Doctor Who Vs. Wycliffe, Series 5

Jack Shepherd returned as WJ Burley's Cornish

detective for the fifth and final season of HTV's

popular crime drama, originally shown in the

spring of 1998. Shepherd also directed two

episodes, and was again joined by Jimmy Yuill,

Helen Masters, Tim Wylton, Michael Attwell,

Lynne Farleigh, and Charlie Hayes.

A repeat run of the six-part series began on

ITV3 last night - it featured a total of twenty-

six Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

On Offer (UK TX: May 17)

• Sally Faulkner (Sian) was Isobel Watkins (pictured left) in The Invasion, then voiced Miss Tremayne for Big Finish's Winter for the Adept (2000)
• John Abbott (Farthing) was Vince Hawkins in Horror of Fang Rock
• Glenn Marks (Oaksey) was the stunt co-ordinator on Human Nature, The Family of Blood and Blink
• John Joyce (Hardie) was Garvin in The Daemons
• third assistant director Steffan Morris was second assistant on thirty-four episodes (from Rose to Let's Kill Hitler) and Torchwood, prod- uction manager (PM) on twenty-four stories (from Planet of the Dead to Heaven Sent), then line producer on another thirty-seven (from The Husbands of River Song to The Power of the Doctor)
• for Elaine Matthews and Steve Slocombe see Series 1, for Barbara Southcott see Series 2 and for Pam Mullins and Mark Turner see Series 3

Time Out (UK TX: May 24)

• Gerard [James Pertwee] Horan (DS Caplin) was Clark/Father of Mine in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
• Johnn Flanagan (Lassiter) was co-writer of Meglos

Standing Stone (UK TX: May 31)

• Ralph Watson (Combes) was the Overseer in The Underwater Menace, Captain [Ben] Knight in The Web of Fear (a role reprised in 2019 for Big Finish's The Web of Time), Ettis in The Monster of Peladon, and Ben Travers in Horror of Fang Rock
• Helen Griffin (Jenny) was Angela Price in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, then voiced Director Cardell for Cobwebs (2010)
• Lucy [Anne] Cohu (Sophie) was Alice Carter in Torchwood: Children of Earth
• for Michael Attwell see Series 4

Feeding the Rat (UK TX: June 7)

• Chris Jury (Penwarren) was Deadbeat in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - a role reprised for The Psychic Circus (2020) and AUK Studios' Children of the Circus (2023)
• for Alan Wareing see Series 4

Scope (UK TX: June 21)

• Donald [Ellis] Pickering (Cook) was Eyesen in The Keys of Marinus, Captain Blade in The Faceless Ones, and Beyus in Time and the Rani
• PM Gareth Skelding was location manager on forty-four episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The Big Bang)

Land's End (UK TX: July 5)

• Brian [Henry] Croucher (DS Healey) was Borg in The Robots of Death, and Kurt in Reeltime Picture's Shakedown, then voiced Cotton for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City
• John [Michael Frederick] Castle (Selby) voiced Edmund Trevithick for Nightshade (2016)
• Albert Welling (Technician) was the Fuhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
• Ann Beach (Mrs. Wimble) voiced the Deacon for Night Thoughts (2006)
• for Kevin Clarke see Series 4 and for Steve Slocombe see Series 1

Doctor Who Vs. Edge of Darkness

Forty years ago this month, during

the peak of Cold War paranoia,

BBC1 viewers tuned into another

apparent crime series. But this

British political drama from Troy

Kennedy Martin was game-

changing television - no one had

seen TV like this before. A Holly-

wood version followed in 2010.

A rare repeat showing of the six-

part thriller (a BBC co-production

with Lionheart TV) concluded on

BBC4 last night - it featured Bob Peck (winner of the Best Actor

BAFTA for his role here as

Craven), Joanne Whalley, Joe Don Baker, and these eighteen Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Charles Kay [born Piff] (Pendleton) was Julius Quilter in BBV Prod- uctions' Unnatural Selection (1996), then voiced the Curator for Big Finish's Excelis Rising (2002)
• Ian McNeice (Harcourt) portrayed Winston Churchill in The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens, The Wedding of River Song - a role reprised for Big Finish's The Churchill Years, Their Finest Hour (2018), Subterfuge and Operation: Hellfire (both 2020), and voiced Zeus for Immortal Beloved (2007), and Reginald Harcourt for Renaissance Man (2012)
• Hugh Fraser (Bennett) was an Extra in The Smugglers, then voiced Zero for Spring (2007), Dr. Honri Kerrem for The Cradle of the Snake (2010), Tallister for War Against the Laan (2013), Edwin Tremayne for Moonflesh (2014), Dr. Schwartzmann/Rider for Criss-Cross, Sherringford Holmes for All-Consuming Fire (both 2015), Charles Kirkland for The Trouble with Drax (2016), Second Elder for Sphere of Influence (2020), and Castringham for The Empire Man (2022) and Rictus (2025)
• John Woodvine (Ross) was the Marshal in The Armageddon Factor, and voiced Galileo Galilei for The Galileo Trap and The Satanic Mill (both 2015)
• Zoe Wanamaker (Clemmy), Struan Rodger (Mac) and Michael Fitzgerald (John) all appeared in New Earth - as Lady Cassandra (reprised from The End of the World), the voice of the Face of Boe (here and Gridlock) and the Duke of Manhattan - Rodger was also Clayton in The Woman Who Lived, then voiced the Kasaavin in Syfall
• Sean [born James] Caffrey (McCroon) was Lord Palmerdale in Horror of Fang Rock
• Tim McInnerny (Shields) was Klineman Halpen in Planet of the Ood, and voiced Admiral Dolne for The Well-Mannered War (2015), and the eponymous role for Puccini and the Doctor (2024)
• Patrick [Lindesay Archibald] Godfrey (Oakley) was Tor in The Savages, and Major Cosworth in The Mind of Evil
• Brian [Henry] Croucher (Connors) was Borg in The Robots of Death, and Kurt in Shakedown, then voiced Cotton for Kaldor City (2001-03)
• [Harold] Neville Barber (Presenter) was Dr. [Humphrey] Cook in The Time Monsters
• [Henry] Kristopher Kum (Doctor) was Fu Peng in The Mind of Evil
• Harry Fielder (Policeman) was Guard (PP, ZZZ, 4L, 4P, 5A, 5F, 5Z), Crewman (SS, 4T), Vogan (4D), Assassin (4Q), Tigellan (5Q), and Krarg in Shada
• BBC newsreader Kenneth Kendall had a cameo in (episode 4 of) The War Machines too
• Mat Irvine was also VFX assistant on The Curse of Peladon (1) and Planet of the Spiders (1), then VFX designer on The Face of Evil, The Invisible Enemy (1), The Stones of Blood, The Creature from the Pit, Warriors' Gate, Warriors of the Deep and K9 and Company
• Graham Brown was also a SFX assistant on Resurrection of the Daleks and Attack of the Cybermen, uncredited VFX assistant on Full Circle (4), The Five Doctors, The Caves of Androzani (4) and Revelation of the Daleks (2), then VFX designer on The Curse of Fenric
• Tony [Jon] Auger was also VFX designer on Black Orchid and K9 and Company

Doctor Who Vs. The New Avengers, Series 1 [Part 2]

In 1969, Dennis Spooner (1932

-1986) said that The Avengers had

gone as far as it could in terms of

parody.

Producer Brian Clemens therefore

aimed for espionage-based narr-

atives for the sequel series - the

 first, thirteen-part season also

included sci-fi themes.

The titular Avengers were now a

triumvirate, but John Steed (again

portrayed by Patrick Macnee) now

acted more like the Mother figure

from the parent show.

A repeat run of the cult drama

continued on Great! TV! last night

- these seven episodes featured a

total of thirty-seven Doctor Who

cast connections:

To Catch A Rat

(UK TX: December 3 1976)

• Barry Jackson (Cledge) was Ascaris in The Romans, Jeff Garvey in Mission to the Unknown, and Drax in The Armageddon Factor
• [Norman] Dallas Cavell (Farmer here; Manager in The Avengers: Box of Tricks) was the Overseer in (episode 2 of) The Reign of Terror, Bors in The Dalek' Master Plan (3), Jebb Trask in The Highlanders, Sir James Quinlan in The Ambassadors of Death, and Head of Security in Castrovalva (1)
• Anita Graham (Helga) was Bollitt in Delta and the Bannermen

The Tale of the Big Why (UK TX: December 10)

• Derek Waring [born Barton Chapple] (Harmer) was Shardovan in Castrovalva
• George [Alphonsus] Cooper (Brandon here; Barker in White Dwarf; Burgess in The Curious Case of the Countless Clues) was Cherub in The Smugglers
• Roy [Anthony] Marsden [born Mould] (Turner) was Dr. [Bryan] Stoker in Smith and Jones, and voiced Todd Hulbert for Big Finish's Human Resources (2007)
• Geoffrey Toone (Minister) was Temmosus in Dr. Who and the Daleks, and Hepesh in The Curse of Peladon
• Willy Bowman (Verslashky) was an Extra in The Silurians (6), and Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin

Faces (UK TX: December 17)

• [Rafael] David de Keyser (Prater) provided the Atraxi voice in The Eleventh Hour, and voiced the Cybermen for The Eternity Clock
• Richard [Leeper] Leech [born McClelland] (Terrison here; Franks in Traitor in Zebra; Policeman in Dressed to Kil; Drew in Mission Highly Improbable) was Gatherer Hade in The Sun Makers
• Neil Hallett [born John Neil] (Clifford here; Roberts in Medium Rare; Weber in Dead of Winter; Packer in The Winged Avenger; Ryder in Get-a-Way!) was Maylin Renis in Timelash
• Donald [Marland] Hewlett (Torrance here; Waversham in The Thirteenth Hole) was George Hardiman in The Claws of Axos
• Michael [Lawson] Sheard [born Perkins] (Peters) was Rhos in The Ark (2), Dr. Roland Summers in The Mind of Evil, Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars, Lowe in The Invisible Enemy, Mergrave in Castrovalva, the Headmaster [Harvey Parson] in Remembrance of the Daleks, then voiced Orsino for The Stones of Venice (2001)
• David Webb (Bilston here; Pheeney in The Springers) was Alec Leeson in Colony in Space (1)

Dirtier by the Dozen (UK TX: January 7 1977)

• John [Michael Frederick] Castle (Miller) voiced Edmund Trevithick for Nightshade (2016)
• Stephen [Vincent] Moore (Prentice) was Eldane in Cold Blood, and voiced Clark Goodman for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (2009)
• Michael [John] Barrington (Stevens here; Waiter in The Yellow Needle; Todhunter in Dial a Deadly Number) and John [Spurley] Challis (Soldier) both appeared in The Seeds of Doom, as Sir Colin Thackeray and Scorby respectively
• Brian [Henry] Croucher (Terry) was Borg in The Robots of Death, and Kurt in Shakedown, then voiced Cotton for Kaldor City (2001-03)
• David [Lawrence] Purcell (Orderly) was Abbott in The Hand of Fear
• Richard Derrington (Turner) voiced Dr. Farrer for The Harvest, Landscar for The Last (both 2004), and Commander Burton for Storm of the Horofax (2017)

Sleeper (UK TX: January 14)

• Mark Jones (Chuck) was Arnold Keeler in The Seeds of Doom
• [Walter] Prentis Hancock (Bart) was a Reporter [Jimmy] in Spearhead from Space, Vaber in Planet of the Daleks, Salamar in Planet of Evil, and the Captain in The Ribos Operation
• David Schofield (Penrose) was Odin in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Billy for Death in Blackpool (2009), Nostradamus/Conclave Leader for The Doomsday Quatrain (2011), Narrator of The House of Winter (2015), Parval for The Sorcerer of Albion (2020), and Gostak for The End of the Beginning (2021)
• Walter Henry [born Israel Nagelkop] (Officer here; Guard in Obsession) was an Extra in The Myth Makers (2), The Highlanders, The Macra Terror, The Silurians (6), The Masque of Mandragora, The Deadly Assassin and City of Death, and Primord in Inferno
• Reg Woods (Gang member here; Soldier in Dirtier by the Dozen; Wigmore in Medium Rare; Journalist in The Lion and the Unicorn) was an Extra in The Androids of Tara, The Creature from the Pit, The Leisure Hive, State of Decay (1), Black Orchid, Time Flight and Enlightenment, and Krarg in Shada
• Jim [Derek Christopher] Dowdall (Gang member) had uncredited roles in Day of the Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks and Frontios
• Tex Fuller [born Albert Charles Baseley] (Motorist here; Taylor in Toy Trap) was an uncredited Exxilon Messenger in Death to the Daleks (3)
• Maxwell Craig (Gang member here; Guard in Trap; Wilson in Murdersville; Thug in Homicide and Old Lace) was Fighter in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD

Three Handed Game (UK TX: January 21)

• Stephen [John] Greif (Juventor) voiced Kwundaar for Primeval (2001), Donald Wakefield for Sarah Jane Smith 2 (2006), Ken Temple for The Pelage Project (2012), Sabaoth for Ghost Walk (2018), and Gurney for The Infinite Quest
• Annie Lambert [born Hole] (Helen) was Enlightenment in Four to Doomsday
• Hugh Morton [Eden] (Professor here; Admiral in Esprit De Corps) and Ronald Leigh-Hunt (General here; Reddington in Dragonsfield; Lambert in The Cybernauts) both appeared in The Seeds of Death, as Sir James Gregson and Radnor - the latter was also Commander Stevenson in Revenge of the Cybermen

Gnaws (UK TX: January 28)

• Julian [Robert Stanley] Holloway (Thornton) was Paterson in Survival
• Peter [Francois] Cellier (Carter) was Andrews in Time Flight
• Jeremy Young (Chislenko here; Frant in A Touch of Brimstone; Penrose in Never, Never Say Die; Burton in The Forget-Me-Knot) was Kal in 100,000 BC, and Gordon Lowery in Mission to the Unknown
• Keith Marsh (Tramp) was Conway in the second Dalek film
• William Morgan Sheppard (Walters) was the Older Canton in The Impossible Astronaut

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. Quatermass IV

Mills (1908-2005)
succeeded Reginald
Tate, Brian Donlevy,
John Robinson, André
Morell and Andrew
Keir in the seminal
role

After an absence of twenty years, Professor
Bernard Quatermass (now portrayed by Sir
John Mills) returned to British television in
late 1979. Plans for a fourth Quatermass
thriller were first proposed when BBC2
launched the Out of the Unknown sci-fi
anthology strand in 1965. Then, following
 the success of Hammer's film version of
Quatermass and the Pit in 1967, the studio
announced it was in talks with series creator
Nigel Kneale. A new BBC serial was finally
 commissioned in 1972, but was abandoned
due to mounting production costs. Four years
later, Euston Films acquired the unmade
scripts, and the new drama was eventually
shown episodically on ITV, then as a TV movie
(entitled The Quatermass Conclusion) outside
the UK.
Another repeat run of Thames TV's four-part
sequel (produced by Verity Lambert) con-
cluded on the Talking Pictures TV channel

last night - it featured Simon MacCorkindale,

Barbara Kellerman, and seventeen Doctor

Who cast connections:

• Ralph Arliss [born James] (Kickalong) was Tuar in Planet of the Spiders
• Tony [Dominic] Sibbald (Marshall) was Huckle in Terror of the Zygons
• [William Reginald] Bruce Purchase (Roach) was the Captain in The Pirate Planet
• Neil [Edwin] Stacy (Gough) voiced Major Haggard for Big Finish's Tje Emerald Tiger (2012)
• David [Nicholas] Yip (Chen) was Veldan in Destiny of the Daleks, then voiced Curly and Inspector Yew for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Hector for Evolution (2013)
• Donald [Yarrow] Eccles (Chisholm) was Krasis in The Time Monster
• [Thomas] Kevin [Harvest] Stoney (PM) was Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion, and Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen
• David Ashford (Hatherley) was Dad in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Brian [Henry] Croucher (Officer) was Borg in The Robots of Death, and Kurt in Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
• Stewart Harwood (Driver) made his TV debut as an [uncredited] Daffodil Man in (episode 3 of) Terror of the Autons
• [Thomas] Declan Mulholland (Guard) was Clark in The Sea Devils, and Till in The Androids of Tara
• Trevor Lawrence (Catskin) was Lodge in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1)
• Walter Henry [born Israel W Nagelkop] (Soldier) was an Extra in The Myth Makers (2) and The Siluruans (6), Primord in Inferno, and Brother in The Masque of Mandragora
• Christopher [Denis] Driscoll (Mugger) was the Security Guard in The Idiot's Lantern
• John [Kenneth] Tatham (Soldier) was Villager/Coven member in The Daemons
• [Frederick] Alan Meacham (Driver) and Fred Wood (Passenger) were Extras on Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD