Doctor Who Vs. The Pale Horse

The Queen of Crime's fifty-second
crime novel (serialised then pub-
lished in 1961) featured novelist
Ariadne Oliver. She also appeared
in seven other books (from 1936
to 1972), but was omitted from
both of ITV's adaptations of The 
Pale Horse (shown in 1997 and
2010), and Mammoth Screen's

version.
The mystery was also dramatised
twice for BBC Radio, in 1993 and
2014. BBC1's most recent Agatha

Christie thriller (another screen-

play from Sarah Phelps) was first

shown in February 2020. The full,

two-part version was repeated on BBC4 last night - it featured Rufus

Sewell, Kaya Scodelario, and twenty-one Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Bertie [born Robert] Carvel (Osborne here; Max Mallowan in Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures) was the Mysterious Man in The Lazarus Experiment
• Sean [Carl] Pertwee (DI Lejeune here; Oglander in The King of Clubs; Dr. Griffith in The Moving Finger, 2006; Stubbs in Dead Man's Folly, 2013) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
• Claire Skinner (Yvonne here; Amy in A Murder is Announced, 2005; Miss Rich in Cat Among the Pigeons;) was Madge Arwell in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Sarah Woodward (Clemency here; Jane in Death in the Clouds) voiced Theodora for Secret History (2015), Vesh Taralesh for Stolen Goods (2018), and Anla Jessik for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• James [Edward] Fleet (Venables here; Carter in The Secret Adversary; Scudamore & Sherston for Absent in the Spring) voiced O'Reilley for Max Warp (2008), Geoff Cooper for The Entropy Composition, and Martin Ashcroft and Sir Jack Merrivale for Special Features (both 2010)
• Nicky Goldie (Mrs. Coppins) voiced the Spillager Empress for Winter for the Adept, Valeria Hedone for The Fires of Vulcan (both 2000), Inquisitor Danby for Excelis Rising (2002), and Polk for The Moonrakers (2020)
• stunt co-ordinators Dani Biernat and Crispin Layfield both worked on the revived run
• Matt Hermiston was stuntman on The Woman Who Fell to Earth too
• Charlotte Mitchell (costume designer here; assistant on Poirot) was costume assistant on Love & Monsters, then supervisor on Blink and Turn Left
• David Key was also camera assistant on six adventures (from Last Christmas to Twice Upon a Time)
• Joanne Pearce (art director) was prop buyer on The Return of Doctor Mysterio, The Pilot, Smile and The Doctor Falls
• James Moss was also camera operator on The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and Torchwood
• Matt Sanders (art director was draughtsman on ten episodes (from the 2016 Christmas special to Twice Upon a Time) and artist on Class
• Gareth Webb (3rd Crowd AD) was floor runner on Hide, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, Nightmare in Silver and The Name of the Doctor
• Shirley Schumacher was also focus puller on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks
• Dewi Jones (sound first assistant) was boom operator on The Five (ish) Doctors Reboot
• Mark Turner was SFX supervisor on The Long Game too
• Ben Blackall was also stills photographer on twenty stories (from The Woman Who Fell to Earth to The Timeless Children)
• Luke Jefferson was first assistant camera on Death in Heaven too
• Monty Till (location manager) was unit manager on eight episodes (from The Snowmen to The Time of the Doctor)

Doctor Who Vs. Ordeal By Innocence

Published in late 1958, the Queen

of Crime's fifty-seventh mystery

novel was one of the author's favourite works and is now

considered a classic of the genre. 

Cannon Films' adaptation of Ordeal

By Innocence was released in 1985,

followed by ITV Studio's treatment 
for Marple in 2007. 
This version was scripted by Sarah

Phelps, writer of And Then There

Were None and Witness for the Prosecution.

When allegations of sexual assault 
were levelled at actor Ed Westwick 
his role was recast and makers 
Mammoth Screen returned to 
Scotland to reshoot the drama. The whole, three-part thriller (event-

ually shown in April 2018 after a four-month postponemnet) was

repeated for BBC4's Agatha Christie season last night - it featured

Anna Chancellor, Anthony Boyle, Luke Treadaway, Alice Eve,

Matthew Goode, and eleven Doctor Who cast and crew alumni:

• Bill [Francis] Nighy (Leo Argyll here; Marsh in Thirteen at Dinner) played Dr. Black in Vincent and the Doctor
• Morven Christie (Kirsten here; Elsie in The Labours of Hercules) was Alice O'Donnell in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Christian [Louis] Cooke (replaced Westwick as Mickey) was Private Ross Jenkins in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky
• Eleanor Tomlinson (Mary) was Eve in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic
• Brian McCardie (Gould) voiced Alan Weir for Big Finish's Masters of Earth (2014)
• Gary Hoptrough was also stuntman on The Runaway Bride and Let's Kill Hitler
• stunt co-ordinator Tony Lucken was stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways and The End of Time
• Adam Recht was film editor on A Christmas Carol too
• Gerry Glynn and David Kneath were also SFX technicians on four- teen episodes (from Kill the Moon to Twice Upon a Time) and six- teen others (from Into the Dalek to The Husbands of River Song)
• conductor Dave Foster was a musician on over a hundred stories (from Voyage of the Damned to

Doctor Who On This Day #224

1947 - Producer John Nathan Turner born

 in Birmingham

1966 - Actress Sharon Delores Clarke born

in Enfield

1969 - The Abominable Snowmen, Episode

2 repeated on ABC

1978 - Revenge of the Cybermen, Part 1

 first screened on TV2

1980 - The Armageddon Factor, Part 6 and

Destiny of the Daleks, Part 2 both repeated

 on ABC; and City of Death, Part 1 repeated

on BBC1

1981 - The Sun Makers, Part 3 repeated on KQED Plus;

and The Keeper of Traken, Part 3 repeated on BBC1

1982 - The Sontaran Experiment, Part 1 repeated on 

KQED Plus; and Planet of Evil, Parts 1 and 2 both 

repeated on ABC

1983 - Death to the Daleks, Parts 1 and 2 both

repeated on ABC; and The Sun Makers, Part 1

repeated on KQED Plus

1984 - Carnival of Monsters Omnibus repeated on 

KQED Plus

1985 - The Seeds of Doom, Parts 1 to 3 all repeated 
on WTTW 11

1986 - Planet of the Daleks, Episode 5 repeated on

ABC; The Time Warrior, Part 1 repeated on TV1; and

Frontios, Part 4 repeated on KQED Plus

1987 - Frontier in Space, Episode 3 repeated on KQED

 Plus; and The Robots of Death, Part 4 repeated on TV2

1988 - Logopolis, Part 2 repeated on TV2; and Warriors

of the Deep, Part 3 repeated on KQED Plus

1989 - The Face of Evil, Part 1 repeated on KQED

Plus

1990 - The Web Planet, Episode 3: Escape to Danger

repeated on BSB; The Androids of Tara Omnibus

repeated on KQED Plus; The Visitation Omnibus

repeated on WTTW 11; and Ghost Light, Part 2

first screened on RTL TV

1991 - Remembrance of the Daleks

Omnibus repeated on WTTW

1992 - Planet of the Spiders, Part 2

repeated on KQED Plus

1993 - Frontier in Space, Episode 6 repeated on UK

Gold; and Planet of Evil, Part 1 repeated on ABC

1994 - Terminus, Part 4 repeated on UK Gold

1995 - The Curse of Fenric Omnibus repeated on 

KQED Plus

1996 - The Space Museum, Episode 1 repeated on 

UKTV (Aus); The Chase Omnibus repeated on KQED

 Plus; and Earthshock Omnibus repeated on WTTW 11

1997 - The Hand of Fear, Part 2 repeated on UK Gold;
and The Face of Evil, Part 2 repeated on UKTV (Aus)

1998 - The Dominators, Episode 3 repeated on Space;
and Doctor Who TV Movie (Part 1 of 3) repeated on
UKTV (Aus)
1999 - The Web Planet, Episode 5: Invasion repeated
 on Space; and More Than 30 Years in the TARDIS (Part
2 of 3) repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2000 - The Claws of Axos Omnibus repeated on UKTV (Aus);

The Sea Devils, Episode 1 repeated on TG4; Image of the 

Fendahl Omnibus repeated on Iowa PTV; and The Keeper of

Traken, Part 3 repeated on BBC Prime

2001 - The War Machines Omnibus repeated on MPT; The Brain

of Morbius, Part 3 repeated on WILL; The Robots of Death 

Omnibus repeated on Lakeshore PTV; The Armageddon Factor, 

Part 1 repeated on Twin Cities PTV; The Creature from the Pit, 

Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on NHPTV; The Horns of Nimon 

Omnibus repeated on UK Gold; City of Death, Parts 3 and 4 

both repeated on KBTC; and Paradise Towers, Parts 3 and 4 

both repeated on MiND

2002 - Genesis of the Daleks, Part 1 repeated on BBC Kids

(Can); and Planet of Evil, Part 4 repeated on Lakeland PTV

2003 - Robot, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on UK Gold; and

Destiny of the Daleks, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on BBC 

Kids (Can)

2004 - Carnival of Monsters, Episode 2 repeated on
ABC

2005 - Aliens of London repeated on BBC3
2006 - Father's Day repeated on BBC3; The Doctor 
Dances first screened on Nederland 3; Boom Town 
first screened on People+ Arts (LA); Bad Wolf repeated
on Ztélé; and Rise of the Cybermen first screened on
ABC1

2007 - Meglos Omnibus repeated on MPT; Rose and
Doctor Who Confidential: Bringing Back the Doctor both
repeated on UNC-TV; The End 

of the World first screened on KSPS; World War Three and Doctor Who 

Confidential: Why On Earth? both repeated on Oregon PB; Dalek repeated 

on UK Gold and UKTV (Aus); Father's Day repeated on TV3 (RI) and 

WLVT; The Empty Child first screened on KTWU and WXXI and repeated 

on WLVT; The Doctor Dances repeated on YLE TV2 and Idaho PTV; The 

Christmas Invasion repeated on BBC3; and The Idiot's Lantern repeated 

on People+ Arts (LA)
2008 - The Sontaran Experiment, Part 2 and The Ark in Space, Part 1 

both repeated on MTV3 SciFi and TV4; The Unquiet Dead repeated on 

Syfy (FRG); Aliens of London and Doctor Who Confidential: I Get a
Sidekick Out of You both repeated on BBC3; The Long Game first 
screened on The Oregon Channel and repeated on Oregon PB; 
Army of Ghosts repeated on UK Gold; and The Lazarus Experiment
and Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown: Monsters Inc. both repeated
on UKTV (Aus)

2009 - Midnight first screened on Syfy (Ben)

2010 - The Long Game and Father's Day both repeated
 on AXN SciFi; Rise of the Cybermen repeated on Syfy
(Rus); The Idiot's Lantern repeated on UKTV (Aus); and
The Fires of Pompeii first screened on Space

2011 - The Ultimate Foe Omnibus repeated on MTV3 SciFi, TV2 and 

TV4; The Empty Child repeated on UKTV (Aus); The Doctor Dances 

repeated on Watch; The Runaway Bride, The Time of Angels and Flesh 

and Stone all repeated on BBC America; and The Curse of the Black 

Spot and The Doctor's Wife both repeated on BBC3

2012 - The Time Monster, Episodes 1 and 2 both repeated on KBTC; 

World War Three, Dalek, The Long Game and Father's Day all repeated 

on BBC America; The Vampires of Venice repeated on Watch; The 

Pandorica Opens repeated on MPTV; Impossible Astronaut and Doctor 

Who Confidential: Coming to America both first screened on Idaho PTV; 

and The Women of Doctor Who first screened on BBC America

2013 - Boom Town and Bad Wolf both repeated on France 4; The 

Runaway Bride repeated on ABC2; Gridlock and Daleks in Manhattan 

both repeated on RAI4; Planet of the Dead repeated on TV3 (Spain); 

Cold Blood and Vincent and the Doctor both repeated on Syfy (Port); 

The Lodger first screened on Karusel and repeated on Syfy (Port);
Day of the Moon repeated on BBC Entertainment LA; A Good Man 

Goes to War repeated on Syfy (Ben) and Syfy (Spain); Let's Kill 
Hitler and Night Terrors both repeated on Syfy (Spain); and Doctor 
Who Confidential Cutdown: Double Trouble repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2014 - The Daleks, Episode 7: The Rescue and The
Edge of Destruction, Episode 1 both first screened on
Retro TV; The Mind Robber, Parts 1 and 

2 both repeated on Horror; The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Part 6 and The 
Shakespeare Code both repeated on Syfy (Aus); Doomsday repeated on 

YLE TV2; The Doctor's Daughter repeated on Watch; The End of Time, 

Part 1 repeated on RAI4; The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks both 

repeated on TV3 (Spain); The Time of Angels repeated on BBC
Entertainment LA HD and CBeebies LA; Amy's Choice and Doctor Who Confidential: Arthurian Legend both repeated on BBC Entertainment
 AP; The Rebel Flesh repeated on Syfy (Port); The Almost People 

repeated on Syfy (Spain); A Good Man Goes to War repeated on BBC 

Entertainment RSA and Karusel; The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex both repeated on BBC America; Deep Breath screened at the 

State Theatre, Sydney for the Australian leg of the Doctor Who World Tour; and Doctor Who Confidential: After Effects repeated on BBC Nordic

HD and BBC Polska HD

2015 - The Space Museum, Episodes 1 and 2 both repeated on Retro TV; 

The Androids of Tara, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on Horror; Terminus, 

Part 3 and Cold Blood both repeated on Syfy (Aus); Tooth and Claw 

repeated on Disney XD (US); The Runaway Bride and Smith and Jones 

both repeated on BBC America; Blink repeated on Watch; The Eleventh 

Hour, Part 2 (of 2) first screened on FX (Ind); Flesh and Stone repeated 

on KLRU; The Doctor's Wife and The Rebel Flesh both repeated on BBC

 Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; The Angels Take Manhattan repeated on

 TV Cultura; Hide repeated on ABC2; The Name of the Doctor repeated 

on Prime; and Listen repeated on BBC Entertainment AP

2016 - The Mind Robber, Episode 5 and The Krotons, Episode 1 both 

repeated on Retro TV; The Christmas Invasion, The Girl in the Fireplace,
Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, The Impossible Planet, The Satan 
Pit, The Runaway Bride, Blink, Voyage of the Damned, The Stolen Earth,
Journey's End and The Next Doctor all repeated on BBC America; New Earth repeated on The Zone; Utopia, The Rings of Akhaten, Cold War, 
Hide, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS and Listen all repeated on
Syfy (Aus); The Unicorn and the Wasp, Silence in the Library, Forest 
of the Dead and The Doctor's Daughter all repeated on EBRU; Midnight 
repeated on BBC America and EBRU; The Lodger and The Girl Who Waited both repeated on Syfy (LA); The Impossible 
Astronaut repeated on BBC Entertainment AP; The Bells of 
Saint John and The Snowmen both repeated on BBC Polska HD; Death
 in Heaven repeated on TV Cultura; Under the Lake and The Husbands
 of River Song both repeated on BBC First (Ben); Sleep No More, Face the 
Raven and Heaven Sent all repeated on BBC First (ME); Hell Bent 
repeated on Space; and The Ultimate Companion repeated on ABC2
2017 - The Mutants, Episode 6 and The Time Monster, Episodes 1 to 3
all repeated on Retro TV; Pyramids of Mars, Arc of Infinity and Mindwarp 
Omnibuses all repeated on WYCC; The Long Game repeated on The Box;
Robot of Sherwood, Listen and Time Heist all repeated on BBC First 
(ME); Heaven Sent and Hell Bent both repeated on RAI4; and 
The Woman Who Lived, The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon 
Inversion all repeated on BBC Entertainment EU
2018 - The Keys of Marinus, Episodes 5 and 6 both repeated on KERA;
The Romans Omnibus repeated on Idaho PTV; The Green Death, Episodes
 1 and 2 both repeated on KBTC; The Leisure Hive Omnibus repeated on 
MPTV; Four to Doomsday Omnibus repeated on Iowa PTV; The Visitation
and Black Orchid Omnibuses both repeated on WSRE; The Mark of the
Rani, Parts 1 and 2 (of 4) both repeated on Retro TV; Turn Left and The 
Stolen Earth both repeated on One ARD; Journey to the Centre of the
TARDIS repeated on Sky 5; Hell Bent repeated on BBC First (RSA); and 
The Pyramid at the End of the World repeated on BBC First (ME)

2019 - 

 Kinda, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on Retro TV;

The Day of the Doctor repeated on BBC America; and

 The Witch's Familiar repeated on BBC Polska HD

2020 - The Horns of Nimon, Parts 2 and 3 both

repeated on Retro TV; The Lodger repeated on BBC

 Polska HD; The Angels Take Manhattan repeated on 

NRJ12; Mummy on the Orient Express repeated and

Spyfall, Part 1 first screened, both on BBC First Turkey

Doctor Who Vs. Ashes to Ashes, Series 1

 

"My name is Alex Drake. I've been shot and that bullet's

taken me back in time. Now I'm lost in 1981. All I can do

is fight, and search, and stay alive. Because somehow I

will find a way home."

The sequel series to Life On Mars was also produced by Monastic and 
Kudos for BBC Wales. Keeley Hawes now led the cast as another out-
of-time detective, DI Alex Drake - a colleague of recently deceased

DCI Sam Tyler. Philip Glenister, Marshall Lancaster and Dean Andrews

 all reprised their roles (as DCI Gene Hunt, DC Chris Skelton and DS

Ray Carling respectively), and were also joined by newcomer

Montserrat Lombard (as WPC Shaz Granger).

Ashes to Ashes (referencing another David Bowie song) was co-

created by Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah, and centres 

on a present-day Metropolitan Police inspector, Drake who is shot 

and regains consciousness in 1981. Like its predecessor, the period

 setting was lovingly recreated against a rich backdrop of social

 history, and more importantly here, the music of the early eighties.

Another repeat run of the first six-part season (originally trans-

mitted from January 9 to February 27 2008) began on Drama

last night - it featured a total of forty Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Hawes played Ms. Delphox in Time Heist 
• Graham was also writer of Fear Her, The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People
• series producer Beth Willis was an executive producer on Doctor Who Confidential, The Adventure Games and twenty-seven stories (from The Eleventh Hour to The Wedding of River Song)
• Julie Scott was also a BBC production executive on seventy-seven instalments (from The Runaway Bride to Last Christmas), Time Crash, Doctor Who Proms, Blood of the Cybermen, City of the Daleks, Dreamland, Music of the Spheres, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Jonny Campbell was also director of The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor
• Catherine Morshead was also director of Amy's Choice and The Lodger 
• Adam James (Markham) was DI Macmillan in Planet of the Dead
• Joseph Long (Luigi) was Rocco Colasanto in Turn Left, and the Pope in Extremis
• Geff Francis (Viv James) was George [Maitland] in The Bells of Saint John
• Roy [William] Skelton (voice of Rainbow puppets Zippy and George) voiced Daleks, Monoids, Cybermen and Krotons for the classic series, and was Norton in Colony in Space, James in (episode 5 of) The Green Death, Chedaki in The Android Invasion, and King Rokon in The Hand of Fear
• Rupert Graves (Moore) was John Riddell in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Paul Thornley (Kay) voiced the Computer and Marko for Seven Keys to Doomsday (2008), Gomori and Steward for Paper Cuts, Michael Rond for Fitz's Story (both 2009), and Robbie Flint and Cyril for Criss-Cross (2015)
• Sid Mitchell (Dane) was Pickens for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (2008)
• Christopher Fairbank (Bonds) was Fenton in Flatline, and voiced Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), Pierre Aronnax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), and Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018)
• Callum Dixon (Thief) was Jarva Slade in Kerblam!
• Amelda Brown (Elaine) voiced Margaret for The Gunpowder Plot
• Nik Howden (Youth) was Maurice in Vincent and the Doctor
• Claire [Louise] Rushbrook (Trixie) was Ida Scott in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Tula Chenka for Escape from Kaldor (2018) and The Robots (2019-21), and the Abbess and Marna for Out of Time 1 (2020)
• Leo Bill (Burns) was the Pilot in A Christmas Carol
• Tracy Wiles (Girl) voiced Moira Brody for Masters of Earth (2014), Jacqui McGee for UNIT: Extinction (2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), Death on the Mile (2018), Narcissus, The Power of River Song (both 2019), Outback and Longshot (both 2021), Commander Barnac for The Neverwhen (2016), Ground Control and Secretary for Their Finest Hour, Sharlan for The Invention of Death, Hadway, Salma and V75 for Escape from Kaldor (all 2018), Drones for The False Guardian and Time's Assassin, Announcer and Coms for State of Bliss, Marzanna and Engel for Nightmare Country (all 2019), Tryana for Return to Skaro, Ren, SV66 and Gat for The Robots 2 (both 2020), and Draven, Shira and Sentinel for The Shadow Squad (2021)
• Lucy [Jane] Briers (Patty) voiced Jenny Chaplin for After the Daleks (2021)
• Jeanie Gold (Partygoer) was Neighbour in The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and The End of Time (1)
• Russell [George] Tovey (Johnstone) was Midshipman Alonso Frame in Voyage of the Damned, The End of Time (2) and for One Enchanted Evening (2017)
• Phil Davis (Cale) was Lucius Petrus Dextrus in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Titus for The Cannibalists (2009)
• Madhav Sharma (Chatterjee) was Patel in Frontier in Space (3)
• Troy Glasgow (Ska Boy) was Angelo in The Time of Angels
• Geoffrey [Dyson] Palmer (Lord Scarman) was Edward Masters in The Silurians, the Administrator in The Mutants (1), and Captain Hardaker in Voyage of the Damned 
• Paul Anderson (Suspect) made his TV debut in The Christmas Invasion as Jason
• [Michael Thomas] Jeremy Clyde (Chief Super) voiced George Sinclair for Absent Friends (2016), and Lord Braye for Planet of the Drashigs (2019)
• David Schaal (Look-a-like) voiced Sergeant Zogroth and Bus Driver for The Star Beast (2019)
• Sean Clayton was second assistant director on Dalek and Father's Day too
• Derek Lea was also a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways, The Age of Steel and Partners in Crime
• Gary Hoptrough and Rob Hunt were both stuntmen on The Runaway Bride - they also worked on Let's Kill Hitler and The Day of the Doctor respectively
• Christine Greenwood was make-up designer on Remembrance of the Daleks too
• film editor Jamie Pearson also edited nine episodes (from The Eleventh Hour to The Angels Take Manhattan)
• Edmund Butt was the composer on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Matt Wood (visual effects supervisor) and Simon Blackledge (VFX artist) both worked on A Town Called Mercy and The Power of Three - Wood also worked on The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Antonia Grant was also the location manager on The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords