Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 13

The thirteenth and final series of ITV's
acclaimed period crime drama concluded
with Curtain - based on the Queen of
Crime's last novel. Written in the early
1940's (but only published in 1975 just
before the author's death), Poirot's Last 
Case returned the detective and Captain
Hastings to Styles, the setting of the

writer's debut novel.

David Suchet reprised his definitive port-

rayal of Hercule Poirot, whilst Hugh Fraser (Hastings), Philip Jackson (Japp), Pauline

Moran (Miss Lemon), and Zoe Wanamaker

(Ariadne Oliver) all returned.

A repeat run of the five cases began on

ITV3 last night - the complete run featured

Shaun Dingwall, and a total of forty-four

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Elephants Can Remember
(TX: June 9 2013/Published 1972)

• Iain [Alan Sutherland] Glen (Willoughby here; Redfern for Evil Under the Sun, 1998; Trotter in The Mousetrap, 2012) was Father Octavian in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Annabel Mullion (Lady Ravenscroft) voiced Julia for Big Finish's The English Way of Death (2015)
• Ferdinand Kingsley (Burton-Cox) was Captain Neville Catchlove in Empress of Mars
• Adrian Lukis (Ravenscroft here; Kendal in A Caribbean Mystery, 1989) voiced Officer Bragg for Cobwebs (2010), Byzan for The Children of Seth (2011), Professor Jeffrey Broderick for Counter Measures 1 (2012), Harvey Marsh for The Justice of Jalxar, Sigmund Freud for Return of the Repressed (both 2013), and Ansillon for Blood of the Time Lords (2022)
• Maxine Evans (Mrs. Buckle) voiced Renucha for Mother Tongue (2020), then was Lowri Palin in 73 Yards  
• Sophie Holt (Extra) depicted actress Jackie Lane in An Adventure in Space and Time
• for Danny Webb see The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
• Stephanie Carey was also stunt performer on ten stories (from Voyage of the Damned to The Vanquishers)
• for Marcus Catlin see Taken at the Flood

The Big Four (TX: October 23/Published 1927)

• for writers Mark Gatiss and Ian Hallard see Series 11
• Sarah Parish (Flossie here; Evie in Sleeping Murder, 2006) was the Empress of the Racnoss in The Runaway Bride
• Peter Symonds (Whalley here; Hurstall in Towards Zero) was a Soldier in (part 3 of) Terror of the Zygons
• Steven Pacey (Paynter) voiced Trevor for The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (2008), and was Narrator of BBC Audio's The Secret Invasion (2020) and The Kairos Ring (2021)
• Teresa Banham (Diana) was the Prison Governor in The End of Time, then voiced Mrs. Bartholomew/Angelica for Jago and Litefoot 13 (2017)
• James Carroll Jordan (Ryland) voiced Major Vincent Da Costa/Herger for Shield of the Jotunn (2015), and Charles Virgil McLean for The Gift (2016) 
• Nicholas Burns (DI Meadows here; Britten in At Bertram's Hotel, 2007) was Lord Sutcliffe in Thin Ice
• for David Yelland see Murder in the Mews

Dead Man's Folly (TX: October 30/Published 1956)

• Martin Jarvis (Warburton here; Narrator of The Moving Finger, 2007 and Harley Quin, 2009-11; Hogg in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, 2010) and Rosalind Ayres (Mrs. Warburton) both starred in Jubilee (2003) as Nigel and Miriam Rochester - Jarvis was also Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos
• Tom [John] Ellis (DI Bland) was Dr. Thomas Mulligan in Last of the Time Lords 
• Sam [born Roger Michael] Kelly (Merdell) voiced Eugene Tacitus for The Holy Terror (2000), and Acheron for Return to the Web Planet (2007)
• Sean [Carl] Pertwee (Stubbs here; Oglander in The King of Clubs; Griffith in The Moving Finger, 2006; DI Lejeune in The Pale Horse, 2020) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
• Rebecca [Louise] Front (Miss Brewis here; Marcia for The £199 Adventure; Narrator of The Man in the Brown Suit) was Colonel Walsh in The Zygon Invasion, and voiced Major Takol for The Mind's Eye (2007), Patricia Walton for The Jupiter Conjunction (2012), and Tara for Together in Electric Dreams (2022)
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (DS Hoskins) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the titular role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Daniel Weyman TV (Legge) voiced Ragan Crezzen for The Butcher of Brisbane (2012)
• Richard Dixon (Henden here; Rowlandson in A Murder is Announced, 2005; Cayman in Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, 2022) voiced DI Alan Probert for The Dreams of Avarice (2022)
• Francesca Zoutewelle (Hiker) voiced H-One/H-Two/Mission Captain for The Furies (2018)
• Kevin Hudson (Policeman) was a Cyberman in thirteen episodes (from The Long Game to Ascension of the Cybermen), Technician in Bad Wolf, Escort in New Earth, Delivery Man in The Idiot's Lantern, Ood in The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood and The End of Time, Surgeon in Smith and Jones, Pigman in Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks, UNIT Soldier in Last of the Time Lords and The Day of the Doctor, Dalek in The Magician's Apprentice, and Apple Bill in The Witchfinders

The Labours of Hercules (TX: November 6/Published 1947)

• Morven Christie (Elsie here; Kirsten in Ordeal by Innocence, 2018) was O'Donnell in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Simon [Phillip Hugh] Callow (Dr. Lutz here; Melchett in The Body in the Library, 2004; cast in The Hollow, 2020) was Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead and The Wedding of River Song, and provided the voice of Tree Lorn Acre Blathereen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift, then voiced Don Quixote for The Ingenious Gentlemen (2025)
• Rupert Evans (Waring) voiced Jack Maddocks for The Forgotten Village (2014)
• Stephen Frost (Chief Inspector) began his TV career as a Tharil in Warriors' Gate, then voiced Rondig/Pod for Saviour (2021)
• Tom Chadbon (Dr. Burton) was Duggan in City of Death, and Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet, then voiced Forrest for BBV Productions' Conduct Unbecoming (2000), Will Sullivan for Sarah Jane Smith (2006), Gordon Davidson for No More Lies (2007), and Embery for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016)
• Eleanor Tomlinson (Alice here; Mary in Ordeal by Innocence, 2018) was Eve in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic
• Orla Brady (Countess) was Tasha Lem in The Time of the Doctor
• Isobel Middleton (WPC) provided the voice of Almak for Demons of the Punjab
• for Patrick Ryecart see Dumb Witness

Curtain (TX: November 13)

• Hettie Macdonald was also director of Blink, The Doctor's Meditation, The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar
• John [Ronald Leon] Standing (Luttrell) voiced Fenric for Gods and Monsters (2012), and Professor Threadstone for Vampire of the Mind (2016)
• Anne Reid (Daisy here; Sister Agnes in Nemesis, 2009) was Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenric, and Florence Finnegan in Smith and Jones
• Matthew McNulty (Allerton) was Adam Lang in Praxeus
• Anna Madeley (Barbara here; Adele in A Pocket Full of Rye, 2008) voiced Laura Lyons for The Monstrous Menagerie (2014)
• for Sean Clayton see Murder on the Links