The 'Classic Series' ran for 26 years with hundreds of actors, crew, monsters. Some of them were here today, gone tomorrow. Some of them came back. Some just won't go away. Here's to them all. Sarah Jane Smith - Elizabeth Sladen
K9
K9 joined The Doctor in 1977, a gift from his creator, Professor Marius. K9 Mk I was a faithful friend to Leela, staying with her when she remained on Gallifrey to marry Andred. MK II was similarly attached to Romana and remained with her in E-Space. Mk III, was a gift for Sarah Jane Smith. Some men say it with flowers. The Doctor says it with a robot dog.
K9 returned with Sarah Jane Smith in 2006, only to die to save everyone from the Krillitane. Mk IV was The Doctor’s parting gift to Sarah and they went off together to new adventures.
John Leeson
John Leeson was the voice of K9 between 1977 and 1981. He also played the voice of Bungle the bear in Rainbow, alongside Roy Skelton who voiced the Daleks for many years. He was happy to reprise the role in 2006.
Cybermen
2006 saw an even more menacing style of Cybermen, first on a parallel Earth and then, later, slipping through the void to our Earth.
Daleks
The 9th Doctor encountered them twice in 2005. They were indirectly responsible for his regeneration. And in 2006 the 10th Doctor lost his closest companion ever, Rose, because of their machinations.
Autons and Nestene Consciousness.
You can’t have one without the other. The Autons are the tools of the Nestene Consciousness. Itself, it is a formless thing with little mobility but it has a psychic power that can project into anything plastic. Shop window dummies are popular tools because they are mobile. But also dolls, plastic flowers and telephone cables have become deadly weapons.
In 2005, Rose Tyler nearly became a victim of the Autons when the Nestene returned to Earth. She, in turn, saved the 9th Doctor from falling to his death in the Nestene lair.
Pauline Collins
One of the few actors who have played a part in both the classic and new series. In 1967, Pauline played Samantha Briggs, a young woman who refuses to believe the excuses for her sister’s disappearance and helps the Second Doctor uncover the truth.
In 2006 she returned as Queen Victoria in Tooth And Claw. Graeme Harper
In 2006 he returned to direct the four Cybermen stories, Rise of the Cybermen, Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.
Mike Tucker
Mike Tucker has worked in the BBC model shop for decades. He was instrumental in making the creatures that haunted the 7th Doctor convincing.
When Doctor Who returned he was credited as model unit supervisor,
but it was his hands on genius that produced fantastic scenes such
as the alien space ship crashing into Big Ben and a barrage balloon
over the London blitz, as well as the Jagrafess, the Beast in the
Pit and other nasties. Gabriel Woolf Gabriel Woolf played Sutekh in Pyramid of Mars in 1975.
He returned to Doctor Who in 2006 as the voice of the beast leading some viewers to make a connection between the two characters and the existence of Satan.
David Warwick
David Warwick in 1999 at A Doctor Who Convention
Kimus
Police Commisioner Nisha K. Nayar
Nisha, as a teenage actress, was a Red Kang in the Seventh Doctor episode, Partadise Towers
In 2005 she was the controller of programmes on the Game Station Bella Emberg
Comedy actress Bella Emberg played the kitchen 'hag' who catches Sarah Jane stealing food in the medieval castle of The Time Warrior
In 2006 she was Jackie's neighbour Mrs Croat in Love and Monsters Colin Spaull
Colin Spaull, a versatile character actor, has appeared in many British TV series, including several different roles in The Bill. Doctor Who mythology says that director, Graeme Harper first cast him as the Mutant in Revelation of the The Daleks and then recast as Liilt the mortuary worker/interrogator working for Davros. Graeme Harper again turned to Colin for the vital role of Mr Crane in the double episode of the 2006 series, Rise of the Cybermen and Age of Steel.
Liilt and Friends
Mr Crane on The Move Margaret John
Margaret John was first seen in Doctor Who as Megan Jones, the sceptical director of Euro Sea Gas in Fury From The Deep. More years then she would care to remember later, she played Granny Connolly, the lady who, quite rightly as it turned out, believed that TV rotted the brain.
Anne Reid
Nurse Crane Anne played the severe and bossy Nurse Crane in Curse of Fenric, in 1989, before returning in the opening episode of the 2007 series, Smith and Jones, as Florence Finnegan the blood-sucking plasmavore who has the distinction of havng 'killed' the Doctor - for several minutes at least.
Nasty Plasmavore
With Her Own Straw Trevor Laird
Frax Trevor Laird played Frax, the humanoid guard who worked for the repulsive Mentors of Thoros Beta in the Sixth Doctor Story, Mindwarp, part of the Trial of a Time Lord series in 1986. He returned twenty-one years later as Martha Jones's wayward father, Clive.
Clive, In At The deep End William Thomas
Martin William Thomas played a character called Martin who worked in the funeral home where The Doctor had left the Hand of Omega's casket in Remembrance of the Daleks. He returned as the ill-fated Mr Cleaver who became a Slitheen Snack.
Mr Cleaver Macra
The creatures known as Macra were first seen in the 1967 story, Terror of The Macra as domineering creatues who kept a colony of Humans in slavery. When they returned in 2007 in Gridlock, they had devolved into merely animals that lived in the bottom of the smog ridden motorway of New Earth and grabbed unwary travellers.
Louis Mahoney
Newscaster Louis Mahoney had two parts in the classic Doctor Who. He was a newscaster in the third doctor episode, Frontier In Space and in the Fourth Doctor story Planet of Evil he was security guard Ponti. He made his comeback in the series three story, Blink, playing the elderly Billy Shipton.
Ponti and Haan
Billy Shipton Clive Swift
Mr Jobel Clive Swift, best known for being nagged daily by wife, Hyacinth in Keeping Up Appearances, made his debut in the Colin Baker story, Revelation of the Daleks as a head mortician with pride in his work. He returned in 2007 as Mr Copper, a tour guide with a confused concept of Human culture on the Starship Titanic.
Mr Copper, tour guide of the Starship Titanic Bernard Cribbins
Tom Campbell spots a Dalek
Saying goodbye to the TARDIS crew. Bernard Cribbins wasn't in the original series, but he was in the film remake of Dalek Invasion of Earth as the confused but brave PC Tom Campbell. He was delighted to return in 2007 as Wildred Mott, old soldier, newspaper seller, patriot and amateur astronomer.
Wilfred Mott Geoffrey Palmer
Under-Secretary Masters
Geoffrey Palmer had two previous roles in Doctor Who. The First was as Under-Secretary Masters in The Silurians. The second was as the administrator in The Mutants, both in the Third Doctor era.
Administrator
He returned in 2007 as Captain Hardaker of the Starship Titanic.
Christopher Benjamin
Sir Keith Gold
Henry Jago Christopher Benjamin played two classic Doctor Who roles. For the Third Doctor he was Sir Keith Gold in Inferno, and for Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor he was Henry Jago the instantly likeable manager of the music hall where Weng Chiang's dastardly plan was being put into action. He returned in 2008 with an equally likeable character, Colonel Hugh Curbishley, who pretended to be a cripple to keep his wife by his side and liked to reminisce about his army days with some 1920s porn.
The Colonel
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Sarah
Jane Smith was a devoted companion of The Doctor from 1973 to 1976,
seeing him through his regeneration from Jon Pertwee to Tom Baker.
She was a Freelance Journalist, ostensibly, though never got much
journalism done between fighting all kinds of horrors on Earth and
in space. One her last adventure with the Fourth Doctor she was hypnotised,
buried alive, and taken into the heart of a nuclear power station.
Even so, she didn’t WANT to leave him. And when she returned
in 2006 everyone could see she still carried a torch for him.
causing
the first Doctor to Regenerate. They turned up again to plague the
Second Doctor. The Third had a rest from them, but they returned to
pester the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Doctors, evolving rather more style
and better voices than the original versions. 
