Doctor Who Vs. The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries

First shown in early 2000, this
BBC period crime drama was
based on the books of Gladys
Mitchell (1901-1983), and

starred Dame Diana Rigg as

the titular amateur sleuth and

Neil Dudgeon as her chauffeur

George  Moody.

Beatrice Adela Bradley was the
heroine of sixty-six detective
 novels (published from 1929
to 1984) by the Oxford-born
author, who also wrote under
the pseudonyms Stephen
Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie. She was feted during her career (called the
Great Gladys by Philip Larkin) and was an early member of the Detection
Club with Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers, but her work was largely
neglected after her death.
Another repeat run of these five cases (including the pilot episode) began

on the Alibi channel today - they featured Peter Davison, David
Tennant, and  a total of twenty-two Doctor Who cast and crew alumni:

• Mal Young was also co-executive producer on the first season of the revived series and Doctor Who Confidential
• James Hawes was also director of The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• Rigg was Winifred Gillyflower in The Crimson Horror
• Russell Tovey (Stable Boy) was Midshipman Alonso Frame in Voyage of the Dead, and reprised in cameo for The End of Time, Part 2 and Big Finish's The Lives of Captain Jack (2017)
• Michael Troughton (DI Starkey) was Professor Albert Smithe in Last Christmas, and voiced Quendril for Lords of the Red Planet (2013), Menlove Stokes for The Romance of Crime and The Well-Mannered War (both 2015), Roderick Purton for The Concrete Cage, Major General Beresford for The Forgotten Village (both 2014), and General Sharp for Primord (2019)
• Lynda Baron (Mrs. MacNamara) recorded The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon (sung off screen) for The Gunfighters, then was Captain Wrack in Enlightenment, and Val in Closing Time 
• Alec Linstead (Vicar) was Sergeant Osgood in The Daemons, Arnold Jellicoe in Robot, and Arthur Stengos in Revelation of the Daleks
• Susan Wooldridge (Mrs. Simms) auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976 
• Kenneth Colley (Burlington) voiced Cristophe Zarodnix for Sisters of the Flame and Vengeance of Morbius (2008)
• Meera Syal (Marlene) was Nasreen Choudhry in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
• Nicholas Woodeson (Forrester) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the Engineer for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Phyllida Law (Isobel) voiced Belldonia for The Bride of Peladon (2008)
• Isla Blair (Myrtle) was Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, and voiced Paula for Exotron (2007)
• Rebecca Callard (Cecily) voiced Connie Winter for A Perfect World (2008), and Shadrak for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016)
• Ronan Vibert (Prideux) voiced Ravener for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016), and Zaal for The Perfect Prisoners (2019)
• Pooky Quesnel (Delilah) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol
• Sheila Steafel (Celestine) was the Young Woman in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• cinematographer John McGlashan was film cameraman on Pyramids of Mars and The Face of Evil
• associate producer Nigel Taylor was AFM on The Stones of Blood
• film editor Liana Del Giudice also edited The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, School Reunion and The Day of the Doctor
• James Blackwell was first assistant director on Partners in Crime too
• first assistant director Debbi Slater was production manager on seven stories (from Blink to Forest of the Dead), then associate producer on Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood