Doctor Who Vs. Collision

This ITV mini-series (from Greenlit

Productions) was first shown over five

consecutive nights in November 2009.

Co-written by English novelist and

screen writer Anthony Horowitz (Alex

Rider, Poirot, Foyle's War), the drama

centred on the aftermath of a major

road traffic accident.

Collision featured Douglas Henshall

(pictured as DI John Tollin), Richard

 Harrington, Zoe Telford, Paul

McGann, and forty other Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Kate Ashfield (Ann) voiced Lieut. Beth Stokes for Big Finish's Enemy of the Daleks (2009)
• brothers Dean Lennox Kelly (Danny) and Craig Kelly (Jeffrey) were the eponymous Bard in The Shakespeare Code, and (the voice of) Joe for Scream of the Shalka
• Sylvia [May Laura] Syms (Joyce) was Mrs. Pritchard in Ghost Light
• Lucy Griffiths (Jane) voiced Mabel for The Auntie Matter (2013)
• David [James] Bamber (Norris) and Christopher Villiers (Fowler) both appeared in Mummy on the Orient Express, as Captain Quell and Professor Moorhouse respectively - Bamber also voiced Emperor Constantine for The Council of Nicaea (2005), and Colonel Ulrik and Whitmore for The Four Doctors (2010), whilst Villiers was also Hugh Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, and voiced Cacothis for Absolution (2007)
• Jan Francis (Christine) was cast as First Incorporation for The Ninth Doctor Adventures 2 (2021)
• Pip [Dean]Torrens (Commissioner) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013)
• Philip Davis (Edwards) and Victoria Wicks (Angela) both starred in The Fires of Pompeii, as Lucius and the High Priestess - Davis also voiced Titus for The Cannibalists (2009)
• Jo Woodcock (Jodie) voiced Ziv for Starlight Robbery (2013), Susannah Nash for Static (2017), Marie for The Iron Maid (2018), and Kayla Worthington for The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles 2 (2021)
• Claire [Louise] Rushbrook (Karen) was Ida Scott in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Tula Chenka for Escape from Kaldor (2018) and The Robots series (from 2019), and the Abbess and Marna for Out of Time 1 (2021)
• Jocelyn Jee Esien (Cindie) was Carla Langer in The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Andrew Brooke (PC Clacy) was Kahler-Tek [the Gunslinger] in A Town Called Mercy
• Colin McFarlane (Jackson) voiced the Heavenly Host in Voyage of the Damned, was General Austin Pierce in Torchwood: Children of Earth, Jonathan Moran in Under the Lake and Before the Flood, then voiced Vince Foster for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro (both 2014), the Identical Man for Charlotte Pollard 2 (2017), and Captain Morski for The War Master 5 (2020)
• Lenora [Isabella] Crichlow (Alice) was Cheen in Gridlock, and voiced Rachel Cooper for The Architects of History (2010)
• Nicholas Farrell [born Frost] (Fraser) was Brian Green PM in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Gammades for Time Reef, Phil for A Perfect World (both 2008), Captain Frank for Last of the Cybermen (2015)
• Raymond Sawyer (Chauffeur) was the Desk Sergeant in Blink
• Renu Setna (Shah) was the Intern in (part 1 of) The Hand of Fear
• Ben Crompton (Canwell) was Ross in Into the Dalek
• Nia Roberts (Linda) was Ambrose Northover in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
• Nicholas Gecks (Miller) was Albert Dumfries in The Sound of Drums
• Matthew Gravelle (DS Braydon) voiced Klinus for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro, then provided the titular voice of Kerblam!
• Nimmy [Anna] March (Carol) voiced Baroness Vance and Telokni for In Memory Alone (2016), Rupa Maguire for The Time War 1 (2017), Ulla for The Moons of Vulpana (2019), and Colonel Aesillor Zyre for Purgatory 12 (2020)
• Maya Sondhi (Nurse) voiced Katy Bell for The Carrionite Curse (2017)
• 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
• St. John O'Rorke was film editor on The Time of the Doctor too
• Liz Griffiths was also the set decorator on Dalek, The Long Game, Father's Day, The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
• SFX supervisor Tony Auger was VFX designer on K9 and Company and Black Orchid
• Simon Blackledge and Gary Kelly were both VFX assistants on The Power of Three, following work on A Town Called Mercy and The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe respectively
• Matt Wood was also the VFX supervisor on the previous three stories
• stunt co-ordinator Derek Lea and stunt performers Stephanie Carey, George Cottle, Stuart Clark, Rob Hunt and Andy Smart all worked on the revived run too
• Warwick Drucker was the grip on Rose and Aliens of London too