Ryan McAvoy said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Yeah there were not a whole lot of American actors in the UK at the time.

But the few there were, got plenty of work! Many faces in Star Wars can be found cropping up in British TV to play Americans.

Mac McDonald - Is practically a one-man industry for playing Americans in British Sci-Fi TV and Film or American movie productions shot in the UK...

Red Dwarf

Fifth Element

Aliens

Batman

Yes but we are talking about the early 1960s not the 1980s here. By the 80s you saw more Americans playing americans on Doctor Who. In the 1960s the British film industry was having some real problems that it took a while to recover from. The American film industry was in trouble too but it was bigger to begin with so ii fared better. There just were not alot of americans coming over to the Uk and I would be surprised if those that were would be cheap enough for Doctor Who. Remember that back then Doctor Who was not the flagship series it was today. it was just one low budget family show that the BBC produced with a total budget of two thousand five hundred pounds an episode and The Gunfighters was a serial that's purpose was to come in under budget so the producers would have more money to spend on other stories that season. Even if some Americans had been I round it seems unlikely Doctor Who would be able to afford them. Besides casting locals is easier. Even today on American production with multi million dollar budgets you some times see Americans trying to sound British so I really wouldn't hold the Gunfighter against the Doctor Who production staff or the BBC in general.