Victoria Waterfield may hav only spent one year on the show, but she still is active in fandom:
As former Doctor Who assistant Victoria Waterfield from 1967-8, she gets invited to the conventions and reunions - and has her own exclusive group of followers.
This is Lancashire talks with Peter Kay:
...even he admits that running flat out through the streets of Cardiff in a disgusting looking rubber monster suit again and again and again for this week's episode of Doctor Who is probably at the top of the list marked "bizarre".
Barbara Harper has been interviewed by EDP24:
Now aged 51 and a mother of five, Barbara Harper vividly recalls making her acting debut in BBC1's legendary sci-fi, playing one of the children in the five-part story The Mind Robber in 1968.
Billie Piper says she's game for filling the lead role:
According to the Daily Star she said: “I certainly am very ambitious. In the next few years I’d love to play a female version of Doctor Who."
Not even a "straight kiss" between two men, either.
Over on AfterElton.com -- some content NSFW
Barrowman acknowledges that part of his character's energy and optimism may have come from him: “Anybody who you might talk to who knows me, knows that I love life, I love to have fun, I'm very open, I don't mince my words, I say what I feel, and--you know, that's just the way I am. I put a lot of my own personality into Jack.”
Over at MF&T (as I'm sure they call it at the office), they've posted an interview with Pauline Collins:
"The episode is very scary - particularly the werewolf," says Pauline, who originally played Samantha Briggs, alongside the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton.
Your choices are werewolf or Teletubby. Or are they the same thing?
FORGET Daleks and even Cybermen - when Glasgow actor Derek Riddell dies in Doctor Who this weekend, it's at the hands of a man-sized Teletubby. The No Angels star, who last night brought the curtain down on the hit Channel 4 comedy-drama, switches to BBC1 on Saturday playing a Scottish nobleman who meets a grisly end fighting a giant werewolf.
The SyFy Portal interview Tennant:
"In a way, that was sort of easy to play as I remember her mid 70’s which was when I started watching the show, I’m 34, so that was kinda my time. So suddenly there’s Sarah Jane who I have all these affectionate memories for so you can kind of plug it into the Doctor's psychology."
Over at the Sci Fi Wire, Russell T. Davies talks about bringing back characters from the original series:
"That was very much a lesson that I took from Star Trek: The Next Generation, where in the first [season], apart from seeing Dr. McCoy in the first episode, they were quite uptight about continuity and didn't refer too much and kept it a new show," Davies said in an interview.
Piper reaffirms that she's sticking with the Doctor, for now:
With David chuckling away beside her, it's obvious there's chemistry between the two. "We all get along on the show and we need to, really, because it's long months and it's quite intense. We're shooting 13-hour days, so you're thrown together all the time."
Newsflash: acting is hard!
David Tennant, who currently plays the doctor, does not ever want to quit playing The Doctor
SCOTS actor David Tennant claims he still wants to be Doctor Who when he's a pensioner. The former Casanova star is enjoying playing the eccentric Timelord so much that he can see himself doing it for the next four decades.
Russell T Davies mentions in an interview that a female Doctor is not out of the question.
Mr Davies said he would “have the nerve” to have a woman playing the role. And he said it would also be possible to have a Welsh Doctor, such as the actor Michael Sheen, whom he described as “brilliant“.
Noel Clarke, the actor who plays Mickey (Rose's boyfriend), talks about his character:
"Mickey gets very sexy in this new series," Noel told the Daily Star. "He's a completely different person from the lad stuck in a wheelie bin in Episode One of the first series. And he and Rose's mum Jackie certainly get on. They didn't interact much at the start - but that has changed now.
The "SyFy Portal" speaks up.
Once they asked me to do it and commissioned me, I came up with my take on it, and the miracle from my point of view was that I was given a clean slate," Davies said.