Doctor Who Vs. Captain America: The First Avenger

This WWII action film explored the creation 

of the Marvel Comics character, Captain 

America - a superhero conceived by Jack 

Kirby and Joe Simon in 1941.

Chris Evans portrayed the eponymous 

super-soldier (alias Steve Rogers), charged 

with preventing Red Skull (played by Hugo
Weaving) from using the Tesserac to 

achieve world domination.
Shown again on Film4 last night, the

adventure was released by Paramount in 

2011 and spawned two sequels. The film 

also featured Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley 

Tucci, Samuel L Jackson, Jenna [Louise] 

Coleman, David Bradley, and thirteen 

other Doctor Who cast alumni:

• Big Finish actress Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter) voiced Asha for Blood of the Daleks (2007), Eleanor for The Doomwood Curse, Seska for The Whispering Forest (2010), and President Sheridan Moorkur for The Sands of Life and War Against the Laan (both 2013)
• Toby Jones (Dr. Zola) was the Dream Lord in Amy's Choice, and voiced Kotris for Dark Eyes (2012)
• JJ Field (Falsworth) voiced David McCallister for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009)
• Michael Brandon (Brandt) was General Sanchez in The Stolen Earth, and voiced CP Doveday for Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (2010)
• Lex Shrapnel (Hodge) voiced Robin Marshall for Shadow of the Past (2010)
• William Hope (Lieutenant) voiced General Tillington for Renaissance of the Daleks (2007)
• Sam Hoare (Recruit) voiced Lucius for AudioGo's Serpent Crest: Tsar Wars (2011), and depicted Douglas Camfield in An Adventure in Space and Time
• David McKail (Artist) was Sergeant Kyle in The Talons of Weng Chiang
• Tim Howard (Soldier) was a Villager in The Time of the Doctor, and Highwayman in The Woman Who Lived
• Tobias James Samuels (Producer) was a Waiter in Voyage of the Damned
• Kieran O'Connor (Jerk) was a Prison Guard in The Impossible Astronaut
• Colin Stinton (Taxi Driver) was President Arthur Winters in The Sound of Drums
• Sy Turner (Hydra Soldier) was a camera trainee on The Zygon Inversion, Heaven Sent and Class

Doctor Who Vs. The Victim

In STV Productions
latest crime drama,
Craig Myers (played
by James Harkness)
 is attacked at his
home in Port Glasgow,
 then discovers he has
been accused online of
being child murderer
Eddie J Turner.
DI Stephen Grover's
(John Hannah) invest-
igation incriminates
Anna Dean (Kelly
Macdonald), whose son was killed by Turner fifteen years ago. The mother
 is brought to trial at Edinburgh's High Court, but is Myers really the killer
or a victim of mistaken identity?

Shown over four, consecutive nights this week, the thriller concluded on
BBC1 last night, and featured nine Doctor Who cast and crew alumnis:

• Jamie Sives (Lenny) was Captain Reynolds in Tooth and Claw
• Allison McKenzie (Cathy) voiced Imogen Frazer for Big Finish's Iterations of I (2014)
• John Scougall (Carpenter) voiced Ryall and Sythes for The Time War 3 (2019)
• Ramon Tikaram (Mishra) voiced Wanchese for Voyage to the New World (2012), the Castellan for Doom Coalition 1, Marlock for Theatre of War, Colonel Shindi for UNIT: Extinction (all 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), UNIT: Encounters (2017) and UNIT: Cyber Reality, and Colin Colchester Price for Torchwood: Aliens Among Us and Gods Among Us (all 2018)
• Pooky Quesnel (Mo) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol
• Seylan Baxter (Jury) was Tecteun in The Timeless Children
• Paul Heasman was stunt co-ordinator on Survival too, and was an uncredited Nazi in Silver Nemesis
• Geraint L Williams was art designer on The Woman Who Fell to Earth too
• Gibran Farrah was also ADR mixer on The Tsuranga Conundrum and Demons of the Punjab

Doctor Who Vs. Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years

London-born Christopher Lee (1922-
2015) appeared opposite Peter 
Cushing in Hammer's The Hound 
of the Baskervilles in 1959, but he
first portrayed the Great Detective
in the European television movie,
The Deadly Necklace (1962). Lee
returned to the role thirty years
later for two TV mysteries, shot
back-to-back in 1991 by Harmony
Gold Productions. He also played
Mycroft Holmes in The Private 
Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
 Patrick Macnee reprised the role
of Dr. Watson here (first realised
for Sherlock Holmes in New York
in 1976). then depicted Holmes
for The Hound of London (1993).
Both films were shown again on the True Entertainment channel today,
and featured and twelve Doctor Who cast connections:

The Leading Lady (1991)

• John Bennett (Freud) was General Finch in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and Li H'sen Chang in The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Nicholas Gecks (Simpson-Makepeace here; Wilder in The Priory School; Lestrade in Sherlock) was Albert Dumfries in The Sound of Drums
• James Bree (Dietrich here; Dr. Barnicot in The Six Napoleons; Butler in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Case of the Magruder's Murder; Coroner in The Empty House; Barrister in Without a Clue) was the Security Chief in The War Games, Nefred in Full Circle, the Keeper of the Matrix in The Ultimate Foe, and the Lama in Downtime
• Robert Rietty (Hoffman) voiced Bedloe for Death Comes to Time
• Tom Chadbon (Zygovich here; Inspector Hawkins in The Red Circle and The Cardboard Box) was Duggan in City of Death, Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet, then voiced Gordon for Big Finish's No More Lies (2007), and Embery for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016)
• Cyril Shaps (Emperor here; Orlov in The Baker Street Boys; Smoot in Murder Rooms) was John Viner in The Tomb of the Cybermen, Dr. Lennox in The Ambassadors of Death, Professor Herbert Clegg in Planet of the Spiders, and the Archimandrite in The Androids of Tara
• Michael McStay (Schmidt) was Derek Moberley in The Seeds of Doom
• Gertan Klauber (Doorman here; Man in The Boscombe Valley Mystery; the Pasha in The Seven Per-cent Solution) was the Galley Master in (episode 2 of) The Romans, and Ola in The Macra Terror

Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)

• Richard [Andrew Palethorpe] Todd (Roberts) was Sanders in Kinda
• Neil McCarthy (Morrison) was Barnham in The Mind of Evil, and Thawn in The Power of Kroll
• Margaret John (Mrs. Hudson here) was Megan Jones in Fury from the Deep, and Grandma Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern
• Jerome Willis (Mycroft Holmes) was [Jocelyn] Stevens in The Green Death and Global Conspiracy?