Obscure Doctor Who Trivia

[Pip Madeley]

Bernard Cribbins is 79...

[Andrew Curnow]

Is he, blimey! It must be the "born first" thing then.

[Si Hunt]

Hmmm. It's interesting, but not all that amazing. If they'd cast a genuine old woman to play Old Mother in the first story, I reckon she would have pipped May to the honour.

Si.

[Si Hunt]

Surely if Cribbins is 79, he was only born in 1929, so May is still the earliest born by a long way.

Si.

[Pip Madeley]

Here's an obscure trivia fact for you all - William Emms was a school teacher at the time he wrote Galaxy Four.

[Andrew Curnow]

That's not obscure, surely, I knew that ages ago!

[Pip Madeley]

One man's obscure is another man's everyday.

[Andrew Curnow]

Another fact about William Emms is that at a convention panel in the 80s he was very critical of the then-current show - which I always thought was a bit rich when you bear in mind that (another fact) none of the regulars was happy with his scripts for Galaxy 4.

[Captain Tancredi]

To be fair to both Andrew and Pip, in the early 1980s whenever Galaxy Four was mentioned, it was pretty much invariably described as "the missing classic written by schoolteacher William Emms".

[sugartongs]

I haven't seen Midnight since it was broadcast and I gave up after one episode of Merlin, but isn't the son in Midnight the same guy who's now Merlin?

Though if he is I'm sure everyone already knew that...

[Pip Madeley]

Yep it is and everyone seems to know.

[Stuart Wallis]

Well we do now...