Doctor Who Vs. Campion, Series 1

The only television adaptations of the classic crime stories of Margery

Allingham were originally transmitted in 1989 and 1990, and starred

Peter Davison as gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (pictured centre),

with Brian Glover (as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg, left), and

Andrew Burt (as Inspector Stanislaus Oates, right).

Allingham (1904-1966) penned eighteen Campion novels and twenty 

short stories between 1929 and 1965, whilst her final work (Cargo of 

Eagles) was completed by her husband and published posthumously 

in 1968.

A repeat run of the eight-part series began on U&Drama today - it

featured a total of thirty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Look to the Lady (BBC1 TX: January 22 & 29 1989/BBC2 TX:

December 27 2009/Published 1931)

• John [Harry] Gill (Peck) was Mr. Oak in Fury from the Deep
• Roy Evans (Branch) was Trantis in The Daleks' Master Plan, Bert in The Green Death, and Miner in The Monster of Peladon
• Dinny Powell (King) was a stuntman on (episode 1 of) Terror of the Autons, and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4) and Genesis of the Daleks (3)
• Paul Heasman (Taxi Driver) was a Nazi in Silver Nemesis, and the stunt arranger on Survival
• cinematographer John Baker was a film cameraman on The Evil of the Daleks, Terror of the Autons, The Three Doctors, The Masque of Mandragora, Castrovalva, Snakedance, The Five Doctors and The Twin Dilemma
• Ken Ledsham was also production designer on The Ribos Operation, Destiny of the Daleks and The King's Demons
• Suzan Broad was make-up designer on Kinda too
• Tony Harding was also VFX designer on The Invisible Enemy, The Power of Kroll, State of Decay, The King's Demons and The Awakening
• Diana Brookes was production assistant on Arc of Infinity too

Police at the Funeral (TX: February 5 & 12/Pub. 1931)

• Timothy [Lancaster] West (Faraday) voiced Kai Tobias for Phobos (2007), Turvey for Cuddlesome (2008), and Dr. Magnus Soames for House of Blue Fire (2011)
• Mary [Lilian Agnes] Morris (Caroline) was Panna in Kinda
• Gillian [Mary] Martell (Julia) was Lily Gregson in K9 and Company
• John Franklyn-Robbins (Seeley) was a Time Lord in Genesis of the Daleks (1)
• cinematographer here Ian Punter was a film cameraman on Planet of the Spiders (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks
• Howard Billingham was the film editor on The Mind of Evil too
• Dinah Collin was also costume designer on Earthshock, Enlightenment and The Mark of the Rani
• production manager Joanna Gueritz was an AFM (assistant floor manager) on Frontios
• Chris Ferriday was property buyer on Remembrance of the Daleks too
• film recordist Malcolm Campbell worked on film sound for The Caves of Androzani and The Twin Dilemma 

The Case of the Late Pig (TX: February 19 & 26/Pub. 1937)

• [Francis] Michael Gough (Hayhoe) played the titular role in The Celestial Toymaker, and was Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity
• Moray [Robin Philip Adrian] Watson (Sir Leo) was Sir Robert Muir in Black Orchid
• Rob [Charlton] Edwards (Whippet) provided the voice of Xoanon for The Face of Evil, and was Chub in The Robots of Death (1)
• Voice artist Peter Tuddenham (Pepper) worked on The Ark in Space (1), The Masque of Mandragora and Time and the Rani
• Georgine Anderson (Turner) was May in Gridlock
• Philip Bird (Bathwick) made his TV debut as a Swampie in The Power of Kroll
• Joanna Newbery was AFM on Time and the Rani too
• film recordist here Richard Manton worked on film sound for The Daemons and The Mutants
• Dave Bezkorowajny was VFX designer on Battlefield too

Death of a Ghost (TX: March 5 & 12/Pub. 1934)

• Michael Owen Morris was PA (production assistant) on The Pirate Planet, then also director of The Awakening
• Milton Johns [born John Robert Milton] (Potter) was Theodore Benik in The Enemy of the World, Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion, and Castellan Kelner in The Invasion of Time
• Adrian Lukis (D'Urfey) voiced Officer Bragg for Cobwebs (2010), Byzan for The Children of Seth (2011), Professor Jeffrey Broderick for Counter Measures 1 (2012), Harvey Marsh for The Justice of Jalxar, Sigmund Freud for Return of the Repressed (both 2013), Ansillon for Blood of the Time Lords (2022), and Secretary Pym for Satrap (2025) - he was also Sir Jonathan Hynes in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• Tom Lucy (Policeman) was the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen episodes (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)
• Clare Graham was production manager on The Mysterious Planet too
• VFX assistant Mickey Edwards was the VFX designer on Four to Doomsday
• series stunt co-ordinator Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos, and also doubled for Davison on Warriors of the Deep
  

Doctor Who Vs. Bergerac, Series 5

The first festive special devoted to BBC1's Jersey-based crime drama

(shown on Boxing Day 1986) was followed by another eight-part

 season which aired in early 1987.

Chris Boucher and Robert Holmes both provided screen-

plays here, whilst Graeme 

Harper was assigned to direct 

his second instalment.

A repeat run of the fifth series

began on U&Drama today - it

featured John Nettles (as the eponymous detective), Sean Arnold, Terence Alexander, Jolyon Baker,

Louise Jameson, and a total of thirty-one Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Barrie [Stanton] Ingham (Barnaby) was Alydon in Dr. Who and the Daleks, then Prince Paris in The Myth Makers
• Paul Brooke (Croxted) voiced Toby for Big Finish's Year of the Pig (2006)
• Ron [Henry] Pember (Plemont) voiced Seedle for Slipback
• Jim [Michael] McManus (Clerk) was an Opthalmologist in The Invisible Enemy
• Nicholas McArdle (Doctor) was Leonard De Vries in The Stones of Blood
• [Michael Thomas] Jeremy Clyde (Smythe) voiced George Sinclair for Absent Friends (2016), Lord Braye for Planet of the Drashigs (2019), and Tony Clare for Stranded (2020-22)
• Judy [Valerie] Cornwell (Belle) was Maddy in Paradise Towers
• Nigel [Richard] Lambert (Stevens) was Hardin in The Leisure Hive, then voiced the Triangles for War of the Sontarans and Once, Upon Time - he also voiced Domitian/Diode for The Cannibalists (2009), Michael Faraday/Magran for The Four Doctors (2010), Adjudicator/ Glarva for Thin Ice (2011), and Auga for The Guardians of Prophecy (2012)
• Philip Hurd Wood (Lewis) provided the voiced of the Graske for The Sarah Jane Adventures, Attack of the Graske and Music of the Spheres, then voiced Jabel/Sole for Who Am I? (2022), and Ivan for The Great Beyond (2024)
• Michael [John] Gambon (McLeod) portrayed Elliot and Kazran Sardick in A Christmas Carol
• David Schofield (Logan) voiced Billy for Death in Blackpool (2009), and Nostradamus/Conclave Leader for The Doomsday Quatrain (2011), Narrator of The House of Winter, Parval for The Sorcerer of Albion (2020), and Gostak for The End of the Beginning (2021), then appeared in The Girl Who Died as Odin
• Nick Brimble (Putnam) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
• Christopher Fairbank (Sterrat) voiced Pierre Aronnax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), and Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018), then starred as Fenton in Flatline
• Milton Johns [born John Robert Milton] (Rice) was [Theodore] Benik in The Enemy of the World, Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion, and Castellan Kelner in The Invasion of Time
• Ian Thompson (Gaines) was Hetra in The Web Planet, and Malsan in (episode 2 of) The Chase
• Michael [Harold] Lomax (Workman) was a Technician in The Silurians (1)
• Daniel Hill (Alan) was Chris Parsons in Shada, and voiced Percy Noggins for AudioGo's The Stuff of Nightmares (2009)
• Mary[Veronica] Healey (Elsie) was a Killjoy in The Happiness Patrol
• Dinny [Dennis] Powell (Minder) was stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1), and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4) and Genesis of the Daleks (3)
• [Rosemary] Rowena Cooper (Mrs. Hughes) was Angela Price in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then voiced La Concierge for AudioGo's The Demon of Paris (2010), Emily Shaw for The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Mother Superior for The Unbound Universe (2016) and Ruler of the Universe (2017), and Queen Victoria for The Torchwood Archive, The Victorian Age and Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018)
• Geoffrey Bateman (Webb) was Dymond in Nightmare of Eden
• Davyd Harries (Black) was Shapp in The Armageddon Factor
• Christian Rodska (Bernard) voiced Laan Carder for Faith Stealer (2004), and Reverand Small for The Dead Shoes (2011)
• Bernard[Joseph] Archard (Rodgers) was Bragen in The Power of the Daleks, and Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars
• Philip Bond (Temperley) was Ganatus in The Daleks
• Peter Tuddenham (Minister) was a voice artiste on The Ark in Space (1), The Masque of Mandragora and Time and the Rani
• Philip Anthony [Johnson] (Price) was Roald in The Daleks' Master Plan (1)
• Marilyn Le Conte (Clerk) voiced the titular woman for The Lady of the Lake
• Gerry Mill was director of The Faceless Ones too
• Ken Ledsham was also the production designer on The Ribos Operation, Destiny of the Daleks and The King's Demons
• Simon Wilson was also film recordist on The Green Death and The King's Demons

Doctor Who Vs. House of Cards

Adapted by prolific screenwriter Andrew

Davies from the novel by Michael Dobbs,

this political thriller originally aired in late

autumn 1990, during the Conservative's

leadership election following Margaret

Thatcher's resignation.

The BBC1 drama spawned two sequels -

To Play the King in 1993 and The Final Cut

(1995), whilst an American remake followed

in 2013. The trilogy earned a total of four-

teen BAFTA award nominations (winning two

and an Emmy), and House of Cards was

voted 84th in the BFI TV 100 poll of 2000.

The whole four-part serial was repeated on

BBC4 last night - it featured Ian Richardson

(1934-2007) as Francis Urquhart, Susannah

Harker, and a total of thirty Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• director Paul Seed was the Graff Vynda-K in The Ribos Operation
• Malcolm Tierney (Woolton) was Doland in Terror of the Vervoids, and voiced Gantha/Warder for Big Finish's 1001 Nights (2012)
• Harker (Mattie voiced Clare Keightley for Shada (2003), and Anya for Eye of Darkness (2015)
• Colin [Abel] Jeavons (Stamper) was Damon in The Underwater Menace, and George Tracey in K9 and Company
• Christopher Owen (McKenzie) was an Earthling in Meglos
• Kenneth [Alfred] Gilbert (Earle) was Richard Dunbar in The Seeds of Doom
• John [Edwin] Arnatt (Grainger) was Chancellor Borusa in The Invasion of Time 
• Richard Braine (Spence) voiced Percy Closed for The English Way of Death (2015), and Professor Linus Woolf for Entanglement (2018)
• Robert Ashby [born Rashid Suhrawardy] (Presenter) was the Borad in Timelash
• David [born Diarmuid] Blake Kelly (Goodman) was Captain Briggs in (episode 3 of) The Chase, and Jacob Kewper in The Smugglers
• Sally Faulkner (Minister) was Isobel Watkins in The Invasion, and voiced Miss Tremayne for Winter for the Adept (2000)
• Colin Dudley (Speaker) was a former production manager on The Sea Devils (6), and The Invasion of Time
• Tariq Yunus (Jhabwala) was Cass in The Robots of Death
• [George] Gertan Klauber (Blackhead) was the Galley Master in The Romans, and Ola in The Macra Terror
• Nadim [Joakim] Sawalha (Manager) voiced Swapnil Khan for The Magic Mousetrap (2009), and the Old Man for 1001 Nights
• Geoffrey Bateman (Interviewer) was Dymond in Nightmare of Eden
• Ian [Gordon Arthur] Collier (Man) was Stuart Hyde in The Time Monster, Omega in Arc of Infinity (and reprised for Big Finish's Omega in 2003), then voiced Commisar Erco Sallis for Excelis Decays (2002), and Isaac Summerfield for Death and the Daleks (2004)
• John [born Simon Alexander Lyne] Pirkis (Young Man) provided a Sphere voice for The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• Robin Wentworth [born Victor Roy Wheeler] (Newlands) was Professor Horner in The Daemons
• Nick Brimble (Corder) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
• Kevork Malikyan (Naresh) was Kemel Rudkin in The Wheel in Space
• BBC newsreader Angela [May] Rippon also had a cameo role in The Star Beast (2019)
• stunt arranger Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, stunt double in Warriors of the Deep, and Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos
• Tina Maskell was also stunt performer on Boom Town and The Runaway Bride
• cinematographer Ian Punter was an assistant on Planet of the Spiders (6), and film cameraman on Resurrection of the Daleks
• Howard Billingham was film editor on The Mind of Evil too
• Ken Ledsham was also production designer on The Ribos Operation, Destiny of the Daleks and The King's Demons
• costume designer Rosalind Ebbutt began her TV career on Black Orchid
• first assistant director Nigel Taylor was AFM on The Stones of Blood
• Barrie Tharby was also film recordist on Attack of the Cybermen and The Mark of the Rani