Friday, 28 November 2025

Doctor Who Vs. Waking the Dead, Series 4

Bayldon's Unbound Doctor recreated for
Colin Brockhurst's Changing the Face of
Doctor Who artwork
Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil
Johnson, Holly Aird, and Claire
Goose all returned for the fourth
season of BBC1's crime drama,
which first aired in the summer
of 2004.
The finale saw the death of DS Mel
Silver (Goose), and the departure
of Aird's Dr. Frankie Wharton.
Following an International Emmy
award nomination for series two,
and the Drama Series award won
a year later, the programme was
recommissioned for two further
 seasons, with an increased episode
count.
A repeat run of the twelve-part
series begins on U&Drama tonight
- it featured Geoffrey Bayldon,
Stephen Noonan (who have both
reprised the First Doctor for Big
Finish), and a total of forty Doctor
Who cast and crew connections:

In Sight of the Lord (UK TX: July 11 & 12)
  • Clive Standen (Raynor) was Private [Carl] Harris in The Sontaran StratagemThe Poison Sky and Turn Left
  • Alibe Parsons (Carmen) was Matroni Kani in Mindwarp, then voiced Nora for The Lost Resort (2021)
  • JJ [John Joseph] Feild (Western) voiced David McCallister for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009)
  • Richard [born Derek Leonard] Mayes (Raynor) was Chief Baxter in Fury from the Deep
  • Clive Wood (Clayton here; Carney, Series 9) was the Roman Commander in The Pandorica Opens, and voiced Commander Rugosa for The Rosemariners (2012), Dibbsworth for Peepshow (2019), Bird for Must-See TV (2020) and Stranded 4 (2022), Daddy Dominus/ Clubwell for For the Glory of Urth (2021), and Director Draaga for Dominant Species (2024)
  • Charles Jarman was a stuntman on The Lazarus Experiment too
  • series associate producer Michael Treen was production manager on The Twin Dilemma
  • Adam Trotman was the film editor on Last Christmas too
False Flag (UK TX: July 18 & 19)
  • Timothy [Lancaster] West (Doyle) voiced Kai Tobias for Phobos (2007), Ronald Turvey for Cuddlesome (2008), and Dr. Magnus Soames for House of Blue Fire (2011)
  • Danny Webb (Havering) was John Maynard Jefferson in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Byron for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Ori for The Dark Husband (2008)
  • Tom Georgeson (Cooper) was Kavell in Genesis of the Daleks, and Police Inspector in Logopolis
  • Dan Morgan (Doyle) voiced GovernorLocke/Warden for The Infinite Quest
  • Peter De Jersey (Reed) was Androgar in The Day of the Doctor
  • Oliver Cotton (Stewart) voiced Sir Gideon Vale/Handler for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), and Major Callahan/Vilal Captain/Crook for Quicksilver (2017)
Fugue States (UK TX: July 25 & 26)
  • Denise Black [born Nixon] (Ingrid) voiced Eva Jericho for Damaged Goods, Control for Rise and Shine (both 2015), and Mrs. Mountford for The Haunting of Malkin Place (2017)
  • Silas Carson (DI Crowther) was Uvlavad for The Sarah Jane Adventures: Warriors of the Kudlak, and provided Alien voices for The End of the World, then voiced the Ood for The Impossible PlanetThe Satan PitPlanet of the OodThe End of TimePond LifeSurvivors of the FluxThe Vanquishers and Big Finish's Prisoner of the OodThe War Master 2 and Torchwood - he also voiced Arbuckle for The Jabari Countdown (all 2018), Trave for Havoc, the Sicari for Collateral and Assassins, Commentator for Warzone (all 2019), Garlon Rosh for The Robots of War, Brian for He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not (both 2020), Dr. Winston Grange for Time Flies (2022), Drane for The Kicker, Narrator of An Ood Halloween (both 2023), and Ramesh Kamal for Storm of the Sea Devils (2024)
  • Patrick O'Kane (Murphy) was Ashad in The Haunting of Villa Diodati, Ascension of the CybermenThe Timeless Children and The Power of the Doctor
  • Rocky Taylor was a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern too
  • dialogue editor Doug Sinclair was the sound editor on forty-two revived series episodes (from Rose to The Waters of Mars), TorchwoodThe Sarah Jane Adventures and The Infinite Quest
Anger Management (UK TX: August 1 & 2)
  • [Peter] Nigel Terry (Jacobs) was General Cobb in The Doctor's Daughter
  • Andrew Tiernan (Keetch) was Jim Purcell in Night Terrors
  • Eva Alexander [born Sarah Jane Alexander] (Lucy) was the Nurse in Let's Kill Hitler
  • TP [Thomas Patrick] McKenna (Brown) was Captain Cook in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 
  • April Walker (Mrs Hayworth) was originally cast as Sarah Jane Smith in 1973, and even attended rehearsals for The Time Warrior
  • series production manager Christian Reynish was location manager on The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
The Hardest Word (UK TX: August 8 & 9)
  • Phil Daniels (DS Bulmer) voiced Geoffrey Plum for The Gunpowder Plot
  • Julian [Wyatt] Glover (Laurence) was King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
  • Phyllida [Ann] Law (Mrs. Carstairs) was Bea Nelson Stanley in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, then voiced Belldonia for The Bride of Peladon (2008)
  • Emma [Georgina Annalies] Fielding (Dr. Simpson) provided the voice of Kisar in Demons of the Punjab 
  • James [Louis de Zogheb] Dreyfus (Raymond) was John Harrison in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Man Who Never Was, and voiced the High Persian for The Cats of New Cairo (2018) - he was cast as the Master for The Destination Wars (2017), The Home Guard (2019), The Psychic Circus (2020) and Blood of the Time Lords (2022)
  • Paul Reynolds (DS Marvin) voiced Nobody No-One for The Word Lord, Joey Carlisle for Casualties of War (both 2008), Lyam Yce for Absolute Power (2016), and Spore for Face of the Apocalypse (2024) 
  • Damian Lynch (PC Green) voiced Benjamin Chikoto for Ghost in the Machine (2013), Curbishley for Masters of Earth, Michael Newman for An Ordinary Life (both 2014), Scott Delaney for Damaged Goods, Marshall for Requiem for the Rocket MenDeath Match (all 2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), Ego for Planet X, Fell/Lom for The Star Men, Kieran Frost for The Torchwood Archive (all 2016) and Before the Fall (2017), Cardinal Rasmus for Deeptime Frontier (2019), Dark UniverseSusan's War 1 (both 2020) and Susan's War 2 (2024), Artie Berger for Fright Motif (2021), Quave/White Lightning for The Tivolian Who Knew Too Much (2022), and Various for The War Master 10 (2023)
Shadowplay (UK TX: August 15 & 16)
  • Paul Kaye (Dr. Carney) was Albar Prentis in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
  • Lucy Gaskell (Fay) was Kathy Nightingale in Blink, then voiced Miskavel for The Eleven 1 (2021)
  • Kenneth [Charles] Cope (Harding) was Packard in Warriors' Gate
  • Lois Baxter (QC Joyce) was Lamia in The Androids of Tara, and voiced Carrion for Spring (2007)
  • Paul Smith was also the prop master on fifteen instalments (from Asylum of the Daleks to The Day of the Doctor)
  • series unit manager Christian Reynish was location manager on The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
  • Simon Clark was the sound recordist on An Adventure in Space and Time too
  • series assistant sound mixer Andy Hagon was the foley mixer on The Empty Child too
  • Warwick Drucker was additional grip on Rose and Aliens of London too

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