Doctor Who On This Day #274

Doctor Who On This Day #273

Doctor Who On This Day #272

Doctor Who Vs. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Gary Oldman as Sirius Black

"Messrs. Moony, Wormtail,

Padfoot and Prongs are proud

to present the Marauder's Map"

ITV1's latest Harry Potter film season
continued today with the third part in

the saga - released in late 2004.

Michael Gambon now portrayed

Dumbledore, whilst David Thewlis,

Emma Thompson, and Timothy Spall

were introduced here as Lupin,

Trelawney, and Pettigrew respectively.

Published in 1999, JK Rowling's third

novel was adapted by Warner Bros - it

featured David Bradley, and these

fifteen Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Gambon played both Elliot and Kazran Sardick in A Christmas Carol
• Lee [David] Ingleby (Shunpike) voiced Samson Griffin for Big Finish's Terror Firma (2005)
• Pam Ferris (Marge) voiced Lizzie Corrigan for The Eternal Summer (2009), and Amanda Steele for Day of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
• Lenny [George] Henry (Shrunken Head) once depicted the Doctor in his sketch show in 1985, then was Daniel Barton in Spyfall
• Jimmy Gardner (Ernie) was Chenchu in Marco Polo, and Idmon in Underworld
• Genevieve [Wilhemina] Gaunt (Pansy) voiced Corporal Linda Maxwell for The Helliax Rift and Warlock's Cross, Commander/Anna for Red Planets (all 2018), Lady Sicura for The House of Masks (2022), Virginia Hancock/Professor Jennifer Dalton for The Incherton Incident (2023), Hedra for Fugitive of the Daleks, and Jessica Harker for The Silent City (both 2024)
• Spencer Wilding (Werewolf here; Knight in The Deathly Hallows) was the Creature in The God Complex, the Wooden King in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Skaldak in Cold War, and Goddess in Class
• Ekow Quartey (Boy [Bem]) voiced Sancho Panza for The Ingenious Gentlemen (2025)
• Andy Merchant (stuntman here, The Half-Blood Prince & The Deathly Hallows) was stuntman on The Wedding of River Song and Into the Dalek, then stunt co-ordinator on The Pilot
• stunt drivers Rick English and Levan Doran both worked on Tooth and Claw too
• George Cottle was also a stuntman on Boom Town, The Runaway Bride and Smith and Jones
• Gordon Seed was also stuntman on twenty-one stories, and the stunt co-ordinator on another thirteen (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
• Andy Smart (stunts here & The Order of the Phoenix; Dragon Handler in The Goblet of Fire) was also stuntman on Evolution of the Daleks, Let's Kill Hitler, The Rings of Akhaten and The Zygon Inversion
• for Harry Melling, Warwick Davis, and Adrian Rawlins see The Philosopher's Stone
• for Mark Williams see The Chamber of Secrets

Doctor Who On This Day #271

Doctor Who Vs. The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)

Produced by Tiger Aspect for BBC1, this

adaptation of Conan Doyle's most famous

and prolific Sherlock Holmes mystery was

shot extensively on location in Liverpool,

 Cumbria and the Isle of Man.

The narrative here differs considerably from

the original novel, published in 1902, follow-

ing serialisation in The Strand magazine.

First shown in the UK on Boxing Day 2002

(and in America a month later), Holmes and

Watson were now portrayed by Richard

Roxburgh (pictured right) and Ian Hart (left). Roxburgh then played Holmes' nemesis,

Moriarty in The League of Extraordinary

Gentlemen, whilst Hart later depicted Conan

Doyle in Finding Neverland. A sequel (also

written by Allan Cubitt), The Case of the Silk Stocking saw Hart reprise his role opposite Rupert Everett's Holmes.

Shown on Talking Pictures TV last night, the BAFTA nominated serial

featured Richard EGrant, Neve McIntosh, Matt Day, John Nettles,

Geraldine James, and eleven Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Grant (Stapleton here; Sherlock in The Other Side, 1992; Mycroft in Sherlock, 2002) and McIntosh (Beryl) were reunited on The Snowmen and The Name of the Doctor, when they reprised their roles of Dr. Walter Simeon and Vastra
• Ron Cook (Barrymore) was Magpie in The Idiot's Lantern
• Liza Tarbuck (Mrs. Barrymore) voiced Captain Kaliko for The Infinite Quest, and Lysette Barclay for Plague of the Daleks (2009)
• Danny Webb (DI Lestrade here; DI Carter in A Scandal in Belgravia) was John Jefferson in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, and voiced Byron for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Ori in The Dark Husband (2008)
• Jim Norton (Coroner here; Walter in Elementary) voiced Major Thomas Kennet for Scream of the Shalka, opposite Grant's Ninth Doctor
• Stephan Bessant (Warder) voiced Julius for The Council of Nicaea (2005), and Taav for The Return of the Doctor (2025)
• Julie Scott was also co-executive producer on ninety-one stories (from The Runaway Bride to Last Christmas), Time Crash, Music of the Spheres, Dreamland, City of the Daleks, Blood of the Cybermen, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, An Adventure in Space and Time, The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot and Doctor Who at the Proms
• Mark Isaac was also focus puller on sixteen instalments of the revived series (from Rose to School Reunion)
• Bob Shipsey was also a camera operator on The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors
• script supervisor Karen Jones began her career as production assistant (PA) on Mindwarp

Doctor Who On This Day #270

 

1921 - Producer Milton Subotsky born

in New York
1960 - Composer Dominic Glynn born

in Britain
1963 - An Unearthly Child Pilot episode

recorded at Studio D, Lime Grove 

1965 - The Keys of Marinus, Episode

6 and The Aztecs, Episode 3: The Bride

of Sacrifice both repeated and The Reign

of Terror, Episode 2: Guests of Madame

Guillotine first screened, all on ABC

1968 - The Abominable Snowmen,

Episodes 4 to 6 all repeated on ABC

1970 - The Krotons, Episode 4 and The

Seeds of Death, Episode 1 both repeated

on ABC

1975 - Planet of Evil, Part 1 first

screened on BBC1

1978 - Terror of the Zygons, Part 4, The Masque 

of Mandragora, Part 2 and The Face of Evil, Parts

2 to 4 all repeated on ABC

1979 - Pyramids of Mars, Part 3 and Planet

of Evil, Part 4 both repeated on ABC

1980 - Meglos, Part 1 first screened

on BBC1
1982 - The Robots of Death, Part 4

repeated on ABC; and Logopolis, Part

2 first screened on TV1

1983 - Revenge of the Cybermen, Parts

1 and 2 both repeated on ABC; and The

 Power of Kroll, Part 4 repeated on KQED Plus

1984 - State of Decay, Part 4 repeated

 on KQED Plus

1985 - Colony in Space, Episodes 1 and

2 both first screened on TV2; and The

Sontaran Experiment, Part 1 repeated

on KQED Plus

1986 - Timelash, Part 4 (of 4) repeated

on KQED Plus; and The Mysterious Planet,

Part 4 first screened on BBC1

1987 - The Mark of the Rani Omnibus

repeated on KQED Plus

1988 - The Two Doctors, Part 1 (of 6)

repeated on KQED Plus

1989 - The Invasion of Time, Part 1 repeated 

on KQED Plus; and Battlefield, Part 4 first

screened on BBC1

1990 - Colony in Space, Episode

4 repeated on KQED Plus

1991 - Warriors of the Deep, Part

4 repeated on KQED Plus

1993 - Planet of Evil, Part 4 repeated on UK Gold;

The Deadly Assassin, Part 2 repeated on ABC; and

Arc of Infinity Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus
1994 - The Caves of Androzani, Part

 4 repeated on UK Gold

1995 - Revenge of the Cybermen, Part

 3 repeated on UK Gold

1996 - The Sensorites, Episodes 5 and

 6 both repeated on UKTV

1997 - Underworld Omnibus repeated

on UKTV (Aus)
1998 - The Daleks, Episode 6: The Ordeal repeated

on MPT; The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode 6:

Flashpoint repeated on Space; Colony in Space

Omnibus repeated on UK Gold; The Mutants,

Episodes 1 and 2 both repeated on LPB; The

Sontaran Experiment, Part 1 repeated on

WQED; The Brain of Morbius Omnibus repeated

 on KSPS; The Horns of Nimon Omnibus repeated

on WFWA; Full Circle Omnibus repeated on WTBU;

 Kinda, Part 1 repeated on WUSF; Planet of Fire,

Part 2 repeated on KRCB; Terror of the Vervoids,

Parts 11 and 12 both repeated on KBTC; and

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy Omnibus 
repeated on WCET

1999 - The Seeds of Death, Episode 1 repeated

on Space; The Robots of Death, Part 3 repeated

on UKTV (Aus); and The Armageddon Factor 
Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus
2000 - Costume designer Daphne Dare died

 in London, aged 71; The Silurians, Episode 1

repeated on Prime; The Time Monster, Episode

5 repeated on UKTV (Aus); and The Ark in

Space, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on BBC

America

2001 - Snakedance, Part 1 repeated on UKTV

(Aus); and Planet of Fire, Part 2 repeated on

BBC Prime

2002 - The Creature from the Pit, Part 3

repeated on BBC Kids
2003 - Spearhead from Space, Episodes 1 and 2 both repeated
on Colorado PTV; The Silurians, Episode 7, The Ambassadors

 of Death, Episode 1 and Castrovalva and Four to Doomsday 

Omnibuses all repeated on UK Gold; and The Brain of

Morbius, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on BBC Kids (Can)
2004 - The Monster of Peladon, Part 3 repeated on ABC
2005 - Arc of Infinity, Part 2 repeated on ABC
2006 - The Unquiet Dead first screened on NHK 

BS3; The Doctor Dances repeated on UK Gold;

and Love & Monsters and Fear Her both repeated

 on BBC3

2007 - Rise of the Cybermen first screened

on TV3 (RI); and Blood of the Daleks, Part

1 first broadcast on Radio 7

2008 - Horror of Fang Rock, Parts 2 and 3 both repeated

on MTV3 SciFi and TV4; Aliens of London and Doctor Who

Confidential: I Get A Sidekick Out of You both repeated

on UNC-MX; New Earth and Doctor Who Confidential:

New New Doctor both repeated on WGVU; School Reunion 
repeated on Syfy (Rus); The Girl in the Fireplace first 

screened on HRT2; The Satan Pit repeated on OETA; 

The Shakespeare Code repeated on Syfy (Ben); 

Utopia repeated on Jimmy; and The Sound of Drums 

and Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown: The Saxon 

Mystery both repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2009 - School Reunion repeated on WXXI; The Idiot's Lantern repeated 
and Doctor Who Confidential: The Writer's Tale first screened, both on
 Idaho PTV; The Impossible Planet repeated on Ozarks PTV; Fear Her
 and Doctor Who Confidential: The Fright Stuff both repeated on MPTV; 
The Runaway Bride repeated on BBC3; The Shakespeare Code repeated 
on Syfy (Ben); Evolution of the Daleks and Doctor Who Confidential: 
Making Manhattan both first screened on KERA; and Blink repeated 
on WTVP
2010 - The Age of Steel repeated on BBC3; The Fires of Pompeii and 
Planet of the Ood both repeated and The Time of Angels first screened, 
all on Syfy (Spa); Forest of the Dead and Doctor Who Confidential: 
River Runs Deep both first screened on WTTW 11; and Journey's

End and Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown: The End of an

Era both repeated on UKTV (Aus)
2011 - The Face of Evil, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on Syfy (Aus); 
Father's Day repeated on Space; Rise of the Cybermen repeated on 
Watch; Partners in Crime, Forest of the Dead, Doctor Who Confidential 
Cutdown: Friends and Foe and River Runs Deep all repeated on UKTV
2012 - The Mind of Evil, Episodes 2 and 3 both repeated on Syfy (Aus); 

The Next Doctor and The Waters of Mars both repeated on BBC America; 
and A Town Called Mercy first screened on Prime

2013 - 100,000 BC and The Daleks Omnibuses both repeated

 on ABC1 iView; The Unquiet Dead repeated on BBC America;

School Reunion repeated on Syfy (Port); Fear Her repeated on BBC Entertainment LA; Evolution of the Daleks repeated on

Watch; The Poison Sky repeated on France 4; The Beast

Below repeated on ABC2; The Time of Angels and Let's

Kill Hitler both repeated on BBC Nordic; Cold Blood

repeated on RAI4; The Impossible Astronaut repeated

on BBC Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; Doctor Who

Confidential: Out of Time repeated on BBC Entertainment

AP; and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD screened on Gem

(Aus)

2014 - The Rescue Omnibus and The Romans, Episodes 1 and 2 
repeated and The Krotons, Episodes 3 and 4 both first screened,

all on Retro TV; City of Death Omnibus repeated on Horror;
 Enlightenment Omnibus repeated on ABC1 iView; Rose

 and The End of the World both repeated on Watch;

New Earth and The Satan Pit both repeated on

UKTV (NZ); The Girl in the Fireplace, Rise of the 
Cybermen, The Age of Steel, The Idiot's Lantern and The

Impossible Planet all repeated on Syfy (Aus); Last of the

Time Lords and Partners in Crime both repeated on Space;

The Fires of Pompeii, Planet of the Ood, The Sontaran

Stratagem and The Poison Sky all repeated on Really

Scary TV; The Big Bang and A Christmas Carol both

repeated on RAI4; The Curse of the Black Spot

repeated on OETA; A Good Man Goes to War and

Let's Kill Hitler both repeated on BBC Nordic HD

and BBC Polska HD; Closing Time repeated on Jeem TV (ME);
Asylum of the Daleks repeated on BBC Entertainment EU,
Romania and ME; Cold War repeated on France 4 and KCPT2; 
Hide repeated on France 4; Listen repeated on BBC Entertainment 
AP and Fox (FRG); Time Heist repeated on BBC Entertainment

AP, BBC Polska, ABC2 and Fox; Doctor Who Extra: Time Heist
first screened on ABC2; The Caretaker first screened on BBC1,

ABC1 and Fox; Doctor Who Extra: The Caretaker released on

BBC iPlayer and BBC Red Button; and Doctor Who Confidential:

Take Two repeated on BBC Entertainment AP
2015 - The Time Warrior Omnibus repeated on KERA; Robot, Parts 
3 and 4 and The Ark in Space, Part 1 all repeated on Syfy (Aus); 
Genesis of the Daleks, Part 2 repeated on KRWG; The Face of Evil, 
Part 2 repeated on KPTS; City of Death and The Keeper of Traken 
Omnibuses both first screened on BBC America; Resurrection of the 
Daleks, Parts 1 and 2 (of 4) both repeated on KBTC; Father's Day 
and The Empty Child both repeated on EBRU; The Lazarus 
Experiment, 42 and The Family of Blood all repeated on KCPT2; 
Human Nature repeated on Disney XD and KCPT2; Blink and Doctor 
Who Confidential: Do You Remember The First Time? both repeated 
on UNC-TV; Amy's Choice, The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, Vincent 
and the Doctor and The Lodger all repeated on Watch; The Pandorica 
Opens and The Big Bang repeated on France 4; The Impossible 
Astronaut, Day of the Moon and The Curse of the Black Spot all 
repeated on BBC Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; The Doctor's Wife 
repeated on BBC Nordic HD, BBC Polska HD and BBC Entertainment 
AP; The Rebel Flesh repeated on BBC Nordic HD, BBC Polska 
HD, BBC Entertainment EU, Romania and ME; The Crimson

Horror repeated on MPTV; The Name of the Doctor first

screened on FX (Ind); The Time of the Doctor repeated on

WPT; Deep Breath repeated on KLRU and Iowa PTV; Into

 the Dalek repeated on Iowa PTV; Robot of Sherwood first 

screened on Idaho PTV and repeated on OETA, WILL, WXXI

and Syfy (Aus); Listen repeated on KCPT; The Magician's

Apprentice repeated on BBC1, BBC HD, BBC America,

BBC First (Ben) and BBC Entertainment AP; The Witch's 

Familiar first screened on BBC America, BBC Entertainment

AP, Prime, ABC and Space and repeated on BBC1 and BBC

HD; and Heroes of Sontar, Episode 1 repeated on BBC

Radio 4 Extra
2016 - The Time Monster, Episode 6 and The Three Doctors, Episode 

1 both repeated on Retro TV; The Satan Pit repeated on RAI4; Love & 
Monsters repeated on RAI4 and Syfy (Aus); The Poison Sky repeated 
on The Zone; The Lodger and The Magician's Apprentice both repeated
on Syfy (Aus); The Almost People and A Good Man Goes to War both 
repeated on BBC America; The Bells of Saint John and The Time

of the Doctor both repeated on Syfy (LA); The Day of the Doctor 
repeated on One ARD; Robot of Sherwood repeated on BBC

Entertainment AP; Kill the Moon repeated on BBC First (ME);

Death in Heaven repeated on Syfy (Bra); Sleep No More and 
Face the Raven both repeated on BBC Polska HD; and The

Doctors Revisited: The Fourth Doctor repeated on Watch

2017 - Planet of the Spiders, Parts 5 and 6 both repeated on

Retro TV; Horror of Fang Rock, Part 4 repeated on Jones! too;

Boom Town and Bad Wolf both repeated on Space; Planet of

the Dead, The Waters of Mars and The End of Time, Parts

1 and 2 all repeated on BBC America; A Christmas Carol

 and The Girl Who Waited both repeated on Syfy (Aus);

and Heaven Sent repeated on Syfy (LA)

2018 - The Sun Makers, Parts 2 and 3 both repeated on Retro TV;

Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS repeated on BBC Polska HD;

Death in Heaven, Under the Lake, Before the Flood, The Girl Who 

Died, The Woman Who Lived, The Zygon Invasion, The Zygon 

Inversion, Sleep No More, Face the Raven and Heaven Sent

all repeated on BBC America; Last Christmas repeated on

BBC America and BBC Entertainment EU; The Magician's 

Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar both repeated on BBC 

America and Sony SciFi; and The Pilot repeated on Prime

2019 - Meglos, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on Retro TV;

Dark Water, Death in Heaven and The Return of Doctor

Mysterio all repeated on BBC America; and Kerblam!

repeated on BBC Polska HD

2020 - Enlightenment, Parts 3 and 4 both

repeated on KBTC; Planet of the Ood, The

Sontaran Stratagem and Silence in the

Library all repeated on W; The Poison Sky,

The Doctor's Daughter and The Unicorn and

the Wasp all repeated on W and Drama +1;

The Caretaker, Kill the Moon, Mummy on the

Orient Express and Flatline all repeated on

NRJ12; and The Timeless Children repeated

on Fox (FRG)

2021 - The Stolen Earth repeated on ABC2;

The Beast Below repeated on BBC America;

The Wedding of River Song repeated on ABC

ME; Demons of the Punjab repeated on BBC

Entertainment EU; and The Battle of Ranskoor

Av Kolos repeated on BBC Polska HD

2022 - Day of the Moon repeated

on W HD

2023 - Love & Monsters repeated on

Fox SciFi; and Doctor Who @ 60: A

Musical Celebration recorded at

Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

2024 - The Girl Who Waited repeated

on ABC Family; and The God Complex

repeated on ABC Entertains

2025 - The Eleventh Hour and The

Beast Below both repeated on BBC3