Doctor Who / Avengers (Emma Peel episodes) Actor Connections

Lately, I’ve been going through some other movies and shows and finding where there are actors or creative talent that they have in common with Doctor Who.

Also lately, I’ve just finished going through all the “Emma Peel” episodes of the 1960s TV show The Avengers and blogging about each one(starting here), including noting when its guest cast were also people who made appearances in Doctor Who. I was struck by how much crossover there was.

(Daily Doctor Who #255)

How many Doctor Who stories did not have actors who also appeared in The Avengers, I wondered?

And so in this post we will find out, remembering that we’re only talking about the Emma Peel episodes which Diana Rigg co-starred in. I’ll have a look at the others later.

First, it’s worth noting that the same television executive, Sydney Newman, was actually responsible for initiating both programs, so right from the beginning the two series had something in common.

Beyond that, here, listed by Doctor Who story, are all the actors (as well as some other creative personnel) who appeared in the Emma Peel episodes of The Avengers, and the names of those episodes:

The First Doctor

An Unearthly Child

Jeremy Young (Kal) – A Touch of Brimstone, Never, Never Say Die, The Forget-Me-Knot

Derek Newark (Za) – From Venus with Love

The Daleks

John Lee (Alydon) – The Bird Who Knew Too Much, The Forget-Me-Knot

Peter Diamond (stunt double, uncredited) – Honey for the Prince

Marco Polo

John Lucarotti (writer) – The writer for Castle De’ath

The Keys of Marinus

Katherine Schofield (Sabetha) – The Cybernauts

Robin Phillips (Altos) – A Sense of History

Donald Pickering (Eyesen) – The Winged Avenger

The Azteks

John Lucarotti (writer) – The writer for Castle De’ath

Keith Pyott (Autloc) – The House That Jack Built

John Ringham (Ttlotoxl) – A Sense of History

The Sensorites

John Bailey (Commander) – Dial a Deadly Number

Ilona Rogers (Carol) – The Bird Who Knew Too Much

Joseph Greig (Second Senorite / Warrior) – Murdersville

The Dalek Invasion of the Earth

Peter Diamond (fight arranger) – Honey for the Prince

Nicholas Smith (Wells) – Escape in Time

The Romans

Michael Peake (Tavius) – Quick-Quick Slow Death

Peter Diamond (fight arranger, Delos) – Honey for the Prince

The Crusade

Julian Glover (Richard the Lionheart) – Two’s a Crowd, The Living Dead

Reg Pritchard (Ben Daheer) – Honey for the Prince, The Hidden Tiger

Tony Caunter (Thatcher) – Murdersville

The Space Museum

Peter Diamond (fight arranger, Morok Technician / Morok Guard) – Honey for the Prince

The Chase

Peter Diamond (fight arranger) – Honey for the Prince

Dennis Chinnery (Albert C. Richardson) – Something Nasty in the Nursery

Roger Hammond (Francis Bacon) – Return of the Cybernauts

Mission to the Unknown

Jeremy Young (Kal) – A Touch of Brimstone, Never, Never Say Die, The Forget-Me-Knot

The Myth-Makers

John Moore (Trojan Man – uncredited) – The Hidden Tiger

The Daleks’ Masterplan

Kevin Stoney (Mavic Chen) – Mission…Highly Improbable

Nicholas Courtney (Bret Vyon) – Mission…Highly Improbable

Bryan Mosley (Malpha / Prop Man) – The Gravediggers

Maurice Browning (Karlton) – The Girl from AUNTIE

Reg Pritchard (Man in Mackintosh) – Honey for the Prince, The Hidden Tiger

Clifford Earl (Station Sergeant) – Escape in Time

Rocky Taylor (Egyptian Warrior – uncredited) – Escape in Time

Alan Lake (Kirksen) – The Forget-Me-Knot

The Massacre

André Morell (Marshal Gaspard de Saux-Tavannes) – Death at Bargain Prices

Les Conrad (Tavern Customer – uncredited) Murdersville

John Lucarotti (writer) – The writer for Castle De’ath

The Celestial Toymaker

Michael Gough (The Celestial Toymaker) – The Cybernauts, The Correct Way to Kill

Campbell Singer (Joey the Clown, King of Hearts, Sgt. Rugg) – Who’s Who???

The Savages

Frederick Jaeger (Jano) – The Cybernauts, Return of the Cybernauts

Edward Caddick (Wylda) – Escape in Time

Peter Thomas (Captain Edal) – Death’s Door

The War Machines

Anneke Wills (Polly) – The £50,000 Breakfast. Anneke Wills played regular companion Polly, starting in this story and giong through The Faceless Ones. She’s listed however only here and in any stories that didn’t have anyone else from The Avengers.

John Cater (Professor Krimpton) – Death at Bargain Prices, The LIving Dead

The Smugglers

Paul Whitsun-Jones (Squire Edward) – Room Without a View

Peter Thomas (Captain Edal) – Small Game for Big Hunters

John Ringham (Josiah Blake) – A Sense of HIstory

The Tenth Planet

Steve Plytas (Wigner) – A Touch of Brimstone

William Gossling (Tracking Room Technician #3 – uncredited) – Murdersville

The Second Doctor

The Power of the Daleks

Bernard Archard (Bragen) – The Master Minds

Robert James (Lesterson) – Too Many Christmas Trees

Pamela Ann Davy (Janley) – The Living Dead

The Highlanders

David Garth (Solicitor Grey) – How to Succeed…at Murder

Peter Diamond (Sailor) – Honey for the Prince

The Underwater Menace

Colin Jeavons (Damon) – A Touch of Brimstone

The Moonbase

Anneke Wills (Polly) – The £50,000 Breakfast

The Macra Terror

Peter Jeffrey (Pilot) – Room Without a View, The Joker

Graham Armitage (Barney) – Quick-Quick Slow Death

The Faceless Ones

Malcolm Hulke (writer) – The writer for The Gravediggers

Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock) – The Gravediggers

George Selway (George Meadows / Frank Meadows) – Death at Bargain Prices

Donald Pickering (Captain Blade) – The Winged Avenger

The Evil of the Daleks

John Bailey (Edward Waterfield) – Dial a Deadly Number

Griffith Davies (Kennedy) – The House that Jack Built

Peter Diamond (fight arranger) – Honey for the Prince

Geoffrey Colville (Perry) – Murdersville

Tomb of the Cybermen

George Pastell (Eric Kleig) – Honey for the Prince

The Abominable Snowmen

Wolfe Morris (Padmasambhava) – Two’s a Crowd

The Ice Warriors

Peter Diamond (Davis) – Honey for the Prince

Peter Barkworth (Clent) – The Correct Way to Kill

Malcolm Taylor (Walters) – Who’s Who???

The Enemy of the World

Peter Diamond (Extra / Double, uncredited) – Honey for the Prince

The Web of Fear

Jack Woolgar (Staff Sgt. Arnold) – The Living Dead

Nicholas Courtney (Col. Lethbridge-Stewart) – Mission…Highly Improbable. Courtney went on to play the role many more times in Doctor Who, including much of the the Third Doctors era. He’s only listed here in his appearances outside of the Third Doctor era.

Fury from the Deep

Victor Madden (Robson) – The Thirteenth Hole

The Wheel in Space

Eric Flynn (Leo Ryan) – Murdersville

The Dominators

Alan Gerrard (Bovem) – Quick-Quick Slow Death

Arthur Cox (Cully) – From Venus with Love

The Mind Robber

Bernard Horsfall (Gulliver) – The Cybernauts, The Fear Merchants

The Invasion

Kevin Stoney (Tobias Vaughn) – Mission…Highly Improable

Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) – Mission…Highly Improbable.

Edward Burnham (Professor Watkins) – The Fear Merchants

Clifford Earl (Major Branwell) – Escape in Time

The Krotons

James Copeland (Selris) – Castle De’ath

Philip Madoc (Eelek) – The Correct Way to Kill

The Seeds of Death

Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Radnor) – The Cybernauts

Alan Chuntz (Harvey – uncredited) – Never, Never Say Die

The Space Pirates

Dudley Foster (Maurice Caven) – The Hour That Never Was, Something Nasty in the Nursery

Les Conrad (Pirate – uncredited) Murdersville

The War Games

Malcolm Hulke (writer) – The writer for The Gravediggers

Bernard Horsfall (Time Lord) – The Cybernauts, The Fear Merchants

Vernon Dobtcheff (Scientist) – Room Without A View, The Living Dead

Peter Diamond (fight arranger, uncredited roles) – Honey for the Prince

Michael Lynch (Spencer) – From Venus with Love

Philip Madoc (The War Lord) – The Correct Way to Kill

Noel Coleman (General Smythe) – Return of the Cybernauts

Les Conrad (1862 Soldier / Alien Guard – both uncredited) – Murdersville

The Third Doctor

Spearhead from Space

Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor) – From Venus with Love. Pertwee obviously played the Doctor in this and every other Third Doctor story, but I’ve only listed him here and stories that were outside his era, or where he is the only person from The Avengers to apear.

Talfryn Thomas (Mullins) – A Surfeit of H2O

John Woodnutt (Hibbert) – Quick-Quick Slow Death

Clifford Cox (Sergeant) – You Have Just Been Murdered

Doctor Who and the Silurians

Malcolm Hulke (writer) – The writer for The Gravediggers

Geoffrey Palmer (Masters) – A Surfeit of H2O

Fulton Mackay (Dr. Quinn) – Return of the Cybernauts

Les Conrad (UNIT Soldier – uncredited) – Murdersville

The Ambassadors of Death

Robert Cawdron (Taltalian) – A Touch of Brimstone

Alan Chuntz (Thug – uncredited) – Never, Never Say Die

Robert Cawdron (Taltalian) – Murdersville

Les Conrad (Soldier – uncredited) – Murdersville

Richard Dinny Powell (Thug – uncredited) – Mission…Highly Improbable

Inferno

Christopher Benjamin (Sir Keith) – How to Succeed…at Murder, Never, Never Say Die

Derek Newark (Greg Sutton) – From Venus with Love

Alan Chuntz (Technician – uncredited) – Never, Never Say Die

Terror of the Autons

David Garth (Time Lord) – How to Succeed…at Murder

Alan Chuntz (UNIT Soldier – uncredited) – Never, Never Say Die

Les Conrad (UNIT Soldier – uncredited) – Murdersville

Dinny Powell (stunt – uncredited) – Mission…Highly Improbable

The Mind of Evil

Alan Chuntz (Prisoner, Mercenary – both uncredited) – Never, Never Say Die

Neil McCarthy (Barnham) – Dead Man’s Treasure

Les Conrad (Prisoner – uncredited) – Murdersville

The Claws of Axos

Donald Hewlett (Hardiman) – The Thirteenth Hole

Kenneth Benda (The Minister) – From Venus with Love

Colony in Space

Malcolm Hulke (writer) – The writer for The Gravediggers

John Ringham (Ashe) – A Sense of HIstory

John Baker (Time Lord) – You Have Just Been Murdered

Tony Caunter (Morgan) – Murdersville

The Daemons

Robert James (Man, uncredited) – Too Many Christmas Trees

Peter Diamond (fight arranger) – Honey for the Prince

William Gossling (villager – uncredited) – Murdersville

Day of the Daleks

Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor) – From Venus with Love.

The Curse of Peladon

Rocky Taylor (Stunt Guard – uncredited) – Escape in Time

Dinny Powell (Stunt Guard – uncredited) – Mission…Highly Improbable

The Sea Devils

Malcolm Hulke (writer) – The writer for The Gravediggers

Edwin Richfield (Captain Hart) – Too Many Christmas Trees, Dead Man’s Treasure

Declan Mulholland (Clark) – The Fear Merchants

Edwin Richfield

The Mutants

John Hollis (Sondergaard) – The Cybernauts, The Superlative Seven

Peter Howell (Investigator) – Death at Bargain Prices

Geoffrey Palmer (Administrator) – A Surfeit of H2O

Paul Whitsun-Jones (Marhsal) – Room Without a View

The Time Monster

Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor) – From Venus with Love.

The Three Doctors

Alan Chuntz (Omega’s Champion – uncredited) – Never, Never Say Die

Carnival of Monsters

Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor) – From Venus with Love.

Frontier in Space

Malcolm Hulke (writer) – The writer for The Gravediggers

John Woodnutt (Draconian Empire) – Quick-Quick Slow Death

Planet of the Daleks

Bernard Horsfall (Taron) – The Cybernauts, The Fear Merchants

The Green Death

Talfryn Thomas (Dave) – A Surfeit of H2O

Jerome Willis (Stevens) – How to Succeed…at Murder

Alan Chuntz (Security Guard – uncredited) – Never, Never Say Die

The Time Warrior

Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor) – From Venus with Love

Invasion of the Dinosaurs

Malcolm Hulke (writer) – The writer for The Gravediggers

Death to the Daleks

Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor) – From Venus with Love

The Monster of Peladon

Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor) – From Venus with Love

Planet of the Spiders

Alan Chuntz (Guard – uncredited) – Never, Never Say Die

John Baker (Audience Member – uncredited) – You Have Just Been Murdered

The Fourth Doctor

Robot

Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier) – Mission…Highly Improbable

Edward Burnham (Professor Kettlewell) – The Fear Merchants

Genesis of the Daleks

Charles Rayford (Scientist, uncredited) – Honey for the Prince

Michael Lynch (Thal Politician) – From Venus with Love

Alan Chuntz (Kaled Soldier, Elite Guard – both uncredited) – Never, Never Say Die

Dennis Chinnery (Gharman) – Something Nasty in the Nursery

Les Conrad (Thal survivor – uncredited) – Murdersville

Dinny Powell (Thal Guard – uncredited) – Mission…Highly Improbable

Revenge of the Cybermen

Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Commander Stevenson) – The Cybernauts

Terror of the Zygons

Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier) – Mission…Highly Improbable

Robert Banks Stewart (writer) – The writer of The Master Minds and Quick-Quick Slow Death

John Woodnutt (Duke of Forgill) – Quick-Quick Slow Death

The Planet of Evil

Frederick Jaeger (Sorenson) – The Cybernauts, Return of the Cybernauts

The Pyramids of Mars

Bernard Archard (Marcus Scarman) – The Master Minds

The Android Invasion

Patrick Newell (Colonel Farday) – The Town of No Return, Something Nasty in the Nursery, The Forget-Me-Knot

The Brain of Morbius

Philip Madoc (Solon) – The Correct Way to Kill

The Seeds of Doom

Robert Banks Stewart (writer) – The writer of The Master Minds and Quick-Quick Slow Death

Sylvia Coleridge (Amelia Ducat) – The Girl from AUNTIE

Alan Chuntz (Chauffeur) – Never, Never Say Die

The Masque of Mandragora

Robert James (High Priest) – Too Many Christmas Trees

Jon Laurimore (Count Frederico) – Honey for the Prince, The £50,000 Breakfast

The Deadly Assassin

Bernard Horsfall (Chancellor Goth) – The Cybernauts, The Fear Merchants

The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Christopher Benjamin (Henry Gordon Jago) – How to Succeed…at Murder, Never, Never Say Die

The Horror of Fang Rock

Rio Fanning (Harker) – Dead Man’s Treasure

The Invisible Enemy

Frederick Jaeger (Professor Marius) – The Cybernauts, Return of the Cybernauts

Image of the Fendahl

Wanda Ventham (Thea Ransome) – The Gravediggers

The Sunmakers

Richard Leech (Gatherer Hade) – The Sunmakers

Underworld

James Maxwell (Jackson) – The Superlative Seven

Alan Lake (Herrick) – The Forget-Me-Knot

The Ribos Operation

Timothy Bateson (Binro) – The Correct Way to Kill

The Androids of Tara

Peter Jeffrey (Count Grendel) – Room Without a View, The Joker

Declan Mulholland (Till) – The Fear Merchants

The Power of Kroll

Philip Madoc (Fenner) – The Correct Way to Kill

Neil McCarthy (Thawn) – Dead Man’s Treasure

The Armageddon Factor

John Woodvine (Marshal) – The Murder Market

City of Death

Julian Glover (Scaroth) – Two’s a Crowd, The Living Dead

The Creature from the Pit

Geoffrey Bayldon (Organon) – Escape in Time

The Horns of Nimon

John Bailey (Sezom) – Dial a Deadly Number

Meglos

Edward Underdown (Zastor) – The Murder Market, The Living Dead

Bill Fraser (General Grugger) – Small Game for Big Hunters

Frederick Treves (Lt. Brotadac) – The Hidden Tiger

State of Decay

Alan Chuntz (Guard – uncredited) – Never, Never Say Die

Warrior’s Gate

Kenneth Cope (Packard) – The Bird Who Knew Too Much

Keeper of Traken

John Woodnutt (Seron) – Quick-Quick Slow Death

The Fifth Doctor

Four to Doomsday

Bert Kwouk (Lin Futu) – The Cybernauts

Philip Locke (Bigon) – From Venus with Love

The Visitation

John Baker (Ralph) – You Have Just Been Murdered

Black Orchid

Moray Watson (Sir Robert Muir) – The Danger Makers

Time-Flight

Nigel Stock (Proessor Hayter) – A Sense of History

Arc of Infinity

Michael Gough (Hedin) – The Cybernauts, The Correct Way to Kill

Snakedance

John Carson (Ambril) – Dial a Deadly Number

Mawdryn Undead

Roger Hammond (Dr. Runciman) – Return of the Cybernauts

Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier) – Mission…Highly Improbable

Enlightenment

Tony Caunter (Jackson) – Murdersville

The King’s Demons

Isla Blair (Isabella) – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station

The Five Doctors

Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor) – From Venus with Love

Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier) – Mission…Highly Improbable

Philip Latham (Borusa) – Room Without a View

Frontios

William Lucas (Range) – Death’s Door

Planet of Fire

Barbara Shelley (Sorasta) – From Venus with Love

Peter Wyngarde (Timanov) – A Touch of Brimstone, Epic

The Sixth Doctor

The Twin Dilemma

Edwin Richfield (Mestor) – Too Many Christmas Trees, Dead Man’s Treasure

Dennis Chinnery (Sylvet) – Something Nasty in the Nursery

Les Conrad (Mestor’s Guard – uncredited) – Murdersville

The Mark of the Rani

Terence Alexander (Lord Ravensworth) – The Town of No Return

The Two Doctors

Jacqueline Pearce (Chessene) – A Sense of History

Time-Lash

Neil Hallett (Maylin Renis) – The Winged Avenger

The Trial of a Time Lord

Brian Blessed (King Yrcanos) – The Superlative Seven

The Seventh Doctor

Time and the Rani

Wanda Ventham (Faroon) – The Gravediggers

Donald Pickering (Beyus) – The Winged Avenger

The Happiness Patrol

Ronald Fraser (Joseph C.) – The Gravediggers

Silver Nemesis

Leslie French (Mathematician) – You Have Just Been Murdered

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

T.P. McKenna (The Captain) – Death at Bargain Prices

Battlefield

Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier) – Mission…Highly Improbable

Alf Joint (stunts) – A Touch of Brimstone

Ghost Light

John Nettleton (Reverend Matthews) – The See-Through Man

The Tenth Doctor

The Idiot’s Lantern

Rocky Taylor (Stunt Perfformer) – Escape in Time

Voyage of the Damned

Geoffrey Palmer (Captain Hardaker) – A Surfeit of H2O

Bernard Cribbins (Wilfrid Mott) – The Girl from AUNTIE. Cribbins went on to appear in a bunch more episodes of Doctor Who as this character. He’s listed every time simply because in all of them he’s the only Avengers actors to have appeared.

Partners in Crime

Bernard Cribbins (Wilfrid Mott) – The Girl from AUNTIE

The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky

Bernard Cribbins (Wilfrid Mott) – The Girl from AUNTIE

The Unicorn and the Wasp

Christopher Benjamin (Colonel Hugh) – How to Succeed…at Murder, Never, Never Say Die

Turn Left

Bernard Cribbins (Wilfrid Mott) – The Girl from AUNTIE

The Stolen Earth / Journey’s End

Bernard Cribbins (Wilfrid Mott) – The Girl from AUNTIE

The End of Time part 1 & 2

Bernard Cribbins (Wilfrid Mott) – The Girl from AUNTIE

The Eleventh Doctor

The Eleventh Hour

Arthur Cox (Mr. Henderson) – From Venus with Love

The Power of Three

Steven Berkoff (Shakri) – The Gravediggers

The Crimson Horror

Diana Rigg (Mrs. Gillyflower) – Emma Peel in every episode of this collection!

And that’s the list! Pretty extensive, right? Let’s see how many classic Doctor Who stories we didn’t list:

The First Doctor

The Edge of Destruction (the classic story with the smallest cast)

The Reign of Terror

Planet of the Giants

The Rescue

The Web Planet

The Time Meddler

Galaxy Four

The Ark

The Gunfighters

The Fourth Doctor

The Ark in Space

The Sontaran Experiment

The Hand of Fear

The Face of Evil

The Robots of Death

The Invasion of Time

The Pirate Planet

The Stones of Blood

Destiny of the Daleks

Nightmare of Eden

Shada

The Leisure Hive

Full Circle

Logopolis

The Fifth Doctor

Castrovalva

Kinda

Earthshock

Terminus

Warriors of the Deep

Resurrection of the Daleks

The Caves of Androzani

The Sixth Doctor

Attack of the Cybermen

Vengeance on Varos

Revelation of the Daleks

The Seventh Doctor

Paradise Towers

Delta and the Bannermen

Dragonfire

Remembrance of the Daleks

The Curse of Fenric

Survival

And then, obviously when we get into the Eighth Doctors and beyond, there are a lot more stories not listed.

But how will that list look once we go through all the non-Emma Peel episodes of The Avengers?

Time will tell!