Doomwatch
Premiered: Feb 09, 1970 | 4 seasons | 40 episodes
Popularity: 5
| Creator: | Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler |
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| Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Powell | Tobias Wren | 40 |
| John Paul | Dr Spencer Quist | 40 |
| Simon Oates | Dr. John Ridge | 40 |
| John Nolan | Geoff Hardcastle | 27 |
| Michael Elwyn | Richard Duncan | 7 |
| John Barron | The Minister | 3 |
| Geoffrey Palmer | Major Sims | 2 |
| John Savident | The Minister | 2 |
| John Lee | Captain - Second Airline Crew | 2 |
| Hamilton Dyce | Minister | 2 |
| Margaret John | Mrs. Joan Simpson | 2 |
| John Barron | Minister | 2 |
| Jonathan Pryce | Police Constable | 1 |
| Joseph Fürst | Dr. Charles Goldsworthy | 1 |
| Viviane Ventura | Paola Maria Totti | 1 |
| George Baker | John Mitchell | 1 |
| Colin Jeavons | Botting | 1 |
| James Burke | BBC Man London | 1 |
| John Wood | Nigel Waring | 1 |
| Patrick Troughton | Lyon McArthur | 1 |
| Desmond Llewelyn | Thompson | 1 |
| Leslie Schofield | Harry | 1 |
| Amanda Ooms | Meg Tannahill | 1 |
| Rhoda Lewis | Mrs. Freeman | 1 |
| George Pravda | Prof. Miklos Egri | 1 |
| Ray Brooks | Geoff Harker | 1 |
| Philip Brack | Jack Foster | 1 |
| Maurice Roëves | Peter Shipton | 1 |
| Trevor Eve | Neil Tannahill | 1 |
| Cec Linder | Sen. Connell | 1 |
| Frederick Jaeger | Richard Massingham | 1 |
| Paul Eddington | Reynolds | 1 |
| Glyn Houston | Gerald Marlowe | 1 |
| Paul Seed | Michael Pratt | 1 |
| Philip Stone | Spencer Quist | 1 |
| Brian Wilde | Prof. Fairbairn | 1 |
| Michael Ripper | Tom Reid | 1 |
| James Maxwell | Dr. Whittaker | 1 |
| Patrick Godfrey | Grant | 1 |
| William Lucas | Benjamin Fielding | 1 |
| Freda Dowie | Hilda | 1 |
| Elisabeth Sladen | Sarah Collins | 1 |
| Nigel Stock | Commander Charles Keeping | 1 |
| Philip Bond | Inspector Drew | 1 |
| Richard Hurndall | Dr Robert Whitehead | 1 |
| Steve Toussaint | Luke | 1 |
| Anthony Ainley | Senior House Officer | 1 |
| John Gregg | Roger Halls | 1 |
| Peter Copley | Admiral Sir Richard Tranton | 1 |
| Katherine Kath | Lady Janette Holroyd | 1 |
| Erik Chitty | Old Man | 1 |
| Patricia Maynard | Miss Sephton | 1 |
| Christopher Chittell | Dick Burns | 1 |
| Michael Culver | Minister's PPS | 1 |
| Alex Scott | Dr. Patrick | 1 |
| Aubrey Richards | Bernard Colley | 1 |
| Glyn Owen | 'Griff' Griffiths | 1 |
| Edward Kelsey | Captain Tommy Gort | 1 |
| Morris Perry | Prof. Alec Hetherington | 1 |
| Jennifer Daniel | Dana Colley | 1 |
| Emrys Jones | Colonel Archibald Smithson | 1 |
| Penelope Lee | Dr. Mary Bryant | 1 |
| Nicholas Courtney | Phillip | 1 |
| John Comer | Jack | 1 |
| Grant Taylor | Colonel Kramer | 1 |
| Peter Hawkins | Computer (voice) | 1 |
| Bruce Purchase | Norman Sylvester | 1 |
| Bernard Horsfall | Steven Granger | 1 |
| Trevor Bannister | Dr. Anthony Lewis | 1 |
| Pamela Sholto | Miss James | 1 |
| Moultrie Kelsall | Alexander Drummond | 1 |
| Andreas Malandrinos | Passenger | 1 |
| Olaf Pooley | Dr. Ensor | 1 |
| Ronald Hines | Ian Drummond | 1 |
| William Fox | Scott | 1 |
| Donald Morley | Air Commodore Parks | 1 |
| John Quarmby | PM's Secretary | 1 |
| John Young | Dr. Alan Benson | 1 |
| Sheila Raynor | Mrs. Knott | 1 |
| Judith Furse | Mary Lincoln | 1 |
| Llewellyn Rees | Rev. Charles Garrison | 1 |
| Michael Hawkins | Jim Bennett | 1 |
| Dudley Jones | Dr. O'Brien | 1 |
| Keith Grenville | Dr. Eric Godfrey | 1 |
| Robert Gillespie | Dr. Warren | 1 |
| Kevin Stoney | Prof. Hal Symonds | 1 |
| Desmond Cullum-Jones | Patterson | 1 |
| Bernard Hepton | Oscar Franklin | 1 |
| Walter Horsbrugh | Dr. Seaton | 1 |
| Joseph Greig | Dr. Jackson | 1 |
| David Markham | Wilfred Ellis | 1 |
| Michael Aspel | BBC Man Houston | 1 |
| Harold Bennett | George Mason | 1 |
| June Brown | Kit Pedler | 1 |
| Amanda Walker | Sister Trewin | 1 |
| George A. Cooper | Thomas Prentice | 1 |