Doctor Who Vs. Strike: Troubled Blood

This thriller from Bronte Films
was based on the fifth crime
novel from JK Rowling, written

under the pen-name Robert Galbraith. Plans to adapt the Cormoran Strike books were

announced in late 2014, and

Harry Potter author Rowling

acted as an executive producer.

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger

were cast as Strike and Robin

Ellacott in 2016.

 Troubled Blood followed adapt-

ations of The Cuckoo's Calling,

The Silkworm, Career of Evil, and Lethal White. Strike's sixth

case, The Ink Black Heart, was published in September. This four-part thriller concluded on BBC1 last

night - it featured twenty Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Sophie Ward (Anna) voiced the Storyteller for AudioGo's Aladdin Time (2011)
• Sutara Gayle (Kim) voiced Nan for Big Finish's Mind of the Hodiac (2022)
• Syrus Lowe (Max) voiced Patrice Okereke for The Last Party on Earth (2019)
• Sam Woolf (Roy) voiced Kim for Entanglement (2018)
• Calvin Dean (Ted) was Chris in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift, and Ha-Ha in Nightmare in Silver
• Anna Calder Marshall (Janice) voiced Mathilda Pierce for Scream of the Shalka
• Madhav Sharma (Gupta) was Patel in (episode 3 of) Frontier in Space
• Flaminia Cinque (Trudy) voiced Patsy for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014)
• Cherie [Mary] Lunghi (Gloria) voiced Lady Adela Forster for The Emerald Tiger (2012)
• Daniel Peacock (Luca) was Nord in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Kenneth Cranham (Creed) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Phil Cornwell (Oakden) was a Stallholder in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Superintendent Galgo/Zaleb 5 for Serpent in the Silver Mask (2018), and Parsnip for Spinvasion (2020)
• prolific Big Finish actor Tracy Wiles (Donna) voiced Moira Brody for Masters of Earth (2014), Lilith Lovett for The Year of the Bat, Jacqui McGee for UNIT: Extinction (both 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), Death on the Mile (2018), Narcissus, The Power of River Song (both 2019), Outback, Longshot (both 2021) and UNIT: Nemesis (2022), Commander Barnac for The Neverwhen (2016), Ground Control/ Secretary for Their Finest Hour, Sharlan for The Invention of Death, Hadway/Salma/V75 for Escape from Kaldor (all 2018), Drones for The False Guardian and Time's Assassin, Announcer/Coms for State of Bliss, Marzanna/Engel for Nightmare Country, Various for The Robots 1 (all 2019) and The Robots 2, Tryana for Return to Skaro (both 2020), FELINE, Maria/Patricia for A Forever Home, Draven/ Shira/Sentinel for The Shadow Squad (both 2021), and Various for Dark Side of the Moon (2022)
• Jonny Green (Ellacott) voiced Cole Jarnish for The War Master 7 (2022), and Tyler Steele for The Witching Tree (2023), then was Alan Daniel Budd in The Robot Revolution
• for Ben Crompton and Nigel Squibbs see The Cuckoo's Calling
• for Samuel Oatley and Christina Cole see Lethal White
• Harry Barnes was also sound FX editor on seventy-one episodes (from Deep Breath to The Power of the Doctor)
• Rebecca Mayled was SFX co-ordinator on The Halloween Apocalypse too

Doctor Who Vs. Quiz

Produced by Left Bank Pictures,
this drama was based on the
West End play of the same

name, which premiered in late

2017 in Chicester. Playwright

James Graham was inspired by

 the 2015 book, Bad Show, the

Cough, the Millionaire Major,

which examined the trial of

Charles and Diana Ingram, and

Tecwen Whittock - all con-

testants of ITV's Who Wants

to be a Millionaire? in 2001.
The world's biggest quiz show
was created by David Briggs

of British production company
Celador, and launched in September 1998. Chris Tarrant (depicted here by Michael Sheen) presented thirty series of the programme until its cancellation in early 2014. Celador CEO Paul Smith was portrayed by Mark Bonnar, whilst the Ingrams were played by Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford. The couple were convicted of fraud in 2003, but have

always denied they cheated to win the top prize.
A repeat run of the series (originally shown over three consecutive

nights in April 2020) concluded on ITV3 last night - it featured twenty

-one Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Sheen provided the voice of House in The Doctor's Wife
• Bonnar was Jimmy Wicks in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People, then voiced Heath Porteus for The English Way of Death, Zoltan Frid for The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (2016), and the Eleven for Doom Coalition, Ravenous (2015 to present), Dark Universe (2020), The Eleven, UNIT: Nemesis 1 (both 2021) and Nemesis 2 (2022)
• Elliot Levey (Briggs) voiced Andrew Gobernar/Blank for Vampire of the Mind (2016), and Colonel Marsden for Red Planets (2018)
• Aisling Bea [born O'Sullivan] (Claudia) was Sarah in Eve of the Daleks
• Gracy Goldman (Receptionist) was Mrs. Woods in The Caretaker
• Helen [Elizabeth] McCrory (Woodley QC) was Rosana Calvierri in The Vampires of Venice
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (Hilliard QC) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), then the Engineer for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Andrew Leung (Duff) was Dr. Chang in Dark Water 
• Michael Jibson (Whittock) voiced Corporal Gibbs for The Forsaken (2015)
• Michael [Emrys Jones] Elwyn (Judge) was Lt. Algernon Ffinch in The Highlanders
• Paul Bazely (Lionel) was Ven Garr in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, then voiced the Maharaja for Fortitude (2020), Elio/SV44/ SV72 for The Enhancement, the Duke of Hishtar for The Ribos Inheritance, and Mikhail for Black Friday (all 2022)
• Martin Alexander Colton (Quiz master) was Juliet in The Shakespeare Code
• James Pearse (Juror) was Graham in Death in Heaven
• Sarah Woodward (Maggie) voiced Theodora for Secret History (2015), Vesh Taralesh for Stolen Goods (2018), and Ania Jessik for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Maggie Service (Kerry) was Elsie in Deep Breath, then voiced Root/ Receptionist for Revenge of the Swarm (2014), Hilary Ratchett for The End of the Line (2015), Catherine Parr for Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (2019), Sorscha for The Curse of Lady Macbeth, Ava Drake for UNIT: Nemesis (both 2021), Alison Starclair/Barker for The Great Beyond, Mrs. Wiggins/Urchins for No Place Like Home (both 2024), and Morag Stewart for Redacted
• Sian Clifford (Diana) was Woman in Empire of Death
• Murray Gold was composer on the revived run (from 2005 to 2017) too
• Emma Butt was also ADR recordist on seven episodes (from The Witchfinders to Can You Hear Me?)
• Suzanne Cave was costume designer on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Howard Bargoff (re-recording mixer) was dubbing mixer on four- teen episodes (from The Woman Who Fell to Earth to The Timeless Children)
• Antony Bayman (sound FX editor) was ADR mixer on The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Vampires of Venice and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Doctor Who Vs. Bancroft, Series 1

This dark crime thriller was the first 

drama commission from ITV Studios 

sister production company, Tall Story 

Pictures - it replaced Hatton Garden 

in the TV schedules.

Produced by Phil Collinson, the

four-part case originally aired in

December 2017. A second, three-

part series was shown at New Year

2020.

 A repeat run of the first season began

on ITV3 last night - it featured Sarah

Parish, Anjli Mohindra, Linus Roache,

Adrian Edmondson, and twelve Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Parish (the titular Superintendent) played the Empress of the Racnoss in The Runaway Bride
• Faye Marsay (DS Stevens) was Shona McCullough in Last Christmas
• Amara Karan (Anya) was Rita in The God Complex
• Art [Athar Ul-Haque] Malik (Taheeri) was Ilin in The Ghost Monument, and voiced Abbot Absolute for Big Finish's The Skull of Sobek (2008)
• Kenneth Cranham (Baverstock) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Richard Price (Policeman) was Guest in The Runaway Bride and The Lazarus Experiment, Passerby in Partners in Crime, Takran Soldier in The Doctor's Daughter, Cyberman in The Doctor Falls, and Shadow Kin in Class
• Des Hughes was also line producer on eight stories (from The Snowmen to The Time of the Doctor), and had a cameo in The Five(ish) Doctors
• John Hayes was director of The Night of the Doctor too
• Gordon Seed was also stunt co-ordinator on thirty-six instalments (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
• cinematographer Richard Stoddard was a camera operator on Amy's Choice and The Lodger
• Louise Page was also costume designer on forty-six episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The End of Time)
• Edmund Butt composed the music for An Adventure in Space and Time too

Doctor Who Vs. House of Cards

Adapted by prolific screenwriter Andrew

Davies from the novel by Michael Dobbs,

this political thriller originally aired in late

autumn 1990, during the Conservative's

leadership election following Margaret

Thatcher's resignation.

The BBC1 drama spawned two sequels -

To Play the King in 1993 and The Final Cut

(1995), whilst an American remake followed

in 2013. The trilogy earned a total of four-

teen BAFTA award nominations (winning two

and an Emmy), and House of Cards was

voted 84th in the BFI TV 100 poll of 2000.

The whole four-part serial was repeated on

BBC4 last night - it featured Ian Richardson

(1934-2007) as Francis Urquhart, Susannah

Harker, and a total of thirty Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• director Paul Seed was the Graff Vynda-K in The Ribos Operation
• Malcolm Tierney (Woolton) was Doland in Terror of the Vervoids, and voiced Gantha/Warder for Big Finish's 1001 Nights (2012)
• Harker (Mattie voiced Clare Keightley for Shada (2003), and Anya for Eye of Darkness (2015)
• Colin [Abel] Jeavons (Stamper) was Damon in The Underwater Menace, and George Tracey in K9 and Company
• Christopher Owen (McKenzie) was an Earthling in Meglos
• Kenneth [Alfred] Gilbert (Earle) was Richard Dunbar in The Seeds of Doom
• John [Edwin] Arnatt (Grainger) was Chancellor Borusa in The Invasion of Time 
• Richard Braine (Spence) voiced Percy Closed for The English Way of Death (2015), and Professor Linus Woolf for Entanglement (2018)
• Robert Ashby [born Rashid Suhrawardy] (Presenter) was the Borad in Timelash
• David [born Diarmuid] Blake Kelly (Goodman) was Captain Briggs in (episode 3 of) The Chase, and Jacob Kewper in The Smugglers
• Sally Faulkner (Minister) was Isobel Watkins in The Invasion, and voiced Miss Tremayne for Winter for the Adept (2000)
• Colin Dudley (Speaker) was a former production manager on The Sea Devils (6), and The Invasion of Time
• Tariq Yunus (Jhabwala) was Cass in The Robots of Death
• [George] Gertan Klauber (Blackhead) was the Galley Master in The Romans, and Ola in The Macra Terror
• Nadim [Joakim] Sawalha (Manager) voiced Swapnil Khan for The Magic Mousetrap (2009), and the Old Man for 1001 Nights
• Geoffrey Bateman (Interviewer) was Dymond in Nightmare of Eden
• Ian [Gordon Arthur] Collier (Man) was Stuart Hyde in The Time Monster, Omega in Arc of Infinity (and reprised for Big Finish's Omega in 2003), then voiced Commisar Erco Sallis for Excelis Decays (2002), and Isaac Summerfield for Death and the Daleks (2004)
• John [born Simon Alexander Lyne] Pirkis (Young Man) provided a Sphere voice for The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• Robin Wentworth [born Victor Roy Wheeler] (Newlands) was Professor Horner in The Daemons
• Nick Brimble (Corder) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
• Kevork Malikyan (Naresh) was Kemel Rudkin in The Wheel in Space
• BBC newsreader Angela [May] Rippon also had a cameo role in The Star Beast (2019)
• stunt arranger Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, stunt double in Warriors of the Deep, and Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos
• Tina Maskell was also stunt performer on Boom Town and The Runaway Bride
• cinematographer Ian Punter was an assistant on Planet of the Spiders (6), and film cameraman on Resurrection of the Daleks
• Howard Billingham was film editor on The Mind of Evil too
• Ken Ledsham was also production designer on The Ribos Operation, Destiny of the Daleks and The King's Demons
• costume designer Rosalind Ebbutt began her TV career on Black Orchid
• first assistant director Nigel Taylor was AFM on The Stones of Blood
• Barrie Tharby was also film recordist on Attack of the Cybermen and The Mark of the Rani

Doctor Who Vs. The Fades

This cult drama was created

and written by Jack Thorne,

and first aired on BBC3 and

BBC HD in the autumn of

2011, then on BBC America

in January 2012. Despite

winning the BAFTA Best

Drama award, the series

was not recommissioned for

 a second run. Following an

unaired pilot, the six-part

supernatural thriller centred

on teenager Paul Roberts

(played by Iain De Caestecker)

who is haunted by apocalyptic

dreams - he sees dead people,

known as Fades. These spirits cannot be sensed by other humans, and

are the remnants of the dead who have not been accepted into the

afterlife. A repeat run of The Fades (co-produced by Caroline

Skinner, and co-directed by Farren Blackburn) began on BBC3

tonight - it featured Natalie Dormer, and a total of thirty-two Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Sophie Wu (Jay) voiced Millie for Big Finish's Planet X (2016), and Autumn Tace for The Star Men (2017)
• Lily [May] Loveless (Anna) was Ellie Faber in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Curse of Clyde Langer
• Claire [Louise] Rushbrook (Meg) 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/ Marna for Out of Time 1 (2021)
• Daniel Kaluuya (Mac) was Barclay in Planet of the Dead
• Tom [John] Ellis (Mark) was Dr. Thomas Milligan in Last of the Time Lords
• Eleanor Matsuura (Vicky) voiced Dana Tanaka for Shadows of the Vashta Nerada, and was Jo Nakashima in The Sontaran Stratagem 
• Ian Hanmore (Polus) was Father Angelo in Tooth and Claw
• Philip Bird (Peterson) made his TV debut as a Swampie in The Power of Kroll
• Joe [Maxwell] Dempsie (John) was Cline in The Doctor's Daughter
• Karl Collins [born Myers] (Higgy) was Sean Temple in The End of Time
• James Greene (Eric) and Shaun Lucas (Paramedic) both appeared in The Bells of Saint John as the Abbot and Monk respectively
• Tanya [born Tanyaradzwa] Fear (Jay) was Dr. Jade McIntyre in Arachnids in the UK
• Nicholas Khan (Dr. Jamison) voiced Jimmy Lynch for The Sinestran Kill, Dalia for Collateral (both 2019), Jillix for The Sins of Captain Jack, Stubbs for Thin Time, Alexander Marfleet for The Flying Dutchman (all 2020), and Vez/Kol for The Ark (2023)
• Chris Mason (Steve) depicted John Lennon in The Devil's Chord
• stunt co-ordinator Ray De Haan was a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern
• Stephan Pehrsson was also the cinematographer on eleven stories (from The Pandorica Opens to The Crimson Horror)
• Matthew Scrivener was first assistant director on The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe too
• Rebecca Hemy was also assistant art director on Voyage of the Damned and The Infinite Quest
• Sam Williams was film editor on The Rings of Akhaten too
• Matthew Tabern also edited Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Human Nature and The Family of Blood
• Rob Arrowsmith was also camera operator on The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang and A Christmas Carol
• Richard Cookson was also script editor on The Day of the Doctor, Robot of Sherwood, Time Heist, Flatline and An Adventure in Space and Time
• Julius Ogden was also focus puller on nine episodes (from Closing Time to The Day of the Doctor)
• series SFX supervisor Paul McGuinness was Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• Gary Norman was also (camera) grip on twenty-five stories (from the 2010 Christmas special to The Day of the Doctor)
• Matthew Cannings was the editor on The Crimson Horror and The Name of the Doctor, and was assistant editor on The Snowmen too
• Andrew Wildman was also storyboard artist on eleven episodes (from Dinosaurs on a Spaceship to The Time of the Doctor)
• Anthony Rutter (stand-by props) was the art director on Last Christmas
• Robert Edwards was also ADR mixer on Hide, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, The Crimson Horror, Nightmare in Silver, The Name of the Doctor and Space/Time
• Robert Flanagan was production sound mixer on the 2011 Christmas special too
• set costumer Kat Cappellazzi was costume assistant on seventeen adventures (from Asylum of the Daleks to Deep Breath)

Docto Who Vs. The Rise of Skywalker

The final part of Star Wars Sequel trilogy (also

known as Episode IX) was produced, directed

and co-written by JJ Abrams.

The sci-fi epic was announced after the Walt

Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm in

2012, and saw no input from George Lucas.

The ensemble cast comprised Mark Hamill,

Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, and Anthony

Daniels from the original trilogy, and recent

series newcomers Daisy Ridley, John Boyega,

 Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, and Domhnall

Gleeson.

Released in late 2019, the adventure premiered

 on channel 4 last night - it featured Richard E

Grant, and thirty-five Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

• Naomi Ackie (Jannah) and Simon Paisley Day (Quinn) both appeared in Face the Raven, as Jen and Rump - the latter was also the Steward in The End of the World
• Shirley Henderson (Babu Frik) played Ursula Blake in Love & Monsters
• Mandeep Dhillon (Garan) was Shireen in Knock Knock
• Robin Guiver (D-O) was Bill Tallow in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
• Tanya Moodie (Pernadee) voiced Marathanga/Martha for L.E.G.E.N.D. (2019), and Kilda for The Castle of Kurnos 5 (2020)
• Geff Francis (Griss) was George [Maitland] in The Bells of Saint John
• Aidan Cook (Boolio) was Mummy in The Rings of Akhaten, Monster in Hide, Cyberman in Nightmare in Silver and The Time of the Doctor, Zygon in The Day of the Doctor, The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion, and the Vlinx in The Giggle and Empire of Death
• Cyril [Ikechukwu] Nri (Officer) was the Shopkeeper in The Sarah Jane Adventures, then Chairman in Class, and voiced Maurice Vallan for The Movellan Manoeuvre and The Dalek Gambit (both 2020), and Khaset for The Mummy Speaks! (2022)
• Richard Bremmer (Officer) voiced General Hemmings/Valcon/ Driver for The Valley of Death (2011), and Old Beowulf for Black and White (2012)
• Andrew Havill (Officer) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, and voiced Aleister Portillon/Squire Claude for The Witch from the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Indra Ové (Officer) voiced Tayna Vandermoy for Toos and Poul (2020), and Queen Maylee for Far From Home (2023)
• Aaron Neil (Officer) was Dunlop in The Magician's Apprentice, and Varun Singh in Class, then voiced Tir Ram for All-Consuming Fire, Sanukuma Master for The Rulers of the Universe, Priest for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Aramatz for The Very Dark Thing, Trink/ Klossi/Stephano/Setebos for Maker of Demons, David for UNIT: Silenced, Steven Godbold for Five Twenty-Nine, Computer for World Enough and Time [audio], Mandrake for The Torchwood Archive (all 2016), Gorky Sax for The Year After I Died (2017), and Gobran for The Poison of Peladon (2022)
• Mimi Ndiweni (Officer) was Abby in Oxygen, and voiced Ronnie Brockman for Big Dig (2013), Alicia Dowan/Secretary for Subterfuge (2019), and one of The Two Rivers (2022)
• Vinette Robinson (Tyce) was Abi Lerner in 42, Rosa Parks in Rosa, and voiced Cynthia Quince for Dead to the World (2015)
• Raghad Chaar (Officer) voiced Samira Rustami for The Revenge of Wormwood (2023)
• Tom Wilton (Ackbar) was titular alien in The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion, and Sandman in Sleep No More
• Rochenda Sandall (Officer) was Azure in Flux
• Dave Hearn (FN0606) voiced Alteph for Inner Demons (2025)
• Lloyd Bass was also stuntman on The Time of the Doctor and Twice Upon a Time
• Robbie Keane was stuntman on The Return of Doctor Mysterio too
• Mike Lambert (fight co-ordinator) was stuntman on Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Rob Hunt was also stuntman on The Runaway Bride and The Day of the Doctor
• for Jimmy Vee, Warwick Davis, Will Willoughby, Kiran Shah, Paul Kasey and Andrew Burford see The Force Awakens
• for Amanda Lawrence, Kim McGarrity, Marvin Campbell, Cristian Knight, Nicholas Daines and Claire Lawrence see The Last Jedi

Doctor Who Vs. The Last Jedi

The second part of Star Wars

Sequel trilogy (also known as

Episode VIII) was written, and

directed by Rian Johnson. The

sci-fi epic was announced after

the Walt Disney Company's

acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012,

and saw no input from franchise

creator, George Lucas. 

The ensemble cast comprised

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Peter

Mayhew, Anthony Daniels, Frank

Oz from the original trilogy, and

recent series newcomers Daisy

Ridley, John Boyega, Adam

Driver, Domhnall Gleeson, and

Andy Serkis. Released in late 2017, this production became the highest

grossing film of the year - it was followed by Rise of the Skywalker in

2019. The adventure premiered on channel 4 last night - it featured

twenty-nine Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Amanda Lawrence [born Jones] (D'Acy) was Doomfinger in The Shakespeare Code
• Mark Lewis Jones (Canady) voiced Professor Oliver Mortlake for The Darkness of Glass (2015)
• Navin Chowdry (Pilot) was Indra Ganesh in Aliens of London and World War Three
• Hugh Skinner (Officer) voiced Sebastian Vaughan for The Vigil (2019), Lord Oiliver Erpingham for The Headless Ones (2020), and Sir Lancelot for The Lone Centurion 2 (2022)
• Darren Morfitt (Officer) was Brother Marco in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Patrick O'Kane (Officer) was Ashad in The Haunting of Villa Diodati, Ascension of the Cybermen, The Timeless Children and The Power of the Doctor
• Paul Bazely (Officer) was Ven Garr in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, then voiced Elio for The Enhancement, the Duke of Hishtar for The Ribos Inheritance, Mikhail for Black Friday (all 2022)
• Michael Jibson (Pilot) voiced Corporal Gibbs for The Forsaken (2015)
• Danny Sapani (Captain) was Colonel Manton in A Good Man Goes to War
• Will [John] Willoughby (Guard) [born Haynes] was a stuntman on nine stories (from Rose to A Town Called Mercy) and Torchwood
• Dan Euston (Bombardier) was a stuntman on The Crimson Horror
• Marvin Campbell was stuntman on The Woman Who Fell to Earth too
• Andrew Burford was also stuntman on The Eaters of Light, The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon a Time, Kerblam!, The Witchfinders, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos and Spyfall (2)
• Sarah Lochlan was stunt performer on Revolution of the Daleks too
• Nicholas Daines was stuntman on The Magician's Apprentice too
• Kim McGarrity was also stunt performer on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and on The Day of the Doctor with Cristian Knight
• Claire Lawrence was stunt performer on The Return of Doctor Mysterio too
• Freddie Mason was stuntman on The Doctor Falls too
• Lewis Young was stuntman on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too
• for Jimmy Vee, Warwick Davis, Kiran Shah, Tim Rose, Paul Kasey, Will Willoughby, Bern Collaco, Mickey Lewis and Clem So see The Force Awakens

Doctor Who Vs. The Force Awakens

The first part of Star Wars Sequel trilogy

(also known as Episode VII) was produced,
co-written, and directed by JJ Abrams.
The sci-fi epic (the follow-up to 1983's

Return of the Jedi), was announced after

the Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, and saw no involvement

 from franchise creator, George Lucas.

Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher,

Anthony Daniels, and Peter Mayhew all

reprised their respective roles - Han Solo,

Luke Skywalker, Leia, C-3PO, and Chewbacca.
Released in late 2015, The Force Awakens

became the third highest grossing film ever,

and was followed by The Last Jedi in 2017,
and The Rise of the Skywalker (2019).

Shown on channel 4 tonight, the movie featured Adam Driver (as Kylo

Ren), Daisy Ridley (Rey), John Boyega (Finn), Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Tosin Cole (pictured as Bastian), and

twenty-eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Simon [John] Pegg [born Beckingham] (Unkar Plutt) voiced Don Chaney for Big Finish's Invaders from Mars (2002), then played the Editor in The Long Game, and narrated the first run of Doctor Who Confidential
• Kiran Shah (Teedo here; Panpick in The Last Jedi; Ghima in The Rise of Skywalker) was the Figure in Listen, and Emojibot in Smile
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Kaplan) and Thomas Brodie Sangster (Officer) both appeared in Human Nature and The Family of Blood - as Headmaster Rocastle and Tim Latimer - Torrens also voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022), whilst Sangster voiced Kyle for The Mind's Eye (2007), and Miner for The Bride of Peladon (2008)
• Brian Vernel (Bala Tik) was Lucius in The Eaters of Light, and voiced Robert for Big Finish's Dethras (2017) 
• Warwick [Ashley] Davis (Wollivan) was Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI [known as Porridge] in Nightmare in Silver
• Sebastian [Felipe Xavier Fernández Garcia] Armesto (Mitaka) was Broff in Bad Wolf, and voiced Anders for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008), and Garrison for Kidnapped! (2020)
• Harriet [Mary] Walter (Kalonia) voiced Beatrice Mapp for The Boy That Time Forgot (2008), then was Jo Patterson in Revolution of the Daleks
• Tim Rose (Ackbar) was a Millennium FX engineer on Let's Kill Hitler, Closing Time and Deep Breath
• Tom Edden (Officer) was a Pharmacist in Gridlock
• Victor McGuire (Patron) voiced Borton for In the Garden of Death (2018)
• Dave Chapman (BB-8 operator) was Dalek Voice on The Curse of Fatal Death
• Charlie Akin (Stormtrooper/Fighter) was a Soldier in Empress of Mars
• Bern Collaco (General) was an Operator in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, and Soldier in Thin Ice
• Nathalie Cuzner (PZ-4CO) was Cat Nun in Tardisode and New Earth, Woman in Smith and Jones and The End of Time (2), one of the Futurekind in Utopia, Silurian in The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood and The Pandorica Opens, Handbot in The Girl Who Waited, and Performer in Demons of the Punjab
• Tobias James Samuels (Officer) was a Waiter in Voyage of the Damned
• Kevin Hudson (Rebel) had uncredited roles in twenty-nine stories (from The Long Game to The Timeless Children)
• Paul Kasey (Ello Asty) starred in thirty-eight episodes (from Rose to The Timeless Children)
• Mickey Lewis (General here; Trooper in Rogue One; Bridge Comms in The Last Jedi) was in seventeen instalments (from Asylum of the Daleks to Legend of the Sea Devils)
• Kate Fleetwood (Officer) was the voice of Ship for The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic
• Clem So (Fighter) was Mongolian in Asylum of the Daleks, Artisan in The Angels Take Manhattan, Tourist in The Day of the Doctor, Clockwork Droid in Deep Breath, Bank Client in Time Heist, Alien in Face the Raven and The Husbands of River Song, Gent in Thin Ice, Corpse in Oxygen, Guard in Extremis, and Pirate in Legend of the Sea Devils
• Robert Strange (Allium) was a Wraith Warrior in The Star Beast
• Tom Bell (Prashee) voiced Brian Sherborne for Intelligence for War (2023)
• Will [John] Willoughby (Guard) [born Haynes] was a stuntman on nine stories (from Rose to A Town Called Mercy) and Torchwood
• Jimmy Vee (R2-D2) was the Moxx of Balhoon in The End of the World, Alien in Aliens of London, Bannakaffalatta in Voyage of the Damned, the Skovox Blitzer in The Caretaker, and the Graske in Attack of the Graske, Music of the Spheres and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Aidan Cook (Bobbajo/Tuggs) was the Vlinx in The Giggle
• Francesca Mills (Laparo) voiced Bethany for Swipe Right (2024)
• Dilu Miah (Puffer) was Goblin in The Church on Ruby Road
• Christina Chong (Deleted scene) was Lorna Bucket in A Good Man Goes to War

Doctor Who Vs. Our Friends in the North

First staged by the RSC in 1982, Peter Flannery's play was eventually

adapted for television by BBC2, from (commission in) 1992 to (filming

in) 1995. Originally broadcast in early 1996, the drama told the story

of four friends from Newcastle over a period of 31 years, 1964 to 1995.

From the budget (£8 million), to the cast (160 speaking roles and

3,000 extras), the scale of the production was huge - filming took

forty weeks. Ratings success and critical acclaim followed - it won

three BAFTA TV awards, then was named one of the 100 Greatest

British TV Programmes by the BFI.

The epic series helped establish the careers of its lead actors -

(pictured left to right) Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Mark

Strong, and Daniel Craig. A rare repeat run of the nine-part series

concluded on BBC4 last night - it featured David Bradley, Alun

Armstrong, Malcolm McDowell, and a total of thirty-three Doctor

Who cast/crew connections:

• McKee voiced the Lumiat for Big Finish's Missy 2 (2020) and Masterful (2021)
• Danny Webb (DI Conrad) was John Jefferson in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Byron for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Ori for The Dark Husband (2008)
• David Schofield (DCI Salway) was Odin in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Billy for Death in Blackpool (2009), Nostradamus for The Doomsday Quatrain (2011), Narrator of The House of Winter (2015), Parval for The Sorcerer of Albion (2020), and Gostak for The End of the Beginning (2021)
• Donald Sumpter (Chapple) was Enrico Casali in The Wheel in Space, Commander Ridgeway in The Sea Devils, Erasmus Darkening in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap, and President Rassilon in Hell Bent
• Peter [Neville] Jeffrey (Blamire) was the Pilot in The Macra Terror, and Count Grendel in The Androids of Tara
• Granville Saxton (Jellicoe) voiced the Duke of Wellington for The Curse of Davros (2012)
• Gavin Muir (Kyle) voiced Barone for The Ghosts of N-Space
• Pete Lee Wilson (Butler) was Tommo in The End of Time
• Trevor Cooper (DCS Cockburn) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood - he also voiced Rull for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City, then Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse, Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/Stennan for Army of Death (2011), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), Jonathan Mayfly/Sir Joseph Eagleton for The Ghosts of Greenwich (2019), Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr. Jago (2020), and Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witches (2022)
• Sean Gilder (PC Lukoschek) was the Sycorax Leader in The Christmas Invasion
• Peter [George Haywood] Halliday (Speaker) was Packer/Cyber Director Voice in The Invasion, voiced the titular Silurians in their debut story and the Aliens in The Ambassadors of Death, then was Pletrac in Carnival of Monsters, Soldier in City of Death, and Vicar in (part 2 of) Remembrance of the Daleks
• Malcolm Terris (Knox) was Etnin in The Dominators, and the Co-Pilot in The Horns of Nimon
• Angela Bruce (Sister) was Brigadier Winifred Bambera in Battlefield [a role reprised for Big Finish's Animal (2011) and UNIT), then voiced Mother for The Persistence of Dreams (2018), Herb for Conversion (2019), and Oya/Andarta for Consequences (2021)
• Ian [Jacob] Thompson (Correspondent) was Hetra in The Web Planet, and Malsan in The Chase (2) 
• Stephen [Mark] Marcus [born Scott] was the Jailer in The Shakespeare Code
• Peter [Francois] Cellier (Judge) was Andrews in Time Flight (1)
• David Schaal (Prison Officer) voiced Inspector Zogroth and Bus Driver for The Star Beast (2019)
• Roger Avon (Braniff) was Saphadin in The Crusade, and Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan (4)
• Steve Griffin was stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern too
• Diana Barton (production manager) was line producer on twenty-two stories (from A Christmas Carol to The Crimson Horror)
• Andy Pryor has also worked as casting director on the revived run since 2005, as well as The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Pennie Bloomfield (first assistant director) was assistant floor manager on Attack of the Cybermen
• Henry Jaworski was also art director on The Pilot and Smile
• Margaret Aston was make-up artist on Shakedown too
• Suzan Broad (make-up designer) was artist on Kinda
• Lisa Pickering (make-up artist) was assistant on Warriors' Gate (4)
• Garry Dawson also worked on stand-by props on Cold War and The Crimson Horror
• Tony Harding was also VFX designer on The Invisible Enemy, The Power of Kroll, State of Decay, The King's Demons and The Awakening
• Peter Kersey was SFX technician on the Doctor Who TV Movie too
• Peter Baldock (dubbing editor) was an Acolyte in The Face of Evil (4)
• Terry Elms was sound assistant on The Masque of Mandragora (1) too
• Richard Manton (sound recordist) worked on film sound on The Daemons and The Mutants
• Michael Preece was props buyer on K9 and Company too