10 Doctor Who Actors Who Have Appeared In Blake's 7
Familiar stars in unfamiliar roles.
Despite the many fan attempts to fuse them together, Blake's 7 and Doctor Who are set in two entirely different fictional universes. Behind the scenes, though, the two shows hold much in common. As one might expect, they share writers such as Terry Nation, Robert Holmes and Chris Boucher, incidental music from Dudley Simpson and special effects genius Matt Irvine. Starting his career as a production assistant on Doctor Who, David Maloney went on to produce Blakes 7 and direct episodes of both programmes. At times even the props and scenery came in useful between shows. The eagle-eyed will spot Federation helmets in the Peter Davison story Frontios. Famously Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor, played the evil Bayban The Butcher in City at the Edge of the World but with Doctor Who running for so many years longer, and with such a massive range of spin off plays in its trail, there have been many more movements in the other direction - from the Liberator to the TARDIS. Almost all the leading Blake's 7 stars have turned up at least once in the Doctor Who universe. Curiously, one of the notable exceptions, Josette Simon, who played the feisty Dayna Mellamby, was recently rumoured to have been in the running for the Twelfth Doctor. How fantastic would that have been? Apart from Simon, of the living leading cast members, only Glynis Barber has so far resisted the call of the cloister bell...