How did you rate his portrayal of Dr. Who?

I thought he was rather quaint ‘cos he played him rather professorially and I always said that it was like he was chewing a mint at the same time [makes over the top chewing noises], smacking his lips! [Laughs]

Looking back, what are your feelings on Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.?

I enjoyed it actually. I enjoyed doing it and we had a good time on it and a lot of giggles. We got smacked wrists one day, Peter [Cushing] and I, because it was the first scene where we meet up with a Dalek. We’d been captured and been marched up to the spaceship, and there’s a Dalek coming down the ramp and inside it was a guy called Bob Jewell, who was Australian, and he was the operator inside. And of course, he had the lines to speak to us so we could play the scene. He said something to the effect [Bernard puts on an Aussie accent], ‘And if you don’t comply, you will be exterminated’. Peter and I got terrible giggles and Gordon Flemyng, the Scottish director, was growling [Bernard treats us to a Scots accent], ‘Come on! Stop bloody laughing and do it!’ He got very cross with us and we had to apologise and wipe our tears away. It was the incongruity of a Dalek and [puts Australian accent on again] this little Aussie voice inside.

How do the 60s movie Daleks compare to those you faced in 2008?