Dark Season Credits & Notes on Cast and Crew

6x25 minutes.  Originally broadcast BBC 1, 14 November – 19 December 1991    

Cast

Marcie – Victoria Lambert

Miss Maitland – Brigit Forsyth

Thomas – Ben Chandler

Reet – Kate Winslet

Mr Eldritch  – Grant Parsons

Parts 1-3:

Dr Osley  – Tim Barker

Olivia  – Samantha Cahill

Mrs Polzinski  - Rosalie Crutchley 

Mr Polzinski  – Cyril Shaps

Headmaster - Roger Milner

Parts 4-6:

Miss Pendragon  – Jacqueline Pearce

Inga  – Martina Berne

Luke  – Stephen Tredre

Behemoth - Marsha Fitzalan

Crew:

Music - David Ferguson

Visual Effects Designer – Tony Harding

Make-up Designer – Suzanne Jansen

Costume Design – Dennis Brack

Designer – Michael Trevor

1st Assistant Director - Philip Lewis

Executive Producer - Richard Callanan

Director - Colin Cant

Trivia:

Professor Becjinski’s new name is given as Polzinski on the title captions, and Polczinski on Eldritch’s computer.  Bet you always wanted to know that, didn’t you?

Notes:

A number of famous names were involved in the production of Dark Season, including:

Jacqueline Pearce (Miss Pendragon) has played a number of memorable villains in BBC genre shows, including Miss Raven/Miss Vole in Moondial, Chessene in Doctor Who: The Two Doctors and of course Servelan in Blake’s 7. Russell T Davies comments, 'Jacqueline Pearce... is a fantastic woman! Camp is not the word! She arrived at rehersals, with all the young actors sitting there, two of them just fifteen, and within two minutes of walking through the door she said the word 'F*ck' an impossible number of times. When I told her that her character was a lesbian she almost died of delight... We asked her to dye her hair blonde, like all other Nazis, but she refused, saying: "Darling, I'd look like the Whore of Babylon!" Hence the turban!' (quoted in SFX Christmas 1999)

Brigit Forsyth (Miss Maitland) is probably best known for her role in The Likely Lads and its various spin-offs.  She will also be familiar to Doctor Who fans as Ruth Maxtible in The Evil of the Daleks. 

Other names familiar to Doctor Who fans will include visual effects designer Tony Harding and character actors Cyril Shaps (appeared in Tomb of the Cybermen, Ambassadors of Death and The Androids of Tara) and Tim Barker (Harold V in The Happiness Patrol) 

Kate Winslet (Reet) went on to star in a film about a boat that sinks...

Director Colin Cant was responsible for a number of well loved children’s dramas, including Moondial, The Children of Green Knowe and Century Falls.