Doctor Who Vs. Ashes to Ashes, Series 2

The sequel to Life On Mars returned to BBC1 in

the spring of 2009. Keeley Hawes, Philip Glenister,

Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster, and Montserrat

Lombard reprised their respective roles (as DI Alex

Drake, DCI Gene Hunt, DS Ray Carling, DC Chris Skelton, and WPC Shaz Granger) for the second season of Ashes to Ashes, now set in 1982.

A repeat run of the eight-part series began on

That's TV last night - it featured Endeavour co-

stars Roger Allam and Shaun Evans, David

Bradley, and a total of forty Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Adrian Dunbar (Summers) voiced McCarthy for Big Finish's Brave New Town (2008)
• Syrus Lowe (PC) voiced Patrice Okereke for The Last Party on Earth (2019)
• Deirdre Mullins (Nurse) voiced Fleet Admiral Effenish for The Very Dark Thing (2016), Naomi Davies for Charlotte Pollard 2, Osen for Beneath the Viscoid (both 2017), Roisin/Spae Wife for Feast of Fear (2019), Amanda Latimer for The Headless Ones (2020), Dalfin for The Forest of Penitence, and Dissident for The Players (both 2022)
• Pooky [born Joanna] Quesnel (Ruth) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol, and Dorothea Ames for Class, then voiced Annalise Avenley for The Running Men (2024)
• Joseph Millson (Battleford) was Alan Jackson in the first two seasons of The Sarah Jane Adventures, then voiced Colonel Keelan for Dalek Universe 3 (2021), Peter Kelly for Splinters, Peetom for Paradox of the Daleks (both 2022), Jory Hopkins/Teacher/Co-Pilot for The Diary of River Song 12, Ignatius Montague for The Devouring (both 2023), and Simon de Montfort for Knights of the Round TARDIS (2025)
• Rory [Michael] Kinnear (Jeremy) voiced Samuel Belfrage for Industrial Evolution (2011)
• Robert Portal (Pattison) voiced Marshal Ney/Superintendent Finch for The Curse of Davros (2012), Reggie Bassett for The Auntie Matter (2013), Jim/Midge for Lost Property, and Treadwell for Wild Animals (both 2020)
• Adrian Schiller (Lawyer) was Uncle in The Doctor's Wife, and voiced Zanith for Time Works (2006), and Maurice Le Bon for Fright Motif (2021)
• Sara [Scott] Stewart [born Griffith] (Gaynor) provided the Computer voice for The End of the World
• Rita Davies (Mother) voiced Janneus for Primeval (2001), and Tashek for Innocence (2006)
• Ben Bishop (Man) voiced Johnny Stone for The Justice of Jalxar (2013), and Kenny White for Changing of the Guard (2014)
• Tom Georgeson (Mitchell) was Kavell in Genesis of the Daleks, and Police Inspector in Logopolis
• [Celia] Daisy [Morna] Haggard (Donna) was Sophie in The Lodger, Closing Time and Up All Night
• Gwilym Lee (Summers) voiced Count Rolf Wittenmeier for The Silver Turk (2011), Djahn/Lord Edgar Forster for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Pretty Swanson for Spaceport Fear, and Jack Hodges for Phantoms of the Deep (both 2013)
• Sophie Bleasdale (Donna) voiced Luux/Petra for The Lost Son (2024)
• John R Walker (Czarnecki) was Cured Patient in New Earth, Injured Man in Evolution of the Daleks, and Sales Rep in Planet of the Ood
• Mark Straker (Doctor) made his TV debut as the Second Trooper in Earthshock
• Michael Gould (Pathologist) voiced Frederick Lindemann for The Oncoming Storm (2016) 
• Greg Donaldson (Guard) voiced Telligan for Dalek Empire 3 (2004), Coach Bela Destry for The Game (2005), and David for Power Play (2012)
• Simon Sherlock (Bent Copper) voiced Kelsa for The Raincloud Man (2008)
• Sophie Duval (Cleaner) was Mum in Resolution
• Chris Pollard (Doyle) was a stuntman on Robot of Sherwood
• new line producer Patrick Schweitzer first worked on the revived series as location manager on The Runaway Bride, then was production manager on six stories for Series 3, and produced all thirteen episodes of Series 5
• Simon Archer was cinematographer on The Lodger too
• Toby Wood (score engineer) and Ian Adrian both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time - Adrian was also a camera operator on The Vampires of Venice, The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, Vincent and the Doctor and The Lodger 
• production co-ordinator Holly Pullinger was PM on The Eleventh Hour, The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor
• stunt co-ordinator Crispin Layfield has held that post on sixty-seven instalments of the revived series (from Smith and Jones to Kerblam!)
• Stephanie Carey was also a stunt performer on Voyage of the Damned, The Beast Below, The Curse of the Black Spot, Let's Kill Hitler, The Girl Who Waited, The Angels Take Manhattan and The Crimson Horror
• for Hawes, Geff Francis, Joseph Long, Matthew Graham, Beth Willis, Julie Scott, Catherine Morshead, Edmund Butt, Simon Blackledge, Antonia Grant and Derek Lea see Series 1