Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm, Wednesday, November 5 on WZME Retro TV (43.8)
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Planet of Giants
Season 2, Episode 1
The Doctor emerges from the TARDIS to find that he is only a few centimetres tall. But this small inconvenience doesn't interfere with his efforts to keep an unprincipled manufacturer from distributing a dangerous insecticide.
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1964
English
Sci-fi
Action/adventure
Fantasy
Cult Classic
Season Premiere
Cast & Crew
William Hartnell
(Actor)
.. The Doctor
Alan Tilvern
(Actor)
.. Forester
Jacqueline Hill
(Actor)
.. Barbara
William Russell
(Actor)
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Did You Know..
William Hartnell
(Actor)
.. The Doctor
Born:
January 08, 1908
Died: April 24, 1975
Died: April 24, 1975
Trivia:
British actor William Hartnell once billed himself as "Billy," befitting his previous life as an apprentice jockey and flyweight boxer. Yearning to be a comedian like his idol Charlie Chaplin, Hartnell went on the stage at age 16 with Sir Frank Benson's Shakespeare company. In films from 1933, he spent several frustrating years playing minor villains and nondescript walk-ons. Hartnell rose to prominence in British films of the 1940s; ironically, he played an Army sergeant in his starmaking film, 1944's The Way Ahead. His film assignments diminished in importance in the 1950s, though he gained a new following in the supporting role of Sergeant Major Bullimore on the BBC TV series The Army Game. On the strength of his performance as a crusty sports agent in the 1963 film This Sporting Life, Hartnell was cast as the first of eight actors to portray TV's Doctor Who. This internationally popular sci-fi series made Hartnell a star all over again; alas, multiple sclerosis forced him to relinquish the role to Patrick Troughton in 1966. William Hartnell was long married to actress/playwright Heather McIntyre.
Alan Tilvern
(Actor)
.. Forester
Born:
January 01, 1920
Trivia:
British character actor Alan Tilvern began his long career in small film roles with the appropriately titled The Small Voice (1948) (it's a hostage drama, but you wouldn't know it from the title). In placid anonymity, Tilvern appeared in such internationally financed films as The Black Rose (1950), Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) and Bhowani Junction (1956). Sometimes he received screen credit (as "A Sergeant" in Woody Allen's Love and Death [1975]); often he did not (as goodness knows what role in Superman: The Movie [1978]). Alan Tilvern's contribution to 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit was far from obscure; as cartoon producer R. K. Maroon, it was Tilvern who put the entire plot into motion--and wound up murdered as a result.
Jacqueline Hill
(Actor)
.. Barbara
Born:
December 17, 1929
William Russell
(Actor)
Born:
January 01, 1924
