Doctor Who Vs. Grantchester, Series 2

ITV Studios' period drama (a

Masterpiece, Lovely Day and

Shine Group co-production)

was based on James Runcie's

The Grantchester Mysteries.

Vicar Sidney Chambers (played

by James Norton) again joined

forces with DI Geordie Keating

(Robson Green) to solve crimes

in the Cambridgeshire village

of Grantchester in the 1950s.

Morven Christie, Tess Peake-
Jones, and Al Weaver also
returned as Amanda, Sylvia,

and Leonard respectively.

The six-part season (followed by

a festive special) debuted in the

spring of 2016, then was shown on the now defunct ITV Encore channel

in March 2018 - a repeat run concluded on ITV3 last night, and featured

David Troughton, and a total of twenty-eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Big Finish actor John Voce (Clark) was Fanshawe in The Woman Who Lived, and voiced Chief Surveyor Hardwick for Last of the Colophon (2014), Branarack for The Entropy Plague, Professor Garland/Albert Kennedy for The Red Lady, Jenkins for I Went to a Marvellous Party (all 2015), Toban for The Age of Endurance (2016), and Rako for Devil in the Mist (2019)
• Lorne [Alasdair] MacFadyen (Wilkinson) voiced Sergeant Jack McManis for Dark Side of the Moon (2022), Kaiju (2025) and Shining Armour (2026), Frank Jewell for His Close Companions, Auctioneer for The Foxglove Cylinders, and Alan Stubbs for The Sitter (all 2024)
• Andrew Knott (Milburn) voiced James O'Meara for 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (2013), and Sean Casey for The White Room (2014)
• Oliver Dimsdale (Marlowe) voiced Morecombe Unwise for Come Die With Me, Mervyn Garvey for Dead to the World, Archie Ferrers for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Commander Trelon for A Thing of Guile (2016), and Rebben Tace/V52 for The Sons of Kaldor (2018)
• Alfie Field (Chapman) was Timmy in The Beast Below
• Nigel [George] Planer (Montgomery) was Vorgenson for The Monsters are Coming, and voiced Alex Marlowe for Hothouse (2009), and Old Emperor/Herrax for Empire of the Racnoss (2017)
• Nicky [Victor Leslie] Henson (Archer) voiced Pieter Stubbe for Loups-Garoux (2001), Dick Turpin for The Doomwood Curse (2008), and Gregson Gren ville for Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars (2010)
• Tim McMullan (Raban) voiced the Eight for Doom Coalition 3 (2016)
• Josh [Ryan] Bolt (Crompton) voiced Kalan for The Eternity Cage and Eye of Harmony (both 2016), Philip for Dethras (2017), and Spod for Time in a Bottle and Kings of Infinite Space (both 2018)
• Liz White (Vivian) was Alice in The Snowmen, and voiced Genestra for The Brink of Death (2015), and Helais for The Death of Peladon (2022)
• Elliot Levey (Herzl) voiced Gobernar/Blank for Vampire of the Mind (2016), and Colonel Marsden for Red Planets (2018)
• Rosie Day (Joan) voiced Arn for The Undying Truth (2020), and Betty for The Hellwood Inheritance (2025)
• Ian Conningham (Greaves) was Chuckles in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Ronson/Lieutenant for Storm of the Horofax (2017), Kevin/ Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Maximov/Konis for Nightmare Country (2019), V11/Kaden Olson for Toos and Poul (2020), Corfield/ Dr. Richard Numan for The Primeval Design, Robert Devereaux/ Lord Cecil for The Hollow Crown (both 2021), Kade for Previously, Next Time, Fridtjof Nansen for Northern Lights (both 2023), Solarie for Bad Apple Brigade, Sir Floris/Prince Edward  for The Baron Robbers (both 2024), Jerome Shaw for Fallen Heroes, and Fletcher Hart for Nightfall (both 2025) and Survivors (2026)
• Lisa Diveney (Rollinson) voiced Dr. Norma Vine for Time of the Intelligence (2017)
• Kit Connor (Charlie) was Charlie in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Olivia Darnley (Esther) was Kourtney in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, and voiced Emily Cole for Prisoner of the Ood (2018)
• Steve Toussaint (Evans) was Feekat in Ascension of the Cybermen
• Richard Dixon (Barrister) voiced DI Alan Probert for The Dreams of Avarice (2020)
• Julian Glover (Tannen) was King Richard in The Crusade, and Count [Carlos] Scarlioni/Scaroth in City of Death
• Mariah Gale (Gail here; Nurse, Series 10) was Eliza in Knock Knock
• for Pip Torrens and Fiona Button see Series 1
• David Mason was also line producer on The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon and The Angels Take Manhattan
• George Atkins (ADR mixer) and Sam Biggs (recordist) both worked on The Time of the Doctor and Flatline
• Crispin Layfield was also the stunt co-ordinator on the revived series (from Smith and Jones to the present)
• Belinda McGinley was also a stunt performer on Amy's Choice, The Girl Who Waited, Deep Breath and The Husbands of River Song
• Xavier Russell was also film editor on Extremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World

Doctor Who Vs. Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Series 2

Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Emilia Fox,

and Tom Baker all returned for the

 second, and final series of Working

Title TV's remake of ITC's late Sixties

cult crime drama. Lead writer Charlie

Higson collaborated on screenplays with

Gareth Roberts and Mark Gatiss.

The second serial featured a vocal

version of David Arnold's theme sung

by The Cardigans, and was included on

the soundtrack CD. A tie-in book and

 two novelisations were published too.

The seven-part season oiginally aired

on BBC1 in the autumn of 2001 - it

starred Derek Jacobi, Matt Lucas,

Mark Williams, and a total of twenty

six Doctor Who cast and crew links:

Whatever Possessed You? (UK TX: September 29 2001)

• Hywel [Thomas] Bennett (Whale) was Rynian in The Chase
• Big Finish actor/writer Lizzie Hopley (Ruth) voiced Gemma Griffin for Terror Firma, Various for Cyberman 1 (both 2005), Lady Lillian Hawthorne for The Veiled Leopard, Sue for Night Thoughts, Yarvell for I, Davros (all 2006), the Mantasphid Queen for The Infinite Quest, Alice Flowers for The Gunpowder Plot, Sister Christie for The Emporium at the End (both 2016), Camper for Silver Medal (2021), Hieronyma Friend for See Saw, and Mind Shield for Master! (both 2025)
• Nichola [Teresa Mary] McAuliffe (Virginia) was Vivien Rock in The Sound of Drums, then voiced Otia/Guide for Time Killers (2022)
• David [Edward] Walliams (Browning) appeared in the Doctor Who Night sketches (opposite Gatiss), then voiced Quincy Flowers/Ned Cotton for Phantasmagoria (1999), and was Gibbis in The God Complex
• Janet Henfrey (Hettie) was Miss Hardaker in The Curse of Fenric, Mrs. Pitt in Mummy on the Orient Express, and the Adjudicator in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor - she then voiced Mrs. Vanguard for The Spirit Trap (2010), Dr. Petherbridge for An Eye for Murder, Mrs. Jefferies for The Concrete Cage, Woman for The Forgotten Village (all 2014), Dorothy for The Screaming Ceiling (2019), Sister Magdalene for Abbey of Heretics (2020), Verkuvia for The Day of the Comet (2021), and Narrats for Morbius 1 (2024)
• Mona Hammond [born Mavis Chin] (Margaret) was Rita Anne in Rise of the Cybermen
• electrician Colin Price was best boy on The Day of the Doctor

Revenge of the Bog People (UK TX: October 6)

• Celia [Diana Savile] Imrie (McKern) was [Rosemary] Kizlet in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Dr. Elizabeth Bradley for The Fifth Citadel (2013), Madame Tissot for Gallery of Ghouls, Livia for Enemy Lines (both 2016), Dr. Kessica Myles for Hooklight 1 (2025), and Peg/Mrs. Peel for The Executor (2026)
• Adam [Offord] Buxton (Barry) voiced an Assembler for The One Doctor (2001)

O Happy Isle (UK TX: October 13)

• George [Morris] Baker (Pomeroy) was Decider Login in Full Circle
• John [Gibb] Sessions [born Marshall] (Fishacre) voiced General Tannis for Death Comes to Time, Mozart for My Own Private Wolfgang (2007), Roland for Castle of Fear (2009), then provided the voice of Gus for Mummy on the Orient Express
• Rupert [Nicholas] Vansittart (Babbacombe) was General R Asquith in Aliens of London and World War Three, then voiced Sepulchre/George Jeffries/Jack Kletch for Dead London (2008), Darius Horton for The House on the Edge of Chaos (2019), and Baron Rufus for The Baron Robbers (2024)
• Elji Kusuhara (Goto) was a Chinese Man in Four to Doomsday

Painkillers (UK TX: October 20)

• Dervla Kirwan (Petra) was Mercy Hartigan in The Next Doctor, then reprised Miss Quill for Big Finish's Class, and voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Yosta McCormack for Lightspeed, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Anne Marie for Interlude, Representative for Echo Chamber, Agatha Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Professor Callis for Castle Hydra, and Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020)
• Duncan Preston (Dr. Hickman) voiced the titular alien in the Doctor Who and Crayola sketch for Victoria Wood as Seen on TV
• Alibe Parsons (Receptionist) was Matrona Kani in Mindwarp, and voiced Nora for The Lost Resort (2021)
• for Tim Wallers see Series 1

Marshall and Snellgrove (UK TX: October 27)

• Shaun Parkes (Marshall) was Zachary Cross Flane in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, a role reprised for Big Finish's Empire of Shadows (2021) and Oodunnit (2023)
• Colin McFarlane (Snellgrove) provided the voice of the Heavenly Host for Voyage of the Damned, was General Austin Pierce in Torchwood: Children of Earth and The War Between the Land and the Sea, and Jonathan Moran in Under the Lake and Before the Flood, then voiced Vince Foster for Randon Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro, Narrator of The Blood Cell (all 2014) and Farewell to Peter Capaldi, the Identical Man for Charlotte Pollard 2 (2017), Captain Morski for The War Master 5 (2020), and John Sloan for The Krillitane Relic (2025)

The Glorious Butranekh (UK TX: November 3)

• Joe Montana (Butranekh) was Worker in Daleks in Manhattan
• Ben Griffiths was also an electrician on thirty-eight stories (from Daleks in Manhattan to The Wedding of River Song), Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Class

Two Can Play That Game (UK TX: November 10)

• Eleanor Bron (Mrs. Applegarth) was an Art Lover in City of Death, and Kara [Seddle] in Revelation of the Daleks, then voiced Ileana De Santos for Loups-Garoux (2001)
• Roy Hudd (Dickie Klein) voiced Max Miller for Pier Pressure (2006)
• Reece [Wayne] Shearsmith (Harry) was Andrew Powell in The Devil of Winterborne and Ghosts of Winterborne, Dr. Dan Matthews in Auton, then depicted Patrick Troughton in An Adventure in Space and Time, and was Gagan Rassmussen in Sleep No More - he also voiced Governor Robert Hodan for Sunlight and Sunset (both 2025)