MICHAEL WISHER

Guest Stars

Therewasn’t much the writer and script editor Terrance

Also Starring... The 1960s

The guest-casting strategies in Doctor Who’s first decade were decided by more than just the programme’s budget, as EDDIE ROBSON explains.

Guest Stars 1963-1969 part one

ALAN WHEATLEY as Temmosus in The Mutants (aka The

JULIAN GLOVER

as Richard the Lionheart in The Crusade (1965)

Guest Stars 1963-1969 part two

FREDERICK JAEGER as Jano in The Savages (1966)

MICHAEL GOUGH

as the Toymaker in The Celestial Toymaker (1966)

Also Starring... The 197Os

EDDIE ROBSON looks back at a decade full of pen-pushing bureaucrats and power-mad villains.

Guest Stars 1970-1979 part one

OLAF POOLEY as Professor Stahlman/ Director Stahlman in Inferno

Guest Stars 1970-1979 part two

TONY BECKLEY as Harrison Chase in The Seeds

PHILIPMADOC

as Solon in The Brain of Morbius (1976)

Also Starring... The 198Os

Guest casting in the final decade of Doctor Who’s original run resulted in more well-known faces than ever appearing in the series, as EDDIE ROBSON explains.

Guest Stars 1980-1996 part one

CLIFFORD ROSE as Rorvik in Warriors’ Gate (1981)

CHRISTOPHER GABLE

as Sharaz Jek in The Caves of Androzani (1984)

Guest Stars 1980-1996 part two

ROBERT GLENISTER as Salateen in The Caves of

SHEILA HANCOCK

as Helen A in The Happiness Patrol (1988)

Cast Away

He’s worked on every episode of 21st-century Doctor Who (174, and counting), casting actors numbering into the thousands. But ANDY PRYOR tells BENJAMIN COOK that he isn’t ready to rest on his laurels…

Guest Stars 2005-2009 part one

EVEMYLES as Gwyneth in The Unquiet Dead (2005)

CAREY MULLIGAN

as Sally Sparrow in Blink (2007)

Guest Stars 2005-2009 part two

SARAH LANCASHIRE as Miss Foster in Partners in Crime

KYLIE MINOGUE

as Astrid Peth in Voyage of the Damned (2007)

Guest Stars 2010-2022 part one

HELEN McCRORY as Rosanna in The Vampires of

DAVID WARNER

as Professor Grisenko in Cold War (2013)

Guest Stars 2010-2022 part two

DAVID SUCHET as The Landlord in Knock Knock

ALAN CUMMING

as King James in The Witchfinders (2018)

All The Stars That Never Were

ALAN BARNES considers the many actors who – bizarrely – never guested in Doctor Who.

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