Doctor Who Vs. Casualty @ 40: Series 5

Series regulars Derek Thompson, Brenda

Fricker, Cathy Shipton,
Geoffrey Leesley, Ian Bleasdale, and Robson 
Green all returned for
the fifth season of BBC
One's flagship medical

drama. Joining the

programme here were

Nigel Le Vaillant (as

registrar Julian

Chapman), Mamta

Kaash (SHO Beth

Ramanee), Patrick Robinson (nurse Martin Ashford), Maggie McCarthy

(receptionist Helen Green), Eamon Boland (social worker Tony Walker),

and Caroline Webster (paramedic Jane Scott). Boland and McCarthy had

left the show by the series' conclusion, whilst Leesley and Fricker chose

to depart after three and four years service respectively - the latter

would return as nurse Megan Roach in 1998, 2007 and 2010.

The thirteen-part run (originally shown from September to December

1990) featured Christopher Eccleston, Louise Jameson, Jamie

Glover, and a total of fifty-two Doctor Who cast and crew links:

• Tom [Richard] Chadbon (Announcer here; Greetham, 1991; Gould, 1996; Henry Williams, 2008-11; Roderick in Holby City, 2000) was Duggan in City of Death, Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet, and Forrest for BBV Productions' Conduct Unbecoming (2000), then voiced Will Sullivan for Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith (2006), Gordon Davidson for No More Lies (2007), and Embery for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016)
• Dervla Kirwan (Anna) was Mercy Hartigan in The Next Doctor, then reprised the role of Miss Quill for Class 3, and voiced Mrs Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Yosta McCormack for Lightspeed, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Anne Marie for Interlude, Representative for Echo Chamber, Agatha Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Professor Callis for Castle Hydra, Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020), and Honour Bray for Redacted
• Gareth Armstrong (Announcer here; Dr. Carling, 1991; Hutchings, 1995) was Duke Giuliano in The Masque of Mandragora, then voiced Dr. Johan Drossel/Sergeant/Barker/Punter for The Silver Turk (2011), Jephson for The Renaaissance Man (2012), Arthley/Salonu Prime for The Evil One, Geoffrey Chaucer/Bishop/Jud Hacker for The Doctor's Tale (both 2014), Director Prast for Power of the Dominators (2022), Davon for Previously, Next Time (2023), Lord Ives for The Casebook of Paternoster Row, Judd for Morbius the Mighty (both 2024), and Raelchun for Operation: Vengeance (2025)
• Shirley Henderson (Denise) was Ursula Blake in Love & Monsters 
• Jenny McCracken (Anne) was Claire Daly in Carnival of Monsters
• Caroline [Anne] Harker [born Owens] (Tessa here; Helen, 1997) voiced Dr. Jayne Smythe for The Ship of Sleepwalkers (2017), and Professor Dern/Angela Dern for The Two Rivers (2022)
• George Costigan (Robert here; Martin, 1997; Stephen, 2006; Father, 2011) was Max Capricorn in Voyage of the Damned
• Geoffrey Bateman (Carpenter here; Woods, 2002) was Dymond in Nightmare of Eden
• Alan Cox (Joshua) voiced John Matthews for The Roof of the World (2004), Mark Seven for The Destroyers (2010), Oscar Wilde for Beautiful Things (2012), Grenville/Diggery for The Auntie Matter (2013), Dr. Gideon McDivett for The Ghosts of Gralstead (2014), the titular entity for Death and the Queen, Fanshawe for Who Killed Toby Kinsella?, Speravore for World Enough and Time, Robert Harley/ Warder for The Eye of the Storm (all 2016), Eamon Orensky for The Skin of the Sleek and The Thief Who Stole Time (both 2017), Fabian Solak for The Cars That Ate London!, Tompino for Collision Course (both 2019), Ken Bright Thompson for Lost Property (2020) and Stranded 4 (2022), Sergeant Winston Price for The Institute of Forgotten Souls, Narrator of War Stories (both 2024), Necromantis/ Nallium for Dead Rising, the Halcyons for Hooklight (both 2025), Nathan Favager for The Indigo Child, and Invigilator Kollo for Gambit of the Judoon (both 2026)
• [Rosemary] Rowena Cooper (Mrs Parrish) was Angela Price in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then voiced La Concierge for The Demon of Paris (2010), Emily Shaw for The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Jean Bazemore for Jago & Son, Mother Superior for The Unbound Universe (both 2016) and Ruler of the Universe (2017), and Queen Victoria for The Victorian Age, The Torchwood Archive, Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018) and Infidel Places (2022)
• David Shaw Parker (Owner here; Owens, 2026) voiced Generals Paterson/Mikhail Leonov for 1963: Space Race (2013), Old David Walker for Eyes of the Master (2014), John Campbell/Dodgson for The Screaming Ceiling (2019), Ron Winters for Stranded (2020/21), Donald/Cicerone 3 for Worlds Beyond, Perick/Radomir for Missy and the Time Assassin (both 2024), Vanderseer/Soothsayer for Hooklight (2025), Holbrook for Dark Tides, and Cromarty for Tyranny of the Judoon (both 2026)
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• Suzanne Bertish (Caroline) voiced Aldis for Nevernor (2020)
• Alan David (Clarke here; Allen, 1999) was Gabriel Sneed in The Unquiet Dead, and voiced Castellan Kanteer for The Enigma Dimension (2017), and Lord Macavoy/Old Lawrence for The Primeval Design (2021)
• [John] Simon Rouse (Roy) was Hindle in Kinda, and voiced John Kincaid for The Witch from the Well (2011), Drang for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016), and Frank Kelsey for The Running Men (2024)
• Tony [Patrick] Caunter (Café Owner) was Morgan in Colony in Space, and Jackson in Enlightenment
• Denise Black [born Nixon] (Jenny here; Maggie, 1999; Grace, 2006) voiced Eva Jericho for Damaged Goods, Control for Rise and Shine (both 2015), and Mrs Mountford for The Haunting of Malkin Place (2017)
• Georgine Anderson (Lillian here; Brenda, 2006) was May in Gridlock
• Stevan Rimkus (Gresty here; Poole, 2004) was Captain Bates in The Curse of Fenric
• Robert Glenister (Duncan here; Wilson, 1994) was Salateen in The Caves of Androzani, then Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror - he also voiced Aboresh for Absolution (2007)
• [Michael Thomas] Jeremy Clyde (Clive here; Toynbee, 1998) voiced George Sinclair for Absent Friends (2016), Lord Braye for Planet of the Drashigs (2019), and Tony Clare for Stranded
• Tommy Wright (Alf) was the Guardmaster in The Creature from the Pit
• Dona Croll (Lucy here; nurse Adele Beckford in Series 8) was Matron Casp in New Earth, and voiced Bella for Madquake (2020), and the Empress for The Sincerest Form of Flattery (2021)
• John Abbott (Manager, 1990; Opthalmologist, 1996) was Vince Hawkins in Horror of Fang Rock
• Kathleen [Mary] Bidmead (Woman) was an Elder in The Mysterious Planet (1), Rezzie in Paradise Towers, Mrs Smith in Remembrance of the Daleks, Tourist in Silver Nemesis (1), and Woman in Survival (1)
• Elspet [Jean MacGregor] Gray (Mary) was Chancellor Thalia in Arc of Infinity, and voiced Hera for Immortal Beloved (2007)
• [Frank] Denis Lill (Poter) was Dr. Fendelman in Image of Fendahl, and Sir George Hutchinson in The Awakening
• Carolyn Pickles (Diane) voiced Lady Meera for Army of Death (2011), Dr. Hilary Standish for The Stuff of Nightmares, Cardinal Ollistra for The Side of the Angels (both 2017), Dark Universe (2020) and War Room 1 (2022), Professor Marian Schaeffer for The Tyrants of Logic, and Traherne for An Ideal World (both 2018)
• Sheila Ruskin (Harriet here; Dr. Collins, 1996) was Kassia in The Keeper of Traken
• Barry Jackson (Barratt) was Ascaris in The Romans, Jeff Garvey in Mission to the Unknown, and Drax in The Armageddon Factor
• David [Michael] Harewood (Grant here; Leon, 1993) was Joshua Naismith in The End of Time, and voiced President Vallan for Army of Death
• Alibe Parsons (Mrs. Grant) was Matroni Kani in Mindwarp, then voiced Nora for The Lost Resort (2021)
• Tessa Peake Jones (Esther here; Jenny, 1995; Tina, 2010) was Marta in The Time of the Doctor
• Fred Pearson (Philpott here; Jackson, 1997) was the Barista in The Bells of Saint John
• Sean Murray (Bamford here; Logan, 2007; Father, 2015) voiced Captain Darvor for The Starship of Theseus (2017)
• Annette Badland (Jodie here; Angela, 1993; Jenny, 2009; Maggie, 2012) was Margaret Blaine [Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer Day Slitheen] in Aliens of London, World War Three, Boom Town and Big Finish's Sync (2019), then voiced Quenn Karlina for Equilibrium, Thelma for Suburban Hell (both 2015), Guilana for Asking for a Friend (2017), Judge/Computer for Barrister to the Stars, Mrs Slinger/Batraxus for Whatever Remains, Maude Polwart/ Mermaid for The Ghost Writers (all 2020), Mrs Goose/Fleshkin for The Hunting Season (2021), Mrs Chinn for Mind of the Hodiac, the eponymous role for The Miniaturist, and Eminent Sedanya for Blood of the Time Lords (all 2022)
• Tony Bluto (Thomas) was Driver Joe in Midnight
• Hugh [Thornton] Walters (Man) was William Shakespeare in The Chase, Runcible in The Deadly Assassin, Vogel in Revelation of the Daleks, and voiced Roderick Allingham for The Fearmonger (2000)
• Kenneth Cranham (Lawrence) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Jillie Meers (Mrs. Ellis here; Monica, 1994) voiced Clorinda/UN Secretary General for The Paradise of Death, Baronessa/Marcella for The Ghosts of N-Space, and Mrs McGregor for Catch 1782 (2005)
• Robin Weaver (Imogen here; Jenny, 1999; Jane, 2005; Mary, 2010; Thelma, 2013; Lizzie, 2023) voiced Edwige Ponzi for Nothing to See Here (2016), and Arianda for Storm of the Horofax (2017)
• [Sarah] Melanie [Jean] Kilburn (Mrs. Hearn here; Carol, 1995; Maureen, 2019) voiced Hooley for The Dread of Night (2018)
• Ben Porter (Alex here; Anderson, 2007) voiced Major Nash for The Juniper Conjunction, Private Phillips/John Starr for Dominion (both 2012), Murs for Tomb Ship, and Father D'Arcy for The Devil's Armada (both 2014)
• for directors Alan Wareing, Michael Owen Morris and Andrew Morgan see my other series blogs
• Andrew Cartmel was also the script editor on twelve TV adventures (from Time and the Rani to Survival), then writer of Winter for the Adept, Crime of the Century, Animal and Earth Aid
• Ben Aaronovitch was also writer of Remembrance of the Daleks, Battlefield and Earth Aid
• Rona Munro was also writer of Survival, and The Eaters of Light
• Ian Briggs was also writer of Dragonfire and The Curse of Fenric
• Stephen Wyatt was also writer of Paradise Towers and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Matthew Purves was the AFM on Battlefield too
• production assistant Lindsay Grant was script supervisor on A Good Man Goes to War, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and A Town Called Mercy

Doctor Who Vs. Endeavour, Series 1

Produced by Mammoth and Masterpiece for ITV

Studios, this period crime drama was devised as

the prequel to the acclaimed series Inspector

Morse, which ran from 1987 to 2000 and earned

six BAFTA awards. Like Morse and its sequel

series, Lewis (2000 to 2015), Endeavour is set in

Oxford.

Shaun Evans now portrayed the young Endeavour

Morse (created by Colin Dexter), who began his

career as a Detective Constable with the City Police

CID at Cowley in 1965.

Following a successful pilot episode (renamed

Overture with the rebranding of ITVX), the first

full season was originally broadcast in the spring

of 2013 - a repeat run began on ITV3 today.

These five cases featured Roger Allam (as DI Fred

 Thursday), Jack Laskey (DS Jakes), Sean Rigby

(PC Strange), James Bradshaw (Dr. DeBryn),

Anton Lesser (CS Bright), Jamie Glover, and a

total of thirty-nine Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Pilot (UK TX: January 2 2012)

• Ian Gelder (Tremlett) was Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then provided the Remnant voices in The Ghost Monument, was Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced Dracula/Long John Silver for Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
• Danny Webb (DS Lott here; Pollock in Lewis) was John 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)
• Abigail Thaw (Dorothea Frazil) voiced Dr. Phillippa Stone for The Lady of Mercia, Zaadur for Lords of the Red Planet (both 2013), High Vector Salaskin for The War Master 7 (2022), Zanna for 1922: The Black Cadre, and Elena Shishkin for 1974: The Caldwell Restitution (both 2026)
• Maggie Ollerenshaw (Mrs. Crabbin) voiced Audrey McShane for Love and War (2012), Allora for Gallifrey 6 (2013), and Dame Wilhelmina Gussett for The Woman in White (2016)
• Harry Kershaw (Percival) voiced Narthex for The Abyss (2022)
• David Monteath (PC) voiced Herald/Brother Marcus/Farmer Hennok for The Quin Dilemma, and was Narrator of The Ultimate Poe (both 2024)
• Daisy [May] Head (Jenny) voiced Renata for Reformation (2025)
• Colm McCarthy was director of The Bells of Saint John too
• Gavin Struthers was cinematographer on The Power of Three too
• ADR mixer Nick Roberts was sound recordist on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Cold Blood and The Lodger
• SFX supervisor Chris Reynolds was a SFX technician on Terror of the Vervoids and Battlefield
• stunt co-ordinator Stuart Clark was a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways

Girl (UK TX: April 14 2013)

• Edward Bazalgette was also director of The Doctor's Meditation, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived, The Return of Doctor Mysterio and Class
• Luke [William] Allen Gale (Clark) voiced Joe Carnaby for Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories (2019)
• Jonathan Guy Lewis (Monkford) voiced Marcus Bray for After the Daleks (2021)
• Albert Welling (Clark here; Stoneley in Morse: The Last Enemy) was the Fuhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
• Greg Bennett (Constable here & Lewis) was Guard in Dalek, UNIT Soldier/Sycorax Warrior in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
• John Flanagan (Greaves here; Mangold in Lewis) co-wrote Meglos
• Stephan Pehrsson was also the cinematographer on ten stories (from The Pandorica Opens to The Crimson Horror)
• Kiaran Murray-Smith was also first assistant director on Amy's Choice and The Lodger
• Tom Lucy was also the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen stories (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)

Fugue (UK TX: April 21)

• Joanna Horton (Linda here; Selina in Harvest) voiced Brooke 1 for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
• Lex [Alexander Carey] Shrapnel (Adamson) voiced Robin Marshall for Shadow of the Past, and Toby for The Spirit Trap (both 2010)
• Robin Soans (Straker here; McBryde in The Way Through the Woods) was Luvic in The Keeper of Traken, and the Chronolock Guy in Face the Raven
• Michelle Morris (Neighbour) was School Secretary in Into the Dalek, and voiced Brenna for The Invention of Death (2018)
• Laura Rees (Faye) voiced Kaymee Arnod for Dalek Empire 3 (2003), Tyrus for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016), and Deborah/Major Harris for The Bad Penny (2018)
• Kelly Price (Evelyn) voiced Queen Meta for Genesis of the Cybermen (2025)
• Claire Vousden (Miss Crane) voiced the First Elder/Investigator for Sphere of Influence (2020)

Rocket (UK TX: April 28)

• Martin Jarvis (Broom here; Rees in Greeks Bearing Gifts) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
• James Northcote (Broom) voiced Freddie Trewella for The Miracle of Pendour Cove (2025)
• Craige Els (Worker) was Karvanista in Flux, and Chief in Legend of the Sea Devils
• John Pardue was cinematographer on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Daniel Bishop (here & Ride) was steadicam operator on The Husbands of River Song too

Home (UK TX: May 5)

• Lloyd McGuire (Ayres) was Lugo in The Face of Evil
• Clive Wood (Kasper) was the Roman Commander in The Pandorica Opens, then voiced Commander Rugosa for The Rosemariners (2012), Dibbsworth for Peepshow (2019), Bird for Must See TV (2020) and Stranded 4, Daddy Dominus/Clubwell for For the Glory of Urth (both 2021), and Director Draaga for Dominant Species (2024)
• Poppy Miller (Millicent) voiced Vykane for The Conservitors, Madame La Chappelle for The Edge of the War (both 2023), Professor Veronica Hays for The Time You Never Had (2025), and Anne for Oil and Water (2026)
• Kelly Adams (Cynthia) voiced Vyx Leeson for Below There (2023)
• film editor Mark Davis edited The Bells of Saint John too

Doctor Who Vs. Trial & Retribution XI

Lynda La Plante's acclaimed crime

drama returned to ITV in January

2008 - David Hayman, Dorian

Lough, Victoria Smurfit, and Vince

Leigh reprised their respective

roles (as DCS Walker, DS Satchell,

DCI Connor, and DS Palmer).

Like La Plante's earlier hit series

Prime Suspect, the programme

employed a distinctive split

screen technique. A repeat run

of the penultimate, ten-part

season began on ITV3 last night

- the five cases featured Gemma

Jones, Jamie Glover, Hattie

Morahan, Gugu Mbatha Raw, and a total of fifteen other Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

The Rules of the Game

• Simon Hepworth (Billington) voiced Miles McLellan/Pandora/Server/ Orderly/Pilot for Big Finish's Open the Box (2018)
• Adrian Rawlins (Plaskett) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, then voiced Abberline/Fox for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014), and Gilman Hari for Antillia the Lost 2023)
• Nigel Pilkington was a voice artist on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Damian Bromley was also cinematographer on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, Thin Ice and Knock Knock

Kill the King

• Shelley Conn (Neelah) voiced Asha Qureshi for Situation Vacant (2010), and Tina Drake for The Gates of Hell (2021)

Conviction

• Paul Wilmhurst was also director of Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express and Last Christmas
• Tom [John] Ellis (Fisher) was Dr. Thomas Mulligan in Last of the Time Lords 
• [John] Maurice Roeves (Randle) was Stotz in The Caves of Androzani
• Nigel [Patrick] Betts (Barrister) was Headmaster Frank Armitage in Into the Dalek, The Caretaker, Dark Water and Class
• Eleanor Matsuura (Angela) was Jo Nakashima in The Sontaran Stratagem, and voiced Dana Tanaka for Shadows of the Vashta Nerada
• Sakuntala Ramanee (Barrister) made her TV debut in Survival as Shreela Govindia, then was Erica Larnier in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, and voiced Hatshepsut for The Eye of Horus (2015), and Athena for The Wrath of Medusa (2022)

The Box

• Jamie Sives (Reid) was Captain Reynolds in Tooth and Claw

Tracks

• Roy [Anthony] Marsden [born Mould] (Harper) was [Bryan] Stoker in Smith and Jones, and voiced Todd Hulbert for Human Resources (2007)
• Bob Shipsey was also camera operator on The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors
• for Clare Mahoney see Series 6