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Doctor Who (season 3)
The third season of British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'' began on 11 September 1965 with the story ''Galaxy 4'' and ended on 16 July 1966 with ''The War Machines''. Only 17 out of 45 episodes survive in the BBC archives; 28 remain missing. As a result, only 3 serials are complete. Casting Main cast * William Hartnell as the First Doctor * Maureen O'Brien as Vicki * Peter Purves as Steven Taylor * Adrienne Hill as Katarina * Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom * Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet * Anneke Wills as Polly * Michael Craze as Ben Jackson For season 3, William Hartnell continued his role as The Doctor, and was joined by Peter Purves as Steven Taylor for a majority of the episodes. Maureen O'Brien, who had been a regular cast member of the previous season, dropped out after episode nine, 'Horse of Destruction,' from '' The Myth Makers'' storyline. That episode saw the introduction of Adrienne Hill as Katarina, a short-lived companion whose charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hartnell
William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the first incarnation of the Doctor in '' Doctor Who'' from 1963 to 1966. In film, Hartnell notably appeared in '' Brighton Rock'' (1949), ''The Mouse That Roared'' (1959) and ''This Sporting Life'' (1963). He was associated with military roles, playing Company Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in the ITV sitcom ''The Army Game'' (1957, 1961) and Sergeant Grimshaw, the title character in the first ''Carry On'' film ''Carry On Sergeant'' (1958). Early life Hartnell was born on 8 January 1908 in the slums of the district of St Pancras, London, England, the only child of Lucy Hartnell, an unmarried mother. Hartnell never discovered the identity of his father, whose particulars were left blank on his birth certificate, despite his efforts to trace him. In various interviews, he claimed that he was born in Seaton, Devon, and that his father was a dairy farmer, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Taylor (Doctor Who)
Steven Taylor is a fictional character played by Peter Purves in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. A space pilot from Earth in the future, he was a companion of the First Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1965 to 1966. Steven appeared in 10 stories (45 episodes). Only three of the serials in which Steven appeared as a regular are complete in the BBC archive (''The Time Meddler'', '' The Ark'' and ''The Gunfighters''). Appearances Television Steven first appears in the serial '' The Chase'', when the Doctor and his companions, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki, find him on the planet Mechanus where he crash-landed two years before. He joins the Doctor and Vicki as a companion in the following serial, ''The Time Meddler'', when they discover that he stowed-away in the TARDIS after having escaped the burning Mechanoid City. Steven is a strong-willed individual, who is more capable when there is something physical to do than when there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mission To The Unknown
"Mission to the Unknown" is the second serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Written by Terry Nation and directed by Derek Martinus, the single episode was broadcast on BBC1 on 9 October 1965. The only standalone regular episode of the show's original run, it serves as an introduction to the 12-part story ''The Daleks' Master Plan''. It is notable for the complete absence of the regular cast and the TARDIS; it is the only serial in the show's history not to feature the Doctor at all, although William Hartnell was still credited on-screen. The story focuses on Space Security Agent Marc Cory (Edward de Souza) and his attempts to warn Earth of the Daleks' plan to take over the Solar System. After the show's second production block was granted an additional episode, outgoing story editor Dennis Spooner commissioned Terry Nation to write an extra episode as a cutaway to set up ''The Daleks' Master Plan''. Nation wrote the episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verity Lambert
Verity Ann Lambert (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series ''Doctor Who'' from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include '' Adam Adamant Lives!'', '' The Naked Civil Servant'', '' Rock Follies'', '' Minder'', '' Widows'', '' G.B.H.'', ''Jonathan Creek'', ''Love Soup'' and '' Eldorado''. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wiles
John Wiles (20 September 1925 – 5 April 1999) was a South African novelist, television writer and producer. He was the second producer of the science fiction series ''Doctor Who'', succeeding Verity Lambert, and credited on four serials between 1965 and 1966, namely ''The Myth Makers'', ''The Daleks' Master Plan'' (which lasted for twelve episodes), ''The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'', and '' The Ark''. Producer of ''Doctor Who'' Although he had a good working relationship with story editor Donald Tosh, Wiles found that he was unable to make many changes to the format of the programme. Attempts to make the series darker led to clashes with actor William Hartnell who, as the sole remaining member of the original team, saw himself as the guardian of the series' original values. An attempt to give new companion Dodo Chaplet a cockney accent was vetoed by Wiles' superiors, who ordered that the regulars must speak " BBC English". With Hartnell increasingly in poor health and ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Butterworth
Peter William Shorrocks Butterworth (4 February 1915''Prisoner of War Collection'' National Archives – 17 January 1979) was an English actor and comedian, best known for his appearances in the ''Carry On'' series of films. He was also a regular on children's television and radio, and was known for playing on '' Doctor Who''. Butterworth was married to the actress and impressionist |
Doctor Who (season 4)
The fourth season of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' began on 10 September 1966 with the First Doctor (William Hartnell) story '' The Smugglers'' and, after a change of lead actor (Patrick Troughton) part-way through the series, ended on 1 July 1967 with '' The Evil of the Daleks''. For the first time, the entire main cast changed over the course of a single season (the only other occasion this has happened is during Season 21). Only 10 out of 43 episodes survive in the BBC archives; 33 remain missing. No serials in this season exist in their entirety. However, ''The Tenth Planet'', ''The Power of the Daleks'', ''The Moonbase'', ''The Macra Terror'', ''The Faceless Ones'' and '' The Evil of the Daleks'' have currently had their missing episodes (twenty five in total) reconstructed with animation and subsequently have been released on home media. Casting Main cast * William Hartnell as the First Doctor * Anneke Wills as Polly * Michael Craze as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Massacre (Doctor Who)
''The Massacre'' (also known as ''The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'') is the completely missing fourth serial of the third season in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 February 1966. In this serial, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companion Steven (Peter Purves) arrive in France in 1572, during the events leading up to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. The two of them become separated, leaving the Doctor's journey largely unaccounted for while Steven is caught up in a Huguenots plot to assassinate the Catholic Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici (Joan Young). This serial marks the first appearance of Jackie Lane as companion-to-be Dodo Chaplet. It is also notable for being the first time the lead actor (Hartnell) played a dual role as the Doctor and the villain (the First Doctor and the Abbot of Amboise), although unlike future instances, they never met on-screen. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daleks' Master Plan
''The Daleks' Master Plan'' is the mostly missing third serial of the third season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in twelve weekly parts from 13 November 1965 to 29 January 1966. This twelve part serial is the longest with a single director and production code. ''( The Trial of a Time Lord'' was longer but was made in three production blocks, with separate codes, and with four separate story lines each with their own authors and working titles) This serial marks the final appearance of Adrienne Hill as companion Katarina, the only appearance of Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom. Katarina and Sara Kingdom both died during the serial, marking the first two companion deaths in the show. Episode 1, "The Nightmare Begins", marks the first appearance of Nicholas Courtney in ''Doctor Who'', here playing space security agent Bret Vyon. It was the second ''Doctor Who'' story never to be screened in Australia, as the Australian B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Myth Makers
''The Myth Makers'' is the third serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Written by Donald Cotton and directed by Michael Leeston-Smith, the serial was broadcast on BBC1 in four weekly parts from 16 October to 6 November 1965. In the serial, based on Homer's ''Iliad'', the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Vicki ( Maureen O'Brien) and Steven (Peter Purves) land in Troy during the Trojan War. The Doctor is captured by the Greeks and forced to formulate a plan for taking the city, while Steven and Vicki are captured by the Trojans and forced to devise a means of banishing the Greeks; the latter duo meet Katarina (Adrienne Hill), who joins the Doctor by the serial's end. After assuming their positions as story editor and producer, Donald Tosh and John Wiles wanted to take ''Doctor Who'' in new directions, moving towards historical stories and experimenting with humour. Cotton had written several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Jackson (Doctor Who)
Benjamin "Ben" Jackson is a fictional character played by Michael Craze in the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. A seaman in the Royal Navy from 1966, he was a companion (Doctor Who), companion to the First Doctor, First and Second Doctors and a regular in the programme from 1966 to 1967. Ben appeared in 9 stories (36 episodes). ''The War Machines,'' the character's first appearance, is the only one of his stories to exist fully in the BBC archives. Character history Ben first appears in the First Doctor serial ''The War Machines'', when he meets Polly (Doctor Who), Polly and Dodo Chaplet, Dodo in a London nightclub called the ''Inferno''. An Able Seaman (rank), Able Seaman in the Royal Navy, serving aboard , Ben is feeling depressed and angry because he has been posted to barracks for six months' shore leave while his ship is deployed to the West Indies. Polly and Dodo try to cheer him up. When another patron a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly (Doctor Who)
Polly, sometimes called Polly Wright in spin-off material, is a fictional character played by Anneke Wills in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. She is a young woman from the year 1966 and was a companion of the First and Second Doctors. Polly was a regular in the television program from 1966 to 1967. Polly appeared in 9 stories (36 episodes). The only serial featuring Polly which is currently complete in the BBC archive is her first, ''The War Machines''. Appearances Television Polly first appeared in the First Doctor serial, ''The War Machines'', where she plays the role of Professor Brett's secretary. Brett develops the artificial intelligence known as WOTAN, and Polly meets the Doctor (William Hartnell) and Dodo ( Jackie Lane) when they come to investigate it. Polly befriends Dodo and takes her to a London nightclub called the Inferno, where they meet Ben Jackson (Michael Craze) and try to cheer up the Royal Navy sailor. When Poll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
