Michael Jayston as the Valeyard, on location for The Trial of a Time Lord at Camber Sands in June 1986.
Good grief!” exclaims Michael Jayston in the unmistakably deep tones of the Valeyard. “It was 30 years ago!” He’s just had a shock at realising the length of time that’s elapsed since he first donned the legal robes (and fetching hat) of the Doctor’s prosecuting counsel in The Trial of a Time Lord – a prosecuting counsel with a dark secret that shocked Doctor Who viewers to the core.
“All the Doctor Who fans know I was one of the Doctors,” he says mischievously of the revelation that the Valeyard was a distillation of the Doctor’s evil side. “I’ve signed pictures where they’ve got all the Doctors, and they’ve got me at the end with a question mark over me!”