Doctor Who Vs. Inspector Morse: The Dead of Jericho

Central's acclaimed BAFTA winning crime

drama was produced by Zenith, and was

originally shown on ITV from 1987 to 2000.

Based on the thirteen police procedural
novels of Colin Dexter (written between
1975 and 1999), the programme sub-

sequently comprised thirty-three feature-

length murder mysteries.
The eponymous Oxford-based detective was

 portrayed by John Thaw (1942-2002), and

Kevin Whately played DS Robbie Lewis - a

role reprised for spin-off series Lewis (2006-

2015). Dexter (1930-2017) made Hitchcock-

esque cameos in all but three cases, and a

prequel drama Endeavour, starring Shaun

Evans as the younger Morse, began in 2012.

Dexter's works have also been dramatised

for BBC Radio 4 (broadcast from 1992 to 1996), and in 2010, Colin Baker

took the lead in a stage version, House of Ghosts.

Repeated on ITV3 today, the first Morse serial (based on Dexter's fifth

novel and published in 1981) aired in January 1987, and was adapted by

Anthony Minghella. Patrick Troughton starred here as George Jackson

(pictured) in one of his final roles for television, with Gemma Jones, and

fifteen other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• series producer Kenny McBain was director of The Horns of Nimon
• Norman Jones (CI Bell here & Service of All the Dead) was Khrisong in The Abominable Snowmen, Major [Norman] Baker in The Silurians, and Hieronymous in The Masque of Mandragora
• James [David] Grout (CS Strange) and Peter Woodthorpe (Dr. Max DeBryn) both provided voice roles for Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? - Grout was Ian Chesterton, the latter was Joey Oxford
• Philip [James] Voss (Coroner here & The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn) was Acomat in Marco Polo, and Wahed in (episode 1 of) The Dominators, then voiced Under Sergeant/Robot for Big Finish's Original Sin (2016)
• Rupert Holliday Evans (David) was Colonel [Alan] Mace in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, then voiced Celtic Warrior for The Relics of Time, Artist for The Demon of Paris, and Cop for Starfall (all 2010)
• Annie Lambert [born Hole] (Adele) was Enlightenment in Four to Doomsday
• Souad [Adel] Faress (Diomanda) was Older Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic
• Gary Powell (PC) was Dev Ashton in 42
• Lee Richards (Barmaid) was Exotic Romana in Destiny of the Daleks (1)
• Peter Brayham was also stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• stuntman Terry Forrestal was a Tractor Driver in K9 and Company
• series stuntman Valentino Musetti was Mongol Bandit in Marco Polo (5), Saracen Warrior in The Crusade (1), Egyptian in The Daleks' Master Plan, Prisoner in The Mind of Evil, and Extra in Colony in Space and The Time Monster
• Michael Feinberg was also a sound editor on The Lazarus Experiment, and ten episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Peter Bennett was also first assistant director on fourteen stories (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time), production manager on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, then produced another twenty-one instalments (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time) and Torchwood: Children of Earth

BBC Radio 4's treatment of Alma Cullen's original drama House

of Ghosts (first transmitted in March 2018) starred Neil Pearson

as the detective, and six further Doctor Who cast links:

• prolific Big Finish actor Stephen [Anthony] Critchlow (Woolf here; Martin in The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn) voiced Anthony Newley for Blue Veils and Golden Sands (2002), O'Keefe for The Nowhere Place (2006), Extra for The Eternity Clock (2012), Earl of Wessex/ Professor Fester for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Billy Flint for An Ordinary Life, Various for Mind Games, The Reesinger Process and Second Sight, Soldier for The Screaming Skull (all 2014), the titular alien for The Yes Men, Marvo for The Haunting (both 2015), Noni for Gallery of Ghouls, Narrator of Sound the Siren and I'll Come to You Comrade (both 2016), The Young Lions and Intuition, Leonard for Ruler of the Universe (all 2017), Sir Humphrey Eagleton/Charlie Lucas for Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018), Temmis for Partisans, Malcolm Wishart for The Creeping Death, Teddy Baxter/Michael Hart for The Vardan Invasion of Mirth (all 2019), Jimmy Garfield for The Vanity Trap (2020), and Dubontis/Bandolian for Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow (2021)
• Lee Ingleby (Lewis) voiced Samson Griffin for Terror Firma (2005)
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Strange) was Headmaster [George] Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, and voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), Kenton for Into the Stars (2022), and Thomas Browne for 1901: The Unknown Mirror (2025)
• Isla Blair (Verity) was Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, and voiced Paula for Exotron (2007)
• Timothy Watson (Baxter) voiced the Z'Nai for The Catalyst (2008)
• Samantha [Jane] Bond (Ellen) was Miss Wormwood in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane and Enemy of the Bane, and voiced Mother Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009)