967), The Avengers (1965/67), Scream and Scream Again (1970), The Onedin Line (1972), Sporting Scenes (1974), The Crezz (1976), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1976), The Fuzz (1977), Touch and Go (1978), Blake's 7 (1978), The History of Mr Polly (1980), Shillingbury Tales (1981), Cuffy (1983), Sob Sisters (1989), The Upper Hand (1992), Married for Life (1996), Heartbeat (1998), The Princess and the Pea (2002), Captain Sabertooth (2003), Noggin (2008), Murder Loves Killers Too (2009), Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013) and The Javone Prince Show (2015). His voice will be best remembered narrating the tongue in cheek comedy series Look Around You (2002), while he also voiced Mr Curry in The Adventures of Paddington Bear (1997-2001).
Facts
In the 1980s Nigel contributed extensively to the magazine partwork Story Teller published by Marshall Cavendish. Consisting of a fortnightly magazine and cassette tape featuring children's stories, Nigel narrated over 30 of the stories onto tape, including Grogre the Ogre and Jester Minute. He was also a presenter on children's series You and Me in 1977, and is the voice of Papa in the UK TV commercials for Dolmio cooking sauces.
Andrew Lane (Foamasi) Feb 8 1947 to Dec 10 1999
Career highlights
Further credits include Z Cars (1967), David Copperfield (1974), The Lady of the Camellias (1976), Silver Bears (1978) and Yes Minister (1980). Doctor Who was his final screen credit.
Roy Montague (Guide)
Roy's only other credits are Yesterday's Hero (1979), Only a Game (1981) and Private Schulz (1981).
Clifford Norgate (Voice of the Generator) 1941 to Jan 4 2024
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of the Nimon in The Horns of Nimon (1979-80)
Played: Voice of the Generator in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Career highlights
Clifford's other credits include Adventure Weekly (1969), Dial M for Murder (1974), The Saliva Milkshake (1975) and 20 episodes of the children's computer game show Knightmare (1989-94) as Hordriss, as well as various other characters.
Facts
Clifford also read talking books for children, and sometimes visited primary schools as a storyteller.
Laurence Payne (Morix) Jun 5 1919 to Feb 23 2009 (vascular dementia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Johnny Ringo in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Morix in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Played: Dastari in The Two Doctors (1985)
Career highlights
Laurence's further credits include Till Tomorrow (1948), Train of Events (1949), The Face of Love (1954), The Three Musketeers (1954), Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), The Trollenberg Terror (1958), Moonstrike (1963), The Midnight Men (1964), The Saint (1966), Vampire Circus (1972), The Hanged Man (1975), The Sandbaggers (1978), Airline (1982) and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). He became well known for playing the title character in Sexton Blake (1967-71).
Facts
Between 1962-93, Laurence wrote 11 detective novels, the first of which (The Nose on My Face) was adapted into the film Girl in the Headlines aka The Model Murder Case (1963). A sword-fighting accident while filming Sexton Blake in 1968 cost him the sight in his left eye. Laurence's first wife (of three) was actress Sheila Burrell, cousin to Sir Laurence Olivier. In a 1998 interview with Edinburgh's Evening News, Laurence said: "Dr Who was great fun. I was one of the villains in the second series with that strange elderly man as Dr Who. We did about ten weeks filming at a time, and then had a break. I got on very well with the boy playing Dr Who's grandson. I wasn't in any of the ones with those robots [Daleks] in, thank God! I think I would have laughed!" In the 1990s Laurence contracted septicaemia, causing some brain damage, and the last three years of his life were spent in a nursing home suffering from vascular dementia.
Harriet Reynolds (Tannoy voice) Sep 13 1944 to Jun 18 1992 (cancer)
Career highlights
Harriet made her debut in Abigail's Party (1977, as Susan), then Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1978), Agony (1980), Butterflies (1980), Pig in the Middle (1980), I Remember Nelson (1982), Ever Decreasing Circles (1984), Are You Being Served? (1985), Sorry! (1986), The New Statesman (1990), Lovejoy (1991), The Law Lord (1991) and Jeeves and Wooster (1992).
Ian Talbot (Klout) Born Dec 19 1942
Doctor Who credits
Played: Travis in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Klout in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Career highlights
Debuted in Champion House (1968), then Up the Front (1972), The Jensen Code (1973), Drowning By Numbers (1988), Spatz (1991), Terry and Julian (1992), Degrees of Error (1995), As Time Goes By (1996), Midsomer Murders (2005) and Run for Your Wife (2012).
Awards
2008: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama
Facts
Until her death in 1996, Ian was married to actress Liz Gebhardt, best known for playing Maureen Bullock in the sitcoms Please, Sir! and The Fenn Street Gang (1968-73). Ian was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001 for Best Director, and was artistic director of the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park in London between 1987-2007.
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Ian here.
CREW
David Fisher (writer) Apr 13 1929 to Jan 10 2018
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Stones of Blood (1978), The Androids of Tara (1978), The Creature from the Pit (1979), The Leisure Hive (1980), and provided the original concept for what became City of Death (1979).
Career highlights
David's other writing work includes Between the Lines (1965), This Man Craig (1966-67), Orlando (1967), Dixon of Dock Green (1969), Crime of Passion (1971), The Troubleshooters (1969-71), The Lotus Eaters (1972), Sutherland's Law (1973), Crown Court (1972-75), General Hospital (1975-77), The Mackinnons (1977), Hammer House of Horror (1980) and Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984). David also wrote several non-fiction books about World War Two with Anthony Read, his sometime script editor on Doctor Who.
Facts
He submitted a script entitled A Gamble with Time for Doctor Who's 17th season, but due to a tricky divorce he had to withdraw, and the concept became City of Death, one of the series' best loved stories.
Lovett Bickford (director) Apr 8 1942 to Jul 29 2018
Doctor Who credits
Assistant floor manager: The War Machines (1966, uncredited), The Moonbase (1967, uncredited)
Directed: The Leisure Hive (1980)
Career highlights
His other directing work includes Z Cars (1978), Angels (1979), The History of Mr Polly (1980), The Enigma Files (1980), The Olympian Way (1981) and Emmerdale Farm (1983), while has also worked as assistant floor manager on series such as The Pallisers (1974), Poldark (1977) and All Creatures Great and Small (1978).
Facts
In the 1980s, Lovett worked in theatre, often on pantomimes produced by Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner.
John Nathan-Turner (producer) Aug 12 1947 to May 1 2002 (liver failure)
Doctor Who credits
Floor assistant: The Space Pirates (1969, uncredited)
Assistant floor manager: The Ambassadors of Death (1970, uncredited), Colony in Space (1971, uncredited)
Production unit manager: Horror of Fang Rock, The Invisible Enemy, Image of the Fendahl, The Sun Makers, Underworld, The Invasion of Time, The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll, The Armageddon Factor, Destiny of the Daleks, City of Death, The Creature from the Pit, Nightmare of Eden, The Horns of Nimon, Shada (unbroadcast) (1977-80)
Produced: The Leisure Hive, Meglos, Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate, The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis, K-9 & Company, Castrovalva, Four to Doomsday, Kinda, The Visitation, Black Orchid, Earthshock, Time-Flight, Arc of Infinity, Snakedance, Mawdryn Undead, Terminus, Enlightenment, The King's Demons, The Five Doctors, Warriors of the Deep, The Awakening, Frontios, Resurrection of the Daleks, Planet of Fire, The Caves of Androzani, The Twin Dilemma, Attack of the Cybermen, Vengeance on Varos, The Mark of the Rani, The Two Doctors, Timelash, Revelation of the Daleks, The Trial of a Time Lord, Time and the Rani, Paradise Towers, Delta and the Bannermen, Dragonfire, Remembrance of the Daleks, The Happiness Patrol, Silver Nemesis, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Battlefield, Ghost Light, The Curse of Fenric, Survival (1980-89), plus Dimensions in Time (1993)
Wrote: Dimensions in Time (1993), plus scripts for the Years Tapes (1991-94)
Career highlights
John started out as an assistant floor manager on Doctor Who, and also worked as a production assistant on programmes such as The Pallisers (1974), Barlow (1975), How Green Was My Valley (1975-76) and Nicholas Nickleby (1977). He soon graduated to become production unit manager on Doctor Who, as well as on series such as All Creatures Great and Small (1978-80) and Flesh and Blood (1980). After Doctor Who was taken off air in 1989, John maintained his links with the series by producing a number of special video releases, such as The Years Tapes which included various single episodes from partly lost 1960s stories, as well as the 1992 release of Shada.
Facts
John's long-time partner was Gary Downie, who acted as production manager on some of the 1980s serials. In the 2013 book The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner, author Richard Marson alleges that John and partner Gary "preyed" sexually on young male teenage Doctor Who fans. John added "Nathan" (as in Johnathan) to his surname to avoid confusion with the actor John Turner.
Barry Letts (executive producer) Mar 26 1925 to Oct 9 2009 (cancer) Click here for Barry Letts's entry on The Enemy of the World
Christopher H Bidmead (script editor) Born Jan 18 1941
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Leisure Hive, Meglos, Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate, The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis (1980-81)
Wrote: Logopolis (1981), Castrovalva (1982), Frontios (1984)
Career highlights
Christopher originally trained as an actor and enjoyed roles in series such as Emergency Ward 10 (1965) and Crime of Passion (1970). After that he moved into script writing, on series such as Harriet's Back in Town (1973) and Rooms (1975), and then started writing for scientific journals, something he continues to do, particularly on the magazines Wired and PC Plus.
Facts
The H stands for Hamilton. Christopher's father-in-law was vaudevillian actor Freddie Earlle, who appeared in Warriors' Gate. Here he is, on Twitter.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Christopher here.
Career highlights
Nigel made his debut in Cry Wolf! (156), followed by Any Old Iron? (1957), 18 episodes of The Thompson Family (1957-58, as Andrew), The Pocket Lancer (1959), Mr Browne Comes Home (1959), Katy (1962), Out of the Unknown (1965), The Further Adventures of the Musketeers (1967), The Avengers (1965/67), Scream and Scream Again (1970), The Onedin Line (1972), Sporting Scenes (1974), The Crezz (1976), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1976), The Fuzz (1977), Touch and Go (1978), Blake's 7 (1978), The History of Mr Polly (1980), Shillingbury Tales (1981), Cuffy (1983), Sob Sisters (1989), The Upper Hand (1992), Married for Life (1996), Heartbeat (1998), The Princess and the Pea (2002), Captain Sabertooth (2003), Noggin (2008), Murder Loves Killers Too (2009), Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013) and The Javone Prince Show (2015). His voice will be best remembered narrating the tongue in cheek comedy series Look Around You (2002), while he also voiced Mr Curry in The Adventures of Paddington Bear (1997-2001).
Facts
In the 1980s Nigel contributed extensively to the magazine partwork Story Teller published by Marshall Cavendish. Consisting of a fortnightly magazine and cassette tape featuring children's stories, Nigel narrated over 30 of the stories onto tape, including Grogre the Ogre and Jester Minute. He was also a presenter on children's series You and Me in 1977, and is the voice of Papa in the UK TV commercials for Dolmio cooking sauces.
Andrew Lane (Foamasi) Feb 8 1947 to Dec 10 1999
Career highlights
Further credits include Z Cars (1967), David Copperfield (1974), The Lady of the Camellias (1976), Silver Bears (1978) and Yes Minister (1980). Doctor Who was his final screen credit.
Roy Montague (Guide)
Roy's only other credits are Yesterday's Hero (1979), Only a Game (1981) and Private Schulz (1981).
Clifford Norgate (Voice of the Generator) 1941 to Jan 4 2024
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of the Nimon in The Horns of Nimon (1979-80)
Played: Voice of the Generator in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Career highlights
Clifford's other credits include Adventure Weekly (1969), Dial M for Murder (1974), The Saliva Milkshake (1975) and 20 episodes of the children's computer game show Knightmare (1989-94) as Hordriss, as well as various other characters.
Facts
Clifford also read talking books for children, and sometimes visited primary schools as a storyteller.
Laurence Payne (Morix) Jun 5 1919 to Feb 23 2009 (vascular dementia)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Johnny Ringo in The Gunfighters (1966)
Played: Morix in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Played: Dastari in The Two Doctors (1985)
Career highlights
Laurence's further credits include Till Tomorrow (1948), Train of Events (1949), The Face of Love (1954), The Three Musketeers (1954), Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), The Trollenberg Terror (1958), Moonstrike (1963), The Midnight Men (1964), The Saint (1966), Vampire Circus (1972), The Hanged Man (1975), The Sandbaggers (1978), Airline (1982) and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). He became well known for playing the title character in Sexton Blake (1967-71).
Facts
Between 1962-93, Laurence wrote 11 detective novels, the first of which (The Nose on My Face) was adapted into the film Girl in the Headlines aka The Model Murder Case (1963). A sword-fighting accident while filming Sexton Blake in 1968 cost him the sight in his left eye. Laurence's first wife (of three) was actress Sheila Burrell, cousin to Sir Laurence Olivier. In a 1998 interview with Edinburgh's Evening News, Laurence said: "Dr Who was great fun. I was one of the villains in the second series with that strange elderly man as Dr Who. We did about ten weeks filming at a time, and then had a break. I got on very well with the boy playing Dr Who's grandson. I wasn't in any of the ones with those robots [Daleks] in, thank God! I think I would have laughed!" In the 1990s Laurence contracted septicaemia, causing some brain damage, and the last three years of his life were spent in a nursing home suffering from vascular dementia.
Harriet Reynolds (Tannoy voice) Sep 13 1944 to Jun 18 1992 (cancer)
Career highlights
Harriet made her debut in Abigail's Party (1977, as Susan), then Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1978), Agony (1980), Butterflies (1980), Pig in the Middle (1980), I Remember Nelson (1982), Ever Decreasing Circles (1984), Are You Being Served? (1985), Sorry! (1986), The New Statesman (1990), Lovejoy (1991), The Law Lord (1991) and Jeeves and Wooster (1992).
Ian Talbot (Klout) Born Dec 19 1942
Doctor Who credits
Played: Travis in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Played: Klout in The Leisure Hive (1980)
Career highlights
Debuted in Champion House (1968), then Up the Front (1972), The Jensen Code (1973), Drowning By Numbers (1988), Spatz (1991), Terry and Julian (1992), Degrees of Error (1995), As Time Goes By (1996), Midsomer Murders (2005) and Run for Your Wife (2012).
Awards
2008: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama
Facts
Until her death in 1996, Ian was married to actress Liz Gebhardt, best known for playing Maureen Bullock in the sitcoms Please, Sir! and The Fenn Street Gang (1968-73). Ian was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001 for Best Director, and was artistic director of the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park in London between 1987-2007.
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Ian here.
CREW
David Fisher (writer) Apr 13 1929 to Jan 10 2018
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Stones of Blood (1978), The Androids of Tara (1978), The Creature from the Pit (1979), The Leisure Hive (1980), and provided the original concept for what became City of Death (1979).
Career highlights
David's other writing work includes Between the Lines (1965), This Man Craig (1966-67), Orlando (1967), Dixon of Dock Green (1969), Crime of Passion (1971), The Troubleshooters (1969-71), The Lotus Eaters (1972), Sutherland's Law (1973), Crown Court (1972-75), General Hospital (1975-77), The Mackinnons (1977), Hammer House of Horror (1980) and Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984). David also wrote several non-fiction books about World War Two with Anthony Read, his sometime script editor on Doctor Who.
Facts
He submitted a script entitled A Gamble with Time for Doctor Who's 17th season, but due to a tricky divorce he had to withdraw, and the concept became City of Death, one of the series' best loved stories.
Lovett Bickford (director) Apr 8 1942 to Jul 29 2018
Doctor Who credits
Assistant floor manager: The War Machines (1966, uncredited), The Moonbase (1967, uncredited)
Directed: The Leisure Hive (1980)
Career highlights
His other directing work includes Z Cars (1978), Angels (1979), The History of Mr Polly (1980), The Enigma Files (1980), The Olympian Way (1981) and Emmerdale Farm (1983), while has also worked as assistant floor manager on series such as The Pallisers (1974), Poldark (1977) and All Creatures Great and Small (1978).
Facts
In the 1980s, Lovett worked in theatre, often on pantomimes produced by Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner.
John Nathan-Turner (producer) Aug 12 1947 to May 1 2002 (liver failure)
Doctor Who credits
Floor assistant: The Space Pirates (1969, uncredited)
Assistant floor manager: The Ambassadors of Death (1970, uncredited), Colony in Space (1971, uncredited)
Production unit manager: Horror of Fang Rock, The Invisible Enemy, Image of the Fendahl, The Sun Makers, Underworld, The Invasion of Time, The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll, The Armageddon Factor, Destiny of the Daleks, City of Death, The Creature from the Pit, Nightmare of Eden, The Horns of Nimon, Shada (unbroadcast) (1977-80)
Produced: The Leisure Hive, Meglos, Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate, The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis, K-9 & Company, Castrovalva, Four to Doomsday, Kinda, The Visitation, Black Orchid, Earthshock, Time-Flight, Arc of Infinity, Snakedance, Mawdryn Undead, Terminus, Enlightenment, The King's Demons, The Five Doctors, Warriors of the Deep, The Awakening, Frontios, Resurrection of the Daleks, Planet of Fire, The Caves of Androzani, The Twin Dilemma, Attack of the Cybermen, Vengeance on Varos, The Mark of the Rani, The Two Doctors, Timelash, Revelation of the Daleks, The Trial of a Time Lord, Time and the Rani, Paradise Towers, Delta and the Bannermen, Dragonfire, Remembrance of the Daleks, The Happiness Patrol, Silver Nemesis, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Battlefield, Ghost Light, The Curse of Fenric, Survival (1980-89), plus Dimensions in Time (1993)
Wrote: Dimensions in Time (1993), plus scripts for the Years Tapes (1991-94)
Career highlights
John started out as an assistant floor manager on Doctor Who, and also worked as a production assistant on programmes such as The Pallisers (1974), Barlow (1975), How Green Was My Valley (1975-76) and Nicholas Nickleby (1977). He soon graduated to become production unit manager on Doctor Who, as well as on series such as All Creatures Great and Small (1978-80) and Flesh and Blood (1980). After Doctor Who was taken off air in 1989, John maintained his links with the series by producing a number of special video releases, such as The Years Tapes which included various single episodes from partly lost 1960s stories, as well as the 1992 release of Shada.
Facts
John's long-time partner was Gary Downie, who acted as production manager on some of the 1980s serials. In the 2013 book The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner, author Richard Marson alleges that John and partner Gary "preyed" sexually on young male teenage Doctor Who fans. John added "Nathan" (as in Johnathan) to his surname to avoid confusion with the actor John Turner.
Barry Letts (executive producer) Mar 26 1925 to Oct 9 2009 (cancer) Click here for Barry Letts's entry on The Enemy of the World
Christopher H Bidmead (script editor) Born Jan 18 1941
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Leisure Hive, Meglos, Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate, The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis (1980-81)
Wrote: Logopolis (1981), Castrovalva (1982), Frontios (1984)
Career highlights
Christopher originally trained as an actor and enjoyed roles in series such as Emergency Ward 10 (1965) and Crime of Passion (1970). After that he moved into script writing, on series such as Harriet's Back in Town (1973) and Rooms (1975), and then started writing for scientific journals, something he continues to do, particularly on the magazines Wired and PC Plus.
Facts
The H stands for Hamilton. Christopher's father-in-law was vaudevillian actor Freddie Earlle, who appeared in Warriors' Gate. Here he is, on Twitter.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Christopher here.
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