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)