Doctor Who Vs. Code of a Killer

This two-part drama from World Productions

centred on the true story of Professor Alex 

Jeffrey's discovery of DNA fingerprinting and 

its first application by Chief Superintendent

 David Baker in catching a double murderer.

Jeffreys (portrayed here by John Simm), a 

pioneering geneticist based at the University 

of Leicester, and DCS Baker (David Threlfall) 

achieved the single biggest leap in criminal investigative history by using the world's

 first mass DNA screening programme, which

 led to the conviction of Colin Pitchfork in 1988.

First screened in April 2015, Code of a Killer

was repeated on ITV last night - it featured

Anna Madeley, and seventeen Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• James Strong was also the 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
• Big Finish actor Siobhan Redmond (Joy) voiced Talin for Revenge of the Swarm, then the titular renegade for The Rani Elite (both 2014), and Planet of the Rani (2015)
• Paul [Mackriell] Copley (Jeffreys) was Clem McDonald in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Dad for Spare Parts (2007), and Jimmy Deel for Missing Persons (2013)
• Shirley Dixon (Joan) provided the voice of Skagra's ship for Shada
• Robert Glenister (DCC Chapman) was Salateen in The Caves of Androzani, then played Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
• Andrew Tiernan (DS Taylor) was Mr. Purcell in Night Terrors
• Rakie Ayola (Helena) was the Hostess in Midnight, then voiced Pollia and Countdown for The Lords of Terror (2018), Andrea Davenport for Another Man's Shoes, Andrea for One Mile Down (both 2019), Emma for Red Base (2020), Violet Hardaker for The Blazing Hour (2021), and Dakota Bly for Charlotte Pollard: The Further Adventures (2022)
• Neil Edmond (Ashworth) voiced Boatman, Guard and Blank for Vampire of the Mind, Sarlon, Gorlan and Time Lord for The Two Masters, and Professor Aryan Wyke and Mine Worker for Absolute Power (all 2016)
• Mike Jones was also film editor on twelve episodes (from Rose to Face the Raven)
• Ray Holman was also costume designer on fifty-nine stories (from Blink to Series 13), and Torchwood
• Ian Adrian (2nd Unit DoP) and Sebastian Marczewski (2nd asst. cameraman) both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time, as camera operator and camera trainee respectively
• Ian Fowler was also costume assistant on fourteen episodes (from Into the Dalek to The Husbands of River Song)
• Andrew Mear was costume assistant on The End of the World too
• Simon Marks was also costume supervisor on the whole of Series 9
• Chris Pollard was a stuntman on Robot of Sherwood too
• Tony Lucken was also a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways and The End of Time

Doctor Who Vs. Ashes to Ashes, Series 3

This month marks a decade
since Kudos' five-year Life On
Mars saga concluded on BBC1.
Another repeat run of the cult
show's sequel series began on
the Drama channel 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 third season of Ashes to
Ashes, now set in 1983.
The final, eight-part series was originally shown in April and May

2010 - it featured Camille Coduri, and a total of nineteen other

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• co-executive producer Piers Wenger held that post on twenty-nine adventures (from The End of Time to The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe), Dreamland, The Adventure Games, Space and Time, Doctor Who Confidential, Doctor Who Proms (2010), and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• BBC newsreader Matthew Amroliwala appeared on The Power of Three too
• Roy Hudd (Hardwick) voiced Max Miller for Big Finish's Pier Pressure (2009)
• Beth [Jane] Goddard (Violet) voiced Christine Colley for for The Sontaran Project (2017), Ludina Braskell for Ravenous 1 (2018), Barton for The Moons of Vulpana, Vella for A Photograph to Remember (both 2019), and Sally and Time Lady for Operation Hellfire (2020)
• Frog Stone (Woman) voiced Riva for Hour of the Cybermen (2018), and Waitress for Dying Hours (2023)
• Charles Walters (DC Romeo) was Robert Sleigh in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Daniel [Alan] Mays (Jim Keats) was Alex in Night Terrors
• Bryan Dick (Stafford) voiced the Exec for Theatre of War (2015), and Finnian Valentine for The Devil You Know (2018)
• Peter Guinness (Stafford) 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)
• Lee Ross (DCI Litton here & Life On Mars) was the Boatswain in The Curse of the Black Spot
• Steven Robertson (Thordy) was Pritchard in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Lucian [Gabriel Wiina] Msamati (Ndbele) was Guido in The Vampires of Venice
• Matthew Stirling was also a stuntman on The Angels Take Manhattan and The Name of the Doctor
• Jamie Payne was also director of Hide and The Time of the Doctor
• for Joseph Long (Luigi), Geff Francis (Viv), and Simon Archer (cinematographer) see Series 1
• Balazs Bolygo was also cinematographer on The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People and Closing Time
• Matthew Cannings was assistant editor on The Snowmen too, then was editor on The Crimson Horror and The Name of the Doctor