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) 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)