Doctor Who Vs. Marple: Sleeping Murder

The Queen of Crime's final novel, first dramatised for

television by the BBC in 1987, was heavily adapted

by Stephen Churchett for this ITV version.

The mystery (subtitled Miss Marple's Last Case), 

published posthumously in 1976, was probably 

written in 1940, although Agatha Christie scholar

John Curran argued that it was completed ten years

later. His book, Murder in the Making, included the writer's final Marple story, the unpublished The

Caretaker's Wife.

Repeated on ITV3 today, the drama opened the

second run of Marple - it first aired in February

2005. Geraldine McEwan again portrayed Jane Marple, and Paul McGann was joined here by

sixteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Sarah Parish (Evie here; Flossie in The Big Four) was the Empress of the Racnoss in The Runaway Bride
• Phil Davis (Dr. Kennedy here; Tavener in Crooked House, 2008) was Lucius Petrus Dextrus in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Titus for Big Finish's The Cannibalists (2009)
• Nickolas Grace (Luff here; Underhill in The Man in the Brown Suit) made a brief TV appearance as Albert Einstein (pictured) in Death is the Only Answer, and voiced Loozly for Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (2002), Straxus for Human Resources (2007), Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008), Viktor Skaarsgard/Balancer for Equilibrium (2015), Goole for Gallery of Ghouls (2016), Professor Grove for Shadow Planet, Chevalier D'Eon for The Sword of the Chevalier (both 2017), Kellman for Return of the Cybermen (2021), Eldridge Brinkwood for The Empty Man (2023), and Secretary Pym for The Eternity Club (2024)
• Una Stubbs (Edith) voiced Flo in Horror of Glam Rock (2007)
• Sophia [Jane] Myles (Gwenda) was Reinette in The Girl in the Fireplace, and voiced Rania Chuma for Kill the Doctor and The Age of Sutekh (both 2018)
• Anna-Louise Plowman (Helen) was Diana Goddard in Dalek, and voiced Dr. Jennifer Harrison/Penelope for The Helliax Rift (2018) 
• Harriet [Mary] Walter (Duchess here; Miss Bulstrode in Cat Among the Pigeons; Joan for Absent in the Spring; Narrator in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 2024) voiced Beatrice Mapp for The Boy That Time Forgot (2008), then was Jo Patterson in Revolution of the Daleks
• Mary [Veronica] Healey (Assistant here; Beryl in One, Two Buckle my Shoe) was a Killjoy in The Happiness Patrol
• Richard Bremmer (Sims) voiced General Hemmings/Valcon/Taxi Driver for The Valley of Death (2011), and Old Beowulf for Black and White (2012)k and White (2012)
• Julian [Neil Rohan] Wadham (Halliday here; Carrington in The Plymouth Express; Champneys in The Manhood of Edward Robinson) voiced Augustus Scullop for The Fourth Wall (2012), Dr. Joseph Holman for The Darkness of Glass (2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), and Judge Perigold Trent for The Doomsday Contract (2021)
• Peter [Szymon] Serafinowicz (Fane) provided the voice of the Fisher King for Before the Flood
• Marcus Catlin was also first assistant director on The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang
• Garry Dawson worked as stand-by props on Cold War and The Crimson Horror too
• for Damian Timmer and Nigel Squibbs see The Body in the Library
• for Adam Recht see The Murder at the Vicarage

Doctor Who Vs. Manhunt, Series 2

This drama is based on the true story

of the police investigation of a series of

rapes, sexual assaults and burglaries

that took place in South East London

between 1992 and 2009.

Martin Clunes again portrayed DCI Colin

Sutton, now assigned to review Operation

Minstead - the seventeen year hunt for a

serial sex offender, dubbed the Night Stalker.

Delroy Grant (suspected of over a hundred

offences) was finally apprehended and

convicted in March 2011.

A repeat run of the thriller (originally shown

over four consecutive nights in September

2021) began on ITV3 last night - it featured eighteen Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

• Stephen Wight [born Gray] (DC Grace) voiced Unsworth for Big Finish's The Flying Dutchman (2020)
• Ian Conningham (Moore) was Chuckles in The Girl Who Died, then voiced Sinko/Ronson/Lieutenant for Storm of the Horofax (2017), Kevin/Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Konis/Maximov for Nightmare Country (2019), V11/Kaden Olson for Toos and Poul (2020), Robert Devereaux/Lord Cecil for The Hollow Crown, Dr. Richard Newman/Corfield for The Primeval Design (both 2021), Kade for Previously, Next Time, Fridtjof Nansen for Northern Lights (both 2023), and Fletcher Hart for Planet Krynoid 1 (2025)
• Matthew Gravelle (DI Eason) voiced Klinus for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro (both 2014), then provided the titular voice of Kerblam!
• Matt Bardock (Supt. Morgan) was Al in Flatline
• Diveen Henry (DC Henry) voiced Alozza for The Vault of Osiris (2015), Sarah for The Behemoth, and Sandra for A Kill to a View (both 2017)
• Beth [Jane] Goddard (DS Rook) was Sister Helena for The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, then voiced Christine Colley for The Sontaran Project (2017), Ludina Braskell for World of Damnation and Sweet Salvation (both 2018), Barton for The Moons of Vulpana, Vella for A Photograph to Remember and Rulers of Earth (all 2019), Sally/ Time Lady for Operation: Hellfire (2020), and Allerdyce Benexa/ Pangladasha for Ice Heist! (2023)
• Sule Rimi (DS Hylton) was Omo Esosa in The Story and the Engine
• John Albasiny (Forbes) voiced Guy Dean for BBV Productions' Homeland (1999), Lev Tolstoy/Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Major Maxim Felnikov for Thin Ice and Crime of the Century (both 2011), Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), Jesper for Equilibrium (2015), and Makerenkov for Last of the Romanovs (2020)
• Brian [Henry] Croucher (Royce) was Borg in The Robots of Death, and Kurt in Shakedown, then voiced Cotton for Kaldor City (2001-03)
• Nicholas Asbury (DI Adler) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Anthony Burmaster for UNIT: Assembled, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (both 2017), Captain Morgan /Visguard/SB Officer for Churchill Victorious, Dante for The Diary of River Song 4 (both 2018), Captain Zenna/Kivall for Out of Time 1, Shakespeare for The Hollow Crown, Tenebrae/Franz Albrecht Stuart for Rulers of Earth (all 2020), Commander Stevenson/ Pietersen for Return of the Cybermen, Mollis for Colony of Fear, Preacher Stem for The Melting Pot (all 2021), Dr. Sturm/German Colonel for The Nine, Hari Ventross for The Robots 5 (both 2022), and Belias/Inquisitor Robel for You Only Die Twice (2024), then was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion
• Stephen Perring (Inspector) voiced Horemshep for The Eye of the Scorpion (2001), Sebastian Grayle for Seasons of Fear (2002), Receptionist for Zagreus, Vengorr for Living Legend (both 2003), Kro'ka for The Creed of the Cromon, The Twilight Kingdom, Faith Stealer, The Last, Caerdroia and The Next Life (all 2004), and Matthias for Gallifrey (2006-13)
• Judith Roddy (Michelle) voiced Commander Lorne for The Wreck of the World (2017), and Stralla Cushing for How to Make a Killing in Time Travel (2018)
• Robert Hands (Wooller) was Algy in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, then voiced Daniel Defoe for The Eye of the Storm (2015), Solex for Legion of the Lost and A Thing of Guile, Pope Leo X for The Ravelli Conspiracy (all 2016), Major Hardy for Storm of the Horofax, and Lagrange for Fields of Terror (2017)
• Jamie Talbutt was also foley editor on eighty-two episodes (from A Christmas Carol to Revolution of the Daleks)
• Tim Hodges was film editor on Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror too
• Louise Brown was also foley artist on eight stories (from The Woman Who Fell to Earth to Ascension of the Cybermen)
• Victoria Nugent was make-up designer on Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes too
• James Scott (first assistant camera) was focus puller on sixteen episodes (from Closing Time to The Day of the Doctor)
• David J Bremner was also grip on Into the Dalek, Listen and Time Heist

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 6

The sixth season of this popular crime drama

returned to BBC1 in the autumn of 2002, and 

again starred Amanda

Burton as Home Office pathologist, Professor

Sam Ryan. She was

now joined by William Gaminara and Tom

Ward, as doctors Leo 

Dalton and Harry Cunningham.

Gaminara appeared
in over a hundred instalments until his character was killed off in the

finale of the sixteenth series, whilst Ward left the programme the year

before. A repeat run of the eight-part season began on Drama last

night - it featured a total of thirty-eight Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

The Fall Out (TX: September 28 & 29)

• Big Finish actor and director Barnaby Kay (DS Johnson) was Heidi in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Martin Donaldson for A Life in the Day (2015), Commander Thrakken for The Neverwhen (2016), Gerrard Pulman/Foreman for Prceious Annihilation (2020), and Chilton for The Devil's Hoofprints (2021)
• Paterson Joseph (DS Harding) was Rodrick in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, and voiced Victor Espinosa for Earth Aid (2011), Matthew for Torchwood One (2018), and was cast in Broken Memories (2024)
• Simon Sherlock (Barrett) voiced Kelsa for The Raincloud Man (2008)
• Shaun Dooley (Preston) was Epzo in The Ghost Monument
• Stuart Clark, Guy List, Peter Miles and Jo McLaren were also stunt performers on the revived run
• dubbing editor Tony Gibson and focus puller Peter Howard both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time, as sound designer and assistant camera respectively
• Ian Adrian was also a camera operator on The Vampires of Venice, The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, Vincent and the Doctor and The Lodger

Kith and Kill (TX: October 5 & 6)

• Roger Ennals (Technician here, Kris in Closed Ranks) was the Gorilla in The God Complex
• Joseph Long (Lucas here; Costas, 2012; Gino, 2026) was Rocco Colasanto in Turn Left, and the Pope in Extremis
• Cathy Murphy (Alsion) was a Mum in The Christmas Invasion
• Russell Tovey (Josh) was Midshipman Alonso Frame in Voyage of the Damned and The End of Time (2), then reprised for The Lives of Captain Jack (2017)
• Ben Crompton (Irons) was Ross in Into the Dalek
• Tim Delap (PC) voiced Falkus for Daleks Among Us (2013), and Kyle for The Waters of Amsterdam (2016)
• Heather Tobias (Ginette) was one of twenty-six actresses who auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976
• Tom Lucy was also a stunt co-ordinator on sixteen episodes (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor) and Torchwood
• Emma Reid was also unit manager on The End of the World and The Unquiet Dead

Tell No Tales (TX: October 19 & 20)

• Dominic Rowan (Edgely) voiced Corwyn for The Burning Prince (2012)
• Ron Donachie (DCI Telford) was a Steward in Tooth and Claw
• Benedict Cumberbatch (Reid) voiced Howard Carter for False Gods (2008)
• Sally Faulkner (Mary) was Isobel Watkins in The Invasion, and voiced Miss Tremayne for Winter for the Adept (2000)
• Mary Healey (Betty) was a Killjoy in The Happiness Patrol
• Glenn Marks was also stunt co-ordinator on Human Nature, The Family of Blood and Blink
• Nicholas Asbury (Officer) was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion, and voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Captain Anthony Burmaster for UNIT: Assembled, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (both 2017), Visguard/Captain Morgan/ Officer for Churchill Victorious, Dante for Kings of Infinite Space and Whodunnit? (all 2018), Captain Zenna/Kivall for Out of Time (2020), Mollis for Colony of Fear, Commander Stevenson/Pietersen for Return of the Cybermen, Shakespeare for The Hollow Crown, Preacher Stem for The Melting Pot (all 2021), Dr. Sturm for Shellshock, and Hari Ventross for Kaldor Nights (both 2022)
• Sara Powell (DS Linden here; Tilly in Series 21: One Day) voiced Andrea Newman for An Ordinary Life (2014), the PA for World Enough and Time (2016), Jacklyn Karna for The Dalek Occupation of Winter, Contessa for Vanguard (both 2018), Emma Fremantle for The World Traders, Andros Fax for Jenny 2 (both 2021), and Blythe for The War Master 7 (2022) - she was also Mary Seacole in War of the Sontarans
• Andrew Bone (Scientist) was Collins in Spyfall, and voiced Pan Vexel/ Nebrin for Domain of the Voord, the Vice Chancellor for The Rani Elite (both 2014), and Alfred Woodrow for The English Way of Death (2015)
• Olivia Poulet (Alice) voiced Myrren for Requiem for the Rocket Men, Pazmi for Planet of the Rani (both 2015), Carla for The Ravelli Conspiracy (2016), Chancellor Jerasta for Songs of Love (2017), and Ros Green/Jakernia for Fire and Ice (2021)
• David Schaal (Driver) voiced Inspector Zogroth and Bus Driver for The Star Beast (2019)

Closed Ranks (TX: October 26 & 27)

• Esther Hall (Pinson) voiced Virginia [Fortuna] for The Galileo Trap (2015), Tazmeena/Bauze/Mum for The Two Masters, Pheenan for Absolute Power (both 2016), and Viv/Commentator for The Iron Legion (2019)
• Lucinda Dryzek (Cassie here; Marie in Series 22: Deathmaker) was Melissa in School Reunion
• stunt co-ordinator Nick Wilkinson was a stuntman on The Next Doctor
• regular associate producer Margot Hayhoe was AFM on The War Machines, Fury from the Deep and The Ambassadors of Death, then production managr on Logopolis, Castrovalva and Snakedance
• series special make-up effects artist Paul McGuinness was Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• regular assistant art director Keith Dunne was stand-by art director on The End of Time, set director on eight other stories (from Blink to The Lodger), and also worked on Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Matthew Scrivener was assistant director on The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe too

Doctor Who Vs. Innocent, Series 1

Co-produced by TXTV and All3Media

for ITV, this crime drama mini-series

was co-written by Matthew Arlidge,

creator of the DI Helen Grace police

procedural book series.

After serving seven years in prison,

David Collins' conviction for his wife

Tara's murder is overturned. The

thriller focused on the new homicide

 investigation, whilst Collins (played

by Lee Ingleby) struggled to prove

 his innocence to his estranged

children. Series two, starring

Katherine Kelly, was shown in May

last year.

First shown over four consecutive

week-nights in May 2018, Innocent began another repeat run on

ITV3 last night - it featured thirteen Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Richard Clark was also director of Gridlock, The Lazarus Experiment, The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors
• Ingleby voiced Samson Griffin for Big Finish's Terror Firma (2005)
• Daniel Ryan [born O'Brien] (Phil) was Biff Cane in Midnight
• Hermione [Jane] Norris (Alice) was Captian Lundvik in Kill the Moon
• Adrian Rawlins (Moffatt) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood
• Angel Coulby (DI Hudson) was Katherine in The Girl in the Fireplace
• Christina Cole (Louise) was Lilith in The Shakespeare Code
• Zahra Ahmadi (DS Garcia) was Missy in Nightmare in Silver
• Tony Gardner (CS Hillman) voiced Stapleton Petherbridge for The Wrong Doctors (2013), then was Douglas in The Pyramid at the End of the World
• Nicholas Asbury (Ryland) was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion, and voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Captain Anthony Burmaster for UNIT: Assembled, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (both 2017), Visguard, Captain Morgan and Officer for Churchill Victorious, Dante for Kings of Infinite Space, Whodunnit? and Someone I Once Knew (all 2018), Captain Zenna and Kivall for Out of Time 1, Tenebrae and Franz Albrecht Stuart for Rulers of Earth (both 2020), Mollis for Colony of Fear, Pietersen and Commander Stevenson for Return of the Cybermen, William Shakespeare for The Hollow Crown, and Preacher Stem for The Melting Pot (all 2021)
• Elliot [Aidan] Cowan (Wilson) voiced Gark for The Fifth Traveller (2016)
• Justin Salinger (Journalist) was Tasker in Oxygen, then voiced Ambassador Ribble for The Poison of Peladon, the President for Doctor of War 2, and Dr. Miroy/Huntmaster (all 2022)
• Tim Faraday (Eric) was Tom's Dad in Fear Her

Doctor Who Vs. Partners in Crime

British television's second

adaptation of Agatha Christie's

classic Tommy and Tuppence

stories debuted on BBC1 in the

summer of 2015.

David Walliams and Jessica 
Raine now portrayed the
married crime fighting duo for
two adventures. Thomas and

Prudence Beresford first

appeared in the Queen of
Crime's second novel, The 
Secret Adversary, published in
1922, whilst N or M? was issued
in 1941.
This period drama series was
named after the short story
collection, released in 1929. Two further full length mysteries, By the

Pricking of My Thumbs and Postern of Fate (Christie's final work)

followed much later, in 1968 and 1973 respectively.

Raine depicted Verity Lambert in An Adventure in Space and Time,

then Emma Grayling in Hide, and Walliams was Gibbis in The God

Complex. The six-part run (later shown in America on Acorn TV in

September 2015) also featured twenty-two Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

The Secret Adversary (TX: July 26, August 2 & 9 2015)

• prolific Big Finish actor/writer [Charles] Robert [William] Whitelock (Conrad) was Mahler in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Professor Rickett/King Magus/Denyx for Psychodrome, Mulberry Gride for Jago & Litefoot & Patsy (both 2014), Sebastian/Provost Curtis for The Edge, Peter Andrews for The Hidden Realm (both 2016), Bruno Werner/Vagabond/Priest for Better Watch Out and Fairytale of Saltzburg, Artron/Cadrin for Day of the Master (2018), Garth/Thispus for One Mile Down, V12/Skellen/V48/V33 for The Robots 1 (all 2019), Stark/ Prosecutor for Barrister to the Stars, Grolk/Ogrons/Servant for Too Many Masters (both 2020), Bill Lester/Badenhorst for Return of the Cybermen, Kallure/Riggs for Twisted Folklore (both 2021), Jack/Jase Harper for Albie's Angels (2022), Stringer/Skoob for Ice Heist!, Dennis Ward/Commander for The Witching Tree (both 2023), Operator Goole for Revolution in Space, Lazar/Agent 2 for Last Words (both 2024), Typhon for Lost Amongst the Stars (2025), and Alan/ Craig for The Second Death of the Daleks (2026)
• James [Edward] Fleet (Carter) voiced O'Reilley for Max Warp (2008), Geoff Cooper for The Entropy Composition, and Martin Ashcroft and Sir Jack Merrivale for Special Features (both 2010)
• Bentley Kalu (CIA Agent) was a Hood in The Angels Take Manhattan
• Andrew Havill (Peel) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, and voiced Aleister Portillon and Squire Claude for The Witch from the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Clarke Peters (Hersheimmer) voiced Night Eagle for Dreamland
• Alice [Maud] Krige (Vandermeyer) voiced Dr. Patricia Sawyer for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), and the Queen Mum for Death and the Queen (2016)
• Richard Dillane (Bulldog) was Captain Carter in Let's Kill Hitler and The Wedding of River Song
• Samuel Oatley (McKeown) was T'zim-Sha in The Woman Who Fell to Earth and The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Madeline Appiah (Annette) voiced Sola Akinyem for Space Security Service (2025/6)
• Camilla Beeput (Jane) was cast as Nova for Ravagers (2021)
• Jamie Pearson was also film editor on The Eleventh Hour, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People
• Andy Piers Morris was safety diver on The Vampires of Venice too
• stunt co-ordinator Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos, and doubled for Peter Davison on Warriors of the Deep
• Francesco Reidy was also second assistant director on The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky

N or M? (TX: August 16, 23, 30)

• Roy Marsden (Haydock) was Mr. Stoker in Smith and Jones
• prolific Big Finish actor Susan Brown (Mrs Harrison) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Mary for 100: Bedtime Story (2007), Alice Withers for The Eternal Summer, Maud for Castle of Fear, Mrs. Withers and Mrs Sowerby for Plague of the Daleks (all 2009), Margaret for both Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars, Eleanor Harvey for Return of the Krotons, Chief Engineer and Chanel for The Song of the Megaptera, Babs for Prison in Space (all 2010), and Kastrella for Death Match (2015)
• Robert Hands (Hinton here; Myers in Witness for the Prosecution, 2024) was Algy in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, and voiced Captain Solex for The War Doctor 2, Pope Leo X for The Ravelli Conspiracy, Daniel Defoe and Barkeep for The Eye of the Storm (all 2016), Lagrange for Fields of Terror, Major Hardy and Crewman for Storm of the Horofax (both 2017)
• Trevor Cooper (Harrison) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, and voiced Stenton Rull for the Kaldor City series (2001-4), Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse, Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/ Stennan for Army of Death (2011), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Mr. Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), and Sir Joseph Eagleton/Old Smallpiece/Jonathan Mayfly for Heritage 1 (2019)
• Christina Cole (Mrs Sprot) was Lilith in The Shakespeare Code
• Tam Williams (Harrison) began his TV careeer as an uncredited Schoolboy in (part 1 of) Remembrance of the Daleks, then voiced Tom for Point of Entry (2010), Cedric Chivers for Hunters of Earth (2013), Christopher Dalliard for The Sword of the Chevalier, Gus Kalwarowksy/Dave/Martin for The New Counter Measures 2 (both 2017), and Lan Say for Dying Hours (2023) 
• Joanna Horton (Barbara) voiced Brooke for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
• Issy Van Randwyck (Mrs. Minton) voiced Giulia for A Requiem for the Doctor, Miss Quirk for Carnival of Angels (both 2018), Koreelya for The Ultimate Evil (2019), Ma Scarrity for Family Matters (2020), Jesko for The Gulf, and Grand Widow for Conspiracy in Space (both 2021)