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Doctor Who (season 8)
The eighth season of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' began on 2 January 1971 with '' Terror of the Autons'' and ended with ''The Dæmons'' featuring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor. This is the second of five series which Barry Letts produced consecutively and Terrance Dicks was the script editor. Casting Main cast * Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor * Katy Manning as Jo Grant Jon Pertwee continues his role as the Third Doctor. Katy Manning makes her first appearance as companion Jo Grant in '' Terror of the Autons''. Recurring cast * Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart * John Levene as Sergeant Benton * Richard Franklin as Mike Yates * Roger Delgado as The Master Nicholas Courtney and John Levene continue their roles of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Sergeant Benton, while Richard Franklin makes his first appearance as Captain Mike Yates. Roger Delgado makes his first appearance as The Master in '' Terror of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Pertwee
John Devon Roland "Jon" Pertwee (; 7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996) was an English actor, comedian, entertainer, cabaret performer and TV presenter. Born into a theatrical family, he served in the Royal Navy and the Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War. In his early career, he worked as a stage comedian, which included performing at the Glasgow Empire Theatre and sharing a bill with Max Wall and Jimmy James.Cult leader's mission to return to future '' The Herald''. 15 May 1989. Retrieved 3 July 2014. As an actor, Pertwee appeared in many comedy roles, including four films in the '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergeant Benton
Sergeant John Benton is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', played by John Levene. He was the senior NCO of the British contingent of UNIT, an international organisation that defends Earth from alien threats. He appeared semi-regularly on the programme from 1968 to 1975, and was eventually promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1, holding the post of Regimental Sergeant Major. Character history Benton first appeared in the Second Doctor serial '' The Invasion'' (1968), when he was just a corporal in UNIT. By the time of his next appearance in ''The Ambassadors of Death'' (1970) he had been promoted to Sergeant and quickly formed a close relationship with the Doctor, Captain Mike Yates and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, the latter usually calling first for Benton when an order needed to be carried out. Benton's tour in UNIT also coincided with the tenure of the Third and Fourth Doctors as its Scientific Advisor, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ferguson (director)
Michael Ferguson (14 June 1937 – 4 October 2021) was a British television director and producer. His early career included directing four serials of the BBC's science fiction series '' Doctor Who'' (1966–1971). He later directed ITV's police drama series ''The Bill'' and was promoted to become its producer (1988–1989), and as executive producer of the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'' (1989–1991) he was responsible for the introduction of two of its most popular and long-running characters, Phil and Grant Mitchell. He then produced the BBC medical drama series '' Casualty'' (1993–1994). Early life Ferguson was educated at King's College School in Wimbledon. He performed his national service with the British Army in Cyprus and north Africa. He trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Career Ferguson started his career as a stage actor and director with the Theatre Centre, a touring company visiting schools, before joining the BBC as an assist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Claws Of Axos
''The Claws of Axos'' is the third serial of the eighth season of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 13 March to 3 April 1971. In the serial, set in Britain, the alien organism Axos spreads its Axonite particles across the Earth to allow itself to feed on all life on the planet. Plot The Axons land on Earth, desperately in need of fuel. They propose to exchange the miracle substance they call Axonite for some much needed energy. Axonite is a "thinking" molecule that can replicate any substance... or so they claim. As it turns out, the ship is a single organism called Axos whose purpose is to feed itself by draining all energy through the Axonite (which is just a part of itself), including the energy of every life form on Earth. The deception about the Axonite's beneficial properties was to facilitate the distribution of Axonite across the globe. Meanwhile, the Master, who was captured by Ax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Houghton
Donald Herbert Houghton (2 February 1930 – 2 July 1991) was a British television screenwriter and producer. Career Born in Paris to Scottish parents, Houghton started writing for radio in 1951 before moving into film and television in 1958. In the 1970s, he was a primary writer for Hammer Films including for ''Dracula AD 1972'', ''The Satanic Rites of Dracula'', ''The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires'' and '' Shatter''. His television work includes '' Doctor Who'' for which he wrote the serials ''Inferno'' (1970) and ''The Mind of Evil'' (1971), the fifth ''Sapphire & Steel'' television story (known informally as ''Dr McDee Must Die'') co-written with Anthony Read, ''Emergency – Ward 10'', ''Crossroads'', '' Ace of Wands'', ''New Scotland Yard'', '' The Professionals'' and at least one episode of ''C.A.T.S. Eyes'' (1985). Houghton created and wrote for the soap opera ''Take the High Road'' (1980).Elder, pp. 12–22. He also wrote three novels: ''Column of Thieves'' and ''Blood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Combe
Timothy Combe (born 17 October 1936) is a retired British television director and actor's agent. As a director of BBC television drama from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, he worked on series such as ''Doctor Who'', ''Z-Cars'' and '' The Brothers'', as well as classic serials and plays. Career Combe attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he won the Shakespeare Cup and Margaret Rutherford Medal. He then joined the BBC in 1962 as an assistant floor manager. He was promoted to become a director in 1968. He directed ''Z-Cars'', the popular and long-running police drama series, becoming one of the most prolific directors of the series. He also directed two serials in the long-running science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' when it starred Jon Pertwee. Although highly regarded as a director by the series' then producer, Barry Letts, he went over-budget on the second and was not asked to do more as a result. Two classic serials, ''The Early Life of Stephen Hin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mind Of Evil
''The Mind of Evil'' is the second serial of the eighth season of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 January to 6 March 1971. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Master (Roger Delgado) is plotting to start World War III by destroying a peace conference between the United States and China in London by using a nerve gas missile he hijacked from the organisation UNIT. All six episodes of the serial exist as black and white telerecordings after the original colour video tapes were wiped. For the serial's DVD release in 2013, a mixture of hand-colourised key-frames in conjunction with manual and automated colour interpolation for episode one, and the decoding of chroma dot signals recorded in the monochrome film for episodes 2–6, were employed to recolourise it. Plot The Third Doctor and Jo visit Stangmoor Prison to examine a new method of treating criminals, whereby negati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Holmes (scriptwriter)
Robert Colin Holmes (2 April 1926 – 24 May 1986) was a British television scriptwriter. For over 25 years he contributed to some of the most popular programmes screened in the UK. He is particularly remembered for his work on science fiction programmes, most notably his extensive contributions to '' Doctor Who'', which included working as its script editor from 1974 to 1977. Holmes suffered ill health from the early 1980s. He died in May 1986 while working on scripts for the second and final Sixth Doctor season ''The Trial of a Time Lord''. Early career In 1944, at the age of 18, Holmes joined the army, fighting with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders regiment in Burma. He rapidly earned a commission, and as such became the youngest commissioned officer in the entire British army during the Second World War. The fact that he lied about his age to get into the army was discovered at his commissioning, but apparently the only reaction was by a general who praised him, adding t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who (season 6)
The sixth season of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...'' began on 10 August 1968 with the first story of season 6 '' The Dominators'' and ended Patrick Troughton's reign as the Doctor with its final story '' The War Games''. Only 37 out of 44 episodes are held in the BBC archives; 7 remain missing. As a result, 2 serials are incomplete: only episode 2 of the 6-part story '' The Space Pirates'' still exists, while '' The Invasion'' has had its two missing episodes (episodes 1 and 4) reconstructed using animation. Casting Main cast * Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor * Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon * Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury make thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The War Games
''The War Games'' is the seventh and final serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which originally aired in ten weekly parts from 19 April to 21 June 1969. In the serial, an unnamed alien race led by the War Lord ( Philip Madoc) kidnap and brainwash soldiers from wars throughout Earth's history to fight in war games on another planet as part of the aliens' plot to conquer the galaxy. The time traveller the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his travelling companions Jamie McCrimmon ( Frazer Hines) and Zoe Heriot ( Wendy Padbury) form a resistance army to stop this plot and to return the kidnapped soldiers home. ''The War Games'' was the last regular appearance of Troughton as the Doctor and the last serial to be recorded in black and white. It also marks the last regular appearances of Padbury and Hines as companions Zoe and Jamie, and sees both the first naming and first appearance of the Doctor's race, the Time L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colony In Space
''Colony in Space'' is the fourth serial of the eighth season of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 10 April to 15 May 1971. The serial, wriiten by Malcolm Hulke, is set on the mineral-rich human colony world of Uxarieus in 2472. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and his travelling companion Jo Grant (Katy Manning) are sent by the Time Lords to Uxarieus, where they discover a mining corporation has been faking monster attacks on the colonists. Later, the Master (Roger Delgado), who featured as the Doctor's enemy throughout that season, arrives in search of an ancient doomsday weapon created by the natives of the planet. Plot Three Time Lords discuss the theft of confidential files relating to "the Doomsday Weapon." They realise that only the Third Doctor can help them, so he is sent to the desert planet of Uxarieus in the year 2472. There he finds a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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