found: Guardian WWW site, viewed January 2, 2024(Richard Franklin; Richard Kimber Franklin, actor, writer and director, born 15 January 1936, Marylebone, London; died 25 December 2023; part of the BBC TV series Doctor Who as Capt Mike Yates; wrote, directed and appeared in a spin-off caper, Recall UNIT (1984), at the Edinburgh Fringe; wrote a novel featuring Yates called The Killing Stone; stood for parliament several times; in 2001 he represented the UK Independence party in Hove. He later founded the short-lived Silent Majority party and outlined his political ideology in a 2003 book Forest Wisdom: Radical Reform of Democracy and the Welfare State)