Thursday 7 September 2017

Doctor Who Vs. If I Had You

This feature-length crime drama from Granada TV was first shown in May 2006, then on BBC
America two months later.
Here, DI Sharon Myers (played by Sarah Parish) investigated the murder of a teacher in the English village of Luckwell, her
childhood home.
The thriller, repeated on ITV3 last night, featured Paul McGann (as Phillip Andrews), Andrew Buchan (DC Watson), and eight other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

  • Parish was the Empress of the Racnoss in The Runaway Bride
  • Mark Benton (DS Fielding) was Clive [Finch] in Rose (a role reprised for Big Finish's Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon), and voiced Ellis for Invaders From Mars (2002), and Jack Coulson for Energy of the Daleks (2012)
  • Sakuntala Ramanee (Pathologist) made her TV debut in Survival as Shreela [Govindia], and was Larnier in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, and voiced Hatshepsut for The Eye of Horus (2015), and Maglin Shank for Month 25 (2017)
  • stunt co-ordinator Sarah Franzl was stunt performer on The End of the World, The Idiot's Lantern and The End of Time
  • Roger Pearce was also a camera operator on thirteen episodes (from Rise of the Cybermen to The Waters of Mars)
  • Nick Cox was first assistant camera on The Day of the Doctor too
  • trainee director Pete Scott was an electrician on A Christmas Carol and Closing Time
  • executive producer Damien Timmer was a Menoptera in An Adventure in Space and Time