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)

Date With History: 2001

The worst terrorist attacks in history occurred twenty-one

years ago today, on Tuesday September 11th 2001 - 9/11

in America. 

Three hijacked domestic airliners were forcibly flown into

targets in New York city, and Arlington, killing almost 3,000

people (including 67 Britons), and injuring more than 6,000.

At 8.46 am, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the World

 Trade Center's North Tower (1 WTC), then at 9.03 am,

United  Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower (2 WTC).

Both towers had collapsed by 10.30 am. At 9.37 am,

American Airline Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon.

Passengers on a fourth plane heroically resisted their

captors, and that flight missed it's intended rendezvous,

believed to be the Capitol, or the White House. United

Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field at Shanksville,

Pennsylvania.

Doctor Who Vs. Silk, Series 1

This popular legal drama from BBC Productions was created by 

prolific screen writer Peter Moffat, and began in February 2011.

With female QCs (Queen's Counsels or 'silks') in a tiny minority,

Northern barrister Martha Costello (portrayed here by Bolton-

born Maxine Peake) is anxious to join that elite number prog-

ressing through the courts of London. For season one, Martha

was joined at the fictional Shoe Lane Chambers by Clive Reader

(played by Rupert Penry-Jones), Billy Lamb (Neil Stuke), Nick

Slade (Tom Hughes), and Niamh Cranitch (Natalie Dormer).

The six-part series (not repeated since 2015) featured twenty-

eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Stuke was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon, and voiced the titular role for Big Finish's The Crooked Man (2014)
• [Oluwakemi] Nina Sosanya (Kate) was Trish Webber in Fear Her, and voiced Captain Anna Maynard for Aquitaine (2016)
• Owen [Nigel Courtney] Teale (Frogett) was Maldak in Vengeance on Varos, and voiced Hayton for The Mind's Eye (2007)
• Gerard [James Pertwee] Horan (DS Scarrow) and Pip [Dean] Torrens (Maikin) both appeared in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, as Clark and Headmaster Rocastle respectively - Torrens also voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
• Philip Bretherton (Haig) voiced Plenipotentiary Suskind for Arrangements for War (2004), Scrivener for Recorded Time, Darcy, D'Urberville and Heathcliff for A Most Excellent Match (both 2011), and Vituperon for The Devil's Armada (2014)
• Kerry Godliman (WPC Banks) voiced Karen Coltraine for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (both 2009)
• Adrian Schiller (Zeigler) was Uncle in The Doctor's Wife, and voiced Zanith for Time Works (2006)
• Sheila Ruskin (Magistrate) was Kassia in The Keeper of Traken
• Rupert [Makepeace] Wickham (Wiles) voiced Captain Dudgeon for No Man's Land (2006), Major Jonas Faber for Klein's Story, and Butterfly for Survival of the Fittest (both 2010)
• Fenella Woolgar (Wendy) was Agatha Christie in The Unicorn and the Wasp, and voiced Commander Hellan Femor for Fitz's Story (2009), Morella Wendigo for Nevermore (2010), Leanne for Ghost Walk, Professor Jemima Still for Time in a Bottle (both 2018), Vanessa Seaborne for Planet of the Drashigs (2019), and Lady Malina Rigel Smythe for Shadow of the Sun (2020)
• Paul Thornley (Turley) voiced Marko for Seven Keys to Doomsday (2008), Michael Rond for Fitz's Story, Gomori for Paper Cuts (2009), and Robbie Flint/Cyril for Criss-Cross (2015)
• Adrian Dunbar (Gillespie) voiced McCarthy for Brave New Town (2008)
• Diana [Marilyn] Quick (Justice Frank) voiced Prime for Scream of the Shalka, then voiced Sophie Kinzky for Hidden Depths (2022)
• Ariyon [Debo] Bakare (Antwi) was Leandro in The Woman Who Lived
• Sam Graham (Cutler) voiced Guthrie for City of Spires (2010), and McMullan for Destination Nerva (2012)
• Peter Hamilton Dyer (Clerk) began his TV career as Embery in Remembrance of the Daleks
• Greg Donaldson (Gaoler) voiced Telligan for Dalek Empire (2004), Coach Bela Destry for The Game (2005), and David for Power Play (2012)
• Lauren [Rose] Crace (Lindsey) voiced Jemima for The Two Masters (2016)
• Georgina Beedle (Joanna) voiced Elinor Daxus for You Only Die Twice (2024)
• Catherine Morshead was also director of Amy's Choice and The Lodger
• Steve Thompson was also writer of The Curse of the Black Spot, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, Time Heist and The Science of Doctor Who
• Jake Jackson was also the music mixer on seventy-one stories (from The Runaway Bride to The Time of the Doctor)
• Iain Erskine was film editor on Nightmare in Silver too
• Lewis Peake was also an art department assistant on Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars
• Adam Harvey was the assistant editor on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• David Foster was also the orchestrator on seventy-six instalments (from Voyage of the Damned to Last Christmas)
• Tom Lucy was also the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen episodes (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)
• Gordon Seed was a stuntman on nineteen adventures and stunt co-ordinator on another eleven (from Series 2 to The Time of the Doctor)

Doctor Who Vs. The Little Vampire

Angela Sommer Bodenburg's series of Der Kleine

Vampir series of children's books began in 1979,

and were first adapted for German television in

1985.

This English language cinema version, filmed and

set in Scotland, was released by New Line in 2000

- it starred ten-year old Jonathan Lipnicki as Tony,

an American boy who befriends a family of ancient vampires.

Shown on Great! (formerly Sony Movies) last

night, the film also featured Richard E Grant

(pictured as Frederick), and ten Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Jim [Edward] Carter (Rookery) voiced Brother Bernard for Big Finish's The Book of Kells (2010)
• Alice [Maud] Krige (Freda) voiced Dr. Patricia Sawyer for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), the Queen Mum for Death and the Queen, Felicity Lyme for UNIT: Shutdown (both 2016), and Reno for Friendly Fire (2023)
• Ed Stoppard (Von) voiced Fortalexa for Theatre of War (2015), and Sir Nicholas Asquin for The Beast of Kravenos (2017)
• Elizabeth Berrington (Elizabeth) was Auntie in The Doctor's Wife
• Steve Griffin was also a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern
• three-times Oscar winning costume designer James Acheson also worked on twenty-nine episodes of the classic run (from The Mutants to The Deadly Assassin) and was responsible for designing the Fourth Doctor's first outfit
• digital compositor Sandra Roach was a 2D artist on The Idiot's Lantern, The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit and Love & Monsters
• Micky Reeves was the gaffer on Closing Time and Torchwood too
• Richard Glass and Jemma Scott-Knox-Gore both worked on The Time of the Doctor too, as (contact lens) optician and co-ordinator respectively

Doctor Who Vs. Luther, Series 4

Idris Elba returned as the titular Metropolitan

Police detective, DCI John Luther for the fourth

series of BBC1's dark psychological thriller, first

shown in December 2015.

Michael Smiley and Dermot Crowley reprised

their roles as Benny Silver and DSU Schenk,

 whilst Warren Brown made a cameo

appearance as DS Justin Ripley. Darren Boyd

and Rose Leslie debuted  here as DCI Bloom

and DS Lane.

Both Elba and writer Neil Cross have confirmed

there are plans for a film version of Luther, and

a spin-off series based around Ruth Wilson's

character, killer Alice Morgan.

Another repeat run of the two-part case began

on Drama last night - it featured nine Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Boyd voiced Hemmings for Big Finish's The Shadow of London (2018)
• John Heffernan (Rose) voiced Vonchef for Revenge of the Swarm (2004), the Nine for The Crucible of Souls (2016), Companion Piece, Relative Time (both 2019) and The Dreams of Avarice (2022), and Honos for The Trial of a Time Machine (2018)
• Michael Obiora (Minty) was Billy Shipton in Blink
• Clem So (Dealer) was a 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, Guard in Extremis, Corpse in Oxygen, and Pirate in Legend of the Sea Devils
• Marcus Wilson was also producer of twenty-eight stories (from The Impossible Astronaut to The Time of the Doctor), and The Doctors Revisited 
• Thomas Alibone and Simon Maloney were both assistant directors on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Claire Lawrence was a stunt performer on The Return of Doctor Mysterio too
• Leon Harris was also a SFX technician on The Snowmen, The Crimson Horror, Nightmare in Silver, The Name of the Doctor and The Day of the Doctor
• Gary Norman was also the grip on twenty-five stories (from A Christmas Carol to the 50th Anniversary special)

Doctor Who Vs. Operation Crossbow

Shown on BBC2 today, this British

war film was a fictional account of

the real-life Allied operations to

infiltrate the Nazi V1 and V2 rocket programmes, between 1943 and

1945.

Released by MGM in 1965, the
thriller starred a stellar cast led by
 John Mills, George Peppard, Trevor
Howard, Tom Courtenay, Anthony
Quayle, Patrick Wymark, Sophia
Loren, and featured these twenty-
one Doctor Who cast connections:

• Richard [Andrew Palethorpe] Todd (Wing Comm. Kendall) was Sanders (pictured left) in Kinda
• Sylvia [May Laura] Syms (Constance) was Lady Pritchard in Ghost Light
• John [Alexander] Fraser (Flight Lt. Post) was the Monitor in Logopolis
• [William] Maurice Denham (Air Chief Marshal) was Azmael in The Twin Dilemma, then voiced the President for The Paradise of Death 
• Moray [Robin Philip Adrian] Watson (Colonel Post) was Sir Robert Muir in Black Orchid
• William Mervyn [Pickwoad] (Examiner) was Sir Charles Summer in The War Machines
• John Abineri (Policeman) was Van Lutyens in Fury From the Deep, General Carrington in The Ambassadors of Death, Richard Railton in Death to the Daleks, and Ranquin in The Power of Kroll
• Bernard Barnsley (Operator) was a Monoid in The Ark, and UNIT Soldier in (episode 2 of) The Silurians
• Ernest Blyth and John Tatham (Officers) were both Villagers in The Daemons
• George Curtis (Policeman) and Paul Phillips (Engineer) both starred in The War Games, as Firing Squad Soldier (1) and Guard/Prisoner (2) - Phillips was also Miner in The Monster of Peladon (3)
• Anton Diffring [born Alfred Pollack] (Soldier) was De Flores in Silver Nemesis
• [George] Gertan Klauber (Guard) was the Galley Master in The Romans, and Ola in The Macra Terror
• Alan Harris (Soldier) was Sevateem Council Member in The Face of Evil, and titular alien in Terror of the Vervoids
• Philip [Arvon Jones] Madoc (Police Officer) was Eelek in The Krotons, the War Lord in The War Games, Dr. Mehendri Solon in The Brain of Morbius, Fenner in The Power of Kroll, Brockley in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD, then voiced Victor Schaeffer for Big Finish's Master (2003), and Rag Cobden for Return of the Krotons (2009)
• Billy Cornelius (Operator) was stuntman on 100,000 BC (4), Man-at-arms in The Crusade (4), and Morok Guard in The Space Museum
• Paddy Ryan (Operator) and Harry Van Engel (Van Ostamgen) both appeared as Kaled Scientists in Genesis of the Daleks
• Fred Wood (Steward) and Alf Mangan (Engineer) were both Extras in the second Dalek feature