Doctor Who Vs. Oliver Twist (2007)

Victorian literary classic Oliver Twist 
(also known as The Parish Boy's 
Progress, and originally published
monthly in Bentley's Miscellany from
1837-39) was only Charles Dickens'
second novel.

The first television adaptation of the
book was produced by the BBC in
1962, followed by a more faithful
version in 1985.
 An ITV dramatisation from Alan
Bleasdale, was broadcast in 1999.

This BAFTA winning treatment

was first transmitted on BBC1

 over five consecutive week 

nights in December 2007.

Writer Sarah Phelps later adapted

Great Expectations, The Casual 

Vacancy, And Then There Were 

None, Dickensian, The Witness

for the Prosecution, Ordeal by

Innocence, The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse.

This series then aired in America and Australia in 2009, and was repeated

again on the Drama channel today. The cast, headed by Timothy Spall (as

 Fagin), Tom Hardy (Bill Sikes), with the famous orphan now depicted by 

William Miller, featured Michelle Gomez (Mrs. Sowerby), Nicola Walker

 (Sally) and fourteen other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Sophie Okonedo (Nancy) voiced Alison Cheney for Scream of the Shalka, then played Queen Liz 10 in The Beast Below and The Pandorica Opens
• Sarah Lancashire (Mrs. Corney) was Miss Foster in Partners in Crime
• Julian Rhind Tutt (Monks) voiced Lexhan for The Paradise of Death, and Berkhoff for Big Finish's Tales From New Earth (2018)
• Anna Massey (Mrs Bedwin) voiced Miss Pollard for The Girl Who Never Was (2007)
• Paul Chahidi (Quack) voiced Hason for The Destroyer of Delights (2009), George Townsend for Industrial Evolution (2011), Bondsman Tango-Veldt and the Shepherd and for Persuasion, and the Entity for Daleks Among Us (both 2013)
• John [Gibb Marshall] Sessions (Sowerby) provided the voice of Gus for Mummy on the Orient Express, and voiced General Tannis for Death Comes to Time, Mozart for 100: My Own Private Wolfgang (2007), Roland of Brittany for Castle of Fear (2009), and George Wilson for Torchwood: The Conspiracy (2015)
• Morven Christie (Rose) was Alice O'Donnell in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Vincent Franklin (Limbkins) voiced Lord Stormblood for Scenes from her Life (2016)
• Mariah Gale (Agnes) was Eliza in Knock Knock
• Amy Roberts was also the costume designer on Image of the Fendahl, Full Circle, State of Decay, The Keeper of Traken, Time Flight and Mawdryn Undead
• Nicholas Hopkins was third assistant director on Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways too
• Francesco Reidy was also second assistant director on The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky
• Richard Dyer was sound recordist on The Satan Pit two-parter too
• SFX supervisor Steve Lucas was an uncredited VFX assistant on The Creature from the Pit and Warriors' Gate (part 4)