Doctor Who Vs. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie's fifteenth crime

novel was published in the UK in

1934, then issued in America a

year later as The Boomerang

Clue. The story was first drama-

tised by LWT in 1980, and co-

starred Joan Hickson before she

began her own definitive port-

rayal of Jane Marple for BBC1.

ITV Studios' version debuted on

PBS in July 2009, then only aired

in the UK two years later.

Written and directed by Hugh Laurie, this three-part period drama (a Mammoth Screen co-production) debuted on Britbox in April

2022, and concluded its run on ITV last night - it featured Will Poulter,

Lucy Boynton, Emma Thompson, Tim Treloar, and thirteen Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Jim Broadbent (Marcham) depicted the Doctor in Doctor Who and Crayola (a sketch for Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV in 1987) then for Comic Relief's The Curse of Fatal Death
• Alistair Petrie (Rev. Jones here; Campbell in Agatha and the Midnight Murders) voiced Major Harris/German Lieutenant for Criss-Cross (2015), Julius Caesar for Living History (2016), John for Dethras, Richard Tipple for The Outliers (both 2017), Wallace Richards for Ghost Machines (2019), Magnus Drake for Master! (2021), the Count for Conflicts of Interest, and was cast in Broken Memories (both 2023)
• Miles Jupp (Bassington-ffrench) voiced Dominic for Power Play (2012), and Inquisitor Xavier for The Revolution (2014)
• Martyn Ellis (Albert) was Glune Fex Fize Sharlaveer Slam Slitheen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen, then voiced the Rotter/Delius for Last of the Zetacene (2022)
• Nicholas Asbury (Angel) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Anthony Burmaster for UNIT: Assembled, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (both 2017), Captain Morgan /Visguard/SB Officer for Churchill Victorious, Dante for The Diary of River Song 4 (both 2018), Captain Zenna/Kivall for Out of Time 1, Shakespeare for The Hollow Crown, Tenebrae/Franz Albrecht Stuart for Rulers of Earth (all 2020), Commander Stevenson/ Pietersen for Return of the Cybermen, Mollis for Colony of Fear, Preacher Stem for The Melting Pot (all 2021), Dr. Sturm/German Colonel for The Nine, and Hari Ventross for The Robots 5 (both 2022), then was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion
• Richard Dixon (Cayman here; Rowlandson in A Murder is Announced, 2005; Henden in Dead Man's Folly) voiced DI Alan Probert for The Dreams of Avarice (2020)
• Christian Patterson (Ellis) voiced Captain Dickson/Corporal Bouvier for The Curse of Davros (2012)
• Maxine Evans (Mrs. Bowden here; Mrs. Buckle in Elephants Can Remember) voiced Renucha for Mother Tongue (2020)
• Trevor Cooper (Coroner here; Opalsen in The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan; Harrison in N or M?; Spymaster in Crooked House) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, then voiced Rull for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City, Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse, Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/ Stennan for Army of Death (2011), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), Jonathan Mayfly/Sir Joseph Eagleton for The Ghosts of Greenwich (2019), Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr. Jago (2020), and Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witches (2022)
• Robert Edwards was also ADR mixer on seven stories (from Hide to Survivors of the Flux) and Space and Time
• Liz Pearson was post-production supervisor (here & Murder on the Orient Express, 2001) on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Peter Lowden (focus puller) was camera assistant on The Time of the Doctor
• Kellyanne Walker (graphic designer) was an illustrator on Human Nature and The Family of Blood