INTERVIEW BY PAUL KIRKLEY
Chris Parsons (Daniel Hill) tries to escape from Skagra’s spaceship in one of the scenes recorded for Shada in 1979.
Unfinished business is never good,” says Daniel Hill, sighing. And he should know, having spent 38 years indelibly tied to one of the most famous bits of unfinished business in television history. Daniel was just 23 when he was cast as Cambridge student Chris Parsons in Shada, the six-part Douglas Adams epic that was set to bring the curtain down on Doctor Who’s 17th season in early 1980 – until an industrial dispute forced it to be abandoned mid-shoot.