Doctor Who Vs. Casualty @ 35: Series 19

Series regulars Derek

Thompson, Ian Bleasdale, 
Martina Laird, Suzanne

Packer, James Redmond, 
Sarah Manners, Matthew
Walt, Rebekah Gibbs, and 
Simon MacCorkindale all 
returned for the nine-
teenth season of BBC 
One's long-running 
medical drama.

Joining the main cast

here were Liz Carling

(as Dr. Selena Donovan), Susan Cookson (Dr. Maggie Coldwell), Luke

Bailey (receptionist Sam Bateman), Will Thorp (paramedic Woody

Joyner), Georgina Bouzova (nurse Ellen Zitek), Elyes Gabel (SHO

Guppy Sandhu), Janine Mellor (nurse Kelsey Phillips), and Adam

James (Peter Guildford). Meanwhile, Maxwell Caulfield, Louise

 Brealey, Kwame Kwei Armah, and Leanne Wilson had all left by

the series' conclusion.

Whilst Casualty launched in September 1986 and spin-off Holby

City began in January 1999, the first proper crossover story was

shown at Christmas 2004, during this run. A further seven specials

(including an interactive edition) aired over the next year.

With just a fortnight's break between seasons, this extended

series (plus the two-part Casualty @ Holby festive special) was

originally broadcast from September 2004 to August 2005.

Another repeat run of the forty-six part season concluded on

Drama today - it featured Freema Agyeman, Geoffrey

Beevers, Tommy Knight, and a total of fifty-two Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Mellor was Janey in The Woman Who Fell to Earth
• Lucy Benjamin (Gina here; Denise, 2015/17) was Young Nyssa in (part 4 of) Mawdryn Undead
• Mary Wimbush (Lily) was Aunt Lavinia Smith in K9 and Company
• Alan Dorrington (Ronan) was a Corpse in The Unquiet Dead, and Crofter in Tardisode: Tooth and Claw
• prolific Big Finish actor Tim Treloar (PC Watson here; Huntingdon, 2006) voiced Van Cleef for Return of the Rocket Men, the Lord President for Dark Eyes 1, Ingiger for Gods and Monsters, Lord Jack Corrigan for Destination: Nerva, Tyron for The Burning Prince (all 2012), Telephus and Cisyphus for Mask of Tragedy (2014), Ergu for The Exxilons (2015), the Doctor for The Light at the End (2013), The Third Doctor Adventures (from 2015), The Legacy of Time and Peepshow (both 2019), Narrator of Damascus (2016) and Gardeners' World (2017), John Hughes and Robert Matson for Black Thursday (2019), and Silas for Beyond War Games (2022)
• Thorp 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)
• Adam James and Ellen Thomas (Stephanie here; Florence, 2012) both appeared in Planet of the Dead, as DI Macmillan and Carmen
• Richard Beale (Slavin) voiced a Refusian in The Ark, and Broad- caster for The Macra Terror, then appeared as Bat Masterson in The Gunfighters, and a Minister in The Green Death
• Patrick Romer (Marchant) voiced Dr. Andrew Szabo for Thicker Than Water (2005)
• Jordan Murphy (Liam) was Ernie in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances
• Jamie Edgell (Alan) was also a stunt co-ordinator on The End of the World, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
• Philippa Burt (Nurse, here & 2007) was a Peasant in The Family of Blood
• Jim Findley (Sherman) was Mercer in Resurrection of the Daleks
• Ella Kenion (Maggie) and Eva Alexander (Najma) both starred in Let's Kill Hitler, as Harriet and Nurse - Kenion also voiced Boudica for The Wrath of the Iceni (2012), and Romy for Equilibrium (2015)
• MyAnna Buring (Kirsty) was Scooti Manista in The Impossible Planet 
• Sarah Greene (Elsa) was Varne in (part 2 of) Attack of the Cybermen
• Amanda Lawrence (Geraldine) was Doomfinger in The Shakespeare Code
• Richard Bremmer (Malloy) voiced General Hemmings, Valcon, and Taxi Driver for The Valley of Death (2011), and Old Beowulf for Black and White (2012)
• Amanda Mealing (Connie Beauchamp here to present; Holby City, 2001-16) was an alt-Connie for an ultimately cut scene in The Lie of the Land
• René Zagger (Smith) was Padra in Utopia
• James Albrecht (Daniels here; Fireman, 2007) voiced Major Heyward for City of Spires (2010)
• McFly made a cameo appearance in The Sound of Drums too
• Ozzie Yue (Clive) was a Foreman in The Angels Take Manhattan 
• Rhoda Lewis (Molly) was Marta in State of Decay
• Madhav Sharma (Sandhu) was Patel in Frontier in Space (3)
• Vinette Robinson (Kirsty) was Abi Lerner in 42
• Brian Cant (Hargreaves) was Kert Gantry in The Daleks' Master Plan (1), and Tensa in The Dominators
• Jean Challis (Nancy) was Aunt Betty in The Idiot's Lantern
• Alice O'Connell (Jo) was Laura in The Power of Three
• Sue Kelvin (Maureen) was Suzette Chambers in Partners in Crime
• Michael Jibson (PC Burrows) voiced Corporal Gibbs for The Forsaken (2015)
• Oliver Dimsdale (Mallins) voiced Morecombe Unwise for Come Die With Me, Mervyn Garvey for Dead to the World, Archie Ferrers for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Commander Trelon for A Thing of Guile (2016), and Rebben Tace and V52 for The Sons of Kaldor (2018)
• Colin Spaull (Crake) was Lilt in Revelation of the Daleks, Mr. Crane in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, and voiced Henrik for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008)
• Imogen Stubbs (Chloe) voiced Isabella Clerkwell for The Diary of River Song 1 (2015)
• Sasha Behar (Liz here; Alex, 2018) was Spurrina in The Fires of Pompeii
• Michael Carter (De Fraine) made his TV debut in The Mind of Evil as Prisoner and UNIT Soldier
• Ben Turner (Pickering here; Baxter, 2008; Jay Faldren, 2008-11) was King Louis in The Girl in the Fireplace
• Lizzie Roper (Jeannie) voiced Hoss for Kiss of Death (2011), Leandra Roath for The First Sontarans, Dr. Nadia Cervenka and Margaret for Artificial Intelligence (both 2012), Krakenmother Banarra for Starlight Robbery (2013), Celia Turner and Leslie King for The Crooked Man, Florence Woolley and Beatrice for Murder at Moorsey Manor, Victoria for The Wax Princess (all 2014), Bella for Stage Fright, Shari for We are the Daleks (both 2015), Rosata Laxter and High Minister for The Lady of Obsidian (2017), Trencher for Planet of the Drashigs, and Eira Hughes for Black Thursday (both 2019)
• Raji James (Ajay here; PC Singh, 2010) was Dr. Rajesh Singh in Doomsday and Army of Ghosts
• Katherine Parkinson (Helen) voiced Danika Meanwhile for The Death Collectors (2008)
• Sion Tudor Owen (PC Wales here; Cottle, 2007) was Tandrell in The Mysterious Planet
• Daniel Hyde (Newley) was a Workman in The Snowmen
• Veronica Roberts (Sheila) voiced Krelos Major for The Fate of Krelos, Relly for Return to Telos (both 2015), and Ohila for The War Doctor Begins 1 (2021)
• Nickie Rainsford (Sally) was the Editor in Tardisode: Army of Ghosts
• Michael Lumsden (Hearne) voiced Newton Pallister for The Crash of the UK-201 (2018)
• Chukwudi Iwuji (Peel) was Carl in The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon, and voiced Joshua Sembeke for A Thousand Tiny Wing (2009)
• Jenny Lee (Bunny) was Woman in Face the Raven, and voiced the Keeper for Portrait of a Lady (2018)
• Dan March (Brown) voiced Varian for The Lure of the Nomad (2017)
• Bradley Freegard (Walsh) voiced Phil for Night of the Fendahl (2019)
• Lenora Critchlow (Linda here; Michelle, 2008) was Cheen in Gridlock, and voiced Rachel Cooper for The Architects of History (2010)
• Dominique Moore (Ruby) voiced Gemma for The Diary of River Song 9 (2021)
• Sion Pritchard (Clarke here; Taylor, 2020) was Joshua Steele in 73 Yards
• James Strong was also director of The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, Voyage of the Damned, Partners in Crime and Planet of the Dead

Doctor Who Vs. Coronation Street at 60, Part 13: 2004-2006

Walsh was announced as Doctor
Who companion Graham O'Brien
 in October 2017

The Street's producer Kieran

Roberts bowed out in early

2004, and was replaced by

Tony Wood, whilst Carolyn

Reynolds remained executive

producer. Roberts returned

(as new exec) in early 2006

when Steve Frost took over

from Wood.

Schedule changes due to

coverage of Euro 2004

matches resulted in the

broadcast of three episodes

of the soap on the same day

 for the first tme in May. In

 late November that year,

eight instalments were

shown over five consecutive

nights. 2004 also saw the closure of ITV's cable channel, Granada Plus

which had repeated vintage Corrie. By the end of 2005, the show had

enjoyed its best viewing figures since 1993.

These three years on the cobbles featured Bradley Walsh (as Mike
Baldwin's son Danny), Jane Slavin, Anjli Mohindra, and a total of

twenty-five Doctor Who cast connections:

• Philip Dinsdale (Waiter) voiced Sergeant Jarrod for Big Finish's Project: Destiny (2010)
• Honor Blackman (Rula) was Professor Lasky in Terror of the Vervoids, and voiced Queen Anahita for The Children of Seth (2011)
• Richard Bremmer (Phillips) voiced General Hemmings, Valcon and Taxi Driver for The Valley of Death (2011), and Old Beowulf for Black and White (2012)
• Miichael Fenton Stevens (Presenter) voiced Shakespeare for The Kingmaker (2006), Brooks for The Raincloud Man (2008), Moorson and Controller for Destroy the Infinite (2014), and Douglas Bell for The Carrionite Curse (2017)
• Annette Badland (Thelma) was Margaret Blaine (alias Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen) in Aliens of London, World War Three, Boom Town and Sync (2019), then voiced Queen Karlina for Equilibrium, Thelma for Suburban Hell (both 2015), Guilana for Asking for a Friend (2017), Judge and Computer for Barrister to the Stars, Mrs. Slinger and Batraxus for Whatever Remains, and Maude Polwart and Mermaid for The Ghost Writers (all 2020)
• Ray Fearon (Cooper) voiced Barlow Teveler for The Seeds of War (2013)
• John R Walker (Punter) was a Cured Patient in New Earth, Injured Man in Evolution of the Daleks, and Sales Rep in Planet of the Ood
• Sir Ian McKellen (Hutchwright) provided the voice of the Great Intelligence for The Snowmen
• Clare Calbraith (Robyn) voiced a 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)
• Tim Preece (Reverend) was Codal in Planet of the Daleks, then voiced the President for He Jests at Scars (2003)
• Mina [Mumtaz] Anwar (Ravinder), Ace Bhatti (Parekh) and Mohindra (Shareen) all appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures, as Gita, Haresh and Rani Chandra respectively - Anwar was also Goodthing in Smile, and voiced Kurdi for The Rise of the New Humans, Forsetti for The Trial of a Time Machine, and Captain Varda for Empress of the Drahvins (all 2018), Valerie Pritchard for The Survivor, Horl for Tick Tock World, Bethan Foster for A Mother's Son (all 2019), Betty for Ghosts (2020), Juliana for The Lone Centurion 1 (2021), and was cast in Broken Memories and Morbius (both 2024)
• Paul Broughton (Solicitor) has been cast in Series 13
• Ian McElhinney (Fr. Thomas) was Ko Sharmus in Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children
• Ian Reddington (Vernon Tomlin, 2005-2008) was the Chief Clown in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and The Psychic Circus (2020), then voiced Nobody No-One for A Death in the Family (2010)
• Catherine Grose (DC Golding here; Doctor, 2014) voiced Princess Aelfwynn for The Lady of Mercia (2013)
• Zaraah Abrahams (Joanne Jackson) voiced Daphne for Dead and Breakfast, the Castellan for From the Flames, Kaled Corporal for The Master's Dalek Plan, and Narvin for Shockwave (all 2019)
• David Peart (Stuart) voiced the Vizier for The Destroyer of Delights (2009)
• Trevor Bannister (Solicitor) voiced Korbin Thessinger for Nocturne (2007)
• Michael Dixon (Pitcher) was Dave in The Rings of Akhaten
• prolific Big Finish actor Susan [Elizabeth] Brown (Maureen) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced the Midwife for 100 BC, Mary for Bedtime Story (both 2007), Alice Withers for The Eternal Summer, Maud for Castle of Fear, Mrs. Withers and Mrs. Sowerby for Plague of the Daleks (all 2009), Margaret for Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars, Eleanor Harvey for Return of the Krotons, Chief Engineer and Chanel for The Song of the Megaptera, Babs for Prison in Space (all 2010), and Kastrella for Death Match (2015)
• Sean [Campbell] Gallagher (Paul Connor, 2006/07) was Chip in New Earth
• Marshall Lancaster (Slug) was Buzzer in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People
• Graeme Harper was also director of forty-three instalments of Corrie between 2005 to 2013

Doctor Who Vs. William Hartnell at the Cinema, Part 1

Hartnell appeared opposite
David Niven in The Way Ahead

William Henry Hartnell

(born in London in January

1908) was known as Billy

Hartnell when he became a

jobbing actor. He made his

cinema debut in 1929, aged 

21, in The Unwritten Law.

Thus began a thirty-five year
film career that saw Hartnell
appear in many classic British
features.
Hartnell returned to the

theatre when he was

invalided out of the Royal

Artillery Corps in 1940. 

Director Carol Reed cast

Billy in The Way Ahead

after watching his performance as Dallow in the stage version of

Brighton Rock in 1943, a character he reprised for the film

rendition - now recognised as his most notable big-screen role.

By the fifties, Hartnell had become typecast in tough-guy parts

but was equally adept at comedy, and following a major role in

the star-studded Hell Drivers, he starred in the inaugural Carry

On title and Granada's The Army Game. 1963 saw Hartnell's final

film appearances (in This Sporting Life and Tomorrow at Ten),

then he was cast in a new BBC TV series called Doctor Who.
The acclaimed wartime production, The Way Ahead  (written by

Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov) was essentially a remake of the

British Army training film, The New Lot, and opened in 1944.

Doublecross, a low-budget espionage drama, was released in

1956. Rank's BAFTA nominated thriller, Hell Drivers (shown on

 Talking Pictures TV today) opened in 1957.

Hartnell co-starred with Stanley Baker, Patrick McGoohan, Sean
 Connery, David McCallum and Herbert Lom. The black-and-white

features starred a total of ten future Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:

The Way Ahead

• Leslie [Gilbert] Dwyer (Pte. Beck) was Vorg in Carnival of Monsters
• Hugh [Archibald Nairn] Burden (Pte. Parsons) was Channing in Spearhead from Space
• Jack [Stanley] Watling (Buster) was Professor Edward Travers in The Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear and Downtime

Doublecross

• Anton Diffring [born Alfred Pollack] (Krassin) was De Flores in Silver Nemesis
• Kenneth [Charles] Cope (Jeffrey) was Packard in Warriors' Gate
• Colin [Martin] Douglas (Sergeant) was Donald Bruce in The Enemy of the World, and Reuben in Horror of Fang Rock
• Harry Towb (Publican) was Osgood in (episode 1 of) The Seeds of Death, and McDermott in Terror of the Autons
• Marcus Dods was conductor on The Aztecs too

Hell Drivers

• Terry Sartain (Man) was an Alien Technician in The War Games (3), Warrior in The Mutants (1), UNIT Soldier in The Three Doctors (1), Prison Guard and Draconian in Frontier in Space, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, Brother in The Masque of Mandragora (3), Gundan in Warriors' Gate (3), and Market Man in Snakedance (1)
• David Harcourt was a camera operator on Dr. Who and the Daleks too