Doctor Who Vs. Asylum

Shown again on the Horror channel last night, 

this British horror film (known as House of 

Crazies in America) was the  fifth anthology

feature from Amicus Productions.

Prolific award-winning author and screenwriter

Robert Bloch (Psycho) adapted four of his own short stories here (as portmanteau tales Frozen Fear, The Weird Tailor, Lucy Comes to Stay and

 Mannikins of Horror).

The feature was directed by Roy Ward Baker

(A Night to Remember, Quatermass and the 

Pit), and produced by Max Rosenberg and 

Milton Subotsky.

Released by Cinerama in 1972, the film 

featured regular Amicus lead and genre

legend Peter Cushing (as Smith), Robert Powell, Britt Ekland, Charlotte Rampling, Herbert Lom, and nine other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Richard Todd (Walter) played Sanders (pictured) in Kinda
• Sylvia Syms (Ruth) was Mrs. Pritchard in Ghost Light
• Geoffrey Bayldon (Max) was Organon in The Creature from the Pit, then later voiced Big Finish's first Unbound Doctor for both Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005)
• Sylvia Marriott (Head Nurse) was Lexa's Follower in Meglos
• John Franklyn-Robbins (Stebbins) was a Time Lord in (part 1 of) Genesis of the Daleks
• Tony Wall (Houseman) was Napoleon Bonaparte in The Reign of Terror: Prisoners of Conciergerie
• Anthony Waye (assistant director), Pamela Davies (continuity), and Gerald Larn (titles designer) all worked on Aaru's Dalek movies

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.