10 Doctor Who Actors Who Have Appeared In Blake's 7

7. Jacqueline Pearce

Jacqueline Pearce as the sultry seductress Servalan was the most iconic of female villains in the late 70s/early 80s. She could make a grown man weep in pleasure or pain (usually both at once) and her desire for power was so strong that she would even destroy whole civilisations to preserve her interests. A younger Pearce would have been an ideal actress to play one of Steven Moffat€™s strong female characters but as it happens, she made her Doctor Who debut back in 1985 as the deliciously camp villain Chessene of the Franzine Grig in The Two Doctors. Servalan was obsessed with taking control of the Liberator. Similarly, Chessene wants a craft, a time machine, and she is prepared to experiment on Time Lords in order to find the secret of time travel. Morally the two characters are on the same wavelength. Pearce has made two other entries into Doctor Who folklore, including a brief foray as Admiral Mettna in the BBC online flash animated adventure Death Comes To Time. In the Big Finish audio play The Fearmonger, meanwhile, she excels playing another deliciously evil character. Sherilyn Harper is the leader of the New Britannia Party and secret organiser for the far right group The United Front. The front uses violent means to stir up hatred of immigrants among others. The alien Fearmonger inhabits a person€™s fears. The drama cleverly shifts the host of the enemy away from Harper€™s fear of the other and onto the people who fear her.