Line #15 Creator/MaureenOBrien


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2	Maureen O'Brien (born 29 June 1943) is an English actress and writer, best known for playing companion Vicki on ''Series/DoctorWho'' in 1965, alongside Creator/WilliamHartnell's [[Characters/DoctorWhoFirstDoctor First Doctor]].
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4	''Doctor Who'' was O'Brien's first acting job on television after graduating from drama school. She was the first "new" actor to join the regular cast, after the departure of Creator/CaroleAnnFord as original companion Susan. Her time on the show began with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E3TheRescue The Rescue]]" early in Season 2. It was brought to an abrupt end early in Season 3 after she criticized the script for the season's first serial, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 Galaxy 4]]". Unhappy with her complaints, producer Creator/JohnWiles decided not to take up Creator/TheBBC's option to renew her contract, and instructed that she be written out of the series when it expired with the next serial, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E3TheMythMakers The Myth Makers]]". O'Brien was taken aback to discover this when she read the script, as Wiles had not bothered to inform her of his decision.
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6	After leaving ''Doctor Who'', O'Brien enjoyed a long acting career in British television over the following decades, her final onscreen credit coming in 2003. She also branched out into fiction writing, penning seven detective novels between 1989 and 2004, all featuring the character of Detective Inspector John Bright.
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8	More than four decades after her unceremonious dismissal from ''Doctor Who'', O'Brien reprised her role as Vicki in audio form for [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish Productions]] from 2007 onwards. She has now appeared in over twenty of their audio plays, usually as Vicki, but she has also voiced the character of Agnes Landen in the ''AudioPlay/DalekEmpire'' series and Alice Bultitude in "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho090YearOfThePig The Year of the Pig]]".
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10	!! Her roles include:
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13	* ''Series/DoctorWho'', 38 episodes [=/=] 9 stories[[labelnote:show list]]"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E3TheRescue The Rescue]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E4TheRomans The Romans]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet The Web Planet]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E6TheCrusade The Crusade]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E7TheSpaceMuseum The Space Museum]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E9TheTimeMeddler The Time Meddler]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 Galaxy 4]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E3TheMythMakers The Myth Makers]]"[[/labelnote]] (1965) -- Vicki
14	* ''Series/ZCars'', episodes "Not That Sort of Policeman": Part 1 & 2 (1969) -- Nora Leach
15	* ''Series/{{Bergerac}}'', episode "Relative Values" (1981) -- Joan Hadley
16	* ''Series/{{Casualty}}'', 15 episodes (1987) -- Elizabeth Straker
17	* ''Series/{{Taggart}}'', episodes "Forbidden Fruit" (1994) -- Ruth Millar
18	* ''Series/JonathanCreek'', episode "Jack in the Box" (1997) -- Kirsten Holiday
19	* ''Series/TheBill'' episodes:
20	** "Coming to Terms" (1993) -- Pat Tolman
21	** "Other Voices" (1995) -- Joy Grainger
22	** "Sparks" (1997) -- Margaret Ames
23	* Series/ATouchOfFrost, episode "Private Lives" (1999) -- Marion
24	* Series/{{Doctors}}, episode "Good Grief" (2003) -- Doreen Crossland
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27	* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' stories:
28	** ''Doctor Who Main Range'': "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho090YearOfThePig Year of the Pig]]" (2006) -- Miss Alice Bultitude
29	** ''AudioPlay/DalekEmpire'': "The Fearless" Parts 1-4 (2007) -- Agnes Landen
30	** ''Companion Chronicles'': 7 stories[[labelnote:show list]]"[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS1E1Frostfire Frostfire]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS4E7TheSuffering The Suffering]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS8E3Upstairs Upstairs]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS8E9Starborn Starborn]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS9E2TheUnwindingWorld The Unwinding World]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS11E1FieldsOfTerror Fields of Terror]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS13E2Daybreak Daybreak]]"[[/labelnote]] (2007-19) -- Vicki Pallister
31	** Special Release "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsTheLightAtTheEnd The Light At The End]]" (2013) -- Vicki Pallister
32	** ''The Lost Stories'': "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTLSS4E1TheDarkPlanet The Dark Planet]]" (2013) -- Vicki Pallister
33	** ''The Early Adventures'': 8 stories[[labelnote:show list]]"[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS1E2TheDoctorsTale The Doctor’s Tale]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS1E3TheBountyOfCeres The Bounty of Ceres]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS3E2TheFifthTraveller The Fifth Traveller]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS3E3TheRavelliConspiracy The Ravelli Conspiracy]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS5E1TheDalekOccupationOfWinter The Dalek Occupation of Winter]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS5E2AnIdealWorld An Ideal World]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS5E3Entanglement Entanglement]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS5E4TheCrashOfTheUK201 The Crash of the UK-201]]"[[/labelnote]] (2014-18) -- Vicki Pallister
34	** ''Doctor Who Main Range'': "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho200TheSecretHistory The Secret History]]" (2015) -- Vicki Pallister

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