Geoffrey Palmer

In fact, it's got a lot- A lot of Bond alumni in it.

So it's got Geoffrey Palmer in it.

There we go.

Yeah.

I felt they were really kind of wasted in this show, particularly the actors for the grandparents.

Phyllis Dilley and Geoffrey Palmer, who played them, were both veteran TV actors by this point, with careers dating all the way back to the 1950s.

They were working before the original book was published, and that experience really shows in their performances.

Their acting is hands down some of the best in this show.

Yay.

[laughs] Uh, other cast members were Jeffrey Palmer, who was the father of, of director Charles Palmer, who had directed Smith and Jones, Shakespeare Code, Human Nature, and The Family of Blood.

[smacks lips] And he appeared in this episode as Captain Hardaker.

He's also been in two Doctor Who's previously back in the 1970s with the third Doctor.

So that was quite a bit of a shock to see her on screen again.

The granddad is Geoffrey Palmer, famous from lots of British things, but like, yes, minister, and yes, prime minister is probably what he's best known for.

Barney is played by Thomas Sangster who people will know from things like Love Actually where he plays the little kid that plays the drums he's also in Game of Thrones as well as Jojen I think his name is and lots of other things he just looks he eternally looks 11 he's going to look 11 when he's like 65 he's like the youngest looking actor there is um But he's very good in it.

I think the acting in this one is a lot better than the acting in the 81 series.

Then the political elements become a lot more obvious.

Jeffrey Palmer's scenes in the book are a delight, even though he's not in very much of it.

So The Mutants is one of my favorite novelizations, even if not one of my favorite TV stories.

And that's all on Terrence.

at all well i'll give you a different a totally different clip from a similar time period so in the same time 1958 to 1960 kind of area he was part of the rep group of um the army game and So he popped up in that regularly as a soldier, as a character, and they would just use the same actors all the time.

So here's Geoffrey Palmer from that.

We're Santa!

We're keeping Santa!

Well, I enjoyed that, Alan.

Thank you.

That was a lovely little Geoffrey Palmer diversion.

That's great.