Along with a number of successful stage roles, before he secured the career-defining role of Norman Clegg in Yorkshire-based sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine (a part he would play for a total of thirty-seven years), Peter Sallis appeared in six episodes of Doctor Who with a supporting but significant role in the Second Doctor story The Ice Warriors (1967). Sallis played Elric Penley a scientist at the Brittannicus Base during an Ice Age in the year 5000 who had detached himself from the main research group because of their over reliance on computers. Throughout the story he would become an ally to the Doctor and his companions, eventually coming up with the idea of using to heat to drive away the Ice Warriors and killing them with a piece of lab equipment before reconciling with the rest of his research team. Sallis was originally supposed to make a return to Doctor Who as Captain Striker in the Fifth Doctor story Enlightenment (1983) but delays caused by industrial action led to the role being recast with Keith Barron. Sallis allegedly retired from acting in 2012 partly due to macular degeneration causing his eyesight to deteriorate, and in recent years the voice of Wallace in Aardmans Wallace and Gromit films has been supplied by actor Ben Whitehead.
JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.
