Doctor Who Vs. Partners in Crime (1983)

British television's first adaptation of

Agatha Christie's classic Tommy and

Tuppence stories was produced by London Weekend Television - it starred

James Warwick and Francesca Annis as

the married crime fighting duo. 

Originally shown from late 1983, the

ten-part series was preceded by a
feature-length pilot.
LWT had earlier dramatised Why
Didn't They Ask Evans? (in 1980),
and The Seven Dials Mystery (1981).
Thomas and Prudence (nee Cowley)
Beresford first appeared in Christie's
second novel, The Secret Adversary,
published in 1922, whilst N or M?
was issued in 1941. This series was
named after the 1929 short story
collection.
Two further full length mysteries, 
By the Pricking of My Thumbs and Postern of Fate (the writer's final

work) followed much later, in 1968 and 1973.
Both The Secret Adversary and N or M? were reworked in 2015 (by

Endor Productions) for BBC1. The Corporation now owned the rights

to adapt Christie's works. Forty years after the writer's death, BBC

Content commissioned seven Agatha Christie projects.

The period drama (last repeated on the True Entertainment channel

in 2019) featured thirty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

The Secret Adversary (TX: October 9 1983)

• Warwick (also Bobby Jones in Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, 1980; Thesiger in The Seven Dials Mystery, 1981; Lombard in And Then There Were None, 1988) appeared in Earthshock as Lieutenant Scott
• Honor Blackman (Rita) was Professor Lasky in Terror of the Vervoids
• Peter [Wynn] Barkworth (Carter) was Clent in The Ice Warriors
• George [Morris] Baker (Whittington here; DCI Davy in At Bertram's Hotel; Weston in Evil Under the Sun, 1998; Spence for Mrs. McGinity's Dead, 2006) was Login in Full Circle
• John [Alexander] Fraser (Kramenin here; Wargrave in And Then There Were None, 1987) was the Monitor in Logopolis
• Mike Elles (Clerk) was Gentek in The Face of Evil
• Norman Hartley (Florist) was Ulf in The Time Meddler, and Sergeant Peters in The Invasion 
• Harry Fielder (Henchman here; Policeman in Agatha; Guard in The Girl in the Train; Asst. Director in Thirteen at Dinner; Tombola Man in Dead Man's Folly) was Guard (in serials PP, ZZZ, 4L, 4P, 5A, 5F, 5Z), Crewman (SS, 4T), Vogan (4D), Assassin (4Q), Tigellan (5Q), and Krarg in Shada 
• Rocky Taylor (stunt advisor here; stunt driver on Ordeal By Innocence) was a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern

The Affair of the Pink Pearl (TX: October 16)

• [Clement] Graham Crowden (Bruce here; Blake for Five Little Pigs,1994; Clithering for The Body in the Library & A Murder is Announced, both 1999; Macarthur in And Then There Were None, 2005) was Soldeed in The Horns of Nimon
• Arthur Cox (DI Marriott here; Dr. Hawker in Poirot) was Cully in The Dominators, then Mr. Henderson in The Eleventh Hour

Finessing the King (TX: October 23)

• Annie Lambert (Lady Merivale here; Valentine in Triangle at Rhodes) was Enlightenment in Four to Doomsday
• John Gillett (Dr. Stoughton) was the Gravis in Frontios
• [William] Pat Gorman (Commissionaire; Golfer in A Pocket Full of Rye; Reporter in Thirteen at Dinner; Sergeant in The ABC Murders; Man in The Case of the Missing Will) made appearances in eighty-three episodes (from The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1) to Attack of the Cybermen)

The House of Lurking Death (TX: October 30)

• Anita Dobson (Esther) voiced Eileen Klint for Big Finish's Blood of the Daleks (2007), then was Mrs Flood in The Church on Ruby Road
• Michael [Dundonald] Cochrane (Radcliffe here; Cartwright in Three Act Tragedy, 2003; Sir George in Dead Man's Folly, 2007; Whitfield in Murder is Easy, 2013; Wainwright in Witness for the Prosecution, 2024) was Charles Cranleigh in Black Orchid, and Redvers Fenn-Cooper in Ghost Light, then voiced Lieutenant Colonel Brook for No Man's Land (2006), Murgat for Brotherhood of the Daleks (2008), Colonel Hugh Spindleton for The Trail of the White Worm and The Oseidon Adventure (both 2012), Professor Chivers for The Time Machine (2013), and Geralk for The Fate of Krelos and Return to Telos (2015)
• Granville Saxton (Dr. Burton here; Casterman in Hickory Dickory Dock) voiced the Duke of Wellington for The Curse of Davros (2012)

The Sunningdale Mystery (TX: November 6)

• Denis Lill (Hollaby here; Sir Reuben in The Underdog; Blore in And Then There Were None, 2008; DI Lord in Spider's Web, 2009; Robarts in Witness for the Prosecution, 2010; Pennyfather in Murder on the Nile; 2012; Doctor in Crooked House, 2017) was Dr. Fendelman in Image of Fendahl, and Sir George Hutchinson in The Awakening

The Clergyman's Daughter (TX: November 27)

• prolific Big Finish actor Robbie Stevens (Cockwell) voiced Co-ordinator Storin/Nathemus 1 for The Brink of Death, Niles Bunbury/ Frank Lewis for We Are the Daleks, Captain Unger/British Captain/ Dutch/Chuadri for Criss-Cross, Johnny Repford/Director Pennard/ Statue/Prosecutor for Prisoners of the Lake (all 2015), Polsbroek/Nix for The Waters of Amsterdam, Hurley for Peterloo, Boyarov/Vilal General for Quicksilver, Boswyck/Raspak for Order of the Daleks, Dantallian/Securitybot for Original Sin, Manners/Harker for The Woman in White, Melchester for Picture This (all 2016), Jellicho Wigg /Wilfer Wagstaff for Subterranea (2017), Morris for The Helliax Rift (2018), and Lord Charles Pearson for Matryoshka (2024)
• Jane Booker (Monica here; Miss Cooke in Nemesis, 1987) voiced Dron and Yetana for How to Make a Killing in Time Travel (2018)
• Pam St Clements (Crockett) reprised her EastEnders role of Pat Butcher for Dimensions in Time

The Ambassador's Boots (TX: December 4)

• Jennie Linden (Cicely) was Barbara in Dr. Who and the Daleks, then voiced Professor Klyst for Unregenerate! (2005)
• TP [Thomas Patrick] McKenna (Wilmot here; Dr. Grahame in A Caribbean Mystery) was Captain Cook in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 
• Clive Merrison (Richards here; Percival Fortescue in A Pocket Full of Rye; Strange for Three Act Tragedy, 2003) was Jim Callum in The Tomb of the Cybermen, the Deputy Chief Caretaker in Paradise Towers, then voiced George Augustus for The Contingency Club (2017)
• Catherine Schell [born Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott] (Virma) was the Countess Scarlioni in City of Death
• Michael Carter (Rodriguez) made his TV debut in The Mind of Evil as Prisoner and UNIT Soldier

The Unbreakable Alibi (TX: December 11)

• Preston [Reginal Harper] Lockwood (Waiter here; Pennyfather & Simmons in At Bertram's Hotel, 1987 & 1997; Francois in The Chocolate Box) was Dojjen in Snakedance
• Stephen Wale (Attendant) was David in (part 1 of) Attack of the Cybermen

The Man in the Mist (TX: December 18)

• Linda [Virginia] Marlowe [born Bathurst] (Gilda) voiced Commander Claire Spencer for The Word Lord, May Carlisle for Casualties of War (both 2008), Osloo for The Macros (2010), and Gusta Pardo for The Tyrants of Logic (2018)
• Patrick Marley (Leconbury) made his TV debut as a Soldier in The Reign of Terror (6)

The Case of the Missing Lady (TX: January 1 1984)

• Jonathan Newth (Stavansson here; Hailsham-Brown in Spider's Web, 1982; Dr. Grainger in Dumb Witness) was Orfe in Underworld
• [Rosemary] Rowena Cooper (Irma here; Sarah in The Case of the Missing Will) was Angela Price in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then voiced Emily Shaw for The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Mother Superior for The Unbound Universe and Ruler of the Universe (2017), Jean Bazemore for Jago & Son, and Queen Victoria for The Victorian Age, The Torchwood Archive (all 2016), The Death of Captain Jack and Jago & Litefoot Forever (both 2018)

The Crackler (TX: January 14)

• Shane Rimmer (Ryder) was Seth Harper in The Gunfighters
• David Quilter (Laidlaw here; Shaw in The Million Dollar Bond Robbery) was Greeves in The Unicorn and the Wasp
• Lawrence Davidson (Heroulade) was Draconian First Secretary in Frontier in Space (2)

Doctor Who Vs. Partners in Crime

British television's second

adaptation of Agatha Christie's

classic Tommy and Tuppence

stories debuted on BBC1 in the

summer of 2015.

David Walliams and Jessica 
Raine now portrayed the
married crime fighting duo for
two adventures. Thomas and

Prudence Beresford first

appeared in the Queen of
Crime's second novel, The 
Secret Adversary, published in
1922, whilst N or M? was issued
in 1941.
This period drama series was
named after the short story
collection, released in 1929. Two further full length mysteries, By the

Pricking of My Thumbs and Postern of Fate (Christie's final work)

followed much later, in 1968 and 1973 respectively.

Raine depicted Verity Lambert in An Adventure in Space and Time,

then Emma Grayling in Hide, and Walliams was Gibbis in The God

Complex. The six-part run (later shown in America on Acorn TV in

September 2015) also featured twenty-one Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

The Secret Adversary (TX: July 26, August 2 & 9 2015)

• prolific Big Finish actor/writer [Charles] Robert [William] Whitelock (Conrad) was Mahler in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Mulberry Gride for Jago & Litefoot & Patsy, Professor Rickett/Denyx/King Magus for Psychodrome (both 2014), Provost Curtis/Sebastian for The Edge, Peter Andrews for The Hidden Realm (both 2016), Bruno/ Vagabond/Priest/Artron/Cadrin for Ravenous (2018), Garth/Thispus for One Mile Down, the titular Ghost Machines, V12/Skellen/V48/V33 /SV56/V119 for The Robots 1 (all 2019), Stark/Prosecutor for Barrister to the Stars, Grolk/Ogrons/Servant for Too Many Masters (both 2020), Jack/Jase Harper for Albie's Angels (2022), Stringer/ Skoob for Ice Heist!, Dennis Ward/ Commander for The Witching Tree (both 2023), and Operator Goole for Revolution in Space (2024)
• James [Edward] Fleet (Carter) voiced O'Reilley for Max Warp (2008), Geoff Cooper for The Entropy Composition, and Martin Ashcroft and Sir Jack Merrivale for Special Features (both 2010)
• Bentley Kalu (CIA Agent) was a Hood in The Angels Take Manhattan
• Andrew Havill (Peel) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, and voiced Aleister Portillon and Squire Claude for The Witch from the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Clarke Peters (Hersheimmer) voiced Night Eagle for Dreamland
• Alice [Maud] Krige (Vandermeyer) voiced Dr. Patricia Sawyer for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), and the Queen Mum for Death and the Queen (2016)
• Richard Dillane (Bulldog) was Captain Carter in Let's Kill Hitler and The Wedding of River Song
• Samuel Oatley (McKeown) was T'zim-Sha in The Woman Who Fell to Earth and The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Camilla Beeput (Jane) was cast as Nova for Ravagers (2021)
• Jamie Pearson was also film editor on The Eleventh Hour, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People
• Andy Piers Morris was safety diver on The Vampires of Venice too
• stunt co-ordinator Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos, and doubled for Peter Davison on Warriors of the Deep
• Francesco Reidy was also second assistant director on The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky

N or M? (TX: August 16, 23, 30)

• Roy Marsden (Haydock) was Mr. Stoker in Smith and Jones
• prolific Big Finish actor Susan Brown (Mrs Harrison) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Mary for 100: Bedtime Story (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 both 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)
• Robert Hands (Hinton here; Myers in Witness for the Prosecution, 2024) was Algy in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, and voiced Captain Solex for The War Doctor 2, Pope Leo X for The Ravelli Conspiracy, Daniel Defoe and Barkeep for The Eye of the Storm (all 2016), Lagrange for Fields of Terror, Major Hardy and Crewman for Storm of the Horofax (both 2017)
• Trevor Cooper (Harrison) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, and voiced Stenton Rull for the Kaldor City series (2001-4), Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse, Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/ Stennan for Army of Death (2011), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Mr. Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), and Sir Joseph Eagleton/Old Smallpiece/Jonathan Mayfly for Heritage 1 (2019)
• Christina Cole (Mrs Sprot) was Lilith in The Shakespeare Code
• Tam Williams (Harrison) began his TV careeer as an uncredited Schoolboy in (part 1 of) Remembrance of the Daleks, then voiced Tom for Point of Entry (2010), Cedric Chivers for Hunters of Earth (2013), Christopher Dalliard for The Sword of the Chevalier, Gus Kalwarowksy/Dave/Martin for The New Counter Measures 2 (both 2017), and Lan Say for Dying Hours (2023) 
• Joanna Horton (Barbara) voiced Brooke for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
• Issy Van Randwyck (Mrs. Minton) voiced Giulia for A Requiem for the Doctor, Miss Quirk for Carnival of Angels (both 2018), Koreelya for The Ultimate Evil (2019), Ma Scarrity for Family Matters (2020), Jesko for The Gulf, and Grand Widow for Conspiracy in Space (both 2021)

Doctor Who Vs. Collision

This ITV mini-series (from Greenlit

Productions) was first shown over five

consecutive nights in November 2009.

Co-written by English novelist and

screen writer Anthony Horowitz (Alex

Rider, Poirot, Foyle's War), the drama

centred on the aftermath of a major

road traffic accident.

Collision featured Douglas Henshall

(pictured as DI John Tollin), Richard

 Harrington, Zoe Telford, Paul

McGann, and forty other Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Kate Ashfield (Ann) voiced Lieut. Beth Stokes for Big Finish's Enemy of the Daleks (2009)
• brothers Dean Lennox Kelly (Danny) and Craig Kelly (Jeffrey) were the eponymous Bard in The Shakespeare Code, and (the voice of) Joe for Scream of the Shalka
• Sylvia [May Laura] Syms (Joyce) was Mrs. Pritchard in Ghost Light
• Lucy Griffiths (Jane) voiced Mabel for The Auntie Matter (2013)
• David [James] Bamber (Norris) and Christopher Villiers (Fowler) both appeared in Mummy on the Orient Express, as Captain Quell and Professor Moorhouse respectively - Bamber also voiced Emperor Constantine for The Council of Nicaea (2005), and Colonel Ulrik and Whitmore for The Four Doctors (2010), whilst Villiers was also Hugh Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, and voiced Cacothis for Absolution (2007)
• Jan Francis (Christine) was cast as First Incorporation for The Ninth Doctor Adventures 2 (2021)
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Commissioner) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013)
• Philip Davis (Edwards) and Victoria Wicks (Angela) both starred in The Fires of Pompeii, as Lucius and the High Priestess - Davis also voiced Titus for The Cannibalists (2009)
• Jo Woodcock (Jodie) voiced Ziv for Starlight Robbery (2013), Susannah Nash for Static (2017), Marie for The Iron Maid (2018), and Kayla Worthington for The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles 2 (2021)
• Claire [Louise] Rushbrook (Karen) was Ida Scott in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Tula Chenka for Escape from Kaldor (2018) and The Robots series (from 2019), and the Abbess and Marna for Out of Time 1 (2021)
• Jocelyn Jee Esien (Cindie) was Carla Langer in The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Andrew Brooke (PC Clacy) was Kahler-Tek [the Gunslinger] in A Town Called Mercy
• Colin McFarlane (Jackson) voiced the Heavenly Host in Voyage of the Damned, was General Austin Pierce in Torchwood: Children of Earth, Jonathan Moran in Under the Lake and Before the Flood, then voiced Vince Foster for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro (both 2014), the Identical Man for Charlotte Pollard 2 (2017), and Captain Morski for The War Master 5 (2020)
• Lenora [Isabella] Crichlow (Alice) was Cheen in Gridlock, and voiced Rachel Cooper for The Architects of History (2010)
• Nicholas Farrell [born Frost] (Fraser) was Brian Green PM in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Gammades for Time Reef, Phil for A Perfect World (both 2008), Captain Frank for Last of the Cybermen (2015)
• Raymond Sawyer (Chauffeur) was the Desk Sergeant in Blink
• Renu Setna (Shah) was the Intern in (part 1 of) The Hand of Fear
• Ben Crompton (Canwell) was Ross in Into the Dalek
• Nia Roberts (Linda) was Ambrose Northover in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
• Nicholas Gecks (Miller) was Albert Dumfries in The Sound of Drums
• Matthew Gravelle (DS Braydon) voiced Klinus for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro, then provided the titular voice of Kerblam!
• Nimmy [Anna] March (Carol) voiced Baroness Vance and Telokni for In Memory Alone (2016), Rupa Maguire for The Time War 1 (2017), Ulla for The Moons of Vulpana (2019), and Colonel Aesillor Zyre for Purgatory 12 (2020)
• Maya Sondhi (Nurse) voiced Katy Bell for The Carrionite Curse (2017)
• Amy Roberts was also the costume designer on Image of the Fendahl, Full Circle, State of Decay, The Keeper of Traken, Time Flight and Mawdryn Undead
• St. John O'Rorke was film editor on The Time of the Doctor too
• Liz Griffiths was also the set decorator on Dalek, The Long Game, Father's Day, The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
• SFX supervisor Tony Auger was VFX designer on K9 and Company and Black Orchid
• Simon Blackledge and Gary Kelly were both VFX assistants on The Power of Three, following work on A Town Called Mercy and The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe respectively
• Matt Wood was also the VFX supervisor on the previous three stories
• stunt co-ordinator Derek Lea and stunt performers Stephanie Carey, George Cottle, Stuart Clark, Rob Hunt and Andy Smart all worked on the revived run too
• Warwick Drucker was the grip on Rose and Aliens of London too

Doctor Who Vs. The Gorgon

This production marked a departure from the

 typically gothic fare of the Hammer stable by 

turning to Greek mythology for inspiration.

Here, the legendary Gorgon sisters terrorise
the villagers of Vandorf in turn-of-the-century

Germany.

Released in cinemas in a double bill with The 
Curse of the Mummy's Tomb in 1964, the cast 
was headed by studio stalwarts Christopher 

Lee, and Peter Cushing.
Shown on the Sony Movies Classic channel

last night, the film featured Patrick

Troughton (as Inspector Kanof, his second

of five Hammer roles) and seven other

 Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Troughton also appeared in The Phantom of the Opera (1962), The Viking Queen (1967), Scars of Dracula (1970), and was reunited with Cushing in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
• Barbara Shelley (Carla) was Sorastra in Planet of Fire
• Michael Peake (Constable) was Tavius in The Romans
• Arthur Howell and Jim O'Brady (Angry Mob) were a Confederate Horseman in (part 3 of) The War Games, and Escapee in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Ron Hyde was sound editor on Dr. Who and the Daleks too
• music supervisor Marcus Dods was the conductor on The Aztecs
• stunt co-ordinator Peter Diamond was a regular stunt double and fight arranger on the classic series (from The Daleks to The Daemons)

Doctor Who Vs. Perfect Parents

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine features interviews

with both Christopher

Eccleston and Joe Ahearne.

Immediately after their work

on the revived series, the pair

were reunited for an ITV

Studios one-off drama. Ahearne

wrote and directed the "darkly

satirical tale of atheist parents

[played by Eccleston and

Susannah Harker] posing as

believers to give their daughter

a place at a Catholic school."

The production was awarded

the best TV movie and best TV actor prizes at the Rome Fiction Festival. Perfect Parents (scored by Murray Gold) was shown at

Christmas 2006 - it also starred David Warner, and another nine Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Harker voiced Clare Keightley for Big Finish's Shada, and Anya for Eye of Darkness (2015)
• Andrew French (Stephen) voiced Obingo for The Ghosts of Gralstead (2014), Beltempest for Original Sin, Muren for The Eternity Cage (both 2016), the Racnoss Consort for Empire of the Racnoss (2017), and Warren Calder for The Sleep of Death (2019)
• Albert Welling (Teacher) played the Fuhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
• Lesley Manville (Sister) depicted Heather Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Lucy Hassan (Teller) was a Patient in New Earth, and Guest in Voyage of the Damned
• Graham Walker was also the film editor on all five of Ahearne's episodes for Series 1
• Nick Hopkins was also third assistant director on Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
• Roger Dobson (ADR editor) and Tony Gibson (sound FX editor) both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Darren Len was also driver on Voyage of the Damned and The Unicorn and the Wasp