What we did on your holiday

[altariel]

altariel: It's Independence Day, we can't just go to work.
mraltariel: [closing laptop hurriedly] Erm, no. What do you want to do then?
altariel: I suppose we can't spend the day just talking about Doctor Who again, can we?
mraltariel: There's a Law and Order marathon on TNT...

Two hours later:



“I am but a poor Journeyman”: The Utterly Utterly Accurate and Definitive List of Toptastic Guest Starring Performances in Doctor Who

Jessica Hynes as Joan Redfern in ‘Human Nature’/‘Family of Blood’

Derek Jacobi as Yana/the Master in ‘Utopia’

Alexandra Moen as Lucy Saxon in ‘The Sound of Drums’/‘Last of the Time Lords’

Marc Warren as Elton in ‘Love and Monsters’

Pauline Collins as Samantha Briggs in ‘The Faceless Ones’

Simon Rouse as Hindle in ‘Kinda’

Florence Hoath as Nancy in ‘The Empty Child’/‘The Doctor Dances’

Christopher Benjamin as Jago in ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’

Anna Hope as Novice Hame in ‘Gridlock’

Michael Wisher as Davros in ‘Genesis of the Daleks’:

Mary Morris as Panna in ‘Kinda’

Julian Glover as Richard I in ‘The Crusade’

Claire Rushbrook as Ida Scott in ‘The Impossible Planet’/‘The Satan Pit’

Sean Dingwall as Pete Tyler in ‘Father’s Day’

Chipo Chung as Chantho in ‘Utopia’

Michael Robbins as Richard Mace in ‘The Visitation’

Jo Joyner as Lynda-with-a-Y in ‘Bad Wolf’/‘The Parting of the Ways’

Robert Glenister as Salateen in ‘The Caves of Androzani’:

Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow in ‘Blink’

Maurice Roeves as Stotz in ‘The Caves of Androzani’



altariel: Do you wanna watch 'Utopia' then?
mraltariel: Yeah.

Comments

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Quite a few of those names are meaningless to me, but what about Anthony Head in 'School Reunion'?

I think Tamsin Grieg and Anne Badland qualify too...

[i-smell-shite.livejournal.com]

Gosh we're just the same. Horah for holidays and watching TV!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hurrah indeed! :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Annette Badland was on our long list, although Tamsin Grieg didn't quite make it (despite us being great fans of her).

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Grieg was dull in "The Long Game", but Badland? She scared the shit out of RTD on set in "World War Three", and that's got to be worth a shout.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I don't think I know that story?!

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Remember the scene where the Doctor, Rose and Harriet Jones MP are locked inside the cabinet room, then the Doctor opens the blast doors to talk to "Margaret" Slitheen? It's the scene that ends with (roughly) the following:

DOCTOR: I'm gona stop you.

MARGARET: What, you? In your box?

DOCTOR: Yes.

Well, when they were recording Annette Badland's side of that exchange, Eccleston wasn't available. So Russell T Davies stood in for him. The intensity of Badland's performance gave him such a case of the willies that he resolved then and there to bring the character back. Hence, "Boomtown".

(RTD recounts this tale in the Series 1 Shooting Scripts book.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

It's splendid list and a splendid way to celebrate the day!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And now we settle down to the end of the Law & Order marathon!

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Happy Fourth! It does sound like fun in the Altariel household.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The weather has been beautiful, high 80s, but with a slight breeze. I'm hoping to see fireworks later.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you, both of you. I wouldn't be remotely capable of calling all those to mind off my own bat, but you've brought back a lot of happy memories - like going along a favourite bookshelf, saying hello to old friends.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

We had fun debating the stories! I like the idea of going along the bookshelf :-)

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Julian Glover as Richard I in 'The Crucade'

Bet that was good! Happy fourth to the two of you ;-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Two episodes exist, and there's still the soundtrack.

We have had a very happy Fourth!

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Simon Rouse as Hindle in ‘Kinda’

You should have put this one in twice. It's that good.

And what about John Ringham as the humptastic Tlotoxl? Philip Madoc as Dr Mehendri "Mad? That's what they called me at the Academy!" Solon? Or Dinsdale Lansden as Dr "For a cripple, I'm quite a mover " Judson?

In fact, doesn't the entire non-teenage-girl guest cast of Fenric qualify?

Fuck, I love Doctor Who. Just watched Last of the Time Lords again on Virgin's random catchup service and I don't care what any of you say, it's smashing. Especially the Scissor Sisters bit.

PS Surely Elisabeth Sladen as Miss Sarah Jane Smith (in "School Reunion") counts on some sort of technicality?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And what about John Ringham as the humptastic Tlotoxl? Philip Madoc as Dr Mehendri "Mad? That's what they called me at the Academy!" Solon? Or Dinsdale Lansden as Dr "For a cripple, I'm quite a mover " Judson?

Our highly scientific method involved coming up with a much longer list, bubble-sorting, and then culling. Philip Madoc was on that list (came 11th, IIRC), and dear Nicky Parsons was mooted too.


Fuck, I love Doctor Who. Just watched Last of the Time Lords again on Virgin's random catchup service and I don't care what any of you say, it's smashing. Especially the Scissor Sisters bit.

Sir, we are as one on this.

And, PS, Mr A. agrees about Liz Sladen and the Technicality.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

Marc Warren as Elton in ‘Love and Monsters’

Nonononono, Shirley Henderson. Because even her character ending up as a paving brick couldn't stop her being brilliant. Best thing about an episode that irritates me a lot...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

She was close. I like all the LINDA performances.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I see someone else has had the same thought as me about Lis Sladen. How about Penelope Wilton?

For "Old Who", I'm handicapped by my poor memory, but Nicholas Parsons' remarkably good performance in Curse of Fenric comes to mind. Jean Marsh and Angela Bruce were both magificent in Battlefield. Do Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainsley appear too often to qualify as guests?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Nicholas Parsons was very close indeed. We decided not to count Delgado and Ainsley, as well as the Brigadier. Er, but not to discount Jacobi!

[gair.livejournal.com]

God, I love you two. Come back to England and come and stay with us and we will take you to a really good restaurant.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Done!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I like your priorities. I'd like to point out that August 20 is Teh Very Big Hungarian Holiday (TM), on which day we celebrate: a) the founding of Hungarian state, b) St. Stephan, our first king who did said founding, c) the Hungarian statutes (modern time) and d) the new bread, baked from the first newly harvested crop.

So, you must seriously consider how to avoid work on that day, or I'll be feeling neglected. *g*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I am completely persuaded! Alas, there isn't a proper national holiday in England for me to offer in return.