Doctor Who Vs. Carry On @ 65

The Carry On franchise consists of thirty low-budget British comedy

features, produced from 1958 to 1978, whilst a final production was

released in 1992. 

Thames Television later screened four Carry On Christmas specials

between 1969 and 1973, followed by Carry On Laughing from ATV in

1975. The series also spawned three West End (1973-75) and regional

stage plays (1976 and 1992), and even an album in 1971.

Anglo Amalgamated Films produced the first dozen titles (until 1966),

and the Rank Organisation made the next nineteen. Writer Norman

Hudis (1922-2016) scripted the first six films, then was replaced by

Talbot Rothwell (1916-1981) who penned the next twenty. Every film

was made at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, with most location

filming undertaken nearby.

The films' humour (albeit dated and sexist by modern standards) was

in the comic tradition of the British music halls and bawdy seaside post-

cards. Producer Peter Rogers (1914-2009) and director Gerald Thomas

(1920-1993) made all thirty-one films, and drew on their own repertory

company of actors that included Kenneth Williams (who made 25 appear-

ances), Joan Sims (24), Charles Hawtrey (23), Sid James (19), Kenneth

Connor (17), Peter Butterworth (16), Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw

(14 each), Michael Nightingal (13), Jim Dale, Peter Gilmore (11),

Barbara Windsor (10), Patsy Rowlands, Marianne Stone (9), Julian

Holloway, Jack Douglas, Billy Cornelius (8), Terry Scott, Hugh Futcher,

Cyril Chamberlain, Gertan Klauber, Anthony Sagar (7), Lucy Griffiths

(6), Joan Hickson, David Lodge, Bill Maynard (5), Eric Barker, Bill Owen,

June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips, Liz Fraser, Dilys Laye, Angela Douglas,

Jacki Piper, Jon Pertwee (4), and Bernard Cribbins (3).

Hartnell (the titular officer,
Grimshawe) & Kenneth Connor

TV documentary What a Carry On? 
marked the fortieth anniversary of 
the series in 1998, and BBC Radio 
2 broadcast a two-part celebration
 in 2010. 
ITV first screened their three-part 
retrospective, also titled Carry On 
Forever, over Easter 2015.

This iconic franchise began sixty-

five years ago this summer with

the release of Carry On Sergeant

- shown on Sky Greats today.

Based on the play, The Bull Boys, 
by English novelist RF Delderfield, 
the comedy was never intended to 
launch any sequels, but due to its

box-office success, Carry On Nurse,

followed a year later. The rest is cinema history.

Led by William Hartnell, the cast here featured Charles Hawtrey, Norman Rossington (his co-stars from Granada's The Army Game),

Jacques, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Owen, and ten future

Doctor Who alumni:

• Gerald [Theron] Campion (Calloway) was Wilkin in Shada
• [Albert] Martin Boddey (Specialist here; Perkins in Carry On Nurse) was Robert Walker in The Sea Devils
• Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (Recruit) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, DI Crossland in The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Big Fiish's Night Thoughts (2006)
• Leon Eagles (Recruit) was Jabel in The Face of Evil
• Derek Martinus [born Buitenhuis] (Recruit) was the director of Galaxy 4, Mission to the Unknown, The Tenth Planet, The Evil of the Daleks, The Ice Warriors and Spearhead from Space
• Ivor Danvers (Recruit) voiced Wendle Marr for Nekromanteia (2003), Dr. John Dee for A Storm of Angels (2005), and Professor Gareth Edmons for Buried Secrets (2006)
• Norman Huntley (Recruit) was Ulf in The Time Meddler, and Sergeant Peters in The Invasion
• Don McCorkindale (Recruit here; Tubby in Carry On Cabby) voiced Don Fabrizio for The Ghosts of N-Space, and Porthintus for The Wreck of the World (2017)
• Reg Thomason (Soldier here; Porter in Carry On Nurse; Operator in Carry On Constable; Passenger in Carry On Cruising; Officer in Carry On Jack; Citizen in Carry On Cleo; Patron in Carry On Cowboy; Guest in Carry On Loving; Councillor in Carry On Girls; Audience in Carry On Behind) was a Resistance Man in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Joan Ellacott (dress designer here & Carry On Nurse, then costume designer on Carry On Regardless; Carry On Cruising; Carry On Cabby; Carry On Jack) was assigned to The Deadly Assassin 

Doctor Who Vs. The Reckoning

Jimmy Savile died on October 29th

2011, aged 84. In the course of his

life he became one of the most

celebrated radio and TV person-

alities in Britain, and used his

extensive charity work to place

himself at the very heart of the

most important institutions in our

society.

This drama examines how he was

able to hide in plain sight, using

his position to commit countless

serious sexual offences, many

against minors, and how the

voices of so many were ignored

and silenced.

What follows is a dramatisation

based on detailed research, published accounts and extensive

interviews with survivors of his crimes.

Steve Coogan depicted Savile in ITV Studios' controversial four-part

drama, which continued on BBC1 last night - it also featured Gemma

Jones, and seventeen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Michael Jibson (Cotton) voiced Corporal Gibbs for Big Finish's The Forsaken (2015)
• Mark Lewis Jones (Hulligan) voiced Professor Oliver Mortlake for The Darkness of Glass (2015)
• Siobhan [Margaret] Finneran (Beryl) was Becka Savage in The Witchfinders
• Julian [Alistair] Rhind-Tutt (Stewart) voiced Lexhan for The Paradise of Death, and Berkhoff for The Skies of New Earth (2018)
• Fenella Woolgar (Thatcher) portrayed Agatha Christie in The Unicorn and the Wasp, then voiced Commander Hellan Femor for Fitz's Story (2009), Morella Wendigo for Nevermore (2010), Leanne for Ghost Walk, Professor Jemima Still/Formidian Queen for Time in a Bottle (both 2018), Vanessa Seaborne for Planet of the Drashigs (2019), Lady Malina Rigel Smythe for Shadow of the Sun (2020), and Captain Eslo for Pursuit of the Nightjar (2023)
• Andrew [Hugh] Woodhall (Sloan) depicted Rex Tucker in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Big Finish actor/writer Lizzie Hopley (Jocelyn) voiced the Mantasphid Queen for The Infinite Quest, Alice Flowers for The Gunpowder Plot, Gemma Griffin for Terror Firma (2005), Lady Lillian Hawthorne for The Veiled Leopard, Sue for Night Thoughts, Yarvell for I, Davros (all 2006), Brinna/Secretary/Comp for Cyberman, Sister Christie for The Emporium at the End (both 2016), Miss Steel for The Creeper (2020), Camper for Silver Medal (2021), and Mind Shield for Master! 1 (2025)
• Alex Frost (Constable) was Reverend Shaw in Village of the Angels
• James Quinn (Priest) was Bill in Flatline
• Dannielle Brent (Mum) voiced Willa Hawthorn for Animal (2011)
• Barry Aird (Prison Officer) was a Time Lord Soldier in The Last Day, then voiced Operator Rellak for Revolution in Space (2024)
• Tim [Charles Robert Noel] Bentinck (Lawyer) voiced a Monk in Extremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World, and voiced Giles Moreau/Jenkins/Worker for Destination: Nerva, Roger Buchman for Wirrn Isle (both 2012), Williams/Curtis/Kavurshkin for The Forgotten Village, Nathaniel Whitlock for Moonflesh, Ned Bones/Lord Burghley for The Devil's Armada (all 2014), Colonel George Radlett for The English Way of Death, Chowdras/Governor for Planet of the Rani (both 2015), General Kallix for The Neverwhen (2016), Stonegood/ Wakefield/Cabby for The Contingency Club, Professor Edward Travers /the Great Intelligence for Time of the Intelligence (both 2017), Tommy Pierce for Torchwood, Lord Crozion for Kingdom of Lies, Franz Kafka/Samsa for Whodunnit? (all 2018), Alfie/Computer for Ghosts (2020), Karlos/ Guard/Reveller for The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook (2021), and Henry Mortimer for Friend of the Family (2023)
• Stephanie Carey (stunt co-ordinator) was a stunt performer on ten stories (from Voyage of the Damned to The Vanquishers)
• Gordon Seed was also stunt co-ordinator on thirty-six episodes (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
• Ashley Rowe was also cinematographer on nine stories (from Kill the Moon to The Doctor Falls)
• Nick Brown (Line Producer) was First Assistant Director on eight episodes (from The Curse of the Black Spot to The Name of the Doctor)
• Lawrence Hearn was also art director on seven stories (from Oxygen to World Enough and Time)

Doctor Who Vs. Hamlet

In 1925 (more than eighty years
before David Tennant's highly
acclaimed portrayal of the Prince

of Denmark) a teenage William

Hartnell joined Sir Frank Benson's Shakespearean Company. He

performed in Hamlet a year later,

and again in 1928.

Patrick Troughton and Peter Cushing both appeared in Laurence Oliver's film rendition of Hamlet (1948). The first ever 

television production of the play 

was broadcast the year before, 

and was Troughton's TV debut 

(he played Horatio here, and 
the Player King in the film).

Tennant took the title role when the RSC staged Hamlet at Stratford in
2008, and the play (originally televised on BBC2 the following Christmas)

was repeated on BBC4 last night - the cast included Patrick Stewart and

Doctor Who guest actors David Ajala, John Woodvine, Roderick Smith,

Peter De Jersey, Andrea Harris and Zoe Thorne.

William Russell starred as the Prince in the 1961 TV version of Hamlet,
opposite a dozen future classic era guest stars (Clive Morton, Bernard Kay,
Nicholas Hawtrey, Neville Jason, Thane Bettany, Anthony Gardner, Kenneth 
Gilbert, Peter Copley, William Marlowe, Robert James, Terence Bayler and 
Michael Spice).

 Another BBC dramatisation in 1980 featured Derek Jacobi, Geoffrey
Beevers, and Lalla Ward (as Ophelia) - here with Claire Bloom, Geoffrey
Bateman, Emrys James, Reginald Jessup, Peter Benson, Peter Burroughs, 
and series stalwart Stuart Fell.

Peter Davison appeared in a 1974 production of the play, whilst
Christopher Eccleston took the lead role in Leeds (2002). John
 Simm also played the Prince, in Sheffield in 2010.

 

Doctor Who Vs. Van Der Valk, Series 4

ITV's classic crime drama again starred

Barry Foster as the eponymous Dutch

detective, was based on characters

created by Nicolas Freeling for his Van

Der Valk novels in 1962. Produced at

Thames Television's studios in London,

with location scenes shot in the books'

 Amsterdam setting, the series was revived in early 1991, thirteen years after the previous run.
A repeat run of the fourth, four-part

season concluded on Talking Pictures

TV last night, and featured Geoffrey

Beevers, and a total of twenty-one

Doctor Who cast connections:

• Philip [born Roy James] Locke (Molenaar) was Bigon and the voice of Control in Four to Doomsday
• Denica Fairman (Barbara) voiced Receptionist for Redacted 2
• Judy [Valerie] Cornwell (Harriet) was Maddy in Paradise Towers
• Brian [Parry] Badcoe (Dominee) was Adam in Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• Stephen [Mark] Marcus [born Scott] (Man) was the Jailer in The Shakespeare Code
• Ian Gelder (Basten) was Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then provided the Remnant voices in The Ghost Monument, was Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced the Commander for Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
• Ronan [David Jackson] Vibert (Lepweg) was Professor Skinner in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Last Sontaran, and voiced Ravener for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016), and Zaal for The Perfect Prisoners (2019)
• Peter Guinness (Koop) voiced Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Mr. Dread for Dreamland, Baron Teufel for The Beast of Orlok (2009), and Rovus for The Star Men (2017)
• Kenneth Cranham (Boutsen) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Shane Rimmer (Wallace) was Seth Harper in The Gunfighters
• Jonathan Firth (Michael) voiced John for The Doomwood Curse (2008), Cadwallader for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016), and the Duke of Cardenas for Kingdom of Lies (2018)
• Sara Griffiths (Anna) was Ray in Delta and the Bannermen
• Derek [James] Fowlds (Kieft) voiced Claude for The Elixir of Doom (2014)
• David Schofield (Rosendaal) voiced Billy for Death in Blackpool (2009), Nostradamus/Conclave Leader for The Doomsday Quatrain (2011), Parval for The Sorcerer of Albion (2020), and Gostak for The End of the Beginning (2021), then was Odin in The Girl Who Died, and Narrator of The House of Winter
• Philip McGough (Bertus) was Sergeant [Graham] Calder in Resurrection of the Daleks 
• Lizzie McInnerny (Bea) voiced Harriet Quilp for The Yes Men (2015)
• Nicolas Chagrin (Jongkind) was Quillam in Vengeance on Varos
• Steven Mackintosh (Koos) was Gazak in Timelash
• Rupert Holliday Evans (Albert) was Colonel [Alan] Mace in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, and voiced Celtic Warrior for The Relics of Time, Artist for The Demon of Paris, and Cop for Starfall (all 2010)
• Derek Crewe (Waiter) was Synge in The Sun Makers
• for Geoffrey Bayldon see Series 1

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. Juggernaut

This British thriller was director
Richard Lester's attempt to exploit
the trend in Hollywood disaster
movies, and was inspired by real
events aboard the QE2 in May 1972.

Royal Marines from the SBS para-

chuted onto the ship during a bomb

hoax.

The production's location filming was

mainly shot onboard TS Hamburg

(which doubled as cruise liner SS

Britannic) in the North Sea.

Released by United Artists in 1974,
the cast was led by Richard Harris,
Anthony Hopkins, David Hemmings,
Omar Sharif, and Ian Holm.

Shown on Talking Pictures TV last night, the drama featured Cyril

Cusack, Michael Hordern, and eighteen Doctor Who cast links:

• Julian [Wyatt] Glover (Marder) and Tom Chadbon (Contact) both starred in City of Death, as Scaroth and Duggan - Glover was also King Richard in The Crusade, whilst Chadbon was Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet, and voiced Gordon for No More Lies (2007), and Embery for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (2016)
• Kenneth Colley (Brown) voiced Cristophe Zarodnix for Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008)
• Ben [Patrick] Aris (Walker) was Lieutenant Shears in (part 1 of) Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• Kenneth Cope (Bridgeman) was Packard in Warriors' Gate
• Victor [Stanley] Lucas, David [Lawrence] Purcell and Eric Mason (Detectives) were Andor in The Face of Evil, Abbott in The Hand of Fear (1), and Smedley in The Sea Devils and Green in The Mind of Evil respectively
• [Jane] Liza Ross (Laura) voiced Jarra To for The Axis of Insanity (2004)
• Michael Melia (Navigator) was a Terileptil in The Visitation
• Gareth [Daniel Noake] Thomas (Joiner) voiced Lord Tamworth for Storm Warning (2001), Kalendorf for Return of the Daleks (2006), and Morax for Last of the Colophon (2014)
• Ian [Clive] Talbot (Technician) was Travis in The Silurians (4), and Klout in The Leisure Hive
• Peter Roy (PC) was Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, Extra in The Highlanders (1), The Silurians (6), The Sun Makers (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks (1), Sergeant in The Faceless Ones (1), UNIT Bunker Soldier in The Invasion (1), Guard in The Seeds of Death (1), The Space Pirates (1), The Face of Evil (1), The Invasion of Time (1), The Androids of Tara (1) and The Armageddon Factor (1), Technic Obarl in The Hand of Fear (1), Policeman in Logopolis (1), Ambulance Man in Castrovalva (1), and Market Man in Snakedance (1)
• Barry [John] Summerford (Steward) was Golden Age Man in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (6), Elite Guard in Genesis of the Daleks, Vogan in Revenge of the Cybermen (1), Private Thurston in Terror of the Zygons (2), UNIT Soldier in The Seeds of Doom (6), Security Guard in The Hand of Fear (2), Audience Member in The Sun Makers (4), Shrieve in The Ribos Operation (4), Guard in The Armageddon Factor (1) and The Creature from the Pit (1), and Foster in The Keeper of Traken (1)
• Eric Kent (PC) was Technician in The Seeds of Death, UNIT Soldier in The Ambassadors of Death (1), and Roundhead in The Time Monster (3)
• Stuart Myers (PC) was Technician in The Silurians (6), Draconian in Frontier in Space (5), and Photographer in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1)
• Charlie Gray (Crewman) was Trog in Underworld (4)
• Martyn Read (Kelsey) was a Security Guard in Silver Nemesis

Doctor Who Vs. Campion, Series 2

The third television adaptations of the classic 
crime stories of Margery Louise Allingham 
were originally transmitted on BBC1 in 1989
and 1990, and starred Peter Davison (as 
the titular sleuth), Brian Glover, and Andrew

Burt.

Allingham (1904-1966) penned eighteen

Campion novels and twenty short stories

between 1929 and 1965, whilst her final

work (Cargo of Eagles) was written by her

 husband, Philip Youngman Carter and 
published posthumously in 1968.
Following Carter's death, an unfinished
Allingham manuscript was completed by

Mike Ripley and released in 2014 as Mr.

Campion's Farewell.

A repeat run of the second, eight-part

series continued on Drama today - it featured Geoffrey Bayldon,

and a total of thirty-seven Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Sweet Danger [Published 1933]
(BBC1 TX: January 12 & 19 1990/BBC2 TX: December 31 2009)

• Iain Cuthbertson (Savanke) was Garron in The Ribos Operation
• Paul Brooke (Parrott) voiced Toby for Big Finish's Year of the Pig (2006)
• Lysette [Anne] Anthony [born Chodzko] (Amanda) voiced Clara Harris for Assassin in the Limelight (2008), Hazel Bright for Hothouse (2009), and Sophia for The Secret History (2015)
• David Haig [Collum Ward] (Randall) was Pangol in The Leisure Hive
• [Albert] Frank Mills (Williams) was the Telescope Director in Terror of the Autons
• Barry [John] Summerford (Doyle) was Golden Age Man in (part 6 of) Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Elite Guard in Genesis of the Daleks, Vogan in Revenge of the Cybermen (1), Private Thurston in Terror of the Zygons (2), UNIT Soldier in The Seeds of Doom (6), Security Guard in The Hand of Fear (2), Audience Member in The Sun Makers (4), Shrieve in The Ribos Operation (4), Guard in The Armageddon Factor (1) and The Creature from the Pit (1), and Foster in The Keeper of Traken (1)
• Arthur [James] Blake (Curator) was Hrhoonda in The Web Planet (2)
• Philip Kloss was also film editor on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The End of Time and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• for Gareth Milne and John Baker see Series 1
• Doug Mawson was also film recordist on The Ambassadors of Death (3), The Android Invasion, The Pirate Planet and The Creature from the Pit (1)
• location manager Pennie Bloomfield was an AFM on Attack of the Cybermen
• Steve Bowman was also VFX designer on Planet of the Spiders (1), The Creature from the Pit, Earthshock and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Sue Upton was a production assistant on The King's Demons too

Dancers in Mourning [1937] (BBC1 TX: February 9 & 16)

• Nicolas Chagrin (Mercer) was Quillam in Vengeance on Varos
• Michael Melia (Petrie) was a Terileptil in The Visitation
• Stephen [George] Churchett (CI Cooling) was Bill in Attack of the Cybermen (1)
• Graham [Robert] Weston (Bloom) was Russell in The War Games, and De Haan in Planet of Evil
• cinematographer Peter Chapman was a film cameraman on The Robots of Death, The Visitation, Black Orchid and Time Flight 
• Dick Coles was also production designer on Underworld and Terminus
• make-up designer Suzanne Jansen began her television career as an assistant on The Masque of Mandragora
• for Clare Graham and Chris Ferriday see Series 1

Flowers for the Judge [1936]
(BBC1 TX: February 23 & March 2/BBC2 TX: December 29 2009)

• for Michael Owen Morris see Series 1
• Barrie [Stanton] Ingham (R Barnabas) was Alydon in Dr. Who and the Daleks, then Prince Paris in The Myth Makers
• Neil Daglish (M Barnabas) was Damon in Arc of Infinity
• Patricia Maynard (Teddie) was Hilda Winters in Robot, a role reprised for Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith (2002)
• Roy Spencer (Foreman) was Manyak in The Ark, and Harris in Fury from the Deep
• Christian Rodska (Sandy) voiced Laan Carder for Faith Stealer (2004), and Reverend Small for AudioGo's The Dead Shoes
• Christopher Benjamin (Coroner) was Sir Keith Gold in Inferno, then Colonel Hugh Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp, but is best known as Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng Chiang - he reprised the role for The Mahogany Murders (2009), Jago and Litefoot (2010-21), Voyage to Venus, Voyage to the New World (both 2012), The Justice of Jalxar (2013), Mind Games (2014), Stage Fright, The Haunting (both 2015), The Beast of Kravenos, The Jago & Litefoot Revival (both 2017), Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018), The Talents of Greel (2019), Merry Christmas, Mr. Jago (2020) and A Command Performance (2021) - he also voiced Tardelli for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008)
• dubbing editor Ed Bazalgette was director of The Doctor's Meditation, The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived
• Simon Wilson was also film recordist on The Green Death and The King's Demons

Mystery Mile [1930] (BBC1 TX: March 9 & !6/BBC2 TX: December 30 2009)

• Bayldon (Cush here; Kingston in The Case of the Late Pig) and Edward Kelsey (Willsmore) both appeared in The Creature from the Pit as Organon and Edu - Kelsey was also Slave Buyer in The Romans (1), and Resno in The Power of the Daleks
• [John] Roger Hammond (Kettle) was Francis Bacon in The Chase (1), Dr. Runciman in Mawdryn Undead, and voiced Harold Withers for The Eternal Summer (2009)
• Donald [Harold Gunn] Bisset (Reverend Watts) was Colin McClaren in The Highlanders
• John Tordoff (Knapp) was Alec Leeson in Colony in Space (4)
• David Cann (Roper) was Narrator of Hello Sailor! then voiced Albert for Jenny 3 (2024)