Heather
Emmanuel
Heather
appears as Tessa in the 1975 Doctor Who story, The
Android Invasion, one of the operatives at the Devesham
Space Research Centre [see below
left]. She was also a regular Play School
presenter, had minor roles in two Carry On films [Up
the Jungle and
Again Doctor] and appeared
variously as nurses and lab assistants in The
Professionals, The Andromeda Breakthrough and
Danger Man. She is still acting
today.
 
Alan Halley
Alan
Halley has principally worked in the theatre since his
role in Survivors, although he did appear in the Blake's
Seven episode Pressure
Point (see below) and the series Blore
M.P. in 1989.
[Below left: Alan Halley today, ©
Caroline Harris. Below right: Alan as Arle
(with Martin Connor as Berg) in Blake's
Seven - Pressure Point (1979)].
 
His stage credits include:
The
Ingenious Mrs Behn (Lord Greville) 1997
Private Ear and Public Eye (Charles) 1988
Wife Begins at Forty (Lead) 1987
Having a Ball (Ritchie) 1983
What the Butler Saw (Sgt Match) 1983
Bedroom Farce (Nick) 1981
Stage Struck (Robert) 1981
Clouds (Ed) 1980
Outside Edge (Denis) 1980
Alan now lives in Maidstone and performs many TV
voiceovers.
Derek Martin
Derek is now best known for his current role as long
suffering dad, Charlie Slater, in the BBC soap Eastenders.
[Picture below left © Steve Lewis.]
 
Before Eastenders,
Derek had various roles in series such as The
Governor (Deputy Governor - Garry
Marshall), The Bill, The Detectives,
Crime Monthly, Shoestring,
Target, Dempsey and Makepeace, The Professionals, The
Duchess of Duke Street and Doctor
Who. Derek has notched up eight
appearances in Doctor Who,
as an extra, stuntman and most significantly as Mitchell
in the classic 1977 story Image of
the Fendahl. (His other Doctor
Who's were The
Romans, The Massacre, The Highlanders, The Web of Fear,
Inferno, The Mind of Evil and The
Claws of Axos.) Derek has also
starred in the films: Piggy Bank
[1997] and Boston Kick Out
[1994].
Nicolette Roeg
Nicolette
starred in many West End Musicals before she turned her
attention to television. Her most celebrated stage
performance was as Nancy in the 1966 production of Oliver!.
Jon Pertwee was also in the cast as Fagin. This
performance can be heard on LP. Other LPs featuring
Nicolette include The Pajama Game,
in which she sings 'Hernando's Hideaway', Belle
and Two Cities. [Nicolette
is pictured, below left, during her musical heyday].
 
Some of her TV and Film credits
include:
TV:
Blake's Seven - Gambit
(Chenie) [1978] [see picture, above right,
in which Sylvia Coleridge, Mrs Butterworth from A Little
Learning, also starred]
The Onedin Line
(Ada Gamble) [1976]
On The Buses - Bye Bye Blakey
(Lady Doctor) [1972]
Tracey and Me
(Dorothy) [1956]
Two's Company
[1956]
Film:
Home Sweet Home
[1945]
Nicolette is the sister of Nicolas Roeg, the famous film
director, who directed Performance,
Don't Look Now, The Witches and The
Man Who Fell to Earth.
Paul Seed
Paul Seed went on to play the villainous Graff Vynda K in
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
[see below] the following year. During the rehearsal
period for this story, it was actually Paul's dog that
bit Tom Baker's face. Tom's 'wound' can be clearly seen
in this and the following story, The
Pirate Planet. Paul gave up acting
pretty soon after he started out and become an
accomplished TV director instead. Some of his directing
credits (many of which are for award winning series)
include: House of Cards, To Play the
King, Murder Rooms, Playing the Field, A Rather English
Marriage and A
Touch of Frost.
 
Above: Two images of Paul Seed [with
him in the second is Robert Reegan as
Sholakh] as the Graff Vynda K in the Doctor
Who: The Ribos Operation [1978].
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