Tuesday, 5 March 2019

Articles WATNOW: Reset by DJ Forrest





Reset brought the Torchwood team to the Pharm, and Professor Aaron Copley, after UNIT discovered a high population of deaths in and around South Wales, namely the Cardiff area, with unexplained needle marks in victims’ eyeballs.

When Martha Jones goes undercover as Sam, on a clinical trials program, she suddenly realises just what is going on at the Pharm site and doesn’t relish the mayfly larvae currently growing inside of her. It seems her travels with the Doctor, gave her the perfect breeding ground for Copley’s new wonder drug – the Reset. 



Freema Agyeman

‘Dr Martha Jones’


‘The parasite needs a healthy body until it's incubated. So the parasite egg incorporates this magic bullet, which puts everything in the system back to its factory settings.’



Before her role in Torchwood, Freema was known to us as Dr Martha Jones, companion to the Doctor and she travelled with him for 20 episodes. After Who, Freema played Alesha Phillips in Law & Order: UK between 2009 and 2011. In 2014 she played Larissa Loughlin for The Carrie Diaries. If you're a CBeebies fan, or if you're a parent of a child who enjoys watching the show, you'll remember Freema from Old Jack's Boat where she played Shelly Periwinkle, a mermaid. Incidentally, you might like to know that we're covering Old Jack's Boat in our Connections this month, where you might find a further few interesting facts. Between 2015 - 2018 Freema played Amanita Caplan in Sense8 and is currently playing Dr Helen Sharpe in the TV series New Amsterdam.

Alan Dale

‘Professor Aaron Copley’


‘She's survived the larval stage. The only subject ever to do so. It's fascinating. Turns out these bugs practice sibling cannibalism. Only the strongest individual is left now. God knows what happens next.’

Since Torchwood in 2008, Alan Dale has never stopped. He's been a character in more shows, films and short videos than I've had hot dinners. After Torchwood, in the same year, he played General Ross in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (not a film I ever really engaged with, if I'm honest, and Dillon Casey and I will agree, that it most definitely wasn't an Indiana Jones film).


In 2009 Alan also played a character in the Law & Order franchise, this however was the Special Victims Unit as Judge Joshua Koehler in the episode Liberties. For 17 episodes of Lost from 2006 - 2010, a series I got into then well and truly got lost in the whole set up of the show, Dale played Charles Widmore. He played Ken Bocklage in Burn Notice in 2010. Jumping to 2008 and he played John Ellis in Entourage for 5 episodes till 2011. He plays Detective Isaksson in the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I remember jumping about like I had ants in my pants when I saw him, much to my Mother's annoyance. She was deeply engrossed in the film at the time.
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Dale played Councilman Rockwell in Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014.  Was the voice of Frank in Top Coppers in 2015. For 9 episodes of Once Upon A Time he played King George and Albert Spencer until 2017.

I was a little surprised to find Dale had returned to Neighbours to appear as Paul Robinson's Dad, a man who had seemingly died of a heart attack. As I hadn’t seen the episode where he returns, I was pleased it wasn’t in a shower sequence like Bobby Ewing from Dallas. Instead he was immortalised in a Christmas bauble hanging from the back window – as you do!

For 44 episodes of Dynasty, Dale plays Joseph Anders from 2017 - 2019.


Jacqueline Boatswain

‘Plummer’


‘Break out in Zone A. All patrols to Zone A immediately. 'Breakout in Zone A. Break out in Zone A. All patrols proceed with extreme caution. The escaped creature is extremely dangerous.’

Having just seen Boatswain's character in Hollyoaks walk away into the sunset with her son Zack after playing Simone Loveday for 246 episodes, it's nice looking back on where it all began, or at best, where I remember her from. After Torchwood, Boatswain played Turley's solicitor in Silk, Kathy in The Importance of Being Whatever, played Patreesha St Rose in Shameless for 9 episodes in 2013. Was the voice of many in the Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag video game a year later, as well as Valeria in National Theatre Live: Coriolanus.


Creeping ever closer to her role in Hollyoaks, Boatswain played a collection of characters in the long running afternoon medical drama Doctors from 2001 - 2014. I remember spotting her in Bad Education as a school Governor, and more recently as Victoria in Wolfblood - who doesn't like that series? Last year Boatswain played Monique in the tv series Collateral, and Jane in Cuckoo, as well as voicing another video game, this time, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. But it was a sad farewell from Hollyoaks where she'd played Simone Loveday from 2015 - 2019 that many will remember her for, but the question remains, will she ever return to the village?


Jan Anderson

‘Marie’


'Too good to be true.  I had HIV. That's the Reset. I got it from the Pharm. It's a medical research place, all right? They gave it to me. They paid me a lot of money. They said I should to keep quiet about it because it was part of the contract.'


Since playing Marie in Reset, Jan has played small roles in many familiar television series' and film such as Curb Your Enthusiasm as Stella, a Customer in Trollied, Sharon in the movie Porridge, two different characters in Doctors and returning to play Sharon again for the tv series of Porridge two years later. She played Jemima Kidd for two episodes of Emmerdale in 2018 and is currently filming Next Door as India and rumoured to be playing Emma in The Middle Man currently in pre-production. Take the Lead, as Rachel, in a movie for television has just been completed.

Rhodri Miles

Billy’


‘I work for the Pharm. They'd been giving people this Reset drug, but there were these side effects. Parasites or something. They were gonna die anyway, so I had to get rid of them before any weird symptoms showed up in public.’


Since Torchwood, Rhodri has played a number of characters mainly for Welsh television programmes, such as High Hopes in 2008, Alys in 2011 and Hinterland in 2013 in part two of Devil's Bridge as Neil Amos. His last credit was in 2014 as First Mate in Game of Thrones episode The Laws of Gods and Men.



Michael Sewell

‘Mike’


‘Well, he used to be really clean. He reckoned he had to be careful about what went into his body because of his diabetes.’

There's not much written for Michael Sewell after Torchwood, apart from playing Eric Benton his The Bill character in TV Burp from 2008 - 2009. No idea which he is in photo, but only one I could find. 


John Samuel Worsey

‘Policeman’

‘Body was found early this morning. Caucasian male, early twenties.’


I've found nothing for actor John Samuel Worsey after Torchwood in 2008 when he played the policeman in Reset.


Natalie Danks-Smith

‘Elin Morgan’


Natalie Danks-Smith is no stranger to the Whoniverse as her credits show that she played not only the 3rd Sibyline Sister in The Fires of Pompeii but also played an Auton in the Doctor Who episode Love & Monsters - which means I'm going to have to rewatch that episode to work out where in that episode an auton appeared. Unless it was a flashback.

Since Torchwood, and since her Doctor Who appearances where she was uncredited in all three roles, I hasten to add, Natalie has played Lydia Hoggart in Doctors a year after Doctor Who, Duchess of Kent in Upstairs Downstairs in 2012 and played Jack's Mum in We Are the Freaks in 2013


Martin Fox

‘Security Guard’

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As an actor, Martin Fox played his first character role in Doctor Who as a UNIT soldier in The Sound of Drums in 2007, uncredited. After playing a plain clothed officer in Mistresses, again uncredited, he returned to the Whoniverse to play three roles in Torchwood from 2006 - 2009. A Fight Club Doorman in Combat, a Security Guard in Reset and a Custody Officer in Children of Earth: Day Five. I'm seeing a pattern regarding roles, as Fox played a Police Officer in the Thor film The Dark World in 2013 as well as DS Fraser in Line of Duty (brilliant series) a year before.

More recently he ditched the police uniform in favour of a white coat and stethoscope as a psychiatric Doctor in Father Brown episode The Three Tools of Death in 2014. His last credit was as a Henenlotter Police in My Bloody Banjo in 2015.


Michael Llewellyn Williams

‘Barry Leonard’


In 2007 before his role as Barry Leonard in Torchwood, Williams played a Slab in the Doctor Who episode Smith and Jones - couldn't tell you which one though!
He was an assistant director for Doctor Who episode Flatline in 2014. Worked as a floor runner for 12 episodes of Atlantis from 2014 - 2015, was assistant director for Da Vinci's Demons in 2015, has worked from floor runner to assistant director for many popular television series, including The Crown, Downton Abbey, Taboo and The Halcyon, as well as Set PA for Queen film Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018. He's also crowd third assistant director for 3 episodes of The Little Drummer Girl mini series in 2018 and currently in post production, was Crowd 3rd Assistant Director for The King in 2019.




 

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