Doctor Who Vs. Jon Pertwee at the Cinema, Part 1

The centenary of the birth of
Jon Pertwee was marked by
BBC Radio 4 this week. The 
Jon Pertwee Files was narrated
by his son, Sean Pertwee.
Tomorrow, the Talking Pictures
TV channel will screen the 1955
British film comedy, A Yank in 
Ermine. The network screened
two other vintage comedies
today, The Gay Dog and The 
Ugly Ducking - all starred
Pertwee (1919-1996)
Released in 1954, the first
feature, written by future
Carry On producer Peter Rogers (based on the play from Joseph Colton),
also starred William Russell, and Peter Butterworth.
The second production (from the iconic Hammer stable) was released in
1959, and meant a more prominent role for Pertwee, but it was a box
office flop - it featured six other Doctor Who cast connections:

• Bernard Bresslaw (Henry) was Varga in The Ice Warriors
• John Harvey (DS Barnes) was Professor Brett in The War Machines, and Officia in The Macra Terror
• Aileen Lewis (Dancer here and A Yank in Ermine) was an Extra on (episode 6 of) The Silurians
• Ernest Blyth (Guest) was a Villager in The Daemons
• Roger Avon (Reporter) and Reg Thomason (Guest) both appeared in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD - Avon also played Saphadin in The Crusade, and Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan (4)
• Henry Montsash was hairdresser on Dr. Who and the Daleks too

Doctor Who Vs. Broadchurch, Series 2

Whilst the first run of this multi-

award winning crime drama
focused on the hunt for a child
killer, this second season con-
centrated on the subsequent
trial of prime suspect Joe Miller,
and the reopening of another
murder case.
Series creator Chris Chibnall 
again scripted this whole season
(following the American remake,
entitled Gracepoint) which concluded another repeat run 
on ITV last night. David 
Tennant and Olivia Coleman 
reprised their roles as detective
partners, DI Alec Hardy and DS
 Ellie Miller. Jodie Whittaker,
Arthur Darvill and Andrew
Buchan also returned.

First aired over eight consecutive Monday nights in January and February 2015 (again averaging almost ten 
million viewers), series two of Broadchurch now starred Eve Myles, Adjoa Andoh, Charlotte Rampling, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and twenty-four

further Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• for Jonathan Bailey, Carolyn Pickles, Matthew Gravelle, Peter De Jersey, Julian Seager and director James Strong see my blog for Series 1
• James D'Arcy (Lee Ashworth) voiced Michael for Big Finish's Paradise 5 (2010)
• Shaun Dooley (Gillespie) was Epzo in The Ghost Monument
• Gbemisola Ikumelo (PC Stewart) voiced Morandi for White Ghosts (2014), and Prim for The Boundless Sea (2016)
• Meera Syal (Judge) was Nasreen Choudhry in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
• Alan Bond (Solicitor) was a UNIT Soldier in both The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• Daniel Hill (Judge) was Chris Parsons in Shada, and voiced Percy Noggins for AudioGo's Hornet's Nest: The Stuff of Nightmares (009)
• Janet Dibley (Chaz) voiced Commander Flail for The Black Hole (2015)
• Phil Nice (Dalington) was Henry in Kill the Moon
• Jenny Bede (Laura) voiced Florrie for Absolute Power (2016)
• David Ellis (Visitor) was a Spectator in The Woman Who Lived
• Brendan Murphy (Waiter) was cast in The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook (2021)
• Amanda Drew (Cate) provided the voice of the Mouri in Flux
• Dean Forster was also a stuntman on nine adventures (from The Christmas Invasion to Robot of Sherwood)
• stunt performer Rachelle Beinart was Goblin in The Church on Ruby Road
• Richard Rowntree was also the greensman on forty-one stories (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Husbands of River Song)
• Geoff Holloway was also an electrician on The Christmas Invasion, Closing Time and The Day of the Doctor
• both Ian Fowler and Andrea Mear were also costume assistants on twenty-four episodes (from Into the Dalek to The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos) and another fifteen (from The End of the World to The Woman Who Fell to Earth) respectively