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The memories of the faceless ones I remember having to go for an audition
Now I was lucky there because I had my own police uniform and it was for a policeman
I also had my own ambulance uniform and eventually I was an ambulance man
but that way we not only got the job, but you got paid for wearing your own clothes and
Particularly on the faceless ones. I could remember being an airport policeman and it was bitterly cold and because when you spoke
your breath looked as if it was cold, so they gave me a cube of ice to suck while I was talking and
Trust me. I got a coughing fit and the cube of ice flew out and I had to do it again
But I think if you see any of these shots of that, I think you'll notice that it looks very very
Dull in the background because I think it was either frosty or snowy, but it was a very cold day
I think we did that at an airfield probably Denham or
Elstree or something like that one of these small airfields as far as I could remember that one
Did you get much of a chance to speak to Patrick Troughton?
Yes, but
once again
We were one big family
I mean we used to eat together go up to the canteen together and
Talk to each other on the set when we weren't on when we're actually not working
We were offset, but we're on stage and as long as they weren't shooting we talk. Yes
Yes, I think he was the one with the black fringe. I always remember him with a black fringe
Tom I like Tom very much to me. He was a father figure. He was like the schoolmaster
he loved that lovely resonant voice and
He was very he was quite jovial as well when he laughed everybody heard it
He really goes around the whole studio with that laugh
Well, I went for this audition and it was at George Lucas and we went to Shepparton Studios and
I was
selected to be a
rebel
Engineer of the planes and
I can always remember the first day we got there with you got these massive big planes
And I had to get out onto the wing and I looked down
I thought if I slip I've had it because looking at it. They don't look high, but when you're up there, they are very high
Mark Hamill, and I were quite buddies. I think there's one shot there with who's got his arm around me and
We
Went from there. We did that and to us that was a one show. It was then called Star Wars. That was it
We didn't know it's going to be so successful. Then we did another one another one called
The Empire Strikes Back, but we did that one at Elstree. We did the first one at Shepparton second one
we did it Elstree and
Then we did another one called the return of the Jedi was we've ended the Jedi return of the Jedi thing and
And
It was it was very interesting very happy and
Well, it was such a phenomenon because we never knew that it was going to go on and on, you know
it's a and it just happened that they we got enough notice to see that we were available to do the job and
Since then it's something got big and everybody wants to know about space what what they did do when they when they when they put
it out on video
George Lucas changed the title from Star Wars to a new hope but originally that was Star Wars and that was the only one
So he's put it now as a bit so for a new hope five
Empire Strikes Back and six return of the Jedi
Oh, yes, yeah
It's amazing. It really is amazing the amount of people that come from all over to and I've got a lot of fan motor
Which is another amazes me because somehow they find out where you are how to get in touch with you
They write letters to and give you information which you didn't even know
So you have to look back in all your books say oh, yeah, they're right. I didn't know about it
I mean even this one that we're talking about now the doctor who this person wrote to me and said it must be very
Interesting working on 15 episodes of doctor who and I thought what are they talking about? They've got the wrong person
So I look up in my books going back to the 60s
I think it was and I thought I didn't realize I did all that much and they were right 15 episodes
And they listed as you got there. They listed the names of programs and the characters like well, but as I say
They do a lot of research. I mean to me it was a something that had been and done and gone
but
Other people seem to be more interested in it, which which is good because it's revived it interested
It's you know, it's a big great big family now and everybody and I like meeting these people
They're smashing people and I've had letters from all over the place. I've had letters from Paris and Belgium
Denver, Colorado
United Kingdom Australia, I didn't realize actually getting back to doctor who there's so many fan clubs all over the world
I had a letter from a girl in Scotland
She said it's through you people on doctor who that I've got friends all over the world now
Because they correspond with each other in these different clubs
But as I say, it suddenly came up from nowhere
Maybe it was going all the time and I didn't know about it, but it's got very big now
Thank you, I only hope that you can use some of it