Doctor Who Vs. Waking the Dead, Series 2

The second series of BBC1's
crime drama first aired in the
autumn of 2002, and saw the
return of Trevor Eve, Sue
Johnston, Wil Johnson, Holly
Aird, and Claire Goose (as
Cold Case investigators
Superintendent Peter Boyd,
Dr. Grace Foley, Sergeant Will
Jordan, Dr. Frankie Wharton,
and DC Mel Silver).

Another repeat run of the

eight-part season (nominated 

for an International Emmy)

began on Drama last night -

it featured twenty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Life Sentence (UK TX: September 2 & 3 2002)

• Susannah [Owens] Harker (Claire) voiced Clare Keightley for Shada (2003), and Anya for Big Finish's Eye of Darkness (2015)
• Samuel [Alexander Joseph] West (Rice) played Cyrian in Dimensions in Time, then voiced the titular renegade for The Vengeance of Morbius (2008), Albert Tiermann for AudioGo's Demon Quest: A Shard of Ice (2010), Aristophanes for Mask of Tragedy (2014), Mr. Song for I Went to a Marvellous Party and Signs (both 2016), and the Mazzini Family for Serpent in the Silver Mask (2018)
• Paterson Joseph (Sullivan) was Rodrick in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, then voiced Victor Espinosa for Earth Aid (2011), and Matthew for Torchwood One: Machines (2018)
• Simon Gregor (Bryant) was the Steward in The Vampires of Venice
• Guy List (Pardy) was a stuntman on Evolution of the Daleks
• Graham Frake (cinematographer), Steve Robinson (first assistant director) and Shirley Schumacher (camera assistant) all worked on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks
• Caroline McCall was also costume assistant on The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon, The Doctor's Wife, The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People and Night Terrors

Deathwatch (UK TX: September 9 & 10)

• [Rafael] David de Keyser (Freeman) provided the Atraxi voice in The Eleventh Hour, and voiced the Cybermen for The Eternity Clock
• David [Scott] Ashton (Cameron) was Kendron in Timelash
• Tony Osoba (Wallace) was Lan in Destiny of the Daleks, Kracauer in Dragonfire, and Duke in Kill the Moon
• Ronald [Alfred] Pickup (Sutton) made his TV debut as the Physician in (episode 4 of) The Reign of Terror, and voiced Kestorian for Time Works (2006), and Elder Bones for Spaceport Fear (2013)
• Jonathan [Louis] Tafler (Young Edgar) voiced Captain Waldo Rudley for The Paradise of Death, and Clemenza for The Ghosts of N-Space
• Cheryl Hall (Valerie) was Shirna in Carnival of Monsters

Special Relationship (UK TX: September 16 & 17)

• Amanda Root (Lorna) voiced Madeleine Fairweather for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Lendek and Scientist for The Lords of Terror (2018)
• Colin Stinton (Karp) was President Arthur Winters in The Sound of Drums
• Ed Bishop (Tyler) voiced General Finch for Full Fathom Five (2003)

Thin Air (UK TX: November 3 & 4)

• Paul Bazely (Doctor) was Ven Garr in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Cherie [Mary] Lunghi (Leah) voiced Lady Adela Forster for The Emerald Tiger (2012)
• Sophie Winkleman (Joanna) voiced Kelly Westwood for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (2009), Rachel Allan for Torchwood One: Before the Fall (2017), and Sofia for Serpent in the Silver Mask
• Justin Salinger (Garvey) was Tasker in Oxygen
• Steve Toussaint (Bellows) was Feekat in Ascension of the Cybermen
• SFX supervisor Graham Brown was VFX assistant on Full Circle, The Five Doctors, Resurrection of the Daleks, The Caves of Androzani, Attack of the Cybermen, Revelation of the Daleks and The Curse of Fenric 
• Rod Woodruff was also the stunt co-ordinator on Rose and World War Three