Doctor Who Vs. Dorothy L Sayers Mystery: Have His Carcase

The last television adaptations of the

crime novels of Dorothy L Sayers

originally aired on BBC1 in 1987 -

they starred Edward Petherbridge as

Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Walter

as Harriet Vane.

This series followed the Corporation's

two live versions of Sayers' stage-

play Busman's Honeymoon (in 1947

and 1957), five TV serials (televised

between 1972 and 1975), and the

Radio 4 treatment in 1981.

This four-part case (shown second in

the run) was based on the writer's

seventh Wimsey novel, published in

1932, and it featured Michael

Troughton, and twenty-four other

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Big Finish actor [Rosemary] Rowena Cooper (Mrs. Weldon) was Angela Price in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then voiced La Concierge for AudioGo's The Demon of Paris (2010), Emily Shaw for The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Jean Bazemore for Jago & Son, Mother Superior for The Unbound Universe (both 2016) and Ruler of the Universe (2017), and Queen Victoria for The Torchwood Archive, The Victorian Age and Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018) and Infidel Places (2022)
• Ray Armstrong (DI Trethowan) was Grey in The Ambassadors of Death
• Arthur Cox (Hardy) was Cully in The Dominators, and Henderson in The Eleventh Hour
• Peter [Henry] Benson (Perkins) was Bor in Terminus
• Arthur Hewlett (Trewin) was Kalmar in State of Decay, and Kimber in Terror of the Vervoids
• Arthur [James] Blake (Editor) was Hrhoonda in (episode 2 of) The Web Planet
• John [Edward] Cater (Pollock) was Professor Krimpton in The War Machines
• Robin Soans (Merryweather) was Luvic in The Keeper of Traken, and the Chronolock Guy in Face the Raven, then was Narrator of The Sins of Winter (2015)
• Brian [John Lumley] Hawksley (Dr. Fenchurch) was Brewster in Black Orchid
• Trudie Goodwin (Cherie) voiced Faith for The Uncertain Shore (2020), and Galta for Audacity (2023)
• John Mooney was also sound assistant on Remembrance of the Daleks, Silver Nemesis (3), The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Battlefield and Ghost Light
• for Barbara Gosnold, Clare Graham, Nicholas Laughland, Alan Machin, Colin Mapson, Clive Thomas, Shirley Coward, Monica Rodger and Paul Wheeler see Strong Poison
• Anushia Nieradzik was also the costume designer on Frontios, Attack of the Cybermen and Battlefield
• Bob Roberts was also film recordist on The Massacre, The Three Doctors and Resurrection of the Daleks
• Geraldine Stephenson was the choreographer on The Brain of Morbius too
• Robin Lobb was also the video FX assistant on The Leisure Hive, Warriors' Gate and Mawdryn Undead