Regarding Petra, I think this calls for another "spot-the-returning-actor", this time with a twist. Sheila Dunn was married to Inferno director Douglas Camfield (one of my favourite Who directors) and had very small roles in two other Camfield-directed stories. In the second of these, The Invasion, she was only meant to provide the voices of the computer Zoe kills with her brain and the ministry's telephone operator, but when the photographs in Isobel's studio disappeared (I don't remember if they were stolen or destroyed) and there was no time to plan another photoshoot for the actress playing Isobel to replace them, Sheila dressed up as Isobel and posed for a new set of photographs to replace the ones lost. And, of course, Christopher Benjamin (Sir Keith) later became Jago in Talons of Weng-Chiang and the Colonel in The Unicorn and the WaspYes, Nick Courtney did a great job as evil!Brig (Caroline John and John Levene should be commended as well - I thought evil!Benton was quite impressive). You can see traces of the Brig, but at the
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Olaf Pooley looked familiar to me as well, but I couldn't pinpoint where I've seen him before. According to Wikipedia/IMdB, Inferno was his only Who serial, but he's been in other stuff I've watched like Star Trek: Voyager and MacGyver, so I probably remember him from one of those.
No, they were never addressed as Primords in the dialogue, but the actors playing them were credited as such at the end. John Levene apparently called them "Richard III" because they had a sort of hump. :P
And, of course, Christopher Benjamin (Sir Keith) later became Jago in Talons of Weng-Chiang and the Colonel in The Unicorn and the WaspYes, Nick Courtney did a great job as evil!Brig (Caroline John and John Levene should be commended as well - I thought evil!Benton was quite impressive). You can see traces of the Brig, but at the ( ... )
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Oh, Nicholas Courtney, you and your amazing amazingness...
And I don't think the name Primords came up in dialogue either, even though I'd read it in several places.
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No, they were never addressed as Primords in the dialogue, but the actors playing them were credited as such at the end. John Levene apparently called them "Richard III" because they had a sort of hump. :P
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