As well as this, Big Finish started the ' series of full-cast plays, featuring the First Doctor (recast by William Russell and Peter Purves, following William Hartnell's death in 1975) and the Second Doctor (recast by Frazer Hines, following Patrick Troughton's death in 1987), and companions Barbara Wright (recast by Maureen O'Brien and Jemma Powell, following Jacqueline Hill's death in 1993) and Ben Jackson (recast by Elliot Chapman, following Michael Craze's death in 1998), and Russell, Ford, O'Brien, Purves, Marsh, Wills, Hines, Watling and Padbury reprising their roles from the original series. They also started ' series of full-cast plays, featuring Tim Treloar recast as the Third Doctor (following Jon Pertwee's death in 1996), Manning as Jo, and Franklin as Yates.