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Yeah, he was on my shortlist ever since but always seemed too damn healthy to make the various teams. Apparently he became frail late last year.

Credited roles Doctor Who - Tom Baker Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen Harry Sullivan - Ian Marter Davros – Michael Wisher Nyder – Peter Miles Gharman - Dennis Chinnery Ravon - Guy Siner Time Lord - John Franklyn-Robbins Kaled Leader - Richard Reeves Dalek Operators - John Scott Martin, Cy Town, Keith Ashley Sevrin - Stephen Yardley Ronson - James Garbutt Tane - Drew Wood Gerrill - Jeremy Chandler Thal Soldier - Pat Gorman Kavell - Tom Georgeson Mogran - Ivor Roberts Thal Politician - Michael Lynch Thal Soldier - Hilary Minster Thal Guard - Max Faulkner Dalek Voices - Roy Skelton Bettan - Harriet Philpin Kaled Guard - Peter Mantle Kravos - Andrew Johns Thal Soldier - John Gleeson Tom and the younger members of the cast, basically.

That's a shame, another of those dependable actors who used to show up in everything. Regular in When The Boat Comes In and The Onedin Line. He's also quite good in Genesis of course, continuing to act in the background of scene when many would only watch for their own lines. And then, having proven how dependable he was, he goes full laldy in the death scene, screams and arms in the air. "That's what I signed up for, dying on Doctor Who!" he later claimed (I paraphrase).

That's in the prison Tobin's in.

Its like TV overnight ratings and their final official figure. This game is reliant on the overnight figure. The bigger numbers that come out later is the consolidated figure. The press often talk up the former whilst the latter is far more instructive. You can't really play a game like this waiting for the final official figures though.

I think the gist is basically: the on the day figure is of those who have tested positive for Corona. Every sudden death in a hospital or care home has to go through various checks which take a week or two, and many of those are being picked up as Corona-related postmortem.

Take care and here's to a speedy recovery.

Centenarian Apocalypse 2020! Who's going to save Andrew Keir from being poisoned now, if he weren't dead 20 years?

Never heard of it. Any good? (Mysteriously DDP picks are surprisingly well known to me...)

Don't worry, you'll be out of the Cup in a few weeks time so you can start posting Cup possibilities to help folk out whenever you want. (Hey, twas an open goal...)

We Will All Go Together is perhaps a bit cliched to post (although I do love it), so here's his other great. Who hasn't got funny looks from passersby when inadvertently singing it in public? Needless to say, legend who will one day be a DL hit presumably, but hopefully not anytime soon.

That's the best episode of The Prisoner, by far. Almost McGoohan as Columbo, nemesis of wrong doers.

I can't really hear the audio, but here's brief footage of the great 50s/60s character actor (and Talking Pictures favourite) Michael Craig chilling earlier today.

16th August 2025

Yeah, at the moment I am leaning 55-45 Biden but with the possibilities of the Dems fucking it up as usual.

Could be worse in a way. He's in Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, one of those in the news for being inundated with coronavirus cases. How ill do you need to be to be given a hospital bed at a coronavirus hit hospital right now without the virus? Very ill indeed, I'd guess.

Underlying issues plus coronavirus plus ventilator. But he was one of the first names on the team because I was all "He's going to be on every team and the fuck am I giving Sir Creep a 3 point lead!" Accidentally successful defence!

That cancer/corona double punch was just too much.

Peter Temple Morris, Tory MP for Leominster for 27 years who died in 2018 btw. They were right next to each other on the living MPs list a few years back hence my confusion.

I thought he died a year or two ago, and now I must have confused him for another Tory MP born in the late 30s. Anyhow, the whole duck island was one of the notorious bits of the expenses scandal, but just look how happy that duck looked after some taxpayer funded Location Location Location work:

Yes, dropping Greaves (and maybe Gorbachev in the circumstances) were the two oddest dropping decisions they made.

Ok, given that, here is a list of as many living people who worked or appeared on Dr Who who are 70 in 2020 or older. Credited cast, producers, directors, writers, unless they are notable not the many many uncredited extras as we'd be here all day. 1. 1917 – Earl Cameron 2. 1920 – Arnold Yarrow 3. 1924 – William Russell, Donald Pelmear, Laurie Webb 4. 1925 – David Graham, Morris Perry, Ysanne Churchman, James Garbutt 5. 1926 – Andre Maranne, Barbara Clegg 6. 1927 – Geoffrey Palmer, June Brown, Frank Windsor, Frank Mills, Graham Rigby, David de Keyser, Derek Smith 7. 1928 – Mark Eden, Peter Cellier, Michael Craig, Georgine Anderson, Bernard Cribbins 8. 1929 – Colin Jeavons, Steve Machin, Damaris Hayman, John Woodvine, Clifford Rose, Philip Latham, John Nettleton, Thelma Barlow, John Greenwood, Patricia Prior 9. 1930 – Henry Lincoln, Shirley Cooklin, Richard Martin, Roy Evans. Alan Curtis, David Garfield, Henry Woolf, John Rolfe (c.), Lillias Walker, Gary Watson, Brian Peck 10. 1931 –Godfrey James, Cy Town, Kenneth Cope, John Fraser, June Bland, Claire Bloom, Kenneth Seeger, Gordon Faith, James Greene 11. 1932 – Sonny Caldinez, Carmen Munroe, John Gorrie, Jolyon Booth, Edward de Souza, Roy Scammell, Vera Fusek, Gabriel Woolf, Antony Carrick, Barbara Shelley, Vilma Hollingberry, Wendy Gifford, Kenton Moore, Dinny Powell 12. 1933 – Bernard Lodge, Michael Allaby, Geoffrey Frederick, Patrick Godfrey, Donald Douglas, Michael McStay, Derek Martin, Rhoda Lewis, Sheila Hancock, Ian Frost, Inigo Jackson 13. 1934 –Mary Peach, Jeremy Young, Billy Cornelius, Ann Davies, Robert Aldous, Jean Marsh, Kenneth Ives, Arthur Cox, Gilbert Wynne, Vernon Dobtcheff, Christopher Benjamin, Tom Baker, Roy Macready, Slyvia Syms, Mona Hammond, Mitzi McKenzie, John Davies, Leila Hoffman, Michael Wolf, Martin Muncaster, Jean Challis 14. 1935 – Tristan de Vere Cole, George Roubicek, Derren Nesbitt, Julian Glover, Michael Imison, Glenn Beck, David Prowse, Derrick Goodwin, Wanda Ventham, Susan Engel, Michael Jayston, Janet Henfrey, Anne Reid, David Daker, Sandra Reid (c.), Allister Bain 15. 1936 –Ralph Watson, Philip Voss, Timothy Combe, Douglas Sheldon, David Savile, Richard Franklin, Tessa Shaw, Tim Barlow, Brian Blessed, Tony Scoggo, Richard Wilson, Nicholas McArdle (c.), Jon Lauriemore, Terence Lodge 16. 1937 – Derrick Gilbert, Michael Kilgarriff, Tony Caunter, Eileen Helsby, Michael Ferguson, Clive Scott, Hugh Futcher, Donald Gee, Tom Georgeson, Brian Grellis, David Bailie, Geoffrey Hinsliff, Davyd Harries, Colette O’Neil, Maurice Roeves, Sheila Reid, Gawn Grainger, William Gaunt, Ian Hogg, Barbara Windsor, Vic Tablian, Martin Cort, Viktors Ritelis, David Arlen, Davyd Harries, Terrence Hardiman, Brian Cullingford, Darrol Blake, Steven Berkoff 17. 1938 – Tina Packer, Milton Johns, Brian Hodgson, Warris Hussein, Spencer Chapman, Frances White, John Tillinger, David Weston, Tim Goodman, Christopher Dunham, Richard Kane, Christopher Robbie, Christopher Coll, Leslie Schofield, Louis Mahoney, Laurence Harrington, Tim Preece, Julian Fox, Roy Boyd, David McKail, Eleanor Bron, John Savident, Philip Martin, Tony Selby, Val McCrimmon, John Tordoff, Derek Jacobi, Diana Rigg, Penelope Lee, Col Farrell 18. 1939 –Geoffrey Kirkland, Ian Thompson, peter Purves, Marina Martin, Lynda Baron, Eric Mival, Rudolph Walker, John Moreno, Paul Grist, Bob Baker, Valentine Palmer, Garrick Hagon, Jonathan Newth, John Cleese, Ian McCulloch, Jonathan Burn, Edmund Pegge, James Fox, Ian McKellen, Meg Wynn-Owen, Jonathan Burn 19. 1940 –Bernard Holley, Pauline Collins, Carole Ann Ford, Clive Doig, Frank Cox, Ronald Pickup, Neville Smith, Annette Robertson, Louise Pajo, David Calderisi, Stanley McGeagh, Alec Linstead, Tony Adams, Ben Howard, John Gregg, Harry Fielder, John Black, Barry Stanton, James Beckett, Judy Cornwell, Angela Douglas, William Wilde, Jim McManus, Gilly Fraser (c.), Mark Heath, Ringo Starr, Birgit Forsyth, Michael Gambon 20. 1941 – John Levene, Hannah Gordon, Martin Jarvis, Christopher Tranchell, Jackie Lane, Kay Patrick, Anneke Wills, Mike Lucas, John Atterbury, Geoffrey Beevers, Michael Walker, David Arlen, Andrew Robertson, David Gooderson, Malcolm Terris, Christopher Hamilton bidmead, Nerys Hughes, Ahmed khalil, Brian Miller, Polly James, David Ashton, Alan David, Roy Marsden, Angela Pleasance, Maurice O’Connell, Rachel Davies (c.), Roger Limb, David Warner, David Ashford 21. 1942 – Illona Rodgers, Michael E Briant, Robert Sidaway, Prentis Hancock, Ian Talbot, Fernanda Marlowe, Stuart Fell, James Marcus, Patricia Maynard, Stephen Yardley, John Challis, Brian Croucher, Denis Lill, Paul Shelley, John D Collins, Chloe Ashcroft, Pam St Clement, Peter Symonds, Caroline Hunt, Margot Hayhoe (c.), Carl Rigg, John Bloomfield, Ernie Vincze, Bernard Lloyd-Jones, John Owens, David Bradley, David Quilter, Paul McCartney, James Marcus 22. 1943 – Donald Sumpter, Kevork Malikyan, Virginia Wetherell, Maureen O’Brien, Valentino Musetti, Delia Lindon, Giles Block, George Layton, Ian Hines, David Simeon, David Griffin, Chris Boucher, Gregory de Polnay, John Leeson, Peter Straker, Myra Frances, Colin Baker, Georgina Hale, Edward Peel, Sylvester McCoy, Roger Nott, Roger Murray-Leach, Julia Foster 23. 1944 – Adam Verney, Frazer Hines, Fiona Walker, Paula Topham, Sally Faulkner, Graham Weston, Pik-Sen Lim, Philip Hinchcliffe, Catherine Schell, Barry Andrews, nigel lambert, Eric Saward, Timothy Block, Keith Drinkel, Martin Potter, Isla Blair, Matthew Robinson, Barbara Kinghorn, Faith Brown, Colin Spaull, John Ogwen, Richard Hartley, Patricia Quinn, Julian Holloway, Anne Robinson, Pamela Salem, Judith Paris, Paul Joyce, Ian Barritt, David Rowlands, John Flanagan, Martin Potter 24. 1945 – Clive Merrison, Jeremy Bulloch, Sandra Bryant, Jimmy Winston, John Kane, Conrad Asquith, John Abbott, Andrew McCulloch, John Flanagan, Graeme Harper, Michael Melia, Nicolas Chagrin, Alibe Parsons, Morgan Deare, Bill Lyons, Michael Brandon, Bill Paterson, Michael Bertinshaw, Tariq Anwar, Sarah Hellings 25. 1946 – Peter Craze, Richard Ireson, Miles Northover, Katy Manning, Graham Simpson, Tom Chadbon, Sheila Ruskin, Annie Lambert, Roger Davenport, Roy holder, Martin Cochrane , Dickon Ashworth, Simon Williams, Penelope Wilton, Colin Prockter, Struan Rodger, Maureen Lipman, Robin Soans, James Acheson, Colette Gleeson, Timothy Dalton, Martin Fisk, David Suchet, Brian Cox, Graham Simpson, Felicity Kendal, Togo Igawa 26. 1947 – Wendy Padbury, Petra Markham, Felicity Gibson, Guy Siner, Brendan Price, Adrienne Burgess, Michael Keating, Paul Seed, Tony Osoba, Michael Osborne, Christopher Neame, Paddy Kingsland, Michael Cochrane, James Warwick, Ann Holloway, Alec Sabin, Peter Burroughs, Terry Molloy, Rula Lenska, John Alkin, Stephen Churchett, Leslie Meadows, William Thomas, Jack Galloway, John Tallents, Ralph Arliss, Colin Stinton, Ann Widdecombe, George Costigan,Rachel Bell, Ozzie Yue, Lois Baxter 27. 1948 –Matthew Corbett, Stewart Bevan, Peter Howell, gareth Armstrong, David Warwick, David Sibley, Paul Jerricho, Michael J Jackson, Anita Graham, Stephen Wyatt, Joseph Marcell, Ron Cook, Peter Walshe, Mat Irvine, Tony Virgo, Rusty Goffe 28. 1949 – Susan Penhaligon, Andrew Johns, Rob Edwards, Neil Dalglish, Keith Skinner, Martyn Whitby, Cameron Gomez, Jeananne Crowley, Zoe Wannamaker, Simon Callow, Geoffrey Sax, David Allister (c.), Judy Norman, Ian Gelder, Neil Daglish, Bill Nighy 29. 1950 – David Troughton, Cheryl Hall, Nick Hobbs, Nigel Plaskitt, Michael Cashman, Liza Goddard, Nitza Saul, Eric Deacon, David Chandler, Christopher Ryan, Rachel Bell, Sharon Duce, Annette Badland, Robert Pugh, Sharon Duce, Paul Lavers, Catherine Howe, Ian McNeice Finally had the impetus to finish this to 1950 but folk show up from behind a sofa all the time, and there's still a few folk who could be there but their birth dates are yet to show up. Although with several of those I've made guesses based on school dates or debuts, hence (c.) notes for circa.

Typhoid Bou!

Allegedly played a huge role in this post. As you can see from the imdb date change, further research from Dr Who fans (a group as interested in research as deadpoolers) has discovered Joan Ellacott actually died in 2007.

Well in the case of Hugh Gaitskell, he was in hospital for 2 weeks but only took very badly ill towards the end. In fact, the news of his death came through while the BBC news was live on air with Robert Dougall so he continued reading the original story on the Labour leader and finished "And since we've come on air, news has reached us that Mr Gaitskell has died". For UK party leaders, John Smith died since then but that was more of a surprise, despite his previous heart problems. Despite being far too young to know who he was at the time, I remember that happening, because so many adults around me were blatantly gutted by that one, including Mum who still compares Blair unfavourably to Smith! Oh and in Scotland we had Donald Dewar dying as First Minister too, which was treated as a shock by the media but folk close to Dewar had sort of intimated he was in a bad way. About six months before he died, he visited my school, but only S4 and above were allowed to attend his talk. I complained about this but got told I could go to the next one. As Dewar died, they replaced him for the next talk with Michael Martin, then Commons Speaker.