Doctor Who Vs. Casualty, Series 17

Series regulars Derek Thompson, Cathy

Shipton, Simon MacCorkindale, Ian

Bleasdale, Kwame Kwei Armah, Louise

Brealey, Kelly Harrison, Martina Laird,

 Christopher Colquhoun, Christine Stephen 

Daly and Zita Sattar all returned for the seventeenth season of BBC One's long-

running medical drama.

Joining the programme here were Russell 
Boulter (as Ryan Johnson), Sarah Manners
 (Bex Reynolds) and Matthew Walt (Luke 
Warren), whilst resident actors Adjoa

Andoh, Dan Rymer and Will Mellor all

departed at the end of the run.

Another repeat run of the forty-part series

(originally broadcast from September 2002

 to June 2003) began on Drama today - it

featured Jane Slavin, and thirty-four Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Kiran Dadlani (Samera) was Kezzia in Smile
• Lisa Palfrey (Melanie) was the Mum in Attack of the Graske
• Victoria Wicks (QC) was the High Priestess in The Fires of Pompeii
• Siwan Morris (Sabine) was Maebh's Mum for In the Forest of the Night
• Mark Monero (Gary) was Cleric Pedro in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Bernard Kay (Elkins here; Shammes in Casualty 1909) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, Inspector Crossland for The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Big Finish's Night Thoughts (2006)
• Julie Legrand (Jennifer) was the Partisan in The End of Time, Part 2
• Edward Phillips (Matt) was a Parisian in (episode 3 of) The Massacre, and Bob Anders in The Moonbase
• Alan Raglan (Davis here; Chandler, 2004; Portman, 2010; Hills, 2015) and Nia Roberts (Lizzie) both appeared in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, as Mo and Ambrose Northover
• Nick Malinowski (Fenton) and Tim Plester (Derek Moberley, named after character in The Seeds of Doom) both starred in A Christmas Carol, as Eric and Servant
• Andrew Havill (Goodwin) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, then voiced Aleister Portillon and Squire Claude for The Witch in the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Colin Prockter (Williams) was the Chef in The Long Game, and the Air Raid Warden in Victory of the Daleks
• David Walliams (Fielding) starred in the Doctor Who Night sketches, voiced Quincy Flowers and Ned Cotton for Phantasmagoria (1999), then played Gibbis in The God Complex
• Suzann McLean (Sara here; Lucy, 2008; Maria, 2012) was Veena Brady in Turn Left, and voiced Maxine Andrews for The Memory Bank, Diamon for The Last Fairy Tale, Lara Jansen for Repeat Offender, and Autumn for The Becoming (all 2016)
• Kevork Malikyan (Hussen) was Kemel Rudkin in The Wheel in Space
• Peter Cartwright (Coram) was Arnold Underwood in The Power of Three
• Ken Bones (Robbie here; Pitney, 2013) was the General (pictured) in The Day of the Doctor and Hell Bent
• Alison Lintott (Helen) was the Nurse in World Enough and Time
• Big Finish actor Aaron Neil (Broadstairs) was Mr. Dunlop in The Magician's Apprentice, and Varun Singh in Class, and voiced Tir Ram for All-Consuming Fire, Surene priest for The Boundless Sea, Sanukuma Master for The Rulers of the Universe (all 2015), Aramatz for The Very Dark Thing, Stephano, Klossi, Trink and Setebos all for Maker of Demons, Mandrake for The Torchwood Archive, David for UNIT: Silenced, Steven Godbold for Five Twenty-Nine, Computer for World Enough and Time (all 2016), and Gorky Sax for The Lives of Captain Jack (2017)
• Mark Dexter (Lasky here; Andrew, 2008) was Dad in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, then Charles Babbage in Spyfall (2)
• Kai Owen (Danny) was Torchwood regular Rhys Williams
• Trevor Georges (Sgt. Cooper) was the Vicar in The Runaway Bride
• Gwynn Beech (Laing) voiced Harman for Frozen Time (2007)
• Orlando Seale (Merlin Jameson) voiced Dylan Argent for Vortex Ice (2017)
• Kate McEwen (Marsha here; DS Evans, 2009) voiced Jessica Allaway for Scavenger (2014)
• Barry Aird (Butch here; Monchil, 2009; Grant, 2014) was a Time Lord Soldier in The Last Day
• Clare Corbett (Janie here; Midwife, 2007) voiced Ernestina Stott for The Dead Shoes, Nun for A Sting in the Tale (both 2009), Harriet, Woman and Technician for The Rise of the New Humans, Lukaku for Stolen Goods (both 2018), and Ravager for The Ninth Doctor Adventures (2021)
• Raymond Coulthard (Edwards here; Matt Strong, 2010) voiced Loki, Edgar and Hawks for Cobwebs (2010), Ralph for Suburban Hell (2015), and Rabac, Servers and Dalmari for The Destination Wars (2017)
• Elizabeth Uter (Mrs. Finch) voiced Odessa Smith for The Last Party on Earth (2019)
• Andy Goddard was director of The Next Doctor too
• Euros Lyn was also director of ten adventures (from The End of the World to The End of Time), Music of the Spheres and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Catherine Tregenna was writer of The Woman Who Lived too