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Sunday, 26 July 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Agatha Christie's eighth full-
length Miss Marple mystery, her
fifty-third novel, was published in
1962, then issued as The Mirror
Crack'd in North America. The
Queen of Crime was influenced by
the real-life tragedy of American
actress Gene Tierney for her plot.
The book's title was taken from Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott,
and was dedicated to cinematic
Marple actress Margaret Rutherford.
Julie McKenzie again depicted the
eponymous sleuth for ITV Studios'
fifth series of Marple - this production followed a British film version in 1980,
and a BBC serial in 1992. First broadcast in January 2011, the mystery was
 repeated on ITV3 today - it featured these thirteen Doctor Who cast and
crew connections:
  • for Joanna Lumley see The Body In The Library
  • Lindsay [Vere] Duncan (Marina here; Lady Tamplin in The Mystery of the Blue Train) was Captain Adelaide Brooke in The Waters of Mars
  • Martin Jarvis (Hogg here; Warburton in Dead Man's Folly; Narrator of The Mysterious Mr. Quinn) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Big Finish's Jubilee (2003)
  • Neil Stuke (Dr. Haydock here; Baker in The Case of the Missing Will) voiced the titular role of The Crooked Man (2014), then was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon
  • Samuel Barnett (DS Tiddler) voiced Hans Tod for The Beast of Orlok (2009), Robin for Nightshade (2016), Norton Folgate for Torchwood, Cicero for Tartarus (2019), and Emlak for The Sublime Porte (2023)
  • Hugh [Richard] Bonneville [born Williams] (DI Hewitt here; Masterman in Murder on the Orient Express, 2010; Strange in Towards Zero, 2010; Ralston in The Mousetrap, 2012) was Captain Henry Avery in The Curse of the Black Spot, and voiced Sidney Herbert/Tsar Nicholas I for The Angel of Scutari (2009)
  • Olivia Darnley (Cherry here; Nurse in Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures) was Kourtney in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot; and voiced Emily Cole for Prisoner of the Ood (2018)
  • Anna Andresen (Maisie) voiced Lithea/Elementals for Light the Flame (2021), and was the Tsarina in The Power of the Doctor 
  • series executive producer Damian Timmer made a cameo appearance in An Adventure in Space and Time as a Menoptera, and Nigel Squibbs was sound mixer on that production too
  • film editor Matthew Tabern also edited Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Human Nature, The Family of Blood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
  • Sean Clayton was also the second assistant director on Dalek and Father's Day
  • series production runner Donna Shakesheff was art department co-ordinator (then prop buyer) on every episode from Asylum of the Daleks to Kill the Moon

Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Inspector Morse, Series 5

Eccleston's role here (only his
 third televison appearance) led
him to being cast in his first film,
Let Him Have It, where he depicted
Derek Bentley
The BAFTA winning fifth season of
Zenith's acclaimed crime drama was
first screened in the winter of 1991.
John Thaw and Kevin Whately again
portrayed Colin Dexter's Oxford-based
detectives, Morse and Lewis.
A repeat run of the series began on ITV3
today - the five cases (all new screenplays)
featured Christopher Eccleston (pictured
as Terrence Mitchell in part one), and a
total of twenty-six Doctor Who cast and
crew connections:

Second Time Around
(UK TX: February 20)
  • Kenneth Colley (DCI Dawson) voiced Cristophe Zarodnix for Big Finish's Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008)
  • Jenny Laird [born Phyllis Edith Mary Blythe] (Mrs. Keelan) was Neska in Planet of the Spiders
  • Maurice [Edward] Bush (Hillian) was an Ogron in Day of the Daleks and Frontier in Space
  • Ann [Forrest] Bell (Catherine) voiced Sylvia O'Donnell for A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010), Professor Gesima Cazalet for Night of the Stormcrow (2012), and Lisa Burrows for Five Twenty-Nine (2016)
  • Sam [born Roger Michael] Kelly (Majors) voiced Eugene Tacitus for The Holy Terror (2000), and Acheron in Return to the Web Planet (2007)
  • Pamela [Margaret] Stirling (French woman) was a Louvre Guide in City of Death
  • Simon Coady (Preacher) provided the Video Commentary for Paradise Towers
  • for cinematographer Paul Wheeler see Series 4
  • focus puller Bob Shipsey was a camera operator on The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors
Fat Chance (UK TX: February 27)
  • [William] Maurice Denham (Mandeville) was Azmael in The Twin Dilemma, then voiced the President for The Paradise of Death 
  • Zoe Wanamaker (Emma) was Lady Cassandra in The End of the World and New Earth
  • [Margaret Rose] Peggy Mount (Nun) was the Stallslady in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
  • Maggie O'Neill (Hilary) voiced Captain Lysandra Aristedes for Project: Destiny (2010), Protect and Serve, Black and White, Project: Nirvana, Gods and Monsters (all 2012) and The Last Day (2023)
  • Josephine Lloyd Welcome (Judy) was Devika Babu in Wish World
  • for Tina Simmons see Series 2
Who Killed Harry Field? (UK TX: March 13)
  • [Roy James] Philip Locke (Mortimer) was Bigon/Control voice in Four to Doomsday
  • Ronald [Alfred] Pickup (Matthews here; Mancini in Lewis) was the Physician in (episode 4 of) The Reign of Terror, and voiced Kestorian for Time Works (2006), Elder Bones for Spaceport Fear (2013), the Old One for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016), and Jacob Harmer for The Wizard of Time (2023)
  • Dicken Ashworth (Drummond) was Sezon in Timelash
  • [Michael Thomas] Jeremy Clyde (McMill) voiced George Sinclair for Absent Friends (2016), Lord Braye for Planet of the Drashigs (2019), and Tony Clare for Stranded (2020-22)
  • John [Michael Frederick] Castle (Doyle) voiced Edmund Trevithick for Nightshade (2016)
Greeks Bearing Gifts (UK TX: March 20)
  • Eileen [Mabel Elizabeth] Way (Mrs. Papas) was Old Mother (the first character to die in the programme) in 100,000 BC, and Karela in The Creature from the Pit
  • Martin Jarvis (Rees here; Broom in Endeavour: Rocket) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler for Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
  • Eve Polycarpou (Maria) voiced Qel for Singularity (2005)
  • Jonny Lee Miller (Student) made his TV debut as a titular Child in Kinda
Promised Land (UK TX: March 27)
  • Philip Anthony [Johnson] (Editor) and Kevin Leslie (Barman) both appeared in The Daleks' Master Plan, as Roald (1) and Egyptian Warrior (9) - Leslie was uncredited as Lynch Mobster in The Gunfighters

Saturday, 19 July 2025

Doctor Who Vs. Miss Marple: A Murder is Announced

The third instalment of BBC1's
acclaimed period crime series
(originally shown in the winter of
1985) was repeated on BBC4 last
night.
The producers, mindful of the
criticism levelled at Margaret
Rutherford's comedic portrayal
of Jane Marple in the 1960's,
specified that their version of the
 character remained strictly as
written.
Published in 1950, the book (the
fourth Marple mystery) was billed
 as Agatha Christie's fiftieth novel,
 and was faithfully adapted by Alan
Plater. An ITV version followed in
2005.
The three-part serial starred the
79 year old actress Joan Hickson as
the definitive Marple (forty years
after being recommended for the part by Christie herself), and these
fifteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
  • John [Michael Frederick] Castle (DI Craddock here & The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side; Edgware in Lord Edgware Dies, 2000) voiced Edmund Trevithick for Big Finish's Nightshade (2016)
  • Samantha [Jane] Bond (Julia here; Stella in The Adventure of the Cheap Flat; Sylvia in Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, 2009; Narrator of The Hollow, Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie, 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple, Agatha Christie's England) was Miss Wormwood in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane and Enemy of the Bane, then reprised for The Revenge of Wormwood (2023) - she also voiced Mother Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009)
  • Simon Shepherd (Simmons here; Hall in Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan; Dr. Rendell in Mrs. McGinity's Dead; Craddock in The Mirror Crack'd, 2019) voiced Boolin for Tsar Wars, Bewley for The Broken Crown, the Magician for Aladdin Time (all 2011), Pal Andrews for Break the Ice (2022), and Hudson Sage for Vespertine (2023)
  • Elaine Ives-Cameron (Hannah) was Martha in The Stones of Blood
  • Ralph [Champion] Michael [born Shotter] (Easterbrook here; Summers in Murder Most Foul) was Balaton in The Pirate Planet
  • Sylvia [May Laura] Syms (Mrs. Easterbrook here; Mrs. Hubbard for Murder on the Orient Express, 1993; Lavinia in Murder is Easy) was Mrs. Pritchard in Ghost Light
  • [Irene] Joan [Marion] Sims (Miss Murgatroyd here; Mrs. McGillicuddy for 4.5- from Paddington, 1997) was Katryca in The Mysterious Planet
  • Liz [Ann] Crowther (Myrna) voiced Tessa Waylund for Something Inside (2003)
  • David [Cressy] Collings (Rev. Harmon) was Vorus in Revenge of the Cybermen, [Ander] Poul in The Robots of Death (and reprised for Kaldor City and The Robots), then the titular role in Mawdryn Undead - he also voiced the Doctor for Full Fathom Five (2003), Gabriel Sanders for Jago & Litefoor (2011/12), and Rosato for The King of Sontar (2014)
  • production manager Alan Wareing was a production assistant on The Keeper of Traken and manager on Timelash, then director of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ghost Light and Survival
  • production designer Raymond [Patrick] Cusick (pictured in 1964) was assigned to The Daleks to bring Terry Nation's creations to life, and designed sets for nine other early serials
  • cinematographer Peter Hall was a film cameraman on The Seeds of Death, The Space Pirates, Colony in Space, Terror of the Zygons and Logopolis
  • Joanna Newbery was AFM on Time and the Rani too
  • series film recordist Malcolm Campbell was sound recordist on The Caves of Androzani and The Twin Dilemma
  • John Taylor was the boom operator on The Five Doctors too
The BBC Radio 4 treatment of A Murder is Announced was
first transmitted in five weekly parts in 1999 - it featured
June Whitfield and four further Doctor Who cast links:
  • Graham Crowden (Clithering here & The Body in the Library; Bruce in The Affair of the Pink Pearl; Blake for Five Little Pigs, 1994; Macarthur in And Then There Were None, 2005) was Soldeed in The Horns of Nimon
  • Judy Cornwell (Dora here & Miss Marple, 2015; Valerie in The Lamp; Heather in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, 1992) was Maddy in Paradise Towers
  • Jenny Funnell (Mitzi here & Dora, 2019; Nurse in Peril at End House; Elsie for The Moving Finger, 2001; Sally for Dead Man's Folly, 2007) voiced Veronica Buchman for Wirrn Isle (2012), and Reaver for The King of Sontar
  • Joanna McCallum (Laura here; Evie in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1990; Mrs. Olivera for One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 2004; Princess in Murder on the Orient Express, 2022) voiced the Bursar for Night Thoughts (2006)
Another stage production toured the UK in 2019, with
Louise Jameson in the lead with:
  • Jo Castleton (Letitia) was Natasha Alexander in Auton 2 and Auton 3, Lauren Anderson in Zygon, then voiced Lady Sarah Whiteside for The Marian Conspiracy (2000), Nyaiad for Brotherhood of the Daleks (2008), Hazel Trahn for Cyberman 2 (2009), and Sciencetech Vi Kruger for Time's Horizon (2014)
  • Ben Roddy (Edmund) voiced Operations for The Nowhere Place (2006)
In 2013, a national theatrical run starred Katy Manning
(as Letitia) with:
  • Gearaldine Newman (Marple) voiced Eliza for The Wishing Beast (2007), and Lady Sybil for The Doomwood Curse (2008)
  • Gemma Bissix voiced Aglae for The Fires of Vulcan (2000)
  • John D Collins was Talor in Arc of Infinity

Thursday, 29 May 2025

Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 1

London Weekend Television's acclaimed
period crime drama began in 1989 - David
Suchet's portrayal of the Queen of Crime's
creation is now regarded as the definitive Hercule Poirot.
Hugh Fraser, Phillip Jackson and Pauline
Moran also joined the series as Captain
Hastings, Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon. 
The programme endured until late 2013,
when ITV Studios concluded their adapt-
ations of all seventy of Christie's works with Curtain, the Belgian's last case.
Suchet (born 1946) was later cast as the Landlord for Knock Knock, whilst Fraser
and Jackson both starred in Big Finish plays.
Five of the serials here were based on short stories from Poirot's Early Cases (published
in 1974), three more from Murder in the
Mews and Other Stories  (1937), and two from The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960). A repeat run of the ten-part season began on ITV3 today -
the mysteries featured Geoffrey Beevers, Caroline John, Mary Tamm,
and a total of thirty-eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

The Adventure Of The Clapham Cook (UK TX: January 8 1989)
  • Brigit Forsyth (Mrs. Todd) was Ruth Maxtible in The Evil of the Daleks
  • Danny Webb (Porter here; Mutti in At Bertram's Hotel, 2007; Garroway in Elephants Can Remember) 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)
  • [John] Antony Carrick (Todd) was Captain Rossini in The Masque of Mandragora
Murder In The Mews (UK TX: January 15)
  • David [William] Yelland (West here; Warrender in Spider's Web, 1982; George in Taken at the Flood, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Third Girl, Three Act Tragedy, Hallowe'en Party, The Big Four, Curtain; Hastings in Black Coffee, 2012; Robarts in Witness for the Prosecution, 2017; Wargrave in And Then There Were None, 2023) voiced Walter Pritchett for The Red Lady (2015)
  • Christopher Brown (Golfer) was Marriner in Enlightenment
The Adventure Of Johnnie Waverly (UK TX: January 22)
  • Geoffrey Bateman (Waverly) was Dymond in Nightmare of Eden
  • Jonathan Magnanti (PC) voiced Lawrence Yeadon for Nightshade (2016)
  • Jamie Harcourt was also a camera operator on The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit
Four And Twenty Blackbirds (UK TX: January 29)
  • Clifford Rose (Makinson) was Rorvik in Warriors' Gate
  • Philip [born Roy James] Locke (Cutter) was Bigon and the voice of Control in Four to Doomsday
  • Cheryl Hall (Molly) was Shirna in Carnival of Monsters
  • John [Gibb Marshall] Sessions (Radio Voice here; Pye in The Moving Finger, 2006) provided the voice of Gus for Mummy on the Orient Express, and voiced General Tannis for Death Comes to Time, Mozart for My Own Private Wolfgang (2007), and Roland/Mummer for Castle of Fear (2009)
  • Charles Pemberton (Stooge here; Rose in A Pocketful of Rye, 1985) was a Cyberman in Tomb of the Cybermen, and Technician in The War Games
  • Denys [Vernon] Hawthorne (Bonnington) was Rudge in Terror of the Vervoids
  • Holly De Jong (Dulcie) voiced Amelia Doory for Project: Twilight (2001)
The Third Floor Flat (UK TX: February 5)
  • George Little (Dicker here, Triangle at Rhodes, The Dream, Double Sin) was Haroun ed-Din in The Crusade
  • Robert Hines (Jimmy) voiced Minister Tralfinial for The Last (2004)
  • Josie Lawrence (Mrs. Grant here; Hannah for By the Pricking of My Thumbs, 2006) voiced Gaznak for Salvation Nine (2022), and Professor Margo Hodgson for The Merfolk Murders (2024)
  • Valentino Musetti (stuntman here, The Incredible Theft, The Veiled Lady; stunt co-ordinator on Thirteen at Dinner) was Mongol Bandit in (episode 5 of) Marco Polo, Saracen Warrior in The Crusade (1), Egyptian in The Daleks' Master Plan, Pirate in The Smugglers, Prisoner in The Mind of Evil and Colony in Space (1), and Stuntman in The Time Monster (1)
Triangle at Rhodes (UK TX: February 12)
  • Annie Lambert (Valentine here; Vere in Finessing the King) was Enlightenment in Four to Doomsday
  • Martyn Whitby (Postman) was a Drayman in The Mark of the Rani
Problem At Sea (UK TX: February 19)
  • Ben [Patrick] Aris (Fowler) was Lieutenant Shears in Invasion of the Dinosaurs 
  • John Normington (Clapperton) was Morgus in The Caves of Androzani, and Trevor Sigma in The Happiness Patrol
The Incredible Theft (UK TX: February 26)
  • Albert Welling (Carlile) played the titular Fuhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
  • John [Derek] Carson [Parker] (Carrington here; Abernethie in After the Funeral) was Director Ambril in Snakedance
  • Phyllida [Ann] Law (Julia here; Mrs. Smythe in Hallowe'en Party) was Bea Nelson-Stanley in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, and voiced Belldonia for The Bride of Peladon (2008)
The King Of Clubs (UK TX: March 12)
  • Niamh Cusack (Valerie here; Emma in 4.50 from Paddington, 2004) voiced Clarimonde for Zaltys (2017), and the Oldest for The Dalek Eternity 1 (2025)
  • Gawn Grainger (Walton) was George Stephenson in The Mark of the Rani
  • Cathy Murphy (Maid) was Mum in The Christmas Invasion
  • Sean [Carl] Pertwee (Oglander here; Griffith in The Moving Finger, 2006; Stubbs in Dead Man's Folly, 2013; DI Lejeune in The Pale Horse, 2020) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
  • David [Bernard] Swift (Reedburn here; Wanstead for Nemesis, 1998) was cast as Count Federico in The Masque of Mandragora but was replaced by Jon Laurimore
The Dream (UK TX: March 19)
  • Christopher Saul (Tremlett) was a Trooper in The Awakening
  • Tommy Wright (Workman) was the Guardmaster in The Creature from the Pit
  • Donald [Harold Gunn] Bisset (Mayor) was Colin McLaren in The Highlanders
  • Paul Lacoux (Stillingfleet) voiced Dr. Mathias for The Harvest (2004)
  • Arthur Howell (Instructor here; PC in Murder Most Foul; stuntman on The Mystery of the Spanish Chest) was a Confederate Horseman in The War Games  
  • Marc Boyle was stuntman on Terror of the Autons too, then Prisoner/ UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, Kronos in The Time Monster, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, and fight arranger on The Time Warrior
  • Bill Weston (stuntman here, The ABC Murders, Dead Man's Mirror) was a Militiaman in The Smugglers (4), where Hugh Fraser made his TV debut as an Extra

Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Doctor Who Vs. Strike: The Ink Black Heart

This thriller from Bronte Films
was based on the sixth crime
novel from JK Rowling, written
under the pen name Robert
Galbraith.
Plans to adapt the Cormoran
Strike books were announced
in late 2014, and Harry Potter
author Rowling acted as an
executive producer. Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger were cast
as Strike and Robin Ellacott in
2016.
The Ink Black Heart followed
adaptations of The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White and Troubled
Blood. The Running Grave,
Strike's seventh case, was
published in 2023, and book eight, The Hallmarked Man is
due next year. This four-part thriller concluded on BBC1 last night - it
featured Ruth Sheen, Tupele Dorgu, Jack Greenlees, Natasha O'Keeffe,
and twenty-one Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

  • Mirren Mack (Edie) voiced Marnie/the Serapheem for Big Finish's Girl, Deconstructed (2016)
  • David Westhead (Ledwell) was Kemper in The Shakespeare Code
  • Liza Sadovy (Mariam) was Phyllis Trap in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge
  • Emma Fielding (Katya) provided the voice of Kisar for Demons of the Punjab
  • Stephen Hagan (DCI Murphy) voiced Nathan Later for A Life of Crime (2016)
  • Ewan Bailey (De Jong) provided Alien voices for Voyage of the Damned, then voiced Count Licori for The Galileo Trap, Father Locke/ Orbs for The Satanic Mill, Various for Jago & Litefoot 10 (all 2015) and Kings of Infinite Space (2018), Davy McTavit for The Helm of Awe, Blazzard/Copeland for The Morton Legacy, Dimitri Papkin for The Ship of the Sleepwalkers, Duncan for Aliens Among Us 2 (all 2017), Sir Edward Scott Cameron/ Slitheen/Biggs for Death on the Mile (both 2018), Hugo Blake for The Sinestran Kill (2019), and Mallory/ Galavaunt/Baravoar for Past Lives (2023)
  • Joseph Mydell (Elgar) voiced Garius Moro for Memories of a Tyrant (2019)
  • Jonny Magnanti (Dad) voiced Lawrence Yeadon for Nightshade (2016)
  • Gary [Ruban] Pillai (Porter) was Albie Bethick in The Well
  • William [John] Willoughby [born Haynes] was also a stunt performer on nine episodes (from Rose to A Town Called Mercy)
  • Danny Hargreaves was also SFX (technician then) supervisor on eighty episodes (from The Girl in the Fireplace to The Doctor Falls), Class and Invasion of the Bane
  • Jateen Patel was also digital colourist on four stories (from Fugitive of the Judoon to The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
  • for Harry Barnes see Troubled Blood
  • for Nigel Squibbs see The Cuckoo's Calling

Wednesday, 27 November 2024

Doctor Who Vs. Casualty, Series 18

Series regulars Derek Thompson, Simon MacCorkindale, Ian Bleasdale,
Kwame Kwei Armah, Louise Brealey, Martina Laird, Sarah Manners, and
Matthew Walt all returned for the eighteenth season of BBC1's long-
running medical drama.
Joining the programme here were Maxwell Caulfield (Dr. Jim Brodie),
Suzanne Packer (Sister Tess Bateman), James Redmond (Nurse John
Denham), Leanne Wilson (Nurse Claire Guildford), and Rebekah Gibbs 
(Nina Farr), whilst Christopher Colquhoun, Kelly Harrison, Christine
Stephen Daly, Zita Sattar, and newcomer Holly Davidson (Tally Harper)
had all departed by the end of the series.
A repeat run (now extended to forty-six parts and originally shown
from September 2003 to August 2004) began on U& Drama today -
it featured David Troughton, and a total of fifty-two Doctor Who
cast and crew connections:

  • Sian McDowall (Sally) was Sandra in The Christmas Invasion
  • Tony Osoba (Reeves) was Lan in Destiny of the Daleks, Kracauer in Dragonfier in Dragonfire, then was Duke in Kill the Moon
  • Donald [Macleod] Douglas (Teddy) was Vural in The Sontaran Experiment
  • Sophie [Leigh] Stone (Kirsty here; Susie, 2020) was Cass in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
  • Anthony Cozens (Adams here; Faulkes, 2014) was the Concierge in The Husbands of River Song
  • Nigel Whitmey (Wilder) was [Danny] Simmons in Dalek, then voiced Robert W Paul for The Flickermen and School of Blood (both 2016), and Philips for Planet Doom (all 2024)
  • Sara Crowe (Kerry) voiced the Tombkeeper/Queen Mother for Paper Cuts (2009)
  • Big Finish actor/director Sam Clemens (Patrick) voiced Sgt. James Atherton for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009), Slade for Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (2010), Major Wyland-Jones for UNIT: Dominion (2012), Corporal Buscombe/Great Intelligence for The Web of Time, Mantus for Time War 2 (both 2019) and Time War 4 (2021), Yggra/ Tiresias/Familiars for The Planet of Witches, Hegley for Operation: Hellfire (both 2020), Sentient Storm for The First Days of Phaidon (2022), the titular role for The Yearn and Daleks Victorious, Tamber/ Solomun for The Iron Shore, and Nyder for Daleks! Genesis of Terror (all 2023)
  • Gareth David Lloyd (Kemmer) was Ianto Jones in The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, a role reprised for Big Finish's Torchwood series - he also voiced Sir Kenneth Rushworth for Saiorse of the Seven Seas (2025)
  • David Gyasi (Bryce) was Harvey in Asylum of the Daleks
  • John [Michael Frederick] Castle (Taylor) voiced Edmund Trevithick for Nightshade (2016)
  • David Gooderson (Roberts) was Davros in Destiny of the Daleks
  • Damian Lynch (Buchanan) voiced Benjamin Chikoto for Ghost in the Machine (2013), Curbishley for Masters of Earth, Michael Newman for An Ordinary Life (both 2014), Colin Marshall for Requiem for the Rocket Men, Death Match (both 2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), Scott Delaney for Damaged Goods, Ego for Planet X, Fell/Lom for The Star Men, Kieran Frost for Torchwood (2016/17), Rasmus for Deeptime Frontier (2019), Susan's War 1 and Dark Universe (both 2020), Artie Berger for Fright Motif (2021), and White Lightning/ Quave for The Tivolian Who Knew Too Much (2022)
  • David McKail (McInnes) was Sergeant Kyle in The Talons of Weng Chiang
  • Richard [George] Kane [born Wright] (Casey) was Valmar in The Power of the Daleks
  • Angus Brown (Jones) was Man in White Coat in Tardisode: Army of Ghosts
  • Norman [John] Pace (Collins) was Harvey in Survival (1)
  • Debbie Korley (Jodie) voiced Castine for Deception (2021), Alethea/ Sally for Prism (2023), and Blaxill for In Name Only (2024)
  • David Annen (DS Roper) depicted Peter Brachacki for An Adventure in Space and Time
  • [Anne] Kate Duchéne (Debbie) voiced Regina/Seraphim for The High Price of Parking (2017), and Antonia Werner for Fairytale of Salzburg (2018)
  • OT [Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun] Fagbenle (O'Brien) was Other Dave in Forest of the Dead and Silence in the Library
  • Robert Barton (Smith) was the Registrar in Father's Day
  • Susannah [Yolande] York [born Fletcher] (Helen) voiced Our Mother/ Registry/Tannoy for Valhalla (2007)
  • Clare Clifford (Pauline) was Professor Kyle in Earthshock
  • Eleanor Howell (Elaine here; Jorgie, 2016) was a voice artist on The Eternity Clock
  • Pip [Dean] Torrens (Price) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, and voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
  • Justin Salinger (Gio) was Tasker in Oxygen, then voiced Ambassador Ribble for The Poison of Peladon, the President for The Key to Key to Time, and Dr. Miory/Huntmaster for Capture the Chronovore! (all 2022)
  • Paul Courtenay Hyu (Bardley) was Haruka Deep Ando in Sleep No More, then voiced Po/Feedback for Neon Reign (2018), Wei for The People Made of Smoke (2020), and Padmasambhava for The Secrets of Det Sen (2021)
  • Julie Teal (Victoria) voiced Chancellor Vorena for Time In Office (2017), and Royal Magnificat for Emancipation (2019)
  • Surinder Duhra (Dodd) voiced Officer Omor for Jonah (2018)
  • Heather Wright (Mrs. Cale) voiced Wembik for The Judgement of Isskar (2009)
  • Cate Hamer (Carol) was the Voice for The Chaos Pool (2009)
  • Susan Kyd (Dawn) voiced Emily/Ivy Cobham for The Demons of Red Lodge, and Governor Chaplin for Doing Time (both 2010)
  • Angela McHale (Sue) voiced Kay and Christophe for An Ideal World (2018)
  • Daon Broni (Whitley here; Abbass, 2007) voiced Sergeant Al Sinclair for The Annihilators, Argatro for The Last Days of Freme, Twenty-One/State for The Love Vampires (all 2022), Mish for The Living Darkness, Madoc Howell for Catastrophix, and Derren Burrows/ Medworth for Smith and Sullivan 1 (all 2025)
  • Peter Bankolé (Barclay) voiced Issak for The Moons of Vulpana (2019), Sorn for Collateral Victim (2022), Dieter Jovanovic for Monsters in Metropolis, General Grainer for Daleks! Genesis of Terror (both 2023), and Eben Hope for Invasion of the Body Stealers (2024)
  • Maxine Evans (Mrs. Morton) voiced Renucha for Mother Tongue (2020)
  • Peter Silverleaf (Evans) was Christopher Rice in Downtime, then voiced Reginald Colville/Resurrection Joe for The Bellova Devil (2010)
  • Daniel [Matthew] Tuite (Sanderson) was the Doctor's double in Wild Blue Yonder
  • Amanda Foster was a stunt performer on The Doctor's Daughter too
  • Debbi Slater was also associate producer on Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood, follow- ing her post as production manager on Blink, Planet of the Ood, The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky, The Unicorn and the Wasp, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
  • Catherine Tregenna was writer of The Woman Who Lived too
  • James De Haviland was also second assistant director on seventy-four episodes (from Planet of the Dead to The Doctor Falls) and Torchwood
  • Mark Turner was SFX supervisor on The Long Game too
  • Warwick Drucker was also the grip on Rose and Aliens of London
  • Tom Maslen was the camera grip on The Waters of Mars too
  • Marcus Prince was also production manager on Tooth and Claw, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Idiot's Lantern, Fear Her and Torchwood
  • location manager Nick Eastwood was the set dresser on K9 and Company
  • William Oswald was also film editor on thirty-two stories (from 42 to Twice Upon a Time) and The Sarah Jane Adventures
  • Sian Prosser (script supervisor) and Dathyl Evans (production co-ordinator) both worked on Rose, Aliens of London and World War Three
  • Mike Hopkins was also the film editor on six episodes (from The Sound of Drums to The Power of Three), The Doctors Revisited, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures