British Science Fiction Series

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Toby's annual In Memoriam for Dr Who for 2016: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q210-JfcVuo

 

Aww, Reg is there. Thanks.

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Rodney Bennett, who directed 10 episodes of Doctor Who, has died aged 81. http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2017/01/rodney-bennett-1935-2017.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Bennett

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072025/

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Rodney Bennett, who directed 10 episodes of Doctor Who, has died aged 81. http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2017/01/rodney-bennett-1935-2017.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Bennett

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072025/

There can't be many directors from the Tom Baker era still alive !

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Well, here's the list I ran up for YW in more detail:

 

Lovett Bickford (born circa 1942) The Leisure Hive

John Black (b. 1940) – The Keeper of Traken, Four to Doomsday

Michael E Briant (b. 1942) – Sea Devils, Green Death, Robots of Death, etc

Chris Clough (b. 1951) – Trial of a Time Lord, Dragonfire, The Happiness Patrol, etc

Timothy Combe (b. 1936) - The Silurians, The Mind of Evil

Frank Cox (b. 1940) – The Edge of Destruction ep 2, The Sensorites episodes 5 and 6

John Davies – The Macra Terror

Tristan deVere Cole (b. 1935) – The Wheel in Space

Michael Ferguson (b. 1937) - War Machines, Ambassadors of Death, Claws of Axos

John Gorrie (b. 1932) – Keys of Marinus

Graeme Harper (b. 1945) – Caves of Androzani

Sarah Hellings (b. 1945) - Mark of the Rani

Warris Hussein (b. 1938) – An Unearthly Child

Michael Imison (b. 1935) – The Ark

Paul Joyce – Warriors Gate

Richard Martin (b. 1930) – The Daleks, The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Michael Owen Morris - The Awakening

Matthew Robinson (b. 1944) – Resurrection of the Daleks

Paddy Russell (born circa 1928) – The Massacre, Pyramids of Mars, Horror of Fang Rock

Bill Sellars (b. 1925) – The Celestial Toymaker

Alan Wareing (b. 1943) - Survival

 

 

To answer, about 5 Tom era directors, though iirc theres one or two from 1980 on who might still be around but just disappeared off the radar.

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Well, here's the list I ran up for YW in more detail:

 

Lovett Bickford (born circa 1942) The Leisure Hive

John Black (b. 1940) – The Keeper of Traken, Four to Doomsday

Michael E Briant (b. 1942) – Sea Devils, Green Death, Robots of Death, etc

Chris Clough (b. 1951) – Trial of a Time Lord, Dragonfire, The Happiness Patrol, etc

Timothy Combe (b. 1936) - The Silurians, The Mind of Evil

Frank Cox (b. 1940) – The Edge of Destruction ep 2, The Sensorites episodes 5 and 6

John Davies – The Macra Terror

Tristan deVere Cole (b. 1935) – The Wheel in Space

Michael Ferguson (b. 1937) - War Machines, Ambassadors of Death, Claws of Axos

John Gorrie (b. 1932) – Keys of Marinus

Graeme Harper (b. 1945) – Caves of Androzani

Sarah Hellings (b. 1945) - Mark of the Rani

Warris Hussein (b. 1938) – An Unearthly Child

Michael Imison (b. 1935) – The Ark

Paul Joyce – Warriors Gate

Richard Martin (b. 1930) – The Daleks, The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Michael Owen Morris - The Awakening

Matthew Robinson (b. 1944) – Resurrection of the Daleks

Paddy Russell (born circa 1928) – The Massacre, Pyramids of Mars, Horror of Fang Rock

Bill Sellars (b. 1925) – The Celestial Toymaker

Alan Wareing (b. 1943) - Survival

 

 

To answer, about 5 Tom era directors, though iirc theres one or two from 1980 on who might still be around but just disappeared off the radar.

apparantely 8 of the 25 directors who directed Tom Baker stories are still alive. By all accounts Tom put them under a lot of stress !

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Reports that TV actor Philip Bond (Avengers, Dr Who, Onedin Line) and dad of Samantha Bond has died aged 82.

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Reports that TV actor Philip Bond (Avengers, Dr Who, Onedin Line) and dad of Samantha Bond has died aged 82.

 

Toby has it on his website: http://tobyhadoke.com/doctor-who/philip-bond-rip-daleks-guest-star-dies-aged-82/

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Reports that TV actor Philip Bond (Avengers, Dr Who, Onedin Line) and dad of Samantha Bond has died aged 82.

 

"Goodbye, Mr Trotter and good luck..."

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Toby tweets that Peter Thomas, who played Captain Edal in The Savages, has died: https://twitter.com/TobyHadoke/status/822943018273619977

 

His site appears to be down for me. Which is a pity, because it would mean a hit for Captain Chorizo in the Scavenger Hunt DP.

 

Other work includes The Avengers and Dixon Of Dock Green.

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859349/

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Toby tweets that Peter Thomas, who played Captain Edal in The Savages, has died: https://twitter.com/TobyHadoke/status/822943018273619977

 

His site appears to be down for me. Which is a pity, because it would mean a hit for Captain Chorizo in the Scavenger Hunt DP.

 

Other work includes The Avengers and Dixon Of Dock Green.

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859349/

So many Doctor Who actors are dying now. Soon we won't have any left !

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Toby tweets that Peter Thomas, who played Captain Edal in The Savages, has died: https://twitter.com/TobyHadoke/status/822943018273619977

 

His site appears to be down for me. Which is a pity, because it would mean a hit for Captain Chorizo in the Scavenger Hunt DP.

 

Other work includes The Avengers and Dixon Of Dock Green.

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859349/

So many Doctor Who actors are dying now. Soon we won't have any left !

 

 

I am going to take issue with that. I have been running Scavenger Hunt Bingo since the beginning of June and this is the first hit in the Doctor Who actors category which was by far the one with the biggest number of picks. Burt Kwouk died just before the game started.

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Ah but Biblio, there's about 30 picks in the Scavenger Game, and around 300 living Dr Who actors from the classic series alone. (That's a guess before anyone goes and counts them all...)

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Toby tweets that Peter Thomas, who played Captain Edal in The Savages, has died: https://twitter.com/TobyHadoke/status/822943018273619977

 

His site appears to be down for me. Which is a pity, because it would mean a hit for Captain Chorizo in the Scavenger Hunt DP.

 

Other work includes The Avengers and Dixon Of Dock Green.

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859349/

 

So many Doctor Who actors are dying now. Soon we won't have any left !

I am going to take issue with that. I have been running Scavenger Hunt Bingo since the beginning of June and this is the first hit in the Doctor Who actors category which was by far the one with the biggest number of picks. Burt Kwouk died just before the game started.

any show with alot of actors that has been running for a long time will have alot of dead names attached to it. Just look at the Simpsons.

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The Curse of Doctor Who: the mysterious case of how a lot of really old actors who worked on a show 40-50 years ago are dead now, but some are still alive.

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Toby tweets that Peter Thomas, who played Captain Edal in The Savages, has died: https://twitter.com/TobyHadoke/status/822943018273619977

 

His site appears to be down for me. Which is a pity, because it would mean a hit for Captain Chorizo in the Scavenger Hunt DP.

 

Other work includes The Avengers and Dixon Of Dock Green.

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859349/

So many Doctor Who actors are dying now. Soon we won't have any left !

I am going to take issue with that. I have been running Scavenger Hunt Bingo since the beginning of June and this is the first hit in the Doctor Who actors category which was by far the one with the biggest number of picks. Burt Kwouk died just before the game started.

any show with alot of actors that has been running for a long time will have alot of dead names attached to it. Just look at the Simpsons.

 

I'd rather not thank you.

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Ah but Biblio, there's about 30 picks in the Scavenger Game, and around 300 living Dr Who actors from the classic series alone. (That's a guess before anyone goes and counts them all...)

 

I bet Toby has a database.

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Toby tweets that Peter Thomas, who played Captain Edal in The Savages, has died: https://twitter.com/TobyHadoke/status/822943018273619977

 

His site appears to be down for me. Which is a pity, because it would mean a hit for Captain Chorizo in the Scavenger Hunt DP.

 

Other work includes The Avengers and Dixon Of Dock Green.

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859349/

So many Doctor Who actors are dying now. Soon we won't have any left !

I am going to take issue with that. I have been running Scavenger Hunt Bingo since the beginning of June and this is the first hit in the Doctor Who actors category which was by far the one with the biggest number of picks. Burt Kwouk died just before the game started.

any show with alot of actors that has been running for a long time will have alot of dead names attached to it. Just look at the Simpsons.

 

Are you talking about Brookside?

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I watched Planet of the Spiders for the first time yesterday. The ending, with Liz Sladen and Nicholas Courtney standing over a dying Pertwee Doctor was a bit spooky: three now-dead actors having a discussion about death...

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Four dead actors - Kevin Lindsay, who plays the young monk-like Time Lord in that scene, died a year after it was broadcast.

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Four dead actors - Kevin Lindsay, who plays the young monk-like Time Lord in that scene, died a year after it was broadcast.

I wonder if we will ever see that character pop up in modern Who.

 

EDIT: Just looked Lindsay up. He was an Aussie actor in yellowface... (He had also previously played Linx the Sontaran.)

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Although he was a great character, the fact that Buddhist monk timelord was the Doctor's guru during his youth is a bit hard to take... It is difficult to imagine the Hartnell Doctor going through a hippie stage as a young man!

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Sad news tonight that for the first time since 1996 an actor who played the role of Doctor Who has died http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38778145. I know his death has been reported elsewhere but I thought it should be noted here too because of the iconic role

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This is an old article that I just came across. Turns out that Carole Ann Ford has had some serious health issues down the years:

 

"I went to open a hotel window but it was stuck. I tried to force it up, and had a searing pain in my back. The hotel called a local doctor, who gave me a drug that practically killed me. I became allergic to almost everything.

 

The symptoms began like flu, and she tried to recover on holiday in Spain. Somebody gave me an aspirin but within seconds of taking it I was dying. I had an anaphylactic shock. This time a Spanish doctor came running, with adrenalin. They saved my life.

 

After that, she went down to five stone in weight and lost her voice. I was like a skeleton. It took a long while to recover, with the help of a homeopath."

 

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/9975948/Doctor-Who-It-destroyed-my-acting-career.html

 

Just in case the politically correct crowd stumble onto Death List, here are some interesting photos of Miss Ford I just found too:

 

 

 

 

 

Whatever is he doing with that plunger?

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Well this kid sure got his prediction wrong. He is as inept as we are at predicting deaths! (To be fair, Sir John wasn't in the picture back when this prophecy was made.)

 

 

"Doctor Who's Tom Baker was told by a fan he will be the next Time Lord to die

 

 

Tom Baker was told he'll "be the next one to go" by a young fan

 

Former Doctor Who star Tom Baker has told how a cheeky young fan informed him he would be the next star of the long-running series to die.

 

The 79-year-old actor played the fourth Doctor for seven years after joining the series in 1974 and each of his predecessors - William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell - has died.

 

 

He continues to be recognised by fans of the show, but was taken aback by the approach of one youngster who estimated his days were numbered.

 

Baker said: "Somebody said to me the other day, a smart-arsed kid, 'Actuarially speaking, you'll be the next one to go you know'.

 

"I said, 'How do you know that?'. He said, 'My father's in insurance, he's an actuary'. So I made a big effort and asked him if he was all right for money, and he said he was, so I offered him five pounds thinking there must be a vestige of shame in him.

 

"But there wasn't - he took the five pounds. I think he did say thanks, very quietly, and then he went.""

 

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-tom-baker-told-2675579

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Looking at that article, poor old William Hartnell. Dying was bad enough but to die twice...