Doctor Who Vs. The World's End

This British comedy sci-fi film was 

released by Universal in 2013, and

was co-written by lead actor Simon

 Pegg and director Edgar Wright. The production began life as the screen-

play Crawl (penned by Wright in 1995)

and was the final instalment in the

Cornetto trilogy which opened with

Shaun of the Dead in 2004, followed by

Hot Fuzz (2007) - all co-starred Nick

Frost, and the actors later collaborated

in Paul, The Adventures of Tintin, Truth

Seekers and Slaughterhouse Rulez.

Shown on ITV4 last night, The World's

End also featured Martin Freeman,

Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, Paddy

Considine, Pierce Brosnan, David Bradley, and forty-five Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Pegg (Gary King here; Shaun in Shaun of the Dead; Sgt. Angel in Hot Fuzz) played the Editor in The Long Game, voiced Don Chaney for Big Finish's Invaders From Mars (2002), and narrated the first series of Doctor Who Confidential
• Frost (Andy here; Ed in Shaun; PC Butterman in Hot Fuzz) was Santa Claus in Last Christmas
• Michael Smiley (Green here; Zombie in Shaun) voiced Seedleson for Creatures of Beauty (2003), then was Colonel Morgan Blue in Into the Dalek
• Bill [Francis] Nighy (Voice of the Network here; Philip in Shaun; Chief Inspector in Hot Fuzz) was Dr. Black in Vincent and the Doctor
• Julia [Margaret] Deakin (Landlady here; Mum in Shaun; Mary in Hot Fuzz) voiced Harriet Griffin for Terror Firma (2005), and Old Anita for Buried Memories (2019)
• Mark [Samuel] Kempner (Landlord) was the Cabbie in Deep Breath
• Reece [Wayne] Shearsmith (Collaborator here; Mark in Shaun) was Andrew Powell in BBV's 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
• Darren [John] Boyd (Hawkins) voiced Hemmings for The Shadow of London (2018)
• Steve Oram (Officer) was Joseph Williamson in Flux
• Nicholas Burns (Collaborator here) was Lord Sutcliffe in Thin Ice
• Big Finish actor Mark Donovan (Bastard here; Zombie in Shaun) voiced Karl for BBV's The Root of All Evil (1999), Charles for Race Memory, Ambassador/Klemp for Dust Breeding (both 2001), Orchestrator Shol for The Sandman, Various for Sarah Jane Smith (all 2002), Sturmer for The Wormery, Gerrof for He Jests at Scars, Shayde/the Rovie for No Place Like Home, Allenby for Dalek War 3 (all 2003), Polk for The Harvest (2004), and Jackson/Watcher for Survival of the Fittest (2010)
• Scott Stevenson (Blank) was 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
• Jenny Bede (Instructor) voiced Florrie and Doctor for Absolute Power (2016)
• Mark Heap (Publican) voiced the Middleman for The Middle (2017)
• Teddy Kempner (Publican) voiced Grakk/Clerkie/Robot for Izzy's Story, Macrinus/Crusher for The Cannibalists, Yavuz/Mummer/ Yokel/Demon for Castle of Fear (all 2009), Gelter/Bliss/Elohim for Paradise 5 (2010), Nazar/Gantha for 1001 Nights, Miaxa for My Brother's Keeper (both 2012), Donal Dineen for Iterations of I (2014), and Viktor/Mozart/Apothecary/Stefan for A Requiem for the Doctor (2018)
• Ken Bones (Publican) was the General in The Day of the Doctor and Hell Bent - a role reprised for Dreadshade (2020), The War Room 1, The War Doctor 4 (both 2022) and A Genius for War (2023) - he also voiced Thomas Bloodchild/Dreislav for The Bloodchild Codex (2013), and David/Anders Kristiansen for Battlegrounds (2022)
• Paul Kennington (Publican) was a stuntman on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and The Doctor's Daughter
• Peter [Szymon] Serafinowicz (Man here; Duane in Spaced; Pete in Shaun) was the Fisher King in Before the Flood
• Alex Austin (Man) was Yedlarmi in Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children
• Alex Kaye-Besley was assistant director on The Shakespeare Code too
• Richard Glass was the optician on The Time of the Doctor too
• Oliver Benson, Julian Nix and Phoebe Arnstein all worked on An Adventure in Space and Time (as art department assistant, graphic designer and second assistant camera operator respect- ively) too
• Simon Diggins was also the ADR mixer on fifteen stories (from The Day of the Doctor to The Husbands of River Song)
• ADR recordist Rob Humpage was an assistant on Space and Time
• Peter Gleaves was also ADR mixer on The Magician's Apprentice, The Witch's Familiar and Under the Lake
• Vanessa Bastyan (key fabricator) was make-up FX technician on Cold Blood
• Mike Crowley was also SFX supervisor on eight stories, from The Girl in the Fireplace to Doomsday
• Jeremy Braben was director of aerial photography on The Day of the Doctor too
• prosthetics designer Waldo Mason was a SFX assistant on Aliens of London
• Peter Hawkins also worked on prosthetic FX for seventeen instal- ments (from The Girl in the Fireplace to Last Christmas)
• Gustav Hoegen (model designer) was a prosthetics technician on The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• Ivan Manzella was a sculptor on Dinosaurs on a Spaceship too
• Justin Pitkethly (key sculptor) was a prosthetics technician on Planet of the Dead
• Chris Reynolds was also SFX technician on Terror of the Vervoids and Battlefield
• Lucia Smith was fabricator on The God Complex too
• Vince McGahon was also the Steadicam operator on The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor
• Jake Polonsky was the cinematographer on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too
• stunt performers Rob Cooper, Nic Goodey, Belinda McGinley, Cristian Knight, David Newton, and Chris Pollard all worked on the revived series too