Melvyn Hayes

Melvyn Hayes
Birth date:	11 January 1935
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Scorchies
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	Shada & The Scorchies
Main time period active:	2003, 2013
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Quatermass II, Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School, The Curse of Frankenstein The Silver Sword, Our Mutual Friend, Oliver Twist, Summer Holiday, Dixon of Dock Green, Here Come the Double Deckers!, A Christmas Carol, The Adventures of Black Beauty, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Carry On Films, SuperTed, The Further Adventures of SuperTed, The Dreamstone, Budgie the Little Helicopter, The Thin Blue Line, Drop the Dead Donkey, Eastenders, The Legend of Dick and Dom
IMDb profile
Official site

Melvyn Hayes played Wilkin in the webcast version of Shada, as well as its audio release, and the Scorchies in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story The Scorchies.

Wilkin was played in the original television version of Shada by Gerald Campion. When recasting the late Campion's role for the audio/webcast version director Nicholas Pegg remembered that Hayes had appeared alongside Campion in the Billy Bunter television series, upon which casting Hayes as Wilkin became "irresistible."

Hayes is the former husband of Wendy Padbury and the father of Charlie Hayes.

External links

• Official website

• Melvyn Hayes at the Internet Movie Database