Doctor Who Vs. James Bond, Part 23: Skyfall

The twenty-third instalment in the iconic

franchise, the third to star Daniel Craig as

 the British spy, was released by Eon Prod-

uctions in late 2012 and marked the fiftieth

anniversary of cinematic Bond. Skyfall proved

to be the most successful entry in the entire

run, in terms of box office earnings and

accolades - two Oscars (including the theme

song by Adele), two Grammy Awards, and

two BAFTAs. 

The film title was taken from the name of the

Bond family ancestral home at Glencoe in the

Scottish Highlands, and the setting of the

story's climax which saw the death of M,

portrayed by Judi Dench since Goldeneye.

This assignment introduced Ralph Fiennes

as Mallory, Ben Wishaw (the fourth actor to

 depict Q), and Naomie Harris (Eve Moneypenny). Location filming was undertaken in many parts of London, Turkey, and China, with interiors

filmed at Pinewood studios' custom-built 007 Stage.

Shown on ITV1 last night, the film also featured Javier Bardem, Albert

Finney, and twenty-two Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• for Rory Kinnear (Tanner) see Quantum of Solace
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (Dr. Hall) voiced the Clocksmith for Big Finish's Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the titular role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Helen [Elizabeth] McCrory (Dowar) was Rosana Calvierri in The Vampires of Venice
• Eliza du Toit (Vanessa) was Miss Dexter [the Sinister Woman] in 42 and The Sound of Drums
• Harry Kershaw (Q's Assistant) voiced Narthex for The Abyss (2022)
• Jim Conway (Guard) was Uncle Josh in The Snowmen, Peter Thomson in White Witch of Devil's End, and Monk in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
• Selva Rasalingam and Daniel Adegboyega (Mercenaries) were Ranjit in The Power of Three, and Aaron in Resolution
• Nicholas Goh (Crewman) voiced Li H'Sen Chang/Mr. Sin for The Talents of Greel (2019)
• Beatrice Curnew (Inquiry Member) was the Group Commander in The Lie of the Land
• Shaun Lucas (Tourist here; Businessman in Spectre) was a Monk in The Bells of Saint John
• Clem So (Guest here; Crime Boss in Spectre; Agent in No Time to Die) was Warlord in Asylum of the Daleks, Artisan in The Angels Take Manhattan, Tourist in The Day of the Doctor, Clockwork Droid in Deep Breath, Bank Client in Time Heist, Alien in Face the Raven and The Husbands of River Song, Gent in Thin Ice, Corpse in Oxygen, Guard in Extremis, and Pirate in Legend of the Sea Devils
• Raven Shanelle (Guest) was Civilian in The Pyramid at the End of the World
• Anthony O'Donnell (Husband) was Commander Kaagh in The Sarah Jane Smith Adventures: The Last Sontaran and Enemy of  the Bane
• Jozef Aoki (Security) voiced Toda Elji/Yoshita Hiroshi for The Barbarians and the Samurai (2018)
• Kammy Darweish (Inquiry member) was Kumar in Survivors of the Flux, then voiced Declerq for A Passion for Fashion (2025)
• Bern Collaco (Agent here; Diner in Spectre) was an Operator in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, and Soldier in Thin Ice
• Martyn Mayger (Commuter here; Passerby in Spectre) was a UNIT Soldier in The Day of the Doctor
• Michael Dickins (Passenger) was a Villager in The Time of the Doctor
• for Peter Roy see Thunderball
• for Greg Bennett and Marvin Stewart Campbell see Casino Royale

Doctor Who Vs. Messiah, Series 4

Now co-produced by BBC Northern Ireland

and Great Meadow, this thriller (the third sequel based on Boris Starling's Messiah),

was an original Edgar Award-nominated

screenplay from Terry Cafolla.

The serial saw the final appearance of Ken

Stott (as Red Metcalfe) and Neil Dudgeon

(DI Warren), and guest roles for Maxine

Peake and Hugo Speer (DS Clarke and DI

Price). A fifth and final serial aired in 2008.

First shown over three consecutive nights

in late August 2005, Messiah IV (subtitled

The Harrowing) featured seventeen Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Russell [George] Tovey (McManus) was Midshipman Alonso Frame in Voyage of the Damned [a role reprised for The End of Time (Part 2) and Big Finish's One Enchanted Evening (2017)], and was Barclay Pierre Dupont in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• Helen [Elizabeth] McCrory (Dr. Price) was Rosanna Calvierri (pictured) in The Vampires of Venice
• Harriet [Mary] Walter (Robb) voiced Beatrice Mapp for The Boy That Time Forgot (2008), then was Jo Patterson in Revolution of the Daleks
• Aaron Neil (Cotter) and Anthony May (Brown) both starred in All-Consuming Fire (2015) as Tir Ram and Baron Maupertuis respectively - Neil was Dunlop in The Magician's Apprentice, and Varun Singh in Class, then voiced Surene Priest for The Boundless Sea (2015), Sanukuma Master for The Rulers of the Universe, Steven Godbold for Five Twenty-Nine, Computer for World Enough and Time, Aramatz for The Very Dark Thing, Stephano/Klossi/Setebos/Trink for Maker of Demons, David for UNIT: Silenced (all 2016), Gorky Sax for The Year After I Died (2017), Gobran for The Poison of Peladon (2022), and Kujad Stak for The Ruins of Kaerula (2025)
• Ian Midlane (Giardello) was Tim Jeffrey/Kist Magg Thek Lutiven Day Slitheen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen
• Shane Zaza (Technician) was Atif in Tardisode 12, and Prem in Demons of the Punjab
• Andrew McCulloch (Father James) co-wrote Meglos
• Garry Marriott (Paramedic) had the same role in The Lazarus Experiment
• Derek Ezenagu (CSO) voiced Tony for The Gift, and Ruslan/Ivo for The Sonomancer (both 2016)
• David Malinowski was also a SFX make-up artist on The Time of Angels and The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, and was prosthetics technician on The Waters of Mars and The End of Time
• camera operator Steve Lawes was focus puller on all five episodes (from Rose to World War Three)
• Gerry O'Riordan was also music recordist on seventy-two stories (from The Christmas Invasion to The Doctor Falls) and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• series prosthetics designer Waldo Mason was a SFX assistant on Aliens of London
• Vince McGahon was also steadicam operator on The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor
• for Gareth Milne and Nigel Squibbs see Series 3

Doctor Who Vs. Quiz

Produced by Left Bank Pictures,
this drama was based on the
West End play of the same

name, which premiered in late

2017 in Chicester. Playwright

James Graham was inspired by

 the 2015 book, Bad Show, the

Cough, the Millionaire Major,

which examined the trial of

Charles and Diana Ingram, and

Tecwen Whittock - all con-

testants of ITV's Who Wants

to be a Millionaire? in 2001.
The world's biggest quiz show
was created by David Briggs

of British production company
Celador, and launched in September 1998. Chris Tarrant (depicted here by Michael Sheen) presented thirty series of the programme until its cancellation in early 2014. Celador CEO Paul Smith was portrayed by Mark Bonnar, whilst the Ingrams were played by Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford. The couple were convicted of fraud in 2003, but have

always denied they cheated to win the top prize.
A repeat run of the series (originally shown over three consecutive

nights in April 2020) concluded on ITV3 last night - it featured twenty

-one Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Sheen provided the voice of House in The Doctor's Wife
• Bonnar was Jimmy Wicks in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People, then voiced Heath Porteus for The English Way of Death, Zoltan Frid for The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (2016), and the Eleven for Doom Coalition, Ravenous (2015 to present), Dark Universe (2020), The Eleven, UNIT: Nemesis 1 (both 2021) and Nemesis 2 (2022)
• Elliot Levey (Briggs) voiced Andrew Gobernar/Blank for Vampire of the Mind (2016), and Colonel Marsden for Red Planets (2018)
• Aisling Bea [born O'Sullivan] (Claudia) was Sarah in Eve of the Daleks
• Gracy Goldman (Receptionist) was Mrs. Woods in The Caretaker
• Helen [Elizabeth] McCrory (Woodley QC) was Rosana Calvierri in The Vampires of Venice
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (Hilliard QC) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), then the Engineer for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Andrew Leung (Duff) was Dr. Chang in Dark Water 
• Michael Jibson (Whittock) voiced Corporal Gibbs for The Forsaken (2015)
• Michael [Emrys Jones] Elwyn (Judge) was Lt. Algernon Ffinch in The Highlanders
• Paul Bazely (Lionel) was Ven Garr in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, then voiced the Maharaja for Fortitude (2020), Elio/SV44/ SV72 for The Enhancement, the Duke of Hishtar for The Ribos Inheritance, and Mikhail for Black Friday (all 2022)
• Martin Alexander Colton (Quiz master) was Juliet in The Shakespeare Code
• James Pearse (Juror) was Graham in Death in Heaven
• Sarah Woodward (Maggie) voiced Theodora for Secret History (2015), Vesh Taralesh for Stolen Goods (2018), and Ania Jessik for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Maggie Service (Kerry) was Elsie in Deep Breath, then voiced Root/ Receptionist for Revenge of the Swarm (2014), Hilary Ratchett for The End of the Line (2015), Catherine Parr for Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (2019), Sorscha for The Curse of Lady Macbeth, Ava Drake for UNIT: Nemesis (both 2021), Alison Starclair/Barker for The Great Beyond, Mrs. Wiggins/Urchins for No Place Like Home (both 2024), and Morag Stewart for Redacted
• Sian Clifford (Diana) was Woman in Empire of Death
• Murray Gold was composer on the revived run (from 2005 to 2017) too
• Emma Butt was also ADR recordist on seven episodes (from The Witchfinders to Can You Hear Me?)
• Suzanne Cave was costume designer on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Howard Bargoff (re-recording mixer) was dubbing mixer on four- teen episodes (from The Woman Who Fell to Earth to The Timeless Children)
• Antony Bayman (sound FX editor) was ADR mixer on The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Vampires of Venice and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Doctor Who Vs. Strike, Series 1

Bronte Films' five-part drama was

based on the crime novels of JK

Rowling, written under the pseud-

onym of Robert Galbraith.

Plans to adapt the Cormoran Strike

books were announced in late 2014, and Harry Potter author Rowling

acted as an executive producer.

Londoner Tom Burke and Manchester

born Holliday Grainger were cast as

Strike and Robin Ellacott in 2016.

Adaptations of Career of Evil and Lethal White followed in 2018 and

2020.

The first serial premiered at BFI

Southbank in August 2017, and a

repeat run of the next mystery concluded on Alibi last night - they featured

a total of twenty-nine Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

The Cuckoo's Calling 
(Published 2013/BBC1 TX: August 27/28 & September 3 2017/BBC4 TX:

February 13 to 15 2018/Alibi TX: December 9 to 11 2019, July 13 to 15, 

December 22, 24/25 2020, February 17 to March 3, July 14 to 28 2021/

Drama TX: November 9 to 23 2020, January 25 to February 8, July 8 to 22

2023, January 27 to February 10 2024/U&Drama TX: August 20 to 22,

October 2 to 16 2024)

• Leo Bill (Bristow) was the Pilot in A Christmas Carol
• Alisha Bailey (Jenny) was Isabella in The Vampires of Venice
• David Avery (Kolovas-Jones) was Fabian in The Name of the Doctor
• Steve Healey (Passerby) was director and co-writer of (fan short) Tale of a Time Lord
• Big Finish actor John Albasiny (Enright) voiced Guy Dean for BBV's Homeland (1999), Lev Tlostoy and Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Maxim Felnikov for Thin Ice and Crime of the Century (2011), Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), Jesper for Equilibrium (2015), and Makerenkov for Last of the Romanovs (2021)
• Genevieve [Wilhemina] Gaunt (Tricia) voiced Corporal Linda Maxwell for The Helliax Rift and Warlock's Cross, and Anna and Commander for Red Planets (all 2018)
• Ben Crompton (Shanker) was Ross in Into the Dalek
• Sian [Jane Elizabeth Ailwen] Phillips (Lady Bristow) voiced COLT-5000 for Jenny, Pilgrim for Ravenous 2 (both 2018), the Inquisitor for Gallifrey (2020), and the Director for The World Traders (2021)
• Suzanne Cave (costume designer), Nigel Squibbs (mixer) and Dan Rees (grip) all worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• James Gregory was also ADR mixer on The Haunting of Villa Diodati and Ascension of the Cybermen
• Richard Rowntree also provided additional greens for forty-one stories (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Husbands of River Song)
• stuntman Gordon Seed was stunt co-ordinator on thirty-six episodes (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
• stunt performers Claire Lawrence, Matt Hermiston and Levan Doran all worked on the revived run
• John Mooney was also sound assistant on Remembrance of the Daleks, (part 3 of) Silver Nemesis, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Battlefield and Ghost Light

The Silkworm 
(Published 2014/BBC1 TX: September 10 & 17/BBC4 TX: February 16

2018/Alibi TX: December 12/13 2019, July 16/17, December 26/27 2020,

March 10 & 17, August 4 & 11 2021/Drama TX: November 30 & December

7 2020, February 15 & 22, July 29 2023, February 17 & 24 2024/U&Drama

TX: August 23 & 24, October 22 & 23 2024)

• Tim McInnerny (Chard) was Klineman Halpen in Planet of the Ood, and voiced Admiral Dolne for The Well-Mannered War (2015)
• Dominic Mafham (Waldergrave) voiced Moran for The Jigsaw War (2012), and Chidak for The Dalek Contract and The Final Phase (both 2013)
• Catherine Bailey (Jess) was Miss Wyckham in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then voiced Maddox for The Shadow of London, and Tan for Iron Bright (both 2018)
• Jack Monaghan (Analyst) voiced Dunne and Selfdrive for The High Price of Parking (2017)
• Rachel [Linda] Bell (Edna) was Priscilla P in The Happiness Patrol
• Lloyd Bass (stunt driver here & Lethal White) was stuntman on The Time of the Doctor and Twice Upon a Time
• Dani Biernat was also stunt co-ordinator on seventeen stories (from The Christmas Invasion to Kerblam!)
• Stephanie Carey was also a stunt performer on eight stories (from Voyage of the Damned to The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
• Abbi Collins was also stunt co-ordinator on eleven stories (from Rise of the Cybermen to The Waters of Mars) and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Sam Williams was film editor on The Rings of Akhaten too
• Daniel Bishop was steadicam operator on The Husbands of River Song too

Career of Evil (BBC1 TX: February 25 & March 4 2018/Alibi TX: August

18 & 25 2021/Drama TX: March 1 & 8, August 5 2023, March 2 & 9 2024/

U&Drama TX: August 27 & 28, October 23 & 24 2024)