Reviews Torchwood: Gooseberry by Tony J Fyler

 

When Owen Harper (Burn Gorman), Torchwood’s medic, sometimes walking dead and King of the Weevils, and Andy Davidson (Tom Price), the organisation’s on-again off-again traditional police liaison, star together in an audio drama from Big finish, 90% of the time, some really dark and creepy stuff invades the next hour of your life. 

They’ve been caught up in domestic prison/torture horror in Corpse Day, searched mountains for victims of a grisly child killer in The Hope, and…erm…chased the ineffable monkey of good luck around Cardiff. 

OK, 66% of the time, some really dark and creepy stuff invades the next hour of your life. 33% it’s just weird. Fun, and still with dark moments, but weird. 

So which side of the dark and creepy/mostly just weird divide does their fourth pairing, Gooseberry, fall on? 

Well, it’s fairly dark in that it develops into a study of addiction or obsession that leads both to tragic consequences and to a deeply human disregard for those consequences on the part of the obsessive. But it would be a mistake to say it’s dark…by their standards when they get together. It’s certainly more than half-past light and frothy, but by their standards it’s about quarter-to dark. That feels like a deliberate decision by writer James Goss – there would be ways to go much darker with the story of this premise than he goes here, but you’d run the risk of straying into audience-depressing territory if you went much further than Gooseberry goes. 

The premise of the story? 

Andy Davidson has a girlfriend. 

Exactly – it’s not what you’d call earth-shattering, as a premise, is it? 

There’s so much to it than that, and James Goss draws you in to the complications that arise from Andy Davidson having a girlfriend before the credits even roll, with a single, economical line from Owen. The thing about which is, if we’re keeping you all pristine and spoiler-free, we can’t tell you what it is. 

To know would really blow the impact of that moment, and that moment’s worth preserving because its consequences collapse in on you while the theme plays, and the drama expands in your head as you begin to understand the ramifications you’re about to hear played out.

Andy’s girlfriend, Caite, is played with a fabulous joie de vivre by Lois Chimimba. And Caite has a secret. A secret Andy has yet to notice, despite convincing himself he’s in love. And a secret which Owen clocks within seconds of meeting her. 

That inevitably draws the two of them into an immediate, intimate-but-different relationship. It’s not a relationship of traditional lust, but there are elements in their dynamic that make it feel interestingly transgressive. It’s more than ‘my friend fancies my girlfriend.’ In fact, it’s much more visceral and primal than that, because Caite’s secret is something that can make Owen – dead man walking Owen – feel alive again. 

Imagine that for a moment. You’re dead, but you’re still here, in your body. Your senses don’t work. You can’t smell coffee or enthusiasm, bacon or raindrops, you can’t taste love or chips or regret or tears. 

And then you meet someone who can give that back to you. 

What would you not do for them? For more of that feeling? 

That’s the actual premise of Gooseberry – Owen gets a chance to feel alive again. But to a dead man, life is more addictive than it ever was when he had it the first time round.

In some ways, there’s a positive message to be taken from that premise – enjoy everything you have, because you have so much more than you’re conditioned to knowing. But in the tack we take in Gooseberry, Owen begins to exist for those moments when, with Caite’s help, he can peek back through from where he is, and feel life in all its rancid, wonderful complexity. 

It’s not traditional lust – it’s a lust for life. And it’s only fair to say that Louis Chimimba plays it straight – the lust is very much one-sided, Caite sharing her gift with Owen more and more only because he wants and needs it. Her love for Andy feels real the whole way through, and she never displays what in TV Torchwood you’d almost expect – some sign of being out for a bigger prize, some verbal tick which on re-listening you’d point to and go “Ahh, you see?”

It's also worth acknowledging the levels on which the story works. Sure, it works on its surface level, as Owen increasingly demanding something he feels he needs, and Caite’s consent to it starting off eager to share with him but becoming increasingly resentful of his demands over time. 

Especially because there are consequences to her gift. Consequences which aren’t immediately clear as the two explore what it can give to Owen, but which increasingly, Caite warns him of, and Owen stops caring about. Even when the consequences come home to roost, Owen wants to carry on, wants to use his Torchwood privileges to make sure Andy doesn’t find out about what the Gooseberry has been getting upto with his girlfriend.

This is the interesting duality at the heart of the story. You can listen to it on its surface level, and of course, Owen’s journey into moments of ecstasy that make life worth living and damn the consequences also works as a drug addiction parallel. 

But more than that, it works as an actual, traditional-lust affair story – especially because as time goes on and Owen throws more and more caution to the wind, he goes to more extreme lengths to make sure Andy doesn’t find out – destroying lives, memories and on some level his rational morality (such as it is) in the process. 

Andy, he reasons, may love Caite – or at least, what he knows about Caite. But Owen needs her. Physically, mentally, even almost spiritually, which for a man who knows the darkness is all there is beyond his life is really saying something. 

It’s a journey into the sacrifice of every principle, every standard, in the search for moments of light against the darkness, and Burn Gorman was absolutely born to play Owen in this story, his gift for characters on the edge of concepts like good and evil really bolstering the boldness of the writing here. 

Tom Price, meanwhile, is able to show what has at some other points been told – Andy Davidson is no fool. Dogging the steps of the not-couple as they go beyond the reach of principle, he’s a kind of implacable avatar of destiny here. 

For all Owen says he respects Andy enough to lie to him about what’s really happening, it’s an insult from Owen to automatically assume that he can outwit ‘Plod,’ as he calls him, especially as his removal of evidence is so typically…Torchwood. Subtle as a sledgehammer in the face, and self-congratulatory to boot, Owen reckons without the grounded, dogged determination and the copper’s instincts of Andy Davidson. 

That leads to what on screen would have been a classic and impressive visual effects finale. Here on audio – and surprisingly, for Big Finish – the ending feels a little underpowered, the resolution of the fundamental threat feeling a little pushed for time, and lower in Owen angst than befits the ultimate dilemma it offers him: continued feelings of being alive versus…erm…well, versus badness (Spoiler-free, remember?). 

What feels certain at the end though is that the relationship between one of Torchwood’s best Odd Couples will be – or should be – significantly changed in future audio adventures. Andy has given Owen so many chances to do the right thing, and been perpetually disappointed, not so much in terms of the Gooseberry factor of running around with a friend’s girlfriend, but more in terms of doing the typical Torchwood thing, and not crediting him with the intelligence to see beyond it. Whether they can be the almost-sort-of-friends they’ve been before must surely be in question from here on out. 

Pick up Gooseberry for a cracking, fast-paced relationship drama with two of Torchwood’s finest. With the perfectly-pitched help of Louis Chimimba, Gooseberry gets to the fundamental truth of Owen and Andy’s friendship, and leaves it in a very different state to how it finds it. It’s a high-octane ride into life, death, love, need and lies, with a light touch and a Torchwood twist. 

Beyond The Hub Enola Holmes by DJ Forrest

 

It makes a change to see a much light hearted and entertaining story about the little sister of the Holmes brothers, that is rarely heard of, given that, for much of the series of Sherlock Holmes, it took some time to realise that he even had a big brother, let alone a kooky sister who they barely even spoke about. 

Enola which when read backwards spells Alone, is a child brought up by her Mother, and barely saw her brothers. Naturally, the age difference between her and her brothers is massive and you could expect to see Mycroft despairing at the laughter and gaiety of a young girl, more of a tomboy in nature, causing chaos and mayhem around the old family estate. 

In the New series of Sherlock, we learnt about Mycroft, his big brother, and a little of the sister, who was locked away for her own good, and who was plotting on getting rid of Sherlock once and for all, or so I was led to believe. 

In the Netflix film, Enola is 16, lives with her eccentric mother in the country at the family estate, with a housekeeper and a series of women who frequent the house, who have in some way taught Enola how to protect herself in times of great need. 

Enola played by Millie Bobby Brown of the Stranger Things series, who is also one of the producers of the film, engages you with her character throughout, talking to the camera as if she’s really talking to you, explaining the facts of the situation. 

Enola learnt to read ALL the books in the library at a young age. Learnt how to use weapons, and how to play a mean game of tennis – indoors, and uncovered great secrets about her mother, (that had been kept hidden from her, throughout her childhood) when she woke up one morning to find that her Mother had vanished. 

Mother, played by Helena Bonham Carter, without giving too much away of the plot, is planning on something hugely explosive, and requires hush hush talks in study rooms, away from prying eyes and 16 year old girls. Of course, Enola, unaware of what is afoot, begins to learn something about secrets and how to look for them after speaking with her brother Sherlock under the shade of the old tree on their property. She goes in search of clues in her Mother’s study and uncovers quite a few things which take her to London, on board a train, which brings her more trouble than either of the Holmes’ brothers could muster between them. 

And that’s where it gets interesting; not that it wasn’t interesting before, but for a Woody, I grew extremely excited by the lead baddie in this story, who appears more than once in the film. Not a blink and you’ve missed him, although I did have to rewatch the trailer a second time and freeze frame it to be absolutely sure of my facts before screaming: IT’S OWEN!!! 

Yes folks, Burn Gorman plays another convincing baddie, and plays him well. He suits the bad boy role and Linthorn is indeed a nasty piece of work. I can’t really tell you too much about his employer, but his role in the piece is to eliminate the young Tewkesbury played by Louis Partridge, for reasons that are later explained in the film. 

I have to admit that I quite enjoyed watching the actor who played Lestrade, because unlike his character in the present day Sherlock, this character was much more entertaining and had a touch of Inspector Clouseau about him.

It has a great cast who suit the roles perfectly. Henry Cavill plays Sherlock and Sam Claflin plays Mycroft, along with Ellie Haddington playing Miss Gregory, and Frances De La Tour as the Dowager. 

Everything about this film is uplifting and exciting and fresh and with a flavour of the great British countryside, which for me is enjoyable. The steam train scenes were wonderfully put together and tight as the corridors are between carriages, the angles of the filming for the scenes when young Tewkesbury is hanging off the door has you on the edge of your seat as to whether he’ll make it back onboard the train before it reaches the bridge.

I loved every inch of this film and I can’t rate it highly enough. You have to watch it. It’s one of those Saturday afternoon, or rainy day films. A pick me up film. A tonic. A laugh. An edge of the seat bit of excitement. Oh and did I mention – it’s got BURN ruddy GORMAN in it?

 

 

Reviews Iceberg by Tony J Fyler

Tony’s getting chilly.

Owen Harper has had a troubled life. The acerbic medic of Torchwood in Cardiff Bay might – and arguably should – be forgiven his seemingly cold, shallow, hostile nature when you look at what has happened to him. His life and happiness having been originally bound up in a love and a career, he’s an object lesson in playing society’s game… until the game plays far too harshly with him, his love is taken from him, and his skills remain, his open-heartedness replaced with a burning need to understand, to make sense of the senseless, and to do some sort of good in an ultimately meaningless cosmos.

Writers in the audio world have not for the most part been kind to Own Harper.

They’ve been good to him, yes, giving him some meaty scripts, having him tackle a suburban charnel house, a mass murderer’s burial grounds, and the career-minded enthusiasm of Ianto Jones. But kind, no. Owen’s generally had a godawful time in his audio career at Big Finish. See also the suburban charnel house, the mass murderer’s killing grounds and…you get the picture.

In Grace Knight’s Iceberg, there is at least initially less blatant horror in store for Owen, but still there’s challenging territory for the man who can’t allow himself to look backwards because it hurts too much.

A phone call at 1 in the morning. The voice of an old friend.

An old friend who Owen, under the guise of having too much new demanding stuff to do after the death of his fiancée Katie and the new job he mysteriously took up, had gently ghosted, unable to deal with human connections to his old life that left him raw.

But it’s 1 in the morning. He answers before he can think.

And it’s Amira.

Amira, the friend of both Katie and that younger, more hopeful Owen. A voice from the past.

More to the point, when he answers her call, she has a mystery for him. A doctor herself, she has a patient who’s in at least most of a coma. The patient, Lucy, wakes for brief periods, has a totally lucid conversation with the ghost of her dead sister, who she insists is standing in the room, and then goes back to dreamland.

But something’s all sorts of wrong with her chemistry levels. And Amira, despite having a legitimate concern for her patient and a keenness to haul Owen over the friendliest of coals for his abandonment of her and everyone in the wake of Katie’s death, has moments when she blanks on basic medical procedure.

The more we learn of Lucy’s predicament, the more we understand why this is a Torchwood story. Lucy (played by Lowri Walton) is a young woman already haunted by the memory of her dead sister before that sister comes to pay her visits in the hospital. Amira (played by Maya Saroya strongly enough to stand up to Burn Gorman’s Owen) has secrets of her own, which Owen must unravel if anything about this night call to an otherwise eerily silent hospital is to make sense. And not to put too fine a point on it, he’d better hurry.

Iceberg is an intriguing mixture of things. On the one hand, it gives us more and meatier detail of Owen’s pre-Torchwood past, his life, his love, the way he reacted when Katie died, and, thanks to one blistering outburst, played to the nail by Burn Gorman, the workings of his mind when he forced himself to become the character we first met in TV Torchwood, Series 1. On the other, it’s an example of the ticking-clock mysteries at which audio Torchwood excels – separating one team member from all the rest, dropping them into a seemingly devastating, inescapable conundrum with a countdown of which they may or may not be aware, and challenging them to prove their Torchwood worthiness, their ability to think through the facts, accept a wider universe than the Earth, work the problem and earn their right to survive.

Burn Gorman when he first arrived on our screens in Torchwood might have had what seemed like an easy character to play – the brash, the shallow, the self-revolving but misanthropic doctor with the sharp wit and the impeccable medical skills. But well within his time on-screen he was able to bring out deeper levels to the character. In audio, Owen’s resourcefulness, his compassion for patients and people and aliens alike has been matured into a guiding principle that has survived some of the worst things imaginable in both an ordinary human life and the life of an alien investigator. More than just Owen’s skills have survived from his past life, the life in which he loved Katie and had his future to look forward to. The reasons he got up in the morning to use those skills are still intact too, the need to make people better. Iceberg shows us that very clearly, shows us his take on the Hippocratic Oath, shows us a lot of classic Owen spikiness, and ultimately shows us the steel in his spine which has let Owen survive.

The point about Owen Harper as a character is that he’s determined to survive. Life threw some of the worst imaginable luck at him, made him grieve for the person he loved and who made him better. But Owen after that… will. Not. Break. Will never break, will never become a victim of the grief that could split him apart. He’ll do everything he can for everyone who needs him, and he’ll make the hard decisions of life and death when he needs to, as he needs to here, with the practised, practical application of a doctor. Even when he should by all rights be dead, Owen won’t, and doesn’t, give up. Even when he sees what’s beyond the point of death, and knows it’s nothing, and that everyone he’s ever loved and lost has gone to equal nothing, Owen Harper will survive.

Will he survive Iceberg though? When something alien, something creepy, and something from his past combine in one exhausted 1AM, will Owen have the strength he needs to survive? When the dead seem to walk and the familiar comes unstuck and the hospital is silent in the middle of the night, Will Owen Harper be able to find the truth to explain the evidence in front of him, even when it seems absurd?

As a ticking-clock mystery, Iceberg works well. As a study in the character of Owen Harper, it works even better. The writing’s pin-sharp, for all the situation it creates is impressively mysterious for most of the run-time. The performances from the three cast members are joyously jagged, Owen reacting to the intrusion from his past and the problem in front of him instinctively but never easily. As a whole, if you’ve not heard Iceberg, you’ve missed out on a rich, cold, sharp, sweet, sour and bang to rights slice of Owen Harper’s life. Don’t do that to yourself. Give Iceberg a listen now.

Connections Dalziel & Pascoe Part One

Dalziel and Pascoe was first broadcast on March 16th, 1996. It starred Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan as two detectives working in fictional town Wetherton, solving crimes as they went. There were 11 seasons of the show, running until 22nd June 2007. It was a great crime drama series which starred a multitude of familiar faces from the world of Torchwood and Who – Classic and Nu.  

In Season 10, 'A Death in the Family' was broadcast from 10th April 2006 - 11th April 2006. Security Guard Dave Compton is murdered in a high stakes, high reward transit depot robbery, in which thieves get away with £600,000. Dalziel and Pascoe are shaken by the death as the security guard had once been a detective sergeant on the force. Meanwhile, a businessman called Steve Pitt is savagely slashed to death with a knife in the kitchen of his restaurant. There are many suspects for the killing, one of which was a character played by Burn Gorman.

He looked exceptionally younger than his role in Torchwood, so I wondered if perhaps the episode had been produced earlier that year. Although, given we’ve followed his career throughout his tenure with Torchwood, and beyond, that we forget just how young each of them were when they first began in the Hub.

So, as per, we’ve done the research, so you don’t have to. This understandably is a large crew of people to work through, so once again it’s been split into portions.

Enjoy!

Cast & Crew

Directed by

Stephen Whittaker was director for 1 episode in 2000. As an actor played Craftsman Weams in Doctor Who episode 1 - 3 of The Web of Fear in 1968.

Writing Credits 

J.C. Wilsher was director for 2 episodes in 2005. Wrote Torchwood episode Reset in 2008.

David Ashton was director for 1 episode in 1999. Played Kendron in Doctor Who story Timelash part 1 & 2 in 1985.

Stephen Churchett was director for 1 episode in 2002. Played Bill in Doctor Who episode Attack of the Cybermen part one in 1985. Appeared in video docu short The Cold War as Bill in 2009.

Cast 

Fred Pearson played Dr. Vickery for 7 episodes from 1997-2000. Played a Barista in Doctor Who episode The Bells of St John in 2013.

Malcolm Tierney played Chief Const. Raymond for 5 episodes from 1998-1999. Played Doland in Doctor Who story The Trial of a Time Lord parts 9 - 12 in 1986. Appeared as Doland for the video documentary Trials and Tribulations in 2008.

Navin Chowdhry played Police Cadet Sanjay Singh for 4 episodes in 1997. Played Indra Ganesh in Doctor Who episodes World War Three and Aliens of London, was uncredited for the first episode in 2005.

Peter Halliday played Edward Soper for 3 episodes from 1996-1997. A man of many parts, has played Silurians, Pletrac and a Packer, along with Jagaroth, a soldier, a vicar for all 8 episodes of The Invasion in 1968, Doctor Who and the Silurians for episodes 2, 4 - 7 in 1970, The Ambassadors of Death episodes 6 & 7 in the same year, Carnival of Monsters episodes 1 - 4 in 1973, City of Death part 1 - 3 in 1979 and part 2 of Remembrance of the Daleks in 1988. Appeared as characters from Who for Flash Frames video short and Love Off-Air in 2006, including Evolution of the Invasion  and Can You Hear the Earth Scream as the voice of a silurian. IN 2007 was a soldier in A Matter of Time.

Dervla Kirwan played Rye Pomona for 2 episodes in 2002. Played Miss Hartigan in Doctor Who episode The Next Doctor in 2008. Appeared in Doctor Who Confidential as herself in the same year.

Burn Gorman played Jerry Hart in two episodes of A Death in the Family in 2006. Of course we know him as Dr Owen Harper, of Torchwood, appearing in 26 television episodes, and countless audio stories to boot.

Richard E. Grant played Lee Knight for 2 episodes in 2007. As well as playing the Doctor in a spoof Doctor Who story for Comic Relief back in 1999 - The Curse of the Fatal Death, Richard E. Grant also played Dr. Simeon and The Great Intelligence in three episodes of the Nu Who with 11th Doctor Matt Smith. The Name of the Doctor and The Bells of St John in 2013, and The Snowmen in 2012. Back in 2003, he provided the voice of the Doctor in Scream of the Shalka for all 6 episodes.

Anne Reid played Harriet Clifford - Dalziel's Sister for 2 episodes from 2001-2002. Anne Reid played Florence Finnegan, the plasmavore in Smith and Jones episode of Doctor Who in 2007, who liked to extract blood with a nifty straw. In 1989, she played Nurse Crane in the classic series of Who - The Curse of Fenric, in parts 1 - 4. She appeared in Doctor Who Greatest Moments in the episode The Doctor in 2009.

Sharon Duce played Jenny Challoner for 2 episodes in 2005. Played Control in Doctor Who story Ghost Light for 3 episodes in 1989.

Paterson Joseph played Mr. Alisdair Collinson for 2 episodes in 2005. Played Rodrick in Doctor Who two parter Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways in 2005. He appeared uncredited as Rodrick in The Destinations of Doctor Who in 2012.

Here's a thought - the character he played in Doctor Who was quite likely to have been annihilated like Jack, but when Rose resurrected Jack, would she have also brought life to all those unfortunates on the Satellite too? Thoughts people.

Cheryl Campbell played Jean Swainbank for 2 episodes in 2006. Played Ocean Waters in SJA story Vault of Secrets part one and two in 2010.

Tessa Peake-Jones played Emma Collins for 2 episodes in 2005. Played Marta in Doctor Who episode The Time of the Doctor in 2013.

George Costigan played Barry Bendelow for 2 episodes in 2006. Played Max Capricorn in Doctor Who episode Voyage of the Damned in 2007. Appeared in Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Capricorn in 2009 in the episode The Doctor.

Rachel Davies played Sandra McNally for 2 episodes in 2006. Played Camilla in Doctor Who classic series State of Decay parts 1 - 4 in 1980. As Camilla, she appeared in two video docu shorts in 2009, Lalla's Wardrobe: A Frockumentary (uncredited), and The Vampire Lovers: The Making of 'State of Decay'.

Daniel Evans played Rob Miclean for 2 episodes in 2006. Played Danny Llewellyn in Doctor Who episode The Christmas Invasion in 2005.

Andrew Tiernan played Jake McNally for 2 episodes in 2006. Played Purcell in Doctor Who episode Night Terrors in 2011 - credited as Andy Tiernan.

Chipo Chung played Layla Jadwin for 2 episodes in 2007. Played Chantho in Doctor Who episode Utopia in 2007 and the Fortune Teller in Turn Left in 2008. Was uncredited for her role as Chantho in Journey's End in 2008, and appeared as Chantho in Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion in 2014.

Derek Riddell played Mark Croft for 2 episodes in 2007. Played Sir Robert in Doctor Who episode Tooth and Claw, which for all Torchwood fans, would be where we first heard about Torchwood, in 2006. Derek appeared as Sir Robert uncredited in Journey's End episode in 2008, and Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Sir Robert in the episode The Doctor in 2009.

John Sessions played Charlie Penn for 2 episodes 2002. Played Gus in Doctor Who episode Mummy on the Orient Express in 2014. Played Wilson in Torchwood Big Finish drama The Conspiracy in 2016.

Louise Delamere played Tracey Baxter for 2 episodes in 2006. Played Diane in Torchwood episodes Out of Time and End of Days from 2006 - 2007. Appeared uncredited in the episode Captain Jack Harkness in 2007.

Emily Joyce played Natalie Lawson for 2 episodes in 2006. Was the voice of the Clockwork Droid in Doctor Who episode The Girl in the Fireplace in 2006.

Bruno Langley played Jason Parker for 2 episodes in 2006. One moment, just let me click my fingers - ahh, that's better. Bruno played Adam Mitchell in two episodes of Doctor Who - Dalek and The Long Game, both in 2005. He appeared uncredited in Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited in the episode The Ninth Doctor in 2013, and as Adam Mitchell in Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion in 2014.

Anthony Calf played Joe Furst for 2 episodes in 2007. Played Charles in Doctor Who Classic series The Visitation part 1 in 1982.

Gerard Murphy played Steven Burlow for 2 episodes in 2007. Played Richard Maynarde in Doctor Who story Silver Nemesis, parts 1 - 3 in 1988. Appeared in Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion movie in 2014 as Richard Maynarde, and in video docu short as himself and narrator for War Zone: The End of an Era in 2009.

Michael Begley played Carl Watmough for 2 episodes in 2005. Played Mulligan in Doctor Who episode The Curse of the Black Spot in 2011. Appeared as himself in Doctor Who Confidential episode Ship Ahoy in the same year.

Tim Plester played Franny Roote for 2 episodes in 2002. Played a Servant in Doctor Who episode A Christmas Carol in 2010.

James Quinn played Det. Const. George Headingly for 2 episodes in 2002. Played Bill in Doctor Who episode Flatline in 2014.

Peter De Jersey played William Courtney for 2 episodes in 2005. Played Androgar in Doctor Who episode The Day of the Doctor in 2013.

Earl Cameron played Arthur Nolan for 2 episodes in 2006. Played Williams in Doctor Who story The Tenth Planet episodes 1 & 2 in 1966. In the video docu Race Against Time, he appeared as Williams, in 2011.

Sylvia Syms played Maisie Barron for 2 episodes in 2006. Played Mrs. Pritchard for parts 1 - 3 of Doctor Who story Ghost Light in 1989.

Moya Brady played Karen Bennett for 2 episodes in 2007. Played Bridget in Doctor Who episode Love & Monsters in 2006. Uncredited for both parts, Moya appeared as performer of 'Don't Bring Me Down' in the episode Love & Monsters, and as Bridget in Journey's End in 2008.

Gawn Grainger played Eden Thackeray for 2 episodes in 1998. Played George Stephenson in Doctor Who story The Mark of the Rani, part 2 in 1985. Was uncredited in Lords and Luddites: 'The Making of the Rani' video in 2006.

Andrew Woodall played Ambrose Bird for 2 episodes in 2002. Played Rex Tucker in An Adventure in Space and Time film in 2013.

Elize du Toit played Abigail Stewart for 2 episodes in 2006. Played the Sinister Woman who worked for Harry Saxon aka The Master in Doctor Who episodes, 42  and The Sound of Drums in 2007.

Craig Kelly played Eddie Wilcox for 2 episodes in 2006. Was the voice of Joe in episodes 1 - 6 of Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka in 2003.

Angela Clerkin played Liz Reid for 2 episodes in 2007. Played an Alien woman in Doctor Who episode Face the Raven in 2014.

Radoslaw Kaim played Viktor Telepenko for 2 episodes in 2006. Played a worker in Doctor Who episode The Sontaran Stratagem in 2008, credited as Rad Kaim.

Gerard Horan played Jim Webster for 2 episodes in 2006. Played Clark in Doctor Who two parter Human Nature and The Family of Blood in 2007. He appeared in Doctor Who Greatest Moments episode The Companions in 2009.

Adjoa Andoh played Katie Bevins for 2 episodes in 2005. Adjoa played Francine Jones for seven episodes of Doctor Who from 2007 - 2008, but began her Who appearance as a cat in a wimple, playing Sister Jatt in New Earth back in 2006. From 2007 - 2011 has appeared in Totally Doctor Who episode #2.6, Doctor Who Confidential episodes - The Valiant Quest, The Saxon Mystery, Monsters Inc. and Meet Martha Jones, Doctor Who Greatest Moments episode The Companions in 2009, and Phelous & the Movies - The 10 8th Doctor Moments as Francine Jones in 2011.

Debra Gillett played Sonia Wingate for 2 episodes in 2002. Played Rita Connolly in Doctor Who episode The Idiot's Lantern in 2006.

Teresa Banham played Dr. June Gray for 2 episodes in 2007. Played the Governor in Doctor Who episode The End of Time: Part One in 2009.

Tim Barker played Albert Smith for 2 episodes from 1999-2000. Played Harold V. in Doctor Who story The Happiness Patrol: Part One in 1988.

Kelly Hunter played Laura MacAlpine for 2 episodes in 2006. Played the Shadow Architect in Doctor Who episodes The Stolen Earth in 2008 and The Magician's Apprentice in 2015. Appeared as The Shadow Architect in the Doctor Who documentary The Ultimate Companion in 2014.

Rob Edwards played Ben Edwards for 2 episodes in 2006. Was the voice of Xoanon in parts 2 and 3 of Doctor Who story The Face of Evil in 1977, and Chub in part one of The Robots of Death in the same year. He was uncredited as Chub in the video docu short Serial Thrillers in 2003.

Geoffrey Beevers played a Catholic Priest for 2 episodes from 2002-2005. Played Melkur/The Master and Private Johnson in Doctor Who Classic series from 1970 - 1981. Born in 1941, Beevers unlike his predecessors to play The Master, is still alive. He became the third person to play The Master, replacing Peter Pratt. In the Big Finish audio dramas 'Dust Breeding' and 'Master' he reprised his role of the Master. He was married to Caroline John who died in 2012. Although I'm sure we'll do a full profile on Beevers, for now, his Who mentions and appearances continue from 2007 when he appeared as himself, The Melkur and The Master for The Return of the Master video docu short, and Being Nice to Each Other: Making 'The Keeper of Traken' video docu short. In 2015 he appeared on Toby Hadoke's television series Who's Round as himself in the episode Geoffrey Beevers. In 2007 He appeared as The Master in the video docu A New Body At Last, and in the following year appeared again as the Master for The Ties That Bind Us.

Ian Thompson played Willie Noolan for 2 episodes from 1996-1997. Played Hetra, Malsan and Optera Hetra in Doctor Who episodes Crater of Needles, Invasion, The Centre and The Death of Time in 1965. He appeared in the video docu I Was a 'Doctor Who' Monster in 1996.

Diana Quick played ACC Stella Applegarth for 2 episodes in 2002. Was the voice of Prime in Doctor Who series Scream of the Shalka in episodes 2 - 6 in 2003.

Greg Bennett played Police Constable for 2 episodes from 2000-2002. Played a Guest, a Sycorax warrior, a UNIT soldier and as a Van Statten Guard all of which were uncredited from 2005 - 2007.

Emma Cunniffe played Karen Spillings for 1 episode for 1997. Played Claire in Doctor Who episode Night Terrors in 2011.

Celia Imrie played Christina Chance for 1 episode in 2000. Played Miss Kizlet in Doctor Who episode The Bells of Saint John in 2013.

Mali Harries played Young Cissy Kohler for 1 episode in 1999. Played Cathy in Doctor Who episode Boom Town in 2005.

Donald Sumpter played Gus Mullavey for 1 episode in 2000. Played The President in Doctor Who episode Hell Bent in 2015. Played Erasmus Darkening in two episodes - The Eternity Trap part 1 & 2 of SJA in 2009.

From 1968 - 1972 played Enrico Casali and Commander Ridgeway in Doctor Who stories The Wheel in Space and The Sea Devils. Appeared as himself and his two characters in video docu short Hello Sailor!: Making the Sea Devils in 2008.

Steve Speirs played Arthur Evans for 1 episode in 1996. Played Strickland in Doctor Who two parter Aliens of London and World War Three, credited as Steve Spiers, in 2005.

Dave Hill played Arnie Bancroft for 1 episode in 1997. Was the voice of Nessican in Doctor Who mini series Death Comes to Time in 2002.

Abbie Collins played Georgina Webster for 1 episode in 2000. Appeared as herself in Doctor Who Confidential episode From Zero to Hero in 2006.

Lynda Bellingham played Jess Pitman for 1 episode in 2004. Played the Inquisitor in Doctor Who story The Trial of a Time Lord in 1986 for all 14 episodes. She appeared in three video docu's regarding Who from 'Doctor Who': The Colin Baker Years in 1994, Trials and Tribulations in 2008, The Making of the Trial of a Time Lord: Part One - Mysterious Planet in 2008, and Doctor Who Confidential episode The Eleventh Doctor in 2009.

Andrew McCulloch played Sam Dixon for 1 episode in 1997. Wrote four episodes of Doctor Who story, Meglos in 1980.

Jamie Glover played Rod Lomas for 1 episode in 1998. Played William Russell in the story of Doctor Who: An Adventure in Space and Time in 2013.

Ben Crompton played Olly for 1 episode in 1998. Played Ross in Doctor Who episode Into The Dalek in 2014.

Madhav Sharma played Bobby Ghataura for 1 episode in 2001. Played Patel in Doctor Who episode three of Frontier in Space, in 1973.

James Corden played Ben Forsythe for 1 episode in 2004. Played Craig Owens in Doctor Who episodes The Lodger in 2010 and Closing Time in 2011. Uncredited in Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor in 2013 as Craig Owens. Uncredited again as Craig Owens in 2012 in The Science of Doctor Who. 

Frances Barber played Amanda 'Cap' Marvell for 1 episode in 1998. Played Eye Patch Lady Madame Kovarian in 7 episodes of Doctor Who in 2011.

Michael J. Jackson played Tom Bennet for 1 episode in 2001. Played Sir Geoffrey in Doctor Who story The King's Demons parts 2 & 3 in 1983.

Rob Jarvis played Nigel Clifford for 1 episode in 2001. Played Abramal in Doctor Who episode The Time of the Doctor in 2013.

Roger Lloyd Pack played Bishop Halliwell  for 1 episode in 2002. Played John Lumic in Doctor Who episodes Rise of the Cybermen and Age of Steel in 2006.

Ronald Pickup played Walter Wulfstan for 1 episode in 1999. Played a physician in Doctor Who episode The Tyrant of France in 1964.

Lindsey Coulson played Sue Blackstone for 1 episode in 2002. Played Val Cane in Doctor Who episode Midnight in 2008. Appeared in Doctor Who Confidential as herself in episode Look Who's Talking in the same year.

Kate Fleetwood played Jill Lowry for 1 episode in 2002. Was the voice of Ship in SJA story The Mad Woman in the Attic parts 1 & 2 in 2009. Was uncredited as Ship in SJA: Alien Files episode #1.2 in 2010.

Jeff Rawle played Raymond Miles for 1 episode in 2002. Played Mervyn Pinfield in An Adventure in Space and Time film in 2013. Also played Mr Harding in SJA story Mona Lisa's Revenge parts 1 & 2 in 2009. Played Plantagenet in Doctor Who story Frontios parts 1 - 4 in 1984.

Keith Barron played Dick Elgood for 1 episode in 1997. Played Captain Striker in Doctor Who story Enlightenment parts 1 - 4 in 1983.

Simon Williams played Sir Thomas Partridge for 1 episode in 1999. Played Gilmore in Doctor Who story Remembrance of the Daleks parts 1 - 4 in 1988.

Eiji Kusuhara played Mr. Kawabata for 1 episode in 2000. Played a Chinaman uncredited in three episodes of Doctor Who story Four to Doomsday in 1982.

Sarah Smart played Sophie Caine for 1 episode in 2001. Played Jennifer in Doctor Who two parter The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People in 2011. Appeared in two episodes of Doctor Who Confidential relating to her character in Double Trouble and Take Two in the same year. Was uncredited as Jennifer for The Science of Doctor Who in 2012.

William Ilkley played DCI Derek Hawes for 1 episode in 2004. Played Tim Bass in Doctor Who story The Mark of the Rani parts 1 & 2 in 1985. Appeared on Who's Round in 2013, was uncredited for two video docu's - Nice or Nasty?: The Making of Vengeance on Varos in 2012 and Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani' in 2006.

David Haig played David Hallingsworth for 1 episode in 2000. Played Pangol in Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive parts 1 - 4 in 1980. Was uncredited for two Doctor Who video docu's - Being Nice to Each Other: Making 'The Keeper of Traken' in 2007 and A New Beginning in 2004.

David Westhead played Peter Deller for 1 episode in 2000. Played Kempe in Doctor Who episode The Shakespeare Code in 2007. Appeared as his character in Doctor Who Greatest Moments in the episode The Doctor in 2009.

Darren Morfitt played Matthew Collingwood for 1 episode in 2001. Played Marco in Doctor Who two parter The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone in 2010.

Graham Turner played Frank Fyley for 1 episode in 2004. Played Amos in Doctor Who story The Crimson Horror in 2013.

Robert Demeger played Charlie Forbes for 1 episode in 1999. Played the Preacher in Doctor Who episode The Shakespeare Code in 2007.

Isla Blair played Florence Stockton for 1 episode in 2000. Played Isabella in Doctor Who story The King's Demons parts 1 & 2 in 1983.

Adrian Rawlins played Henry Crayford for 1 episode in 2000. Played Dr Ryder in Doctor Who episode Planet of the Ood in 2008. Although probably better known as Harry Potter's Dad, James Potter.

Christine Bottomley played Christine Fitzgerald for 1 episode in 2002. Played Maggie in Torchwood episode A Day in the Death in 2008.

Michael Maloney played David Ransom for 1 episode in 2000. Was a voice actor for several audio productions, especially as Hilary Hammond in Enemy Aliens, the Doctor Who story by Ian Edginton, a Charlotte Pollard story with 8^th Doctor. He’s also voiced Simonsson in Grand Theft Cosmos, Rennol in Kiss of Death, Fratalin in Patient Zero, Farrow in The Circus of Doom, Gregor Saraton in Zygon Hunt and the Viyrans in Blue Forgotten Planet. He also read the audio version of The Silent Stars Go By.

Ace Bhatti played Ravi Ghataura for 1 episode in 2001. Played Haresh Chandra in SJA series for 24 episodes from 2008 - 2011.

Sanjeev Bhaskar played Graham Shah for 1 episode in 2002. Played Colonel Ahmed in Doctor Who episode Death in Heaven in 2014.

Carmen Gómez played Rosetta Stanhope for 1 episode in 1997. Played Anita in Doctor Who story The Two Doctors parts 1 - 3 in 1985.