Sunday 30 April 2023

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 17

Emma Campbell Jones
as Cass in The Night
of the Doctor
The seventeenth season of BBC1's popular
crime drama (first shown in early 2014)
again starred series regulars Emilia Fox (a
veteran of almost a hundred episodes) and
David Caves as Home Office pathologists,
doctors Nikki Alexander and Jack Hodgson.
Liz Carr returned as Clarissa Mullery, and
Richard Lintern joined the cast here as Dr.
Thomas Chamberlain, the new head of the
Lyell Centre, following the death of Leo
Dalton in Greater Love.
A repeat run of the ten-part series began
on Drama last night - it featured Emma
Campbell Jones, and a total of twenty-eight Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

Commodity (UK TX: January 2 & 3)
  • Daniel O'Hara was also director of Under the Lake and Before the Flood
  • Elliot Levey (Freedman here; DCI Solomon in S21: A Special Relationship) voiced Andrew Gobernar/Blank for Vampire of the Mind (2016), and Colonel Marsden for Red Planets (2018)
  • Paul Marc Davies (Benjamin here; Guard in Series 19: River's Edge) was the Chieftain in Utopia, the Trickster in The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Corakinus in Class, then voiced Pepé Gonzalez for The Gift (2016), and Trave for Gallifrey: Time War 1 (2018)
  • Alan Bond (Barrister) was UNIT Soldier in The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords and Torchwood: Children of Earth
  • Dan Euston (Yunnus) was a stuntman on The Crimson Horror
  • for Ace [born Ahsen Rafiq] Bhatti (Rashid) see Series 5
  • for Adrian Rawlins (DI Leighton) see Series 11
Coup de Grace (UK TX: January 9 & 10)
  • Laurence [Joseph] Belcher (Masham) was Young Kazran in A Christmas Carol
  • Tobias Menzies (Walker) was Lieutenant Stepashin in Cold War
  • Michael Gould (Masham) voiced Frederick Lindemann for The Oncoming Storm (2016)
  • for Steve Toussaint (Parkwood) see Series 11
  • George Russo (Bond) was Phillip in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
  • Greg Bennett (Constable) went uncredited as Guard in Dalek, UNIT Soldier/Sycorax Warrior in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
  • Scott Stevenson (Policeman) was uncredited Man in The Rings of Akhaten, The Crimson Horror and The Name of the Doctor, Submariner in Cold War, and Chef in Mummy on the Orient Express
In A Lonely Place (UK TX: January 16 & 17)
  • Pearl Appleby (Amy) voiced DC Jana Lee for Girl, Deconstructed (2021)
  • Christopher [John] Hatherall (Wallace here; Pat in S27: Effective Range) voiced George Newman for Fiesta of the Damned (2016), and Guy Fawkes for Treason and Plot (2020)
  • Mark Garrett was the cinematographer on In The Forest of the Night too
Undertone (UK TX: January 23 & 24)
  • Morven Christie (DS Kirchner) was O'Donnell in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
  • Sean [Campbell] Gallagher (DI Brooke) was Chip in New Earth
  • Michael Bertenshaw (Beale) was Cole in The Next Doctor
  • Akin Gazi (Humadi) was Carter in The Doctor's Daughter
  • Fady Elsayed (Kavur) was Ram Singh in Class (he had been cast in The Bells of Saint John as Nabile but was replaced by Manpreet Bachu)
  • Kate Russell Smith (Solicitor) voiced Cook/Nurse for The Hollow King (2019)
Fraternity (UK TX: January 30 & 31)
  • Ashley Walters (DI Carter) was Gregor Van Baalen in Journey to the Centre of TARDIS
  • Clare Calbraith (Lizzie) voiced Trooper for Urban Myths, Maria for Son of the Dragon (both 2007), Starling for The Phoenix Strain (2016), and Orla for The Blood Furnace (2017)
  • Kirsty Besterman (Amy) was Solpado in The Timeless Children - she had voiced Princess Aliona for The Burning Prince and The Shadow Heart, Empress Cheni for The Acheron Pulse (all 2012), Serena Paget for We Are the Daleks, Lannic for Theatre of War (both 2015), and Ishtek/Lilly for Beachhead (2016)
  • for Jamie Parker (Morgan) see Series 11

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