Today would have been Anthony Ainley’s 77th birthday, and so I was digging around on IMDB to see what of his work I hadn’t seen…
It’s a good thing he did Doctor Who, as otherwise he would have never been known for anything. In amongst a great many one-off TV roles, he was in an episode of The Avengers ’68, Noon Doomsday. He’s only got about 90 seconds of screen time, all of which is awful, though his scenes aren’t quite so bad as the rest of the episode, which is unbelievably wretched — and I say this as a fan of both The Avengers and Anthony Ainley. It was just THAT terrible.
Mint asked, “So, is there some rule that if a show has someone from Doctor Who in it, it’s got to be terrible?” Apparently, yes.
Oh pop culture, why must I suffer for your art? Why?
