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Monday, 5 October 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Tess of the D'Urbervilles

The BBC's second television adapt-
ation of this seminal Victorian work (serialised in 1891 and published a
year later) was first shown in the 
autumn of 2008.
Thomas Hardy's eighth novel
 focused on the tragically short life
of Wessex girl, Tess Durbeyfield,
portrayed here by Gemma
Arterton.
The first cinematic retelling of the
story (a silent movie of 1913) was 
itself based on the Broadway play
of 1897. The work was first dram-
atised in Britain by Hardy (1840-
1928) himself in 1924. Many film,
stage and TV versions followed, 
notably Roman Polanski's Tess 
(1979), and this WGBH co-prod-
uction. A repeat run of the four-part
saga began on U&Drama last night -
it featured Eddie Redmayne (as Angel), Hans Matheson (Alec), Jodie Whittaker, Ruth Jones, and these sixteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
  • Ian Puleston Davies (John) voiced Angus Selwyn for Big Finish's Absent Friends (2016)
  • Jo Woodcock (Liza Lu) voiced Ziv for Starlight Robbery (2013), Susannah Nash for Static (2017), Marie for The Iron Maid (2018), and Kayla Worthington for The Day Before They Came (2021)
  • Hugh Skinner (Felix) voiced Sebastian Vaughan for The Vigil (2019), Lord Oiliver Erpingham for The Headless Ones (2020), and Sir Lancelot for The Lone Centurion 2 (2022)
  • Christopher Fairbank (Groby) voiced Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), Professor Pierre Aronnax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), and Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018), and appeared in Flatline as Fenton
  • Rebekah Staton (Marion) was Jenny in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
  • Steven Robertson (Cuthbert) was Richard Pritchard in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
  • Kenneth Cranham (Clare) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
  • Donald Sumpter (Tringham) was Enrico Casali in The Wheel in Space, Commander Ridgeway in The Sea Devils, Erasmus Darkening in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap, and President Rassilon in Hell Bent
  • Jeany Spark (Mercy) voiced Florence Nightingale for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Jelena for Prisoner of the Sun (2010), Daisy Chapel for Operation Hellfire (2020), Ifor Tragacanth/Cham Yal for The Doomsday Contract, Gonch/Piir Mother for The Melting Pot (both 2021), and Carol Protraxus/General Polly Juno for Silver and Ice (2022)
  • Trevor Cooper (Crick) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood - he voiced Rull for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City, 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), Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), Jonathan Mayfly/Sir Joseph Eagleton for The Ghosts of Greenwich (2019), Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr. Jago (2020), Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witches (2022), and Captain Thaddeus Grey for Archipelago (2024)
  • Anna [Raymond] Massey (Mrs. D'Urberville) voiced Miss Pollard for The Girl Who Never Was (2007)
  • Ellie Darcey Alden (Modesty) was Francesca in The Snowmen
  • Sarah Counsell (Woman) was Waitress in Vincent and the Doctor
  • 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
  • Janine Wilder was also scenic artist on thirty-six stories (from The Christmas Invasion to The End of Time), Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures pilot
  • make-up assistant Vickie Lang was designer on An Adventure in Space and Time

Sunday, 20 September 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Gary Oldman as Sirius Black
"Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot
and Prongs are proud to present
the Marauder's Map"

ITV2's latest Harry Potter film season
continued today with the third part in
the saga - released in late 2004.
Michael Gambon now portrayed
Dumbledore, whilst David Thewlis,
Emma Thompson, and Timothy Spall
were introduced here as Lupin,
Trelawney, and Pettigrew respectively.
Published in 1999, JK Rowling's third
novel was adapted by Warner Bros - it
was directed by Alfonso CuarĂ³n, and
featured David Bradley, and these
fifteen Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:
  • Gambon played both Elliot and Kazran Sardick in A Christmas Carol
  • Lee [David] Ingleby (Shunpike) voiced Samson Griffin for Big Finish's Terror Firma (2005)
  • Pam Ferris (Marge) voiced Lizzie Corrigan for The Eternal Summer (2009), and Amanda Steele for Day of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
  • Lenny [George] Henry (Shrunken Head) once depicted the Doctor in his sketch show in 1985, then was Daniel Barton in Spyfall
  • Jimmy Gardner (Ernie) was Chenchu in Marco Polo, and Idmon in Underworld
  • Genevieve [Wilhemina] Gaunt (Pansy) voiced Corporal Linda Maxwell for The Helliax Rift and Warlock's Cross, Commander/Anna for Red Planets (all 2018), Lady Sicura for The House of Masks (2022), Virginia Hancock/Professor Jennifer Dalton/Hedra for The Incherton Incident (2023), Hedra for Fugitive of the Daleks, Jessica Harker for The Silent City (both 2024), Margot Pannage for The Kraken of Hagwell, and Guinevere for Knightfall (2026)
  • Spencer Wilding (Werewolf here; Knight in The Deathly Hallows) was the Creature in The God Complex, the Wooden King in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Skaldak in Cold War, and Goddess in Class
  • Ekow Quartey (Boy [Bem]) voiced Sancho Panza for The Ingenious Gentlemen (2025)
  • Rusty Goffe (Goblin here, The Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince & The Deathly Hallows) was Little John in Robot of Sherwood
  • Andy Merchant (stuntman here, The Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince & The Deathly Hallows) was stuntman on The Wedding of River Song and Into the Dalek, then stunt co-ordinator on The Pilot
  • stunt drivers Rick English and Levan Doran both worked on Tooth and Claw too
  • George Cottle was also a stuntman on Boom Town, The Runaway Bride and Smith and Jones
  • Gordon Seed was also stuntman on twenty-one stories, and the stunt co-ordinator on another thirteen (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
  • Andy Smart (stunts here & The Order of the Phoenix; Dragon Handler in The Goblet of Fire) was also stuntman on Evolution of the Daleks, Let's Kill Hitler, The Rings of Akhaten and The Zygon Inversion
  • for Harry Melling, Warwick Davis, and Adrian Rawlins see The Philosopher's Stone
  • for Mark Williams see The Chamber of Secrets

Saturday, 16 May 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Marple: The Sittaford Mystery

This period crime drama was first shown in April
2006 - it concluded ITV Studio's second season of
Miss Marple adaptations. 
Published in 1931, the original novel actually
featured Agatha Christie's other early amateur
detectives, Emily Trefusis, Charles Enderby and DI
Narracott (in their only literary outing), not Jane
Marple (played here by Geraldine McEwan). This
Golden Age mystery shares many aspects with
Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, and
was issued in America as The Murder at Hazelmoor.
Repeated on ITV3 today, the case featured Robert
Hardy, Mel Smith, Rita Tushingham, Patricia Hodge,
and fifteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
  • prolific Big Finish actor Ian Hallard (Reporter here; Drake in Hallowe'en Party; Mercutio in The Big Four) voiced Sabian for Primeval (2001), Mouse/Winkler/Heavy for Invaders from Mars, the Matrix for Neverland (both 2002), Zeuro for A Storm of Angels, Castellan Wynter for Gallifrey 2 (both 2005), Joseph Banks for The Transit of Venus, Captain Cannibal/Suit for Izzy's Story, John Polidori for Mary's Story, Chessman for Cyberman 2 (all 2009), Duncan for An Earthly Child (2010), Comtech Bron Kell for Time's Horizon, and Davent for Destroy the Infinite (both 2014) - he also depicted Richard Martin (pictured) in An Adventure in Space and Time, was Alan-a-Dale in Robot of Sherwood, and Gary Talbot in Global Conspiracy?
  • Carey [Hannah] Mulligan (Violet) was Sally Sparrow in Blink
  • Michael Brandon [born Feldman] (Zimmerman) was General Sanchez in The Stolen Earth, then voiced CP Doveday for Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (2010), and Narrator of Calamity Jenny (2021)
  • Timothy [Peter] Dalton (Trevelyan here; Archie Christie in Agatha) was Lord President Rassilon in The End of Time
  • Michael [John] Attwell (Stone) was Isbur in The Ice Warriors, and Bates in Attack of the Cybermen
  • James Wilby (Kirkwood here; Restarick in Third Girl; Farraday in Sparkling Cyanide, 2003) voiced Tenebris for The Acheron Pulse and The Shadow Heart (both 2012), and Professor John Torrance for The Sontaran Project (2018)
  • Paul Kaye (Dr. Burt) was Albar Prentis in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
  • Matthew [David] Kelly (Garfield) voiced Michelangelo for Fallen Angels (2016)
  • for writer Stephen Churchett see The Murder at the Vicarage
  • for Marcus Catlin, Garry Dawson and John Cooling see Sleeping Murder
  • for Scott Bates see 4.50 from Paddington
  • for Damien Timmer and Nigel Squibbs see The Body in the Library

Monday, 11 May 2026

Doctor Who Vs. The Ruby in the Smoke

Published in 1985, the first book
in Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart
quartet, The Ruby in the Smoke
was dramatised for BBC1 and
originally broadcast at Christmas
2006.
This period drama is notable for
marking the television debut of
Matt Smith (pictured as Jim
Taylor), and is the first portrayal
of Victorian heroine Lockhart,
by Billie Piper. The pair also
starred in the sequel, The Shadow in the North, then reunited for ITV's
Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Pullman's next two novels in the series remain
unadapted for TV. The first of The Sally Lockhart Mysteries featured Julie
Walters, and fifteen further Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
  • Big Finish actor Trevor Cooper (Higgs) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, and voiced Rull for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City, then 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), Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), Jonathan Mayfly/Sir Joseph Eagleton for The Ghosts of Greenwich (2019), Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr. Jago (2020), Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witch (2022), and Captain Thaddeus Grey for Archipelago (2024)
  • Robert Glenister (Selby) was Salateen in The Caves of Androzani, and played Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror - he also voiced Aboresh for Absolution (2007), and Eliot for Signal and I'll Come to You (2024)
  • John Joseph Feild (Garland) voiced David McCallister for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009)
  • Don [Samuel] Gilet (Hopkins) was Lance Bennett in The Runaway Bride, then voiced Streatham/Fleshkin for The Hunting Season (2022), and Herman Baker for Double (2023)
  • David [Michael] Harewood (Bedwell twins) was Joshua Naismith in The End of Time, and voiced President Vallan for Army of Death
  • Pik Sen Lim [born Lim Phaik Seng] (Sheng) was married to writer Don Houghton, and worked on his second story The Mind of Evil as Captain Chin Lee - a role reprised for Open the Box (2019) - she also voiced Dom-Ra for Neon Reign (2018)
  • Hayley [Elizabeth] Atwell (Rosa) voiced Asha for Blood of the Daleks (2007), Eleanor for The Doomwood Curse, Seska for The Whispering Forest (2010), and President Moorkurk for The Sands of Life and War Against the Laan (both 2013)
  • Julia Joyce (Young Sally) had previously doubled for Piper in Father's Day as young Rose, and was Holly Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth
  • Martin Jarvis (voice of Captain) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
  • Ramon Tikaram (Maharajah) voiced Wanchese for Voyage to the New World (2012), the Castellan for The Eleven, Marlock for Theatre of War, Colonel Vikram Shindi for UNIT: Extinction (all 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), UNIT: Encounters (2017), UNIT: Cyber Reality and UNIT: Revisitations, Colin Colchester Price for Torchwood (all 2018), and President Dunn La for The World Traders (2021)
  • Elliot [Aidan] Cowan (Van Eeden) voiced Gark for The Fifth Traveller (2016)
  • Charles Jarman was stuntman on The Lazarus Experiment too
  • Paul Bennett was also third assistant director on Blink, Turn Left and Torchwood
  • script editor Caroline Skinner was co-executive producer on the revived series (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Name of the Doctor), The Doctors Revisited and An Adventure in Space and Time
  • Cathy Cosgrove was property buyer on Delta and the Bannermen too

Saturday, 21 March 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Marple: The Body in the Library

This classic murder mystery was dramatised as the first episode of
Marple (a co-production from ITV Studios, Agatha Christie Ltd and
WGBH Boston) and debuted in
December 2004. Geraldine McEwan (1932-2015) now adopted the
 mantle of the Queen of Crime's
Jane Marple. The second television adaptation of the mystery followed
the BBC's (more faithful) three part
version of 1984.
There's a rare example of Christie
name checking herself (and peer,
Dorothy L Sayers) here, whilst another of her characters wrote
 a book entitled The Body in the
Library (Ariadne Oliver in Cards on the Table). Both the Lewis and Doctor Who and episodes (And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea and The Unicorn and
the Wasp respectively) refer to "the body in the library." Loosely based on
the writer's second Marple novel (published in 1942), the mystery was
repeated on ITV3 today - it featured Ian Richardson, Tara Fitzgerald, and
these twenty-one Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
  • Ben [Evan] Miller (Blake) was the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robot of Sherwood
  • Florence Hoath (Pamela) was Nancy in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances 
  • Joanna [Lamond] Lumley (Dolly Bantry, here & The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side; Narrator of The Agatha Christie Code) was the Doctor in The Curse of the Fatal Death
  • James [born William] Fox (Bantry here; Colonel Race in Death on the Nile, 2004) voiced Professor Chronotis for Big Finish's Shada
  • Simon [Philip Hugh] Callow (Melchett here; Dr. Lutz in The Labours of Hercules; Narrator of The Hollow, 2020) was Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead and The Wedding of River Song, then provided the voice of Tree Blathereen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift, and also voiced Don Quixote for The Ingenious Gentlemen (2025)
  • Robin Soans (Dr. Haydock) was Luvic in The Keeper of Traken, and the Chronolock Guy in Face the Raven
  • Adam [Gabriel] Garcia (Starr here; Italian in Murder on the Orient Express, 2017; Syd in Death on the Nile, 2022) was Alex Klein in The Christmas Invasion
  • David [Edward] Walliams (Bartlett here; Tommy Beresford in Partners in Crime) appeared in Doctor Who Night sketches, voiced Quincy Flowers and Ned Cotton for Phantasmagoria (1999), then was Gibbis in The God Complex 
  • Zoe Thorne (Florence) provided the voice of the Gelth in The Unquiet Dead, and the Toclafane in The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
  • Miles Richardson (Jefferson here; Myers in Witness for the Prosecution, 2021) was Captain Douglas Cavendish in Reeltime's Downtime and Daemos Rising, Draconian in Mindgame, and Soldier in White Witch of Devil's End, then voiced Black Rod for The Gunpowder Plot, Charles Darwin for Bloodtide (2001), and Irving Braxiatel from Zagreus (2003) to The Questing Beast (2024)
  • Marc Warren (Ainsworth here; Blake in Five Little Pigs) was Elton Pope in Love & Monsters
  • Greg Bennett (PC here, Ordeal by Innocence, A Pocket Full of Rye; Villager in The Blue Geranium) was Sycorax Warrior/UNIT Soldier in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
  • Sean Clayton was also second assistant director on Dalek and Father's Day
  • Francesco Reidy was also first assistant director on The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky 
  • Holly Lumsden and Kim McGarrity were also stunt performers on the revived series (the former on Rose, and the latter on five stories (from The Empty Child to New Earth)
  • Nigel Squibbs (assistant dubbing mixer) and producer Damien Timmer both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time
  • Richard Magrin was also SFX technician on twelve episodes (from The Girl in the Fireplace to Last of the Time Lords), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
  • digital compositors James D Etherington and Melissa Butler Adams both worked on the recent series (the former on Midnight, The Next Doctor, and The Big Bang, and the latter on twenty other instalments from The Christmas Invasion to Last of the Time Lords)

Saturday, 21 February 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Trial & Retribution XII

L
ynda La Plante's acclaimed crime
drama returned to ITV in January
2009 - David Hayman, Dorian
Lough, Victoria Smurfit, and Vince
Leigh reprised their respective
roles (as DCS Walker, DS Satchell,
DCI Connor, and DS Palmer).
Like La Plante's earlier hit series
Prime Suspect, the programme
employed a distinctive split screen
technique. A repeat run of the final, six-part season began on ITV3 last
night - the three cases featured a total of ten Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:
Siren
  • Gary Cady (Randall) was Luke Ward in The Mark of the Rani
  • Joseph Kennedy (Sebastian) was Will Scarlett in Robot of Sherwood
  • for Damian Bromley and Bob Shipsey see Series 11
Ghost Train
  • director Stefan Schwartz played the Knight Commander in Battlefield
  • Vince Leigh (DS Palmer) voiced Matrix Keeper/Computer for Songs of Love, Volstrom for The Side of the Angels (both 2017), and Kazan for The Split Infinitive (2019)
  • Helen Steinway Bailey (Vicky) was stunt performer on Amy's Choice
Shooter
  • Jaimi Barbakoff (Zoe) voiced Councillor Geflo for The Foe from the Future, and Lt. Dervish for The Shadow Heart (both 2012)
  • sound mixer John Taylor was boom operator on The Five Doctors

Saturday, 3 January 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie's fifteenth crime
novel was published in the UK in
1934, then issued in America a
year later as The Boomerang
Clue. The story was first drama-
tised by LWT in 1980, and co-
starred Joan Hickson before she
began her own definitive port-
rayal of Jane Marple for BBC1.
ITV Studios' version debuted on
PBS in July 2009, then only aired
in the UK two years later.
Written and directed by Hugh Laurie, this period drama (a Mammoth Screen co-production) debuted on Britbox in April 2022, and was shown on ITV1 a year later. All
three episodes were repeated on ITV3 today, and featured Will Poulter,
Lucy Boynton, Emma Thompson, Tim Treloar, and thirteen Doctor Who
cast and crew connections:
  • Jim Broadbent (Marcham) depicted the Doctor in Doctor Who and Crayola (a sketch for Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV in 1987) then for Comic Relief's The Curse of Fatal Death
  • Alistair Petrie (Rev. Jones here; Campbell in Agatha and the Midnight Murders) voiced Major Harris/German Lieutenant for Criss-Cross (2015), Julius Caesar for Living History (2016), John for Dethras, Richard Tipple for The Outliers (both 2017), Wallace Richards for Ghost Machines (2019), Magnus Drake for Master! 1 (2021), the Count for The Edge of the War, and Albion Groves for The Silent Priest (both 2023)
  • Miles Jupp (Bassington-ffrench) voiced Dominic for Power Play (2012), and Inquisitor Xavier for The Revolution (2014)
  • Martyn Ellis (Albert) was Glune Fex Fize Sharlaveer Slam Slitheen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen, then voiced the Rotter/Delius for Last of the Zetacene (2022)
  • Nicholas Asbury (Angel) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Anthony Burmaster for Call to Arms and Tidal Wave, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (all 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 Shellshock, Hari Ventross for Kaldor Nights (both 2022), Belias for Never the End Is, and Inquisitor Robel for You Only Die Twice (both 2024), then was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion
  • Richard Dixon (Cayman here; Rowlandson in A Murder is Announced, 2005; Henden in Dead Man's Folly) voiced DI Alan Probert for The Dreams of Avarice (2020)
  • Christian Patterson (Ellis) voiced Captain Dickson/Corporal Bouvier for The Curse of Davros (2012)
  • Maxine Evans (Mrs. Bowden here; Mrs. Buckle in Elephants Can Remember) voiced Renucha for Mother Tongue (2020), then was Lowri Palin in 73 Yards
  • Trevor Cooper (Coroner here; Opalsen in The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan; Harrison in N or M?; Spymaster in Crooked House) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, then voiced Rull for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City, 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), Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), Sir Joseph Eagleton/Jonathan Mayfly for The Ghosts of Greenwich (2019), Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr. Jago (2020), Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witches (2022), and Captain Thaddeus Grey for Archipelago (2024)
  • Robert Edwards was also ADR mixer on seven stories (from Hide to Survivors of the Flux) and Space/Time
  • Liz Pearson was post-production supervisor (here & Murder on the Orient Express, 2001) on An Adventure in Space and Time too
  • Peter Lowden (focus puller) was camera assistant on The Time of the Doctor
  • Kellyanne Walker (graphic designer) was an illustrator on Human Nature and The Family of Blood

Friday, 26 December 2025

Doctor Who Vs. Paddington 2

Michael Bond (1926-2017) based his
best known creation on a lone teddy
bear he saw in a shop near London's
Paddington Station. The toy inspired the writer to pen A Bear Called Paddington,
published in 1958. The series of seventy
Paddington Brown titles followed, and
have since been adapted for television
(1975/1989/1997), the stage (1974),
and cinema.
This sequel to Paddington (released in
late 2017) was shown on BBC3 tonight
- it featured Ben Wishaw (as the voice
of the titular bear), Hugh Bonneville,
Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Peter
Capaldi, Hugh Grant, Tom Conti,
Brendan Gleeson, and twenty-one
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

  • for Bonneville, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon, Gus Brown, Cathy Cosgrove and Chris Lyons
  • Grant (Buchanan), Joanna Lumley (Felicity) and Jim Broadbent all starred in The Curse of Fatal Death
  • [Tallulah] Jessica [Elina] Hynes [nee Stevenson] (Miss Kitts) was Joan Redfern in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then [that character's great-grand daughter] Verity Newman in The End of Time, Part 2 - she also voiced Glory Bee for Big Finish's Invaders from Mars (2002)
  • Sanjeev Bhaskar (Dr. Jafri) was Colonel Ahmed in Death in Heaven, and voiced Dr. Avishka Sangakkara for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (both 2009), and Borusa for The Difference Office (2022)
  • Ben [Evan] Miller (Colonel) was the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robot of Sherwood
  • Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (CEO) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the titular role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
  • Enzo Squillino Jr. (Giuseppe) voiced Aldo Deluca for The Gift, Juan Romero for Fiesta for the Damned (both 2016), and Chant for The Power of River Song (2019)
  • Meera [born Feroza] Syal (Prosecutor) was Dr. Nasreen Choudhry in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, was Narrator of BBC Audio's The Gemini Contagion (2011) and Borrowed Time (2012), then voiced Arla Decanto for The Truth of Peladon (2022)
  • Aaron Neil (Spoon) was Dunlop in The Magician's Apprentice, Varun Singh in Class, then voiced Tir Ram for All-Consuming Fire, Sanukuma Master for The Rulers of the Universe, Priest for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Aramatz for The Very Dark Thing, Stephano/Klossi/Setebos/ Trink for Maker of Demons, David for UNIT: Silenced, Steven Godbold for Five Twenty-Nine, Computer for World Enough and Time (all 2016), and Gobran for The Poison of Peladon (2022)
  • Nadine [Panchita] Marshall (Ms. Peters) voiced Shepstay for Earth Aid (2011), Katrice for You are the Doctor, and Kordel for The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (both 2015)
  • Joel Fry (Postman here & Paddington in Peru) voiced Kinvar/Rogers for Quicksilver (2016), and Justin for No Place (2019), then was Trev Simpkins in Joy to the World
  • David Sant (Steward) was an Auton in Rose
  • Maggie Steed [born Baker] (Gertrude) voiced Madamme Rana Zandusia for Mission to Magnus (2009)
  • Alex Jordan (Visby) voiced Rank Van Magnastein for The Revolution, Mandeville/Chief/Acolyte for The Library in the Body (both 2014), Heathcote for An Ideal World (2018), Domdaniel Computer for The Scaramancer, Bandit for The Cognition Shift (both 2020), Sergeant Jean Paul Savarin for Seabird One, Visitants and Fractures (all 2022), Various for The Last Day, and Louis Marchand/Napoleon for Time Schisms! (both 2023)