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!