ITV3's The A-Z of
Crime represented
the letter G with
Glasgow. Tartan Noir
author Denise Mina
(born 1966), herself
a Glaswegian, said
that Scotland's
second city "is the
perfect [locale] to
write crime fiction
for. It's small,
there's a lot of
crime, a lot of
poverty, and there's so any different textures. Everybody knows every-
body else, people talk to each other, what could be better really?" Mina's
fifth crime novel, The Field of Blood (published in 2005) is set in 1980s
Glasgow, and was dramatised for BBC1 in 2011. Jayd Johnson won the
Best Actress BAFTA Scotland award for her portrayal of cub reporter
Paddy Meehan. The Dead Hour followed in 2013, and the final part of
Mina's Meehan trilogy, The Last Breath, remains unadapted for TV.
A repeat run of the two thrillers began on BBC Scotland last night -
they featured Peter Capaldi (as Dr. Pete), Jonas Armstrong, David
Hayman, anda total of nine Doctor Who cast connections:
- David Morrissey (Devlin) played Jackson Lake in The Next Doctor
- Brian [Tom] Vernel (Naismith) was Lucius in The Eaters of Light, and voiced Robert for Big Finish's Dethras (2017)
- Derek Riddell (DS Patterson) and Ron Donachie (Sean) both starred in Tooth and Claw, as Robert MacLeish and Steward
- Katherine Kelly (Maloney) was Miss Quill in Class
- Des McAleer (Neilson) voiced Lefty Lonnigan for A Life of Crime (2016), and Blujaw Skaldson for The Skin of the Sleek and The Thief Who Stole Time (both 2017)
- Scott Napier (gaffer) and Colin Price (best boy) both worked on The Day of the Doctor too
- Neal Champion was SFX supervisor on An Adventure in Space and Time too
