Doctor Who Vs. Vigil, Series 1

World Productions' acclaimed

Scottish crime drama, created

 and written by Tom Edge, was

set on a Royal Navy nuclear

submarine.

Suranne Jones portrayed DCI

Silva, the detective assigned

to a murder investigation on-

board HMS Vigil.

The six-part thriller concluded

on BBC1 last night - it featured

Anjli Mohindra, Rose Leslie,

Shaun Evans, Martin Compston,

and twelve Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

• Jones played the titular subject in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge, then Idris in The Doctor's Wife
• 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
• Paterson [Davis] Joseph (Newsome) was Rodrick in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, then voiced Victor Espinosa for Earth Aid (2011), and Matthew for Torchwood One: Machines (2018)
• Adam James (Prentice) was DI Macmillan in Planet of the Dead
• Dan Li (Hennessy) was Alexei in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Grillo Clavik for The Genesis Chamber, Dokan for UNIT: Shutdown (both 2016), and Okada Shumei for The Barbarians and the Samurai (2018)
• Lois Chimimba (Tara) was Mabli in The Tsuranga Conundrum, and voiced Abby McPhail for Redacted, Euphemia for The Undying Truth (2020), and Bartholom for Solitary Confinement (2023)
• Oliver Lansley (Hill) was Jorj in World Enough and Time, and voiced Jack Ridpath for Chapel of Night (2017)
• Bhav Joshi (Deerborne) was Canterbury James Olliphant in Boom
• Andrew Burford was also stuntman on The Eaters of Light, The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon a Time, Kerblam!, The Witchfinders, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos and Spyfall (2)
• Xavier Lake (Trawlerman) was stuntman on The Woman Who Fell to Earth, Revolution of the Daleks and Class
• Alex Balmer was also digital compositor on twenty-nine stories (from Deep Breath to Oxygen) and Class
• Emma Dorward (draughtsperson) was art department trainee on Robot of Sherwood, Time Heist, Flatline, Dark Water and Class

Doctor Who Vs. Ashes to Ashes, Series 2

Another repeat run of BBC1's sequel series

to Life On Mars began on Drama last night.

Keeley Hawes, Philip Glenister, Dean Andrews,

Marshall Lancaster, and Montserrat Lombard

all reprised their respective roles (as DI Alex

Drake, DCI Gene Hunt, DS Ray Carling, DC

Chris Skelton, and WPC Shaz Granger) for the

second series of Ashes to Ashes, now set in

1982. The eight-part season (originally shown

from April to June 2009) featured Endeavour

actors Roger Allam and Shaun Evans, David

Bradley, and a total of forty Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Adrian Dunbar (Summers) voiced McCarthy for Big Finish's Brave New Town (2008)
• Syrus Lowe (PC) voiced Patrice Okereke for The Last Party on Earth (2019)
• Deirdre Mullins (Nurse) voiced Fleet Admiral Effenish for The Very Dark Thing (2016), Naomi Davies for Charlotte Pollard 2, Osen for Beneath the Viscoid (both 2017), Mab for Gifted (2018), Roisin and Spae Wife for Feast of Fear (2019), Amanda Latimer for The Headless Ones (2020), and Dalfin for The War Master 7 (2022)
• Pooky [born Joanna] Quesnel (Ruth) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol
• Joseph Millson (Battleford) was Alan Jackson in the first two seasons of The Sarah Jane Adventures, then voiced Colonel Keelan for Dalek Universe 3 (2021)
• Rory [Michael] Kinnear (Jeremy) voiced Samuel Belfrage for Industrial Evolution (2011)
• Robert Portal (Pattison) voiced Marshal Ney and Finch for The Curse of Davros (2012), Reggie Bassett for The Auntie Matter (2013), Jim and Midge for Lost Property, and Treadwell for Wild Animals (both 2020)
• Adrian Schiller (Lawyer) was Uncle in The Doctor's Wife, and voiced Zanith for Time Works (2006)
• Sara [Scott] Stewart [born Griffith] (Gaynor) provided the Computer voice for The End of the World
• Rita Davies (Mother) voiced Janneus for Primeval (2001), and Tashek for Innocence (2006)
• Ben Bishop (Man) voiced Johnny Stone for The Justice of Jalxar (2013), and Kenny White for Changing of the Guard (2014)
• Tom Georgeson (Mitchell) was Kavell in Genesis of the Daleks, and Police Inspector in Logopolis
• [Celia] Daisy [Morna] Haggard (Donna) was Sophie in The Lodger, Closing Time and Up All Night
• Gwilym Lee (Summers) voiced Count Rolf Wittenmeier for The Silver Turk (2011), Djahn and Lord Edgar Forster for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Pretty Swanson for Spaceport Fear, and Jack Hodges for Phantoms of the Deep (both 2013)
• Sophie Bleasdale (Donna) voiced Luux/Petra for Susan's War 2 (2024)
• John R Walker (Czarnecki) was Cured Patient in New Earth, Injured Man in Evolution of the Daleks, and Sales Rep in Planet of the Ood
• Mark Straker (Doctor) made his TV debut as the Second Trooper in Earthshock
• Michael Gould (Pathologist) voiced Frederick Lindemann for The Oncoming Storm (2016) 
• Greg Donaldson (Guard) voiced Telligan for Dalek Empire 3 (2004), Coach Bela Destry for The Game (2005), and David for Power Play (2012)
• Simon Sherlock (Bent Copper) voiced Kelsa for The Raincloud Man (2008)
• Sophie Duval (Cleaner) was Mum in Resolution
• Chris Pollard (Doyle) was a stuntman on Robot of Sherwood
• new line producer Patrick Schweitzer first worked on the revived series as location manager on The Runaway Bride, then was production manager on six stories for Series 3, and produced all thirteen episodes of Series 5
• Simon Archer was cinematographer on The Lodger too
• Toby Wood (score engineer) and Ian Adrian both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time - Adrian was also a camera operator on The Vampires of Venice, The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, Vincent and the Doctor and The Lodger 
• production co-ordinator Holly Pullinger was PM on The Eleventh Hour, The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor
• stunt co-ordinator Crispin Layfield has held that post on sixty-seven instalments of the revived series (from Smith and Jones to Kerblam!)
• Stephanie Carey was also a stunt performer on Voyage of the Damned, The Beast Below, The Curse of the Black Spot, Let's Kill Hitler, The Girl Who Waited, The Angels Take Manhattan and The Crimson Horror
• for Hawes, Geff Francis, Joseph Long, Matthew Graham, Beth Willis, Julie Scott, Catherine Morshead, Edmund Butt, Simon Blackledge, Antonia Grant and Derek Lea see my blog for Series 1