Meet Anneke
Anneke will be attending HAPPY WHO YEAR in January 2026. 11th January 2026 The Lights, West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH
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Beware the City of Illusions
Polly returns! Anneke Wills stars alongside Stephen Noonan and Lauren Cornelius in The First Doctor Adventures: Beware the City of Illusions, due for release March 2026. Polly Wright travelled alongside the First Doctor in nine Doctor Who TV stories from 1966 to 1967. Several decades later, she’s still saving the world. The next instalment of…
Celebrate Record Store Day 2025 with ‘The Tenth Planet’ on Vinyl
The First Doctor’s final adventure gets an exclusive audio release in 2025 Demon Records present, exclusively for Record Store Day 2025, The Tenth Planet, one of the most celebrated Doctor Who stories ever, for the first time on double vinyl. Record Store Day 2025 takes place on April 12th, 2025 – full details here. This BBC adventure,…
Interview in DWM 611
You can read an interview with Anneke in issue 611 of Doctor Who Magazine where she discusses how she got the role of Polly, the fashionable clothes that she wore and her favourite memory from the show. Doctor Who Magazine Issue 611 is on sale Thursday 5 December 2024 from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced…
Rare and out of print items for sale
For a limited time only, we are offering a selection of DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs from Anneke’s personal collection in the online store. Many of the items are no longer available commercially, some not released in the UK, so you might find that elusive item for your collection here. Each item will be signed by…
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace to be animated in 2023
The Second Doctor’s partially missing adventure will be animated with four new episodes in colour and high definition, releasing on DVD and Blu-ray. BBC Studios continues to offer Doctor Who fans the opportunity to extend their at home collection by announcing the latest release DOCTOR WHO: THE UNDERWATER MENACE on DVD and Blu-Ray. The two-disc…
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace – Audio novelisation
Anneke recently travelled to Bristol to record the novelisation of Doctor Who and The Underwater Menace for BBC Audio. The audio novelisation will be released on CD and download on 2nd December 2021. When the TARDIS lands on a deserted volcanic island, the Doctor and his companions find themselves kidnapped by primitive sea-people. Taken into…
Hello from Anneke
Anneke Wills discusses her birthday, what she has been doing this year and the Doctor Who Christmas Special.
60th anniversary of The Strange World of Gurney Slade
A Blu-ray of The Strange World of Gurney Slade is being released by Network on 30th November 2020 to celebrate 60 years since the original broadcast. Brilliantly inventive, startlingly surreal and unlike anything previously seen on television, The Strange World of Gurney Slade is to television comedy what The Prisoner has become to television drama – both firmly of…
The Power of the Daleks – Special Edition
So here it is at last! The updated animation of possibly the most important story in the history of Doctor Who…THE POWER OF THE DALEKS! How good it looks and sounds, proof of how much love and care has been taken. The drawings of the characters are exemplary. What exceptional actors we had and great…
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks – Special Edition DVD and Blu Ray
Classic Doctor Who story The Power of the Daleks is to receive an updated Special Edition release. This animated adventure will be available on DVD and Blu Ray from 27th July 2020. Doctor Who: The Power Of The Daleks – Special Edition is an updated animation of Patrick Troughton’s first story as the Second Doctor, available on DVD…
Signed copies of The Faceless Ones DVD and Bluray
Doctor Who – The Faceless Ones will be released on March 16th 2020. Signed copies of Doctor Who – The Faceless Ones on DVD and Blu-ray are available to order now for a limited time. We will be closing orders on March 9th 2020. Due to issues with a lot of the Steelbooks being damaged…
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones at the BFI
Anneke will be attending a screening of Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones at the BFI on Saturday 29th February 2020. This will include a Q&A and a signing afterwards. BUY TICKETS
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones on DVD and Blu-ray
BBC Studios is pleased to announce that The Faceless Ones will be the next animated Doctor Who release, filling a gap in missing content. Following the success of The Power of the Daleks, Shada and The Macra Terror, The Faceless Ones will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray and as an exclusive steelbook next year. The…
The Capitol Five
Anneke will be returning to The Capitol event. April 25th and 26th 2020 Crowne Plaza London – Gatwick Airport Langley Avenue Crawley RH11 7SX dwasonline.co.uk/thecapitol
First and Last
Anneke’s first and final television stories in Doctor Who have been released as audio novelisations by BBC Audio. In The War Machines by Ian Stuart Black, The TARDIS materialises outside the Post Office Tower in London, 1966. The Doctor senses a powerful and evil force, which he and the ever-curious Dodo track down to scientist…
The Macra Terror DVD & Bluray released in 2019
BBC Studios is to release a brand new animation of 1967 Doctor Who missing serial The Macra Terror. The 4 x 25 min missing episodes, which were originally part of Doctor Who’s (now mostly lost) fourth season, have been animated for the first time, to be released on DVD, Blu-ray, special edition Steelbook and digital…
Personalised photos now available
You can now order signed photos of Anneke with a dedication (five words max includes name(s). To see the range of photos click here.
Outstanding Achievement Award
Anneke Wills has been presented with a Doctor Who Appreciation Society Outstanding Achievement Award! The DWAS awards have been presented to cast and crew at conventions since the 1980s! Congrats Anneke! (More photos can be found on the DWAS Instagram ‘dwasonline’.) Photos: DWAS
When The New Wave Came to Bristol: Remembering Some People
Anneke recently attended a screening and panel discussion of the 1962 film Some People at The Watershed in Bristol. Director Clive Donner’s 1962 film Some People presents a fantastic and little-known early example of British ‘New Wave’ cinema, filmed in Eastmancolor and shot entirely on location in Bristol. The film, which starred Kenneth More, Ray Brooks, David…
The Doctor Who Audio Annual
A new CD will be released December 7th 2017. For two decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, every fan of the Doctor hoped to find The Doctor Who Annual in their Christmas stocking. Larger than life and twice as colourful, the stories within were exuberant – and often charmingly naive – in their take on ‘the…
Coming soon from Big Finish…three new audio adventures
Autumn 2017 sees the release of three new audio stories starring Anneke Wills. Doctor Who: The Night Witches October sees the crew of the Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie in the TARDIS, which materialises north of Stalingrad in 1942, the Doctor, Jamie, Ben and Polly are captured by the Night Witches, an all-female unit of…
Doctor Who – The Bonfires of the Vanities
Doctor Who – The Bonfires of the Vanities is the third story to be announced for June’s Doctor Who – The Companion Chronicles: The First Doctor Volume 2. Written by Sci-Fi novelist Una McCormack, directed by Lisa Bowerman, sound designed by Rob Harvey, and starring Anneke Wills and Elliot Chapman as Ben and Polly, the…
The Power of the Daleks Bluray and DVD Steelbook
The Power of the Daleks Bluray and DVD Steelbook signed by Anneke Wills is now available to order. The 4 disc set includes a colour version of the story as well as other features. ORDER NOW!
The Return…
Thanks to James Kitto Photography (www.jameskitto.co.uk) for taking me back to Nanjizal Bay where we filmed the Doctor Who story “The Smugglers”.
The Power of the Daleks coming soon!
Well! I’m thrilled to hear that The Power of the Daleks is being released as an animated story later this year. Such happy memories of Pat and Mike on our first story as the new TARDIS team. And what a terrific cast we had, Bernard Archard, Peter Bathurst, Robert James… and directed by dear Chris Barry. I look forward…
I can’t believe it was 50 years ago!
Mike Craze and me just back from a brilliant location shoot for one of our very favourite stories “The Smugglers” in Cornwall. And only a few weeks from that massive moment in Doctor Who’s history – Bill Hartnell’s departure. The first regeneration! And how could we have known that it would still be of interest…
Doctor Who – The Companion Chronicles
Anneke Wills, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling and Wendy Padbury present four new adventures for the Second Doctor and his companions. Featuring historical curiosities, bases-under-siege and, of course, rampaging monsters, Doctor Who: The Second Doctor Volume 1 presents four new stories for Patrick Troughton‘s iconic Time Lord, narrated and performed by the late actor’s screen co-stars. 10.1…
The Macra Terror novelisation
Anneke recently recorded the audio-book The Macra Terror for BBC Audio. In the far future a group of humans is living an idyllic existence on a distant planet. Their colony is run like a gigantic holiday camp and nothing seems to trouble their carefree existence. When one of them claims that the colony is being invaded…
Doctor Who: Short Trips – Lost And Found
The post-war London of 1948 is rebuilding, the people are recovering, and Ben and Polly have arrived with an old friend with a new face. But they’re not the only visitors. A very different kind of war is being fought, in a department store, and they are in the middle of it… Producer Ian Atkins Script…
The Underwater Menace DVD
This 1967 Doctor Who adventure with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor and his travelling companions Polly (Anneke Wills), Ben (Michael Craze) and Jamie (Frazer Hines) is finally coming out DVD. This is the final DVD release of the classic series of Doctor Who. The TARDIS arrives on a extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers…
Doctor Who: The Early Adventures
Big Finish Productions have launched a brand new audio range. Doctor Who: The Early Adventures will comprise four-part stories starring the surviving lead cast members from Doctor Who’s black and white era. Anneke is back as Polly in two new adventures, The Yes Men and The Forsaken, with Elliot Chapman taking on the role of…
Doctor Who: The Roundheads CD
Now available on CD for the first time. An unabridged reading of Mark Gatiss’ novel set in the aftermath of the English Civil War, featuring the Second Doctor as played by Patrick Troughton and his companions Ben, Polly, and Jamie. With the Civil War won, the Parliamentarians are struggling to hang on to power. But plans are…
New signed photos
We have uncovered some new photos of Anneke from personal portraits to Doctor Who to Strange Report. You can order signed copies from the shop by clicking here.
Anneke Wills “In Focus”
A LIFE IN IMAGES BY ANNEKE WILLS & PAUL W.T. BALLARD In Focus is a sumptuously illustrated collection of rare and previously unseen photographs chronicling the life and career of one of Doctor Who’s best-loved icons, Anneke Wills. Originally released in May 2012 as a limited edition hardback, the original print run sold out within…
Anneke Wills and Terrence Hardiman are Charley’s Family!
Lady Louisa Pollard is back! Anneke Wills returns as Charley’s mother in the upcoming Charlotte Pollard box set, and you can also meet her father, played by none other than Terrence Hardiman! It’s time for a family reunion in the upcoming Charlotte Pollard – Series One box set. During the course of the liberated Charley’s adventures, she finds a…
The Moonbase DVD
This 1967 Doctor Who adventure with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor and his travelling companions Polly (Anneke Wills), Ben (Michael Craze) and Jamie (Frazer Hines) is out shortly on DVD. It’s 2070 and the TARDIS crew arrive on the Moon and set out to visit the Moonbase, a manned structure used to control the Earth’s…
An Adventure in Space and Time – BFI premiere
Anneke will be attending the premiere of An Adventure In Space And Time – the drama about the genesis of Doctor Who – on Tuesday 12th November. The 90-minute production for BBC Two has been written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Terry McDonough, and stars David Bradley as William Hartnell. Before it airs on TV screens, though, it is being shown first on…
The Tenth Planet on DVD
BBC Worldwide have released a clip from the animated episode 4 of The Tenth Planet. With the threat of the Cybermen foiled, Polly and Ben find the Doctor has beaten them to the TARDIS and closed the doors. As they hammer on the door, the controls operate of their own accord and the central column…
Some People – a forgotten film!
With the recent release of Some People on DVD by Network, Anneke has recounted her favourite memories (or Annekedotes) on working on this 1962 film starring Kenneth More and directed by Clive Donner. Pre-production “Some People was commissioned for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme so we had a great team. The music by Ron Grainer and Nic…
The Macra Terror on CD
Anneke recently recorded a new narration for the soundtrack of The Macra Terror for BBC Audio Go. The CD is part of the latest box set Doctor Who The Lost TV Episodes Collection 4: 1967 The box set contains 12 CDs presented in chronological order of transmission, the stories in this collection are ‘The Macra…
Doctor Who and The Highlanders
Anneke has recorded a reading of Doctor Who and The Highlanders for AudioGO. The audio-book is available on CD from all good stockists and this website. You can order signed copies of all Anneke’s Doctor Who soundtrack CDs from the on-line shop.
Special DVD Bonus: The regeneration begins
Anneke Wills, Rob Shearman and Gary Russell discuss how the creation of the Doctor’s regeneration was a fantastic technique to continue the series. In a behind the scenes bonus feature, learn how the now-famous story arc started life. Great clip from The Krotons DVD Boxset, available now! Subscribe to the BBC Classic Doctor Who channel: http://bit.ly/yxnAim BBC…
Project MotorMouth 2
Saturday 3rd August 2013 Copthorne Hotel Slough-Windsor, Cippenham Lane, Berkshire, SL1 2YE Janet Fielding has a new fight on her hands not against the Daleks or Cybermen but against cancer. Many of the companions from Doctor Who, including Anneke, are coming together for the day. It will not only raise money for a good cause…
Radio Times interview
Anneke recently gave an interview to Patrick Mulkern at Radio Times discussing her life, Doctor Who and her thoughts on the 50th anniversary and a lot more! To read the interview click here.
Interview
You can read a new interview with Anneke on a website dedicated to the works of Klaus Kinski, Du dumme Sau – a Kinski Blog. Anneke discusses working on The Pleasure Girls with Francesca Annis and Ian McShane as well as discussing many of the television roles she played in the 1960s including Doctor Who…
The Big Issue
Anneke was interviewed by The Big Issue about the DVD release of “The Strange World of Gurney Slade”. Below is an excerpt from the interview. The Big Issue: “The Strange World of what…who…?” Anneke: “It’s a lost classic. We made it a long time ago, way back in the beginning of the 60’s and then…
The Avengers at 50
The Avengers 50th Anniversary Celebration, took place at the University of Chichester in Summer 2011. The guest list included Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson, Brian Clemens, Leonard White, Julie Stevens, Ray Austin, Cyd Child, Anneke Wills, Jeremy Bentham, Terrence Dicks, Howard Blake, Robert Fuest, Richard Bates, John Hough, Richard Harris, John Carson, Carol Cleveland… Recorded messages…