Alpha Centauri (Doctor Who) - Behind The Scenes

Behind The Scenes

Ysanne Churchman was instructed by director Lennie Mayne to make the creature sound like a "gay civil servant". The same costume was worn by Stuart Fell for both appearances as the character, the character appearing in The Monster of Peladon in order to help recreate the atmosphere of Peladon depicted in the earlier serial The Curse of Peladon.

Ysanne Churchman voiced Lupton's Spider in Planet of the Spiders, the Doctor Who serial following The Monster of Peladon.

Stuart Fell appeared as an uncredited Functionary in the Doctor Who serial Carnival of Monsters between his appearances as Alpha Centauri. He later appeared in Doctor Who as a tramp in Planet of the Spiders, the body of the Wirrn in The Ark in Space, an uncredited double for Styre in The Sontaran Experiment, Kraal in The Android Invasion, the Morbius Monster in The Brain of Morbius, an entertainer in The Masque of Mandragora, an uncredited Tesh guard in The Face of Evil, a guard in The Sun Makers, a Sontaran in The Invasion of Time and Roga in State of Decay. He also served as fight arranger for the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang and worked on stunts for the serials The Invasion of Time and The Ribos Operation.