Doctor Who Vs. The Jury

ITV's prime-time mini-series, The Jury II was

first shown over five consecutive nights in

November 2011. 

The drama centred on the story of the twelve

men and women called for jury service in the

retrial of a man accused of a triple murder,

after the High Court overturned the original

guilty verdict.

This courtroom drama (the follow-up to

Granada's own six-part series, which aired 

n February 2002 - see footnote below) began 

another repeat run on ITV3 last night. 

The cast, headed by Roger Allam (Endeavour)

and Julie Walters (Harry Potter) as rival QC's,

featured twenty-one Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Ronald Pickup (Livingstone) made his TV debut as the Physician in The Reign of Terror: Tyrant of France, then later voiced Kestorian for Time Works (2006), and Elder Bones for Spaceport Fear (2013) both from Big Finish
• Steven Mackintosh (Brierley) played Gazak in Timelash
• Anne Reid (June) was Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenric, and Florence Finnegan in Smith and Jones
• Ronan Vibert (Branson) was Professor Skinner in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Last Sontaran
• Keith Parry (Clerk) was the Bus Driver in Planet of the Dead
• Natasha Williams (Clerk) was a Pharmacist in Gridlock
• Shobu Kapoor (Mum) was a Woman in Journey's End, and voiced Sai Chopra for Vortex Ice (2017)
• Meera Syal (Headmistress) was Nasreen Choudhry in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
• Danny Sapani (DI Scott) was Colonel Manton (pictured) in A Good Man Goes to War
• Nicholas Asbury (Romeo) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), and Visguard, Captain Morgan and SB Officer for The Churchill Years 2 (2018)
• Ivanno Jeremiah (Takana) voiced Abasi for The Ghosts of Gralstead (2013)
• Meg Wynn Owen (Olive) was Old Isabella in A Christmas Carol
• John R Walker (Dent) was a Cured Patient in New Earth, an Injured Man in Evolution of the Daleks, and a Sales Rep in Planet of the Ood
• Ivanno Jeremiah (Tahir) was Rafando in Extremis
• Eben Young (Radio Host) was Colonel Don Brabbit in The Pyramid at the End of the World
• Rakhee Thakrar (Sister) has been cast as new Big Finish companion Bliss
• film editor Philip Kloss also edited The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The End of Time, Torchwood: Children of Earth and An Adventure in Space and Time
• John May (Guard) was Kev in The Halloween Apocalypse
• Adam Harvey was assistant editor on the 50th anniversary biopic too
• Toby Ford was first assistant director on A Good Man Goes to War too
• Nick Roberts was also ADR mixer on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Cold Blood and The Lodger

The Jury (2002) starred Derek Jacobi, and another ten Doctor Who

cast alumni: Nina Sosanya, Michael Maloney, Sylvia Syms, Nicholas

Farrell, Ellen Thomas, John Duttine, Paul Reynolds, Helen McCrory,

William Hoyland, James Doherty, and Matt Dineen.

Great Doctor Who Quotes #41

"This was exactly you. All this, all of it. You make them so afraid. When you began all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name, Doctor. The word for 'healer' and 'wise man', throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean?

To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word 'doctor' means 'mighty warrior'. How far you've come. And now they've taken a child, the child of your best friends - and they're going to turn her into a weapon, just to bring you down.

And all this, my love, in fear of you."

- River Song, A Good Man Goes to War (June 4th 2011)

Written by Steven Moffat

Great Doctor Who Quotes #26

"I have a message and a question. A message from the Doctor and a question from me. Where is my wife? 

Oh, don't give me those blank looks. The Twelfth Cyber Legion monitors this entire quadrant. You hear everything. So tell me what I need to know, you tell me now, and I'll be on my way.

..Would you like me to repeat the question?"

- Rory Williams, A Good Man Goes to War (June 4th 2011)

Written by Steven Moffat

Great Doctor Who Quotes #21

"There's someone coming. I don't know where he is, or what he's doing, but trust me, he's on his way..
There's a man who will never let us down. And not even an army can get in the way..
He's the last of his kind. He looks young but he's lived for hundreds and hundreds of years.
And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you'll never be alone..
Because this man is your father.. He has a name but the people of our world know him better.. as the Last Centurion."

- Amy Pond, A Good Man Goes to War (June 4th 2011)

Written by Steven Moffat

The Best (and Worst) Doctor Who of 2011

The io9 science blog published it's TV review of the year yesterday. Meredith Woerner's article, The Best and Worst Television Moments of 2011, features three Doctor Who stories. 

The season finale, The Wedding of River Song is actually named as one of the 'Worst' shows, and is described as the "most melodramatic Who moments we've seen since Russell T Davies, but with way less real emotion behind it. So much cheese, and not in the fun tiney wimey way."

Thankfully, the list of 'Best' sci-fi and fantasy programmes includes The Impossible Astronaut ("a classic example of the many wonderful Matt Smith Doctor-isms we were treated to this year"), and A Good Man Goes to War - "We'd thought our days of swooning over Rory Williams had come to an end after the heroic Pandorica epic (after all, he is the boy who waited). But then someone kidnaps his wife, and Rory gets pissed! What a glorious moment for all "The Nose" fans everywhere.