Doctor Who Vs. Grantchester, Series 9

The latest season of the Kudos and

ITV Studios period crime drama

 (based on The Grantchester

Mysteries book series from James

Runcie) concluded this week.

Robson Green, Al Weaver, and

Tess Peake Jones were joined by

Tom Brittney's successor Rishi

Nair, as new vicar Alphy Kotteram

(pictured right).

The eight-part series featured

Kacey Ainsworth, Oliver Dimsdale,

Nick Brimble, Bradley Hall, Melissa

Johns, and a total of twenty

Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• [Sarah] Melanie [Jean] Kilburn (Nanna) voiced Hooley for Big Finish's The Dread of Night (2018)
• Rebecca Benson (Rose) was Kar in The Eaters of Light
• Ned Porteous (Baron) voiced Sergeant Zogroth in The Star Beast
• Jay Villiers (Walker) voiced Villager in AudioGo's The Hexford Invasion and Survivors in Space
• Tony Van Silva (Albert) was a stuntman on Tooth and Claw
• Richard Goulding (Marwood) voiced John Quarrington for The End of the Beginning (2021), and the titular entity for Axos Unleashed (2022)
• Serena Evans (Miss Cheadle) voiced Agnes Bates for The Witch from the Well (2011)
• George Asprey (Waddingham) voiced Overseer Zim for The Hidden Realm, Balthasar Schrek for Nothing to See Here (both 2016), the Leader for Infamy of the Zaross (2017), General Melak for Time in a Bottle and Kings of Infinite Space (both 2018), the titular alien for Ravenous and Beyond (2021), and Superior Elite for The Good Samaritan (2023)
• Nye Occomore (Rivers) voiced Tiro Hart for Planet Krynoid 1 (2025)
• Barney Wilkinson (Clark) was Policeman in The Church on Ruby Road
• Rachel Atkins (Connie) voiced Dr. Angeline Duchamp/Queen Aethelfrid for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Lieutenant Jane Lucas for The Screaming Skull (2014), Sol for Intervention Earth, Susannah for The Tears of Isis (both 2015), Bishop for Maurice, Madame Sosostris for Masterpiece, Juno for Maker of Demons, Myla for The Age of Endurance (all 2016), Minister for Embankment Station, Major Destra for The Good Master (both 2017), Margot for Goodbye Piccadilly (2018), Ro-Jedda for Aliens Among Us (2019), Zarda for Do No Harm, Governor Crompton for Like, Sarathin for The Enemy of My Enemy (all 2020), Cathrin Travers for Faustian, Dresha for Colony of Fear (both 2021), and Captain Argento for Morbius (2024)
• Jake Parker was production assistant (PA) on Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children, then also location marshal on twelve adventures (from The Star Beast to Empire of Death)
• for Peake Jones, Ainsworth and Brimble see Series 1
• for Dimsdale and Ritchie see Series 2 and 7
• for Louise Page and Mark Waters see Series 4 and 5
• for Dani Biernat see Series 3