Doctor Who Vs. Hannay, Series 2

This adventure series was the

TV spin-off from Rank's 1978 film version of The Thirty Nine

Steps, shown on Talking Pictures

TV last night. Both productions

starred Robert Powell as John

Buchan's Richard Hannay.

This Thames Television period

drama (set before the Great

War) had little in common with

 Buchan's novels, but used

character names from his other

works.

Hannay followed two BBC adapt-

ations of The Three, Hostages, in

1952 and 1977, with Patrick Barr

then Barry Foster as  the hero. Rupert Penry Jones portrayed Hannay in BBC Scotland's remake of The 39 Steps in 2008.

In 2017, Polygon (Buchan's original publishers) released The Thirty-One

Kings - the first new Hannay story in eighty years, written by Scottish

children's author, Robert J Harris. 

This final seven-part season (originally shown from early 1989) featured

Alex Kingston, and a total of thirty-one Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Coup de grace (TX: January 31 1989)

• Leslie Schofield (Tennant) was Leroy in (episode 4 of) The War Games, and Calib in The Face of Evil
• Joanna David [born Hacking] (Sybil) voiced Mr. Audley for Audio- Go's The Broken Crown (2011)
• stuntman Alf [Charles Richard] Joint was stunt arranger on Battlefield
• stuntman Rod [Paul] Woodruff was the stunt co-ordinator on Rose and World War Three 

The Terrors of the Earth (TX: February 7)

• Peter [George Haywood] Halliday (Dearth) was Packer and Cyber Director Voice) in The Invasion, voiced the Silurians in their debut story, and the Aliens in The Ambassadors of Death, then was Pletrac in Carnival of Monsters, Soldier in City of Death, and the Vicar in Remembrance of the Daleks (2), then voiced Derhaven for Magic Bullet's Checkmate (2003)
• stuntman Paul Heasman was an uncredited Nazi in Silver Nemesis, then stunt co-ordinator on Survival
• fight arranger Steve Whyment was an Extra on The Keeper of Traken and Snakedance 

Double Jeopardy (TX: February 14)

• Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (DCI Rodier) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, DI Crossland in The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Big Finish's Night Thoughts (2006)
• Tom [Welsh] Watson (Leigh) was Ramo in The Underwater Menace
• Denys [Vernon] Hawthorne (Counsel) was Rudge in Terror of the Vervoids

The Good Samaritan (TX: February 21)

• David Haig [Collum Ward] (Smyth here; Sinclair in The 39 Steps) was Pangol in The Leisure Hive
• Sharon [Patricia] Maughan (Dore) voiced Whitfield for Cold Fusion (2016)
• Derek Smith (Colonel) was the Doorman in Human Nature
• Colin Prockter (Harker) was the Chef in The Long Game, and the Air Raid Warden in Victory of the Daleks
• prolific Big Finish actor Steven Wickham (Boris) was [uncredited] Soldier in The Caves of Androzani (1), and Gastropod in The Twin Dilemma (1), then voiced Dr. Samuel Holywell for Phantasmagoria (1999), Murranus for The Fires of Vulcan (2000), Ron Sharpe for The Tao Connection (2002), Joseph/Victor Farrison for The Dark Flame (2003), Valyes for Gallifrey (2005-13), Uviol for Red (2006), Harom for Urban Myths, Soldiers for Son of the Dragon (both 2007), Garm/ the Master of Karn for Seven Keys to Doomsday (2008), Gavin Walker for The Veiled Leopard (2013), and Grisk/Venorg for Memories of a Tyrant (2019)

The Confidence Man (TX: February 28)

• [Alexander] Martin Clunes (Amersham) was Lon in Snakedance
• Richenda Carey (Marigold) voiced Alexis Linfoot for Plague of the Daleks (2009), Gliss for Prisoners of the Sun (2011), Sister Frances Beckett for The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Mother Finsey for The Transcendence of the Ephros (2016) and The Last Day 1 (2023), Professor Blavatsky for The Wreck of the World (2017), Lady Crozion for Kingdom of Lies (2018), Darial for The Bekdel Test, and Admiral for Concealed Weapon (both 2019)

That Rough Music (TX: March 7)

• Andrew [Hugh] Woodall (Birbeck) depicted Rex Tucker in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Ron [Henry] Pember (Peterson) voiced Seedle for Slipback

Say the Bells of Shoreditch (TX: March 14)

• Karen Archer (Madge) voiced Professor Allen for Never Alone (2021), DCI Denise Walker for The Annihilators (2022), Vrull Peregrine for The Great Cyber War (2023), and Countess of Warminster for Anne of a Thousand Light Years (2024)
• Patrick Carter (Workman) was the Bosun in The Chase (3)