Doctor Who Vs. Endeavour, Series 9

Shaun Evans returned as Colin Dexter's

eponymous detective in the ninth and final

series of Mammoth Screen/Masterpiece's

acclaimed Inspector Morse prequel drama.

Followed by the documentary Morse and

the Last Endeavour, the season (first

 shown in early 2023) again starred Roger

Allam, Anton Lesser, Sean Rigby, James

Bradshaw, Sara Vickers, Caroline O'Neill,

Abigail Thaw, and Jack Laskey. A repeat

run of the three cases began on ITV3 last

night - they featured a total of sixteen

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Prelude (UK TX: February 26)

• Nicholas Farrell [born Frost] (Lemontov here; Milner in Lewis, 2010) was Brian Green PM in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Gammades for Time Reef, Phil for A Perfect World (both 2008), Captain Frank for Last of the Cybermen (2015), and Browman for A Ghost of Alchemy (2023)
• Nicholas Boulton (Graham-Scott) was Businessman in Gridlock, then voiced Chule for Capture the Chronovore! (2022), Vice for Meanwhile, Elsewhere (2023), Captain Saint for The Children of the Future, and Bryans/Pilot 27 for The Casebook of Paternoster Row (both 2024)
• Matt Hermiston was stuntman on The Woman Who Fell to Earth too
• for Tom Lucy see Series 1

Uniform (UK TX: March 5)

• Kevin [Robert] McNally (Kenny) was Lieutenant Hugo Lang in The Twin Dilemma, and Professor Eustacius Jericho in Flux - he also voiced Henry for Spider's Shadow (2008), Vakrass for The End of the Beginning, and Merrick Kingdom for Dalek Universe (both 2021)
• Richard [John] Hope [Walker] (Ted) was Malohkeh in The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood and The Wedding of River Song, and Bleytal in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, then voiced Moreland for The Bounty of Ceres, William Heaton for Changing of the Guard (both 2014) and Rise and Shine, Harry Harvey for Damaged Goods (both 2015), Phillip Cook/Kal for Absent Friends (2016), Jastrok for UNIT: Assembled (2017), General Reinhardt for Shellshock (2022), and Darling for All of Time and Space (2023)
• Paul Bazely (Gatwood) was Ven Garr in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, then voiced Elio/SV44/SV72 for The Enhancement, the Duke of Hishtar for The Ribos Inheritance, and Mikhail for Black Friday (all 2022)
• Ayesha Antoine (Freya) was Dee Dee Blasco in Midnight, then voiced Locusta/Passerby/Citizen for The Lone Centurion 1, Babs for The Evolving Dead (both 2021), Padilla for Wink, Narrator of Fear of Flying (both 2022) and Table for Two, Dinner for One, Victim/Jan/ Jaxine for The War Master 10 (2023), and the Chief Archivian/ Mechanoid 2150 for Daleks!
• Shaheen Khan (Miss Hatch) was Hasna in Demons of the Punjab
• Christian Knight was stuntman on The Day of the Doctor too

Exeunt (UK TX: March 12)

• Victoria Alcock (Vi) was Angela Whittaker in Planet of the Dead, then voiced Marion Tudor for Power Play, and Winnie O'Connor for The Lonely Clock (both 2012)
• Jo[nathan] Stone Fewings (Dr. Fortescue) was the Male Programmer [Davitch Pavale] in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, and voiced Major Wheatley for Hounded (2016)
• Sam Stefan was stuntman on Twice Upon a Time too
• for Danny Webb (DI Lott) see Series 1
• for Phil Daniels (Charlie) see Series 5
• for stuntman Dean Forster see Series 2