Doctor Who Vs. Marple, Series 5

Jane Marple was again portrayed here by Big

Finish guest star Julia McKenzie. The Secret

of Chimneys (published in 1925) does not

actually feature Marple - this version used elements of The Herb of Death from The

 Thirteen Problems anthology. The Blue

Geranium also appeared in that volume,

released in 1932. The Mirror Crack'd from

Side to Side was based on Agatha Christie's

eighth Marple novel, issued in 1962.

The season opened with The Pale Horse, in

August 2010, whilst the remaining serials

were shown over the following Christmas

period. A repeat run of these festive specials

began on ITV3 today - they featured a total of

thirty Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

The Secret of Chimneys (UK TX: December 27 2010)

• Michelle [Daniella] Collins (Treadwell) was Captain Kath McDonnell in 42, then voiced Winnie Tyler for Big Finish's Damaged Goods (2015)
• Dervla Kirwan (Bundle here; cast in The Last Seance) was Mercy Hartigan in The Next Doctor, then reprised Miss Quill for Class 3, and voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Yost 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, Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020), and Lizbeth Hayhoe for Torchwood (2021)
• Charlotte [Leah] Salt (Virginia) voiced Sylvia Wimpole/Waveform/ Effy for Criss-Cross (2015)
• Nick Arthur was also the film editor on The Curse of Fatal Death and Hide
• for Matthew Tabern and Gavin Walters see A Pocket Full of Rye
• production runner Donna Shakesheff was the art department co-ordinator on every episode from Asylum of the Daleks to The Name of the Doctor

The Blue Geranium (UK TX: December 29)

• Joanna [Louise] Page (Hester) was Queen Elizabeth I in The Day of the Doctor, and Narrator of The Garden of Statues
• Ian [David] East (John) made his TV debut as Celation in (episode 2 of) The Daleks' Master Plan
• Claire [Louise] Rushbrook (Caroline here; Audrey for Towards Zero, 2010) was Ida Scott in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then reprised for Big Finish's Odyssey (2023), and voiced Tula Chenka for Escape from Kaldor (2018) and The Robots (from 2019), and the Abbess/Marna for Out of Time 1 (2021)
• Kevin [Robert] McNally (DI Somerset here; DI Japp in The ABC Murders, 2018) was Hugo Lang in The Twin Dilemma, then 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 The House of Kingdom and The Lost (all 2021)
• Paul Rhys (Pritchard here; Upward in Mrs. McGinty's Dead) voiced Max Paul for The Scapegoat (2009)
• Hugh Ross (Carmichael here; Carter in The Yellow Iris) voiced Reverend Merodach for Night's Black Agents (2010), Robert Stretton for Industrial Evolution (2011), Vepaja/Thraskin for Voyage to Venus, Sir Toby Kinsella for Counter Measures, 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), The Reesinger Process and The Split Infinitive, Kyle Inskip for Masters of Earth (both 2014), Gethal for The Exxilons (2015), Charles Kirkland for The Trouble With Drax (2016), Narrator of Late Night Shopping, The Piltdown Man (both 2014) and Waiting for Gadot (2017), Oliver Barleycorn for Dead Plates, and Malcolm for The Keeper of Light (both 2022)

• Sharon Small (Mary) voiced Jeannie/Janet for The Revenants (2012)
• Derek Hutchinson (Concierge) voiced Altus for The Burning Prince (2013), the Usher for A Life in the Day, Brother Callis for Eye of Darkness (both 2015), Geoff Evans for Black Thursday (2019), and Dr. Brownlow for No Place Like Home (2024)
• Caroline Catz [born Caplan] (Hazel) depicted Delia Derbyshire in Arena: The Myths and Legendary Tapes
• Patrick [Bashir] Baladi (Frayn here; Cloade in Taken at the Flood, 2006) was cast in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• for Damian Timmer, Sean Clayton and Greg Bennett see The Body in the Library
• for Tom Lucy see At Bertram's Hotel

The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side (UK TX: January 2 2011)

• Joanna [Lamond] Lumley (Dolly here & The Body in the Library; Helena in Innocent Lies) was the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death
• Lindsay [Vere] Duncan (Marina here; Lady Tamplin in The Mystery of the Blue Train) was Captain Adelaide Brooke in The Waters of Mars
• Martin Jarvis (Hogg here; Warburton in Dead Man's Folly; Narrator of Harley Quin, 2009-11) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
• Neil Stuke (Dr. Haydock; Baker in The Case of the Missing Will) voiced the titular villain/Geoff Corbett for The Crooked Man (2014), and was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon
• Samuel Barnett (DS Tiddler) voiced Hans Tod for The Beast of Orlok (2009), Robin Yeadon for Nightshade (2016), Cicero for Tartarus (2019), Emlak for The Sublime Porte (2023), and Norton Folgate for Torchwood
• Hugh [Richard] Bonneville [born Williams] (DI Hewitt here; Masterman in Murder on the Orient Express; Strange in Towards Zero, both 2010; Ralston in The Mousetrap, 2012) was Captain Henry Avery in The Curse of the Black Spot and A Good Man Goes to War, and voiced Tsar Nicholas I for The Angel of Scutari (2009)
• Anna Andresen (Maisie) was Tsarina Alexandra in The Power of the Doctor, and voiced the Elementals for Light the Flame (2021)
• Olivia Darnley (Cherry here; Nurse in A Life in Pictures) was Kourtney in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, then voiced Emily Cole for Prisoner of the Ood (2018)

Doctor Who On This Day #151

 

1965 - The Edge of Destruction, Episode

1 repeated and The Keys of Marinus,

Episode 1: The Sea of Death first

screened, both on ABC

1968 - The Reign of Terror, Episode 2:

Guests of Madame Guillotine, The Rescue,

Episode 1: The Powerful Enemy and The 

Romans, Episode 2: All Roads Lead to

Rome all repeated on TV1

1969 - The War Games, Episode

7 first screened on BBC1

1970 - The Dominators, Episode 5 and The

Mind Robber, Episode 1 both repeated on ABC

1971 - The Enemy of the World, Episodes 2 to 4
repeated and Episode 5 first screened, all on TV1

1975 - The Monster of Peladon, Part

4 repeated on ABC
1976 - The Brain of Morbius, Part

2 first screened on TROS

1978 - Spearhead from Space, Episode

3 repeated and The Green Death, Episode

 1 repeated and Episode 2 first screened,

 all on ABC

1979 - Spearhead from Space, Episode 3 and Day

of the Daleks, Episode 1 both repeated on ABC

1982 - The Ark in Space Omnibus repeated

on WTTW 11; Earthshock, Part 2 repeated

and Part 3 first  screened, both on ABC

1983 - Day of the Daleks, Episode 4 and Carnival

of Monsters, Episode 1 both repeated on ABC

1984 - Horror of Fang Rock, Part 3 repeated on

KQED Plus; and Kinda, Part 4 repeated on ABC

1985 - The Silurians, Episodes 2 and 3 both

repeated on TV2; and Planet of the Spiders,

 Part 1 repeated on KQED Plus

1986 - Four to Doomsday, Part 3 repeated on KQED Plus
1987 - Arc of Infinity Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus
1988 - Genesis of the Daleks, Part 2 first screened on

 TV3 (Spa); Meglos, Part 1 repeated on TV2; and

Castrovalva, Part 2 repeated on KQED Plus

1989 - The Ark in Space, Part 2 repeated on KQED

Plus; and Revenge of the Cybermen, Part 2 repeated

on TV de Galicia

1990 - Timelash, Part 4 (of 4) repeated on KQED Plus
1991 - Nightmare of Eden, Part 2 repeated on KQED Plus
1993 - The Three Doctors, Episode 2 repeated on UK

Gold; Meglos Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus; and

Resurrection of the Daleks, Part 4 (of 4) repeated on ABC

1994 - Warriors' Gate, Part 1 repeated on UK Gold

1995 - The Sea Devils, Episode 4 repeated on UK Gold;
and Vengeance on Varos, Part 2 repeated on VOX

1997 - The Android Invasion, Part 4 first screened

 on ZTV; and Terror of the Zygons Omnibus repeated

on UKTV (Aus)

1998 - The Aztecs, Episode 2: The Warriors of Death
repeated on Space; and Terror of the Vervoids Omnibus
repeated on UK Gold

1999 - The War Games, Episode 6 repeated on Space;
The Green Death, Episode 1 repeated on UKTV (Aus);

and The Hand of Fear Omnibus repeated on KQED

 2000 - The Edge of Destruction, Episode 2 repeated

 on Prime; and The Seeds of Death, Episode 6 repeated

on UKTV (Aus)

2001 - Pyramids of Mars, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated
on BBC America; The Armageddon Factor, Part 1

repeated on UKTV (Aus); Nightmare of Eden, Part

2 repeated on Prime; and Terminus, Part 3 repeated

on BBC Prime

2002 - The Invisible Enemy, Part 2 repeated on BBC Kids
 (Can); The King's Demons Omnibus repeated on NHPTV;
and The Curse of Fenric, Part 3 repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2003 - Terror of the Zygons, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated
on BBC Kids (Can); Pyramids of Mars Omnibus repeated

 on UK Gold; and Snakedance Omnibus repeated on KERA

2005 - City of Death, Part 4 repeated on ABC
2006 - Rose repeated on Ztéle
2007 - Bad Wolf first screened on SVT2
2008 - Rose repeated on Syfy (Rus); Aliens of London
and Doctor Who Confidential: I Get a Sidekick Out of

You both repeated on WLIW 21; Father's Day repeated

on Jimmy; The Satan Pit first screened on OETA; The

Poison Sky first screened on Syfy (US); Silence in the

Library first screened on BBC1; and Doctor Who

Confidential: Shadow  Play first screened on BBC3

2009 - Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Gridlock,
Evolution of the Daleks, The Lazarus Experiment, 42, Human 
Nature, The Family of Blood, Blink, Utopia, The Sound of
Drums and Last of the Time Lords all repeated on Syfy (Ben);
Daleks in Manhattan repeated on Idaho PTV and Syfy (Ben);
Planet of the Dead first screened on ABC1; and Doctor Who 

Confidential: A New York Story repeated on Idaho PTV

2010 - Rose repeated on Syfy (FRG); Dalek and 

The Unicorn and the Wasp both repeated on Syfy

 (Spa); The Family of Blood and Blink both
repeated on WTTW 11; The Doctor's Daughter 

repeated on Syfy (Spa) and Syfy (Ben); Cold Blood

repeated on BBC3 and BBC HD; and The Beast 
of Orlok, Episode 1 repeated on Radio 7

2011 - The Visitation, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on 

MTV3 SciFi, TV2 and TV4; Gridlock repeated on Watch;

 The Sontaran Stratagem repeated on Space; Flesh 

and Stone and Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown: 

Blinded by the Light both repeated on UKTV (Aus);

Greatest Moments: Martha repeated on ABC2; and 

Cradle of the Snake, Episode 3 repeated and

Episode 4 first broadcast, both on Radio 4 Extra

2012 - Silver Nemesis, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on 

MTV3 SciFi and TV4; Dalek repeated on BBC America; 

Tooth and Claw first screened on YLE TV2; The Idiot's

 Lantern and Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown: The 

Writer's Tale both repeated on ABC2; and The

Architects of History, Episode 1 repeated on Radio 

4 Extra

2013 - The Age of Steel repeated on Syfy (Port); The Satan
 Pit and Love & Monsters both repeated on BBC America;
Journey's End repeated on Watch; Vincent and the Doctor
repeated on Syfy (Spa); The Big Bang and A Christmas
Carol both first screened on YLE TV2; and The Almost

People repeated on BBC Nordic

2014 - The Hand of Fear Omnibus, The Deadly Assassin, 

Part 1, Warriors of the Deep, Parts 3 and 4, The Awakening, 

Part 1, Rose, The End of the World, The Unquiet Dead,

Aliens of London and World War Three all repeated on

Syfy (Aus); The Long Game, Utopia and The Sound of 

Drums all repeated on RAI4; The Parting of the Ways and

New Earth both repeated on Space; Smith and Jones,

The Shakespeare Code, Gridlock, Daleks in Manhattan

and Evolution of the Daleks all repeated on Fox (FRG);

The Next Doctor repeated on TV3 (Spa); The Beast Below

repeated on BBC Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; Victory

of the Daleks repeated on BBC Nordic HD, BBC Polska HD

and OETA; The Time of Angels repeated on BBC America,

BBC Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; Flesh and Stone

and The Vampires of Venice both repeated on BBC

America; The Rebel Flesh repeated on Syfy (Spa) and

Really Scary TV; The Almost People, A Good Man Goes

to War and Let's Kill Hitler all repeated on Really Scary

TV; Closing Time repeated on Jeem TV (ME); The Doctor,

the Widow and the Wardrobe repeated on France 4;

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and A Town Called Mercy

both repeated on BBC Nordic; Cold War and Doctor

Who: The Ultimate Guide both repeated on BBC3; Hide 

repeated on BBC3 and France 4; Journey to the Centre

of the TARDIS repeated on UKTV (NZ) and France 4;

The Crimson Horror repeated on BBC Entertainment EU,

Romania and ME; Nightmare in Silver repeated on BBC

Entertainment EU, Rom, ME and France 4; and The

Name of the Doctor repeated on Syfy (Portl)

2015 - Inferno, Episode 7 and Terror of the Autons,
Episodes 1 to 3 all repeated on Retro TV; Pyramids of

Mars, Parts 2 and 3, Meglos, Part 4 and Dinosaurs on

a Spaceship all repeated on Syfy (Aus); The Keeper of

Traken Omnibus repeated on Horror; Arc of Infinity,

Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on KBTC; The Long

Game and Father's Day both repeated on France 4;

The Satan Pit and Doctor Who Confidential: Religion,

Myths and Legends both repeated on UNC-MX; Fear

 Her repeated on Iowa PTV; The Stolen Earth and

Doctor Who Confidential: You've Got the Look both 

repeated on BBC Entertainment AP; The Next Doctor

repeated on KLRU; The Hungry Earth, Doctor Who

Confidential: After Effects and Arthurian Legend all

repeated on BBC Entertainment EU, Romania and

ME; A Christmas Carol repeated on KCPT2; The

Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon and The

Curse of the Black Spot all repeated on Watch and

KCPT2; The Doctor's Wife, The Rebel Flesh and

Hide all repeated on Watch; A Good Man Goes to

War repeated on OETA;The Girl Who Waited, The

God Complex, Closing Time, The Wedding of River

Song and Asylum of the Daleks all repeated on BBC

Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; The Caretaker

repeated on BBC Entertainment LA HD; Doctor

Who Confidential: The Fright Stuff repeated on

BBC Entertainment AP and Iowa PTV; Doctor Who

Proms (2010) repeated on BBC Entertainment

LA; and The Wrath of the Iceni repeated on Radio

4 Extra

2016 - Paradise Towers, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on

Retro TV; Blink repeated on BBC Polska HD; Journey's End

and Nightmare in Silver both repeated on Syfy (Aus);

Victory of the Daleks repeated on TV Cultura; Day of the

Moon repeated on Prime; The Almost People and Doctor 

Who Confidential: Take Two both repeated on ABC2; The 

God Complex repeated on Einsfestival; Dinosaurs on a 

Spaceship repeated on Syfy (Bra) and Syfy (LA); The

 Angels Take Manhattan repeated on BBC Entertainment

AP; The Snowmen repeated on BBC First (ME); and Death

in Heaven repeated on Syfy (LA)

2017 - The Daleks, Episode 7 and The Edge of Destruction,

Episode 1 both repeated on Retro TV; The Brain of Morbius, 

Part 2 repeated on The Zone; The Impossible Planet,

The Satan Pit, The Wedding of River Song, Time Heist

and Behind the Lens: The Time of the Doctor all

repeated on BBC Polska HD; Silence in the Library,

Forest of the Dead, Midnight, Turn Left, The Stolen

Earth and Journey's End all repeated on BBC America;

Vincent and the Doctor repeated on Syfy (Bra); The

Lodger repeated on BBC Polska HD and Syfy (Bra);

The God Complex and Closing Time both repeated on

FX (Ind); and A Town Called Mercy and The Power of

Three both repeated on Syfy (LA)

2018 - Planet of Giants, The Dalek Invasion of Earth,
The Rescue and The Romans Omnibuses all streamed
on Twitch TV; The War Games, Episodes 2 and 3 both

repeated on Retro TV; The Christmas Invasion repeated

on BBC Polska HD; The Time of the Doctor, Part 1 (of 2)

repeated on Star World Premiere; The Zygon Inversion

repeated on BBC Entertainment EU; The Husbands of 
River Song repeated on ABC and ABC ME; Empress of

Mars repeated on Syfy (LA) Syfy (Bra); The Eaters of

Light repeated on Syfy (LA); World Enough and Time

 repeated on Fox (FRG) and Syfy (LA); and The Doctor

Falls repeated on Fox (FRG)

2019 - The Sea Devils, Episodes 3 and 4 both repeated

on Retro TV; City of Death, Parts 2 to 4 all repeated

on Jones! too; The Horns of Nimon, Part 1 repeated on

KPTS; The Christmas Invasion repeated on Syfy (Fra); 

The Hungry Earth repeated on BBC Polska HD; and

Asylum of the Daleks and Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

both repeated on Sony SciFi

2020 - Planet of Giants Omnibus repeated on Iowa PTV;

Planet of Evil Omnibus repeated on Retro TV; Kinda, Part
4 and The Visitation, Part 1 both repeated on KBTC; The
Ultimate Foe Omnibus repeated on Idaho PTV; The

Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords and Voyage of
the Damned all repeated on W; The End of Time, Part 1
repeated on BBC Turkey; The Rebel Flesh and The Almost
People both repeated on One ARD; The Husbands of River

Song and The Return of Doctor Mysterio both repeated

on RAI4; Smile, Thin Ice and Knock Knock all repeated

on BBC Polska HD; Oxygen repeated on Star World 

Premiere; and Kerblam! repeated on Fox (FRG)

2021 - Robot of Sherwood repeated

on ABC2; and Resolution and Orphan

55 both repeated on BBC America

2022 - The Edge of Destruction

Omnibus repeated on Retro TV; and

Cold Blood repeated on Fox SciFi

2023 - The Silurians, Episodes 4 and

5 both repeated on Retro TV; The

Satan Pit and Love & Monsters both

repeated on Fox SciFi; and Eve of the

Daleks repeated on BBC Polska HD