Doctor Who Vs. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"Cedric Diggory will not have

died in vain. You remember

that and we'll celebrate a boy

 who was kind, honest, brave

and true. Right to the very

end."

ITV2's latest Harry Potter film

season continued tonight with the

fourth entry in the saga, released

in late 2005. Ralph Fiennes,

 Brendan Gleeson, Katie Leung,

and Miranda Richardson were

 introduced here - as Voldemort, Moody, Cho Chang, and Rita Skeeter.

Published in 2000, JK Rowling's fourth volume was adapted by Warner

Bros - it featured David Tennant (Barty Crouch Jr.), David Bradley,

Robert Pattinson (pictured as Cedric), and twenty-three Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Jeff Rawle (Amos) was Plantagenet in Frontios, Lionel Harding in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge, then depicted Mervyn Pinfield in An Adventure in Space and Time, and voiced Toby Brokesmith for Chapel of Night (2017), Chad Caramel for The Tyrants of Logic (2018), Captain Miles Rozann for Here Lies Drax (2022), and Reverend Robert Drummond for Sea Smoke (2025)
• Roger [Anthony] Lloyd Pack (Crouch Sr.) was John Lumic in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel
• Christopher Whittingham (Wizard) made his acting debut as Crew- man in (part 2 of) Earthshock
• Philip Rham (Death Eater) was Erich Zimmerman in Let's Kill Hitler
• Martin Alexander Colton (Quidditch Player here; Commuter in The Order of the Phoenix) was Juliet in The Shakespeare Code
• Big Finish actor Phil Mulryne (Troy) voiced Hologram/Rek for Tomb Ship, Trobe/Warma for Of Chaos Time The, Prince Erdos/Magpie/ Calcula for Pyschodrome (all 2014), Shom/Hogan/Ogron 6 for The Romance of Crime (2015), Barnaby Miller for Wave of Destruction (2016), and Brubble Medicius/Guard for For the Glory of Urth (2021) - he also wrote The Oncoming Storm, A Thing of Guile, Fallen Angels (all 2016), The Contingency Club, The Haunting of Malkin Place (both 2017), Planet of the Drashigs (2019), The Keeper of Light, Memnos, Machines Like Us (all 2022), and Antillia the Lost (2023)
• David Sterne [born Stone] (Wizard) voiced Lord Arthur Greyston/John /Guard for Peake Season (2022)
• Kevin Hudson (Fan here; Prophecy in The Order of the Phoenix) starred in twenty-nine episodes (from The Long Game to The Timeless Children)
• Charlotte [Anne] Ritchie (Student) was Lin in Resolution
• Peter Roy (Wizard here, The Order of the Phoenix, The Deathly Hallows) was Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, Sergeant [Erskine]/ Chauffeur in The Faceless Ones (1), UNIT Soldier in The Invasion (1), Guard in The Seeds of Death (1), The Space Pirates (1), The Face of Evil (1), The Invasion of Time (1), The Androids of Tara (1) and The Armageddon Factor (1), Technic Obarl in The Hand of Fear (1), Policeman in Logopolis (1), Ambulance Man in Castrovalva (1), Market Man in Snakedance (1), and Extra in The Highlanders (1), The Silurians (6), The Sun Makers (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks (1)
• Amanda Foster was a stunt performer on The Doctor's Daughter too
• for Warwick Davis, Adrian Rawlins, Lisa Osmond, Jo Osmond and Greg Powell see The Philosopher's Stone
• for Mark Williams, Shirley Henderson, Paul Bateman and Eddie Howards see The Chamber of Secrets
• for Michael Gambon and Andy Smart see The Prisoner of Azkaban