An Adventure in Space and Time

[parrot_knight]

Brief reaction as I have to get up and cross London to the ExCel tomorrow for the 'Celebration'... but it was corny, with some overdone sentiment and dramatised the mythology and communal memory of Doctor Who as much as it did (very selectively) the facts and personalities - but it was still a tremendous achievement within eighty-five minutes, with

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[philmophlegm]

Put us out of our misery - while we spotted William Russell, we completely failed to spot Carole Ann Ford. In fact, I even watched it through again at speed looking for any woman of around about the right age, or who looked like what I think Carole Ann Ford would look like today. She's in the credits as "Joyce". Who was "Joyce"?

[parrot_knight]

I have no idea - I'd forgotten she was in it! The camera lingered on Jean Marsh and Anneke Wills in the Verity farewell party scene (a few months too early, historically) but I didn't spot Carole Ann.

[parrot_knight]

She was the woman who called the children in from playing to watch Doctor Who in the town square scene, I learn.

[daniel_saunders]

Glad to learn this as I was similarly puzzled. I'm also glad to learn that it really was Jean Marsh and Anneke Wills, as I wondered if I was seeing things - I'd heard about William Russell's and Carole Ann Ford's cameos, but not theirs, so it was a bit of a double-take moment for me.

[philmophlegm]

She was on our shortlist as one of the few older women in the play*, but I didn't recognise her (she had a headscarf on I think, which probably didn't help). I recognised Jean Marsh but not Anneke Wills. I wonder why Mr Purves didn't appear.

* That seems an old-fashioned term, but it also seems like the term that would have been used in 1963.

[daniel_saunders]

I wonder why Mr Purves didn't appear.

I wondered if Peter Purves was deemed too distractingly recognizable as TV present Peter Purves.

[parrot_knight]

Very probable!