Doctor Who Vs. Coronation Street, Part 15: 2010

Corrie began its sixth decade with the appointment of Phil

Collinson as producer - he replaced Kim Crowther - and in July

 he announced plans for the soap's fiftieth birthday. Collinson hired

 The Mill to reimagine the train crash storyline of 1967 with modern

CGI effects.

£4 million pounds later, the tram disater marked the Street's golden

anniversary in an hour-long live episode (numbered 7487), shown

on December 9th.

For the first time, bonus content was produced for the programme's

website - dramatised news coverage of the tram crash was presented

by ITN, and spin-offs Ken: A Life on the Street and Gary's Army

Diaries were available, whilst A Knight's Tale was released on DVD.

The Road to Coronation Street, writer Daran Little's passion project,

was commissioned by ITV but premiered on BBC4 in October - the

acclaimed drama recreated Tony Warren's struggle to launch his

vision for Granada. Jonathan Harvey also penned the touring stage-

play, Corrie! This special year on the cobbles featured twenty-threee

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• prolific Big Finish actor Stephen [Anthony] Critchlow (Ted here; Paul, 2016) voiced Anthony Newley for Blue Veils and Golden Sands, O'Keefe for The Nowhere Place (2006), Extra for The Eternity Clock, the Earl of Wessex/Professor Fester for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Billy Flint for An Ordinary Life, Evans/Gerald/Doorman for Mind Games, Harold Moorcroft/Josh/Doctor/Minister/General for The Reesinger Process, Soldier for The Screaming Skull, Carlos Marquez/Father/Guard for Second Sight (all 2014), the titular alien for The Yes Men, Marvo for The Haunting (both 2015), Noni for Gallery of Ghouls (2016), Leonard for The City and the Clock and The True Saviour of the Universe (both 2017), Sir Humphrey Eagleton/Charlie Lucas for Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018), Temmis for Partisans, Malcolm Wishart for The Creeping Death, Teddy Baxter/Michael Hart for The Vardan Invasion of Mirth (all 2019), Jimmy Garfield for The Vanity Trap (2020), Dubontis/Bandolian for Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow, and General for Echoes of Extinction (both 2021)
• Holly Quin Ankrah (Cheryl Gray) voiced Shawna Thompson for Redacted
• Cherylee Houston (Izzy Armstrong) voiced Elise for Maelstrom, The Mindless Ones and Chronomancer (all 2022)
• June [Rosemary] Whitfield (Mary) was Minnie Hooper in The End of Time
• Tom Gibbons (Pupil) was Young Boy in The Time of the Doctor
• Robert Daws (Hughes) voiced Soren/Lord Jacobin for Through the Ruins, Anvar for The Sky Man (both 2017), Gaius Majorian for The Dalek Occupation of Winter (2018), Sir Basil Hexworthy for The Devil's Hoofprints (2021), and Timble Feebis/Thug for The Tivolian Who Knew Too Much (2022)
• James [Edward] Fleet (Sloane) voiced O'Reilley for Max Warp (2008), Geoff Cooper for The Entropy Composition, and Martin Ashcroft/Sir Jack Merrivale for Special Features (both 2010)
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (QC) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
• Ian Puleston Davies (Owen Armstrong) voiced Angus Selwyn for Absent Friends (2016)
• Mark [Lee] Dexter (Stokes) was Dad in Silence in the Library and Forst of the Dead, then Charles Babbage in Spyfall
• Will Thorp (Chris Gray) was Tobias Zed in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Gaius Julius Caesar for 100 BC, and Jacob for Bedtime Story (both 2007)
• Lysette [Ann Chodzko] Anthony (Lydia) voiced Clara Harris for Assassin in the Limelight (2008), Hazel Bright for Hothouse (2009), and Sophia for The Secret History (2015)
• Ian Hayles (PC) and Oliver Mellor (Dr. Matt Carter) both starred in No Man's Land (2006), as Lance Corporal Burridge and Private Bert Taylor - Hayles also voiced Kevin Lee for Snake Head (2005), and Sam Kirke for The Architects of History (2010), whilst Mellor made his TV debut as Matt Crane in Army of Ghosts
• Debbie [born Andersson] Chazen (Miriam) was Foon Van Hoff in Voyage of the Damned, and voiced Dr. Barbara Goro for The Outliers (2017)
• Simon Chadwick (Barden here; Ken Barlow/Jack Duckworth in Corrie!) was Major Cal Kilburne in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Enemy of the Bane
• Tim Faraday (Paramedic) was Dad in Fear Her
• Hayley Jayne Standing (Mrs. Withers) voiced Cathy Roberts for The Peterloo Massacre (2016)
• Colin McFarlane (Jordan) provided the voice of the Heavenly Host for Voyage of the Damned, was Jonathan Moran in Under the Lake and Before the Flood, and General Austin Pierce in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then voiced Vince Foster for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro, Narrator of The Blood Cell (all 2014) and Farewell to Peter Capaldi, the Identical Man for Charlotte Pollard 2 (2017), and Captain Morski for The War Master 5 (2020)
• Carol Starks (Janet) voiced Captain Odessa Grey for The Crash of the UK-201 (2018)
• Simon Maloney was first assistant director on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Ron Bowman was also the digital matte painter on The Eleventh Hour, The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang, A Good Man Goes to War, Let's Kill Hitler and The Girl Who Waited
• Leon Harris was also a SFX assistant on The Snowmen, The Crimson Horror, Nightmare in Silver, The Name of the Doctor and The Day of the Doctor