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The Green Death
''The Green Death'' is the fifth and final serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 19 May to 23 June 1973. It was the last regular appearance of Katy Manning as companion Jo Grant. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and the organisation UNIT investigate a South Wales mine where waste from an oil plant has killed miners and made maggots grow to giant size. Plot The Third Doctor is making adjustments to the TARDIS' coordinate programmer in preparation for a visit to Metebelis Three, when Jo reads in a newspaper about the mysterious death of a miner named Hughes in the abandoned coal mine in Llanfairfach in South Wales. The miner was found dead and glowing bright green. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Jo go down to investigate the miner's death. The Doctor agrees to follow the Brigadier, but is determined to go to Metebelis Three fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Bevan
Stewart John Llewellyn Bevan (10 March 1948 – 20 February 2022) was a British actor, best known for his performances in both film and television. His extensive career includes the films '' Brannigan'' (1975), '' The Ghoul'' (1975), ''House of Mortal Sin'' (1976), ''Ivanhoe'' (1982), ''Chromophobia'' (2005) and ''The Scouting Book for Boys'' (2009) while on television, he played Clifford Jones in ''Doctor Who'' (1973) and Ray Oswell in ''Emmerdale'' (1977). Early life Bevan was born into a Welsh family, his parents being Ray Bevan and wife Gwen. He spent his early years in Southall, Middlesex. After leaving school at the age of 15, he became a young manager in Pierre Cardin's menswear shop. At around this time he met the first love of his life Jackie, at the local Youth Club who encouraged him to join the local Amateur Dramatics society. Bevan participated in a festival at The Questors Theatre where he won an award for Best Actor. Shortly after this he decided to enrol at the C ... [...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 '' |
John Dearth
John Dearth (16 October 1920 – 17 March 1984) was a British actor, known for playing countless roles in nearly 30 episodes of ITV series ''The Adventures of Robin Hood''. He is also remembered for playing two villains in science fiction series ''Doctor Who'': firstly voicing the maniacal supercomputer BOSS in Season 10 finale ''The Green Death'' and then portraying the greedy Lupton in the following season finale ''Planet of the Spiders''. Other television appearances include ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''The Adventures of William Tell'', '' The Four Just Men'', ''Emergency Ward 10'', ''No Hiding Place'', '' The Avengers'' ('' Propellant 23''), ''The Saint'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Theatre 625'', '' Softly, Softly'', ''The Wednesday Play'', ''Justice'', ''Thirty-Minute Theatre'', ''Play of the Month'', ''Angels'', ''Treasure Island'', ''Play for Today'' and ''Kessler''. Dearth was also a member of the BBC Radio Repertory Company during the 1960s. Theatre Initially, Dearth began his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Letts
Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer, best known for being the producer of '' Doctor Who'' from 1969 to 1974. Born in Leicester, he worked as an actor in theatre, films and television before retiring in his early forties and becoming a television director. He then became the producer of the BBC science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' for five years, overseeing almost the entirety of Jon Pertwee's tenure as the Third Doctor and casting Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. He produced or directed many of the BBC's Sunday Classic drama serials from 1976 to 1986, and returned to ''Doctor Who'' in 1980 to be the executive producer for its eighteenth season. ''The Guardian'' described Letts on his death as "a pioneer of British television" who "served the medium for more than half a century" and "secured his place in TV history" with ''Doctor Who''. He was associated with the series for many years, with acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sloman
Robert Sloman (18 July 1926 – 24 October 2005) was an English screenwriter and actor who later worked at ''The Sunday Times'' circulation department for more than 20 years, becoming distribution manager; but is best known for his work on British television. Early life Sloman was born in Oldham, Lancashire, but his family moved to Plymouth when he was two years old. He gained a degree from the University of Exeter. Writing In the early 1970s he made a significant contribution to the science fiction programme ''Doctor Who'' on the BBC. Together with then producer Barry Letts, he wrote four stories for the Jon Pertwee era on the programme: ''The Dæmons'' (credited as Guy Leopold); ''The Time Monster''; ''The Green Death''; and ''Planet of the Spiders'', which was Pertwee's final serial. ''The Dæmons'' was cited by Pertwee as his favourite story, while the others contained strong moral messages, especially the focus on pollution and globalisation in ''The Green Death''. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael E
SS ''Michael E'' was a cargo ship that was built in 1941. She was the first British Catapult Aircraft Merchant ship: a merchant ship fitted with a rocket catapult to launch a single Hawker Hurricane fighter to defend a convoy against long-range German bombers. She was sunk on her maiden voyage by a German submarine. Description ''Michael E'' was built by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched in 1941, she was completed in May of that year. She was the United Kingdom's first CAM ship, armed with an aircraft catapult on her bow to launch a Hawker Sea Hurricane. The ship was long between perpendiculars ( overall), with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was and . She had six corrugated furnaces feeding two 225 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 443 NHP triple-expansion steam engine that had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was built by David Rowan & Co Ltd, Glasgow. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Burgess (actress)
Jean Burgess is a Distinguished Professor of Digital Media at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, (which she founded and directed between 2015–2020) and in the QUT School of Communication. She is currently Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She was the Deputy Director of the former ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) at the Queensland University of Technology. From 2010-2013 Jean was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (APD), working with Axel Bruns on the ARC Discovery Project 'New Media and Public Communication'. She researches and publishes on issues of cultural participation in new media contexts, with a particular focus on user-created content, online social networks, and co-creative media including digital storytelling. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2021. Education A classically trained musician with an honours deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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