Doctor Who Vs. Scandal

This British drama is a fictionalised
account of the Profumo affair that
rocked the British government in
1963, and premiered at the Cannes
Film Festival.
The theme song Nothing Has Been
Proved was penned and produced
by Pet Shop Boys and performed

by Dusty Springfield.
Dr. Stephen Ward (depicted here
by John Hurt) courted the rich
and famous at his London practice,
and even moved in royal circles.
He lived on the Astor's family estate
of Cliveden, and in 1961 at a party
there, Ward introduced married Tory
minister John Profumo (portrayed by
Ian McKellen) to showgirl Christine Keeler (Joanne Whalley).

They embarked on an affair, but Keeler was also sleeping with a

known Soviet spy, Captain Eugene Ivanov (Jeroen Krabbe), and

Ward observed there was the potential to start 'World War Three'.
Profumo (1915-2006) was forced to resign after lying in Parliament,

but Ward became the scapegoat for the scandal. Having supplied the

 social elite with prostitutes, he was charged with living off immoral

earnings.
The most famous moment of the osteopath's Old Bailey trial came

when his former mistress, Mandy Rice Davis (Bridget Fonda) gave

evidence. When told that Lord Astor (Leslie Phillips) had denied

paying her for sex, she replied "Well, he would wouldn't he?" When

Ward was found guilty, the accused lay in a coma following a suicide

attempt and he died days later.

The first television retelling of the story, The Trial of Christine Keeler,
was shown on BBC1 in December 2019. Originally developed for TV

 in the mid 1980s, Scandal was rejected by the BBC then Channel 4,

but was eventually released by Palace Pictures  in early 1989 - it 

featured eleven other Doctor Who cast alumni:

• McKellen provided the voice of the Great Intelligence for The Snowmen, and had a cameo in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
• Paul Brooke (DS John) voiced Toby for Big Finish's Year of the Pig (2006)
• Carry On actor Phillips voiced Robert Knox for Medicinal Purposes (2004), and Assassin in the Limelight (2008) - he worked with Hurt again in King Ralph
• Ronald [Gordon] Fraser (Justice Marshall) was Joseph C in The Happiness Patrol
• Iain Cuthbertson (Lord Hailsham) was Garron in The Ribos Operation
• Sarah Prince (Secretary) was Karuna in Kinda
• Raad Rawi (Aziz) voiced Prince Haasan Al-Nadyr for Who Killed Toby Kinsella? (2016), Bishop Nicholas for Ravenous 2 (2018), and Tubal, Maygo and King Hiarbas of Tunis for The Phoenicians (2019)
• Malcolm Terris (Gent) was Etnin in (episode 1 of) The Dominators, and the Co-Pilot in The Horns of Nimon
• Tariq Yunus (Khan) was Cass in The Robots of Death
• Tina Simmons (Critic) made her TV debut as an Inferno Customer in The War Machines (1)
• camera operator Simon Archer was the cinematographer on The Lodger

Doctor Who Vs. Quatermass II

My first exposure to the work of Nigel Kneale

was viewing the rerun of the third episode of

this classic thriller. The Food was repeated as

part of BBC2's The Lime Grove Story in August

1991.

The second Quatermass serial is the earliest to
survive in its entirety in the BBC archives, and
was commissioned to directly challenge the

new ITV network - launched in September 

1955.

Here, Professor Bernard Quatermass (now
portrayed by John Robinson) investigates a

secret plant in Northern England - he uncovers

the alien infiltration of the highest levels of the

British government.

Kneale (1922-2006) was influenced by the

damaging effects of industrialisation and

government corruption by big business, foreshadowing globalisation.

The writer again collaborated with director Rudolph Cartier (1904-1994), and since The Quatermass Experiment in 1953, they had

adapted Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Kneale's own The

Creature (both starred Peter Cushing).

This location filming was the most ambitious ever undertaken for a

British TV drama, and the new production was transmitted live from

Studio G at Lime Grove. The six-part sci-fi epic was again shown on

Saturday nights in October and November 1955 - it featured Roger Delgado, and sixteen other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Cyril [Leonard] Shaps (Assistant) was John Viner in The Tomb of the Cybermen, Lennox in The Ambassadors of Death, Professor Herbert Clegg in (part 1 of) Planet of the Spiders, and the Archimandrite in The Androids of Tara
• [John] Brian Moorehead (Guard/Paratrooper) was Guard in State of Decay (3), Gundan in Warriors' Gate (3), and Guest in Snakedance
• [Robert] Michael Bilton and [George] Reginald Jessup (Technicians) both appeared in The Massacre, as Charles de Teligny and Servant respectively - Bilton was also Collins in Pyramids of Mars, and Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin, whilst Jessup was Lord Savar in The Invasion of Time
• Patrick Carter (Ambulance Man) was the Bosun in The Chase (3)
• Harry Brooks (Guard/Sergeant) was both Cybermen Krang and Talon in The Tenth Planet
• Melvyn Hayes [born Hyams] (Frankie) voiced Wilkin for Shada (2003), and the titular aliens for Big Finish's The Scorchies (2013)
• Michael [Brabazon] Rathbone (Worker) was a Taxi Driver in The War Machines (2)
• Denis [Joseph] McCarthy (Doctor) provided the voice of Controller Rinberg in The Moonbase (2)
• John Herrington (Riot Extra here, Stall Owner in Quatermass and the Pit) was Rhynmal in The Daleks' Master Plan (5), and Holden in Colony in Space (2)
• George [William] Tovey (Worker) was Ernie Clements in Pyramids of Mars
• for Malcolm Watson, Jack Kine, Bernard Wilkie and Michael Leeston Smith see The Quatermass Experiment
• design assistant Darrol Blake was director of The Stones of Blood

Doctor Who Vs. Space 1999, Series 2

Another repeat run of ITC Entertain-
ment's second and final, twenty-four
part season (which included scripts
from Terrance Dicks and Pip and

Jane Baker) began on the Horror

channel last night - it featured

Patrick Troughton, Bernard

Cribbins, Geoffrey Bayldon, and

a total of forty-one other Doctor

Who cast connections:

• for Zienia Merton (Benes), Catherine Schell (Maya), Isla Blair (Carla), Brian Blessed (Mentor), Annie Lambert (Operative), Alf Joint (Overseer), Robert Rietty (Sphere Voice), Shane Rimmer (Section Voice) and Alan Harris (Prisoner) see Series 1
• Bayldon (Number 8) is the oldest actor to portray the Doctor in any medium - he was 79 when he starred in Big Finish's Unbound plays Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005) - he was also Organon in The Creature from the Pit
• Nick Brimble (Torens) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
• Roy Stewart (Alien) was Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen, and Tony in Terror of the Autons
• Laurence Harrington (Jackson/Stewart) was Lunar Guard in (episode 3 of) Frontier in Space
• Tim Condren (Clansman) was Saxon Warrior in The Time Meddler (4), Soldier in The Web of Fear (4), and Guerilla in Day of the Daleks (1)
• Peter Brayham (Clansman/Garth/Guard) was stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• Terry [Anthony] Walsh (Guard/Pilot/Technician) was a stunt/fight arranger, stunt double and uncredited extra on a total of seventy instalments of the original run (from The Smugglers to The Creature from the Pit)
• Bernard Kay (Humanoid) 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 Night Thoughts (2006)
• John Standing (Pasc) voiced Fenric for Gods and Monsters (2012), and Professor Threadstone for Vampire of the Mind (2016)
• John Alkin (Johnson) and Dallas Adams (Sam) both appeared in Planet of Fire, as Lomand (1) and Professor Howard Foster
• Roy Marsden (Alien/Crael) was Mr. Stoker in Smith and Jones
• Godfrey James (Transporter) was Tarn in Underworld
• Sarah Douglas (B) voiced Gillen for Masters of War (2008), and Vortia Trear for The Lives of Captain Jack (2017)
• Harry Fielder (Medic/Guard/Gerry/George/Surveyor) was Guard (in serials PP, ZZZ, 4L, 4P, 5A, 5F, 5Z), Crewman (SS, 4T), Vogan (4D), Assassin (4Q), Tigellan (5Q), and Krarg for Shada
• Lloyd McGuire (Engineer) and Brendan Price (Guard) both starred in The Face of Evil, as Lugo and Tomas
• Tony Osoba (Guard) was Lan in Destiny of the Daleks, Kracauer in Dragonfire, and Duke in Kill the Moon
• Trevor Thomas (Pilot) made his TV debut as a Child in The Cave of Skulls
• Andrew Lodge (Grasshopper) was an Assistant in The Savages
• Nick Hobbs (Guard) made uncredited appearances in The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Day of the Daleks, The Time Monster, both Peladon stories (as Aggedor), The Ark in Space, then Mr. Nainby in Amy's Choice
• David Prowse (Cloud Creature) was the Minotaur in The Time Monster
• Gregory de Polnay (Garforth) was D84 in The Robots of Death, and voiced V23 for Storm Mine (2004)
• Jeremy Young (Bartlett) was Kal in 100,000 BC, and Gordon Lowery in Mission to the Unknown
• Carolyn Seymour [born Von Benckendorff] (Eva) voiced Mordrega for The Ghosts of Gralstead (2014), Freda Mattingly for Prisoners of the Lake, Mrs. Multravers for The Haunting, the Slave for The War Doctor 1 (all 2015), Mrs. Whitaker for The Chartwell Metamorphosis, Lady Suzanne Clare for The New Counter Measures 1 (both 2016), Mrs. Stubbs for Ghost Walk (2018), the Commodore and Mrs. Kidd for Fever Island (2019), and Mrs. Plymtree for The Devil's Hoofprints (2021)
• James Snell (Stevens) was Harry in The Daemons
• Caroline Munro (Girl) voiced Sentia for Omega (2003)
• Paul Jerricho (Guard) was the Castellan in Arc of Infinity and The Five Doctors
• Alibe Parsons (Alibe) was Matroni Kani in Mindwarp, then voiced Nora for The Lost Resort and Other Stories (2021)
• Nadim Sawalha (Zoran) voiced Swapnil Khan for The Magic Mousetrap (2009), and the Old Man for 1001 Nights (2012)
• Roy Boyd (Lustig) was Driscoll in The Hand of Fear
• Roy Scammell (Animal) was UNIT Soldier and Technician in The Ambassadors of Death, RSF Soldier in Inferno, stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1), Prison Officer and UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, and stunt arranger on Delta and the Bannermen (1)

Doctor Who Vs. Space 1999, Series 1

 

This Anglo-Italian production was the final science-fiction TV series

 from the prolific Gerry and Sylvia Anderson partnership, and owed

much of its visual design to pre-production for the unrealised second

run of Century 21's UFO (shown from 1970 to 1973). The Andersons

reworked the UFO: 1999 premise, and the project (the most

expensive made for British television up to then) was picked up by 

Group Three Productions, ITC and RAI.

The American married couple Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were 

cast as leads John Koenig and Helena Russell, and shooing began in

late 1973. The drama premiered on ITV in September 1975, but

 wasn't broadcast in all UK regions until 1998 when repeated on 

BBC2.
Another repeat run of the first, twenty-four part season concluded

on the Horror channel tonight - it also featured Nick Tate (as Alan

Carter), Prentis Hancock (Paul Morrow), Zienia Merton (Sandra

Benes), Louise Jameson, Peter Cushing, and a total of forty-

one Doctor Who cast connections:

• Johnny [Christopher] Byrne was also writer of The Keeper of Traken, Arc of Infinity and Warriors of the Deep
• Hancock was a Reporter in (episode 1 of) Spearhead from Space, Vaber in Planet of the Daleks, Salamar in Planet of Evil, and the Captain in The Ribos Operation
• Merton was Ping Cho in Marco Polo, and the Registrar in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
• Catherine Schell [born Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott] (Servant here; Maya in Series 2) was Countess Scarlioni in City of Death
• Philip [Arvon] Madoc (Gorski) was Brockley in Daleks: Invasion 2150 AD, Eelek in The Krotons, the War Lord in The War Games, Dr. Mehendri Solon in The Brain of Morbius, Fenner in The Power of Kroll, and voiced Rag Cobden for Big Finish's Return of the Krotons (2009), and Victor Schaeffer for Master (2003)
• Shane Rimmer (Pilot/Voice of Bannion/Kelly here; Section Voice in Series 2) was Seth Harper in The Gunfighters
• Alan Harris (Alphan/Operative here; Prisoner in Series 2) was a Sevateem in The Face of Evil, and a titular alien in Terror of the Vervoids
• Alf [Charles Richard] Joint (Steiner/Alphan/Guard) was a Heavy in The Ambassadors of Death (1), and stunt arranger on Battlefield
• Roy [Edwin] Scammell (Nordstrom) was UNIT Soldier, Peterson and Technician in The Ambassadors of Death, RSF Soldier/Sentry in Inferno, Technician in Terror of the Autons (4), Prison Officer, UNIT Motorcyclist/Soldier in The Mind of Evil, and stunt arranger on Delta and the Bannermen (1)
• Christopher Matthews (Operative) was Radar Technician in The Tenth Planet
• Maxwell Craig (Guard/Operative/Astronaut) was Fighter in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• John Hamill (Dominix) was Shrieve in The Ribos Operation
• Andy [George] Dempsey (Operative) was Atlantean Guard in The Time Monster, and Lugo's Warrior in The Face of Evil
• Vincent Wong [born Vivian Warren Chen] (Medic/Fujita) was Ho in The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Chinese Delegate in Day of the Daleks, and Captain in Enlightenment
• Annie Lambert (Operative) was Enlightenment in Four to Doomsday
• Michael Stevens (Operative) was a Soldier in The Myth Makers (1), Daffodil Man in Terror of the Autons (3), UNIT Motorcyclist and Prisoner in The Mind of Evil, and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (1)
• Isla Blair (Alien here; Carla in Series 2) was Lady Isabella Fitz- william in The King's Demons, and voiced Paula for Exotron (2007)
• Brian Blessed (Dr. Rowland here; Mentor in Series 2) was King Yrcanos in Mindwarp
• John [Morley] Shrapnel (Captain Tanner) voiced Thomas Cromwell for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and Nigel Colloon for The False Guardian and Time's Assassin (both 2019)
• Barbara [Rosalind] Bermel (Thulian) was Villager in Planet of the Spiders (1) and The Android Invasion (1), Masquer in The Masque of Mandragora (4), Sevateem in The Face of Evil (1), Rebel in The Sun Makers (1), Court Lady in The Androids of Tara (1), and Lazar in Terminus (1)
• Adrienne Burgess (Revered One) was Veet in The Sun Makers
• Dave Murphy (Thulian) was a studio engineer on Warriors' Gate (1)
• Julian Glover (Jarak) was King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• Rula Lenska [born Roza Maria Leopoldyna Lubienska] (Joan) was [Dr. Elizabeth] Styles in Resurrection of the Daleks
• Susan Jameson (Mackie) was cast as Morgan in Colony in Space but was replaced by Tony Caunter - she voiced Mrs. Moynihan for The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (2000), then Mrs. Wibsey for Audio- Go's Hornets' Nest (2009), Demon Quest (2010) and Serpent Crest (2011) series
• Michael [Lawson] Sheard [born Perkins] (Dr. King) was Rhos in The Ark (2), Dr. Roland Summers in The Mind of Evil, Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars, Lowe in The Invisible Enemy, Mergrave in Castrovalva, the Headmaster in Remembrance of the Daleks, Chief Baxter in Fury from the Deep (2002), then voiced Orsino for The Stones of Venice (2001)
• Robert Rietty [born Lucio Herbert Rietti] (Voice of Cellini/Voice of Mateo/Voice of Ferro here; Sphere Voice in Series 2) voiced Bedloe for Death Comes to Time
• Robert Russell (Hadin) was a Guard in The Power of the Daleks, and the Caber in Terror of the Zygons
• Ron Tarr (Survivor) was a Prisoner in Destiny of the Daleks
• Jon [St. Alban] Laurimore [born Livermore] (Smitty) was Count Federico in The Masque of Mandragora
• Gareth [born Alan Leonard] Hunt (Pilot) was Arak in Planet of the Spiders
• John Gleeson [born Quatermaine] (Voice of Davis) was a Thal Soldier in Genesis of the Daleks (6), and Charles Winlett in The Seeds of Doom
• Martin [Ryan] Grace (Guard) was a Thal in Dr. Who and the Daleks
• Joy Harrison (Operative) was Jill Tarrant in Death to the Daleks
• Oliver Cotton (Spearman) voiced Sir Gideon Hale for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), and Major Callahan for Quicksilver (2017)
• [Frederick] Alan Meacham (Sandos)  was Servant in The Massacre (4), and Technician in The Silurians (1)
• [Cathal] Max [Parnell Macaulay Lloyd] Faulkner (Clifford) was a UNIT Soldier in The Ambassadors of Death, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (1), Miner in The Monster of Peladon (6), Guard Captain in Planet of the Spiders (4), Thal Guard in Genesis of the Daleks (3), Crewman in Planet of Evil (1), Corporal Adams in The Android Invasion, and Nesbin in The Invasion of Time
• James Snell (Cousteau) was Harry in The Daemons
• Valentino Musetti (Mateo) was Mongol Bandit in Marco Polo (5), Saracen Warrior in The Crusade (1), Egyptian in The Daleks' Master Plan, Prisoner in The Mind of Evil, and Extra in Colony in Space (1) and The Time Monster (1)
• [Thomas] Kevin [Harvest] Stoney (Talos) was Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion, and Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen
• stuntman Rick Lester stunts was an Ogron in Day of the Daleks, Carnival of Monsters (2) and Frontier in Space

The Genesis of Doctor Who

After reading Timeless Adventures:
How Doctor Who Conquered TV by
Brian J Robb, I concluded just how
fortunate Whovians are that the
show was produced at all.

In March 1962, Eric Maschwitz 
(1901-1969), assistant to then
Controller of Programmes, Stuart
Hood, assigned Alice Frick and
Donald Bull of the BBC Survey
Group to prepare a feasibility study
into the creation of a science fiction
series. A second report by Frick and
 John Braybon recommended a
time travel format.

Sci-fi buff Sydney Newman began
work as new Head of Drama for BBC
 TV that December, and was soon
expanding Frick's work with Donald 
Wilson and C E Webber.
But the old guard at Television Centre were determined for 'Dr.

Who' to fail, and only for it's defenders - key personnel Verity

 Lambert, David Whitaker, Anthony Coburn, and Waris

Hussein - then the embryonic show would have fallen at the

first hurdle.

Fast forward to the transmission of the first Dalek adventure in

December 1963 - the Corporation's powers-that-be thankfully

reacted by abandoning the show's intended thirten-week lifespan.

Only after reading the production notes on The Rescue DVD did I

learn that by August 1964, Donald Baverstock again wanted to

 revert the Doctor Who contract to just 13 weeks, and cancel the

show when all remaining stories finished in January 1965.

Only when Lambert and William Hartnell's agent dug in their

heels did Baverstock finally agree to another, twenty-six-week

run, by which time the programme's long term future was

secured.

The threat of cancellation would however revisit the show in

 times of crisis. As The War Games concluded the black and 

white era in 1969, the BBC considered a six year run to have

been a good innings and there was some internal debate about

whether to axe Doctor Who. 

The lowest point in the show's history was the 'hiatus' of 1985

when Michael Grade 'rested' the Doctor's adventures for eighteen

months, then the end finally arrived in 1989 with outright can-

cellation.

It's hard to believe that the programme could have ended after

The Dalek Invasion of Earth (just fifty-one episodes), and was

so close to becoming a footnote in TV history. 

Doctor Who Vs. The Second Coming

This acclaimed Northern morality tale was

written by executive producer Russell T

Davies, who cast Salford-born Christopher

Eccleston in the lead role of Stephen Baxter.

Long-serving Doctor Who composer Murray Gold provided the music here too. Both he

and Davies were nominated for Royal

Television Society awards, whilst Eccleston
earned a BAFTA Best Actor nomination.

Originally commissioned by Channel 4 in
1999, and later turned down by the BBC,
The Second Coming was eventually made

by Red Productions for ITV over the summer
of 2002. 

Following a drunken night-out in Manchester,
Baxter disappears for forty days and nights.
He is found wandering Saddleworth Moor,

and claims to be the 'second coming' of

Jesus, the Son of God. After performing a

modern-day miracle at Manchester City's

Maine Road stadium (turning night into day), he proclaims to the

world's media that he has just five days to find the human race's

 Third Testament, and avert the Apocalypse.

Granada's Liverpool-based drama Springhill, also penned by Davies,

ended it's run in 1997 with a recital of The Second Coming by WB

Yeats, and was essentially a story of good-versus-evil too.
Screened over two consecutive nights in February 2003, this drama

also featured Tim Woodward, Peter Wight, and thirteen other Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Lesley Sharp [born Karen Makinson] (Judith) played Sky Silvestry in Midnight  - she also worked with Eccleston on Clocking Off and The Shadow Line, and with Davies on Bob & Rose)
• Mark Benton (Tyler) was Clive Finch in Rose and Big Finish's The Dimension Cannon (2020), and voiced Ellis for Invaders from Mars (2002), and Jack Coulson for Energy of the Daleks (2012)
• Rory [Michael] Kinnear (Dillane) voiced Samuel Belfrage for Industrial Evolution (2011)
• Ace [Ahsen Rafiq] Bhatti (Gupta) was Haresh Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Jennifer Hennessy [born Hayes] (Reporter) was Valerie in Gridlock, and Moira in The Pilot and Extremis
• Angel Coulby (PC Fraser) was Katherine in The Girl in the Fireplace
• Ray Emmet Brown (Nurse) voiced No. 16 for House of Blue Fire (2011)
• Denise Black [born Dixon] (Rachel) voiced Eva Jericho for Damaged Goods, Control for Rise and Shine (both 2015), and Mrs. Mountford for The Haunting of Malkin Place (2017)
• stunt co-ordinator Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, an Attendant in Vengeance on Varos, and doubled for Peter Davison in Warriors of the Deep
• Rick English was a stuntman on Tooth and Claw too
• Davy Jones was also make-up designer on fifteen adventures (from Rose to Cold Blood)
• associate producer Des Hughes was line producer on eight stories (from The Snowmen to The Time of the Doctor), and had a cameo in The Five(ish) Doctors
• SFX supervisor Graham Brown was a SFX assistant on Resurrection of the Daleks and Attack of the Cybermen, uncredited VFX assist- ant on (part 4 of) Full Circle, The Five Doctors, The Caves of Androzani (4) and Revelation of the Daleks (2), then VFX designer on The Curse of Fenric

Doctor Who Vs. A Very British Coup

Published in 1981, this novel by Chris

Mullin (Labour MP for Sunderland South

from 1987 to 2010) explored the term

of beleaguered left-wing Prime Minister,

Harry Perkins. The story was first adapted

by Alan Plater for Channel 4 in 1988.

Here, against all the odds, working-class

MP for Sheffield Central and leader of the

Labour party Perkins (portrayed by Ray

McAnally) becomes Prime Minister.

Elected on a mandate of open government,
Perkins vows to dismantle Britain's nuclear
deterrent and media monopolies, but is soon
faced with an Establishment coup planned
by MI5, the CIA and right-wing press barons.

The book was written at a time when Tony
Benn (1925-2014), a fierce opponent of the Conservative regime, looked likely to become Labour's deputy leader.

The storyline was also informed by rumours (only confirmed in 1986)

 that the security services had plotted to depose Harold Wilson in the

mid-seventies.

This landmark political drama was reworked as Secret State in 2012,

and Mullins is working on a sequel. The original three-part series won

four BAFTA awards and an International Emmy (was finally released

on DVD in 2011), and featured Caroline John, Geoffrey Beevers,

Keith Allen, and seventeen other Doctor Who cast connections:

• Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (Page) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, DI Crossland in The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Big Finish's Night Thoughts (2006)
• Hugh Martin (Sampson) was Munro in Terror of the Zygons, and the Priest in Vengeance on Varos
• Tim McInnerny (Fiennes) was Halpen in Planet of the Ood, and voiced Admiral Dolne for The Well-Mannered War (2015)
• Christine [Mary] Kavanagh (Liz) was Aram in Timelash, and voiced Patience for Cold Fusion (2016), Dora Muse for Muse of Fire (2018), and Magog and Juno for The Iron Legion (2019)
• David McKail (Robertson) was Sergeant Kyle in The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Shane Rimmer (US Secretary of State) was Seth Harper in The Gunfighters
• Clive [Robert] Merrison (Interviewer) was Jim Callum in The Tomb of the Cybermen, and the Deputy Chief Caretaker in Paradise Towers, and voiced George Augustus for The Contingency Club (2017)
• Philip [Arvon] Madoc (Fison) was Eelek in The Krotons, the War Lord in The War Games, Dr. Mehendri Solon in The Brain of Morbius, Fenner in The Power of Kroll, Brockley in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD, then voiced Victor Schaeffer for Master (2003), and Rag Cobden for Return of the Krotons (2009)
• Jeremy Young (Alford) was Kal in 100,000 BC, and Gordon Lowery in Mission to the Unknown
• Stephanie Fayerman (Editor) was McLuhan in Dragonfire
• Jim [Edward] Carter (Newsome) voiced Brother Bernard for The Book of Kells (2011)
• [David] Roger Brierley (Andrews) was Trevor in (episode 8 of) The Daleks' Master Plan, and voiced Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• Preston [Rginald Herbert] Lockwood (Fain) was Dojjen in Snakedance
• Barbara Ward (Reporter) was Ruth Baxter in Terror of the Vervoids
• Jessica [born Judith] Carney (Maureen) is the grand-daughter of William Hartnell and the author of his 1996 biography Who's There? (she was depicted in An Adventure in Space and Time by Cara Jenkins)
• Julian Fox (Porter) was Peter Hamilton in Death to the Daleks
• Zulema [Noel] Dene [born Walliker] (Vision Mixer) voiced Danna for Soldier Obscura (2018)
• Ernest Vincze was also the cinematographer on thirty-eight adventures (from Rose to The Waters of Mars)

Doctor Who Vs. Waking the Dead, Series 4

Bayldon's Unbound First Doctor
recreated for Colin Brockhurst's
Changing the Face of Doctor
 Who artwork

Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil

Johnson, Holly Aird, and Claire

Goose all returned for the fourth

season of BBC1's crime drama,

which first aired in the summer

of 2004.

The finale saw the death of DS

Mel Silver (Goose), and the

departure of Aird's Dr. Frankie

Wharton.

Following an International Emmy
award nomination for series two,
and the Drama Series award won
a year later, the programme was

recommissioned for two further

 seasons, with an increased episode count.

Another repeat run of the

twelve-part series began on

Drama last night - it featured

 Geoffrey Bayldon, Stephen Noonan, and a total of forty

Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

In Sight of the Lord

(UK TX: July 11 & 12)

• Clive Standen (Raynor) was Private Harris in The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and Turn Left
• JJ [John Joseph] Feild (Western) voiced David McCallister for Big Finish's Blue Forgotten Planet (2009)
• Richard [born Derek Leonard] Mayes (Raynor) was Chief Baxter in Fury from the Deep
• Alibe Parsons (Carmen) was Matroni Kani in Mindwarp
• Clive Wood (Clayton here; Carney in Series 9) was the Roman Commander in The Pandorica Opens, and Voiced Rugosa for The Rosemariners (2012), Dibbsworth for Peepshow (2019), Bird for Must-See TV (2020), and Daddy Dominus and Clubwell for For the Glory of Urth (2021)
• Charles Jarman was a stuntman on The Lazarus Experiment too
• series associate producer Michael Treen was production manager on The Twin Dilemma
• Adam Trotman was the film editor on Last Christmas too

False Flag (UK TX: July 18 & 19)

• Timothy [Lancaster] West (Doyle) voiced Kai Tobias for Phobos (2007), Ronald Turvey for Cuddlesome (2008), and Dr. Magnus Soames for House of Blue Fire (2011)
• Danny Webb (Havering) was John Jefferson in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Byron for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Ori for The Dark Husband (2008)
• Tom Georgeson (Cooper) was Kavell in Genesis of the Daleks, and Police Inspector in Logopolis
• Dan Morgan (Doyle) voiced Locke and Warders for The Infinite Quest
• Peter De Jersey (Reed) was Androgar in The Day of the Doctor
• Oliver Cotton (Stewart) voiced Sir Gideon Vale for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), and Major Callahan for Quicksilver (2017)

Fugue States (UK TX: July 25 & 26)

• Denise Black [born Nixon] (Ingrid) voiced Eva Jericho for Damaged Goods, Control for Rise and Shine (both 2015), and Mrs. Mountford for The Haunting of Malkin Place (2017)
• Silas Carson (DI Crowther) provided Alien voices for The End of the World, then Ood voices for The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood, The End of Time, Pond Life and Big Finish's Prisoner of the Ood and The War Master 2, Arbuckle for The Jabari Countdown (all 2018), the Sicari for Assassins, Commentator for Warzone (both 2019), Garlon Rosh for The Robots of War, and Brian for He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not (both 2020)
• Patrick O'Kane (Murphy) was Ashad in The Haunting of Villa Diodati, Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children
• Rocky Taylor was a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern too
• dialogue editor Doug Sinclair was the sound editor on forty-two revived series episodes (from Rose to The Waters of Mars), Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and The Infinite Quest

Anger Management (UK TX: August 1 & 2)

• [Peter] Nigel Terry (Jacobs) was General Cobb in The Doctor's Daughter
• Andrew Tiernan (Keetch) was Mr. Purcell in Night Terrors
• Eva Alexander [born Sarah Jane Alexander] (Lucy) was the Nurse in Let's Kill Hitler
• TP [Thomas Patrick] McKenna (Brown) was Captain Cook in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 
• April Walker (Mrs Hayworth) was originally cast as Sarah Jane Smith in 1973, and even attended rehearsals for The Time Warrior
• series production manager Christian Reynish was location manager on The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood

The Hardest Word (UK TX: August 8 & 9)

• Phil Daniels (DS Bulmer) voiced Geoffrey Plum for The Gunpowder Plot
• Julian [Wyatt] Glover (Laurence) was King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• Phyllida [Ann] Law (Mrs. Carstairs) voiced Belldonia for The Bride of Peladon (2008)
• Emma [Georgina Annalies] Fielding (Dr. Simpson) provided the voice of Kisar in Demons of the Punjab 
• James [Louis de Zogheb] Dreyfus (Raymond) voiced the Master for The Destination Wars (2017) and Solo (2022), The Home Guard (2019) and The Psychic Circus (2020), and the High Persian for The Cats of New Cairo (2018)
• Paul Reynolds (DS Marvin) voiced Nobody No-One for The Word Lord, Joey Carlisle for Casualties of War (both 2008), and Lyam Yce for Absolute Power (2016) 
• Damian Lynch (PC Green) voiced Benjamin Chikoto for Ghost in the Machine (2013), Curbishley for Masters of Earth, Michael Newman for An Ordinary Life (both 2014), Scott Delaney for Damaged Goods, Marshall for Requiem for the Rocket Men, Death Match (all 2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), Ego for Planet X, Fell and Lom for The Star Men, Kieran Frost for The Torchwood Archive (all 2016) and Before the Fall (2017), and Rasmus for Deeptime Frontier (2019), Dark Universe and Susan's War (both 2020)

Shadowplay (UK TX: August 15 & 16)

• Paul Kaye (Dr. Carney) was Albar Prentis in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Lucy Gaskell (Fay) was Kathy Nightingale in Blink, then voiced Miskavel for The Eleven (2021)
• Kenneth [Charles] Cope (Harding) was Packard in Warriors' Gate
• Lois Baxter (QC Joyce) was Lamia in The Androids of Tara, and voiced Carrion for Circular Time: Spring (2007)
• Paul Smith was also the prop master on fifteen instalments (from Asylum of the Daleks to The Day of the Doctor)
• series unit manager Christian Reynish was location manager on The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
• Simon Clark was the sound recordist on An Adventure in Space and Timetoo
• series assistant sound mixer Andy Hagon was the foley mixer on The Empty Child
• Warwick Drucker was additional grip on Rose and Aliens of London too