Doctor Who Vs. Nativity 2

Shown on Sky Max today, this

festive British comedy (subtled

 Danger in the Manger) was the

first of three sequels to 2009's

Nativity!

David Tennant starred in the

dual role as Donald and Roderick

Peterson. Marc Wootton and Pam

Ferris reprised their roles as Mr.

Poppy and the head of Coventry's

St. Bernadette's Primary school.

Filmed on location in Wales and

England in late 2011, Nativity 2

was released a year later and

featured fifteen Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• [Tallulah] Jessica [Elina] Hynes [born Stevenson] (Angel) was Joan Redfern in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then (that character's greatgrand daughter) Verity Newman in The End of Time, Part 2 - she also voiced Glory Bee for Big Finish's Invaders from Mars (2002)
• Joanna [Louise] Page (Mrs. Peterson) was Queen Elizabeth I in The Day of the Doctor
• for Ferris (Mrs. Bevan), Jason Watkins (Shakespeare) and Rosie Cavaliero (Miss Rye) see Nativity!
• Ian McNeice (Dad) was Winston Churchill in The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens, and The Wedding of River Song (then reprised for The Churchill Years, Their Finest Hour, Operation: Hellfire and Subterfuge), and also voiced Zeus for Immorta; Beloved (2007), and Reginald Harcourt for Renaissance Man (2012)
• Amanda Lawrence [born Jones] and George Potts (Teachers) were Doomfinger in The Shakespeare Code; and voiced Ruben/Guard for The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (2015) respectively
• Claire Vousden (Supply Teacher) voiced the First Elder/Investigator for Sphere of Influence (2020)
• Stevie Smith was also a make-up artist on forty-one adventures (from The Christmas Invasion to The Waters of Mars) and Music of the Spheres
• prop hand Adrian Greenwood was a prop buyer on a dozen stories (from Asylum of the Daleks to The Name of the Doctor)
• sound mixer John Taylor was a boom operator on The Five Doctors
• casting assistant Ray Knight was Soldier in (part 4 of) Robot, Monster in Planet of Evil (4), Coven Member in Image of the Fendahl, Mentiad in The Pirate Planet, Deon in Meglos (1), Constable in Logopolis (1), Trion in Planet of Fire (4), and Crewman in Dragonfire
• costume supervisor Fiona McCann was an assistant on Love & Monsters
• Will [John] Willoughby [born Haynes] was also a stunt double on Rose, Smith and Jones, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens, A Good Man Goes to War, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and A Town Called Mercy