Doctor Who Vs. Chasing Shadows

Originally shown in the autumn of
2014, this crime thriller from ITV
Studios focused on the work of the
national Missing Persons Bureau.
The cast was led by Reece
Shearsmith as misfit DS Sean
Stone, an acutely anti-social and
awkward but brilliant detective
exiled to the bureau. 

A repeat run of this four-part mini

series concluded on ITV Encore last

night, and featured Alex Kingston

(as analyst Ruth Hattersley), Noel

Clarke (DCI Carl Pryor), Adjoa

Andoh (Angela), and eighteen

further Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Shearsmith (DS Stone) appeared briefly in An Adventure in Space and Time as Patrick Troughton, and was Rassmussen in Sleep No More
• Big Finish artist John Albasiny (Harvey) voiced both Lev Tlostoy and Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Colonel/Major Maxim Felnikov for both Thin Ice and Crime of the Century (2011), Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), and Jesper for Equilibrium (2015)
• Lynda Baron (Maggie) recorded The Ballas of the Last Chance Saloon (sung off screen) for The Gunfighters, then was Captain Wrack in Enlightenment, and Val in Closing Time
• Nick Malinowski (Dr. Kent) was Eric in A Christmas Carol
• Nadine Marshall (Donna) voiced Shepstay for Earth Aid (2011), and both Katrice and Kordel for You are the Doctor and Other Stories (2015)
• Don Warrington (CS Drayton) was the President in Rise of the Cybermen, and voiced Rassilon for Seasons of Fear, The Time of the Daleks, Neverland (all 2002), Zagreus (2003), Caerdroia and The Next Life (both 2004)
• Imogen Daines (Chloe) voiced Nidhi Chand for Jenny 3 (2024)
• Alfie Field (Bryan) was Timmy in The Beast Below
• Daniel Brocklebank (Dr. Francis) voiced Sheldukher for The Highest Science (2014), Tauras for Gallifrey: Intervention Earth, and David Daniels for Damaged Goods (both 2015)    
• Letitia Wright (Taylor) was Anahson in Face the Raven
• Tony Lucken (Blake) was also a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways and The End of Time
• Tony Slater-Ling was also the cinematographer on The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor
• St. John O'Rorke was the editor on The Time of the Doctor too
• Lucinda Wright was also the costume designer on the whole of Series 1
• boom operator Ross Adams was sound engineer on thirteen episodes (from Asylum of the Daleks to The Name of the Doctor)
• sound mixer Ronald Bailey was the sound recordist on Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, 42 and Utopia
• Jamie Harcourt was a camera operator on The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit too
• script supervisor Sarah Hayward worked on the continuity for Love & Monsters

Doctor Who Vs. Prime Suspect, Series 7

Actors Helen Mirren (as DCS Jane Tennison), 
Robert Pugh (DS Simms), and Tom Bell 
(retired DS Bill Otley) all returned for the 
seventh and final season of Granada's 
acclaimed, multi-award winning police 
procedural drama.

Originally shown in October 2006, the serial 
earned three further Emmy Awards (including Outstanding Miniseries and Lead Actress for 
Mirren) and another BAFTA.
Lynda La Plante's novel Tennison was adapted by Noho Film, and the six-part prequel series, 
Prime Suspect: 1973, launched on ITV last night.

The two-part case (subtitled The Final Act)
began another repeat run on ITV3 last night, and featured Brendan Coyle (as DCS Mitchell), Robbie Gee (DI Traynor), Russell Mabey (DS 
Cox), Stephen Tompkinson (Sean Philips), and ten Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Big Finish actor Laura Doddington (DC Wood) voiced Zara for The Judgement of Isskar, The Prisoner's Dilemma, The Chaos Pool (all 2009), The Archive (2015) and Wicked Sisters (2020), Vale Endrogan for Gallifrey: Intervention Earth (2015), Idratz for The Very Dark Thing, Delilah for The Torchwood Archive (both 2016), and Lady Sutlumu for The War Master 6 (2021)
• Carolyn Pickles (Pauline) voiced Lady Meera Darone for Army of Death (2011), and Cardinal Ollistra for Doom Coalition 4 (2017)
• Seroca Davis (Delores) was Shona in Closing Time
• Nonso Anozie (Robert) was Hydroflax (pictured) in The Husbands of River Song
• Tim Preece (Speaker) was Codal in Planet of the Daleks, and voiced the President for Unbound: He Jests at Scars (2003)
• Helen Griffin (Speakers) was Mrs. Moore in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, then voiced both Director Cardell and Ship's Computer for Cobwebs (2010)
• Ricky Nixon (Bishop) voiced Turma for The War Master 3 (2019)
• make-up designer Deanne Turner was an artist on Planet of the Daleks
• Alex Kaye-Besley was an assistant director on The Shakespeare Code too
• SFX technician Charlie Bluett worked on forty-one stories (from Rose to Before the Flood), The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and Class

Doctor Who Vs. Prime Suspect, Series 6

Granada's acclaimed, multi-award winning
police procedural drama was revived in 

November 2003, after a seven-year hiatus.

Helen Mirren's role as Detective Superintendent
 Jane Tennison and the serial earned four further BAFTA and three Emmy awards nominations.

Mirren co-starred here with Ben Miles (as DCI 
Finch), Mark Strong (DCS Hall), Sam Hazeldine
 (DC Butcher), and Tanya Moodie (DC Grieves).

The penultimate, two-part case (subtitled The 
Last Witness and again set in London) began 
another repeat run on ITV3 last night and 
featured twenty-two Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Liam Cunningham (West) played Captain Zhukov in Cold War
• Rupert Frazer (Giblin) voiced Dr. Say Findecker for Big Finish's The Butcher of Brisbane (2012)
• Barnaby Kay (DC Phillips) was Heidi in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Martin Donaldson for Dark Eyes 4 (2015), and Commander Thrakken for The War Doctor 2 (2016)
• Finlay Robertson (Vagrant) was Larry Nightingale (pictured) in Blink and The Lonely Assassins
• Robert Pugh (DS Simms) was Tony Mack in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
• Frank Finlay (Tennison here & The Final Act) voiced Old Jacob for Bedtime Story (2007)
• Davyd Harries (Lawyer) was Shapp in The Armageddon Factor
• Julia Joyce (Lukic's daughter) had doubled for Billie Piper in Father's Day as young Rose, and was Holly Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Stephen Cranford (Officer) was a Dalek operator in The Curse of Fatal Death, and the Covellitor in Devious (included on The War Games DVD)
• St. John O'Rorke was the film editor on The Time of the Doctor too
• first assistant director Stephen Woolfenden was the director of Nightmare in Silver
• Will Pope was also the stand-by carpenter on sixty-one episodes (from Love & Monsters to The Name of the Doctor), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Nick Roberts was also the ADR recordist on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Cold Blood and The Lodger
• stunt co-ordinator Paul Heasman was an uncredited Nazi in Silver Nemesis, and the stunt arranger on Survival
• Lee Sheward was also the stunt co-ordinator on eleven instalments (from The End of the World to The End of Time), and Torchwood: Miracle Day
• stunt co-ordinator Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, a Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos, and doubled for Peter Davison on Warriors of the Deep

Doctor Who Vs. Prime Suspect, Series 5

Granada's acclaimed, multi-award winning police
procedural drama returned in October 1996. 
Helen Mirren's role as Detective Superintendent 
Jane Tennison earned her further Emmy award
and BAFTA nominations, and the serial won
 another Outstanding Mini-series Emmy.

Mirren was joined by David O'Hara (as DS Rankine), Julia Lane (DI Devanney), John 
Brobbey (DC Adeliyeka), and John McArdle
(DCS Ballinger).

This two-part case (subtitled Errors of 
Judgement, and now based in Manchester) 
began another repeat run on ITV3 last night, and featured eight Doctor Who cast and 
crew connections:

• Steven Mackintosh (the Street) played Gazak (pictured) in Timelash
• Ray Emmet Brown (Johns) voiced 'No. 16' for Big Finish's House of Blue Fire (2011)
• Ravin J Ganatra (Mooz) was Hakim Khan in Arachnids in the UK and Demons of the Punjab
• Joe Jacobs (Lafferty) was a Guard in The Pandorica Opens
• Andy Devine (Reporter) began his TV career as an uncredited Draconian in Frontier in Space
• director Philip Davis was Lucius Petrus Dextrus in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Titus for The Cannibalists (BF, 2009)
• production manager Des Hughes was the line producer on eight stories (from The Snowmen to The Time of the Doctor) - he had a cameo in The Five(ish) Doctors too
• Peter Brayham was also the stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion

Doctor Who Vs. Murder on the Home Front

This period drama from Carnival Films
was inspired by Evidence for the Crown,
a book by Molly Lefebure (1919-2013)
which chronicled the writer's wartime
work with pioneering forensic pathologist
Dr. Keith Simpson (1907-1985).
1940: the height of the London Blitz.
Dr. Lennox Collins (Home Office
pathologist, forensic sciencist and
advocate of Locard's principle) is enlisted
by Scotland Yard when a prostitute is strangled and a Swastika is found carved on her tongue. Collins, played by Patrick Kennedy (Bleak House, War Horse)
is assisted in the hunt for the 'Nazi
Strangler' by his new secretary and
would-be crime reporter Molly (Tamzin
Merchant).
The two-part serial (originally shown in May 2013) was repeated on ITV3
last night, and featured thirteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Geoffrey Sax directed the Doctor Who TV Movie too
• James Fleet (Professor Stephens) voiced O'Reilley for Max Warp (2008), Geoff Cooper for The Entropy Composition, and Martin Ashcroft and Sir Jack Merrivale for Special Features (both included on The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories release of 2010)
• Richard Bremmer (Maxton) voiced General Hemmings, Valcon and Taxi Driver all for The Valley of Death (BF, 2011), and Old Beowulf for Black and White (BF, 2012)
• John Heffernan (Zeigler) voiced Vonchef for Revenge of the Swarm (BF, 2014), and the Imposter for Doom Coalition 3 (BF, 2016)
• Angus Wright (Carver) voiced Magnus Greel for The Butcher of Brisbane (BF, 2012), and Alek Zenos for We Are The Daleks (BF, 2015)
• Greg Bennett (PC) was a Sycorax Warrior and UNIT Soldier in The Christmas Invasion, and a Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
• Paul Heasman was the stunt co-ordinator on Survival too, and was an uncredited Nazi in Silver Nemesis
• stunt performers Lee Sheward, Kim McGarrity, Seon Rogers and Marcus Shakesheff all worked on the revived run
• Gareth Spensley was also the colourist on twenty-two stories (from The God Complex to The Return of Doctor Mysterio)
• script supervisor Karen Jones began her TV career as PA on Mindwarp

Doctor Who Vs. Prime Suspect, Series 4

Granada's acclaimed, multi-award winning police 
procedural drama returned for a fourth season in the 

spring of 1995. Helen Mirren's role as Jane Tennison 
(now a Detective Superintendent) earned her a third

Emmy award and another BAFTA nomination.

Mirren was joined here by regular series actors John
Benfield (as Chief Superintendent Mike Kernan), 
Richard Hawley (DI Haskons), Mossie Smith (DC 
Havers), Jack Ellis (DI Muddyman), and newcomers Thomas Craig (DS Booth), Sophie Stanton (DS Cromwell), Cristopher John Hale (DC Bakari), and Christopher Fulford (DCI Mitchell). A fifth serial followed in October 1996.

The series, now comprised of three separate cases,
began another repeat run on ITV3 last night, and 
featured seventeen Doctor Who cast and crew 
connections:

The Lost Child (UK TX: April 30)

• Lesley Sharpe (Anne) played Sky Silvestry in Midnight
• Robert Glenister (Hughes) was Salateen in The Caves of Androzani
• Graham Seed (Doctor) voiced Pyerpoint for The Romance of Crime (2015)
• Adrian Lukis (Warwick) voiced Bragg for Cobwebs (2010), Byzan for The Children of Seth (2011), Harvey Marsh for The Justice of Jalxar (2013), and Professor Jeffrey Broderick for Counter Measures
• Sam Cox (DCI Birnan) was DI Bishop in The Idiot's Lantern
• clapper loader Tony Slater Ling was the cinematographer on The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor

Inner Circles (UK TX: May 7)

• writer Eric Deacon (Dr. Gordon in Prime Suspect 3) was Mykros in Timelash
• Roger Milner (Norman) was Anicca in (part 1 of) Kinda
• Albert Welling (Manager) was the titular Fúhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
• Ralph Arliss (DCI Raymond) was Tuar in Planet of the Spiders
• Martin Matthews (Councillor) was Kurster in The Androids of Tara
• stuntman Jim Dowdall was a Guerilla in Day of the Daleks, a Guard in Genesis of the Daleks, and a Warnsman in Frontios (1)

The Scent of Darkness (UK TX: May 15)

• Marc Warren (DC Dyson) was Elton Pope in Love & Monsters
• Ray Fearon (Whitehouse) voiced Barlow Teveler for The Seeds of War (BF, 2013)
• Tim Wallers (Motorist) was Childers in Victory of the Daleks, and voiced Justinian for The Secret History (BF, 2015)
• Kate Ashfield (Helper) voiced Lieutenant Beth Stokes for Enemy of the Daleks (BF, 2009)
• Heather Emmanuel (Nurse) was Tessa in The Android Invasion (4)

Doctor Who Vs. Prime Suspect, Series 3

Actors Helen Mirren (as DCI Jane Tennison), 
Tom Bell (DS Bill Otley), Richard Hawley (DC Haskons), Philip Wright (DC Lillie), and John 
Benfield (CS Mike Kernan) all returned for the third season of Granada's acclaimed, multi-award winning police procedural drama.

Originally shown in December 1993, the 
serial earned its second Emmy Award (for 
Outstanding Miniseries) and Mirren won her 
third Best Actress BAFTA.

The two-part case (again written by Lynda
La Plante and subtitled The Keeper of Souls) 
concluded another repeat run on ITV3 last 
night, and featured Peter Capaldi (pictured 
as transvestite Vera Reynolds), Mark Strong, 
David Thewlis, Ciarán Hinds, Danny Dyer, 
and thirteen other Doctor Who cast and 
crew connections:

• Michael J Shannon (Hunter) voiced Uglosi for Nevermore (BF, 2010), and Dr. Hugo Macht for The Shield of Jotunn (BF, 2015)
• Struan Rodger (Supt. Halliday) provided the voice of the Face of Boe in New Earth and Gridlock, and was Clayton in The Woman Who Lived
• Terrence Hardiman (Comm. Chiswick) was Hawthorne in The Beast Below, and voiced King Sitirc for The Book of Kells (BF, 2010), Reverend Dobbs for Serpent Crest: The Broken Crown (AudioGo, 2011), and Stackhouse for The English Way of Death (BF, 2014)
• Andrew Woodall (DI Dalton) depicted Rex Tucker in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Kelly Hunter (Smithy) was the Shadow Architect in The Stolen Earth and The Magician's Apprentice 
• Jonny Lee Miller (Field) made his TV debut as a titular Child in Kinda
• Christopher Fairbank (DCI Lyall) voiced the Professor for The Wreck of the Titan (BF, 2010), and Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (BF, 2009), then appeared as Fenton in Flatline
• Gilbert Wynne (Frampton) was Thara in The Krotons
• Big Finish artist Rowena Cooper (Mrs. Kennington) voiced Emily Shaw for both The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Mother Superior for The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield 3: The Unbound Universe, Jean Bazemore for Jago & Litefoot 11, and Queen Victoria for both Torchwood: The Victorian Age and The Torchwood Archive (all 2016)
• Eric Deacon (Doctor) was Mykros in Timelash
• Joseph Greig (Caretaker) was a titular alien in The Sensorites
• stunt co-ordinator Terry Forrestal was a Tractor Driver in K9 and Company
• Stuart Brisdon was also the VFX designer on Mawdryn Undead, The Caves of Androzani, The Twin Dilemma and Remembrance of the Daleks