Doctor Who Vs. Carry On Columbus

Despite being helmed by veterans Gerald Thomas and Peter Rogers, this production (released in late 1992 to mark the 500th anniversary

of Christopher Columbus' epic sea journey) proved to be the final,

failed attempt at reviving the iconic Carry On film franchise. Island

World's comedy reunited surviving series stalwarts with a cast of

alternative comic actors.

The Italian explorer was portrayed by Jim Dale - he was joined by Peter

Gilmore (both in their eleventh Carry On roles), Jack Douglas (his eighth appearance), Jon Pertwee (fourth), and Bernard Cribbins (third),

whilst Leslie Phillips and June Whitfield replaced Frankie Howerd and

Joan Sims. Barbara Windsor, Bernard Bresslaw and Kenneth Connor

declined to appear.

An ultimate box-office flop, Carry On Columbus effectively consigned

the run to cinema history - it was shown on Talking Pictures TV last

night, and featured these eighteen Doctor Who cast connections:

• for Cribbins (Mendoza) see Carry On Jack
• for Phillips (Ferdinand) and Whitfield (Isabella) see Carry On Nurse
• for Gilmore (Governor) see Carry On Cabby
• Maureen [Diane] Lipman (Countess) was the Wire in The Idiot's Lantern
• Alexei [David] Sayle (Achmed) was the DJ [Derek Johnson] in Revelation of the Daleks
• Nigel [George] Planer (Wazir) was Vorgenson for The Monsters are Coming, and voiced Alex Marlowe for Big Finish's Hothouse (2009), and Herrax/Old Racnoss Emperor for Empire of the Racnoss (2017)
• [Alexander] Martin Clunes (Martin) was Lon in Snakedance
• Don [Francis] Henderson (Bosun) was Gavrok in Delta and the Bannermen
• Burt [born Herbert Tsangtse] Kwouk (Wang) was Lin Futu in Four to Doomsday, and voiced Dr. Hayashi for Loups-Garoux (2001)
• Daniel Peacock (Tonto) was Nord in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Richard [born Ian Carmichael] Wilson (Felipe) was Dr. Constantine in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances
• Lynda [born Lilian] Baron (Meg) recorded The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon (sung off screen) for The Gunfighters, then appeared in Enlightenment as Captain Wrack, and was Val in Closing Time
• Su Douglas (Joanna) voiced Countess Venhella for Benny's Story, Gem Weston for Fitz's Story (both 2009), Cook for The Broken Crown, Toad for Aladdin Time (both 2011), and Lady Raleigh for The Survivor (2019)
• Selva Rasalingam (Abdullah) was Ranjit in The Power of Three
• Jonathan [Louis] Tafler (Inquisitor) voiced Captain Waldo for The Paradise of Death, and Pietro Clemenza for The Ghosts of N-Space
• Michael Hobbs (Inquisitor) voiced Francis Currie for UNIT (2004/ 05), Fazackerly for Other Lives (2005), and Arcantis for Time in Office (2017)
• Duncan Duff (Inquisitor) was Newsreader in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, and voiced Joe Hartley for Night Thoughts (2006)

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 5

First shown from late 2000, the fifth season of

this popular crime drama again starred Amanda

Burton as Home Office pathologist Professor

Sam Ryan.

A repeat run of the six-part series began on

Drama last night - it featured a total of twenty-eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

The World Cruise (TX: December 11 & 12 2000)

• Richard [Andrew Palethorpe] Todd (Newman) was Sanders in Kinda
• Suzanne Bertish (Eva) voiced Aldis for Big Finish's Nevernor (2020)
• Andrew [born Andreas Siegfried] Sachs (Horowitz) voiced Skagra for Shada, the Scorpion King for The Boy That Time Forgot (2008), Crassostrea for Orbis (2009), and the Scarf for AudioGo's Aladdin Time (2011) - he auditioned for the role of the Doctor following Colin Baker's departure from the show
• Ace [born Ahsen Rafiq] Bhatti (DCI Naval) was Haresh Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Michael [born Emrys Jones] Elwyn (Lake) was Lieutenant Algernon Ffinch in The Highlanders
• David [born John Townsend] Simeon (Priestley) was Private Latimer in Inferno, and Alastair Fergus in The Daemons
• Trevor Thomas (Bill) made his TV debut as Tribe Child in The Cave of Skulls
• series associate producer Monica Rodger was director's assistant on Nightmare of Eden
• for Philip Kloss see Series 3
• for Rod Woodruff and Jan Nethercot see Series 2
• series script supervisor Juley Harding was production assistant on Black Orchid and The Caves of Androzani

Two Below Zero (TX: February 12 & 13 2001)

• Stephen [Vincent] Moore (Major Hutton) was Eldane in Cold Blood, and voiced Clark Goodman for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (2009)
• Anthony [Stewart] Head (Hutton) was the Narrator of BBC Audio's Project: Who? (2005) and BBC Books' The Nightmare of Black Island (2006), then was Brother Lassar in School Reunion, and voiced Valentine for Death Comes to Time, Grayvorn for the Excelis saga (2002), and Baltazar for The Infinite Quest (2007) - he also auditioned for the role of the Doctor in 1995
• Angela Bruce (Michaels) was Brigadier Winifred Bambera in Battlefield - a role reprised for Animal (2011), The War Factory and Brave New World (both 2022)
• Sean Chapman (DCI Norton) was Peter Tracey in K9 and Company
• cinematographer Ian Punter was film cameraman on Resurrection of the Daleks
• Tony Harding was also VFX designer on The Invisible Enemy, The Power of Kroll, State of Decay, The King's Demons and The Awakening
• William Webb was film editor on Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures too
• first assistant director Debbi Slater was production manager on seven stories (from Blink to Forest of the Dead), then an associate producer on Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars

Faith (TX: March 19 & 20 2001)

• Philip Jackson (DI Toner) voiced Laxton for Valhalla (2007), Peabody for The Contingency Club (2017), and The Dalby Spook (2022)
• John [Michael Frederick] Castle (Craig) voiced Edmund Trevithick for Nightshade (2016)
• Sean Murray (Dwyer here; Moss in Series 8: Body 21) voiced Captain Darvor for The Starship of Theseus (2017)
• Tony Bluto (Rutman) was Driver Joe in Midnight
• David [John] Quilter (Lewis) was Greeves in The Unicorn and the Wasp
• Karen Seacombe (Nurse) was Sandra in The Lodger
• series special make-up effects artist Paul McGuinness was Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• Paul Smith was also the series prop master on fifteen instalments (from Asylum of the Daleks to The Day of the Doctor)

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 4

First shown in the spring of 1999, the fourth
season of this crime drama again starred
Amanda Burton as Home Office pathologist
Professor Sam Ryan, and was now set in
London after her move from Cambridge.

A repeat run of the six-part series began on

 Drama last night - it featured a total of twenty

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Gone Tomorrow (TX: May 30 & 31)

• John Flanagan (Kittrick) co-wrote Meglos
• [Peter] Nigel Terry (Thorn) was General Cobb in The Doctor's Daughter
• Robert Pugh (Peterson here; Harrington in Series 12: Finding Rachel; Wilde in Series 23: Close to Home) was Tony Mack in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, and voiced Emmett Burrows for Big Finish's Five Twenty-Nine (2016)
• Paul [Mackriell] Copley (Tillson here; Parkin in Series 7: Beyond Guilt) was Clem McDonald in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Dad for Spare Parts (2002), Jimmy Deel for Missing Persons (2013), Mick Huff for The Miniaturist (2022), and Wendell for The Conservitors (2023)
• Rod Arthur (Controller) was Mr. Parsons in School Reunion
• Howard Lee (Davies) was Dr. Gachet in The Pandorica Opens
• SFX artist Paul McGuinness was Drathro in The Mysterious Planet 
• stunt performer Abbi Collins was the stunt co-ordinator on eleven stories (from Rise of the Cybermen to The Waters of Mars), and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• for Rod Woodruff (stunt arranger), John McGlashan (cinema- tographer) and Jan Nethercot (make-up designer) see Series 2

A Kind of Justice (TX: June 8 & 9)

• Tom Georgeson (McNally) was Kavell in Genesis of the Daleks, and Police Inspector in Logopolis
• George Russo (Danny here; Bond in Series 17: Coup de Grace) was Cleric Philip in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• David Cann (Commander here; DI Porter in S19: After the Fall) was Narrator of Hello Sailor!, then voiced Albert for Jenny 3 (2024)
• Michael Darbon was production manager on Warriors of the Deep too

A Good Body (TX: June 15 & 16)

• Cheryl Hall (Sheryl here; Series 5: The World Cruise) was Shirna in Carnival of Monsters
• Joanne Pearce (Jill) voiced Luton/Gyra for Last of the Zetacene (2022)
• for Alec Linstead (Cross) see Series 1: Buried Lies
• for Philip Kloss (film editor) see Series 3

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 3

The third season of BBC1's popular
crime drama again starred Amanda

Burton (as Home Office pathologist
Professor Sam Ryan) and William
Armstrong (pictured as Dr. Trevor
Stewart). The show's distinctive theme

music earned a RTS award for composer

John Harle later that year.

A repeat run of the eight-part series

(originally shown in the spring of 1998)

 began on Drama last night - it featured

a total of seventeen Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

An Academic Exercise
(TX: March 19 & 20 1998)

• Adam James (Blackman here; Fell in Series 16: Trust) was DI McMillan in Planet of the Dead
• Big Finish actor Paul Panting (Gordon) voiced Professor Maylon for Of Chaos Time The, Llangragen/Geoffrey Jennings for The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-time, Brabbeko for Revenge of the Swarm (all 2014), Drell/Marshleader for Mistfall (2015), Fyrax for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016), Freddie for Island of the Fendahl, Ravlos for The Ultimate Evil (both 2019), Ilyani/Bailiff for A Tragical History, Karl Lamb for The First Son (both 2021), Vega for The End (2022), Nate Duffy/Fennec for The Wizard of Time, Brakow for Oodunnit (both 2023), and Horsemen for Most Wanted (2025)
• [Mark] Alec Newman (Arnold) voiced Ed Driscoll for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009), Dr. Julius for The Silent Scream (2017), and Dr. James Breck for James Robert McCrimmon (2023)
• Katharine Schlesinger (Dr. Evans) was Gwendoline in Ghost Light

Fallen Idol (TX: April 2 & 3)

• Alex Sanjiv Pillai was director of Joy to the World too
• Rachel Davies (Eileen) was Camilla in State of Decay
• Lesley [Ann] Manville (Suzy) depicted Heather Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time

Divided Loyalties (UK TX: April 16 & 17)

• Neil Stuke (Fox) voiced the titular role for The Crooked Man (2014), then was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon
• Andrée Bernard (Assistant) was Dolly Bailey in The Shakespeare Code, then voiced Ellen Green for Blue Forgotten Planet, Erisi for The Entropy Composition, Lorelei for Paradise 5 (both 2010), Joanna Slade for The Feast of Axos (2011), Dr. Paignton/Constable for The Red House, Susie/Sylvie for Stage Fright, Tethneka/Carter/ Thing for Terror of the Sontarans (all 2015), Lulu Hammerstein for The Silent Scream, and Mary Sissinghurst for The Carrionite Curse (2017)
• Simon [Timothy] Chandler (Dr. Newman) voiced Corporal Arthur Dimes for Churchill Victorious (2018)
• Josette [Patricia] Simon (DCI Hoskins) voiced Sarana Teel for The Sontaran Ordeal (2016), and Taraneh for The Mind Runners (2018)
• Tim Faraday (PC Davis) was Tom's Dad in Fear Her
• Bill Anderson was also director of Thin Ice and Knock Knock
• Philip Kloss was also film editor on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The End of Time, Torchwood: Children of Earth and An Adventure in Space and Time

Brothers In Arms (UK TX: April 23 & 24)

• Elizabeth Berrington (Jane) was Auntie in The Doctor's Wife
• Stephen [George] Churchett (Alexander) was Bill in Attack of the Cybermen
• Alec Sabin (Newsreader) was Ringway in Earthshock

Doctor Who Vs. Jonathan Creek Specials

The first festive edition of Jonathan Creek 
followed the programme's second series,
whilst the next special came almost two
years after the third season.

The next two specials aired after a five-year

hiatus - the New Year mystery introduced a
new assistant for Alan Davies' Creek, Joey
Ross played by Sheridan Smith.

Another Easter episode was transmitted in

2013, and the fifth, and final full series was

shown in early 2014. The most recent stand-

alone story, Daemons' Roost, was broadcast

at Christmas 2016.

A repeat run of these five feature-length

mysteries began on Drama tonight - they featured Mary Tamm, Paul McGann, Jo

Martin, and a total of thirty-five Doctor

Who cast/crew connections:

Black Canary (UK TX: Christmas Eve 1998)

• Hannah [Campbell Grant] Gordon (Marella) was Kirsty McLaren in The Highlanders, and voiced Skagra's Ship for Big Finish's Shada
• Vincent Wong (Pan Duc Lao) was Ho in The Talons of Weng Chiang
• Sanjeev Bhaskar (Doctor) was Colonel Ahmed in Death in Heaven, and voiced Dr. Avishka Sangakkara for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (both 2009), and Borusa for The Difference Office (2022)

Satan's Chimney (UK TX: Boxing Day 2001)

• Julia Sawalha (Carla Borrego) was Emma in The Curse of Fatal Death
• [Leslie] Steven Berkoff (Grole) provided the voice of the Shakri in The Power of Three
• Bill [born Mark] Bailey (Starkiss) was Harvester Droxil in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• [William] James Saxon [born Smyth] (Bulstrode) was Oscar Botcherby in The Two Doctors
• Elliot [Aidan] Cowan (Tom) voiced Gark for The Fifth Traveller (2016)
• Lisa Stokke (Jodee) was Trine in It Takes You Away

The Grinning Man (TX: New Years Day 2009)

• for Stuart Milligan (Klaus) see Series 2
• Eloise Rakic Platt (Constance) was Ella McAvoy in Forest of the Dead
• Adam James (Alec) was DI Macmillan in Planet of the Dead
• Nicholas Boulton (Gessler) was a Businessman in Gridlock, then voiced Chule for Capture the Chronovore! (2022), Vice for Meanwhile, Elsewhere (2023), and Captain Saint for The Children of the Future (2024) 
• Katherine [Jane] Parkinson (Nicola) voiced Danika Meanwhile for The Death Collectors (2008)
• Deborah Maclaren (Ellen) was Kistane in Utopia
• Andrew Havill (Narrator) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, and voiced Aleister Portillon/Squire Claude for The Witch from the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Kim McGarrity was also a stunt performer on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and The Day of the Doctor
• stunt double Lucinda [Bean] Peel also performed stunts on Father's Day and Night Terrors

The Judas Tree (UK TX: Easter Sunday 2010)

• Ian McNeice (Alberic) portrayed Winston Churchill in The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens and The Wedding of River Song (a role reprised by Big Finish for The Churchill Years, Their Finest Hour, Subterfuge and Operation: Hellfire) - he also voiced Zeus for Immortal Beloved (2007), and Reginald Harcourt for The Renaissance Man (2012)
• Sasha Behar (Harriet) was Sister Spurrina in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Presidential Aide for Songs of Love, Tessno/Ladonne for Stop the Clock (both 2017), Admiral Eno for The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (2019), Talarn/Thayla/Bullet 2 for Dust Devil, and Diana Hendry for The Seas of Titan (both 2022)
• Natalie Walter (Emily) was Alice Coltrane in Turn Left
• Sean Buckley (Old Man) was the Barman in The Wedding of River Song
• Nigel Carrington (Clerk) voiced Emissary Godrin/Dr. Summersby/ Announcer for The Valley of Death (2011), Sir Robert Harney for The Devil's Armada (2014), Graham Finlay for New Horizons, Pik Solus for Mistfall (2015), and Sir Peter Latcham for UNIT: Shutdown (2016)
• Belinda McGinley was also a stunt performer on nine stories (from Amy's Choice to Eve of the Daleks)

The Clue of the Savant's Thumb (UK TX: April 1 2013)

• Joanna [Lamond] Lumley (Rosalind) was the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death
• Nigel [George] Planer (Tartikoff) was Vorgenson in The Monsters are Coming!, and voiced Alex Marlowe for Hothouse (2009), and Herax/ Old Racnoss Emperor for Empire of the Racnoss (2017)
• Abigail McKern (Beth) voiced Denise Waterford for A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010), Susan Broadstairs for The Shadow at the Edge of the World (2014), Felicia Chater for The English Way of Death (2015), Lucretia Bell for Subterranea (2017), Crone/Moirai for The Planet of Witches, Skwoj/Ari for Poison of the Daleks (both 2020), Kitty for Masterful, Beatrice Gray for The Blood Woods (both 2021), and Meryl Zink for The Gloaming (2024)
• James Buller (DS Cudlipp) appeared as Dave Oswald in The Rings of Akhaten and The Time of the Doctor
• Mark Frost (Brad) voiced Shandar for Requiem for the Rocket Men (2015), and Niccolo Machiavelli for The Ravelli Conspiracy (2016)
• Michael Lumsden (Churchill) voiced Newton Pallister for The Crash of the UK-201 (2018)
• Bern Collaco (Guest) was an Operator in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, and Soldier in Thin Ice
• make-up effects maker Dan Frye was a Millennium FX technician on Cold War, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS and The Name of the Doctor
• Crispin Layfield was also a stuntman and co-ordinator on fifty revived instalments (from Father's Day to The Day of the Doctor)

Daemons' Roost (UK TX: December 28 2016)

• Ken Bones (Clore) was the General in The Day of the Doctor and Hell Bent - reprised for Big Finish's Dreadshade (2020), War Room 1, The War Doctor 4 (both 2022) and A Genius for War (2023) - he also voiced Dreislav/ Thomas Bloodchild for The Bloodchild Codex (2013), and David/ Anders Kristiansen for The Keeper of Light
• Warwick [Ashley] Davis (Wilkie) was Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI, known as Porridge in Nightmare in Silver

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 2

The crime drama's second season (originally

shown on BBC1 in early 1997), again starred

Amanda Burton (as Home Office pathologist

Professor Sam Ryan) and William Armstrong

(Dr. Stewart). The opening serial (penned by

John Milne) won an Edgar Award from the

Mystery Writers of America.

A repeat run of the eight-part series began on

Drama last night - it featured Geoffrey Beevers,

and a total of twenty-one Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

Blood, Sweat and Tears

(TX: February 14 & 15 1997)

• Barry Jackson (Cross) and Ian [Stuart] Liston (MC) both appeared in The Armageddon Factor, as Drax and the Hero - Jackson was also Ascaris in The Romans, Jeff Garvey in Mission to the Unknown, and reprised his eponymous role for Big Finish's The Trouble With Drax (2016)
• Frederick [William] Treves (Reeve) was Lieutenant Brotadac in Meglos
• John [Edward] Cater (Captain) was Professor Krimpton in The War Machines
• Ruth Lass (Terri) voiced Elodie Kendall for Future Phantoms (2024)
• Tom Lucy (Referee) was a stunt co-ordinator on the revived run and Torchwood
• associate producer Margot Hayhoe was an AFM on The War Machines, Fury from the Deep and The Ambassadors of Death, then production manager (PM) on Logopolis, Castrovalva and Snakedance
• cinematographer John McGlashan was a film cameraman on Pyramids of Mars and The Face of Evil

Cease Upon the Midnight (TX: February 28 & March 1)

• Catherine Morshead was also director of Amy's Choice and The Lodger
• Roberta [Alexandra Mary] Taylor (Dr. de Groot) voiced Berengaria for The Holy Terror (2000), Angela Wisher for Cuudlesome (2008), and Maid for I Was Churchill's Double (2018)
• Linda [Virginia] Marlowe [born Bathurst] (Isobel) voiced May Carlisle for Casualties of War, Commander Claire Spencer for The Word Lord (both 2008), Osloo and Anne Tessler for The Macros (2010), and Gusta Pardo for The Tyrants of Logic (2018)
• regular stunt arranger Rod Woodruff was stunt co-ordinator on Rose and World War Three

Only the Lonely (TX: March 21 & 22)

• Lloyd McGuire (Matthews) was Lugo in The Face of Evil, and voiced General Lieutenant Tendexter for The Architects of History (2010)
• director Nicholas Laughland was an AFM on Earthshock
• cinematographer Ken Westbury was film cameraman on The Gunfighters, The Abominable Snowmen, Fury from the Deep and The Invasion of Time
• Anthony Combes was film editor on The Wedding of River Song too

Friends Like These (TX: April 4 & 5)

• Christopher Fairbank (Palmer) was Fenton in Flatline, and voiced Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), Pierre Aronnax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), and Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018)
• Michael [John] Attwell (Quayle) was Isbur in The Ice Warriors, and Bates in Attack of the Cybermen
• Stewart [John Llewellyn] Bevan (Wyn's Man) played Clifford Jones in The Green Death, Global Conspiracy, Hello Boys! and Return of the Autons - he also voiced BOSS for The Green Life (2019)
• Greg Donaldson (PC) voiced Telligan for Dalek Empire 3 (2004), Coach Bela Destry for The Games (2005), and David for Power Play (2012)

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 1

BBC1's evergreen crime drama launched in early

1996 - it focused on the work of a team of for-

ensic experts and their criminal investigations.

The programme was created by Nigel McCrery,

a former murder detective at Nottinghamshire

Constabulary.

 The original series followed the cases of

Cambridge-based Professor Sam Ryan (who was

based on real-life pathologist Helen Witwell, a

colleague of McCrery from Sheffield) and Dr.

Trevor Stewart, played by Amanda Burton and

William Armstrong.

In 2004, Burton was succeeded by William

Gaminara (as Professor Leo Dalton), Tom Ward,

and Emilia Fox (doctors Harry Cunningham and

Nikki Alexander) - Fox is the only regular still

with the series, a veteran of over 200 episodes.

A repeat run of the eight-part season began on Drama last night - it

featured Caroline John, Michael Troughton, and a total of twenty

-six Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Buried Lies (TX: February 21 & 22)

• Milo Twomey (PC North) voiced Jorvik for Big Finish's Theatre of War (2015)
• Clare [Frances Elizabeth] Higgins (DS Farmer) was Ohila in The Night of the Doctor, The Magician's Apprentice and Hell Bent
• Lesley Dunlop (Marion) was Norna in Frontios, and Susan Q in The Happiness Patrol
• Kelly Hunter (Ronnie) was the Shadow Architect in The Stolen Earth and The Magician's Apprentice
• Tom Chadbon (Coleman) was Duggan in City of Death, Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet, then voiced Forrest for BBV's Conduct Unbecoming (2000), Will Sullivan for Sarah Jane 2 (2006), Gordon for No More Lies (2007), and Embery for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016)
• Alec Linstead (Jenkins here; Cross in Series 4: A Good Body) was Sergeant Osgood in The Daemons, Arnold Jellicoe in Robot, and Arthur Stengos in Revelation of the Daleks
• Trevor [Gordon] Bannister (Solicitor) voiced Korbin Thessinger for Nocturne (2007)
• Tessa Bell Briggs (Prison officer) was Patient in The Story and the Engine
• series composer Geoffrey Burgon provided incidental music for Terror of the Zygons and The Seeds of Doom
• focus puller Bob Shipsey was a camera operator on The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors

Long Days, Short Nights (TX: February 28 & 29)

• Colin Salmon (Bird) was Dr. Moon in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, and voiced Trooper Salway for Wirrn Dawn (2009)
• Ronald [Alfred] Pickup (Dr Owen) was the Physician in (episode 4 of) The Reign of Terror, and voiced Kestorian for Time Works (2006), Elder Bones for Spaceport Fear (2013), the Old One for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016), and Jacob Harmer for The Wizard of Time (2023)
• James [Rutherford Worsfold Thomson] Bree (Brewer) was the Security Chief in The War Games, Nefred in Full Circle, and the Keeper of the Matrix in The Ultimate Foe
• Sean [Campbell] Gallagher (Finn here; DI Brooke in Series 17: Undertone) was Chip in New Earth
• James [born Simon] D'Arcy (Student) voiced Michael for Paradise 5 (2010)
• Philip Anthony [Johnson] (Vicar) was Roald in The Daleks' Master Plan (1)
• Dominic Mafham (Mark) voiced Moran for The Jigsaw War (2012), and Chidak for The Dalek Contract and The Final Phase (both 2013)
• Rob Dixon (Charlie here; Briggs in Series 16: Change) voiced Reggie Mead for Project: Twilight (2001), and Sergeant Wood for No Man's Land (2006)
• Roger Ringrose (PC here; Akimovich, 2008) voiced Dawson for 1957: Double Agent (2025)
• Timothy Block (Prison Officer) was Tanner in Black Orchid
• Dione Inman (Nurse) was Elena in The Twin Dilemma
• first assistant director Pennie Bloomfield was the AFM on Attack of the Cybermen

Darkness Visible (TX: March 13 & 14)

• Adrian Schiller (Trafford) was Uncle in The Doctor's Wife, and voiced Zanith for Time Works
• Ian Shaw (PC Johns) was Newsreader in Lux
• Tim Packham (Student here; Passerby in Series 19: Life Licence) began his TV career as a Plasmaton in Dimensions in Time

Sins of the Fathers (TX: April 2 & 3)

• Tam[lyn] Williams (Harry) was a Schoolboy in Remembrance of the Daleks (1), then voiced Tom for Point of Entry (2010), Cedric Chivers for AudioGo's Hunters of Earth (2013), Gus Kalwarowsky for A Gamble With Time (2016), and Christopher Dallard for The Sword of the Chevalier (2017)

Doctor Who Vs. Luther, Series 2

Idris Elba returned as the eponymous DCI

John Luther for the second season of BBC Studios' dark, psychological crime drama,

first shown the summer of 2011.

A repeat run of the four-part series began

on Drama last night - it earned a RTS Best

Drama award for show creator/writer Neil Cross, and Elba won a Golden Globe award

for Best Actor.

Ruth Wilson, Dermot Crowley and Paul

McGann reprised their respective roles

(as Alice Morgan, Martin Schenk and Mark

North), and were joined here by Aimee

Ffion-Edwards, and these eleven Doctor

Who cast/crew connections:

• for Warren Brown (Ripley) and Michael Smiley (Benny) see Series 1
• Nikki Amuka Bird (DS Erin Gray) was the Glass Woman [Helen Clay] in Twice Upon a Time, then voiced Tamasan for Big Finish's The Time War 2 (2018)
• Lee [David] Ingleby (Pell) voiced Samson Griffin for Terror Firma (2005)
• John Albasiny (Kolchak) was Guy Dean in BBV's Homeland, then voiced Lev Tolstoy/Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Maxim Felnikov for Thin Ice (2011) and Crime of the Century, Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (both 2013), Jesper for Equilibrium (2015), and Makerenkov for Last of the Romanovs (2020)
• Pam Ferris (Baba) voiced Lizzie Corrigan for The Eternal Summer (2009), and Amanda Steele for Day of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
• Steven Robertson (Millberry) was Pritchard in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Ellie Haddington (DCS Carroway) was Professor Alison Docherty in Last of the Time Lords
• Hamza Jeetooa (Depak) was Manish in Demons of the Punjab
• Nick Foley was the ADR mixer on The Snowmen too
• production sound mixer Brian Milliken was sound recordist on The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Doctor Who Vs. Blackout

This BBC1 crime drama originally aired
in the summer of 2012, and starred 

Christopher Eccleston in another
trademark performance as the flawed
and angst-ridden politician, Daniel
Demoys.
Formerly known as The Fuse, the serial
was created by Bill Gallagher, and the

Red Production Company. The three-part

 thriller featured Olivia Cooke, Andrew

Scott, David Hayman, and thirteen Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Piers [John] Wenger was also co-executive producer on the revived series (from The End of Time to The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe), Space/Time, Dreamland, The Adventure Games, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Doctor Who Confidential
• Danny Sapani (Griffin) was Colonel Manton in A Good Man Goes to War
• Myanna [Margaretha] Buring [Rantapää] (Sylvie) was Scooti Manista in The Impossible Planet 
• Dervla Kirwan (Alex) was Miss Hartigan in The Next Doctor, then reprised Miss Quill for Big Finish's Class, and voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Yost McCormack for Lightspeed, Anne Marie for Interlude, Representative for Echo Chamber, Agatha Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Professor Callis for Castle Hydra, Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020), and Lizbeth Hayhoe for Torchwood (2021)
• Karl Collins [born Myers] (Bo) was Shaun Temple in The End of Time
• Rebecca [Jayne] Callard [born Atkinson] (Ruth) voiced Connie for A Perfect World (2008), and Shadrak for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016)
• Gordon Seed (stunt co-ordinator) and stunt performers Andy J Smart and Dean Foster and also worked on the revived run
• Anthony Combes was film editor on The Wedding of River Song too
• Philip Kloss was also film editor on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The End of Time, Torchwood: Children of Earth and An Adventure in Space and Time
• Emma Woodcock was also location manager on Voyage of the Damned and Turn Left
• Ben Ashmore was also SFX co-ordinator on thirty-six episodes (from The Girl in the Fireplace to The Next Doctor), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood

Doctor Who Vs. Young Sherlock Holmes

Shown on Sky Cinema Greats today, this period

adventure (subtitled The Pyramid of Fear in the

UK) depicted the first encounter between the

teenage Sherlock Holmes and John Watson -

portrayed by Nicholas Rowe and Alan Cox.

As students at London's Brompton Academy, the

friends soon become embroiled in typical Amblin

family fare - with Elizabeth (Sophie Ward), they

uncover the secret Egyptian cult of Rame Tep.

Based inside a wooden pyramid, hidden within

a Wapping warehouse, the cult is led by Eh-Tar

 (an anagram of Rathe, Holmes' school master).

A coda saw the Professor (Anthony Higgins) flee

England and adopt the alias of Moriarty (Higgins

 would later play the Great Detective in Sherlock Holmes Returns).

Released by Paramount in 1985, the film

(produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Chris Columbus) featured nineteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Rowe (Holmes here & The Lady in Grey segment of Mr. Holmes; Norton for Auk Studios' Sir Sherlock) voiced Rivesh Mantilax for Dreamland, then the Kandyman for Big Finish's Ravenous 1 (2018), Cato Kelgoth for The Passenger (2022), and Sebastian Hardcastle for Far From Home (2023)
• Cox (Watson here; Moriarty for The Final Problem; Agamemnon for The Sacrifice of Sherlock Holmes & The Prophet in the Rain) voiced John Matthews for The Roof of the World (2004), Mark Seven for The Destroyers (2010), Oscar Wilde for Beautiful Things (2012), Diggery/ Grenville for The Auntie Matter (2013), Dr. Gideon McDivett for The Ghosts of Gralstead (2014), the titular entity for Death and the Queen, Fanshawe for Who Killed Toby Kinsella?, Speravore for World Enough and Time, Robert Harley/Warder for The Eye of the Storm (all 2016), Eamon Orensky for The Skin of the Sleek and The Thief Who Stole Time (both 2017), Fabian Solak for The Cars That Ate London!, Tompino for Collision Course (both 2019), Ken Bright Thompson for Stranded 1 (2020) and Stranded 4 (2022), Sergeant Winston Price for The Doctor and Carnacki, Narrator of War Stories (both 2024), Nallium/Necromantis for Ace and Tegan (2025), and Invigilator Kollo for Gambit of the Judoon (2026)
• Ward (Elizabeth) voiced the Storyteller for AudioGo's Aladdin Time (2011)
• Nigel [Hector Munro] Stock (Waxflatter here; Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes, BBC) was Professor Hayter in Time Flight
• Roger Ashton-Griffiths (DS Lestrade) was Quayle in Robot of Sherwood
• Donald [Yarrow] Eccles (Nesbit) was Krasis in The Time Monster
• Patrick [David] Newell (Bobster here; PC Benson in A Study in Terror; Lestrade in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson; Blessington in The Resident Patient) was Colonel Faraday in The Android Invasion
• [David] Roger Brierley (Mr. Holmes) was Trevor in (episode 8 of) The Daleks' Master Plan, and provided the voice of Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• Nadim [Joakim] Sawalha (Khasek) voiced Swapnil Khan for The Magic Mousetrap (2009), and the Old Man for 1001 Nights (2012)
• John Scott Martin (Caretaker here; Scientist in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes) appearanced in seventy-six episodes (usually as a Dalek operator, from The Web Planet to Remembrance of the Daleks)
• Gary Dean (Man) was Technician in The Ice Warriors (1), German Soldier in The War Games (3), and UNIT Soldier in The Silurians (3)
• Cathey Munroe (Lady) was Skonnan in The Horns of Nimon, Humanoid in Full Circle, and Maid in Ghost Light
• Henry Roberts (Master) was Jousting Judge in The King's Demons (1)
• Fred Wood (Patron here; Beggar in Study in Terror; Roadie in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother) was the Running Man in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• stunt performer Tracey Eddon doubled for Sophie Aldred
• stunt arranger Marc Boyle was stuntman on Terror of the Autons, fight arranger on The Time Warrior, Prisoner/UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, Kronos in The Time Monster, and Exxilon in Death to the Daleks
• fencing instructor Arthur Howell was Confederate Horseman in The War Games
• stuntman Steve Whyment was Extra in The Keeper of Traken and Snakedance
• Peter Bennett was also the first assistant director on The Hounds of Baskerville and fourteen revived series episodes (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time), Attack of the Graske and Torchwood, production manager (on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End), and producer of twenty-one stories (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time)