Rick Yates: Difference between revisions

|appearances = [[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]''<br />[[TWN]]: ''[[The Men Who Sold the World (novel)|The Men Who Sold the World]]''

Yates was summoned to a meeting of COBRA on Day Four of [[the 456]] incident to discuss the 456's demands for 10% of the children on Earth. Yates was first asked for sixty children to be sacrificed as a compromise offer. When the 456 rejected it, Yates suggested alphabetical order for the random 10% from Britain. The idea was ridiculed by the Home Secretary [[Denise Riley]], who suggested he favoured this idea because his surname was near the end of the alphabet. Yates said that he had no children. He also spoke in favour of the sacrifice to Green as a response to meet population rises. ([[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]'', [[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'')

* Yates is played by [[Nicholas Briggs]], making his on-screen debut in an official ''Doctor Who'' franchise production. Although best known to viewers for providing many of the show's alien voices, including the [[Dalek]]s, the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], the [[Nestene Consciousness]] and the [[Judoon]] since [[2005]], Briggs is well-known in ''Doctor Who'' fandom, playing the Doctor in the fan-made [[Audio Visuals]] audio dramas from [[1985]] to [[1991]] (which later evolved into [[Big Finish Productions]], of which he has been the executive producer since [[2006]]). He has appeared in, written and directed many of the independent spin-off video productions of the [[1990s]]. He hosted the long-running ''[[Myth Makers]]'' interview series. His appearance in this episode means that he has worked on both official televised ''Doctor Who'' spinoffs, as he also voiced [[Tybo|Captain Tybo]] in [[SJA]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]''