Doctor Who Vs. Casualty @ 40: Series 2

While the inaugural series of

BBC1's medical drama had been

 filmed in London, a permanent

base for the set was now located

in Bristol.

However, publicity for the start

of the next season included

comments from producer Geraint

Morris, that there would be no

further instalments, stating that

the programme "should end on

a high after thirty episodes."

Following the events of Cry For

Help (in which paramedic Sandra

 Mute was stabbed), the show

regularly garnered more than ten

million viewers and subsequently, a secure future - Casualty has now

endured for forty years.

The majority of the regular cast remained unchanged - joining the show

here were Maureen O'Brien (as administrator Elizabeth Straker), Helena

 Little (Dr. Mary Tomlinson), Kate Hardie, Eddie Nestor (student nurses

Karen O'Malley and Cyril James), Ella Wilder and Geoffrey Leesley

 (paramedics Shirley Franklin and Keith Cotterill).

The fifteen part series (originally broadcast from September to

December 1987) featured a total of fifty-two Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Leesley voiced Paramount Minister Mortund for Big Finish's Arrange- ments for War (2004), and Harold for AudioGo's The Broken Crown
• [John] Colin McCormack (Newman) was the Commander in The Sun Makers
• Stephanie Fayerman (Carole here; Wendy, 1996; Mother, 2006) was McLuhan in Dragonfire
• [Timothy] Tip Tipping (Driver here; Wayne, 1989) was stunt arranger on Remembrance of the Daleks, The Curse of Fenric and Survival
• Steve Whyment (Passenger) was an uncredited extra on The Keeper of Traken and Snakedance
• Richard Braine (Peter) voiced Percy Closed for The English Way of Death (2015), and Professor Linus Woolf for Entanglement (2018)
• Christopher Fairbank (Bryant) voiced Doc Baroque for The Scape- goat (2009), Pierre Arronax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018), then appeared as Fenton in Flatline
• Patrick [David] Newell (Goldman) was Colonel Faraday in The Android Invasion
• writer David Ashton [born Scott], David Chandler (Mike) and Eric [Cecil] Deacon (Tranter here; Sambrook, 2006) all starred in Timelash, as Kendron, HG Wells and Mykros respectively
• James Beckett (Drunk) and Stephen [George] Churchett (PC Geary) both appeared in Attack of the Cybermen, as Payne and Bill
• Tony [Samuel] Selby (Leon here; Kavanagh, 1995; Hazeldene, 2005) was Sabalom Glitz in The Mysterious Planet, The Ultimate Foe and Dragonfire
• Aimée [Margaret] Delamain (Eugenie) was Dona Arana in The Two Doctors
• Graham Turner (DC Lennox here; O'Keefe, 1995; Bainbridge, 2010; Trenton, 2013/14) was Amos in The Crimson Horror
• Harry Fielder (Bains) was a Guard (PP, ZZZ, 4L, 4P, 5A, 5F, 5Z), Crewman (SS, 4T), Vogan (4D), Assassin (4Q), Tigellan (5Q), and Krarg in Shada 
• Jared Morgan (Ambulanceman) was one of the titular mercenaries in Delta and the Bannermen (1)
• Dee Sadler (Maggie here; Irene, 1990), Ian Reddington (Dancer), David Ashford (Registrar) and Dean Hollingsworth (Jason) all starred in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, as Flowerchild, the Chief Clown (reprised for The Psychic Circus), Dad/Bus Conductor respectively - the latter was also an Android in Timelash
• Hubert [Thomas Morgan] Rees (Huggins) was Chief Engineer in Fury from the Deep, Captain Ransom in The War Games, and John Stevenson in The Seeds of Doom
• Pam Ferris (Linda) voiced Lizzie Corrigan for The Eternal Summer (2009), and Amanda Steele for Night of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
• Josh Elwell (Man) was a Lakertyan in Time and the Rani (4)
• Lloyd McGuire (Harry) was Lugo in The Face of Evil, and voiced Lieutenant Tendexter for The Architects of History (2010)
• [Albert] Frank Mills (Philips) was the Telescope Director in Terror of the Autons
• Anthony Donovan (Jeweller) was Guard in The Space Pirates (1)
• Stacy Davies (Craig) was Private Perkins in The Invasion (6), and Veros in State of Decay
• Edna [Lillian] Doré [born Gorring] (Mrs. Whiting here; Grace, 1991; Joan, 1997) was Maeve in Fear Her
• David John Pope (Malik) was the Kandyman in The Happiness Patrol
• Jon [St. Alban] Laurimore [born Livermore] (Ken here; Bevins, 2001; Thirlwell, 2004) was Count Federico in The Masque of Mandragora
• [John] Roger Hammond (Man) was Francis Bacon in The Chase (1), Dr. Runciman in Mawdryn Undead, and voiced Harold Withers for The Eternal Summer (2009)
• Chris Chering (Biker) was Tetrap in Time and the Rani, and Skinhead in Silver Nemesis
• Pete Lee Wilson (Mullett here; Newton, 1995; Reed, 1999; Foster, 2002; Warwick, 2011; Stenwood, 2015) was Tommo in The End of Time (1)
• Sakuntala Ramanee (Chitra here; Shaheera, 1996; Maryam, 2023) 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)
• John [William Francis] Hallam (Big Ted) was Light in Ghost Light
• Roy [Douglas] Purcell (Healey) was CPO Powers in The Mind of Evil, and the President in The Three Doctors
• [Thomas] Declan Mulholland (O'Grady) was Clark in The Sea Devils, and Till in The Androids of Tara
• Dadina Sagger (Leila) was an Alphan in Mindwarp (5)
• Edward [Harry] Kelsey (Pogson) was Slave Buyer in The Romans (1), Resno in The Power of the Daleks, and Edu in The Creature from the Pit
• RJ Bell (Fat Man) made his TV debut as the Garm in Terminus
• Kevin [Robert] McNally (Bennod) and Barry Stanton (Slim here; Waller, 1995) both starred in The Twin Dilemma, as Lieutenant Hugo Lang and Noma - McNally was also Professor Eustacius Jericho in Flux, and voiced Henry for Spider's Shadow (2008), Vakrass for The End of the Beginning, and Merrick Kingdom for The House of Kingdom and The Lost (all 2021)
• Judy Norman (Bingo player) was Ma in Gridlock
• [Christine] Janine Duvitski [born Drzewicki] (Joyce) voiced Alpha Wheeler for The Jabari Countdown (2018)
• Tim Faulkner (Registrar) voiced Highgate for The End of the Beginning, and Charles Hookham/Flindor/Wilbur Grits for The God of Phantoms (both 2021)
• Frank Rozelaar Green (Neighbour here; Bobo, 2003) was Sonny Hoskins in Father's Day
• [David] Roger Brierley (Coroner) was Trevor in The Daleks' Master Plan (8), and provided the voice of Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• Robert Demeger (Statham) was the Preacher in The Shakespeare Code
• script editor Susan Box was a production assistant on Full Circle
• Alan Wareing was also director of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ghost Light and Survival

Doctor Who On This Day #180

  

1943 - Actress Maureen O'Brien born

in Liverpool

1965 - The Keys of Marinus, Episode

3: The Screaming Jungle first screened

on CBC

1969 - The Celestial Toymaker, Episodes

1 and 2 and The Savages, Episode 4

repeated and The War Machines, Episode

4 first screened, all on TV1

1973 - Day of the Daleks, Episode 4, The Curse

 of Peladon, Episode 1 and The Sea Devils, Episode

 4 repeated and The Mutants, Episode  2 first

screened, all on ABC

1978 - The Three Doctors, Episode 3

and The Monster of Peladon, Parts 1 to

3 all repeated on ABC

1979 - Robot, Part 4 first screened on DR1

1981 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Parts

 4 to 6 all repeated on WTTW 11

1982 - Meglos, Part 1 repeated on KQED Plus
1983 - Colony in Space, Episodes 3 and 4 both

 repeated on ABC; Pyramids of Mars, Part 1 first 

screened on KSPS; and The Hand of Fear, Part

3 repeated on KQED Plus

1984 - The Invasion of Time, Part 4

repeated on KQED Plus

1985 - Terror of the Autons, Episode

2 repeated on KQED Plus

1986 - Robot Omnibus repeated on

KQED Plus
1987 - Planet of the Spiders, Parts 4

to 6 all repeated on WTTW 11; and The

Android Invasion, Part 2 first screened

on Super Channel (UK)

1988 - Terror of the Zygons, Part 3 repeated on

Super Channel; State of Decay, Part 2 repeated

on TV2; and Time Flight, Part 1 repeated on

KQED Plus

1989 - Planet of Evil, Part 3 repeated on KQED Plus;

The Masque of Mandragora, Part 3 repeated on ABC;

and Resurrection of the Daleks, Part 1 (of 4) first

screened on TV2

1990 - Time and the Rani, Part 3

repeated on KQED Plus 

1991 - The Krotons, Episode 3 repeated

on TV2; and State of Decay, Part 3 and

Time and the Rani Omnibus both repeated

on KQED Plus

1993 - The Time Monster, Episode 3 repeated on UK

Gold; and The Mark of the Rani, Part 1 (of 4) repeated

 on ABC

1994 - Kinda, Part 2 repeated on UK Gold

1995 - Carnival of Monsters, Episode

3 repeated on UK Gold

1997 - Image of the Fendahl Omnibus

 repeated on UK Gold

1998 - The Space Museum, Episode 1 repeated on Space;

 Arc of Infinity Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus; and Delta 

and the Bannermen, Part 3 repeated on UKTV (Aus)

1999 - The Daleks, Episode 1: The Dead Planet repeated
on Space; and Resurrection of the Daleks, Part 1 repeated
on UKTV (Aus)

2000 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode 6: Flashpoint 

repeated on Prime; The Silurians, Episode 7 repeated on
UKTV (Aus); and The Ark in Space, Parts 3 and 4 both
repeated on BBC America

2001 - The Armageddon Factor, Parts 5 and 6 both
repeated on NHPTV; and Nightmare of Eden, Part 3
repeated on UKTV (Aus) 

2002 - Pyramids of Mars, Part 1 first screened on Tele
5; The Android Invasion Omnibus repeated on KERA; 
The Face of Evil Omnibus and The Invasion of Time,
Part 6 both repeated on BBC Kids (Can); The Talons
of Weng-Chiang Omnibus repeated on UK Gold;

Planet of Fire, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on 

Colrado PTV; and The Greatest Show in the

Galaxy, Parts 3 and 4 repeated on BBC Prime

2003 - The Ark in Space, Part 1 repeated on WCNY; 

The Seeds of Doom, Part 3 repeated on WSKG and 

Parts 5 and 6 both repeated on Iowa PTV; The 

Talons of Weng-Chiang Omnibus repeated on UK 

Gold; The Power of Kroll Omnibus repeated on BBC 

Kids (Can); The Creature from the Pit, Part 4 

repeated on WILL; The Keeper of Traken, Part 3

 repeated on MiND and KUED and 4 repeated on

 MiND; The Mark of the Rani, Parts 1 and 2 (of 4) 

both repeated on WCET; Timelash Omnibus 

repeated on MPT; Time and the Rani, Part 3 

repeated on NHPTV; Battlefield, Parts 1 and

 2 both repeated on Colorado PTV; and The 

Curse of Fenric, Parts 2 and 3 both repeated

on KBTC

2004 - The Curse of Peladon, Episode

2 repeated on ABC

2005 - Meglos, Part 1 repeated on ABC

2006 - The Long Game repeated on People+

Arts (Spa); and Totally Doctor Who (1.12)

 first screened on BBC1

2007 - Rose repeated and The Parting of the Ways

 first screened, both on WUCF; Boom Town first

screened on S Oregon PTV; Bad Wolf and Doctor

Who Confidential: The World of Who first screened

 on Oregon PB; Utopia and Doctor Who Confidential:

'Ello 'Ello 'Ello both repeated on BBC3; and Totally

Doctor Who (2.12) first screened on BBC1 and

repeated on CBBC

2008 - Boom Town and Doctor Who Confidential:

Unsung Heroes and Violent Death both repeated 

on NHPTV; The Parting of the Ways and Doctor

Who Confidential: The Last Battle both

repeated on MPT; The Christmas Invasion

first screened on UNC-TV; New Earth and

Doctor Who Confidential: New New Doctor

both first screened on MPTV; The Girl in the

 Fireplace first screened on WTVP and ProSieben;

Rise of the Cybermen and Doctor Who

Confidential: Cybermen both first screened 

on KERA; The Impossible Planet first screened

on WXXI and WTTW 11 and repeated on

WGVU; The Satan Pit and Doctor Who

Confidential: Religion, Myths and Legends

both repeated on KQED Plus; Love & 

Monsters first screened on Ozarks PTV;

Doomsday first screened on Idaho PTV;

Voyage of the Damned first screened on

ABC1; The Stolen Earth repeated on BBC3;

and Doctor Who Confidential: You've Got the

Look first screened on WTTW 11 and repeated

on WGVU

2009 - The Satan Pit and Doctor Who Confidential:

Religion, Myths and Legends both repeated on

WTTW 11; and Doomsday and Doctor Who

Confidential: Finale both repeated on KQED Plus

2010 - Bad Wolf repeated on Syfy (Rus); The Girl in the 
Fireplace first screened on Space; The Satan Pit and Love 
& Monsters both repeated on Syfy (FRG); Army of Ghosts 
repeated on AXN SciFi; and Doomsday and Doctor Who 
Confidential Cutdown: Finale both repeated on UKTV

2011 - The Five Doctors, Parts 1 and 2

 (of 4) both repeated on MTV3 SciFi, TV2

and TV4; and The Doctor Dances repeated

on BBC America

2012 - Fear Her repeated on BBC America; and
Voyage of the Damned repeated on ABC2

2013 - The Empty Child repeated on EBRU; The
 Hungry Earth, Cold Blood and Doctor Who Confidential:
After Effects all repeated on BBC Nordic HD; The Vampires
of Venice, The Angels Take Manhattan, The Snowmen, The 

Bells of Saint John and Cold War all repeated on France 4;
The Curse of the Black Spot repeated on BBC Nordic;
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS first screened on
France 4; The Crimson Horror first screened on France 4
and repeated on Syfy (Ben); and The Doctors Revisited:
The First Doctor, The Second Doctor, The Third Doctor

and The Fourth Doctor all repeated on BBC America

2014 - The Aztecs Omnibus repeated on Watch;

The Romans Omnibus repeated on KBTC; Terror

of the Zygons, Part 3 repeated on KPTS; The

Android Invasion, Part 1 and Castrovalva, Parts

3 and 4 all repeated on Syfy (Aus); The Caves

of Androzani Omnibus repeated on Horror; The 

Mark of the Rani Omnibus repeated on KBTC;

  Rose repeated on UKTV (NZ); The Empty

Child and The Doctor Dances both repeated

on KCPT; The Christmas Invasion repeated on

TV3 (Spa); 42,Human Nature, The Family of

Blood and Blink all repeated on KCPT2; The

Unicorn and the Wasp and Silence in the Library

both repeated on RAI4; The Stolen Earth

repeated on WPT Flagship; The Time of Angels

repeated on KLRU; The Beast Below repeated

on Jeem TV (ME); Amy's Choice repeated on

OETA; A Christmas Carol, The Impossible

Astronaut, Day of the Moon, The Curse of the

 Black Spot and The Doctor's Wife all repeated

on Fox (FRG); Let's Kill Hitler and Closing Time

 both repeated on France 4; The Wedding of River Song 

repeated on BBC Entertainment LA and France 4; The Doctor, 

the Widow and the Wardrobe repeated on BBC Entertainment 

LA, France 4 and MPB; The Angels Take Manhattan repeated 

on Syfy (Ben); The Snowmen repeated on Syfy (Ben) and LPB; 

The Bells of Saint John repeated on Idaho PTV; The Rings of

Akhaten repeated on WVPB; Cold War repeated on KUED 

and Iowa PTV; Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

repeated on WILL; Best of the Doctor repeated on BBC

Entertainment EU, Rom and ME; and An Adventure

in Space and Time repeated on BBC Entertainment LA

2015 - Planet of the Spiders, Parts 5 and 6 both
repeated on Horror; Logopolis, Part 4, Human

Nature and The Family of Blood all repeated on

Syfy (Aus); Rose repeated on Watch; The Age

of Steel repeated on Disney XD (US); Evolution

of the Daleks first screened on FX (Ind); Silence in

the Library and Forest of the Dead both repeated on

EBRU; The Eleventh Hour repeated on TV Cultura;

The Vampires of Venice repeated on ABC2; Day of the 

Moon, Doctor Who Confidential: Ship Ahoy! and The 

Born Identity all repeated on BBC Entertainment AP;

A Town Called Mercy and The Power of Three both 

repeated on BBC Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD;

The Angels Take Manhattan repeated on ABC;

The Snowmen repeated on WPT; Into the Dalek

and Robot of Sherwood both repeated on BBC

America; and In the Forest of the Night repeated

on BBC Entertainment LA HD and BBC Bra HD

2016 - The Edge of Destruction Omnibus repeated

on Retro TV; The Long Game and Day of the Moon

both repeated on Syfy (Aus); The End of Time,

Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on BBC Polska HD;

The Pandorica Opens repeated on France 4; The

Impossible Astronaut repeated on Syfy (LA); The

Girl Who Waited repeated on TV Cultura; A Town

 Called Mercy repeated on Einsfestival; Cold War 

repeated on Space; The Crimson Horror repeated

on Syfy (Spa); Nightmare in Silver repeated on

ABC2; Flatline repeated on BBC Entertainment

AP; The Witch's Familiar repeated on YLE TV2;

Under the Lake repeated on BBC First (ME); and

 The Girl Who Died repeated on Syfy (Bra)

2017 - The Time Meddler, Episodes 3 and 4 both

 repeated on Retro TV; The Christmas Invasion

 repeated on Syfy (Aus); The Unicorn and the Wasp 

and Silence in the Library both  repeated on RAI4;

 Midnight, Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, Journey's 

End, The Next Doctor and Planet of the Dead all 

repeated on BBC America; Listen and Doctor Who Extra:
Deep Breath and Into the Dalek all repeated on BBC Polska
 HD; The Witch's Familiar and Under the Lake both repeated
on Syfy (Bra); and The Women Who Lived repeated on Syfy
(LA)

2018 - The Claws of Axos, Episodes 3 and 4 both repeated 

on Retro TV; Kinda, Parts 2 to 4 all repeated on Jones! too;

42 repeated on BBC Polska HD; and Before the Flood

repeated on Star World Premiere

2019 - The War Games, Episodes 1 to 4 and Death to the

Daleks, Parts 3 and 4 all repeated on Retro TV; Arc of

Infinity Omnibus repeated on RSU PTV; Night Terrors, The

Girl Who Waited and The God Complex all repeated on BBC

Polska HD; Dark Water, Death in Heaven and The Magician's

Apprentice all repeated on Sony SciFi; Empress of Mars and

 The Eaters of Light both repeated on BBC Entertainment

EU; Kerblam! and The Witchfinders both repeated on Fox

(FRG); and The Curse of Davros, Episode 2 first broadcast

on Radio 4 Extra

2020 - A Christmas Carol repeated on BBC

America and Sony SciFi; The Almost People

repeated on BBC Turkey; and Spyfall, Part 2

first screened on BBC Polska HD

2021 - Terminus, Parts 1 and 2 both

repeated on Retro TV; Asylum of the

Daleks repeated on BBC Polska HD;

and Hell Bent repeated on ABC2

2022 - The War Machines, Episodes

3 and 4 both repeated on Retro TV;

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship repeated

on Fox SciFi; Journey to the Centre of

the TARDIS, The Crimson Horror and

Listen all repeated on Syfy (Fra); Under

the Lake repeated on ABC2; Hell Bent

repeated on BBC First Turkey; and

Redacted, Episode 3: Lost repeated

on Radio 4 Extra

2023 - The Sea Devils, Episode 2

and 3 both repeated on Retro TV;

The Pandorica Opens and The Big

Bang both repeated on Fox SciFi;

and Kerblam! repeated on ABC

Family

2024 - The Age of Steel repeated

on ABC Entertains; and Empire of

 Death repeated on BBC2

2025 - Full Circle, Parts 1 and 2 both

repeateed on KBTC; and The Tsuranga

Conundrum repeated on ABC Entertains

2026 - Horror of Fang Rock, Part

4 and The Invisible Enemy, Part 1

both repeated on Retro TV