Friday, 12 April 2019

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

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