Doctor Who Vs. Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Season 2

Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Emilia

Fox, and Tom Baker all returned

for the second, and final series of

Working Title TV's remake of ITC's

late Sixties cult crime drama. Lead

writer and actor Charlie Higson

collaborated on screenplays with

Gareth Roberts and Mark Gatiss.

The second serial featured a vocal

version of David Arnold's theme sung

by The Cardigans, and was included

 on the soundtrack CD. A tie-in book

 and two novelisations were pub-

lished too. The seven-part season

first aired on BBC1 in the autumn of

2001 - it starred Derek Jacobi, Matt

Lucas, Mark Williams, and a total of twenty-six Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Whatever Possessed You? (UK TX: September 29 2001)

• Hywel [Thomas] Bennett (Whale) was Rynian in The Chase
• Big Finish actor/writer Lizzie Hopley (Ruth) voiced Gemma Griffin for Terror Firma, Various for Cyberman (both 2005), Lady Lillian Hawthorne for The Veiled Leopard, Sue for Night Thoughts, Yarvell for I, Davros (all 2006), the Mantasphid Queen for The Infinite Quest, Alice Flowers for The Gunpowder Plot, Sister Christie for The Emporium at the End (both 2016), and Camper for Silver Medal (2021)
• Nichola [Teresa Mary] McAuliffe (Virginia) was Vivien Rock in The Sound of Drums, then voiced Otia/Guide for Time Killers (2022)
• David [Edward] Walliams (Browning) appeared in the Doctor Who Night sketches (with Gatiss), then voiced Quincy Flowers/Ned Cotton for Phantasmagoria (1999), and was Gibbis in The God Complex
• Janet Henfrey (Hettie) was Miss Hardaker in The Curse of Fenric, Mrs. Pitt in Mummy on the Orient Express, and the Adjudicator in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor - she then voiced Mrs. Vanguard for The Spirit Trap (2010), Dr. Petherbridge for An Eye for Murder, Mrs. Jefferies for The Concrete Cage, Woman for The Forgotten Village (all 2014), Dorothy for The Screaming Ceiling (2019), Sister Magdalene for Abbey of Heretics (2020), Verkuvia for The Day of the Comet (2021), and Narrats for Morbius 1 (2024)
• Mona Hammond [born Mavis Chin] (Margaret) was Rita Anne in Rise of the Cybermen
• electrician Colin Price was best boy on The Day of the Doctor

Revenge of the Bog People (UK TX: October 6)

• Celia [Diana Savile] Imrie (McKern) was [Rosemary] Kizlet in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Dr. Elizabeth Bradley for The Fifth Citadel (2013), Madame Tissot for Gallery of Ghouls, and Livia for Gallifrey: Enemy Lines (both 2016)
• Adam [Offord] Buxton (Barry) voiced an Assembler for The One Doctor (2001)

O Happy Isle (UK TX: October 13)

• George [Morris] Baker (Pomeroy) was Decider Login in Full Circle
• John [Gibb] Sessions [born Marshall] (Fishacre) voiced General Tannis for Death Comes to Time, Mozart for My Own Private Wolfgang (2007), Roland for Castle of Fear (2009), then provided the voice of Gus for Mummy on the Orient Express
• Rupert [Nicholas] Vansittart (Babbacombe) was General R Asquith in Aliens o London and World War Three, then voiced Sepulchre for Dead London (2008), and Darius Horton for The House on the Edge of Chaos (2019)
• Elji Kusuhara (Goto) was a Chinese Man in Four to Doomsday

Painkillers (UK TX: October 20)

• Dervla Kirwan (Petra Winters) was Mercy Hartigan in The Next Doctor, then reprised Miss Quill for Big Finish's Class, and voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Yosta McCormack for Lightspeed, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Anne Marie for Interlude, Representative for Echo Chamber, Agatha Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Professor Callis for Castle Hydra, and Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020)
• Duncan Preston (Dr. Hickman) voiced the titular alien in the Doctor Who and Crayola sketch for Victoria Wood as Seen on TV
• Alibe Parsons (Receptionist) was Matrona Kani in Mindwarp, and voiced Nora for The Lost Resort (2021)
• for Tim Wallers (Lacey) see Series 1: Paranoia

Marshall and Snellgrove (UK TX: October 27)

• Shaun Parkes (Marshall) was Zachary Cross Flane in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, a role reprised for Big Finish's Empire of Shadows (2021) and Oodunnit (2023)
• Colin McFarlane (Snellgrove) provided the voice of the Heavenly Host for Voyage of the Damned, was General Austin Pierce in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and Jonathan Moran in Under the Lake and Before the Flood, then voiced Vince Foster for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro (both 2014), the Identical Men for Charlotte Pollard 2 (2017), and Captain Morski for The War Master 5 (2020)

The Glorious Butranekh (UK TX: November 3)

• Joe Montana (Butranekh) was Worker in Daleks in Manhattan
• Ben Griffiths was also an electrician on thirty-eight stories (from Daleks in Manhattan to The Wedding of River Song), Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Class

Two Can Play That Game (UK TX: November 10)

• Eleanor Bron (Mrs. Applegarth) was an Art Lover in City of Death, and Kara [Seddle] in Revelation of the Daleks, then voiced Ileana De Santos for Loups-Garoux (2001)
• Roy Hudd (Dickie Klein) voiced Max Miller for Pier Pressure (2006)
• Reece [Wayne] Shearsmith (Harry) was Andrew Powell in The Devil of Winterborne and Ghosts of Winterborne, Dr. Dan Matthews in Auton, then depicted Patrick Troughton in An Adventure in Space and Time, and was Gagan Rassmussen in Sleep No More