Doctor Who Vs. Coronation Street at 60, Part 1: 1960/61

"There was life before Coronation Street but it didn't add up

to much." Russell Harty

"Manchester produces what to me is the Pickwick Papers.

That is to say, Coronation Street, I live for it. Thank God.

Half past seven tonight and I shall be in paradise." 

Sir John Betjeman

L to R: Jessie Wallace, Dawson,
Celia Imrie & Lynda Baron
depicted Pat Phoenix (who
played Elsie Tanner), Warren
(1936-2016), Doris Speed
(Annie Walker) & Violet
Carson (Ena Sharples).

"Its Tony Warren. The writer.
Thought you were an actor.
That was yesterday."
The Road to Coronation Street

Shown again on ITV last night,
the BBC Four drama The Road to

Coronation Street documented the
creation of ITV's long-running soap opera, from inception (as Florizel 
Street in 1959) to first trans-
mission a year later.

Set mainly at Granada Studios in
Manchester, the biopic told the true
story of Tony Warren (born Anthony
Simpson in Salford, and played here
by David Dawson) - struggling actor
and scriptwriter who envisaged an
authentic Northern drama that
portrayed normal, working-class
life in a Salford terraced street.

After an initial commission to write thirteen pilot episodes, Warren con-
tributed to the soap - affectionately known as Corrie - until 1978, and even made a cameo appearance in

the show's fiftieth anniversary live edition in 2010.

Based in the fictional Northern town of Weatherfield, Corrie debuted
with a live episode on Friday December 9th 1960, and within six
months was Britain's most watched TV programme and a national
institution.
The show's first year on air included scripts from future Doctor Who 
writer Barbara Clegg, guest starred former actor Barry Letts,
and featured twenty-six other cast connections:

• Alan Rothwell (David Barlow, 1960-1968) voiced Janto for Big Finish's The Twilight Kingdom (2004)
• Daphne Oxenford (Esther Hayes, 1960-1972) was the Archivist in Dragonfire
• Cyril Luckham (Dr. Tinsley) was the White Guardian from The Ribos Operation to Enlightenment
• Frank Crawshaw (Arnold Tanner, 1961) was Arnold Farrow in Planet of Giants
• June Barry (Joan) voiced Jo Grant for Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?
• Campbell [Jakob Kobel] Singer (Mason) and Reg Lever (Davies) both appeared in The Celestial Toymaker - Singer was Joey the Clown, the King of Hearts and Sergeant Rugg, and Lever was the Joker
• [Alfred] Graham Rigby (Thief here; Whitehead, 1963; Lambert, 1965/6; Wardle, 1995) was Larry Madison in The Dalek Invasion of Earth
• Bryan Mosley (Alf Roberts, 1961-1999) and Phillip Anthony (Pilkington) both starred in The Daleks' Master Plan - Mosley was Prop Man (episode 7) and Malpha (11), whilst Anthony was Roald (1)
• Fulton Mackay (Dr. Graham) was Dr. Quinn in The Silurians
• Angela [Josephine MacDonagh] Douglas (Eunice) was Doris Lethbridge-Stewart in Battlefield
• John [Colin Smith] Collin (Snape here; Pickens, 1969; Stringer, 1979) was Brock in The Leisure Hive
• Robin Wentworth [Victor Roy Wheeler] (Dewhurst here; Greaves, 1969) was Professor Horner in The Daemons (1)
• Donald Morley (Fletcher here; Bolton, 1974) and Keith Anderson (Constable) both appeared in The Reign of Terror - as Jules Renan and Robespierre respectively
• Kenneth [Charles] Cope (Jed Stone, 1961-63, 1966, 2008-09) was Packard in Warriors' Gate
• Keith Marsh (Foreman here; Chippendale, 1966; Marsden, 1980; Uncle Mervyn, 1999) was Conway in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Neville Barber (Marsden) was Dr. Cook in The Time Monsters
• Steve [Phokion Stavros] Plytas (Leo) was Wigner in The Tenth Planet
• Anne Reid (Valerie Tatlock/Barlow, 1961-1971) was Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenric, and Florence the Plasmavore in Smith and Jones
• Jack [William] Woolgar (Stallholder here; Noblett, 1970) was Staff Sergeant Arnold in The Web of Fear
• Harold [Israel] Goldblatt (Riley) was Professor Dale in Frontier in Space
• Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (Foster) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, Inspector Crossland in The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Night Thoughts (2006)
• [Philip] Stephen Hancock (Assistant here; Spinks, 1962; Gordon Bishop, 1967; Ernest Bishop, 1969-78) voiced the First Mate for Here There Be Monsters (2008)
• Stratford Johns (Powell) was Monarch in Four to Doomsday

First shown in September 2010 (and repeated on ITV3 in 2017),
The Road to Coronation Street also featured Jane Horrocks, Jessie
Wallace, Corrie veterans Michelle Holmes, John Thomson, and
seven Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Lynda Baron (Violet Carson here; Renee in Corrie, 1997) recorded The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon (sung off screen) for The Gunfighters, was Captain Wrack in Enlightenment, then Val in Closing Time 
• Steven Berkoff (Sidney Bernstein) provided the voice of the Shakri in The Power of Three
• Celia Imrie (Doris Speed) was Miss Kizlet in The Bells of Saint John, and voiced Dr. Elizabeth Bradley for The Fifth Citadel (2013), Madame Tissot for Gallery of Ghouls, and Lady Livia Caralis for Gallifrey: Enemy Lines (both 2016)
• Shaun Dooley (Bennett here; Fitzgerald in Corrie, 1997/8) was Epzo in The Ghost Monument
• Tim Palmer was also the cinematographer on Let's Kill Hitler, The Wedding of River Song and Nightmare in Silver
• Thomas Alibone was assistant director on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Adam Green also edited The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived and The Husbands of River Song

Doctor Who Vs. Afterlife, Series 2

This supernatural drama returned to ITV for a

second, and final series in the autumn of 2006.

The cast was again led by Lesley Sharpe (as

psychic believer Alison Mundy) and Andrew

Lincoln (the sceptic academic, Dr. Robert Bridge)

- together they investigated paranormal cases in

Bristol.

The programme earned another acting prize at

the Monte Carlo TV Festival - Sharp won Out-

standing Actress, whilst Lincoln won the Actor

award in 2007.

Sharp later played Sky Silvestry in Midnight,

and this season featured twenty-four Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

Roadside Bouquets (TX: September 16 2006)

• Simon Fisher-Becker (Driver) was Dorium Maldovar in The Pandorica Opens, Brain Trafficking, A Good Man Goes to War, The Wedding of River Song - a role reprised for Big Finish's The Light Keepers, Inside the Maldovarium (both 2018) and Jenny 3 (2024), and voiced Kavil for Gallifrey 5 (2013)
• Amanda Lawrence (Woman) was Mother Doomfinger in The Shakespeare Code
• Emma Reid was unit manager on The End of the World and The Unquiet Dead too
• Marcus Catlin was also first assistant director on The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang 
• James Scott was also focus puller on sixteen adventures, from Closing Time to The Day of the Doctor
• Elaine Matthews was script supervisor on The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex too

The Rat Man (TX: September 23)

• Michael Obiora (Olivets) was Billy Shipton (pictured) in Blink

Lullaby (TX: September 30)

• series carpenter Roger Tarry worked on Midnight and The Lodger too
• Steve Hopkins was also an electrician on twenty-three instalments of the revived series (from The End of the World to The Name of the Doctor)

Your Hand In Mine (TX: October 7)

• Julie Graham (Lucy) was Ruby White in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, and voiced Prime Minister 470 for Planet X (2016), and Carolyn for The Blood Furnace (2017)
• Liam Cunningham (Jonathan) was Captain Zhukov in Cold War
• Justine Mitchell (Claire) voiced Lucy Martin for Seasons of Fear (2002) 

Mirrorball (TX: October 21)

• series electrician Paul Duffy also worked on Rise of the Cybermen, Planet of the Ood, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Mind The Bugs Don't Bite (TX: October 28)

• Kenneth Cranham (Mundy) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Craig Kelly (Young Stan) voiced Joe for Scream of the Shalka

Things Forgotten (TX: November 4)

• Claire Rushbrook (Jennifer) was Ida Scott in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, and voiced Tula Chenka, SV111 and SV23 for Ravenous 2 (2018)
• Andrew Collins (Neurologist) voiced Drew Shahan for Live 34 (2005)
• Clive Hayward (Director) voiced the Judge and Markus for Daybreak (2019), Emperor, Duke of Ferrox and Last of the Unnatural Children for Barrister to the Stars, Marty Stone for Carnival of Angels (both 2020), Dax for Wink  (2022), and Overseer Valtor/Trell for Dominant Species (2024)
• Shirley Schumacher was clapper loader on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks too

A Name Written In Water (TX: November 11)

• Claudio Laurini (Man) was a Headless Monk in A Good Man Goes to War
• series post-production supervisor Liz Pearson, composer Edmund Butt and music engineer Toby Wood all worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Chris Davies was also best boy/electrician on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Fear Her, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday, Blink, Turn Left and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Doctor Who Vs. Afterlife, Series 1

Produced for ITV by Clerkenwell Films, this
supernatural drama was created by Welsh
horror writer Stephen Volk, and ran for two
seasons in 2005 and 2006. John Hannah was
the executive producer on the first and final
instalments here.

Liverpool-born Lesley Sharpe won the RTS
Best Actress award and a Golden Nymph prize
for her role as psychic believer Alison Mundy.
Andrew Lincoln played sceptic academic, Dr.
Robert Bridge, and together they investigated
 paranormal cases in Bristol. 

Sharp (pictured as Sky Silvestry in Midnight)
was joined in the first six-part season by
twenty-nine Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:

More Than Meets The Eye (TX: September 24 2005)

• Gail Clayton (Surgeon) voiced Rigan for Big Finish's Unregenerate (2005)
• Kate Duchene (Barbara) voiced Regina and Seraphim for The High Price of Parking (2017), and Antonia Werner for Fairytale of Salzburg (2018)
• Colin Prockter (Rose) was the Chef in The Long Game, and the ARP Warden in Victory of the Daleks
• David Cromarty (Student) voiced Robersuun for Gallifrey 3 (2006), then was Soldier in Thin Ice, Empress of Mars and Twice Upon a Time
• Adam Ridge was boom operator on Music of the Spheres too
• Rod Woodruff was also stunt co-ordinator on Rose and World War Three
• Paul Kulik was a stuntman on Rose too
• series composer Edmund Butt, Toby Wood (music engineer), and Liz Parson (post-production supervisor) all worked on An Adventure in Space and Time in those same capacities

Lower Than Bones (TX: October 1)

• Clare Cathcart (Liz) voiced Mary Fitzgerald for The Settling (2006), Trooper for Urban Myths, Maria for Son of the Dragon (both 2007), Starling for The Phoenix Strain (2016), and Orla for The Blood Furnace (2017)
• Jonathan Farmer was first assistant director on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too

Daniel One & Two (TX: October 8)

• Steven Elder (Rabey) voiced Farrow for Jubilee (2003), Eric Rawden for Something Inside (2006), and Rudolph and Lord Lycaon for Blood on Santa's Claw (2019)
• Rhodri Meilir (Daniel 2) was Rhodri in The Runaway Bride
• John Owen (Patient) was Thorpe in The Daemons
• Joanna Horton (Frankie) voiced Brooke for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
• Saskia Reeves (Sheila) voiced Carmen Rega for Emissary of the Daleks (2019)

Misdirection (TX: October 15)

• Richard Beale (Keyhoe) provided the Refusian Voice in The Ark, Bat Masterson in The Gunfighters, the Broadcaster Voice in The Macra Terror, and the Minister in (episode 3 of) The Green Death
• Mark Benton (McClune) was Clive [Finch] in Rose (a role reprised by Big Finish for Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon), and voiced Ellis for Invaders From Mars (2002) and Jack Coulson for Energy of the Daleks (2012)
• Mark Bonnar (Varcoe) was Jimmy in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People, then voiced Porteus for The English Way of Death, Zoltan Frid for The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (2016) and the Eleven for Doom Coalition (2015-17), Ravenous (2018/19) and Dark Universe (2020)
• Lisa Diveney (Girl) voiced Dr. Norma Vine for Time of the Intelligence (2017)
• Susan Engel (Ellen) was Cessair in The Stones of Blood
• Tristan Beint (Student) was Tom in The Day of the Doctor

Sleeping With The Dead (TX: October 22)

• Nikki Amuka Bird (Sandra) was the Glass Woman [Helen Clay] in Twice Upon a Time, and voiced Tamasan for The Time War 2 (2018)
• Elaine Matthews was also script supervisor on The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex

The 7:59 Club (TX: October 29)

• Veronica Roberts (Jean) voiced Krelos Major for The Fate of Krelos, Relly for Return to Telos (both 2015), and Ohila for The War Doctor Begins 1 (2021)
• Phyllida Law (Irene) was Bea Nelson-Stanley in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, and voiced Belldonia for The Bride of Peladon (2008)
• Ewart James Walters (Abel) voiced Tucker for The Year of Martha Jones (2021)
• James Scott was the focus puller on Closing Time too

Doctor Who: Sound Effects CD

Following the successful re-issue of the Genesis of the Daleks

soundtrack in March 2011, AudioGo added the Doctor Who

Sound Effects CD to their Vintage Beeb range a year later.

Originally issued by BBC Records in 1978, this compilation album

was another BBC Radiophonic Workshop title: BBC Sound Effects

No. 19. Available on both vinyl LP and cassette formats, this was

 the first commercial release of Doctor Who music.

Running at 38 minutes, the updated CD version features thirty

tracks (five from Brian Hodgson, with all the others by Dick

Mills) covering eighteen serials from Seasons 11 to 15 (1974

to 1978).

Interestingly, the track-listing in the original sleeve notes

referenced some TV adventures by their working titles - The

Exxilons (became Death to the Daleks), The Destructors (The

 Sontaran Experiment), The Zygons, The Curse of Mandragora,

 and The Enemy Within (The Invisible Enemy).

Doctor Who Vs. The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries

First shown in early 2000, this
BBC period crime drama was
based on the books of Gladys
Mitchell (1901-1983), and

starred Dame Diana Rigg as

the titular amateur sleuth and

Neil Dudgeon as her chauffeur

George  Moody.

Beatrice Adela Bradley was the
heroine of sixty-six detective
 novels (published from 1929
to 1984) by the Oxford-born
author, who also wrote under
the pseudonyms Stephen
Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie. She was feted during her career (called the
Great Gladys by Philip Larkin) and was an early member of the Detection
Club with Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers, but her work was largely
neglected after her death.
Another repeat run of these five cases (including the pilot episode) began

on the Alibi channel today - they featured Peter Davison, David
Tennant, and  a total of twenty-two Doctor Who cast and crew alumni:

• Mal Young was also co-executive producer on the first season of the revived series and Doctor Who Confidential
• James Hawes was also director of The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• Rigg was Winifred Gillyflower in The Crimson Horror
• Russell Tovey (Stable Boy) was Midshipman Alonso Frame in Voyage of the Dead, and reprised in cameo for The End of Time, Part 2 and Big Finish's The Lives of Captain Jack (2017)
• Michael Troughton (DI Starkey) was Professor Albert Smithe in Last Christmas, and voiced Quendril for Lords of the Red Planet (2013), Menlove Stokes for The Romance of Crime and The Well-Mannered War (both 2015), Roderick Purton for The Concrete Cage, Major General Beresford for The Forgotten Village (both 2014), and General Sharp for Primord (2019)
• Lynda Baron (Mrs. MacNamara) recorded The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon (sung off screen) for The Gunfighters, then was Captain Wrack in Enlightenment, and Val in Closing Time 
• Alec Linstead (Vicar) was Sergeant Osgood in The Daemons, Arnold Jellicoe in Robot, and Arthur Stengos in Revelation of the Daleks
• Susan Wooldridge (Mrs. Simms) auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976 
• Kenneth Colley (Burlington) voiced Cristophe Zarodnix for Sisters of the Flame and Vengeance of Morbius (2008)
• Meera Syal (Marlene) was Nasreen Choudhry in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
• Nicholas Woodeson (Forrester) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the Engineer for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Phyllida Law (Isobel) voiced Belldonia for The Bride of Peladon (2008)
• Isla Blair (Myrtle) was Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, and voiced Paula for Exotron (2007)
• Rebecca Callard (Cecily) voiced Connie Winter for A Perfect World (2008), and Shadrak for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016)
• Ronan Vibert (Prideux) voiced Ravener for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016), and Zaal for The Perfect Prisoners (2019)
• Pooky Quesnel (Delilah) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol
• Sheila Steafel (Celestine) was the Young Woman in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• cinematographer John McGlashan was film cameraman on Pyramids of Mars and The Face of Evil
• associate producer Nigel Taylor was AFM on The Stones of Blood
• film editor Liana Del Giudice also edited The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, School Reunion and The Day of the Doctor
• James Blackwell was first assistant director on Partners in Crime too
• first assistant director Debbi Slater was production manager on seven stories (from Blink to Forest of the Dead), then associate producer on Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood

Doctor Who Vs. Moonbase 3

Between seasons ten and eleven of Doctor Who, the core prod-
uction team of producer Barry Letts (1925-2009) and script editor
Terrance Dicks
(1935-2019) created and launched a more adult sci-fi drama.

Commissioned in late 1972 and running to six, fifty-minute episodes,

Moonbase 3 began filming at Ealing Studios in April 1973 (concurrent
with The Green Death) and continued to the end of May (when The Time 
Warrior was recording). 

Here, the moon was first colonised by the five superpowers in 1995. Set
 in 2003, the series followed the lives of the European crew of the titular
settlement - four other lunar bases were crewed by America, Russia,
China and Brazil. The cast was led by Donald Houston, Ralph Bates,
Fiona Gaunt and Barry Lowe.

A co-production from BBC1, Fox and ABC, Moonbase 3 was originally
screened on Sunday nights in September and October 1973 - it garnered
disappointing ratings, and Dicks later considered the show a failure. The
programme featured seventy-three further Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:

• Christopher Barry (1925-2014) was also director of ten adventures (from The Daleks to The Creature from the Pit) and Downtime
• John Lucarotti (1926-1994) also scripted Marco Polo, The Aztecs, The Massacre and the original treatment of The Ark in Space
• Dudley Simpson (born 1922) also composed incidental music for sixty-two stories (from Planet of Giants to The Horns of Nimon)
• Dick Mills (born 1936) of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop also provided special sound for three-hundred and sixty episodes of the classic run (from 100,000 BC to Survival), K9 and Company, Dimensions in Time, then the revived series (from Rose to The Name of the Doctor)
• Dee Robson was also costume designer on The Invasion of Time, Arc of Infinity and Terminus
• Roger Liminton was also production designer on The Three Doctors and Carnival of Monsters
• Michael Wisher (Sanders) was John Wakefield in The Ambassadors of Death, Rex Farrel in Terror of the Autons, Kalik in Carnival of Monsters, Davros in Genesis of the Daleks and The Trial of Davros, Magrik in Revenge of the Cybermen, Morelli in Planet of Evil, Father in Wartime, Robar in Shakedown, and provided Dalek voices for (episode 6 of) Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks, Death to the Daleks and 30 Years in the TARDIS
• Peter Bathurst (Director General) was Hensell in The Power of the Daleks, and Chinn in The Claws of Axos
• Garrick Hagon (Ponti) was Ky in The Mutants, Abraham in A Town Called Mercy, and voiced the Jester for Big Finish's The Axis of Insanity (2004)
• John Hallam (Conway) was Light in Ghost Light
• Robert La Bassiere (Jackson) was a titular alien in The Krotons
• Madhav Sharma (Rao) was Patel in Frontier in Space (3)
• Peter Miles (Laubenthal) was Dr. Charles Lawrence in The Silurians, Professor Whitaker in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, then Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks (a role he reprised for The Trial of Davros and I, Davros: Guilt (2006) - he also voiced Tragan for The Paradise of Death, and Curator Gantman for Whispers of Terror (1999)
• Michael Gough (Dyce) played the titular villain in The Celestial Toymaker, and was Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity
• John Moreno (Benavente) and Joanna Ross (Jane) both appeared in The Ambassadors of Death, as Dobson (2) and Control Room Assistant
• Edward Brayshaw (Blaney) was Leon Colbert in The Reign of Terror, and the War Chief in The War Games
• George Pravda (Trenkin) was Denes in The Enemy of the World, Professor Jaeger in The Mutants, and Castellan Spandrell in The Deadly Assassin
• Anne Ridler (Weyman) was Dr. Gemma Corwyn in The Wheel in Space
• Edmund Pegge (Macadam) was Meeker in The Invisible Enemy (1)
• Joe Santo (José) was Resistance Man in The War Games (7), and Tharil in Warriors' Gate (1)
• Ken Barker (Foreman) was Mutant in Revelation of the Daleks (1)
• Aubrey Danvers Walker (Hopkirk) was Council Member in The Dominators
• Terrance Denville, Cy Town, Michael Stevens, Monique Bryant, David Waterman, Dennis Marlowe, Ann Plenty, Dennis Plenty, David Billa, Richard King, David Melbourne, Stuart Myers, Maureen Nelson, Steve Peters, Barry Summerford, Paul Barton, Leslie Bates, John Cannon, Geoffrey Brighty, James Griffin, Emmett Hennessy, Clinton Morris, Bill Weston, James Muir, Les Shannon, Ken Tracey, Kelly Varney, Lionel Wheeler, Bob Wilyman and Harry Fielder (Technicians) all appeared on the classic run
• Brian Hiles also provided studio sound on The Crusade, The Chase, The Time Meddler, The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Ambassadors of Death (7), Frontier in Space, Pyramids of Mars and The Hand of Fear
• Andy Hunter and Linton Howell Hughes were grams operators on Planet of the Spiders (1) and Terror of the Autons (1) respectively
• Andy Stacey was also grams operator on Vengeance on Varos, Timelash and Revelation of the Daleks
• Graham Hare also worked on film sound for Inferno, The Invasion of Time and Terminus
• John Holmes also provided studio sound for The Massacre, The Wheel in Space, The Mind Robber, The Krotons, Planet of the Spiders, Robot, The Seeds of Doom, Meglos, Full Circle, The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis
• make-up artist Monica Ludkin began her career on The Time Meddler
• Mat Irvine was also VFX assistant on The Curse of Peladon (1) and Planet of the Spiders (1), then VFX designer on The Face of Evil, The Invisible Enemy (1), The Stones of Blood, The Creature from the Pit, Warriors' Gate, Warriors of the Deep and K9 and Company
• Ron Oates was also VFX designer on The Abominable Snowmen, The Ice Warriors, The Web of Fear, The Dominators and The Green Death
• Colin Mapson was also VFX designer on The Green Death, The Hand of Fear, Image of the Fendahl, The Invasion of Time, The Pirate Planet, Nightmare of Eden and Time and the Rani
• Ron Bristow and Derek Slee also worked on studio lighting for the classic run
• Peter Sargent was also film cameraman on The Power of the Daleks, The Curse of Peladon (1) and The Sea Devils
• Mike Catherwood was vision mixer on Day of the Daleks too
• John Barclay was also vision mixer on The Web of Fear, The Ambassadors of Death and The Time Warrior (4)
• John Cook was assistant floor manager on Planet of the Daleks (6) too
• Trina Cornwell was also AFM on The Seeds of Death and The Three Doctors
• production assistant Caroline Walmsley was AFM on The Daleks' Master Plan and The War Games (10)
• George Gallaccio was also production assistant then manager on 33 episodes (from Planet of the Daleks to The Seeds of Doom) 
• Sue Upton was production assistant on The King's Demons too

Doctor Who Vs. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)

This British TV production

premiered on the American

HBO channel in late 1983,

and starred Ian Richardson

(1934-2007) and Donald

Churchill (1930-1991)

as Sherlock Holmes and

Dr. Watson.

Edinburgh-born Richardson
would later portray Dr. Joseph
Bell, Conan Doyle's inspiration
for Holmes.

Producer Sy Weintraub had
obtained the rights to film
six of Doyle's works only to 

discover that Granada TV had 

also been permitted to produce 

their own versions. A subsequent court case found in Weintraub's favour
but he decided to abandon plans to adapt further stories after the sequel,
The Sign of Four (1984).

Shown again on the Sony Movies channel today, the thriller featured 

Martin Shaw (Sir Henry), Denholm Elliott (Dr. Mortimer), Ronald Lacey 

(Lestrade), Edward Judd (Barrymore), Nicholas Clay (Stapleton), and 

eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Brian Blessed (Lyons here; Small for The Sign of Four, 1989; Wood for The Crooked Man, 1992) was King Yrcanos in Mindwarp
• Glynis [born van der Riet] Barber (Beryl here; Meredith and Sophie in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson) voiced Kathy Blake for Big Finish's The Sinestran Kill (2019)
• Eleanor Bron (Mrs. Barrymore here; Mrs. Bessmer in The Madness of Colonel Warburton, 2002) was an Art Lover in City of Death, Kara [Seddle] in Revelation of the Daleks, then voiced Ileana De Santos for Loups-Garoux (2001)
• Peter Rutherford (Selden) made his TV debut as Roth in The Sontaran Experiment
• Kerry Shale (voice of Sir Henry here; Leverton in The Red Circle; voice of Holmes for Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments) was Dr. Renfrew in Day of the Moon
• Patrick Heigham (boom operator here and The Sign of Four) was grams operator on The Mind Robber
• Alan Whibley (SFX supervisor here and The Sign of Four) began his career as an assistant on (episode 1 of) The Dominators 
• Pamela Davies also worked on continuity for both Dalek films