The Box of Delights (TV series)
Patrick Troughton was a familiar face on BBC TV from playing the Second Doctor in "Doctor Who"; a contemporary "Blue Peter" feature on the drama makes the connection that in the role of Cole Hawlings, the kindly Punch and Judy Man, Troughton was playing another mysterious, scruffy time traveller. Renny Rye noted that Troughton "who was my favourite Doctor Who...had a quality that is unsurpassed, I think, as someone to pull you into a tale."
Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who)
Clive Swift and Geoffrey Palmer have had previous roles in "Doctor Who". Swift portrayed Jobel in "Revelation of the Daleks" (1985), while Palmer played Undersecretary Masters in "Doctor Who and the Silurians" (1970), and the Administrator in "The Mutants" (1972). Jessica Martin had played Mags in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" (1988–89). In addition, Bernard Cribbins played Tom Campbell in "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.", the second "Doctor Who" feature-film adaptation starring Peter Cushing as well as Arnold Korns in the audio play "Horror of Glam Rock". Colin McFarlane, who provided the voices of the Heavenly Host for the episode, went on to play General Pierce in "" (2009), before later reappearing in "Doctor Who" as Moran in "Under the Lake". Jimmy Vee had previously played aliens in "The End of the World" and "Aliens of London" (2005), and would later play other aliens in "The End of Time" (2009–10) and "The Caretaker" (2014).