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