Doctor Who Vs. Centurion

Pathé's historical action film, written and
directed by Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers),
was loosely based on the legend of the
massacre of the Roman Ninth Legion in
Caledonia (ancient Scotland) in the early
second century AD. 

The story was popularised in the 1954 

children's novel, The Eagle of the Ninth,

adapted as The Eagle in 2011. The cast was

led by Michael Fassbender and Dominic West

as the titular Centurion, Quintus Dias and

General Titus Flavius Virilus.

Released in 2010 by Warner Bros. the film
 was screened on Legend Extra last night,

and featured Noel Clarke, and twenty-two

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• David [Mark] Morrissey (Bothos) was Jackson Lake in The Next Doctor
• Liam Cunningham (Brick) was Captain Zhukov in Cold War
• Lee Ross (Septus) was the Boatswain in The Curse of the Black Spot
• JJ [John Joseph] Field (Thax) voiced David McCallister for Big Finish's Blue Forgotten Planet (2009)
• Rachael [Atlanta] Stirling (Druzilla) was Ada Gillyflower in The Crimson Horror, and voiced Demesne Furze for Trail of the White Worm (2012), Adelaine Dutemps for The Monster of Montmartre (2015) and Jill Meadows for Technophobia (2016)
• Dimitri Leonidas (Leonidas) was Howie Spragg in The God Complex
• Paul [born Peter John] Freeman (Agricola) voiced Jalnik for The Foe from the Future (2012)
• Peter Guinness (Cassius) voiced Mr. Dread for Dreamland, Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Baron Teufel/Zoff for The Beast of Orlok (2009), Rovus for The Star Men (2017), and Garzan for The Dying Breed (2025)
• Simon Chadwick (Messenger) was Cal Kilburne in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Enemy of the Bane
• Michael Carter (Antoninus) began his acting career as Prisoner/UNIT Soldier in The Mind of Evil
• Greg Bennett (Centurion) was Sycorax Warrior/UNIT Soldier in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
• Sharon Colley was a make-up artist on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• make-up assistant Vivienne Simpson was make-up artist on twenty-eight adventures (from A Christmas Carol to The Name of the Doctor)
• Jim McCallum (dressing props) was stand-by art director on The Day of the Doctor
• ADR recordist Simon Diggins was ADR mixer on fifteen stories (from the 50th anniversary special to The Husbands of River Song)
• David Forman was also stuntman on Tooth and Claw, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Idiot's Lantern, Fear Her and The Runaway Bride
• stunt double Jamie Edgell was stuntman on The End of the World, then stunt co-ordinator on Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
• stunt co-ordinator Paul Herbert was stuntman on The End of Time
• George Cottle was also stuntman on Boom Town, The Runaway Bride and Smith and Jones 
• Rob Cooper and Rick Englsih were stunt performers on Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and Tooth and Claw respectively
• stuntman Gordon Seed was stunt co-ordinator on thirty-six episodes (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon
• Paul Kennington was also a stuntman on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and The Doctor's Daughter

Doctor Who Vs. Sea of Souls, Series 2

The second run of this BAFTA

winning supernatural drama also

 won the Best TV Teleplay gong

for Ed Whitmore, the writer of

Amulet, at the Edgar Allan Poe

awards.

Bill Paterson reprised the role of

Dr. Monaghan, and was now

joined at Clyde University's parapsychology department by

Justine McManus and Craig

Stevenson, played by Dawn

Steele and Iain Robertson.
The six-part season returned to BBC1 in the winter of 2005 - it

featured a total of nineteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Amulet (UK TX: January 8 & 9)

• BAFTA Scotland nominee Michelle Duncan (Claire) was Lady Isobel MacLeish in Tooth and Claw
• Big Finish actor Amanda Symonds (Lilian) voiced Lily Finnegan for Afterlife, Erica MacMillan for Night of the Stormcrow, Bridget for The Fifth Citadel, Nurse for Sins of the Fathers (all 2013), One for The Abandoned, Shafira for Revenge of the Swarm, Mrs. Targate for The Ghosts of Gralstead (all 2014), Alitha for The Lost Fairy Tale, Jill Sveinsdottir for Repeat Offender (both 2016), Captain for Relative Time, Maude for The Web of Time (both 2019), Mary Seacole for The Charge of the Night Brigade (2020), Vengis for The Day of the Comet, Mary Claypole/Time Lord Emissary for The God of Phantoms (both 2021), Sky Bennett for The Rotting Deep, Patricia Lockwood for The Inheritance and Spirit of the Season (all 2022), Gina's mum for Vampire Weekend, and Briany Betty for The Last Days of the Powell Estate (both 2025)
• [Peter] Nigel Terry (Holloway) was General Cobb in The Doctor's Daughter
• James [Edward] Fleet (Morrison) 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)
• Kim McGarrity was also a stunt performer on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and The Day of the Doctor
• new series producer Stephen Garwood had been an Assistant Floor Manager (AFM) on Ghost Light
• series composer Edmund Butt and music engineer Toby Wood both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Pam Mullins was also a make-up artist on fifty-six instalments of the revived series (from The Runaway Bride to The Wedding of River Song)
• series make-up designer Barbara Southcott held that post on Time Crash, Music of the Spheres, and seventy-three adventures, from the 2006 Christmas special to The Name of the Doctor
• electrician Scott Napier was the gaffer on 50th anniversary special

Omen (UK TX: January 15 & 16)

• Barbara [Jay] Flynn [born McMurray] (Summers) was Tecteun in Once, Upon Time and Survivors of the Flux, and voiced Sister Chalice for The Skull of Sobek (2008), Anne Hartman for The Rockery (2019), and Professor Vansom for Secrets of Telos (2022)
• David Gyasi (Hegarty) was Harvey in Asylum of the Daleks
• Mark Springer (Paramedic) was Christian in The Time of Angels
• Graham [Reginald] Frake was also cinematographer on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks
• Jonathan Farmer was the first assistant director on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too

Empty Promise (UK TX: January 22 & 23)

• Peter Guinness (Dr. Duncan here & Series 3: Rebound) voiced Mr. Dread for Dreamland, Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Baron Teufel for The Beast of Orlok (2009), Rovus for The Star Men (2017), and Garzan for The Dying Breed (2025)
• Colin [Roy] Salmon (Locke) was Dr. Moon in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, and voiced Trooper Salway for Wirrn Dawn (2009)
• script supervisor Sheila Johnston worked on continuity for Voyage of the Damned, Partners in Crime, The Fires of Pompeii, Planet of the Ood and The Unicorn and the Wasp