Doctor Who Vs. United

Screened on Great Movies! today,

this TV film from World Productions

 was based on the true story of

Manchester United's Busby Babes

and the aftermath of the Munich

 air disaster of February 1958.

The drama focused on the
experiences of Welsh football
coach Jimmy Murphy (1910-
1989) portrayed by David 
Tennant and midfielder, Bobby
Charlton (b. 1937) played by
Jack O'Connell (pictured centre).

Murphy became United's caretaker
manager following the plane crash
 in Germany which killed 23 people,
including eight club players, and

injured eighteen others and manager Matt Busby (1909-1994).

Nine MUFC squad players were amongst the 21 survivors.
In charge of United since 1945, Busby (depicted here by Dougray

Scott) recovered and resumed his role a year later. Rebuilding his

team, Busby would eventually lead the club to European supremacy

 in 1968, before retiring the next year. He was knighted in 1972.

Despite the disaster, Murphy steered United to the FA Cup final of

1958, then managed the Wales national squad at the country's only

FIFA World Cup finals appearance in Sweden. He remained as MUFC

assistant manager until 1971.

Filmed mainly in the North East of England, the drama was first

broadcast in April 2011 on BBC Two and BBC HD. Written by Chris

 Chibnall, United also featured Neil Dudgeon, Dean Andrews, Tim

Healy, and thirteen further Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• 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
• Scott was Professor Alec Palmer in Hide
• Natalie Burt (Marion) voiced Dr. Sally Armstrong for Big Finish's Dark Eyes series

• Kate Ashfield (Alma George) voiced Lieutenant Beth Stokes for Enemy of the Daleks (2009)
• Daniel Hill (British Consul) and Shirley Dixon (Mrs. Watson) both worked on Shada - as Chris Parsons, and the Voice of Skagra's Ship respectively - Hill also voiced Percy Noggins for AudioGos' The Stuff of Nightmares (2009)
• BBC newsreader Kenneth Kendall had a cameo in (episode 4 of) The War Machines too
• Edward Thomas was also production designer on seventy-two stories (from Rose to The Big Bang), Attack of the Graske, The Infinite Quest, Music of the Spheres, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• casting director Andy Pryor has worked on the revived run since 2005
• supervising art director James North was associate designer on fifty-nine episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to Closing Time)
• David Morison was also set decorator on twelve adventures (from Tooth and Claw to Forest of the Dead) after a stint as stand-by art director on Boom Town and Love & Monsters
• sound mixer John Taylor was a boom operator on The Five Doctors
• Alice Purser was also casting associate on forty-three instalments (from The Waters of Mars to The Time of the Doctor)
• Luke Corbyn was SFX technician on An Adventure in Space and Time too

Doctor Who Vs. Sea of Souls: The Prayer Tree

BBC1's BAFTA winning supernatural drama came
to a close after three full series, with a two-part
special, first screened in April 2007. 

The story (set in a remote Scottish haunted
house) was written by creator, David Kane,
and again starred Bill Paterson as Dr. Douglas
Monaghan - the Glaswegian actor later

appeared in Victory of the Daleks as Dr.

Edwin Bracewell.

The Prayer Tree was produced by Carnival Films
for BBC Scotland - it featured Neve McIntosh,

Douglas Henshall, Ben Miles, and eight Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Christina Cole (Rebecca) was Lilith in The Shakespeare Code
• Ron [Eaglesham] Donachie [born Porter] (Minister) was a Steward in Tooth and Claw
• Alisdair Simpson (Mathers) voiced Sir Francis White and David Ritchie for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), Cleon for The Mask of Tragedy (2014), Colonel Lifford for The Boundless Sea (2015), Sidney Wheeler and Field Marshal Brooke for Churchill Victorious (2018), and Damadus for Return to Skaro (2020)
• Simon Clark (sound recordist) and Liz Pearson (post-production supervisor) both workerd on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Adam Trotman was also film editor on Last Christmas, Thin Ice and Knock Knock
• 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

Doctor Who Vs. Sea of Souls, Series 3

Fellow Glaswegians actors Bill 
Paterson, Dawn Steele and 
Iain Robertson all returned for 
the third, penultimate run of 
this supernatural drama, set 
at Scotland's fictional Clyde 
University parapsychology 
department.

First shown on BBC1 in the
winter of 2006, this six-part 
season featured Paul

McGann, and twenty-one

other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Insiders (UK TX: January 7)

• Brian McCardie (Beale) voiced Alan Weir for Big Finish's Masters of Earth (2014) 
• Gary Hoptrough was also a stuntman on The Runaway Bride and Let's Kill Hitler

Oracle (UK TX: January 14)

• Jeff Rawle (Norman) was Plantagenet in Frontios, Lionel Harding in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge, then depicted Mervyn Pinfield in An Adventure in Space and Time

Sleeper (UK TX: January 21)

• Phyllis Logan (Elaine) was Andinio in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• for Stephen Garwood (producer), Jonathan Farmer (assistant director), Barbara Southcott (make-up designer), Pam Mullins (make-up artist), Edmund Butt (composer), Toby Wood (music engineer), Scott Napier (electrician), Sheila Johnston (script supervisor), and Ray Holman (costume designer) see Series 2

The Newsroom (UK TX: January 28)

• Ronald [Alfred] Pickup (Galt) made his TV debut as the Physician in (episode 4 of) The Reign of Terror, and voiced Kestorian for Time Worls (2006), Elder Bones for Spaceport Fear (2013), and the Old One for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016)
• Sheila Reid (Aggie) was Etta in Vengeance on Varos, Clara's Gran in The Time of the Doctor and Dark Water, and voiced Claire for Good Night, Sweet Ladies (2014), and Janaiya for The Middle (2017)

Succubus (UK TX: February 4)

• Emma Campbell-Jones (Sarah) was Dr. Kent in The Wedding of River Song, Cass in The Night of the Doctor, then voiced Shola for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016), and Layla Bridge for Battlegrounds (2022)
• Lucy [Ursula] Griffiths (Rebecca) voiced Mabel Dobbs for The Auntie Matter (2013)
• Dave Humphries was also the foley recordist on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways

Rebound (UK TX: February 11)

• for Peter Guinness (Duncan) see Series 2
• Rob Hunt was also a stuntman on The Runaway Bride and The Day of the Doctor
• Peter Kersey was a SFX technician on the Doctor Who TV Movie too

Doctor Who Vs. Sea of Souls, Series 2

The second run of this BAFTA

winning supernatural drama

 also won the Best TV Teleplay

 gong for Ed Whitmore, the

writer of Amulet, at the Edgar

Allan Poe awards.

Bill Paterson reprised the role

of Dr. Monaghan, and was now

joined at Clyde University's parapsychology department

by Justine McManus and Craig

Stevenson, played by Dawn

Steele and Iain Robertson.
The six-part season returned to BBC1 in the winter of 2005 - it

featured a total of nineteen Doctor Who cast and crew alumni:

Amulet (UK TX: January 8 & 9)

• BAFTA Scotland nominee Michelle Duncan (Claire) was Lady Isobel MacLeish in Tooth and Claw
• Big Finish actor Amanda Symonds (Lilian) voiced Lily Finnegan for Afterlife, Erica MacMillan for Night of the Stormcrow, Bridget for The Fifth Citadel (all 2013), One for The Abandoned, Shafira for Revenge of the Swarm, Mrs. Targate for The Ghosts of Gralstead (all 2014), Alitha for The Lost Fairy Tale, Jill Sveinsdottir for Repeat Offender (both 2016), Captain for Relative Time, Maude for The Web of Time (both 2019), Mary Seacole for The Charge of the Night Brigade (2020), Vengis for The Day of the Comet, and Mary Claypole and Time Lord Emissary for The God of Phantoms (both 2021)
• [Peter] Nigel Terry (Holloway) was General Cobb in The Doctor's Daughter
• James [Edward] Fleet (Morrison) 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)
• Kim McGarrity was also a stunt performer on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and The Day of the Doctor
• new series producer Stephen Garwood had been an Assistant Floor Manager (AFM) on Ghost Light
• series composer Edmund Butt and music engineer Toby Wood both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Pam Mullins was also a make-up artist on fifty-six instalments of the revived series (from The Runaway Bride to The Wedding of River Song)
• series make-up designer Barbara Southcott held that post on Time Crash, Music of the Spheres, and seventy-three adventures, from the 2006 Christmas special to The Name of the Doctor
• electrician Scott Napier was the gaffer on 50th anniversary special

Omen (UK TX: January 15 & 16)

• Barbara [Jay] Flynn [born McMurray] (Summers) voiced Sister Chalice for The Skull of Sobek (2008), and Anne Hartman for The Rockery (2019)
• David Gyasi (Hegarty) was Harvey in Asylum of the Daleks
• Mark Springer (Paramedic) was Christian in The Time of Angels
• Graham Frake was also cinematographer on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks
• Jonathan Farmer was the first assistant director on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too

Empty Promise (UK TX: January 22 & 23)

• Peter Guinness (Dr. Duncan here & Series 3: Rebound) voiced Mr. Dread for Dreamland, Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Baron Teufel for The Beast of Orlok (2009), and Rovus for The Star Men (2017)
• Colin Salmon (Locke) was Dr. Moon in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, and voiced Trooper Salway for Wirrn Dawn (2009)
• script supervisor Sheila Johnston worked on continuity for Voyage of the Damned, Partners in Crime, The Fires of Pompeii, Planet of the Ood and The Unicorn and the Wasp

Doctor Who Vs. Sea of Souls, Series 1

This supernatural drama

series from BBC Scotland

and Sony Pictures was

created and written by

David Kane, produced by

Phil Collinson (before he

moved onto the revival of Doctor Who), and was

based around investigations into psychic and paranormal

 phenomena.

Clyde University academics
Dr. Douglas Monaghan, Dr.
Andrew Gemmill, and Megan

Sharma were played by

 Glaswegian Bill Paterson,

Dubliner Peter McDonald, and London-born Archie Panjabi.

The six-part series debuted on BBC1 in early 2004 - it featured
Peter Capaldi, and thirty other Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Seeing Double (UK TX: February 2 and 3)

• James Hawes was also director of The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• Big Finish actor Hugh Ross (Claremont) voiced Reverend Merodach for Night's Black Agents (2010), Robert Stretton for Industrial Evolution (2011), Vepaja and Thraskin for Voyage to Venus (2012), Sir Toby Kinsella for Counter Measures, 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), The Reesinger Process (2014) and Split Infinitive (2019), Kyle Inskip for Masters of Earth, Gethal for The Exxilons (2015), Charles Kirkland for The Trouble With Drax (2016), and Narrator of Late Night Shopping, The Piltdown Men and Waiting for Gadot (2017)
• Siobhan Redmond (Carol Fleming & Helen Reid) voiced Talin for Revenge of the Swarm, then the titular Time Lord for The Rani Elite (both 2014), and Planet of the Rani (2015)
• David Ashton (Crooks) was cast as Tomas in The Face of Evil, but was replaced by Brendan Price - he would later appear as Kendron in Timelash
• Eric Mason (Phillips) was Prison Officer Green in The Mind of Evil, and CPO Smedley in The Sea Devil
• Bhasker Patel (Dentist) was Jival Chowdry in Turn Left
• Tracy Wiles (Secretary) voiced Moira Brady for Masters of Earth (2014), Lillith Lovett for The Year of the Bat, Jacqui McGee for UNIT: Extinction (both 2015), UNIT: Silenced, Death on the Mile, The Power of River Song, Narcissus and Lady Christina 2, Commander Barnac for The Neverwhen (2016), Secretary and Ground Control for Their Finest Hour, Sharlan for The Invention of Death, Hadway, Salma and V75 for Escape from Kaldor (all 2018), Drones for The False Guardian, Wave Front 1 for Time's Assassin, Announcer/Coms for State of Bliss, Marzanna and Engel for Nightmare Country, SV66, V88, V19, V98 and V7 for The Robots 1 (all 2019), Tryana for Return to Skaro (2020), FE-LINE, Maria and Patricia for A Forever Home, and Draven, Shira and Sentinel for The War Doctor Begins 1 (both 2021)
• Ernest Vincze was also cinematographer on thirty-eight stories (from Rose to The Waters of Mars)
• Liana Del Giudice was also film editor on the same adventures that Hawes directed
• George Gerwitz was also first assistant director on Rose, Aliens of London and World War Three
• Ray Holman was also costume designer on thirty-eight stories (from Blink to Revolution of the Daleks) and Torchwood
• Marie Brown was also the post-production supervisor (then co-ordinator) on eighty-eight episodes (from Rose to The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe), The Sarah Jane Adventures, Time Crash and Music of the Spheres
• VFX supervisor Jennifer Herbert of The Mill, was the 2D VFX artist on ten Series 1 adventures 
• Barbara Southcott was also make-up designer on fifty-nine episodes (from The Runaway Bride to the 2011 Christmas special), Time Crash and Music of the Spheres
• Pamela Mullins was also a make-up artist (then later supervisor) on fifty-six stories (from the 2006 Christmas special to The Wedding of River Song)
• script supervisor Sheila Johnston worked on continuity for Voyage of the Damned, Partners in Crime, The Fires of Pompeii, Planet of the Ood and The Unicorn and the Wasp

Mind Over Matter (UK TX: February 9 & 10)

• Michelle Collins (Katie) was Captain Kath McDonnell in 42
• Ellie Haddington (Ellen) was Professor Docherty in Last of the Time Lords
• Struan Rodger (McKay) provided the voice for the Face of Boe for New Earth and Gridlock, and was Clayton in The Woman Who Lived
• Jonathan Guy Lewis (Sam) voiced Marcus Bray for After the Daleks (2021)

That Old Black Magic (UK TX: February 16 & 17)

• Rakie Ayola (Yemi) was the Hostess in Midnight
• Nicholas Gecks (Croft) was Albert Dumfries in The Sound of Drums
• Louis Mahoney (Chris) and Michael Obiora (Lucas) both played Billy Shipton in Blink - the former also appeared as the Newscaster in Frontier in Space, and Ponti in Planet of Evil
• Tim Plester (Assistant) was a Servant in A Christmas Carol
• Brian Milliken was also sound recordist on The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Paul Heasman (an uncredited Nazi in Silver Nemesis, and stunt arranger on Survival) and Rocky Taylor (stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern) were both stunt co-ordinators here
• series first assistant director Peter Bennett was assistant on fourteen instalments, production manager on four episodes, then produced another six
• series electrician Scott Napier was later the gaffer on The Day of the Doctor

Doctor Who Vs. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

Tiger Aspect's sequel to 2002's

The Hound of the Baskervilles

was a brand new story (originally

titled The Deadly Season) written

for BBC1 by Allan Cubitt, set in

the foggy London of 1903, four-

teen years after the events in

Devonshire.

The case was first shown on

Boxing Day 2004 - the Great

Detective was now portrayed

by Rupert Everett. Ian Hart

reprised the role of Watson,

and Neil Dudgeon played

Lestrade. Hart starred as

Conan Doyle that year, in

Finding Neverland. The dark

mystery featured Michael Fassbender, Jonathan Hyde and fifteen

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Helen [Elizabeth] McCrory (Mrs. Vandeleur) was Rosana Calvierri in The Vampires of Venice (in The Hound of the Baskervilles novel, Holmes exposed the Stapletons, in reality a married couple who fled to England and adopted the name Vandeleur)
• Guy Henry (Bilney here; Sherlock in Young Sherlock) voiced Director Ikron for Big Finish's Infamy of the Zaross (2017)
• Christine [Mary] Kavanagh (Lady Helhoughton) was Aram in Timelash, then voiced Patience for Cold Fusion (2016), Dora Muse for Muse of Fire (2018), and Magog and Juno for The Iron Legion (2019)
• Andrew Wisher (Constable) was the Ghost in Reeltime's Daemos Rising, and voiced Armstrong for Nowhere Place, Reston for Purity (both 2006), and Malcolm Glass for Human Resources (2007)
• Julian [Neil Rohan] Wadham (Massingham) voiced Augustus Scullop for The Fourth Wall (2012), Joseph Holman for The Darkness of Glass (2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), and Judge Perigord Trent for The Doomsday Contract (2021)
• Stewart [John Llewellyn] Bevan (Proprietor) was Professor Clifford Jones in The Green Death, Global Conspiracy and Jo Grant Returns, then voiced BOSS for The Green Life (2019)
• Anthony Cozens (Constable here; Geek in A Scandal in Belgravia) was the Concierge in The Husbands of River Song
• Max Harvey (MC) was Cardinal Zorac in Arc of Infinity
• Greg Bennett (Constable here; Driver in A Scandal in Belgravia) was a Sycorax Warrior and UNIT Soldier in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
• Derek Lea was also a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways, The Age of Steel and Partners in Crime
• sound mixer Richard Manton worked on the film sound for The Daemons and The Mutants
• Jason Gill was also costume assistant on fourteen instalments (from The Christmas Invasion to The Wedding of River Song), Space and Time, then costume designer on Death is the Only Answer
• title designer Peter Anderson was the animation director on eight episodes (from Asylum of the Daleks to The Rings of Akhaten)
• for Karen Jones (script supervisor) and Julie Scott (production executive) see The Hound of the Baskervilles

Doctor Who Vs. Breaking Point

William Russell (born Russell William Enoch in

1924) followed his portrayal of Ian Chesterton with

the lead role in this long-lost thriller for BBC2, as

secret service agent Martin Kennedy.

Russell was an established television actor by the

time he was cast as Coal Hill School's science

teacher, and had already played the title roles in

five period dramas of the Fifties - St. Ives, The

Adventures of Sir Lancelot, Nicholas Nickleby,

David Copperfield and Hamlet. Russell's most

recent TV role was as Harry (pictured) in An Adventure in Space and Time.

The five-part espionage drama was screened in

October and November 1966, and Russell starred

here opposite twelve other Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

• producer Alan [James] Bromly (1915-1995) wad director of The Time Warrior and Nightmare of Eden
• director Douglas [Gaston Sydney] Camfield (1931-1984) was production assistant on 100,000 BC and Marco Polo, then director on fifty-two further episodes (from Planet of Giants to The Seeds of Doom)
• Malcolm Middleton was production designer on The Abominable Snowmen too 
• Richard [Gibbon] Hurndall (Sir Alfred) depicted the First Doctor in The Five Doctors
• Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (Stevens) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, Inspector Crossland in The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Big Finish's Night Thoughts (2006)
• Vernon [Alexandre] Dobtcheff (Hedworth) was an Alien Scientist in The War Games, and voiced Dadda Desaka for The Cradle of the Snake (2010), Sibelius Crow for The Necropolis Express, Shamur for The Children of Seth (both 2011), Professor Schumann for Threshold (2012), and Jorenzo Zorn for The Genesis Chamber (2016)
• Ves Delahunt (Servant) was a Thal in The Daleks (7), and UNIT Soldier in The Silurians
• Norman Hartley (Richard) and Michael Miller (Hines) both appeared in The Time Meddler, as Ulf and Wulnoth respectively, whilst Hartley was also Sergeant Peters in The Invasion
• Royston Tickner (Gregson) was Steinberger P Green in The Daleks' Master Plan (7), and Robbins in The Sea Devils (1)
• Roger Avon (Sergeant) was Saphadin in The Crusade, Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan (4), and Wells in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Lynda [born Lilian] Baron (uncredited Extra) recorded The Ballad  of the Last Chance Saloon (sung off screen) for The Gunfighters, was Captain Wrack in Enlightenment, and Val in Closing Time

Doctor Who Vs. The Skull

Shown again on the Talking Pictures TV

channel last night, this British horror

film was produced by Amicus founders

Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg

to challenge rival Hammer's dominance

in the genre.

Subotsky's screenplay was based on
Robert Bloch's short story, The Skull 
of the Marquis de Sade, and was the
writer's first collaboration with Amicus.

The Skull was released by Paramount in
late 1966, as a double bill with The Idol -
it featured horror icons Peter Cushing,

Christopher Lee and twenty-five Doctor

Who cast and crew alumni:

• Michael Gough (Auctioneer) played the titular villain in The Celestial Toymaker, and was Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity
• George Coulouris (Londe) was Arbitan in (episode 1 of) The Keys of Marinus
• Maurice Good (Pierre) was Phineas Clanton in The Gunfighters
• Peter Woodthorpe (Travers) voiced Joey Oxford for Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?
• Geoffrey Cheshire (Guard) was the Viking Leader in The Time Meddler, Garge in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tracy in The Invasion, and Roboman in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Jack Silk (Driver) was a stuntman on The Daemons (4)
• stuntman Peter Diamond was regular stunt double and fight arranger on the classic run (from The Daleks to The Daemons)
• Oswald Hafenrichter (film editor), Bill Constable (art director), Scott Slimon (set decorator), Ted Lloyd (production manager), Tom Priestley (sound editor), Jill Carpenter (make-up artist) and Henry Montsash (hairdresser) all worked on Dr. Who and the Daleks too
• John Wilcox (cinematographer), Anthony Waye (assistant director), Buster Ambler (sound recordist), John Cox (sound supervisor), Ted Samuels (SFX), David Harcourt (camera operator), Ray Jones (grip), Maurice Gillett (electrician), Jackie Cummins (wardrobe), Pamela Davies (continuity) and Bill Waldron (construction manager) all worked on both Dalek films too

Doctor Who Vs. Secret Smile

This psychological drama was produced by
Granada, and was based on the 2003 novel 
of the same name, by Nicci French, the
pseudonym of English husband and wife
crime writing team, Nicci Gerrard and Sean
French.

Following his roles in Casanova and the
remake of The Quatermass Experiment,
David Tennant starred here as antagonist
Brendan Block.

First screened on ITV in late 2005 (just 
before Tennant's full debut as the Doctor
in The Christmas Invasion), this two-
part thriller featured Claire Goose, and
seventeen further Doctor Who cast and
crew connections:

• Kate Ashfield (Miranda, pictured) voiced Beth Stokes for Big Finish's Enemy of the Daleks (2009)
• Rory [Michael] Kinnear (Nick) voiced Samuel Belfrage for Industrial Evolution (2011)
• Tim Faraday (Mick) was Tom's Dad in Fear Her
• Ella Kenion (Presenter) was Harriet in Let's Kill Hitler, and voiced Boudica for The Wrath of the Iceni (2012), and Romy for Equilibrium (2015)
• Charlie [Lomax David] Condou (Lawrence) voiced Crabhead/System/Jarl for Ravenous 1 (2018), and Chris for Faithful Friends (2025)
• Daniel Ryan [born O'Brien] (Prior) was Biff Cane in Midnight
• Ben Willbond (Friend) voiced Timothy Vee for The Age of Revolution (2013)
• George Potts (Vicar) voiced Ruben and Guard for The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (2015)
• Jake Polonsky was the cinematographer on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too
• composer Edmund Butt and Toby Wood (recording engineer) both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time in those capacities
• Stuart Walker was the production designer on The Savages too
• make-up artist Lisa Pickering was make-up assistant on (part 4 of) Warriors' Gate
• production buyer Pauline Seager was the assistant floor manager (AFM) on The Five Doctors
• Lisa McDiarmid (stand-by art director) and Antonia Grant (location scout) both worked on The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• Darren Leen was also a driver on Voyage of the Damned and The Unicorn and the Wasp

Doctor Who Vs. Casanova

This account of the life of the legendary 

Venetian adventurer, Giacomo Casanova
 (1725-1798) was scripted by Russell T 

Davies and co-executive produced with 

Julie Gardner.

Veteran Irish actor Peter O'Toole (1932 to
2013) portrayed the older Casanova, whilst
David Tennant's role as the younger man
led Davies to cast him in the lead of the
newly revived Doctor Who series.

BBC Wales' three-part comedy drama (a

co-production with Red and Granada TV)

was the Corporation's second version of

the famed libertine's life story, following

Dennis Potter's acclaimed mini-series,

shown in late 1971.

Originally broadcast on BBC3 in March

2005, then on BBC1 in April, Casanova

featured Matt Lucas, Rupert Penry

Jones, and thirty-seven Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Big Finish actor Nickolas Grace (Chancellor) made a brief TV appearance as Albert Einstein in Death is the Only Answer, and voiced Loozly for Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (2002), Straxus for Human Resources (2007), Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008), Viktor Skaarsgard and Balancer for Equilibrium (2015), Goole for The Gallery of Ghouls (2016), Professor Grove for Shadow Planet and World Apart, Chevalier D'Eon for The Sword of the Chevalier (alll 2017), and Kellman for Return of the Cybermen (2021)
• Shaun Parkes (Rocco) was Captain Zachary Cross Flane in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit - a role reprised for Torchwood (2021)
• Laura Fraser (Henriette) was Kane in Orphan 55
• [Oluwakemi] Nina Sosanya (Bellino) was Trish Webber in Fear Her, and voiced Captain Anna Maynard for Aquitaine (2016)
• [Celia] Daisy [Morna] Haggard (Coquette) was Sophie in The Lodger, Closing Time and Up All Night
• Raymond [Anthony] Coulthard (Ambassador) voiced Loki, Edgar and Hawks for Cobwebs (2010), Ralph and Acolyte for Suburban Hell, and Robac, Servers and Dalmari for The Destination Wars (2017)
• Annette Badland (Pauline) was Margaret Blaine [Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen] in Aliens of London, World War Three, Boom Town and Torchwood: 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)
• Dervla Kirwan (Mother) was Miss Hartigan in The Next Doctor, then reprised Andrea Quill for Class (2018)
• Zac Fox (Young Casanova) was the Photo-shoot PA in Asylum of the Daleks and The Angels Take Manhattan
• Ron Cook (Prisoner) was Mr. Magpie in The Idiot's Lantern
• Ewan Bailey (Doctor) provided Alien Voices for Voyage of the Damned, and voiced Count Licori for The Galileo Trap, Father Locke and Orbs for The Satanic Mill, McCallum and Grayson for The Case of the Missing Gasogene, Sergeant Quick Snr. for The Year of the Bat, Priest for The Mourning After (all 2015), Davy McTavit for The Helm of Awe, Blazzard and Copeland for The Morton Legacy, Dimitri Papkin for The Ship of the Sleepwalkers, Duncan for Aliens Among Us (all 2017), Sir Edward Cameron, Slitheen and Biggs for Death on th Mile, Computer, Evotech Kronin, Wendell, Rattus, Cab, Karsus Prime for Kings of Infinite Space (both 2018), and Hugo Blake for The Sinestran Kill (2019)
• Andrew Havill (Chancellor) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, and voiced Aleister Portillon and Squire Claude for The Witch in the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Graham Padden (Priest) was Pa in Gridlock
• Clare Higgins (Cook) was Ohila in The Night of the Doctor, The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar
• Angus Wright (Man-at-Arms) voiced Magnus Greel for The Butcher of Brisbane (2012), and Alek Zenos for We are the Daleks (2015)
• Mark Heap (Gozzi) voiced The Middleman for The Middle (2017)
• Matthew Holness (Landlord) voiced Eric Drazen for The Lure of the Nomad (2018)
• Glenna Morrison (Nanette) voiced Mary Patterson for Medicinal Purposes (2004)
• Tamzin Griffin (Noblewoman) voiced Negotiator Vresha for Dreamtime (2005)
• Vincent [Warren] Franklin (Nobleman) voiced Lord Stormblood for Scenes from Her Life (2016)
• Rosalie [Mae] Craig (Coquette) voiced Frances Drouet for Purity Unleashed (2023)
• Sheree Folkson was director of In the Forest of the Night too
• co-executive producers Michael Treen and Damien Timmer were the production manager on The Twin Dilemma, and an extra on An Adventure in Space and Time respectively
• film editor Nick Arthurs also edited The Curse of the Fatal Death then Hide
• Liz Griffiths was the set decorator on seven Series 1 stories too
• Steve Smith was also make-up artist on forty-one episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The Waters of Mars) and Music of the Sphere
• Susan Liggat was also first assistant director on Love & Monsters, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, then produced another eight instalments, and the pilot episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures
• recordist Nick Foley was ADR mixer on The Snowmen
• VFX compositor Simon Blackledge and Matt Wood both worked on A Town Called Mercy and The Power of Three - Wood was VFX supervisor on The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe too
• Samantha Hall was also post-production supervisor on fifty-one episodes (from New Earth to Flesh and Stone), Time Crash and Music of the Spheres
• Anna Lau was costume supervisor on nine instalments too
• Julie Scott was also production executive on seventy-seven stories (from The Runaway Bride to The Time of the Doctor), Time Crash, Music of the Spheres, Dreamland, City of the Daleks, Blood of the Cybermen, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and Doctor Who at the Proms
• stuntman Bill Davey was stunt co-ordinator on The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Love & Monsters and Turn Left
• stuntman Glenn Marks was stunt co-ordinator on Human Nature, The Family of Blood and Blink
• incidental music was provided by Murray Gold
• Glenn Coxon was also floor runner on Love & Monsters, Blink and Torchwood