Professor Zaroff (Joseph Furst) and King Thous (Noel Johnson) in The Underwater Menace (1967).
The Daleks weren’t the only stars of Season Four hitting the bunting circuit during the so-called Summer of Love. On Thursday 29 June, the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser carried news that Atlantean wackjob Professor Zaroff was no longer sleeping with the fishes – as February’s final episode of The Underwater Menace had suggested. “Mr Joseph Furst, a television actor known to viewers of ‘Dr Who’, Armchair Theatre and ‘The Saint’, opened a fete at Goonhavern on Saturday,” the paper explained…