Doctor Who Vs. Ripper Street, Series 1

This dark period drama, a joint

production  from Tiger Aspect

and BBC America, was created

by Richard Warlow and was

filmed entirely in Dublin which

doubled for London's East End.

Set in Victorian Whitechapel,

the series opens in April 1889,

just six months since the last

killing by Jack the Ripper, and

H Division is responsible for

policing this poor and over-

crowded district.

Here, the real-life head of CID,

DI Edmund Reid (1846-1917),

portrayed by Matthew Macfayden, was joined by fictional detective, Sergeant Drake

(Jerome Flynn) and former Pinkerton agent, Captain Jackson (Adam

Rothenberg). The most prominent figure in the Whitechapel Murders

investigation, DCI Frederick Abbeline (1843-1929), also appeared in

four episodes, and was played by Clive Russell.

The first, eight part season of Ripper Street (now available on Britbox) featured Paul McGann, and twenty Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

I Need a Light (UK TX: December 30 2012/US TX: January 19 2013)

• Julian Bleach (Creighton) was the eponymous entity in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Nightmare Man, then Davros in The Stolen Earth, Journey's End, The Magician's Apprentice, The Witch's Familiar and Lego Dimensions
• Steven Robertson (Thwaites) was Pritchard in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Mark [Lee] Dexter (Donaldson) was Dad in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, and Charles Babbage in Spyfall
• prosthetics designer Waldo Mason was in the SFX crew on Aliens of London

In My Protection (UK TX: January 6 2013)

• Michael Smiley (George Lusk) was Colonel Morgan Blue in Into the Dalek, and voiced Seedleson for Big Finish's Creatures of Beauty (2003)

The King Came Calling (UK TX: January 13)

• Simon Gregor (Claxton) was the Steward in The Vampires of Venice
• Patrick [Bashir] Baladi (Ressler) was cast in The War Between the Land and the Sea

The Good of this City (UK TX: January 20)

• MyAnna [Margaretha] Buring [Rantapaa] (Long Susan) was Scooti Manista in The Impossible Planet

The Weight of One Man's Heart (UK TX: January 27)

• Colm McCarthy was director of The Bells of Saint John too
• Iain [Alan Sutherland] Glen (Faulkner) was Father Octavian in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone

Tournament of Shadows (UK TX: February 3)

• Peter Ferdinando (Morris) was Half-Face Man in Deep Breath
• Edward Peel (Norwood) was Kane in Dragonfire, and Visitor in 24 Carat
• Derek Riddell (Constantine) was Sir Robert MacLeish in Tooth and Claw, and voiced Lt. Commander Sandy McNish for The Oncoming Storm (2016)
• David Verrey (Volsky) was Joseph Green in Aliens of London and World War Three
• Justin Avoth (Bloom) voiced Mikhail for Who Killed Toby Kinsella?, Robert Murphy for The Unknown (both 2016), and Cain for The Demon Rises (2018)  
• Ferdinand Kingsley (Bloom) was Captain Catchlove in Empress of Mars

A Man of My Company (TX: February 17)

• Oliver Cotton (Goldman) voiced Sir Gideon Hale for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), and Major Callahan for Quicksilver (2017)
• Ian McElhinney (Swift) was Ko Sharmus in Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children
• Luke Allen Gale (Bruton) voiced Joe Carnaby for Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories (2019)

What Use Our Work? (TX: February 24)

• Lucy Cohu (Deborah Goren) was Alice Carter in Torchwood: Children of Earth