Doctor Who Vs. Messiah, Series 4

Now co-produced by BBC Northern Ireland

and Great Meadow, this thriller (the third sequel based on Boris Starling's Messiah),

was an original Edgar Award-nominated

screenplay from Terry Cafolla.

The serial saw the final appearance of Ken

Stott (as Red Metcalfe) and Neil Dudgeon

(DI Warren), and guest roles for Maxine

Peake and Hugo Speer (DS Clarke and DI

Price). A fifth and final serial aired in 2008.

First shown over three consecutive nights

in late August 2005, Messiah IV (subtitled

The Harrowing) featured seventeen Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Russell [George] Tovey (McManus) was Midshipman Alonso Frame in Voyage of the Damned [a role reprised for The End of Time (Part 2) and Big Finish's One Enchanted Evening (2017)], and was Barclay Pierre Dupont in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• Helen [Elizabeth] McCrory (Dr. Price) was Rosanna Calvierri (pictured) in The Vampires of Venice
• Harriet [Mary] Walter (Robb) voiced Beatrice Mapp for The Boy That Time Forgot (2008), then was Jo Patterson in Revolution of the Daleks
• Aaron Neil (Cotter) and Anthony May (Brown) both starred in All-Consuming Fire (2015) as Tir Ram and Baron Maupertuis respectively - Neil was Dunlop in The Magician's Apprentice, and Varun Singh in Class, then voiced Surene Priest for The Boundless Sea (2015), Sanukuma Master for The Rulers of the Universe, Steven Godbold for Five Twenty-Nine, Computer for World Enough and Time, Aramatz for The Very Dark Thing, Stephano/Klossi/Setebos/Trink for Maker of Demons, David for UNIT: Silenced (all 2016), Gorky Sax for The Year After I Died (2017), Gobran for The Poison of Peladon (2022), and Kujad Stak for The Ruins of Kaerula (2025)
• Ian Midlane (Giardello) was Tim Jeffrey/Kist Magg Thek Lutiven Day Slitheen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen
• Shane Zaza (Technician) was Atif in Tardisode 12, and Prem in Demons of the Punjab
• Andrew McCulloch (Father James) co-wrote Meglos
• Garry Marriott (Paramedic) had the same role in The Lazarus Experiment
• Derek Ezenagu (CSO) voiced Tony for The Gift, and Ruslan/Ivo for The Sonomancer (both 2016)
• David Malinowski was also a SFX make-up artist on The Time of Angels and The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, and was prosthetics technician on The Waters of Mars and The End of Time
• camera operator Steve Lawes was focus puller on all five episodes (from Rose to World War Three)
• Gerry O'Riordan was also music recordist on seventy-two stories (from The Christmas Invasion to The Doctor Falls) and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• series prosthetics designer Waldo Mason was a SFX assistant on Aliens of London
• Vince McGahon was also steadicam operator on The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor
• for Gareth Milne and Nigel Squibbs see Series 3

Doctor Who On This Day #111

 

1927 - Actor Gerald Robert Flood

born in Portsmouth

1935 - Writer and Script Editor

 Anthony Read born in Britain

1965 - The Edge of Destruction,

Episode 1 first screened on CBC

1967 - The Savages, Episode 4

 repeated and The War Machines,

Episode 1 first screened, both on ABC

1973 - Planet of the Daleks, Episode

3 first screened on BBC1

1976 - Planet of the Spiders, Part

3 repeated on ABC

1978 - The Robots of Death, Part

4 first screened, both on ABC

1980 - Genesis of the Daleks, Part 6 and

 Revenge of the Cybermen, Part 1 both

repeated on ABC; The Brain of Morbius,

Part 3 first screened on WTTW 11; and

The Ribos Operation, Part 2 first screened

on TV2

1981 - The Ark in Space, Part 2 repeated on KQED

Plus; and Meglos, Part 1 first screened on TV1

1982 - The Ribos Operation, Part 2 repeated on KQED

Plus; and Logopolis, Part 2 repeated and Part 3 first 

screened, both on ABC

1983 - The Ark in Space, Part 1 repeated on KQED Plus;
and Time Flight, Parts 2 and 3 both repeated on ABC

1984 - The Masque of Mandragora, Part 1 repeated

on KQED Plus

1985 - The Masque of Mandragora

Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus

1986 - The Claws of Axos, Episode 3 repeated on ABC;
Arc of Infinity, Part 2 first screened on TROS; and The
Two Doctors, Part 2 (of 2) first screened on WTTW 11
1987 - The Silurians, Episode 2 repeated on KQED Plus;
 and The Brain of Morbius, Part 3 repeated on TV2

1988 - Planet of Evil, Part 3 repeated on TV de Galicia;

and The Leisure Hive, Part 2 repeated on KQED Plus

1989 - The Time Warrior, Part 3 repeated on KQED

Plus; and Terminus, Part 2 first screened on TV2

1990 - 100,000 BC, Episode 3: The Forest of Fear

repeated on BSB; The Armageddon Factor, Parts 4 to 6 all

repeated on WTTW 11; Planet of Fire, Part 3 repeated on

KQED Plus; and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Part 4 

first screened on TV2

1992 - The Daemons, Episode 5 repeated on KQED Plus

1993 - The Sea Devils, Episode 4 repeated on UK Gold;
and Snakedance, Part 4 repeated on ABC
1994 - The Creature from the Pit, Part

1 repeated on UK Gold

1995 - The Mind of Evil, Episode 5 repeated on

UK Gold; and Mindwarp, Part 6 repeated on VOX

1996 - The Leisure Hive Omnibus repeated on UK Gold
1997 - Invasion of the Dinosaurs Omnibus repeated on
KQED Plus; and Planet of the Spiders, Part 2 repeated

on UKTV (Aus)

1998 - 100,000 BC, Episode 2: The Cave of

Skulls repeated on Space; and Planet of Fire,

Part 1 repeated on UKTV (Aus)

1999 - The Aztecs, Episode 4: The Day of Darkness 
repeated on UKTV (Aus); and The Ark, Episode 2:

The Plague repeated on Space

2000 - The Gunfighters, Episode 4:

The OK Corral repeated on UKTV
2001 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang  Omnibus repeated
on UKTV (Aus); The Power of Kroll, Part 4 first screened
on Prairie PTV; Full Circle, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated
on Iowa PTV; Mawdryn Undead, Part 1 repeated on BBC
Prime; and Warriors of the Deep, Parts 1 and 2 both 
repeated on MiND

2002 - Death to the Daleks Omnibus repeated

 on UK Gold; Robot, Part 2 repeated on WCNY;

Genesis of the Daleks, Part 2 repeated on Lakeland

PTV and Omnibus repeated on MPT; The Brain of 
Morbius, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on MiND; Horror of Fang 
Rock, Part 3 repeated on WILL; The Stones of Blood, Part 4 
repeated on KUED; Meglos, Part 3 repeated on Twin Cities PTV; 
Four to Doomsday, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on WCET; The 
Visitation, Part 4 repeated on WQED;  Time Flight, Parts 3 and 
4 both repeated on Lakeshore PTV; Snakedance, Parts 1 and 2
both repeated on KBTC; Mawdryn Undead, Parts 1 and 2 both 
repeated on NHPTV; Warriors of the Deep, Parts 3 and 4 both 
repeated on Colorado PTV; and Vengeance on Varos, Parts 1 
and 2 (of 4) both repeated on Iowa PTV

2003 - Warriors' Gate Omnibus

repeated on BBC Kids (Can)

2004 - Inferno, Episode 3 repeated on ABC; and
Enlightenment, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on

BBC Kids (Can)
2005 - The Pirate Planet, Part 4 repeated

on ABC
2006 - New Earth repeated on BBC3

2007 - The Unquiet Dead first screened

on OETA and repeated on WLIW 21;

World War Three and Doctor Who
Confidential: Why On Earth? both first

screened on WQLN; Father's Day first

screened on KLCS; Boom Town repeated

on UK Gold and één; Daleks in Manhattan 

first screened on BBC1; Doctor Who

Confidential: A New York Story first

screened on BBC3; Doctor Who 

Confidential: TARDIS Tales repeated

on WLIW 21; and Totally Doctor Who

 (2.3) repeated on BBC2 and CBBC

2008 - The Dominators, Episodes 2 and

3 both first screened on MTV3 SciFi; and

The Commentaries, Episode 3 broadcast

on Radio 7

2009 - The Space Museum, Episodes 3 and 4 both repeated
on MTV3 SciFi and TV4; School Reunion and Doctor Who
Confidential Cutdown: Friends Reunited both repeated on
UKTV (Aus); and Rise of the Cybermen repeated on BBC3

2010 - Designer David Myerscough-Jones

died in Saint-Omer, France, aged 75; The

Brain of Morbius, Episodes 4 repeated and

5 first broadcast, both on Radio 7; The Girl

in the Fireplace repeated on Syfy (FRG);

 and Rise of the Cybermen repeated on

Syfy (Spa)

2011 - The Armageddon Factor, Parts

 5 and 6 both repeated on MTV3 SciFi,

TV2 and TV4; and The Satan Pit

repeated on Space

2012 - Planet of Fire, Parts 3 and 4 and

The Caves of Androzani and The Twin

Dilemma Omnibuses all repeated on MTV3

SciFi and TV4; Midnight and Doctor Who

 Confidential: Look Who's Talking both repeated

 on BBC3; The Hungry Earth first screened on

DR3; and Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown:

A New York Story repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2013 - The Brain of Morbius, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated
 on KBTC; Pyramids of Mars and The Hand of Fear 
Omnibuses repeated on UKTV; Boom Town and Bad Wolf
both repeated on Syfy (Port); The Impossible Planet and
The Satan Pit both repeated on BBC Entertainment AP; 42,
Human Nature, The Family of Blood, Blink, Utopia and Last
 of the Time Lords all repeated on BBC Entertainment LA;
Turn Left repeated on France 4; Flesh and Stone first

screened on WPT Flagship; The Hungry Earth and Doctor 
Who Confidential: After Effects both repeated on Iowa 

PTV; The Impossible Astronaut repeated on UKTV (NZ);

The Wedding of River Song and Doctor Who Confidential: 

When Time Froze both repeated on MPTV; Hide first 

screened on BBC America, BBC Entertainment RSA, 

BBC Polska, ABC1 and Space; and The Destinations

of Doctor Who first screened on UKTV (Aus)

2014 - The Daleks, Episodes 1 and 2 both first screened on
Horror; The Leisure Hive, Part 4, Four to Doomsday, Part 3
and School Reunion all repeated on Syfy (Aus); Rose 

and The End of the World both repeated on BBC 

America; The Christmas Invasion repeated on TV3

(Spa); Blink repeated on Really Scary TV; The Sontaran 
Stratagem repeated on WPT; Planet of the Dead and The 

Waters of Mars both repeated on Fox (FRG); Cold Blood 

and Doctor Who Confidential: What Goes on Tour both 

repeated on BBC Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; The 

Pandorica Opens and A Christmas Carol both repeated

on Syfy (Port); The Big Bang repeated on France 4

and Syfy (Port); Day of the Moon repeated on BBC 

Nordic; Closing Time repeated on Prime; and Doctor 

Who Confidential: Open All Hours repeated on BBC 

Entertainment AP

2015 - Genesis of the Daleks, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated
on Retro TV; Destiny of the Daleks, Part 2 and Day of the
Moon both repeated on Syfy (Aus); Black Orchid Omnibus
first screened on Retro TV; Remembrance of the Daleks, 

Parts 2 and 3 both repeated on Horror; Bad Wolf repeated 

on TV Cultura; School Reunion repeated on ABC2; Army 

of Ghosts repeated on BBC Entertainment AP; The 

Unicorn and the Wasp repeated on KCPT2; The Girl Who 
Waited and Closing Time both repeated on BBC Nordic HD and
BBC Polska HD; The God Complex repeated on BBC Nordic HD,
 BBC Polska HD and Syfy (Aus); The Doctor, the Widow and the 
Wardrobe, Into the Dalek and Robot of Sherwood all repeated
on BBC America; and Asylum of the Daleks repeated on WGVU

2016 - Frontios, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on Retro TV;
Father's Day repeated on BBC Polska HD; The Empty Child
repeated on BBC Polska HD and France 4; The Doctor Dances 
repeated on France 4; Doomsday and The Big Bang both
repeated on Syfy (Aus); The Family of Blood repeated on TV
 Cultura; Midnight and Doctor Who Confidential: Look 

Who's Talking both repeated on ABC2; Flesh and Stone 

repeated on BBC Entertainment AP; The Doctor, the 

Widow and the Wardrobe repeated on BBC Entertainment 

EU; Cold Blood repeated on Syfy (LA) and Syfy (Bra); 

Cold War repeated on Syfy (Port); Nightmare in

Silver and The Name of the Doctor both repeated on 

Fox (FRG); and Listen repeated on BBC First (ME)

2017 - The Green Death, Episode 2 repeated on The Zone; 
The Mysterious Planet, Part 4 and Mindwarp, Part 5 both
repeated on Retro TV; The Lazarus Experiment repeated

 on Space; Midnight, Turn Left and Behind the Lens:

 The Time of the Doctor all repeated on BBC Polska HD; 

The End of Time, Part 4 (of 4) repeated on FX (Ind); 

Robot of Sherwood repeated on BBC Entertainment

EU; The Witch's Familiar repeated on Syfy (Aus);

The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived both

repeated on Syfy (LA); Face the Raven and Heaven

Sent both repeated on Syfy (Aus) and Syfy (Bra);

 Hell Bent repeated on DR3 and Syfy (Aus); The 
Husbands of River Song both repeated on DR3;

and The Pilot repeated on BBC First (ME)

2018 - The Creature from the Pit, Parts 2 to 4 and
 Nightmare of Eden, Part 1 all repeated on Retro TV; World 
War Three repeated on One ARD; The Impossible Astronaut
and Day of the Moon both repeated on Star World Premiere;
Deep Breath and Into the Dalek both repeated on Sony SciFi;
 Under the Lake repeated on BBC Entertainment EU; The Pilot 
repeated on Syfy (Aus); and Knock Knock repeated on BBC
Polska HD

2019 - The Face of Evil, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on
 KBTC and Omnibus repeated on WSRE; Image of the Fendahl
Omnibus repeated on MPTV; The Ribos Operation, Parts 1 and
2 both repeated on Retro TV; The Creature from the Pit, Part
3 repeated on KPTS; Kinda Omnibus repeated on Iowa PTV;
Enlightenment Omnibus repeated on Idaho PTV; and Oxygen,
Extremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World all
repeated on BBC Polska HD
2020 - The Sea Devils, Episodes 2 and

3 both repeated on Retro TV; Cold Blood

and Vincent and the Doctor both repeated

on One ARD; and Extremis repeated on

Syfy (Fra)

2021 - Horror of Fang Rock, Parts 3 and

4 both repeated on Retro TV; The Rebel

Flesh repeated on ABC2; Last Christmas,

The Magician's Apprentice and The Girl

Who Died all repeated on Syfy (Fra); and

The Ghost Monement repeated on BBC

Polska HD

2022 - The Mark of the Rani, Parts

1 and 2 (of 4) both repeated on Retro

TV; Last of the Time Lords repeated

on Fox SciFi; Voyage of the Damned

repeated on Syfy (Fra); Vincent and

the Doctor repeated on BBC Polska

HD; and The Almost People repeated

on BBC First Turkey