Slightly ungracious of me to start with a point of information, but The Five Faces was two years before the twentieth anniversary, in November 1981
Was it? I did have a slight doubt, particularly about how it would have fitted around The Five Doctors. What persuaded the BBC to try the experiment in 1981? Was it just JNT getting lucky at some level, or was there some other reasoning behind it.
I more easily recognised Philip Madoc from his appearance in the second Dalek movie, than I did Eileen Way, when I watched An Unearthly Child. It is an interesting piece of trivia that the two Black and White serials selected for the Five Faces season both feature actors from Dalek Invasion of Earth - 2150 but it doesn't seem to go anywhere beyond the obvious fact that the British acting pool both then and now is smaller than one might think.
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Was it? I did have a slight doubt, particularly about how it would have fitted around The Five Doctors. What persuaded the BBC to try the experiment in 1981? Was it just JNT getting lucky at some level, or was there some other reasoning behind it.
I more easily recognised Philip Madoc from his appearance in the second Dalek movie, than I did Eileen Way, when I watched An Unearthly Child. It is an interesting piece of trivia that the two Black and White serials selected for the Five Faces season both feature actors from Dalek Invasion of Earth - 2150 but it doesn't seem to go anywhere beyond the obvious fact that the British acting pool both then and now is smaller than one might think.