Mark Strickson

Mark Strickson played the Fifth Doctor’s untrustworthy companion Vislor Turlough in ten Doctor Who serials in 1983 and 84. After leaving the series, he became a documentary producer and director, specialising in wildlife programmes. Strickson has since returned to the character of Turlough, who he first voiced for Big Finish in the 1999 audio drama Phantasmagoria. More recently, Turlough’s story has continued in The Fifth Doctor Adventures, and he’s met a different incarnation of the Time Lord in The Sixth Doctor Adventures.