Doctor Who Vs. The Secret of Crickley Hall

Based on the twenty-second supernatural 

novel from British horror writer James 

Herbert (1943-2013), this three-part drama originally aired on BBC America in October 

2012, then on BBC One a month later. 

The drama presents two parallel narratives 

- the main storyline, set in the present, 

follows the events of the Caleigh family who

rent Crickley Hall in the Northern village of 

Devil's Cleave; and the other is a series of flashbacks covering events in 1943, when

evacuees from London also lived at the Hall.

The series was adapted and directed by Joe 

Ahearne, who had helmed Dalek, Father's 

Day, Boom Town, Bad Wolf and The Parting 

of the Ways for the first season of the 

revived series. 

The thriller began another repeat run on 

the W channel (formerly Watch) last night, 
and featured David Warner , and seventeen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Suranne Jones (Eve) played Idris in The Doctor's Wife, and was the titular subject of The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge
• Tom Ellis (Gabe) was Dr. Thomas Mulligan in Last of the Time Lords
• Maisie Williams (Loren) was Ashildr in The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived, Face the Raven and Hell Bent
• Sarah Smart (Magda) was Jennifer in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People, and voiced Laura Corbett for The Crooked Man (BF, 2014
• Donald Sumpter (Pyke) was Enrico Casali in The Wheel in Space, Commander Ridgeway in The Sea Devils, Erasmus Darkening in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap, and President Rassilon in Hell Bent
• John Sackville (Dr. Wilcox) voiced Randolph Wright for Resistance (2009)
• Fern Deacon (Susan) had an uncredited role in A Good Man Goes to War
• Paul Clayton (Publican) was Mr. Bartle in Planet of the Ood, and voiced Mergrass for The Infinite Quest
• Velile Tshabalala (Teacher) was Rosita in The Next Doctor
• Craig Parkinson (Reverend) was cast in Series 13
• Rachelle Beinart (stunt double) was Goblin in The Church on Ruby Road
• Graham Walker was also the film editor on all five of Ahearne's episodes
• stunt co-ordinator Gordon Seed worked on thirty instalments (from The Idiot's Lantern to The Time of the Doctor)
• William Willoughby was also a stunt performer on Rose, Smith and Jones, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens, A Good Man Goes to War, and The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, and doubled for Matt Smith in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and was Ben Browder's double (as Isaac) in A Town Called Mercy
• Ben Ashmore was also the special FX supervisor on thirty-six stories of the revived series (from The Girl in the Fireplace to The Next Doctor)
• gaffer Gavin Walters was an electrician on Love & Monsters
• Peter Chester was also the best boy on eighty-three episodes (from Rose to The Wedding of River Song and Music of the Spheres)