Monday, 29 April 2019

Doctor Who Vs. Captain America: The First Avenger

This WWII action film explored the creation 
of the Marvel Comics character, Captain 
America - a superhero conceived by Jack 
Kirby and Joe Simon in 1941.
Chris Evans portrayed the eponymous 
super-soldier (alias Steve Rogers), charged 
with preventing Red Skull (played by Hugo
Weaving) from using the Tesserac to 
achieve world domination.
Shown again on Film4 last night, the
adventure was released by Paramount in 
2011 and spawned two sequels. The film 
also featured Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley 
Tucci, Samuel L Jackson, Jenna [Louise] 
ColemanDavid Bradley, and thirteen 
other Doctor Who cast alumni:

  • Big Finish actress Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter) voiced Asha for Blood of the Daleks (2007), Eleanor for The Doomwood Curse, Seska for The Whispering Forest (2010), and President Sheridan Moorkur for The Sands of Life and War Against the Laan (both 2013)
  • Toby Jones (Dr. Zola) was the Dream Lord in Amy's Choice, and voiced Kotris for Dark Eyes (2012)
  • JJ Field (Falsworth) voiced David McCallister for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009)
  • Michael Brandon (Brandt) was General Sanchez in The Stolen Earth, and voiced CP Doveday for Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (2010)
  • Lex Shrapnel (Hodge) voiced Robin Marshall for Shadow of the Past (2010)
  • William Hope (Lieutenant) voiced General Tillington for Renaissance of the Daleks (2007)
  • Sam Hoare (Recruit) voiced Lucius for AudioGo's Serpent Crest: Tsar Wars (2011), and depicted Douglas Camfield in An Adventure in Space and Time
  • David McKail (Artist) was Sergeant Kyle in The Talons of Weng Chiang
  • Tim Howard (Soldier) was a Villager in The Time of the Doctor, and Highwayman in The Woman Who Lived
  • Tobias James Samuels (Producer) was a Waiter in Voyage of the Damned
  • Kieran O'Connor (Jerk) was a Prison Guard in The Impossible Astronaut
  • Colin Stinton (Taxi Driver) was President Arthur Winters in The Sound of Drums
  • Sy Turner (Hydra Soldier) was a camera trainee on The Zygon Inversion, Heaven Sent and Class

Friday, 12 April 2019

Doctor Who Vs. The Victim

In STV Productions
latest crime drama,
Craig Myers (played
by James Harkness)
 is attacked at his
home in Port Glasgow,
 then discovers he has
been accused online of
being child murderer
Eddie J Turner.
DI Stephen Grover's
(John Hannah) invest-
igation incriminates
Anna Dean (Kelly
Macdonald), whose son was killed by Turner fifteen years ago. The mother
 is brought to trial at Edinburgh's High Court, but is Myers really the killer
or a victim of mistaken identity?
Shown over four, consecutive nights this week, the thriller concluded on
BBC1 last night, and featured nine Doctor Who cast and crew alumnis:

  • Jamie Sives (Lenny) was Captain Reynolds in Tooth and Claw
  • Allison McKenzie (Cathy) voiced Imogen Frazer for Big Finish's Iterations of I (2014)
  • John Scougall (Carpenter) voiced Ryall and Sythes for The Time War 3 (2019)
  • Ramon Tikaram (Mishra) voiced Wanchese for Voyage to the New World (2012), the Castellan for Doom Coalition 1, Marlock for Theatre of War, Colonel Shindi for UNIT: Extinction (all 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), UNIT: Encounters (2017) and UNIT: Cyber Reality, and Colin Colchester Price for Torchwood: Aliens Among Us and Gods Among Us (all 2018)
  • Pooky Quesnel (Mo) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol
  • Seylan Baxter (Jury) was Tecteun in The Timeless Children
  • Paul Heasman was stunt co-ordinator on Survival too, and was an uncredited Nazi in Silver Nemesis
  • Geraint L Williams was art designer on The Woman Who Fell to Earth too
  • Gibran Farrah was also ADR mixer on The Tsuranga Conundrum and Demons of the Punjab