Doctor Who Vs. The Fades

This cult drama was created

and written by Jack Thorne,

and first aired on BBC3 and

BBC HD in the autumn of

2011, then on BBC America

in January 2012. Despite

winning the BAFTA Best

Drama award, the series

was not recommissioned for

 a second run. Following an

unaired pilot, the six-part

supernatural thriller centred

on teenager Paul Roberts

(played by Iain De Caestecker)

who is haunted by apocalyptic

dreams - he sees dead people,

known as Fades. These spirits cannot be sensed by other humans, and

are the remnants of the dead who have not been accepted into the

afterlife. A repeat run of The Fades (co-produced by Caroline

Skinner, and co-directed by Farren Blackburn) began on BBC3

tonight - it featured Natalie Dormer, and a total of thirty-two Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Sophie Wu (Jay) voiced Millie for Big Finish's Planet X (2016), and Autumn Tace for The Star Men (2017)
• Lily [May] Loveless (Anna) was Ellie Faber in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Curse of Clyde Langer
• Claire [Louise] Rushbrook (Meg) was Ida Scott in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Tula Chenka for Escape from Kaldor (2018) and The Robots series (from 2019), and the Abbess/ Marna for Out of Time 1 (2021)
• Daniel Kaluuya (Mac) was Barclay in Planet of the Dead
• Tom [John] Ellis (Mark) was Dr. Thomas Milligan in Last of the Time Lords
• Eleanor Matsuura (Vicky) voiced Dana Tanaka for Shadows of the Vashta Nerada, and was Jo Nakashima in The Sontaran Stratagem 
• Ian Hanmore (Polus) was Father Angelo in Tooth and Claw
• Philip Bird (Peterson) made his TV debut as a Swampie in The Power of Kroll
• Joe [Maxwell] Dempsie (John) was Cline in The Doctor's Daughter
• Karl Collins [born Myers] (Higgy) was Sean Temple in The End of Time
• James Greene (Eric) and Shaun Lucas (Paramedic) both appeared in The Bells of Saint John as the Abbot and Monk respectively
• Tanya [born Tanyaradzwa] Fear (Jay) was Dr. Jade McIntyre in Arachnids in the UK
• Nicholas Khan (Dr. Jamison) voiced Jimmy Lynch for The Sinestran Kill, Dalia for Collateral (both 2019), Jillix for The Sins of Captain Jack, Stubbs for Thin Time, Alexander Marfleet for The Flying Dutchman (all 2020), and Vez/Kol for The Ark (2023)
• Chris Mason (Steve) depicted John Lennon in The Devil's Chord
• stunt co-ordinator Ray De Haan was a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern
• Stephan Pehrsson was also the cinematographer on eleven stories (from The Pandorica Opens to The Crimson Horror)
• Matthew Scrivener was first assistant director on The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe too
• Rebecca Hemy was also assistant art director on Voyage of the Damned and The Infinite Quest
• Sam Williams was film editor on The Rings of Akhaten too
• Matthew Tabern also edited Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Human Nature and The Family of Blood
• Rob Arrowsmith was also camera operator on The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang and A Christmas Carol
• Richard Cookson was also script editor on The Day of the Doctor, Robot of Sherwood, Time Heist, Flatline and An Adventure in Space and Time
• Julius Ogden was also focus puller on nine episodes (from Closing Time to The Day of the Doctor)
• series SFX supervisor Paul McGuinness was Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• Gary Norman was also (camera) grip on twenty-five stories (from the 2010 Christmas special to The Day of the Doctor)
• Matthew Cannings was the editor on The Crimson Horror and The Name of the Doctor, and was assistant editor on The Snowmen too
• Andrew Wildman was also storyboard artist on eleven episodes (from Dinosaurs on a Spaceship to The Time of the Doctor)
• Anthony Rutter (stand-by props) was the art director on Last Christmas
• Robert Edwards was also ADR mixer on Hide, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, The Crimson Horror, Nightmare in Silver, The Name of the Doctor and Space/Time
• Robert Flanagan was production sound mixer on the 2011 Christmas special too
• set costumer Kat Cappellazzi was costume assistant on seventeen adventures (from Asylum of the Daleks to Deep Breath)