20 Actors Who Have Appeared In Both Classic And New Doctor Who
14. Christopher Ryan
Needing a small guy in a rubber suit? Christopher Ryan is your man. In 1986, he played Lord Kiv, leader of the Mentors on Thoros Beta. Kiv's mutated brain would keep growing as he became older and so he hired a scientist to transfer his mind into another body. He captures Peri for this purpose and the Sixth Doctor watches her apparent death. This was all part of the Trial of a Time Lord arc, Mindwarp. Later, Ryan suited up as two different Sontarans. He played General Staal In the Tenth Doctor two-parter The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky and then, perhaps cloned from the General himself, appeared as Commander Stark in Eleventh Doctor adventure The Pandorica Opens. Ryan isn't he only one to have appeared in both Mindwarp and Tenth Doctor episodes. Next up...
Sara Habein is the author of INFINITE DISPOSABLE. She is a staff writer for Persephone Magazine, and the editor of the Word Riot blog. Her Doctor is number Eight, but the Twelfth is right behind.
