Movies: Toby Hadoke

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is ...

Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday...

Behind-the-scenes stories from the long-running sci-fi drama. There are tales of stunts that went dangerously wrong and secrets of how the crew brought monsters to life, as well as revelations about how some storylines proved to be so scary the BBC w...

Monk Dawson is a film that was released in 1998, directed and produced by Tom Waller and starring John Michie, Benedict Taylor, Rhona Mitra and Paula Hamilton. It was based on the novel of the same name written by Piers Paul Read. The film is about ...

Rising to fame amid the 1980s alternative comedy boom, Ian Cognito was one of the UK's most popular comedians. His performances left audiences in hysterics - but behind the laughter was a troubled and often controversial figure. This is the story of ...

Brave Doctor Who cast members tackle their original recipes from the official 1985 cookbook....

Toby Hadoke delves into the life of director Lennie Mayne...

The original 1967 master recordings of ‘The Macra Terror’ were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings have survived and have been used here to create a brand new fully animated reconstruction of this los...

A documentary looking back at the life and career of Dursley McLinden (Mike Smith in the 1988 Doctor Who serial Remembrance of the Daleks), who sadly died of AIDS in 1995 aged just 30....

A look at the making of the Doctor Who story, The Time Monster....

Toby Hadoke gets an insight into the life of Adric actor Matthew Waterhouse when he moves in for the weekend....

Cast, crew and fans discuss the making of Destiny of the Daleks....

Intrepid comedian and Doctor Who fan Toby Hadoke heads to Salisbury to spend the weekend with one of the show's most unusual actors. John Levene played Sergeant Benton on-screen for nearly a decade, but these days is a very enigmatic figure. Now Toby...

A look back at the somewhat troubled production of Nightmare of Eden with three of the behind-the-scenes crew who worked on it....

The team behind the reconstruction of Planet of Giants explain how it was put together....

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Toby Hadoke meets the producers and grown-up stars of the very first Who Documentary....

Toby Hadoke takes a humorous look at the history of robots, with particular reference to their appearances in Doctor Who....